The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-10-24

In a fire at St. Paul MINI, five fire.
men were killed and 100000 damage
done.
| The property of the Penn plate glass
works at Irwin, Pa, has been sold at
auction.
Night schools have been opened at
Manila to teach English to Filipino
students.
Alabama's population is I,878,6 COZ, All
increase OF 3I5,58o, nearly FL per cent,
since 1900.
Understead's keg factory at Avon
more. Pa, burned Thursday night.
Loss, $4,000.
| Careless hunters set fire TO the woods
in East Finley township, Washington
county, Pa.
Survivors of the Thirteenth Pennsyl-
vania cavalry held reunion at Tyrone
Wednesday.
The Kentucky Legislature has pass.
ed an election law TO take the place OF
the Goebel law.
All the capital has been subscribed
and the site secured for the Butler (PaD
furniture factory.
The Payne Spring Tanncry Company,
Cumberland, Md. capital $4,000, has
been incorporated.
Yellow fever has so increased in Ta-
vana that every block in the city has
from l to II cases.
The Bradford (Pa) Steel Works
Company has raised $4,000 capital, and
will be incorporated.
The town OF Laurel. Ncb.. has been
visited by a disastrous fire. "A large
portion of the town was destroyed.
The Princeton university on Saturday
conferred the degree oi doctor OF laws
upon Secretary OF State John Hay,
The rubber hose as All instrument Of
punishment will be abolished in the
New Kensington, Pa. public schools.
During dcperate class fight at Allc-
ghcny college. Mcadville, Pa, sopho-
morcs failed to lower the ireshmens
flag.
Twin sisters who married twin broth
crs near Huntington, w. Va, almost
simultaneously became mothers OF trip
lets.
The so students suspended from
Wooster (O) university, will take their
medicine. The faculty refused to rein
state them.
| Lloyd's quarter report shows that the
United States has next to Great Britain
the largest tonnage in shipping under
construction
John Dcmlin, treasurer OF the Calves
ton relief fund.- gave out a statement
showing that the total contributions to
date are $Ioo5,2o2.
During a fit of insanity. Mrs. Gcb-
hardt Hummel, of Cleveland, o., dash
ed her 5-weeks old infant to the floor,
crushing out its lie.
The Cambria Iron Company is nego-
tiating for the purchase OF extensive
coal fields in ST. Clair township, West
morcland county, Pa.
Thirteen hundred acres OF coal land
in the vicinity OF Womelsdorf, w. va
have been purchased by the Junior Coal
Company, for $4,000.
The English admiralty is about to or
ganize an additional reserve squadron,
under Rear Admiral Sir Gerard Henry
Noel. for home waters.
The steamer Empress of Japan brings
news OF great loss OF life and property
on sea and land during the September
gales in the Japan group.
Count Won Waldersee, commanding
the international troops in China, said
he considered the campaign over and
expected to be recalled soon
, AT Kingston, Jamaica, Employees oi
the electric railway, owned by Ameri-
can and Canadian capitalists, are on
strike. They want more pay.
, Business men of the towns in the In
dian territory are organizing leagues
to resist the payment of the tribal tax
They will fight it in the courts
: The American Linsced Oil Company
has marked the price of linseed oil UP to
70 cents, or the highest figure known
= since the infancy OF the industry.
An attempt was made to destroy the
line of the Citizens Telephone Company
at Ellwood, Pa. Two men started to
. cut the wires, but were scared away.
,, The library building of the Wisconsin
, State Historical Society, which has beer
, under construction for the past three
years at Madison, has been dedicated.
The abbatoir OF the West Philadel
phia stockyards was partly destroyed by
| a fire of unknown origin Sunday, caus-
, ing a loss of about $4,000, fully insur
ed.
The battlcship Kentucky, which sail
to return to this port on account OF the
, disarrangement OF her turret mechan
ism.
Judge Charlton, of the intermediate
court at Fairmont. w. Va, has beer
served with a writ of prohibition ant
restricting him from naturalizing for
eigners.
The transport Logan has sailed from
Manila for San Francisco, carrying 27,
sick, 10 insane and 80 prisoners. The
horse transport Conemaugh is about tC
sail also.
The champion murderer and brigand
|, Musolino, OF Italy, who is still at large
has killed all the members OF his band
and has marked several persons fo
slaughter.
I At Fresno. Cal. the county hospita
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000
!. One hundred and fifty patients, 20 o