The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-04-18
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


day.
Two hundred and fifty thousand per-
sons visited the Paris exposition Sum
day.
There have been III cases OF bubonic
plague and .3S deaths at Sydney, Aus
tralia.
Bryan Democrats decided to welcome
Admiral Dewey into the ranks OF their
party.
Stephen Crane. the novelist, is said
to be dying at his home in Sussex,
England.
During the winter there were 80
deaths from typhoid fever at Nome, out
OF 900 cases.
Snow has damaged planted crops
and delayed railroad traffic i'll all parts
OF Colorado.
John r. Reese, president OF the Unit
ed Mine Workers. OF Iowa, is i'll with
smallpox at Abba, Ia
Andrew Carnegie in an interview
said that all young men should marry
common sense women
Joseph Stringer choked his wife to
death at Baskerville, Tenn, and blew his
own ncdu OH WIFI Il Sull
A company OF Pttsburg and other
capitalists has been formed to cultivate
coffee and rubber in Mexico.
In New York 5000 cigarmakers are
on strike for a raise in wages and
general strike is threatened.
The President has nominated John
i. V. Gridley, OF Erie, Pa, to be sec
ond lieutenant in the marine corps.
At Alexander, Ark, Mrs. 7. II. Hol-
land shot and killed William Cook, who
she claimed had detained her charac-
ter.
Owing to the good Offices OF Ameri-
can missionaries the revolution in the
Camcroons, Africa, is said to be dying
ont.
The sealing steamer Terra Nova,
with $1,000 seals, and the Walrus. with
1000 seals, have returned from the ice
fields.
While setting fire to a pile OF brush
near Wilkesbarrc Mrs. Michael Fox 5
clothes ignited and she was burned to
death
Prof. L. Benjamin Andrews, OF Chi
cago. will probably decline the Office oi
chancellor OF the University OF Ne
! braska.
The authorities of British Columbia
have decided to repeal the law exclud-
ing aliens from mining privileges in the
province.
The Democratic State convention OF
North Carolina nominated Charles b.
Aycock for governor and elected Bryan
delegates.
David Zimmerman and James Moffitt
we're killed and Oscar Zimmerman bad
ly injured by boiler explosion at Syl-
vcster, Mich.
Augustus Young shot. but did not ia
tally wound, Kate Van Clooster, at
Murpheysboro, ILL.,, and blew out his
own brains.
Rufus Wright. a Chicago millionaire
was shot and perhaps fatally wounded
by Mrs. Louisa Lottridge, who says
it was accidental.
John c. Farrar, teller of the Water
bury (Vt.) National bank, is missing
and there is a defalcation OF S25,ooc
OF the banks funds.
The St. Louis Sunday School Unior
is arranging to have 10000 Sunda,
school children sing for Admiral Dewe,
at his reception in May.
George w. Hull, the Rhode IslanC
millionaire arrested in New York on
perjury charge, has been admitted tC
bail in the sum OF $4,000.
Five hundred miners employed at tn,
Mt Pleasant colliery, near Scranton
Pa, went on a strike. The miners arr
dissatisfied with the wages.
The custom house receipts at Ha
vana for the first three months OF 100
were $3,I26,ooo, being $4,000 NOR
than for the same months in 1900.
Miss Nellie Lewis, OF Colorado
Springs, secured verdict OF Soo,oot
for breach OF promise against Henr.
Strong, rich mine owner OF Crippl
Creek.
Thomas Blaney, bartender, was ar
rested in New York, having in his pos
session $4,000 worth of beer tax stamps
supposed to have been stolen in Wash
ington.
Capt. Goldman, with 80 men OF tn
Thirty-second regiment, was attacke
by insurgents Friday. near Orion, an
two men were killed before they coul
retire.
secretary Anger says he is sorry 10
, Dewey and considers that his head ha
been turned by praise. He predicts 10
him in his presidential ASPIRATIONS
melancholy disappointment.
The United States Glucose Company
the National Starch Company and tn
United States Starch Company are t
combine as the National Starch Con,
pany. with So, 100000 capital stock an
: 100000 in 5 per cent bonds.
The State convention of the Leagu
of Democratic Club Of Ohio opened j
Columbus Wednesday, and althoug
the sentiment is said to be for Bryai
President Buchtel referred only ind
rectly to the Nebraskan and ignored 81
yer entirely.
At Omaha, Neb., the sheriff learne
j that a mob intended TO raid the Jail I
e lynch James Corney, charged with a
: sauting Kate Navra. The prisoner W;
c taken for safety to Lincoln.
a a The Mollicans, of southeast Russi
y numbering 10000, are said to be on
!. waiting the czar's permission to folio
n the DOnkhobOrs to Canada Tolst