The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-12-24
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


cities with populations exceeding Ioo,-
600.
1t is reported in London that a crush
ing defeat has been inflicted upon the
Beers.
Nearly half a million foreign immi
grants found homes in the United States
i'll 1900.
John D. Rockefeller has given an ad
ditional 81, 500, 900 to the University OF
Chicago
Thirty insurgents were captured in a
raid only four miles outside OF Manila
Monday.
Charles +. Stone was shot and killed
in an encounter with burglar at Hous-
ton. Tex.
Seventeen thousand dock laborers.
sailors and coal porters are on strike
at Antwerp.
The first political party under Ameri
can regime has been organized in the
Philippines.
Peter Early. Mrs Joseph Taylor and
Minnie Baker were drowned in Hata
lake, Ala ska.
Seven hundred Beers have crossed
from the Orange river colony into
Cape Colony.
Safe crackers at Everett, Pa, rob
bed the postoffice OF $500 in stamps and
900 in securities.
The mayor of Atlanta. Ga, breaks his
pledge and is locked up in police sta
tion for being drunk.
Over 1870 lives were lost by the found
ering OF the German training ship
Gneisenau off Malaga.
The Sharon (Pa) Coal and Limestone
Company is putting down two mine
shafts near Nolant, Pa.
A fiitcen-year-old New York girl has
been arrested after having cashed $40
worth OF forged checks.
The Pennsylvania Company will build
n branch railroad to the new coal field
in eastern Mercer county.
The railroad from Peking to Taku is
now completed. To make the trip OF 30
miles generally takes 20 hours.
The government OF Chile has invited
tenders for 5000 tons OF coal for the
railroads and 400 freight cars.
Attorney Gen. Griggs argued in sn-
preme court that the constitution does
not necessarily follow the flag.
Attempts to float the British steamer
Laura. ashore on the coast OF Holland,
near Petten, have been unsuccessful.
A bill was introduced in the Puerto
Rico house OF delegates by Mr.. Des-
cartes granting suffrage to women.
An invalid sister OF General Castillo
of the Cuban army committed suicide
by shooting herself through the heart.
A new company has been formed
with $4,000, 900 capital for the purpose
OF controlling the crude rubber market.
Free delivery mail carriers in Craw-
ford county, Pa, are throwing up their
jobs. They say they can't make their
salt
Military court OF inquiry investigating
the cause OF the death of Oscar l..
Booz. Tuesday held hearing at West
Point.
The Brown hosting and conveying
machine works at Cleveland are IN
ashes. Over 1000 men are idle as a
result.
Maj. Esterhazy. of Dreyfus scandal
notoriety, is an inmate OF London
almshouse. too poor to buy even a
postage stamp.
Sufficient money has been pledged to
relieve the Anglo-American Savings and
Loan Association by taking over its real
estate interests.
Claiming B. Barnes, who held up
and robbed train near New Orleans,
was found dead IN swamp near the
scene of his crime.
The Tenney house at Asbury Park, n.
J., was destroyed by fire. many OF the
escaping guests being driven out in
their night clothes.
The chamber of deputies has passed
bill approprating $4,000 for the
Chilian exhibit at the Pan-American
Exposition in Buffalo.
The new note drawn up by the envoys
at Peking was signed Thursday night
and will be presented to the Chinese
government Saturday.
Conference on arbitration at Chicago
decides that compulsory arbitration OF
labor disputes would not meet the re-
quircments in this country.
Charles Werthemier. a London brio
a-brac dealer, has commenced suit in
Paris against Count and Countess Cas-
tellane for 6,soo,ooo francs.
A dispatch from Vienna reports Mos
lem excesses against the Christian pop
ulation in the central provinces of Tur-
key where 200 Christians have been
killed
The cause of the diplomatic snarl 1t
Picking seems to be blunders of the cable
company in transmitting messages of in
structions from foreign capitals to -he
ENJOYS.
Mayor Kelly, of South Omaha, Neb.,
is to be tried on the charge of taking
brides from brewers to allow the sa-
looms in the city to remain open on
Sunday.
The Duke of New Castle has arrived
in New York from England on a mis-
sion in the interest of the High
Church party in the Anglican and Epis-
copal churches.
Francis p Blake, general superintend-
ent of the Puritan Coal Mining Com
pany's plant at Puritan, Cambria coun.