The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-12-12
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

United mine workers have begun a
campaign to organize West Virginia.
A number OF big deals for all the coal
mines in Eastern Ohio are under way.
The ore-laden barge Charles Foster
ioundercd off Erie with her crew of
| EIGHT
According to the official bulletins the
cazor OF Russia continues to convalesce
rapidly.
Youngstown (O.) capitalists are or
ganizing company to manufacture
shovels.
The smetcr at Helvetia Arizona, has
been totally destroyed by fire. Loss
| 100000.
A United Mine Workers convention
has been called to meet at Massillon, o.,
December IS.
Preparations are being made to start
three more blast furnaces in Sharon and
Sharpsvile, Pa.
p. A. Manyhan, a grocer of De For
est, o., formerly of Bennett, Pa, COM
mitted suicide.
The White coal mines at Canonsburg,
Pa, have been purchased by the Pitts
burg Coal Company.
Miners at the Simpson coal mines in
Lafayette, Col, 100 in number, have
struck for higher pay.
The experiment of heating buildings
in Washington, Pa, by steam from a
central plant, has begun.
Eastern heirs OF Millionaire Rice al
lege crooked work on the part OF bene-
ficiaries of the first will.
The Ridgewood power house OF the
| Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was
destroyed by fire; loss, SI5o,ooo.
Brownsville, Pa. has decided by a
vote OF IIS to 81 to issue bonds Tor $685.
600 for street paving and sewers
Henry ]. Hayden, second vice presi-
dent OF the New York Central railroad,
was killed by fall from a window.
The net cost of rural free mail delivery
for the entire country is estimated by
the Attorney General at $i4,ooo,ooo.
Thomas Kerr. of Pittsburg, with cap
italists OF Youngstown. o.. will erect
a large plate glass plant in that city.
The Citizens Gas Company, OF
Waynesburg. Pa. has brought in an im-
mense gasser just north OF that place.
French stockholders in the Panama
Canal are still hoping against hope that
the United States will choose that route.
By the explosion of locomotive boil
er in the Delaware. Lackawanna X
Western shops five men were hurt bad
ly.
At Hamilton. Ont, George Arthur
Pearson was hanged for the murder OF
his sweetheart, Annie Griffin, September
29
A riot between striking miners and
deputies at Latrobe, Pa, resulted in
three wounded officials and full lock-
up.
| Work has been commenced on an as
Economical observatory at the West
Virginia university at Morgantown, w.
Va.
John Black, prominent farmer near
Toronto. o., attempted suicide by TAX
ing laudanum. Prompt action saved his
life.
The Missouri Guarantee Savings and
Building Association, of St. Louis, has
made an assignment in the sum of $780,
600.
The Sand Fork development, in Lewis
county w. Va, produces another gush-
or, which starts off at 800 barrels an
horr.
Fire destroyed the main building Of
the Iowa State Agricultural College at
Ames Estimated loss, $Ioo,ooo; unin-
sured.
The republic found by the Russian
troops in Manchuria has 100000 inhabi-
5 tants, is called Tcha Pigou, and is 80
, years oil.
, A. G. Gillogly, Greene county (Pa.)
farmer at Halbrook, is dead from blood
poisoning caused by horse stepping
upon his foot.
= John c. Allen has been elected stew
t ard of the Mercer county (Pa.) poor
farm, succeeding ]. S. Wallace, whose
: term has expired.
t Less than a bucketful of the remains
of Oil Shooter Charles Ford were gath
r cred up after a nitro -glycerin explosion
near Marietta, o.
p, Reformer Kang Yu Wei has appealed
to the foreigner ENJOYS at Peking to
treat with the emperor and ignore the
empress dowager.
At Portland, Ore, six masked men
held up the office of the Western Lum-
| Der Company, securing 10000, and es-
D capped in the darkness,
e Mayor Harrison, OF Chicago, has re-
= voked the liquor licenses OF ID notori-
S Gus saloons, as a part of the anti-vice
r crusade in that city.
Z Constable Northcraft, near Altoona
c Pa, shot and perhaps mortally wounded
= Edmund l., Miller, sawmill owner
S who was resisting arrest.
Twenty persons were injured in an ac-
cident on the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore road at Grays Ferry sta
t ton in West Philadelphia.
c At Greenville, Mich, the body c
/ Louis Campbell, who disappeared som'
n months ago, was found packed in quick
IS lime. He had been murdered.
c A West Australian exploring part!
IS recently arrived at Oodnadata reportc,
t that there had not been a drop OF raiI
for two years in the region traversed.
Presley Z. Hay. three fines clerk o
Ho,oooI county n has haep arraSte,