The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-04
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

loss % $4,000.
Raymond Ross, negro, was legally
| hanged at Canton, Ga, Tuesday, for
nssauting n white woman.
The British Government has strick-
en- the name of Earl Russell from the
list of Berkshire magistrates.
Louis Hubbard. of Princeton, n. j.,
died of hydrophoba, caused by the
/ bite of n dog seven weeks ago.
II is said that there will be no
change In the Cuban tariff until the
insular Government is established.
The second Brigade rifle team, n.
G. T., won the brigade match Mt Mt.
Grctna, capturing the Mcclellan low
ing cup
John Andrews was killed by John
Romers. who mistook him for bear
while the two were hunting, near Red
Lodge Mont.
A legal battle has been begun at
Easton, Pa, for the possession of the
Sl50,000 estate of John Gould, near
Seattle, Wash.
The wool crop of Washington and
! Greene counties, Pennsylvania, Is es-
timated to be in excess OF 1,5OO,OOO
pounds this year.
In an electrical storm at Texarkana,
Ark. Prof. Gasbys son was killed by
| lightning and two churches and one
residence destroyed.
Two hundred miners employed on
the day shift of the Isle Royal, Mich
| igan, mine, struck for higher wages
and shorter hours,
The Eastern Sugar company. to
manufacture sugar from sugar beets.
was incorporated in New Jersey with
capital of $2,O00.000.
John Redmond, the Irish leader, ac-
companled by other members of Par.
lament, will start from Dublin for
New York early in October.
News comes from Rome of the
| final collapse of the plan to erect in
that city an Irish national church to
be called st. Patrick's Cathedral.
The authorities will prosecute for
criminal negligence Il. c. Westall,
chief of the money order bureau of the
Havana postoflice, who lost $4,000.
The Pennsylvania Company has
| placed an order for 40 new freight lo-
comotives with the Baldwin locomo-
tive works, TO be delivered next year.
BY the premature explosion of n
| charge of dynamite mt Eveleth, Minn..
in the Fayal iron mine, Charles c. An
derson and Andrew Pearson We're
killed.
! President TAFT. of the closed Super
! Tor Street Savings and Banking Com
pany, of Cleveland, o., said he thought
! the bank could easily pay 30 cents on
the dollar.
Attorney General Knox returned to
Washington Tuesday presumably to
| take up the charges which have been
preferred against Judge Humphreys
of Honolulu.
| The grand encampment of knights
Templar at Louisville, Ky. elected
Henry Bates Stoddard, of Bryan. Tex,
| grand commander, to succeed Reuben
IL. Lloyd. of California.
oil drllers near Dalton, O., struck
a great hollow in the earth which
drains all the wells of the village and
roundabout country, practically cut
| ting off the entire water supply.
Reports from Turkey indicate that
| the Sultan will go to war rather than
yield to demands of France. He Is
studying plans for defense and has or
dered 300 guns from Germany.
The engagement is officially an
nounced of Helen, daughter of former
Governor Levi Il. Morton. OF New
York, to Count Bosom de Perigord,
second son of Due de Galleyrand.
The Common Council, of Milwau-
kee, passed an ordinance. granting n
franchise to the Milwaukee, Burllng-
ton 4 Lake Geneva railroad to build
an elevated road through the city.
| Adjutant- General Dameron of Mis-
souri,, in report to Governor Dock
cry on the Pierce City race war. holds
Sheriff Manlove of Lawrence county
responsible for the lynching of three
| negroes.
Saturday, September 81, will be
Good Roads Day Mt the Pan-American
Exposition. Among the speakers will
be United States Senator NJ. A. Han
ma. George w. Ross, Premier Of On
tario. Canada. and Hon. Tom l.. John
son. Mayor of Cleveland.
A black leopard imported from In
dia few weeks ago escaped from its
cage In a menagerle in Chicago and
before being dubbed into insensibli-
ty severely injured four circus EN-
ployes.
In runaway accident which occur
red at Frankfort Ky, Mrs. Edward
Porter, Thompson, wife of the well.
known writer; Elliott Orr, 4-year-old
grandchlld of Mrs. Thompson; Ed.
mund Orr, Kate Thompson and Una
Sudduth We're all badly hurt
The strike at the McCllntic- Marshall
Construction Company plant at Ran,
kin, has been officially declared Off
the men having gained every point ex,
cept the reinstatement of the chairman
of the strikers.
A draft for $1,000 was sent to 5
Julius Van Steen, employed as cash
Ter at the Pfister & Vogel tannery
Milwaukee, Wis, was arrested on d
warrant charging him with embez
zling $4,000.
A statement from the war depart
ment shows that yellow fever has beer
entirely banished from Santiago d,
Cubn. its habitat for 400 wears Their,