The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-06-20
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Senator Clark, OF Montana, has grant
ed the request of his miners Tor an
cight-hour day.
The Union Grain Elevator at Kansas
City was burned Sunday; loss $Ioo,ooo,
covered by insurance.
A gas explosion in the Canmore coal
mines, Alberta. killed eight men and
injured several others.
The Midland steel works at Muncie.
Ind. closed for an indefinite period on
account OF short orders.
A new Mahdi has appeared at Wady
Halla proclaiming the early coming OF
Christ lie was arrested.
The May collections at the Havana
custom house were $r,oo5,ooo, nearly
10000 more than in May, 1909.
The Democratic Congressional Com
mittcc figure they will gain enough
seats to control the next House.
Five men were instantly killed by. a
premature explosion of dynamite in the
Hale mine, near Biwabik, MINI.
There have been u fatal cases oi
yellow fever at Qucmados, Cuba, where
United States troops are stationed.
Charles Il. lundy, fireman, was
slowly cooked to death in the wrcckage
after a collision at Youngstown, q.
The Berlin Royal Library has pur-
chased the recently discovered CORE
spondencc of Alexander Won Humboldt
The new Hamburg American liner
Deutschland was iloatcd from the bar
near Stcttin, where she grounded June
g.
The total number of cmigrants who
left Hamburg and Bremen last month
was 5j,o0l, and in May, 1900, it was eo,-
6JS
The governor OF New York declared
at Rochester that il he were nominated
for vice president he would not ac-
ccpt
Frank Discrt, aged g. was struck by a
bolt oi lightning and instantly killed at
Chambersburg, Pa, Thursday after
noon.
A movement to sccurc Washington $
famous camping ground at Valley
Forge, Pa, for National park is under
way.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, has re-
fused Kentucky officers rcquisition pa
pers for Ex-Governor Taylor, OF Ken
lucky.
The plant of the Tiffin (O) Bent
Wood and Lumber Company was de
stroyed by fire Friday, cntaling loss
OF $4,000.
Dr. Silas c. Swallow indicated that
he might decline the Prohibition nomi-
nation for the presidency were it ten
dercd him.
Judge John NJ. Kennedy handed down
a decision that school boards have a
right to bar out children who have not
been vaccinatcd.
The large auditorium used for Con
venton Hall in Des Moines Ia. was
burned Sunday at loss of $4,000; in
surancc $4,000.
Twelve hundred hogshcads of tobacco,
valued at $II4032, and filling two trains,
were shipped from Paducah, KY, con
| signed to Europe.
The St. Louis Worlds Fair Commit
tee will canvass that city for additional
subscriptions as soon as the street car
troubles are ended.
Engineer Reuben r. Mayhcld and
Fireman William Davis were killed by
train collision on the Southern Rail
way, near Atlanta.
Representatives of the civil engineer
| ing societies OF American cities were
at the first Of series of banquets given
| by the Paris society.
Georgia Democrats have endorsed
Bryan and the Chicago platform, re-
nominating Governor A. ID. Gambler
and full State ticket.
Near Guamcchito, Mexico, maraud-
ing Yaqui Indians fired ranch buildings
and seven cowboys barricaded in the
place were burned to death.
Richard Croker sailed from Liverpool
for home. He predicts that w. ]. Bryan
will not lose a vote he had in 1906 and
will gain thousands in every State.
John T.. Sullivan, clerk of Marion
county, Indiana, who fled to Canada
II years ago, short $4,000 has returned
to indianapolis and surrendered.
An informal interchange OF view;
among the Ohio Democrats at the close
OF the State convention in Columbu:
developed the fact that most of tn,
delegates favored W. r. Hearst for the
vice presidential nomination.
| General John b. Gordon, OF the Unit
cd Confederate Veterans, has been in
vited to be the guest of the G. a. r. en-
campment in Chicago in August.
Senator T. c. Platt, of New York, il
said to be in a serious condition a
Philadelphia with fractured rib causeo
by fall in his New York Office.
Captain John /. Powers, indicted il
connection with the Goebel murder, ha'
eluded capture, although a posse wa
sent out from Barboursville to arres
him.
The body of Thomas J. Flagg, New
York merchant, was found in Long
Island Sound, near Bridgeport, Conn
1t is supposed that he fell from steam
er.
The special train carrying the Cali
iorna delegates to Philadelphia hat
a collision with freight train in Soutl
Chicago, but no one was seriously in
jured.
Between December 81. 1890, AM
March 81, 1000, in New York State ther
was a net gain OF 62 unions OF S,Is