The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-08-07
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

The great drOuth IN the corn peit |
In the West Is broken.
Two Niagara Falls cars collded |
near la sale while going ut high |
speed
The freight transport Samoa has
been nnmrd the Dix In honor of Gen
ernl John \. Dix.
The female population of Mnssachu-
sctis constitutes al.3 per cont. ut all
tie people of that state.
Mrs. Carrie Nation. serving a sen
tcnce for Joint smashing. has been
pnrdoncd Ivy Governor Stanley.
The total number of Beers made
prisoners Or who have surrendercu
since the war broke out is 3J,oOo.
Nine additional companies of coast
artillery are to he organized immcdi-
ntcly from recruits already secured.
The Venezuelan government reports
| that the revolutionists have been de-
| fpntcd near san Cristobnl.
The British torpedo boat No. ~
/ sunk or the island of Aldcrny. In the
| English channel.
August II is the official date fixed
| for the evacuation of pcking by the
! AhAANAHh NA'NIFs
T.. j. Tormcy of san Francisco. has
been elected president of the American
Whist league.
George Ferguson. - years old, of
| Baltimore, was killed at Atlantic CITY
| by a live electric wire, hanging from
a tree
The steamship Deutschland of the
| Hamburg American line, raised the
western average for hourly runs To
23O1 knots.
| The total coinage executed ut -
mint during July. was So.u-l $50; gold.
Si.225 900; silver, $l,3l2,OO0; minor
coins. SSi $50.
Martial law has been proclaimed
on fuckers and Morgnn's Islands,
Bermuda. where Boer prisoners of
war are confined.
William Lane. serving n term in the
state penitcntlnry at philadelphia,
was burned to death by setting fire to
his straw mattress.
EXPORTS Of manufactures from the
United States show an apparent de-
crease of S23.3I25 5S3 in the fiscal year
1901 compared with 1900.
George Bissert. the police officer Of
New York. who has been on trial on
the charge of having taken II 5000
bribc. was found guilty.
The camp of the Second brigade y.
q. l.. at Somerset has been named for
Peter ID. Parchment late colonel of
the Fourteenth regiment.
Official steps looking to system
attic agitation for change Of the
/ 1nt. ..r Hold t1,A
Inauguration have been taken.
Benjamin d. Woodward. Assistant
Commissioner Of the United States at
the Paris Exposition. has wound up
the affairs of the commission.
The First Cavalry has captured 81
insurgents in Batangas. The pay
chest stolen in J.agura province has
been recovered at Santa Cruz.
Private James Bell. who during the
Sioux Indian troubles In 1876 earned
; u medal from congress, was given II
military funeral at Fort Sheridan.
In freight wreck on the Pennsyi-
vana division of the central llud-
son railroad. near Billshoro. one per-
son was killed and four injured.
Sut has been begun in the United
States circuit court at Philadelphia to
recover from J. Edward Addlcks, of
Delaware, S50O,000.
i The annual Chautauqua at Noun
tain Lake Park. Nd, opened Thurs
day. and will continue throughout the
present month.
Three hundred trolley men went on
strike mt Erie. Pa. Friday, tying up
the entire line of the Erie motor com
pany.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., is
taking options and securing deeds for
the proposed extension of the Pitts
burg. Virginia and Charleston rail
, road up the river from Brownsville.
r Frederick Yost, of Sherburn. Mimi.
/. n farmer, shot and fatally wounded
$ Eliza Klmkie. formerly his housekeep-
2 or. and killed her 10-months-old child
then committed suicide.
Captain c. \. Flagler has reported
that he has completed the work. of re-
moving the wreck of the Crlstoba
. Colon from the entrance to San Juan
harbOr.
Dairyman James G. Woods, of Al
J. toonn, Pa. has brought suit agal,,si
! Harry d. Herr for $1,000 70. causing
!, his arrest on charge of .ellirg adul
! rrated milk.
Secretary Hitchcock left Thursdn,
J.. for New Brunswick and New England
1 for Il months "trip. At .Iontreal ex
, Attorney General Griggs win NEE
i him and Secretary Root also has beer
), invited.
: Hazel Sylvls Wood. of Omaha, who
5 swallowed poison last week to escape
2 q lodging bill of SlJ, is now one-thlrt
+ owner of Florida orange grove
worth 100000.
Details to the staff of the army un
der the reorganization will be in pro
= portion TO the members OF eacn raGl
g Ia the three arms-l2 from the infan
# try, six from the cavalry and four from
oJ the artillery.
;. Lulu Prince Kennedy. of Kansas
IL City. serving ten years for killing he
q husband. was released In $1,000