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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Coroner's Inquests.

Hon. John w. Reed, president judge
Of the several courts of Jefferson county,
filed an opinion last week in the matter
OF holding an inquest when dead body
Is found or an accidental death occurs,
and AS it is OF interest to the public in
general, we publish part of Judge Reeds
opinion, as follows:
'The finding of dead body, or an ac-
cidental death, is always the subject Of
comment and of more or less excitement
in the community, but it is useless TO
hold an inquest merely as an official
declaration of the fact that a death has
occurred, and where there is no reason
TO believe and no expectation of fixing
responsibility for such death on any one,
an inquest should not be held. This
court Is not disposed to discourage the
holding of an inquest In any case where
there is IA reasonable ground to suspect
that the deceased has been feloniously
destroyed, or that the death has been
ebargeable TO the criminal Negligence Of
another. But it is desirable that no in
quest shall be held as a mere matter of
form, and we therefore take this occa-
sion TO call attention to the Act of AS
sembly and to emphasize the fact
that Il preliminary investigation should
be made in the first instance, and where
the surrounding facts do not show vio-
lence or disclose any reason for suppos-
ing that death was caused feloniOusly
or by criminal negligence, no jury
should be summoned or inquest held.
In that case the proper certificate Can
be made by the officer investigating
and thereupon his fee and mileage will
be paid. When the preliminary in
vestigation, however, reveals a reason
able ground for suspecting that death
resulted from some criminal act or omis
sion, then an inquest should follow, ant
the investigation should be made al
thorough and cOmplete as pOssihle.n
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
To the Public.

think it proper and expedient for
me to say few words about the affairs
of the Star Glass Company.
Our company was organized Dec. 9th,
1890, and received its charter, Dec. 2lst,
1899.
The finances were established upon
what was believed at the time to be a
solid foundation and work was begun at
once upon the erection OF the plant.
At later date II developed that large
portion OF this money was not available
and IL devolved upon me to re-arrange
the finances OF the company.
made an effort to do this and finally
succeeded in doing so with New York
parties, but the conditions they imposed
rore not entirely to my liking. | then
returned to Reynoldsville and have
great pleasure in announcing to the
people that the following named gem
sleman have entered the company as
stockholders, thus becoming identified
directly with the management of the
affairs of the corporation, to wit:
w. b. Alexander, j. w. Foust, Thos.
G. McEntecr, Smith NJ. McCrcight
II, Alex. Stoke, G. II. Hall, Jacob
Deible, II. G. Deible, j. j. Suffer-
A. r. Mcclure. +. ID. Smith, G. NJ.
Mcdonald, Chas. A. Herpel Henry
Herpel.
On February Bird mortgage was
placed upon the property Of the com
pany for $4,000 to be issued in the
form of 10-year per cent bonds, the
intention being to issue these bonds to
such an amount as would complete the
plant. This mortgage has been re-
duced to $4,000 and the full amount
will be sold. These bonds will form q
gilt-edged security bearing 6 per cent
interest net. the company paying all
taxes. The interest is payable on the
first OF January and July in each year.
Bonds will be issued in any desired
amount.
A contract has been closed with the
New York Glass Company of New York
under which they purchase the entire
output OF glass of our factory until the
close OF the season Of 1902, paying the
ruling market price therefor in cash.
This is a very advantageous contract
and puts our company upon solid foun-
dation and assures the successful man.
agement of the business.
have now explained in full the cir
cumstances and conditions of our com
pany and trust the confidence will be
appreciated. We have good business
established. 1t only remains for those
of our citizens who have money for
which they are seeking an investment
to take our bonds, which all must adj
NIT have good value under the new
arrangement. We offer them freely
and l shall call upon you in person dur
the next few weeks seeking the invest
ment of your money.
Thanking the people for the conf.
dence reposed in me in the past and
assuring you that it will be my endeavor
to conduct the business affairs of the
companies with which | am connected
in such manner as to merit its contin.
-uance, am, Respectfully,
Il. A. FERRIN.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Banker Routs q Robber.

j. II. Garrison, cashier of the bank of
Thornville, Ohio, had been robbed of
health by u serious lung trouble until
he tried DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Then he wrote: ''It is
the best medicine l ever used for q
severe cold or a bad case Of lung trouble.
always keep Il bottle on hand" Don't
suffer with coughs, colds or any throat,
chest or lung trouble when you can be
cured SO easily. Only soc and Sl.00
Trial bottles free ut III. Alex. Stokes
Drug Store
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
No Better Stiff Hats

Made than ours; you pay
from SOC. to S1.00 more else
where, but you don't improve
the quality. We have all
the Spring shapes in abun-
dance, any color, all dimen-
sions, at. prices that will
surprise you: Sl.25, 81. so,
LIS, 200, $50 and SO. 90.
Call and see them.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Mems Spring Neckwear.

