The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-05-22
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


posed on cattle from Colombia, affect
Ing shipments to Cuba.
G.. Frederick Betts, of New York. n
former stock broker, Is missing. 1t Is
said he lost $4,000 in Wall street.
The Albany, y. V, street railway
employees strike lasted eleven days
and cost $S5.500. Two lives were lost.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, in session at Milwaukee. re-
| elected T. IL. Morrisscy grand master.
-Four men were killed In n fire which
destroyed the steamer Owensboro. a
| towboat, tied up at dock at Calhoun,
| Ky.
Cardinal Ledochowski. prefect of
| the propaganda at Rome. has been
completely blinded by a disease of the
eyes.
At Knoxville. Tenn, Mrs. Mamie
Bird. five children and five boarders
may die as result of eating Ice
| cream
An official dispatch announces that
the Chinese Plenipotentlaries have
agreed to grant concessions for lega
ton sites.
The Royal Society of England has
started movement to organize n
court of letters similar to the French
immortals
Fire started in Shaft No. of the
Atlantic mine at Iron Belt, Wis. One
hundred and fifty workmen had mar
row escapes.
The German press urges the people
of that nation to defend themselves
against the commercial rivalry of the
United States.
Another Italian who was injured In
the Farrhngton. w. Va, mines dis
| aster died, bringing the list of fatali-
ties up to nine.
The postoflice safe at Hopkins, Mo-,
was blown open and that 1923 In
money order funds and $40 postal
funds We're stolen.
At meeting of the sovereign camp,
Woodmen of the World, at Columbus.
o., IL. IL. Scott, of Beaver Falls, Pa,
was elected senator.
Burglars blew open the Hart county
bank. at Mumford, Ky, and got away
with $1,000 in money and many valu-
able papers and bonds.
George Il. Whitney. former manager
in Philadelphia for the Morris Beef
Company. of Chicago, confessed the
embezzlement of $4,000
At Upper Sandusky, o., Charles
Foster was sentenced to serve ten
years in the penitentiary for the MUIR
der of farmer named Johnson.
Mrs. Lyman j. Gage, wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury, died at her
, residence in Washington. ID. c., Fri
day night, after nine weeks illness.
At Champion Mich, by the prema.
ture explosion of powder at the Cham
pion mine. one miner was killed.
Seven others were seriously injured.
General Mascardo. with 32S men.
has surrendered to Captain Joseph l..
ONeil, of the Twenty-ffth infantry,
at san Anatonia, Zambales province.
The Ohio Prohibition convention
nominated Il. j. Pinney, of Cleveland
5 for Governor and failed to insert a
a woman suffrage plank In the plat
Z form.
; Monsignor O'Connell, formerly rec
= tor of the American college in Rome
: has been consecrated in that city as
; bishop of the Catholic diocese of Port
: land. Me.
+, Weston Howland. who died at his
.
! at 81. was the first man in America
= to discover successful method of re
y tinlng petroleum.
( At ST. Paul Minn., in the presence
. of his 6-year-old son, Frank Greipe
4 was shot down in cold blood by his
brother-ln-law Henry Mlngers, the re
suit of quarrel.
Seoul advices state that the Korean
q government has leased to Japan Az,
Il acres to form a settlement at Ma
+ San-Pho The land was formerl.
sought by Russia.
Hon. Edwin +. Uhl of Gran,
a Rapids. Mich. former Assistant Sec
= retary of State and Ambassador (,
l. Germany under the Cleveland admin
10 istration, Is dead.
h Only five lives were lost in the sink
1t ing of the steamer City of Paducal
n in the Mississippi river, Sunday. 81,
1t of the reported missing have appeare,
in st. Louis, Mo.
Property in the business section o
20 Woodsville, y. H., valued at abou
NJ 100000, was destroyed by fire.
m The Alaskan, the largest merchan
10 steamship ever built on the Pacfi
n. coast, has been launched at San FraI
n cisco for the American and Hawaiia
IS Steamship Company.
In Miss Mary Kern, daughter of Mi
re liOnaire Joseph Kern of West Ro,
d. bury. Mass, has eloped with Thoma
re Healey, little curly-headed bell bo.
They are each 20 years old.
The Mexican government has gran
ed II concession for boring for petro
ne eum. exemptlng the industry frOi
is taxation for 10 years. Free import;
tion of drills and machinery is granite,
~ James +. Ayres, of Port Arthu
j." Mich. "A Government clerk, was foun
~ =, shot dead In Washington hotel III
90 der circumstances indicating that
w. might have been murdered by w
man.
Negotiations are on between Il
Hamburg American Steamship Con
,ie pany and the Atchison, Topeka an
,,ie Santa I'e railroad to establish