The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-31
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

pany, capital $151,ooo, has been charter
ed at Harrisburg;
The official census gives San Juan a.
500 inhabitants; Ponce, 10000 and the
whole island o57,ooo.
Gen. Bernardo Reyes has been sworn
as Minister OF War OF Mexico. TO sue
coed the late General Felipe Bcrriozabal
Montreal police deny that they know
the whereabouts OF Miller, the fugitive
Franklin syndicate manager OF New
York.
Continued warm weather has resulted
disastrously TO The fruit crop in lndi-
ana, and farmers predict the crop a
failure.
4 dozen skeletons were uncarthed
Wednesday at Brooklyn Navy Yard,
supported to be bones OF Revolutionary
soldiers.
According TO the West Virginia State
Board Of Agriculture only 1000 farms,
or less than G3 per cent, in that State
are cncumbcred. ...
Rev c. NJ. Des lslcts, professor OF
languages in the Western University,
Pittsburg, sued his wife for divorce, al
lcgiug nfdelity.
w. c. Mccarthy, mayor OF Piusburg,
Pa. during the railroad riots OF 1877,
died at Dixmont asylum, aged so years,
oi Sonile debility.
The sanitary district board OF Chi
cago has sold $I,o1I,7so worth OF its :
per cent bonds, dated January ,, 1000,
to a Chicago syndicate.
The late Prof David Edward Hughes.
| the English electrician and inventor.
who died last Tuesday. left GSo,ooo to
the four leading London hospitals.
The 1ippccanoc club oi Chicago
crlscs Senator Masons name from its
| list oi honorary members, and asks him
to resign from the United State Senate.
The Ohio Attorney General declared
| public school funds could not be law
! fully used for the teaching OF the cate
chism and Bible history OF any religious
sect.
Bourkc Cochran is out with an open
letter offering to support w. J. Bryan
for the presidency il the latter will make
| imperialism the great issue OF the cam
paign.
Gov Stone has appointed Col. Rob
crt II. Thomas, OF Mcchanicsburg, Pa,
a member oi the State board OF agri
culture, vice Leonard Rhone, of Center
Hall.
The bodies of iorty-four soldiers, who
died OF yellow fever at Santiago last
spring. were inferred in Arlington GEM
ctcry Wednesday. All but fifteen were
identified.
Mexican capitalists are said to have
secured land near the Pacific coast bear
ing oil deposits not good for iluminat-
ing but all right for making lubricants,
gas and fuel.
Judge Kicks. OF Cleveland. has APP
pointed Attorney Charles NJ. Wilkins,
of Warren. o.. United States commits
sioncr to succeed the late Robert Fol-
ger, of Massillon.
The United States Minister at The
Hague states that royal order has been
issued exempting from duty sulphuric
ether required in the preparation OF al
bumen from milk.
A Mason and Dixey line boundary
survey bill, like that which passed the
Pennsylvania assembly, is now before
the Maryland Legislature. Thc work
will be undertaken jointly by the two
States.
II. c. Frick, late chairma> OF the Car
ncgie Steel Company, is reported to
have secured an interest in the New
York Shipbuilding Company at Cam
den, N. J., which is intended to rival the
Cramps.
| Governor Roosevelt announces that
he will send 10 the Senate the nomina-
ton OF former Senator Francis Hen
dricks, OF Syracuse, to succeed Louis
+. Payne, as State Superintendent OF
Insurance.
Details have been received from Sgd
ney OF the killing oi the captain and
crew OF the steamer kikamarra, on one
OF the islands OF the Admiralty group,
by the natives. 1t is said all the victims
were eaten.
Mrs. John d. Rich, the Chicago wom-
an surrendered to Mexico, to be tried
for the murder OF her husband in Jua-
rez last May, was adjudgcd guilty by the
Mexican Court and sentenced to serve
IA years in prison.
Nearly all the business buildings in
both Ward and Lafayette, Col, were
burned Wednesday and about so fami-
lies in Lafayette are homeless, there be-
ing no place in the town to afford them
shelter.
There arc several thousand cases oi
influenza in Rome. The Lycec Cavour
at Turin is closed There are 10000 in
fiuenza cases in that city, and many
thousands are reported all over Italy.
In his controversy with Cardinal
Vaughan, DR.. St. George Mivart de-
clared that the bible stories OF Jonah,
the tower OF Babel and the creation OF
the world in six days are but "puerile
tales"
The Afghan ameer, according TO dis
patch from St Petersburg, has ordered
all roads leading from Herat 10
Kutschk, in Transcaspia, TO be guarded,
and at the same time the frontier garri-
sons have been reinforced.
Bertha Beilstein, the pretty Allegheny
girl who murdered her mother and at
tempted suicide while insane, is again at
tracing attention through petition FL
ed by her brother-in-law, asking for All
inquiry into her mental condition. She
is confined at Dixmont insane asylum.
In compliance with the revised stat
u.