We still continue to lead
in new Neckwear styles. This
spring we are showing a swell
line Of new patterns-Im-
perials, 4-in.Hands, Band
Bows and Batwings, qualities
and styles that other houses
match at SOC. Our price 25c.
We are showing some ad-
vance styles in Easter Neck.
wear, all new ideas in color.
ings and patterns, in fancy
silks and satins. Shapes are
Tecks, Imperials, English
Squares, Four.in-hands, Bat
wings and Band Bows. These
qualities can't be matched at
our price, which is only
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Easter Outing Shirts.

New spring styles in Mems
and Boys Fancy Outing
Shirts, stylish patterns and
best workmanship. Hundreds
to select from, made with
collar and cuff detached or
in neck band style with pair
cuffs, to wear white collar.
Cheap at 75c, at our store
SOC.
Mems $1.O0 Madras Cloth
outing shirts with pair de-
tached cuffs, new weaves,
latest spring colorings. Your
choice at 75c.
Mems finer grade of outing
shirts, swell patterns in new
est colorings for spring, fit
and workmanship equal to
custom.made, best value ever
offered, $1.00 and $1.50.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Whats Your FACE Worth.

Sometimes fortune, but-never II you
have sallow complexion, u jaundiced
look, moth patches and blotches on the
slyin--all signs OF liver trouble. But
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, give clear
skin, rosy cheeks, rich complexion.
Only 25c at II. Alex. Stokes drug store.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Clothing for Men.

Your own investigation of
our stock will show that we
have aimed high in our
Clothing Department.
Our suits are natty looking
and have a good appearance,
and always give applauded
service, the sort you see and
admire on the best dressed
men about town, in all the
new fabrics, styles and col
ors. Cheviots, Worsteds,
Tweeds, Thibets and Cassi-
meres-all the new plaids,
checks and stripes for the
up-to-date young man. Also
plain suits for palmer people
and every one among them
of special value for the price.
Our suits fit and keep their
shape better than other mer-
chants who buy cheap goods
and ask big prices.
Come in and see our line
at S.. 90, $6. SO, 500, 800,
1000 and $1,000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
SOC.
DOubIe-BreaSted Suits.

Boys need clothing for service and
they get 1t here.
We have over 300 of them, all in the
extra quality, made and trimmed up to
the usual standard. Sizes TO Is. Prices
$I.OO, 100, $3.50, $500 and s4.OO.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Mems Dress Trousers.

500 neatly made Trousers
in dependable Cheviots,
Worsteds and Cassimeres,
spring and summer weight,
neater effects in stripes and
checks at all prices, S1.50,
200, $50 and $500.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Spring Suits for the Boys.

Spring Suits for the Boys.
A sure saving. Every suit
in the entire department is
priced at a less figure than
you're asked for the same
quality in other stores.
BOYS vEsTEE SUITS.
Very natty looking suits in
fine all-wool blue and mix
lures, plaids and checks, with
separate vest, a novelty the
little fellows will enjoy.
Sizes 3 to s, prices 81. so,
So. 90, 50. so, $500 and 81. 90.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
Golf Hats and FedOras.

If you have grown tired of
a derby, try one of our mob
by-looking Soft Hats that we
show in such a pleasing vari-
ETY. of shapes and color.
; new colors in Golf Hats
at SOC to 50.
new colors in Fedora
Hats S1.00 to So. so.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-28
SPRING STYLES OF MEMS FANCY
HALF-HOSE.

Mercerized Silk Stripes and Polka
dots, all new patterns, only 25c.
Mems Fancy Half Hose Stripes and
Figures, new colorings and new ideas in
patterns, swell line to pick from at SOC.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
SCENE WAS TERRIBLE.
Belgian Describes Massacre by the Rus.
sian Soldiery.

