The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-05-30
LATEsI NEWS NoIEs.

| NY.
Louis Kruger, alleged chief of a
counterfciting gang, is in jail at Tow
anda, Pa
| Washington will be the first county
| in Pennsylvania to have a travelling
| postoifice.
Robert Wizarde. a young author and
composer. committed suicide at ST. Jo-
scph, Mo.
The Peninsuar bank at Williamsburg,
Va, was entered by robbers, who got
away with $4,000.
The tenth annual reunion of the
| United Confederate veterans will begin
in Louisville Wednesday.
Fire at Washington Court House, o.,
destroyed the Washington Chair Com
pany factory, entaiing $4,000 loss.
London papers are exposing the
| invasion OF American millionaircs,
ranking Andrew Carnegie among the
| best"
Herbert Noyes, Cleveland broker,
was mystcriously shot on Euclid ave
nue., and died without regaining con
sciousness.
Richard Croker, head OF Tammany
hall. declared that he is loyal TO W..
J. Bryan, and predicted the latter's cleo
tion this fall.
Henry Cabot Lodge. of Massachu-
sctts, was decided on as chairman OF the
Republican National convention at
Philadelphia.
Fire damaged the bank note depart
ment OF the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing at Washington, Sunday, to the
extent OF $1,5oo.
Twenty car loads of corn, given by
Kansas people to the famine sufferers
in India, reached Chicago on the way
to the seaboard.
While tapping a main OF the Colum-
bia Company at Lancaster, Pa, John
Welsh, aged @. was overcome by gas
and death resulted.
The body OF a woman found in a
box at Cambridge Springs, Pa, was
identified as that OF Mrs. Leland, for
mcrly OF Ashtabula, q.
The report of Insurance Commission
cr Durham shows that losses from fire
in Pennsylvania during the past year
aggregate about $Io,ooo,ooo.
San Francisco Chinese have made APP
plication for an injunction to restrain
the health authorities from enforcing
inoculation as a plague preventive.
Samuel s. Wright, a prominent Sus-
quchanna county CPa) Republican, is
the latest aspirant for the vacant posi-
ton OF dairy and food commissioner.
Missouri Democratic State convention
will be held in tent on Shelley square,
in Kansas City June 5, owing to the
destruction OF the convention hall by
fire.
William Waldorf Astor has sent
check Tor 9Io,ooo to the Madenhcad
| Cottage hospital England, in ceebra-
ton OF the coming OF age Of his oldest
son.
The Home OF the Good Shepherd at
Peoria, H., was destroyed by fire, entail
ing a loss OF $4,000. Fourteen sisters
and SO girls narrowly escaped crcma-
ton.
Powers of attorney have been used
so extensively in the Cape Nome gold
fields that it is said landing prospectors
will find little favorable land on which
| to work. .'i.'
The industrial commission has COM
| plctcd its report on general labor laws
and will give ii to Congress. 1t recon-
mends that labor laws be made uniform
in the States.
The strike at the Buttonwood mine.
! Wilkcsbarrc, which was once declared
off and then resumed again, was again
declared off, and the men will go to
work Monday.
The $500 bail OF David s. Ogden. A
| Philadelphia grocer, charged with vio-
lat laNN
was forfeited in the United States Court
in the Quaker City.
Ingram carpet loom fixcrs and weav-
ers in Philadelphia have decided not to
press their demands for a 7 per cent. ad-
vance in wages and a strike of 5000
men is thus avoided.
Julia Ward Howe, ono of the fore
most women OF the country. celebrated
her SIst birthday in Boston. Sunday.
beng the recipient OF proiusc floral OF
ierngs from friends.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at St, Louis adjourned to meet next
year at Philadelphia, and 90 commits
sioncrs were assigned to PENNSYLVANIA
under :hc Peoria law.
A dispatch from Georgetown, Brit
ish Guiana, says that a steamer with
three conveys has been carried over a
cataract in the Potara river, British
Guiana, 30 lives being lost
Contractor ]. +. McCabe, who is
building part OF the New York tunnel,
says he will not pay laborcrs more than
81. so per day and that ii they strike he
can get 100000 at that price.
James Coogan, president of the bor-
ough OF Manhattan, contributed $780,
600 to the Democratic National COM
mittee, with the proviso that it is to be
returned ii w. J. Bryan is not rc-nomi-
mated.
At Harrisburg Pa. Judge Weiss has
handed down an opinion that private
individuals engaged in the banking
business must pay the State tax of 4
mills upon notes discounted by their
banks.
In New York police court Magis-
trate Zeler held the seven officers and
directors OF the American Ice Company
in $4,000 bail for the action OF the'grand
jury on the charge OF violating the law
against monopoly