The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-05-29
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

\ large number vi Beers nave en-
gagged to settle in the German colony
in Southern Brazil.
Nine hundred emigrants sailed Tues
day from Porto Rico for Hawaii ana
400 more are ready to go.
The steamship Hawarden Castle
has sailed from Durham for Der
muda with 300 Bocr prisoners.
Bresci the assassin Of the late King
Humbert, has committed suicide at
the pententiary of Santo Stefano.
The wage committee of the Anal |
gamated association has recommend
ed a general advance of per cent.
The British house of commons pass |
ed the bill for increased taxation to |
second reading by a vote of 236 TO
1872.
Bishop Hartzell of the Methodist
Episcopal church declares that the re-
mote Ashanti races in Africa may
rebel
Negroes and Italians at Sharpsvllle,
Pa. engaged In fierce riot and sew
eral were seriously hurt by bullets and
stones.
At White Plains, n. Y, an italian
has been sentenced to prison for nine
years and ten months for burylng
baby alive.
There are now SIG prisoners In the
West Virginia penitentiary at Mounds
vile. the largest number ever there
at one time.
Saturday nine men were whipped In
the iail yard at New Castle, Del, one
negro receiving 80 lashes and an hour
in the pillory.
Rear Admiral W. S. Schley arrived
in New York from Europe, having hur-
ried to attend his son, who Is sick In
New York hospital.
The steamer Ohio. from Hull. re-
| ports the collision of the Elsie, from
| Moss, and the probable drowning of
13 men in the Atlantic.
An explosion of bomb at the Cam
bridgeport. AIass) National Bank
badly wrecked the building and SER
| iously injured the cashier.
| The National conference an taxa
tion in session at Buffalo, y. y, re-
solved to form n national organization
for reform of tax methods.
Livingston county. y. v. is afflicted
with a plague of small black flies.
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attack both men and animals.
Citizens of jefferson parish, La.
burned the buildings In which the
New orleans leper board proposed to
establish lazaretto for lepers.
At Lexington, Ky. broken in health
and crushed in pocket by the tobacco
trust, IL. \. Means, aged 40, to-
bacco buyer. committed suicide.
Charles Nanderlyn was killed at
Greenfield, \. V, by Frank Heroy
whom Vanderlyn had tried to stop
from abusing Heroy's aged uncle.
The Bessemer ore mine. Aragon, st
Norway. Mich, has been bought by
the United States Steel corporation
from Ohio capitalists for S2,500,0O0.
1t is reported that the Ohio OIL
Company has struck a well in Wash
ington township. Blackford county,
Ind. that Is good for 1000 barrels a
day.
An official dispatch from Batavia,
Java. says three Europeans and It's
natives perished as a result of the re-
cent eruption of the volcano of
Keloet.
: David REYNOLDS, wealthy miser.
/ WIS '''h'h"''h 'hhs' -N'
His boots. in which he was supposed
to carry large sums of money, were
missing.
Fifty Servian gypsy immigrants,
bound for Canada, were ordered de-
ported from New York, although they
had $1,000, mainly on account of their
tilthiness.
Massillon (OJ coal dealers have
discovered n large bed of rock which
they believe to be rich in gold and
copper. Specimens have been sent ia
an assayer.
Moses 4. Hale for nine years city
treasurer of Colorado Springs. is held
. in $4,000 bail by Justice Rudy to
answer the charge of misapproprat
: ing funds of the city amounting tc
$4,000.
The official crop report of the Ger
man empire cites n further deterior
n alton in winter wheat, and gives the
: percentage as midway between poor
and medium. Winter rye Is reported
: medium.
:. On account of success with tn,
n rapid telegraph system invented by
a the late Prof. Rowland of Johns Hop
O I lins university. the German govern
>. ments intends to make use of it in thu
postal service.
The Canadian government has de
clded to buy the historic Plains o
q. Abraham. at Quebec, from the nun
n for $4,000 and convert them into
~ public park.
d Lawyer John T, Semple of Camden
h y. j.. has been indicted on the charg
o of aiding Taylor and Bredell In coun
.r terfeiting $50 notes while in prison I
s. Philadelphia, Pa.
The trustees of the Episcopal Gen
eral Theological seminary OF Ney
York elected Rev. Dr. Samuel Har
v, of Middleton, Conn, TO the chair o
l.. pastoral theology.
lie Former Congressman Charles A
= Boutelle Of Bangor, Me-. died Tuesda
he at the Mclean asylum, Waverly
h. where he had been confined for yea
le | with brain trouble Death WAS du