The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-10-31
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Austria Hungary has given her as
sent to the Anglo-German agreement.
The total catch OF seals In Bcring sea
during the season just closed was a.
sI7.
The flooded mines At Hccla No. 2,
Wcstmorcland county, are again IN op-
Grafton.
The total of contributions for relief
uf Galveston flood sufferers to date is
Si,I4o.3b
Fire destroyed the business portion OF
Dunavant. Kan. The losses are $4,000.
partially insured.
Two thousand recruits will be sent To
the army in the Philippines within the
next three weeks.
Frank Williams. civil engineer, was
drowned while attempting To cross
liver in Puerto Rico
Garry Caldwell, n ncgrcss, killed her
three children and then committed sui
eide at Charlotte, N. {.
The Shcnango tin plate plant, oi New
Castle, Ia, will resume operations III
full Tuesday morning.
The New Castle and Sharon Pa.)
Street Railway Company, capital $3.50,
600, has been chartered.
Johnnie Leach. s-ycar-old boy al
Franklin, Pa, fell into tub of hot wat
cr and was scaldcd to death.
Gov. Bcckham, of Kentucky, has ap-
proved the election bill passed ut the
extra session of the Legislature.
A trustee of Bcloit, Ill.,, college has
promised to give the institution $500
900 II another $4,000 is raised.
Seeds Brothers bank at Bridgeport,
Ind, was robbed of over $1,000 IN cash
and n considerable sum in notes.
Alexander Mckenzie. n North Da.
kota abscondcr has been captured with
S2so,ooo in gold in his possession.
/ William Killy. a tool dresser, was
killed by the explosion of n boiler at the
Wilson farm, near Washington, Pa.
-Four persons were killed and three
injured in Great Northern freight
wreck on the coast line near Seattle.
The Columbia Zinc and Lead Com
pany, OF Wilkcsbarrc, Pa, has been in
corporatcd with a capital of 100000.
The Hebrews of Palestine have pro-
jcctcd a great university OF Jewish
learning, To be located at jerusalem.
Mrs. T. l.. CARRIER of Maytown, Pa,
died from locljaw. Physicians were
unable to find any wound or scratch.
Patrick Rice, formerly one of the
greatest OF American race horse trainers,
committcd suicide by taking laudanum.
The Republic Iron and Steel Com
lpany will erect an IS-inch finishing mill
at their Besscmcr plant at Youngstown,
Ohio.
| \ big power plant is being established
at MaSscna, N. Y, which bids fair tu
rival the famous Niagara Falls Supply
center.
At Falls Village, Conn, fire wiped
out the National bank, the postoifcc
the Methodist church and store. Loss
$4,000.
The Cariboo gold mine, of British,
Columbia has shipped to New York an
ingot weighing 7s3 pounds and valued
at $is4765
Fourteen strikers at the Shcnango
furnace, Sharpsville, Pa, have been en-
joined from trespassing and intimidat-
ing employees
Consul McCook estimates that the
klondike will yield from $IS,ooo,ooc
to $2o,ooo,ooo of gold annually for many
years to come.
| Owing to the ravagcs of mad dog
cattle are being killed at Madison
Westmorcland county, Pa, to prevent
an epidemic of rabies.
The State of Alabama claims a tract
of land mile wide on the western Dor
der OF Florida, and 100 miles of the
southern end of Florida.
The La Belle Company has just com.
pletcd at Steubcnvllc, o., the erection
OF continuous mill, which will be pu,
in operation in few days.
The United States transport I.awtor
has arrived at Seattle with 500 stranded
miners brought from Cape Nome at the
expense OF the Government.
1t is rumored that cx-President Clcvc
land will be offered the presidency o.
Washington and Lee university, vacat.
ed by William l.. Wilson's death.
At St, Paul. MINI, ffty-two horses
II vehicles and large livery barn were
destroyed by fire.
c. ID. Snapp, confidential agent fol
Caldwell & Smith, cotton brokers, o
Memphis, Tenn, has been arrested or
the charge OF einbezzling $4,000.
The miners employed by the Penn
Gas Coal Company at Irwin, Pa, will
erect fountain as a memorial to theii
late superintendent, John +. Wolf,
Chicago postoffice clerks have affil
lated themselves with the Federation o
/ Labor, with the avowed purpose o
, striving for an eight-hour workday.
1t is reported the Laughin Nail Com
pany's mill, at Martins Ferry, o., is tC
be remodeled into a wire nail plant tC
be operated in opposition to the trust
| At Brushy Mountain, Tenn. Differ
ences which led to strike OF 200 miner
employed by the Crooked Fork Goa
& Coke Company have been adjusted
The government has chartered tn,
{ British steamship Royalist, which it i
intended to operate as United State
transport between Seattle and the Phil
: ippines.
= James B. Dill, the eminent corpora
I ton lawyer, says adequate trust legis
( lation is possible only in Congress
2 State laws cannot deal successfully witt