The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-10-17
LATEST NEWS NOTES,


killed.
The Bocrs have torn up the railway |
north of Bcthulic and captured British |
outpost.
Alexander Howard killed his young
son Leigh at his home in Brooklyn and
committed suicide.
At Holbrook, Neb., three women and
a baby. riding in a wagon, were killed
at a railroad crossing.
Elmer Rupert, farmer, living near
New Springfield, o., was crushed to
death in n cider press.
American Car Foundry Company car
builders at Huntington, w. Va, have
struck for higher wages.
The Eighty-fith regiment Pcnnsyl-
vana volunteers. held reunion at
Brownsville Wednesday.
II is reported that 10000 Chinese
rebels were defeated by regular troops
in battle near Canton.
The prcsbytcry of San Francisco,
Cal. has decided to- stand by the West
minister Confession OF Faith.
James i. Rankin. young mechanical
engineer of Piusburg, was killed by
traction car running into his horse.
The British forces have reoccupied
Smithfcld. RouNvillc, Wcpcncr and
De Wctsdorp, Orange River colony.
The widowed Queen Marghcrita, OF
Italy. has given away all her royal cos
tunes and Jewels and become a reclusc.
Sir Thomas Upton acknowledges that
he has pork corncred, but says he WIN
not raise the price and will be easy on
the shorts.
One of the stone pillars OF the burn
ed state capital has been unveiled as a
soldiers monument at McElhatten, Ful-
ton county, Pa.
Lancaster, Pa. is the place selected
by the Pennsylvania Congress ot Moth
crs for its first annual meeting on No
vcmbcr , and 5
1t. Commander William II. Bcchlcr,
bassy at Berlin. is suffering severely
from pneumonia.
A freight wreck on the Central rail
road OF New Jersey. near Boundbrook
signal tower, killed the engineer and
piled up 90 cars in heap.
Cecil Rhodes in assuming the prcsi-
dency OF the South African League
} made an address in favor OF federation
conciliation and equal rights.
The works OF the Illinois Steel Com
pany at Chicago have ceased operations
; or two weeks. Two thousand five hun
: dred men are employed there.
The government OF South Africa by
England will be strictly colonial, but
non-miitary. after the system used IN
Ccyon and the West Indies.
The Venezuelan government has an
nulled the concession to the Orinocc
Company, organized by capitalists o
! Minnesota and Wisconsin in 1905.
, At Union Springs, Ala, Henry
Haugh, negro, brutally murdered ;
/ Io-ycar-old negro boy, whose body wa!
found in cotton patch two days later
Mrs. Lester, wife of Capt Fred Les
ter, OF the First West Virginia infantry
at Huntington, was accidentally sho
while handling a revolver and will die
s At Perth West Australia the premier
the Right Hon. Sir John Forrest, in in
, Producing the budget asked to be re
Il licvcd OF the premiership early in 1901
\ man and wife and two childrei
p we're killed and another man fatally in
t jured in a grade crossing accident a
= Robinson's crossing, near New Castle
e Pa.
S At Boise. Idaho. the Soldiers hom
+, was destroyed by fire, entailing loss O
$4,000. There were 800 inmates, on
OF whom, Thomas Hayes, was suifoca;
: ed.
= At Sima the secretary OF state ha
= completed the purchase OF e 1000 900 I
y, silver for coinage into rupees, and 4 I,
- 600, 900 in gold is being shipped to Lon
" don.
: An expedition of 1000 allies has lei
Pckin and one. OF 1000 started fror
Ticn Tsin, China, for Pao Ting Ft
where so many foreigners were masso
IS cred.
: President Errazurize, OF Santiago d
e Chilli who was striken with paralysi
l, June 10 last, is now in perfect health an
s. will resume charge OF government a
h fairs.
y President San Clemente. of Colon
/ bia. has accepted his dcposal iroi
&C office by Vice President Marroquin an
n has relinquished his authority to tn
latter.
The Rev. Sam p. Jones. the evange
ist, is broken down in health, havin
rs been compelled to cancel all his dat'
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S. issippi.
m ,e Fire in Bingham & Co.'S paper facto,
at New York caused loss of $25,oC
> and endangered the lives OF score
m girls. who were rescued with Difficult
G. by iremen.
an Edward Goldberg and his wife, 70
merly OF Canton, o., are dead in the |
ms dian territory from eating poisono
as mushrooms Goldberg was Indian age
US at Pawpaw.
ne Three persons, father and two sor
lis were burned to death in shanty
nc Roxbury, Mass. Several years al
40 the mans wife was burned to death
ie- this same place.
ks The United States has renewed I
'3e demand upon the government of NJ
ITS rocco for $1,000 indemnity to the ia
lily of Marcus Azzagui, a naturaliz
American citizen, who was murder