The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-09-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

was stabbed Sunday by female pick
pocket
Joseph Johnson, a farmer OF lnka,
Tyler county. W. Va, hanged himself
Saturday.
Mai. Hazlett. the ex-banker of Wash
ington. Pa. is prostrated by his second
conviction.
As a result OF the weeks successes,
England now expects an early end TO
the Transvaal war.
Twelve men were arrested at Akron,
o., charged with being implicated in the
recent race riot there.
The steamer Topeka. from Alaska,
Thursday, brought Iso passengers and
100000 in gold dust.
1t is reported that the car has order
ed his troops and minister at Pekin to
leave at once for Ticu Tsin.
General Uribe. chief OF the insurgcnt
forces in Colombia. has surrendered TO
the government at Churchuri.
Internal revenue receipts for July
were $50, 1901, an increase OF $780,
1903 over the same month last year.
Two escaped convicts were killed
and third wounded in a fight with
warden's posse at Whiteside, Tenn.
At Cheneyvillc. La. Thomas J. Amos,
who confessed the murder of Elamson
T. Jackson, was lynched by a mob.
The plant OF the Shelby Steel Tube
Company at Ellwood City, Pa, is to be
started after being idle for several years.
The Nicaraguan Congress has ap-
proved the commercial reciprocity trea-
ty between Nicaragua and the United
States.
who died suddenly at his summer home
in the Adrondacks, is valued at $6o,-
$4,000.
The Youngstown. o.. Gas and Elec-
trio Light Company has been sold 20
New York and Chicago capitalists for
$soo,ooo
A tornado which passed over the vii
, lage OF Wapcla. Man, killed a farmer
and his two children and badly hurt
his wife.
In both houses OF the Kentucky Leg
islature many bills have been introduced
both to kill or amend the Goebel cleo
ton law
The Fairbanks Scale Company build
ing and Kieier Bros factory in New
Orleans were burned out, causing loss
OF 100000.
The steamer Moana, Captain Carey,
which sailed from Sydney, n S. W., ior
San Francisco, has on board E2,75o,-
600 in gold.
The Yaqui Indians, who are on the
warpath in Mexico, are reported on
the Haqui river, within a few miles oi
Guayamas.
At Bowling Green, o., as a result oi
eating toadstools for mushrooms Flora
aged 22. and John Harter, aged IL, will
probably die
Friday Thomas Jones, a negro
preacher, the murderer OF family of siN
persons, was hanged at Raleigh, n. c.
in the county jail
General Maxine Gomez has declined
to accept the nomination offered him
by the National party to the constitu
tional convention.
Agents representing one-third OF tho
Fall River, Mass, mills have signed ar
agreement for II 10 per cent reduction
in wages on September II.
Lyman Hitchcock, ex-chief of police
OF Franklin, Pa, had an eye cut on
Saturday by Harry Ross, aged 10 years
who struck him with hoe.
At St. Joseph, Mich. over $1,000 il
cash, stamps and postal cards was stolei
from the postoffice by professiona
cracksmen. There is no clew.
Negroes claiming to have been in
jured in the recent riots in New Yorl
have filed claims for damages agains
the city amounting to $4,000.
.
Postmaster General Smith has or
dered that all messages by postoffic,
employees not OF interest to the depart
ment be guaranteed with a deposit.
Col Thomas J. Powers Commission
er OF Banking in Pennsylvania, wa
killed by falling from train in the out
skirts OF Philadelphia Thursday night
The woolen mill OF McElhoes & Find
ley, near Indiana. Pa. was destroyed b.
| fire Saturday. The loss will reach SIC,
| 600, on which there is $1,000 insurance
Secretary OF State John Hay, who wa
improving in health, recently overtaxe
his strength and has suffered a sever
relapse, which has greatly alarmed hi
friends.
In August the excess OF expenditure
| over receipts by the Government wa
$8II,443 due to the cost of the censu
taking and the redemption OF Puert
Rican coin.
Patrick Lally and Patrick Hughe,
D employed at the mine at Chiefton, Nd
\ fell asleep on the railroad track at Nc
p nongaia, W. Va, and were run over b
! train and killed.
: Father Phillips efforts to avert
strike in the anthracite region OF Penn
sylvania are having great weight, man
p OF the miners being only lukewarm tC
I ward the movement
II The mining properties of the Gener
= Mining Association OF London hay
= been sold to the Nova Scotia Ste
= Company Tor 81, 500, 900, the coal are;
S being Fl miles in extent.
p Losses resulting from the storm
= Tuesday night in Manitoba, will run I
to about 100000. Virden, White Woo
Moosemin. Souris, Thornhll, Elkhoi
and Oak Lake were among the tow
IS damaged by the storm.