The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-11-28
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

/ Dhiiu a PifolVtONO nun Pidht.
The high license local option bill was
defeated in the Vermont Legislature.
No less than 10 underground railway
| systems are now being planned for Lon
| don.
Farmers in the vicinity of New Will
mington, Pa, are moving for free mail
delivery.
1t is said the deal for the sale OF the
Danish West Indies to the United
States is off.
A project has been put on foot to
build a model industrial town near Phil
adelphia, Pa.
| Frank Speasmaker, postmaster OF
London, o., prominent business man,
committed suicide.
Two men are in Jail at Indiana, Pa,
charged with swindling soldiers wild
ows pension applicants.
The receipts from war revenue for
the first four months OF the present fs-
cal year were $3S,loS,S56.
A mysterious epidemic in Manchester,
| Eng, was traced to the use OF arsenic
in the manufacture OF beer.
The Venezuelan Government has re-
ceivcd from Germany 10000 Mauser
rifles and 100000 cartridges.
AT Beatrice, Neb., fire destroyed gen
eral merchandise together with stocks
involving a total loss of $4,000.
1t is reliably reported that the notori-
Gus Apache Kid has been killed in a
raid at Colonia Pachcco, Mexico.
Official news from Si-Ngan-Fu con-
frned the report that the Empress
Dowager OF China is seriously i'll.
Oil men have confidence in the Elk
Valley section of West Virginia bccom
ing great oil producing country.
Several young people OF both sexes
at Martinsburg, W. Va, have been
prosecuted for giggling in church.
Republican ways and means commit
teemen at Washington decided upon a
S3o, ,ooo, 900 reduction in war taxes.
Farmer A. II. McGregor, of Geneva,
o., has inherited his late brothers
81 ,ooo, 900 in Cleveland and vicinity.
A. Seiffert & Co., wholesale tobacco
dealers in Detroit, Mich, assigned with
liabilities OF $Io4ooo and assets OF $685.
ooo
With arrival OF reinforcemcnts in the
Philippines and the ending OF the rainy
season another Filipino chase has be-
gun.
Grand Army men of Pittsburg, Pa,
have started n movement to have the
National Encampmcnt OF 1901 held
there.
The Mayer Pottery Company, Ct
Beaver Falls, Pa, is making arrange
ments TO double the capacity OF its
plant.
Leonard Day, young millionaire Of
Minneapolis, Mimi, was killed in a mid
night quarrel with newspaper re-
porter.
Youngstown. O.. is to have $4,000
hospital, 500. OF which will be con-
tributed by Myron c. Wick, the manu-
iacturer.
AT Easton, Pa. Eugene Skinner pour
cd carbolic acid down the throats OF his
sister and himself. He is dead and she
may die.
The Citizens Light and Power Com
pany's plant and the Washington Flour
Mills, at Rochester, n. Y, were burned
loss $I75,ooo.
English manufacturers recognize the
fact that they cannot face the growing
American competition, because OF the
trades unions.
The Sharon (Pa) Ore Company has
purchased additional ore property in
the Mesaba region in Minnesota, at a
cost OF 100000.
Lord Kitchener is being severely crit
icised for his stern policy in South AT
rca and it is believed the fighting will
last three years.
"A flock OF wild turkeys was carried
to Cumberland, Md, by the storm and
several stragglers were caught uninjur-
ed on the street.
The British Liberals in their cam
paigns will use the cry OF Better edu-
cation" using the American school
system as an example.
Statistics show that since 1894 there
have been massacred in Turkey 100000
Christians while Christian property to
the value OF $5I5,ooo,ooo has been de-
stroyed.
General Theodore F. Brown, o.
years old, veteran OF Civil War and
member OF the G. A. R., sentenced to
months in Jail for false affidavit in pen
sion claim at Chicago,
The rebel forces at Buenaventura,
Colombia, were completely crushed by
government troops, who captured three
cannon and two generals.
The two Montenegrins involved in
the killing of Paymaster Hosler near
Mt Pleasant Pa, were found guilty OF
murder in the first degree.
President Mitchell, OF the United
Mine Workers of America, has granted
1000 miners of Hopkins county, KY,
permission to strike for higher wages.
Within a month trains will be running
over the Great Northern railroad to
Puget Sound, through Cascade tunnel,
Wash, on which work was started two
years ago.
Governor Brady, OF Alaska, in his an
nual report says the white fortune
hunters have introduced to the natives
'the arts and accomplishments OF Sodom
and Gomorrah"
The American association at Shang-
hal, in a manifesto addressed to Com