The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-01-09
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

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According TO apparently reliable Fill
| pino sources, Aguinaldo died six weeks
ago.
| Millions of dollars arc involved in a
huge Minnesota lumber deal just COLI
cluded
The transport Meade, with large
amount OF specie on board, has reached
Manila
A big gold strike. at the rate of SIS
to the pan, is reported from Tanana, on
the Yukon.
The Molokancn. a Russian sect nuin-
berlng 10000, contemplate emigrating
to America.
John Alexander Dowie, of Zion"
notoriety. has sailed from England for
the United States.
The Senate has confirmed Frederick
+. Rittman, of Ohio, TO be auditor for
the war department
Beers continue TO march southwark
in parallel columns plundering farms Of
loyaists as they go
w. II. De Haas, of the United States
engineering department, committed sui
eide at Pensacola, Fla.
Bishop Winand Michael Wigger,
|
Newark, N. J., is dead.
| Lord Roberts received an enthusiasts
welcome as he returned to London from
South African campaign.
The Holland and Harvard buildings,
in Buffalo. N. Y, were damaged to the
extent OF $4,000 by fire.
The Bocrs now threaten the gold
mines, and Kitchener has called Tor
5000 men to guard them.
The teachers and school children Ct
New York raised $27,oo7 for the school
children of Galveston, Tex.
Philip ID. Armour the millionaire
meat packer and grain dealer, died at
his home IN Chicago Sunday.
Five trainmen were killed and one
badly injured in collision between two
freight trains at Melton, Mass.
| The Colorado Legislature is contem
| plating the passage of a bill for the
restoration OF capital punishment.
Forty cars OF hay in the Boston &
Maine yards were ruined by fire and
water, entailing loss OF $4,000.
| Noaks. Goebel witness, who con
victed Caleb Powers, has disappeared
after admitting that he swore falsely.
Tom Wilson. colored, who stabbed
white man at Wilsonville, Ala, was TAX
en- from the sheriff by mob and hang
ed.
Great Britain is willing now to. make
concessions to the Beers. and the "un-
conditional surrender attitude is aban-
doned.
Andrew ID. White. the United States
ambassador at Berlin, has been elected
a member of the Berlin Academy of
Science.
Ten Germans were killed and nine
wounded at Lei Tung, China, through
the firing of salute with defective
cartridge.
The trustees of the Baron de Hirsch
fund will develop the town of Wood
bine, N. J., for the benefit OF the Rus
sian Jews.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
cd Mine Workers. says that 1000 has
been the best year in the history of la
Dor unions
Seven miners were killed and 10
wounded in an aifray of Altgcbirg
Hungary. between riotous miners and
gendarmcs.
One of the guards employed in quar-
rantining a smallpox infested camp near
| Sparta, Mimi, was shot and killed by
lumberman.
Ambassador Cambon Just returned
from France, is delighted with the part
taken by the United States in the Paris
exposition.
At Yreka, Cal, seventy-two inches Of
snow fell within 48 hours and macy
week buildings have collapsed under the
great weight.
Thursday Charles II. Dietrich was in
augurated governor of Nebraska He
recommended the passage of strong
anti kidnapping law.
The steamer Tunisian, which recently
sailed from Liverpool for Portland,
Me-, has on board so accmakers boun1
for Dowie's Zion city.
The divisions of the Cuban conven-
tion to draw UP constitution have re-
ported one modelled on the lines Of
that OF the United States
Charles Westervelt, cashier of the
Dime Savings institution, OF Newark,
N. j., has pleaded guilty to forgery.
Bank Cashier Edward c. Remme, OF
Newport, KY, has been arrested at the
instance OF Bank Examiner Tucker.
Twenty-Five thousand tons of common
salt, has been purchased in Lisbon,
Portugal by the Armour Packing Com
pany, OF Kansas City, Mo.
Eight Italians were arrested by the
United States treasury secret service
agents in New York on the charge oi
running a big counterfeiting plant.
! Hanging for the crime OF kidnapping
Is the penalty the State of Nebraska will
inhct ii the members OF the State Legis-
lature remain in their present temper
Officials OF all the great railroads will
visit the principal shipping points 10
devise a way TO discontinue fast
freight" lines and local freight agencies.
A monument in honor OF Baron and
Baroness de Hirsh and to commemorate
eradication OF racial prejudice IS to be
erected in Central Park. New York
city.