The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-06-06
LAIEsI NEWS NOIEs.

| A-Sl Pt
Companies A and X of the Seventh
| infantry, sailed from Seattle for Cape
| Nome.
An agitation has been started in
| Switzerland for annexation to the Unit
ed States.
Fire in the Pitts Kimbal department
| store in Boston caused loss of about
| $2so, 900.
At Richmond, Va. Rev. Benjamin J.
Kelly was consecrated Catholic Bishop
OF Savannah.
James Cunyard fell from a bridge at
| Nilkesbarre while witnessing ball
game, and was killed
Forest fires in the Rainy river district
OF Canada have destroyed millions OF
dollars worth Of lumber.
The Chicago India famine relief COM
mittee has cabled $1,000 to Lady Cur
zon for the famine district
immigration officers at Tacoma re-
jected so out OF 35S Japanese, who ar
rived on the steamer Glenogle.
Three sailors were killed by light
| ming while working in the cabin OF a
new boat at ST. Clair, Mich.
Charles a. Naulty. aged 2I, OF New
ark. n. J., deliberately shot his step
mother in the back OF the head.
Cholera is raging in the famine camps
in Bombay, India. In one district there
were 1890 deaths in seven days.
The Senate has decided to take up
the Cuban extradition bill as soon as
the general deficiency bill is passed
The mills of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company, at Springfield, ILL.,, clos
ed Thursday for an indefinite period.
Heavy rains in Texas have caused
rivers to overflow and the cotton and
grain crops have been seriously hurt.
A fresh outbreak OF bubonic plague
has occurred at Alexandra, Egypt. The
disease has appeared at Smyrna, Tur-
key.
Burglars blew to pieces the vault OF
the Bank OF New Lisbon, Wis, and es-
capped with several thousand dollars i'll
cash.
Warner Miller and John Mackay
have bought for 81. 500 900 the Congress
gold mine, 90 miles north OF Phoenix,
Ariz.
The next triennal meeting of the
PanAmcrican Medical Congress will
be held in Havana, beginning Dec. 20,
1900.
The Christian Church, which will ed
ucate women for pastoral work. will
establish a school for pastoral helpers
at Cincinnati.
Latest reports show the condition OF
William Rockefeller to be materially
improved from the appendicitis opera
tion OF Monday.
On July the people OF Connellsville;
Pa, will vote on a proposition to bond
the town for $4,000 to construct a
sewerage system.
The Suffolk county Democratic con-
vcntion in New York State refused to
elect Perry Belmont a delegate to the
State convention.
BY an explosion of dynamite in the
house OF William Broehm, at Forest
Junction. Wis. the six members of the
family were killed.
The new Northwestern elevated road,
which is to provide rapid transit for the
northside OF Chicago, has been formally
opened to the public.
At the beginning OF the second month
OF the term of State Treasurer Barnett
the cash OF the State OF Pennsylvania
amounted to $472S,S65,6o.
Julian B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin
Arnold has decided to fight against cx-
tradition from California to England
on charge of embezzlement.
Masked robbers bound and gagged
the Shelly family at Grantham, near
Harrisburg, Pa, Thursday night and
took all their money and valuables.
In opening the Chilean Congress the
president announced financial surplus
OF $4,000, 900 and said new railroads
and other public works will be pushed.
The survivors OF the First Pennsyl-
vania cavalry will hold a reunion at the
monument OF the regiment on the Get
tysburg battlefield on June 6, at 4 p. m.
The Eastman kodak works, near Ro-
chester, n. Y, were badly injured FRI
day by an explosion OF chemicals. Fore
man Tracy was killed and several were
hurt.
At the annual meeting of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, in New
York, the profits OF 1900 were reported
as $S3o,ooo The directors were re-
elected.
Two girls at the Washington (Pa.)
seminary we're sent home by the prin-
clpal because they ran away to attend
a dance with two students OF w. & J.
college.
Queen Wlhelmina has ratified The
| Hague peace convention. Spain has
done likewise, and the adhesion OF Ger
many and Great Britain is expected inn
mediately;
The ninety anniversary OF the
birth OF Jefferson Davis was celebrated
in Louisville, as The closing exercises
to the reunion of the United Confederate
| Veterans.
The imperial authorities have sub
mitted to the Canadian government the
name OF Colonel O'Grady Haley as
major general commanding the Domin-
ion militia.
The capital OF the Times Company,
publishers OF the Philadelphia Times,
! has been increased from $4,000 to
500, 900, under the leadership OF
| Charles +. Kindred.
Maurice Brown. colored, of Hubbard,
O.. who shot Alice Newman, was ac-
quilted under an indictment for shoot
| ;no with intent IN kill Brown claimed