The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-10
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Gotti as his successor.
The Union National Bank, OF Raf-
way, N. j., has suspended.
The Wagner palace car interests have
been absorbed by the Pullman Com
pany.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, says this
term will bring his public life to a
close.
Over 1000 men are engaged in har-
vesting I2-inch ice in the vicinity OF
Chicago
Allegheny. Pa. Carnepie library, re-
ceivcd $ro,o o New Years gift from
its founder.
Cripple Creeks gold output for the
year just closed was 422,So5 tons, worth
$2o,ooo,ooo.
Philadelphia is to have a $3oooooo
hotel. The structure will have $50
guest rooms.
The Montczuma Lead Company, cap
| ital S3,ooo,ooo, is ready to operate in
New Mexico.
A statue OF Vice President Hobart
will be erected at Paterson, N. j., at
cost OF $4,000.
Indications are that Carnegie, the iron
and steel magnate, will enter the Ala
bana iron field
Senator Hoar. of Massachusetts. saws
| that State constitutions cut no figure
as to scnatorship.
Andrew Carnegie has given Chey-
cnnc, Wyo., $4,000 with which to CON
struct free library.
| Joseph p Dickev of Grccnvillc. has
been appointed mercantile appraiser for
| Mercer county. Pa.
| The Irish societies of Philadelphia,
Pa, arc endcavoring to raise 100000 to
equip hospital ship.
| Companies A, b, c, d. /, X, l. and
NJ, OF the Fifteenth Infantry. are home
ward bound from Cuba
| While trying to mount his horse,
Richard Croker was thrown backward
and had his leg broken.
A mad dog in a Pittsburg Pa. cafe,
New Years, succeeded in biting six per-
sons before il was killed
During December 100000 stamps
were sold at the Pittsburg postoifice.
This breaks the record.
On account of the great demand for
green coffee, that article has advanced
onc-hali cent per pound.
Senator Harold. of Kentucky, de-
clares he was offered $4,000 TO stay
out OF the Goebcl caucus.
President Kruger has consented to
the sending of an American military
observer to the Bocr armies.
The American Electric Vehicle Com
pany, with a capital of $1,000, ,ooo, has
been licensed in New Jersey.
William Johnston, a gas expert, was
asphyxated Saturday while repairing a
regulator at loungstown, o.
The annual financial report of the
Pittsburg Stock Exchange shows cash
balance in bank of SS,Ioo,o3.
The paying teller of the Fidelity Trust
and Guarantee Company. OF Buffalo,
| N. Y, gets away with $4,000.
lndcmnifcation has been demanded
for recent seizure of American cargoes
in Dclagoa Bay by the English.
Preparations are being made by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for its
new passenger depot at Piusburg.
A lamp explosion at Johnstown, Pa.
Thursday evening, destroys house and
ten inmates are seriously burned.
Jones & Laughlins have decided to
spend s., SOC. 900 on the construction OF
a modern steel plant at Pittsburg, Pa.
Eight hundred bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins caused by the
earthquake in the district OF Tifiis, Rus
sia.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
college at Emporia, Kan, $4,000 for a
library as soon as the present debt is
paid.
No trace has been discovered of IA
year-oid Hattie Hail. who disappeared
, from ncr home at Utica, o., Christmas
night.
, The British-Amcrican Furniture
Company has been organized at To-
ronto, Can, with capitalization OF So
ooo,coo.
1t is stated that General Otis does not
wish to capture Aguinaldo for fear the
rebel chieitain might prove white
elephant"
Professor Charles II. Schwartz. foun-
der OF Bethlehem Academy for Boys
died Saturday night at Bethlehem, Pa
aged 90 years.
A donation OF S3oo,o has been given
by Carnegie to Cooper Union, New
E York, with which to found Mechan-
les Art school.
r While attending a funeral Wcdnes,
! day, Miss Kryder, OF Belleionte, Pa.
7 was badly burned by her celluloid col
, lar catching fire.
: Governor Roosevelt will soon presen
plans to the New York Legislature fol
a lake-to-ocean canal that is estimated
! to cos S6o,ooo,coo.
: The Calivada Colonization Company
in which over 200 Pittsburg families ar,
. financially interested, has gone into thu
. hands OF receiver.
I J. +. Creenan, manager OF the To
: peka, Kan, branch OF the Standard Oh
Company, was run over and killed b,
an engine in that citv.
II. H. Warner, formerly well-knowi
patent medicine manufacturer, O
Rochester, N. Y, has failed. Liabii
ties, S2,3I0, o27; no assets.
By continuing the war tax il is csti
mated that by June 30, the end OF tn
fiscal year, there will be surplus in tn
IT fall. cC~