The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-05-01
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Greensboro. n. c.. for the coal mines
of West Virginia.
Some of the Chinese gentry at Pc
kin have presented large tract of
land to missionaries.
In student theatricals at Burnes-
vile. y. c.. II. W. McInturf was shit
and killed by Baccus Bailey.
Christians In Algeria are compelled
to fcign conversion to lslamism TO
prevent being massacred.
The will of D'Oyley Carte, the Lon
don theatrical manager. shows an es-
tate of nearly Si.225.O0o.
Germans. in four columns. drove
Gen. I.lu's Chinese army beyond the
great wall, inficting heavy loss.
Contractor McDonald's efforts to in
| duce Puerto Ricans to emigrntc to
| Ecuador have been unsuccessful.
A brilliant triplc-tailed comet. which |
Is rapidly approaching the sun. Is vis-
ible at Cape Town. South Africa.
| Statistics shows that the gold pro
duction of the Cripple Creek district
| (ColD since 1899 Is aver SlOO,OOO,OOO.
| Adelbert Hay. son of the secre-
tary of state. has resigned his post as
United States consul general at Pre-
tora.
James Douglas Reid, known TO
telegraphers as "the father of the telc-
graph" died in New York Sunday,
aged 81.
Two more oil companies have been
chartered in Texas. making III such
corporations with capital of ST.
o5O.OOU.
At Danvllle. Va. fire destroyed iire
business buildings and burned busi.
ness houses with an aggregate loss oil
S61.000.
John w. GARRETT of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed secretary of the
United States legation at The Hague,
Holland.
\ mass meeting was held at Phila-
driphia. Pa. To consider the removal
of the state capital from Harrisburg
to that city.
Sixteen fresh cases of bubonic
plague were reported Sunday at Cape
Town. There have been 80 eases
and 21T deaths.
Eighteen miners We're killed by an
, explosion of fire damp in the Grand
: Bulseon coal mine at llornu. Belgium,
Seven were injured.
\ dispatch from Amsterdam an
nounces that Mr. Kruger will leave
for the United States at the com
mencement of June.
\ special dispatch from Tangicr
says the French commercial attache
recently sold 100000 rifles to the
Shereetian government.
The safe of the Ludlowville. y. Y,
postoflice was blown open with dy
, namite and the thieves obtained about
$400 in cash and stamps.
I Ex-senator Thomas II. Carter. of
I Montana. has been elected chairman
I of the National commission on the ST.
, Louis exposition of 1908.
The banking house of Leroy c. Part
l. ridge of Ovid, " V, has made an as
. signment The liabilities and assets
are not yet made public.
An official report from Griesheim.
Germany shows that II persons were
S killed and ~ injured by the fire and
explosion there last week.
, William Lee. a Chicago saloonkeep-
er. was attacked by two masked men,
who shot him fatally. The men escap-
;, ed without getting any booty.
l. bdhh hA "
= county. o.. was entered ny burglars.
n The vault was wrecked by dynamite,
I aud 81. 900 Is said to he missing.
e \ charter has been issued to the
!. Indian Territory oil Company. with
Il Il capital stock of S500,n00. to develop
l lands that are believed 10 rich in oil
j Herr Merck. German millionaire
II cruising in his yacht. and Caro-. his
secretary. were killed and eaten by
; canlbals of the island of New Britain
by, an order of the president, First
;. Lieutenant Frank l.. Edwards of Tho
:, Twcnty-siXth infantry Is discharge,
!, from the service on account of deser
" tion.
Coy. Odell of New York. signed til,
bill permitting women taxpayers II
villages and towns to vote on propO
- sltions to spend money for public pur
" poses,
Is Big Mountain Slope Colllery No.
N at Shamokin. Pa. employing $50 mel
N and body. has been abandoned by til,
p Philadelphia X Reading Coal X lroi
Company.
The official name of the exposition
to he held in Portland. Ore, in 1905 Il
y THE Lewis and Clark Centennial an,
70 American Pacific Association"
s. The Illinois legislature has passe,
re Il bill approprlatlng S250,000 for NJ
g Illinois exhibit at the Louisiana Pur
IN chase Exposition at st. Louis.
g. The American Railway association
ne in session In lew York, has elected A
to W. Sullivan, Of the Illinois Central. a
v president, In succession to l.. +. Loree
of Plttsburg.
Discovery of petroleum has beel
made 20 miles southwest of the city o
n Guadalajara. Mexico and IA compan,
IS has been formed to operate oil wells.
u Joseph Glcnning of Chicago. Z
~ years old and II veteran of the Civ
W war. committed suicide by THROWN
n himself underneath n freight train n
80 collinwood. q.
Anthony Marcavlch and Anthon
Schuvacavich were entOmbed In III
at I t,l.n EiIlar