The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-02-21
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

From New Orleans Sunday 1850
mules sailed for British South Africa.
The survey of the boundary line be-
tween Idaho and Montana has been
completed.
Major John b. Hall, OF Paola, Kan,
committed suicide because his sons life
is dcspaired Of
France will send troops and a cruis-
cr TO the island of Martinique, where
a race war is on.
The flood in Montpelier, VT, is the
worst in 80 years, SI5o,ooo damage hay
ing already resulted.
Dr. Leyds, the European representa-
tive of the Transvaal, will have an att
dencc with the Pope.
a cold wave is doing considerable
damage in the Texas coast country to
| truck farming and fruit.
Armour & Co, of Chicago, will be
made corporation within a few days,
| with capital of $2oooo,o 900.
A corps of English yeomanry com
posed entirely of men of good social
position has started for the front.
Indian maharajahs and English off
cials started a famine fund for India,
raising $2so,ooo at the first meeting.
The fifth annual convention of the
State Association of School Directors
met Wednesday in Harrisburg, Pa.
Bartlett Trip, of North Dakota, is
regarded as certain OF appointment as
one OF the Philippine Commissioners.
William Mcclure, of Fairhope. o., is
| dead from supposed attack OF hydro
| phobia, resulting from the bite oi dog.
The exchange of ratifcatons of the
| Samoan treaty took place Friday sinful
taneously i'll Washington, London and
| Berlin.
New York City has goo veterans OF
| the Mexican war, 7 OF the Indian wars
and $4,000 of the Civil War on the pen
| sion rolls.
Eight persons were injured. one IA
| tally, in four fires that occurred in dii-
fcrcnt parts of the residence district
of Chicago.
The Boston and Maine Railroad is
tied up by floods, and through traffic
for points north OF Clinton, Mass, has
been suspended.
a serious storm has interrupted COM
munication with England, Italy, Spain
and part of Germany. A number OF
deaths arc reported.
| The pudding department OF the Amer
| ican Steel Hoop works at Sharon, Pa,
has closed down indefinitely. The en-
tire mill is now idle
G.. w. Purcell, of the Miners Ma
tional Executive Board, was arrested at
Jellico, Tenn, Friday, charged with
unlawful assemblagc."
| John Hontes and Nels Linden were
killed and J. J.. Beardsley probably ia
tally injured by an explosion Of COM
pressed air at Topeka, Kas.
The Serate Committee on Foreign
Relations has authorized n favorable re-
port on the bill to incorporate the
American National Red Cross.
The steamship Tiger, carrying a car
| go OF o,ooo bales of cotton and 2,Soo
tons OF phosphate rock, cleared at New
Orleans Sunday for Kobe, Japan.
Secretary Root has determined to
continue the policy begun by General
| Leonard Wood of reducing the force
OF United States troops i'll Cuba.
The St. Charles College, at Grand
| Cotteau, La, together with large and
valuable library, was destroyed by fire
/
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church,
one of the oldest Methodist church
buildings in Chicago, was almost total
ly destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
Subscriptions to the fund for the per-
pctuation OF the Dewey arch in marble
have reached SI64,327, and the commit
tee has assurances OF $4,000 more.
The Democrats OF the Kentucky Leg
islaturc, who have been in Louisville,
have adjourned to meet again in
Frankfort with the Republican mem
bers.
Suit has been begun in the federal
courts OF Chattanooga by the Hanover
National bank of New York TO test the
consttutionality OF the national bank
ruptcy law.
Puerto Rican merchants declare Con-
grcssional action is essential to the in
terests OF the island, as under the For
aker bill, the duty on sugar and tobacco
is prohibitive.
The government steamship Nero
during its recent survey for a trans
Pacific cable, broke the record for deep
sea soundings. One sounding near
Guam island marked 5,2oo fathoms, only
a triile short OF six statute miles.
The New York General Committee
OF the Transvaal war relief fund has
raised $I2,ooo, which will be forwarded
to London to be applied to the Lord
Mayors fund.
The plantations OF La Cocotte and
Champigny, at Martinique, have been
.Sred by the negro rioters. The situa-
Ks growing worse. France will
cruiser.
III Charles Z. Brewster, captain of {
n &itia company at Bath, S. d., was kill.
~. by wad from gun OF one OF his
men while he was putting them through
the firing manual.
| Jefferson Medical college sophomore:
and freshmen in Philadelphia indulged
in the luxury OF a flag "rush" THURSDAY