London, Nov. 15-The Globe this
afternoon publishes letter from
Belgian gentleman who has been
travelling to Picking wa the Trans
Siberian railroad. He describes, un-
der date of September 6, what he saw
in the Amur river. His accounts sur
pass in horror those previously pub
lished.
1.-The scenes I have witnessed dur
ing the three days since the steamer
left Blagovetchensk," he says, are
horrible beyond the power of de-
scription. 1t is the closing tableau
of fearful tragedy. Two thousand
were deliberately drowned at Morxo,
1000 at Rabe and 5000 around Blag7
ovetchensk, a total of $4,000 corpses
encumbering the river, among which
were thousands of women and chill
dren. Navigation was almost impos-
sible. Last week boat had to plow
its way through a tangled and man
gled mass of corpses dashed together
by their long hair. The banks were
literally covered with corpses. In
the curves of the stream were dark,
putrid, smelling masses of human
flesh and bone, surging and swaying
vainly ordered full speed ahead. The
sight and smell VIII be ever with US.
"From Blagovetchensk to Aigun,
forty-fve kilometers. numerous viz
lagos studded the bank, with a thriv-
ing, Industrious population of over
100000. That of Aigun was 10000.
No one will ever know the number of
those who persisted by shot, sword
and fire. Not Il village is left. The
silence of death was around us. The
smoking ruins of Aigun were on the
right, with broken down, crumblinS
walls and shattered. roofess houses"
Picking, Nov. l9.-Count Won Waldersee
received the Chinese peace commissioners
today at the imperial palace. Won Valdez,
see demanded that the Chinese troops be
withdrawn from the vicinity of the terri
tory occupied by the allied forces, adding
that if this was done with dispatch the
military expeditions by the allies would
be discontinued
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
PRINCE TUAN PUNISHED
Degraded and Condemned to Life
lmDrisOnment

Washington, Nov. minister Wu
received from Director General Sheng,
foreign cablegram, which he COM
municated to Secretary Hay yester-
lay:
AN imperial decree of November y
deprives Prince Tuan and Prince
Chwang of their rank and orders
them imprisoned for life; Prince Yih,
and Secondary Prince Wing Lien inn
prisoned; Secondary Prince Lien to
be deprived of his rank; Duke Ian
and Wing Men to be degraded IN
rank; hang vi, being dead, no pen
atty can be imposed upon him; Chao
Shu Chiao is to be degraded, but re-
tanned in office; Yu Hsien to be led to
the farthest boundary"
The Chinese officials mentioned in
the decree are among the highest
in China and comprise most, il no.
all, of those against whom the pow
ers demanded vigorous punishment
Prince Tuan stands at the head OF
the anti-foreign and Boxer move
ment- Previous edicts have degraded
him and taken away his office and
servants, but this judgment of life
imprisonment is the most severe thus
far given to any of the Chinese lead
ers responsible for the uprising.
From a Chinese standpoint, it is an
extreme penalty to prince of royal
blood, but it remains to be seen
whether the powers will regard it IS
adequate to Prince Tuan's terrible
otfense.
The others mentioned were Prince
Tuan S active associates, and two OF
them were specially mentioned TO"
punishment, along with Prince Tuan,
in Secretary of State Hays note os
October 8, advising the Chinese goy-
eminent that this country would ex-
pecs these officials to receive their
just deserts, regardless of rank. Kang
vi is one of the high officials who died
suddenly after the demands for pun
ishment had been made by the pow
ers, probably by suicide. Yu Hsien is
another who was thought to have
committed suicide, but the edict in
dicates that he is still alive.
AS the ministers at Picking also have
been considering the question of pun
ishments, it will develope speedily
when they lay their demands before
the imperial Chinese ENJOYS, whether
the edict of the Chinese emperor
gives punishments which are regarded
as adequate to fit the enormity Of
the crimes.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22

Iowa City, Nov. 15.-The meeting
of the rural school directors at Iowa
City discussed the condition of the
county school fund at some length.
1t was decided to appoint com
mittee TO consult an attorney and
take steps to recover the amount of
money alleged by County Superin-
tendent Whiting to have been over
drawn by the Iowa City school dis
trict from 1874 to 1888. Superintend-
ent Writings minimum estimate of
this sum is $4,000. Three-fourths of
this, he says, was taken from the
rural schools, being raised by the
county tax. The other fourth was
taken from the state at large, being
from the county's share of the state
school fund
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
GEAR EvENs THINGS UP.
His Present illness Shows His Rea
Weight, internationally.

