The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-07-25
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

| lnree DrOthcrS were drowned IN
the Ohio river at Glenwood, w. Va.
Dock laborers in Rotterdam who have
been striking have returned to work.
Thirty persons have been drowned al
| the mouth Of the Yukon in four months.
A monument to Gen. Edward Paine
was unveiled Saturday at Painesville,
| o.
The navy department is advised that
| the Oregon has safely reached Kurc,
| japan.
Washington county. Pa, is to have
the first automobile mail service in the
United States.
Employees of the Baltimore & Ohio
| railroad have been forbidden to hold any
political office.
BY the eruption OF Mount Azuma in
| Japan on July ~ 200 persons were kill
ed or injured
One man was killed outright and
three fatally injured at a Tiifn (OD
crossing accident.
Lazarus Bachtel, n farmer near Cau-
ton, o., hanged himself Sunday. lie
was 20 years OF age.
The pudding rate for July and August
IT Youngstown, Ohio, was on Saturday
| advanced I2H cents.
All the union employees of the Dallas
CTex) Consolidated Street Railway
Company have struck.
George Fisher. who killed the sheriff
at Southwest City, Mo, was Wednesday
shot to death by posse.
British and Indian troops have been
diverted to Shanghai to protect British
interests in Southern China.
William Shrader and Peter Kallcp,
miners, were killed at Whitney, Pa,
Saturday, by fall OF slate.
Capt. Holmes of the ill-fated yacht
1dlcr, has been arrested at Cleveland
on the charge OF manslaughtcr.
The annual reports of the United
Mine Workers Association show bal
ance in the treasury OF $5o,I63.I5.
The centennial of the Cool Spring
Presbyterian Church. near Sharon, Pa,
will take place August - and 80.
In the burning of the masthouse in
the Charleston navy yard the govern
ment loss is estimated at SIo4ooo
Two millions of pounds of wool are
being held in Texas because the grow
ers to refuse to accept current prices.
Mai. Edward b. Mccormick, Of
! Grcensburg, has been appointed Judge
advocate OF the Second brigade, N. q.
p.
At the meeting Of the Christian Mis-
sionary Alliance at Cleveland Sunday
| $4,000 was subscribed for foreign mis-
sions.
Dismal swamp. in North Carolina, is
| huru;pp aud ,,,lI ani,,nlu IriVau n.
open country play havoc with ncighbor-
ing crops.
Charles d. Pierce, consul general of
the Orange Free State in New York,
denies that body of Beers will emigrate
to this country.
Sidney Edgerton, cX-congressman,
father OF the territory OF Montana and
a founder OF the Republican party, is
dead at Akron.
There are signs OF disintcgration Of
the alliance against China, each power
looking after the territory in which it is
Immediately interested.
During the last days fighting at Tien
| Tsin the Ninth United States infantry
lost 2I5 and the United States marines
10, killed and wounded.
A bill has been introduced into the
British parliament which will permit the
government to prohibit the expectation
to China OF war munitions.
The total exports of Havana for
the first six months OF 1000, as COM
pared with the same period OF 1899,
| show decrease OF S5Io,Ioo.
Wesley Ellis, of Trace Creek. Wayne
county, w. Va, has surrendered on 4
charge of shooting Jesse Cox, his neigh
Dor. He claims self defense.
With a capital of 10000, 900 the Nc
Lean Arms Company was incorporated
at Trenton, N. J., for the manufacture
OF improved arms for infantry.
The mission board OF the Southern
Presbyterian Church at Nashville.
Tenn, received a cabegram announcing
the safety OF its So missionaries.
Martin Renningcr, So years of age,
was killed by a steer in the stockyard at
Massillon, o., Saturday night. He
leaves a widow and two children.
Many deaths and prostrations from
heat are reported from New York and
Philadelphia The mortality among
children at New York is excessive.
Two and a half million dollars in
gold is en- route to the United States
from Australia, and there is likely to be
monthly shipments for four months.
Wednesday a freight train plunged
into an excursion crowd standing on
the track at Johnstown, Pa, killing two
children and injuring several others.
At Newton, near Cincinnati, David
Brown, a hostler, killed Mark Robin
son and fatally hurt Frank Murphy, as
the result OF an old family quarrel.
In the Powers trial at Georgetown,
KY. w. II. Culton, indicted with Pow
ers and others for the murder OF Goe-
bel, gives damaging testimony against
Powers.
In a fight between negroes and deputy
sheriffs near Hartman. Tenn, two OF
the former were killed, one OF the latter
will die and another is desperately
wounded.
Suit has been filed against several
stockholders OF the Joliet (Ill) Wire
Company, an independent concern