The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-08-14
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


take In all the coal mines In Illinois.
Ex-Governor William A. Newell died
Thursday Mt his home in Allentown.
n. ].
sl41 500 of the s2s0,000 stolen from
n California vault recovered from the
mud.
United Mine Workers of America,
officially indorse the steel workers
strike.
Dr. j. A. Libby was elected presl-
dent by the National convention of
dentists.
The Society of American Florists
| elected as It's treasurer II. L. Beatty,
of Oil City, Pa.
Boer leaders not surrendering by
September IL, are to be blnished from
South Africa.
Edwin Davis. young carpenter of
| Scranton shot his wife and himself
Sunday evening.
The capital stock of the National
Refining Company. Of Cleveland, has
been increased Sl.4Oo,000.
Count Tolstoi has rented a villa at
san Martina. in southern Italy. aud
VIII spend the winter there.
Steel trust rejected all proposals
| for arbitration and announced that its
mills would be run non-unlon.
Dogs are to he checked as baggage
on the western railroads at the same
rate as bicycles and baby carriages,
The Chicago Transportation Com
pnny, with S250,000 capital, will build
| ten steel steamers for the lake grain
| trade.
Every mile OF the Northwestern
railroad system earned the gross sum
OF S7.S25.92 for the fiscal wear end
ing May 81, 1901.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Lime Springs. la. Fourteen bust
ness houses were burned; loss, $780,
600. partially insured.
The National Roll Steel Car Com
pany, capitalized nj 100000, has been
| incorporated Mt Trenton, n. j., to
manufacture steel ears.
\ petition for the reduction of the
duties on cigars to $3.50 pound will
be sent to Washington Ivy the Havana
union of tobacco dealers.
The United States transport Thorn
as, having on board over 800 school
teachers bound for the Philippines,
arrived at Honolulu July 81.
Italy proposes to convert Venice In
to first class naval harbor, and in
carrying out this plan will dredge the
canals and fortlfy the Islands.
The Cigarmakers' Union, of Hav-
ana. asserts Cuba will he forced to
ask for annexation to America unless
| tho ciuur tariff iS rp1npp1
| Professor Warren X. Morehead. of
Newark. o., has been appointed cura-
| tor of the new museum Mt Phillips
Academy at Andover Mass.
The liquor dealers of Atlantic City
defied the courts order TO close on
Sunday. The town was wide open
and without police interference.
The negro who attempted an assault
on the wife of railroad section mas
ter near Ways station, Georgia, was
burned near the scene of his crime.
The steamer bearing the body of
Baron Won Kettler. German minister
to China, who was murdered by the
Boxers in Peking, arrived at Bremen.
The steamship Islander has arrived
from Skagway with S150,000 in treas
ure. A great drought on the creeks
will very much reduce the estimated
output.
Judge Arthur NJ. Noyes, Of the
Nome. Alaska, district, denies that he
had any communication regarding the
business of the court with Mckenzie
or Chipps.
A windstorm passed over Ports
mouth. n. H.. causing the death on
Beavers Island of Mrs. l.. NJ. Mealey
and Joel Pearson and injurlng half
n dozen others.
Gen. Chaffee has received word
that Gen Summers troops are in
close pursuit of the insurgcnt leader,
Malvar. They captured Malvar's
camp while his breakfast was still
hot.
Prof. Willis l.. Moore. chief of the
weather bureau and acting secretary
of agriculture. Is going to Yellowstone
park to inspect that reserve with n
view to locating n weather station
there.
Representatives of the Union Iron
Works of San Francisco are In New
York City to engage machinists. boil
ermakers and molders for the com
pany's employ.
In n scullie with his wife in the
apartments of another woman, Hollis
ter Il. Goodrich, constable, of Chica
| go, was shot dead. Mrs. Goodrich
was arrested.
Two sections of the Atlantic City
excursion trains of the Baltimore 4
Ohio railroad came together in Il rear
end collision, at Confluence, Thursday
resulting in the injury of nine passen
gers and one of the train crew.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Yerkes decided that a dealer in puts,
: 'calls" and spreads" Is subject tC
special tax and stamp tax under thu
, act of March 2, 1901.
An old-fashioncd mining stamped,
has been started to the Big Snowy
mountains of Montana by the discov
cry of rich gold bearing copper ant
sand carrying free gold.
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