The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

pasteboard $2.so per ton.
The Boston common council has con-
graduated Kruger on his victories.
William Boynton Gale, famous law
yer, OF Boston, died last Wednesday.
Alderman George Hill, of Milwaukee,
committed suicide by shooting himself.
Ex-president Cleveland is confined to
his home at Princeton, N. j., suffering
from gout.
The Salvation Army fed $500 poor at
Cincinnati on Christmas day and 1000
at Pittsburg.
Dr. Thomas O'Callaghan, of Jersey
City, died suddenly while making pro-
fcssional call.
A statue of Vice President Hobart
will be erected at Paterson, N. j., at
cost OF $4,000.
Supplies for English troops in the
| Transvaal are being placed aboard YES
sells in New York harbor.
Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, is reviv-
| ing his scheme OF removing the capitol
from Lansing to Detroit.
Sentiment iavors Milwaukee, Wis, as
the place for holding the next Demo-
cratic National Convention.
Frenchmen in Canada are being stir
red up against England, their sympa-
thes tending toward the Boers.
The Panama Canal Company, oi
| America, with an authorized capital OF
$50 900 900, was incorporated here.
Carrie and Olivia Stokes, of New
! Haven, Conn, have offered 100000 to
Yale for new administration building.
All the stores in Havana closed at 10
o'clock Christmas morning, and the rest
OF the day was devoted to conviviality.
Irishmen IN Chicago held a meeting
Saturday night and discussed plans for
raising a fund with which to aid the
Beers.
The course of the rock was from the
| town and no lives have been reported
lost, although considerable property
was destroyed.
Cecil B. Leach, a telegraph operator,
was found dead in his room at Pitts
burg few days ago. Escaping gas
caused death.
Henry Miner, aged II, killed his
brother Jesse, aged six, with hatchet
at Broughton, ILL.,, last Friday. They
had auarreled.
The Produce Exchange Trust Com
pany, which suspended in New York
last week announces that it will pay de-
positors in full.
Emily Hilda Blake servant, aged
-, was hanged at Brandon. Manitoba,
for the murder of Mrs. Lane, her mis-
tress, on July S last.
James ]. Cavanaugh, of Watertown,
Mass, celebrated his tooth birthday last
Wednesday. He saw Napoleon after
the battle OF Waterloo.
The vinegar and yeast factory, OF
Spielmann Brothers Company on
North avenue, Chicago, was almost to-
tally destroyed by fire. Loss. 100000.
The British steamer STARLIGHT, from
Philadelphia to London on December
"a, collided with and sank the schooner
Flying Foam. No lives were lost
A semi-huid petroleum will be tried
on the steamers of the Hamburg-Amcr
lean Packet Company 1t economies
space and reduces the number OF fire.
men.
Fire destroyed the dry goods estab-
lshment OF Georpe Dewald & Com
pany and the store OF M. F. Kaag, al
Fort Wayne, Ind Loss, $500 900; in
surance, $I35ooo.
At Jacksonville, Fla, Peter Holbert
: an electrician, shot his wife and then
turned the weapon on himself, inhict-
ing wounds from which he died. Mr.
; Holbert will recover.
The army transports Centennial and
Newport, which arrived Il San Francis.
co Thursday, from Manila via Homo.
lulu, bring the startling news that the
bubonic plague is raging in Honolulu
The check rein OF runaway horse
, caught in the extended arm OF wooder
{ Indian in New York last Tuesday ant
prevented the animal from dashine
, through the windows OF a cigar store.
, Five years ago, through an accident
| John Burkett, OF Franklin, Pa, lost hi.
voice. Last Saturday he stumbled
{ which so enraged him that he began tc
curse and was astonished to hear hi.
5 own voice again. He now talks as wei
, as ever.
Two years ago $4,000 in notes wer,
: stolen from Robert McBee, of Knox
vile, Tenn, by pickpockets. Monda,
morning he received an express package
| from Lexington, KY, containing all tn,
} papers with merry Christmas" care
= enclosed.
Frank s. Monnett, Attorney Genera
, OF Ohio, was prevented from addressing
an audience in Cooper Union, at New
York, last week. He was to talk OF
TRUSTS" but as some of the STANDARD
Oil people support the hall, the engage
ment was cancelled.
The celebrated Pinnacle Rock which
0 overhung Cumberland Gap, Tenn, ant
was noted point OF intcpest, fell iron
its lofty height last Wednesday. TIL,
| town uac auakened nc ;f hv an .artj,