The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-04-25
LATEST NEWS NOTES.



anese immigrants were landed Friday.
Crops have suffered severely by
floods in Louisiana. Mississippi and Ala
bama.
AT Brownsville, Ncb., Charles Smith
shot and killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide.
The British steamer Quito has been
chartered to take American famine sup
plies to India.
A congress OF German miners at Al
tenburg vigorously opposed seclusion
OF American meat
Crazcd with liquor William Aylwari
cut the throat OF William Larkins i'll a
fishing shack at Chicago.
Heavy fighting is said to be going on
at Kumassi in Ashanti West Africa,
where tribes are in revolt.
A new line of steamers between Du-
luth and Montreal, from the lakes TO
the ocean, is to be started.
Government receipts in Cuba during
March were SI,o7S6o0, against Soo3,o33
in the same month in 1903.
Seth Low president of Columbia Uni
versity, has been elected president OF the
American Geographical Society.
A cotton mill at Alabama City, Ala,
has forwarded shipment OF " carloads
OF cotton to the Chinese Empire
A boat containing 70 Catholic STU
dents in crossing the Rhine at Bingen
was capsized and I3 were drowned.
The forest fires in Minnesota are dy-
| ing out Reports OF loss OF life among
the lumbermen in Manitoba are denied.
The Peruvian government has ac-
cepted the proposal OF the United
States for a new Pan-American Con-
grcss.
Announcement OF the change in the
that of Lincoln Republican has been
| made.
Governor Tanner, of Illinois, is so
| seriously i'll that his doctors have decid-
ed on an operation, and his friends are
anxious.
Major A. Nignos, cx-postmaster OF
| Canton, o.. has been appointed one OF
the international jurors for the Paris
exposition.
In the packing houses OF Armour &
Co., at Chicago, electricity has supplant-
ed steam as the motive power i'll all de-
| partments.
The deaths from plague throughout
India last week were over 1000, and the
disease has made its appearance at Red
Sea ports.
The attorney general OF Ohio held
that the appropriation OF $soo,oco for the
Toledo centennial exhibition was not
legally made.
|
The Memorial day committee of Pitts
burg decided to furnish carriages for
the feeble veterans during the parade on
Memorial day.
Reports from the Mississippi Valley
show railway traffic is being resumed
in the districts where the floods had Grip
pied the roads
Dr. +. B. Andrews, superintendent
OF Chicago schools, has accepted the
Office oil chancellor of the University
of Nebraska.
Stationmaster Crocius, OF Brussels
who arrested the assailant OF the Prince
OF Wales, has been decorated with the
Victorian order.
AT Syracuse. N ", John Hughes
shot and killed his wife, seriously
wounded Elizabeth Lyons and attempt
ed to commit suicide.
Thieves worked the combination o.
safe in the store OF M. T. Snyder al
Hamden, w. Va, early Saturday morn
ing, and secured $500.
Saturday evening an attempt was
made to blow up Lock No. "a OF the
Wclland canal at Clifton, Ont Three
suspects were arrested.
AT Minden, La, a white man was sho
by negro, who afterward committed
suicide, and two OF the negros alleged
accomplices were lynched.
The President has decided to remov,
Collector John r. Tobert at Charleston
S. c., for permitting the secretion o
liquor in the custom house.
Attorney John Gardner, on behalf o
citizens OF New Castle, Pa, presented
Officer "Cy' Horncr $Ioo in gold ant
solid gold medal in recognition of hi
brave capture OF Snakes" Wilson, tn
notorious burglar
General Peck, in charge OF the Unit
ed States Paris exhibition commission
denies that the commissions expendi
lures have been extravagant.
Alfred f. Morrison, who killed his al
legged wife at White Plains, N. Y, ha
been acquitted on the ground that h
did the shooting in a dream.
The Emperor OF Germany censure,
the military preparations of Gen. vol
Schleinitz, commander at Altoona, an,
the general has resigned from the army
The great ccumenical conference o
foreign missions began in New York
and President Mckinley and ex-Presi
dent Harrison were among the speakers
Thomas G. Woerman, after pleading
guilty 10 a charge OF arson in the dis
trict court at Atchison. Kan, was give
sentence OF IS years in the peniten
tiary.
The Senate passed joint resolutio
to give bronze medals to the officers an
sailors OF the North Atlantic squadron
who participated in the victories of tn
Spanish war.
A message from the interior OF Afri
ca says that the rebel natives have near
ly wiped out the Bekwais, loyal tribe
1t is reported that Goo were killed i
the engagement. The surviving Bek