The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28

| lnc Onitcu states HuNlnafy cTulScf
and training ship Dixie has left Al
gicrs for Naples.
More than a,soo women have regis
tered in Cleveland in order to vote fof
director ol schools
The State bank of Hardy, Ncb., was
robbed OF 10000, the safe being blown
open with dynamite.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey were greet
ed by crowds OF admirers in Macon,
Ga, Friday
Three mines ut Boonvillc. Ind. opcr-
atcd by non-union men, have been clos
ed by striking miners.
The fugitive, Quarlcrmas,cr General
| White. OF Michigan, has been heard
from in South Africa.
AT Scranton. Pa. the grand jury is
investigating allegations of corruption
against city officials.
Society women are going from Lon
don TO Cape Town in great numbers,
believing the war as good as over.
A flock oi sheen on w. G. Burch.
fields farm. near Stcubcnvillc. o.. went
mad from dogs bite aud had TO be
shot
Paul Reno farmer near Detroit,
was burned to- death when alone IN his
home and murder and robbery are sus-
pcctcd
The war department has given orders
To- have the transport Hancock prepared
for the Use of the Philippine commits
sion.
Canonsburg, Pa, mechanics are talk
ing of organizing general building
trades union to enforce demand for q
ninc-hour day.
The charter granted the new SI3o,
100000 Carnegie Company empowers II
to do almost any kind oi business III
any part of the world.
Leaders OF the recent riots on the Isle
OF Martinique have been sentenced to
imprisonmnt for terms varying from
six to twelve months each.
Mrs. Charles Smith wife of a Chi
cago saloonkecper, Tuesday shot and
killed Miss Anne Strother, a restaurant
cashier, because OF jealousy.
The Woman's Hotel Company, OF
| New York City. has been incorporated
with a capital Of 100000, to operate a
hotel exclusively for women.
Thomas T. Watson. of Georgia, de-
clncs in advance the middle f-thc-road
Populists nomination for President, de-
claring himself out OF politics.
Free State dcscrtcrs at Ladysmith
assert that their troops have done most
of the fighting so far, the Transvaalers
holding themselves lin reserve"
The board of trade and other or
ganizations OF San Francisco will issue
widely a circular denying the existence
of the bubonic plague in that city.
The directors of the Hartford Life
| Insurance Company voted a dividend
OF 100 per cent. to the stockholders, in
anticipation OF an increase OF the capital
stock
New York agents OF the Colombian
insurgents say that they have defeated
the government forces in battles at
Rio Hachc, Ccrro Librc and Villa vi
| ccncia.
Robert w. Gilchrist, Chicago bar
Der, was shot dead in his shop as he
was shaving a customer by man who
opened the door and fired at him with
a rifle.
Baron De Christiani, who assaulted
| President Loubct, of France at the
races last June, has been released from
prison, having been pardoncd by the
president.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company has announced that
work at their collieries near Shenandoah
will be increased to five and thrcc-quar-
ter days.
Thirty workmen were injured
| Wednesday by the fall Of an elevator
in the building OF the Blakey Printing
Company, Chicago. No fatalities are
| expected.
Mayor Van Wvck, of New York, on
| Saturday removed the first earth on the
work OF constructing Gotham's $36,-
10000 underground rapid transit rail
way system.
A trustee was appointed in Chicago
for the bankrupt Combination Invest
mcnt Company, a "get-rich-quick" con-
Germ that has debts OF 5000, 1000 and as
sets OF $4,000.
Representatives of the starving Puerto
Ricans will attend the proposed mass
meeting in New York and protest
further against placing a tariff upon
the imports from that country.
u. s. Judge Hunger, in the U. s,
court at Omaha, sustained the right
of the Nebraska State board OF trans
portation to enforce the reduced rates
it has made on railroads in the State.
While washing down the walls of q
building in which a fire had been ex-
tinguished two hours before three New
York fremen were killed and two in
jured by the collapse OF the first floor
c. r. Ellicott, OF Philadelphia, Pa.
has bought the Mont Alto furnace, near
Chambersburg. and $4,000 acres OF coal
land, the plant to be operated within
90 days. 1t has been idle for ten years
The committee OF the British cabinet
considering a form OF government fol
South Africa has decided on a scheme
similar to that of Canada. Lord Rea,
is spoken OF as the probable governor
general.
Mayor Van Wyck. OF New York
with silver spade dug the first eartf
in the beginning OF the great under
ground rapid transit system which is tc
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