His Present illness Shows His Real
Weight, internationally.
London, Nov. 16.-The serious ap-
prehension with which the announce
ment was made of the fact that tie
car was suffering from typhoid fever
filed Europe, emphasizes how much
the peace of the world is believed to
be dependent on him. But for the
statement contained in the official
bulletin that his malady was taking a
THOROUGHLY favorable course, the
news of his illness would have created
nothing less than CONSERVATION. 1t
is generally felt at the present crit
zeal state of international affairs that
even the temporary weakening of the
influence of so favorable u factor in
the maintenance of the worlds peace,
justities grave anxiety, especially as
the czar is regarded in Europe as C.
kind of counterpoise to Emperor Will
liam. Public anxiety will, therefore,
Fcmain strained until the none TOO
robust monarch RECEIVERS. In political
circles any other issue of his ma les
tvs malady is regarded as nightmare.
The London newspapers comment on
the cars illness with peculiar SYM
pathy. The Times remarks it has
always been believed in England
that the car "reciprocated national
sentiment toward the cherished real
regard and reverence for our beloved
queen"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22

Captain S. P. Emmerson, who has
gust died in Denver, was distinguished
as the leader of a company of irregular
Confederate forces, commonly known
rs guerrillas, who hoped to capture or
destroy Chicago. Captain Emmerson
escaped capture on that occasion by
stealing a horse and riding away.
Many of the exploits of his command
were as daring as those of the Guam
trell, Morgan or Moseby raiders. He
was once captured in Kentucky. but
escaped by cutting hole in the roof
of his prison. Captain Emmerson was,
a warm friend to the James boys. He
never recovered from the grief caused
by the fall of the Confederacy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
THEY Violate PLEDGES.
England, Germany and Russia Causing
Trouble in China.

Washington, Nov. lS.-Germany, Rus
kia and Great Britain have broken faith
with the United States and the information
al alliance which pledges itself to restore
order and authority in China. The car
and the kaiser especially have violated
the conditions exactsd by this government
in the joint circular of July 3, while her
ajesty has been a passive if not tolerant
third party to the cruel aggressions and
blood thirsty expeditions which have been
carried on under Count Won WaldCrsee' S
command. Owing to the dragooning of
innocent natives, including women and
children, by German and Russian troops
in China, the eastern question once more
FORCES forward as n subject of anxiety
and threatening internal relation.
Russia las broken faith with this gov
eminent by failing to withdraw its troops,
and there is evidence that Germany and
Russia are endeavoring to provoke anoth-
'er uprising among the Cinnamon, and in
that manner precipitate ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
While Russia and the German emperor
in public documents and international
correspondence profess the utmost zeal in
bringing Chinese affairs to peaceful Gull
mination, their armies are killing natives
and committing Outrages against the Chi
nese besides which tie Peking siege and
horrors pale into insigniticance. Resent
ment here against the German methods is
fat a high pitch, and unless there is let
up this government will take upon itself
to utter a protest against these Outrages,
which are barbarous and not in accord
with the proceedings of civilized powers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
NEWS in GENERAL
NEGRO BURNED BIZ a Mos.
Horrible Fate of the Murderer OF Lou
iso Frost.


ise Frost
Limon, Colo, Nov. 17.-Chained to
railroad rail set firmly in the
ground, on the exact spot where mis-
fiendish crime was committed, Pres
ton Porter, Jr., or, as he was famili-
liarly known, John Porter, who bru-
tally murdered Louise Frost, last
evening paid terrible penalty for his
atrocious deed.
1t was 6:23 o'clock when the father
of the murdered girl touched the
match to the fuel piled around the
negro, and twenty minutes later a
last convulsive shudder told that life
was extinct. What agony the doomed
brute suffered while the flames shriy-
eled up his flesh could only be guess
ed from the terrible contortion of his
face and the cries he gave from time
to time. The executioners, who num-
bered about 300 citizens of Lincoln
county, had not Inc least semblance
of the Ordinary mob. Their every act
was cool and deliberate, and during
all the preparations, as well as
throughout the sufferings of the ne
gro, hardly an unnecessary word
was uttered. Grimly they stood in a
circle about the fire until the body
was quite consumed and then took
their way back to Limon from
whence they departed for their homes
shortly afterward.
Lmon, Colo. Nov. l9.-No inquest, it
is said, will be held over the remains of
Preston Porter. Jr., the self-confessed
murderer of Louise Frost, who was
burned at the stake by mob OF men at
Lake Station. In fact. the coroner can
find no remains upon which to hold an
inquest. A few men remained late at the
spot OH the prairie where the murder was
committed and avenged. and renewed the
fire again and again, until every vestige
of the negro was gone. The iron rail to
which the victim was bound will be left
standing as warning to all inclined to
deeds similar to that for which young
,Porter's life was taken.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
Victory for Saloons.

