The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

cOmmlttteu Sulclue Ill Jollet, III, prs
on.
The Canadian government will or
der an investigation of alleged census
frauds.
Gov. McSwccncy of South Carolina
has refused to accept the senator's
designations.
Fifteen South Carolina fishermen
were caught in squall and were re-
ported missing.
Annie Austin. aged %, was murder
ed in Jack the Ripper fashion In
London lodging house.
John Weippert died at Newark. o.,
after living II days without food and
10 days without water.
The British newspapers blamed the
tyranny of trades unions for the loss
of industrial supremacy.
\ fire at Balakhna. Russia, has des-
troycd four reservoirs of petroleum
ana a plant of Is wells.
The schooner Rand of Racine was
lost off Shcboygan, Wis. Three men
ami ono woman were lost.
At Kindred. y. D.. fire destroyed %
buildings. at loss of S1OO.OOO, with
less than onc-third insurance.
Wiley Kirk colorcd. aged 1S, was
hanged in the Jail at Towson, Md,
for assault on white woman.
In an explosion at the Coryell mine
at New Castle. col, two men were
instantly killed and eight Injured.
Joshua Gilman and elmer Jones
were killed by three trolley ears dash
ing down hill at Wilmington, Del.
The Ursulnc convent at Bophard.
on the Rhine. was demolished by n
storm and three women were Killed.
Military hospitals in England are
crowded with patients suffering from
fever acquired in the Boer campaign.
Jasper. Tex, seat of Jasper county,
has been entirely destroyed by fire. \
gang of robbers is thought to have
fired 1t.
An official order prohibits Armen-
ians who have become naturaliZed
Americans or Russians from entering
Turkey.
Count William Bismarck. second
son of the late Prince Bismarck. Is
dead. after brief Illness. He was
born in 1852.
W. II. Klrnsmire of Holton, Kan.
has been arrested for the murder Of
his wife. whom. he said had COM
mittcd suicide.
Gustave Meyer. young astrologer,
has warned President Mckinley To be-
ware of assassination during the
month of June.
4 monument will soon be erected
over the grave of Nancy Hanks,
mother of Abraham Lincoln, at
Lincoln city, Ind.
Near Lancaster. Pa, Enos Minney,
aged 81. a farmer. hanged himself IN
his barn. Financial difficulties We're
the cause, 1t Is said.
| An oil we'll that throws n siX-inch
stream of petroleum 100 feet in the
| air has been struck on Middle Bass
island in Lake Erie.
! June disbursements in the way of
I railroad and Industrial dividends ana
| interest on railroad bonds Will ap-
/ prONimate S5O.O0O.OOO.
Michael Doran has awakened from
| Il trance of TWO years duration anu
| has been discharged from the State
! hospital AZ Bnghamton, y. y.
/ The elections for the Spanish SEN
ate have resulted in a triumph for the
/ government. III Liberals having been
/ elected. against 80 of all other parties.
Mrs. Mary Hcrshborgcr, aged 40;
! Mrs. Hattie Maggee aged %, and Cal
/ vim Maggie. aged }. We're burned TO
/ death in farm house near Watseka,
1 Ill.
\ New York syndicate has bought
! the twelve chlorimtion and cyanide
mills in Colorado for $3,5O000O, and
will turn them over to the smelter
| trust.
DR.. Emanuel Harris. treasurer Of
| the American Order of Druids, was
arrested at FAN River, Mass, on a
charge of being $4,000 short in his ac-
counts.
The verdict in the bribery case
against former Captain and Quarter
master Cyril W. King, L. 5. A., finds
him guilty of wrongfully receiving
money.
Near Cumberland. Nd, n desperate
fight took place Thursday between POO
! American laborers and 10 Italians,
Many were wounded and one will die,
The first oil found in Washington
was struck at depth of 200 feet in
a well being driven near Tenino by
the Puget Sound Petroleum Company
Col. Youngblood of Alabama, audi
tor of the treasury department, has
resigned. The president appointed r.
A. Person, assistant auditor, to sue
ceed him.
The head of n man wrapped in an
old coat was found near Edgemoni
Park East st. Louis, Ill. a headless
body was found last April at the
same spot.
Col James G. Miner, nm assistant
secretary of the Confederate navy dur
ing the Civil war. which swept away
his large fortune, died at Milford, o.
: in poverty.
The railroads of the country, II i
reported, have been divided into foul
great groups each with a capitaliza
ton of about S1,500,000, 0,00J-slX bill
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