The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-17
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The I.awton fund Is now $50. ror.

opera house, built by Odd Fellows.
Ex-President Cleveland has gone TO
Georgetown, S. c., to shoot ducks.
Cincinnati is making an effort to have
the next democratic convention held
there.
Robbers blew open the McGinniss
bank in Owensvile, Md, and got away
with $4,000.
The Hartford, Farragut's famous
flagship, sailed from San Francisco for
New York, Wednesday. ~
John Bryant, Green Bryant and VIII
liam Beatty were killed by falling rock
in mine at Ashland, Ky.
Gov. A. J. McLaurin, of Mississippi,
recently elected United States senator,
is seriously i'll of pneumonia.
John y. Rockefeller has given $780,
600 to Columbia University. New York,
TO found chair of psychology.
Louis II. Severance. of New York,
has given 100000 to Oberlin, o., Col
lege for the new chemical laboratory.
Owing to domestic troubles. Mrs.
| Charles Fahr. of Ellwood. Ind, attempt
ed to end her life by drinking wood al
cohol.
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and as a result coffee has advanced one
half cent per pound. Future advances
are expected.
DR.. Adam A. Weiser, aged seventy
| seven years, was struck by a train at
Zelicnoplc, Pa, Thursday night and in
stantly killed.
| Frederick Chopin, young Philadel-
| phian, who has been on trial at Brazil,
Ind, on the charge OF forgery, was ac-
quilted Saturday.
Governor Roosevelt will soon present
plans to the New York Legislature for
a lake-to-ocean canal that is estimated
to cost $6o,ooo,ooo.
David Lindcrman was blown off
bridge at Indian creek. near Uniontown,
Pa, Thursday. dashed upon the rocks
and instantly killed
Spotted Tail the well-known Sioux
Chief, who has been exhibiting in Paris,
died OF heart disease Thursday. He was
eighty-nine years old.
Theodore Buttcr6eld, OF Chicago.
cliasged with abducting II girls under
IS years of age, is supposed to be in
sane, and will be sent to an asylum.
William Lewis, an old soldier, of
Grccnsburg, Pa, was held up near the
county home junction Thursday and
robbed OF $40 and part of his clothing.
Two daring robbers entered the of
fee OF the Prudential Life Insurance
Company, at Long Island City, Thurs
day evening and took $SoS from the
safe.
DR. d. l.. Forney committed suicide
at Cherokee. Kas., leaving note say
ing: Il had rather leap into the un-
known than longer endure what l
know"
Because she refused his proposals,
Charles w. Pickel shot and instantly
wounded Mrs. Lizzie A. Graham, at
Wilmington, Del, and committed sui
eide.
NJ c. Mitchell, Republican politi
clan of Martins Ferrv. o., shot himself
dead Friday. Cause, i'll health. One of
his sons, Allen, is attending school in
Pittsburg,
Ice carried away the false work OF
new bridge at New Kensington, Pa.
Monday. Albert Albert was killed and
a score of other bridge workers narrow
ly escaped.
At Mcpherson, Kas., Mrs. Jos. Chris
drunkenness, cut the throat of her two
little children, set fire to the house and
killed herself.
Ex-Congressman William l.. Wilson,
of West Virginia, is on his way to Ari-
zona, where he will pass the winter in
the hope OF gaining relief from pulmo-
nary disease.
Ex, Mayor NJ c. Mitchell, of Martins
vile, w. Va, committed suicide Fri
day by shooting himself in the head.
Illness has deranged his mind He was
one OF the most prominent Republicans
of Eastern w. Va.
While skating at Baysville, Ont,
Thomas Brown, Jr., aged 10 years I;
Margaret Brown, 81, and James Brown,
II, ran into an opening in the ice and
were drowned.
The Beaver Valley hospital has been
presented with an X-ray machine, cost
ing $500, by the Beaver Falls Ladies'
auxiliary to the Hospital Association, OF
Beaver Falls, Pa.
w. NJ. Harrison, OF Allegheny, Pa,
PROPOSES to build a railroad from the
Atlantic to the Pacific by contributions
of workingmen, who are asked to sub
scribe s. apiece for stock bond"
A Pittsburg, Pa. firm has secured a
contract for 5000 ice boxes for the
! United States new cold storage house
at Manila. The ice-making machinery
will be furnished by Chicago firm.
urday night
Samuel Snyder, justice of the peace
OF Paint township, o., has received a
cable dispatch from the United States
minister in Holland, saying his claim as
one OF the heirs to an estate said to be
worth $46,ooo,ooo, is we'll established.
Two girls at Mcdonald, Pa, De-
borah and Kate Mcdonald, horse-whip-
ped John brennan Friday. They claim
ed that he had made uncomplimentary
,; remarks about them. Each pleaded
guilty of assault and battery and was
fined s.. 50 and costs.
/ Mail advices from New Britain report
, the massacre OF the captain and crew oI
/, IS men belonging to the British schoon-