Sioux City. Nov. 16.-The saloon
men in Sioux City have just won out
i'm contest with the prohibitionists
of that county. The prohibItionista
dispute the sufficiency of the petit
lion of consent under which The sa.
loon men are doing business, and
brought injunction suits against six
teen liquor dealers to restrain them
from doing business. The saloon
men held that whether or not the
petition of consent was good it had
been approved by the board of super
Tisors, which made it of force until an
appeal from the action of the board
had been taken an upheld. Judge
Hutchinson held this to be the proper
view and refused to grant the injunc-
tions. In Woodbury. county the pro-
hibitionists have gone about the mat
ter in different way, attacking thc
petition of consent rather than the
saloon men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
PRINCE TUAN ARRESTED.
Yu Haien Also Arrested and Likely to
hA Executed.

London, Nov. l9.-Under date of Nov.
lG dispatch to a news agency says
Great Britain has protested against the
transfer of Yu Chang to the governor
ship OF WI Chang. Ii Hung Chang
and Prince Ching, according to this dis
patch, have memorialized the throne, and
Yu Chang will probably not be allowed
to take up the new post.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
Prince Tuan is under arrest at Mig Haia
province. Yu Haien, governor of Shan
81 has also been arrested at Pinan Sheng.
The director of telegrap~s and railroads
has memorialiZed the throne, denouncing
Yu Haien. and an edict is expected con-
demEing Yu Haien to death.
At council of ministers in Paris
M. Delcasse, French minister of foreign
affairs, announced that the ministers at
Picking had transmitted to their respec-
tive governments a number of articles of
a joint note, and they contemplated add
ing six points to those already reached as
basis for peace negotiations.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22
LARGE OUTLAY ON NAVY.
Report of Admiral Bradford Records
Hig ExDendIturea.


Big Expenditures.
Washington, Nov. 16.-The report of
Admiral Bradford, chief of the naval
bureau of equipment, records UMPIRE.
cedently large expenditures by cruis-
ing ships during the last fiscal year
and the disbursement of large
amounts for freight involved in the
transportation of stores.
Admiral Bradford sets forth the de
STABILITY of naval station at Guam,
emphasizing the Importance OF the
island as q naval base. He also re-
counts rapid improvement in equip
ment work at the Cavite naval station
and the cold storage house at Pago-
Pago on the island of Tutuila, Samoa.
A new floating dry r,'i FIR the pa
val station at Algiers, La, is TO be
completed by May, 1901.
The amount of coal being consumed
by the navy is increasing year by
year and it's cost last year averaged
nearly So ton more than during the
fiscal year of 1898. Adm raj bradford
again renews his recommendations
for new naval coating dcpots. The
bureau recommends the installation
of the Marconi system of wireless
telegraphy on board several ships Of
the navy provided it can be done at
a reasonable cost.
The report says that the survey
made by the United States steamer,
Nero, for trans-Pacific submarine
telegraph cable between Honolulu
and the philinDineS was most sue
cessfully accomplished and that a sat,
isfactory route for an all American
cable to connect the Pacific with tho
outlying colonial possessions of the
United States in the Pacific. and with
China and Japan. has been discovered
thoroughly explored, surveyed and
mapped. The bureau is now ready
to lay the cable at any time.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-22

The Census Bureau has made public
the returns of the population in Ala
bama. The population Of the state in
1900 is 1.S2S,697. as against 1,513,O17
in 1890, representing an increase since
1890 of 315, $50, or 20.S per cent. This
rate of increase is slightly greater than
that for the decade from 1880 to 1890,
when it was 1913 per cent. The popu-
lation in 1900 is more than fourteen
times as large as that given for 1920;
the first census taken after its organi-
zation as a state, in 1919. The total
land surface of Alabama is approx
mately 51.540 square miles, the aver
age number of persons to the square
mile at the censuses Of 1890 and 1900
being 29.3 in 1890 and 1854 in 1900.