The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-07-18
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

The steamer Quito. with $4,000 and
| relief supplies for the famine sufferers
of India, has arrived in Bombay.
Fire Friday destroyed IL houses in
the little village OF Watts. near Lancas-
ter, Pa, causing loss OF $4,000.
The buffalo bug, which subssts upon
carpets, rugs and velvet. is filling Oil
City, Pa, housewives with dismay.
Northern Texas has been deluged by
- hours hard rain; Dallas is flooded
and railways suffer from washouts.
Two thousand solicitors are canvas
sing St. Louis for funds to enable street
railway strikers to continue the fight.
Government officials in London and
Washington entertain no further hope
that foreigners in Peking are still alive.
DIR. Fernando T.. Guachalla has been
appointed Minister to the United
States, Venezuela and MeXico by Bo-
liva.
The steamer San Jose arrived at San
Francisco Saturday, II days from st.
Michaels, Alaska, with $I5o,ooo in
gold.
Hawaiian plantation owners are GO
ing to try to replace the japanese labor
ers by negroes from the Southern
States.
The sensation OF the week in London
was an expose OF the corruption OF the
police and wholesale bribery now car
ried on.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Nanderlip has turned over his summer
mansion for the use of working girls OF
Chicago.
Governor General Wood, of Cuba,
sailed Friday for this country, where he
will consult the President regarding
Cuban interests.
The National Teachers Union, in
tended for the mutual protection OF the
profession, was incorporated Saturday
in Columbus, o.
The Farmers and Mechanics bank has
been organized at Grccnville, q. John
w. Nasler is president, and Harry A.
Bcachlcr cashier.
Five Filipino sailors of the bark Ethel
have been sentenced to death at Perth,
West Australia, for numbering the cap
tain OF that vessel
The Michigan and Ohio Plaster Com
pany. called the trust, has been dis
solved and its plants will resume in
dividual operation.
Gen. Daniel II. Hastings, of Pennsyl-
vana has been elected one OF the new
board OF the reorganized National Red
Cross Association.
Southern Arizona mining and cattle
interests, which have suffered great loss
from the drought, were relieved by
heavy rains Sunday.
The receipts from all sources at the
Havana Custom House for June show
an increase over the same month OF the
preceding year OF $Ioo,2SS.
Saturday the international conven-
ton OF Christian Endeavorers opened
in London, over 10000 delegates at
tending the first meetings.
The United States cruiser Baltimore,
with Rear Admiral Watson on board,
and which left Manila early last May, is
at Gibraltar awaiting orders.
Exporters of Portland Ore, have
united to bring test suit in the United
States courts for the return OF duties
paid on shipments to Manila.
The new treaty between the United
States and Germany was proclaimed
Saturday, establishing a system of reci-
procity between the two countries.
The official report that Tuan attacked
and destroyed the remaining legations
in Pcking has been partially corroborat-
ed by advices received by Consul Good
now.
Two additional surgeons have been
ordered to proceed at once from San
Francisco to Cape Nome to assist in
stamping ont the smallpox epidemic
there.
The dates for the celebration OF the
Iooth anniversary of the founding OF
Johnstown, Pa, set for September ~,
2e and 20, have been changed to Octo-
Der S, 6 and 7.
Uniontown, Pa, town council has
granted a company OF Uniontown capi-
talists the right to lay pipes for steam
heating plant and to erect poles for an
electric light plant.
II. V. Jones, of Minneapolis, csti-
mates the yield OF spring wheat in Min
ncsota and the two Dakotas at I35,ooo,-
900 bushels-about two-thirds OF good
crop.
General D. s. Stanley. President of
the Society of the Army of the Gum
berland. decides that the next reunion
at Chattanooga shall be held on Octo-
Der O. 10 and II.
Searching parties are seeking Mrs.
Richard Keller, who is missing from
Tyrone, Pa. Her handkerchief and a
fragment OF her clothing have been
found on bramble.
Reports from Arizona say the Gia
and Salt rivers have gone dry, and cat
tie are dying in large numbers as a re-
suit of the drought Forest fires add
terror to the situation.
NJ. Lasies, the prominent French Ma
tionalist, fought a duel with Gerault
Richard, a newspaper man, and in the
eleventh round Lasies was hurt in the
arm and the duel stopped.
Judge Kohlsaat made ruling in the
United States district court OF Chicago,
Tuesday declaring that duty must be
paid on goods brought to this country
from our new possessions.
The sultan of Sulu, although nomi-
nally an American subject, is giving
the American military authorities trou-
BILE by objecting to American troops
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