The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-07-17
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

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| recommends poll tax under the new
constitution.
| The Spanish Claims Commission Will
sit the summer through In Washing
ton without a recess.
The famous Rnggold Cavalry will
hold It's regimcntal reunion ut Waynes-
| burg. Pa. August 20.
j. rcrpont Morgan has bought the
| Chilean section of the TransandeaI
! railroad for &liO,UOo
Six hundred men employed at Tup.
| Per Lake. y. y. planning mills. have
struck for E1"-hour day.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis. widow of the
| former president of the cOnfederacy,
Is quite i'll at Portland. Me.
Il. II. Conger United States Minister
to China. arrived at San Francisco
Saturday, enroute to Peking.
Hot weather In Kansas has caused
the corn TO shrivel up, the failure of
the oat crop and made hay scarce.
William II. Stone, former Con
gresham from Missouri, died Tues
day at Asbury Park, aged II years.
The directors of the Dominican order
| he transferred from France to Mon
| treal.
Servant girls and other working
women in Chicago have taken the pre-
| llmlnary steps for the formation of n
union.
a national convention of negro
bankers of the United States has been
called to meet ut Buffalo, September
26-2S
American and Danish capitalists pro
pose to start n direct steamship line
from Copenhagen and Chrlstlanla to
Chicago.
Andrew ID. White. United States am
bassador to Germany, will resign that
position next year, when he will be 10
years old.
\ four-story hotel at Butte, Mont.
burned Saturday morning. Scores "f
guests were rescued from the upper
windows.
The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that the elght-hour provision
In the labor law of the state Is con
stitutlonal.
The Standard Oil company's reduc-
tion in the price of paratfine wax will
result in an annual loss of S1,0O0.O00
to the Scotch oil trade.
Comptroller Dawes has ordered an
assessment of 100 per cent. on the
$1,000 capital stock of the seventh
National Bank of New York.
Prince Christian. eldest son of the
crown prince of Denmark, intends to
Visit the United States on board his
yacht in the spring of 1902.
\ party of 3j Cuban teachers, who
are TO study English at Harvard. ar
rived In Cambridge Tuesday making
- teachers now In Cambridge.
The corporate existence of the Pot
terS National Bank of East Liverpool,
o., has been extended by the comp
troller of the currency until July IL,
1921.
The British steamer Delmar, from
Dundee, which struck on reef in
Blackhead cove, st. Johns, \. b., Mon
day, during dense fog, Is total
wreck.
George Boldt. of the Waldorf -Astor-
Ia hotel, New York backed by the As
tors to the extent Of $5,OOO,OO Is look
Ing for site for hotel in London.
England.
Because he couldn't obtain money to
go To the Buffalo Exposition Tim Slo-
cum, of Cleveland. aged 81, jumped
from high bridge and was crushed
10 death.
AS Il result of the use of crude pc
troleum and the burning of tobacco
stems. an abatement of the mosquito
nuisance has been effected In Hart
ford, Conn.
Judge Weiss made an order Tuesday
declaring the Lancaster Avenue Title
and Trust Company, of Philadelphia.
lnsolvent and appointed Robert NJ.
Patton receiver.
The New York Central Railroad
company has placed an order for 100
locomotives to be built with the boiler
anu fire box invented by Cornelius
Vanderbilt. Jr.
Acting under orders from Rome,
Archbishop Kain, of ST. Louis, has ap-
pointed court of priests to investi-
gate the alleged miraculous cure of
Sister Catherine Burke, of the Sacret
Heart. from n maglinant cancer with
which she was afflicted.
I German exports. including Dresden
to the Unlteu States, during the fiscal
year ending March 81, amounted to
$90. .SSI .0l3. nm increase over last fiscal
year of Sl.0T4,S54.
The Ellwood City National bank Of
Ellwood City, has been authorized to
begin business with capital of $780,
900: II. ). Blatt is president. and j.
j. Blatt. cashier.
The Bank of England Thursday
gave notice of the issue of $4,000, 600
in India 3 per cent. stock. not redeem
able before October ., 1913. The price
of the issue Is 0S.
| The supreme court of New York has
set aside the verdict which awarded
Frank Mowbray. valet of Howard
Gould, $1,000 damages. A new trial
has been ordered.
Governor Herries, of South Da-
kotah, appointed A. Il. Kittredge
United States Senator in place of the
late James ii. Kyle, for the term end
! 4.