The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-01-16
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


to stop threats to Millionaire Cudahy.
No Knife, the last chief OF the Omaha
Indian tribe, is dead, aged IFS years.
A mine boss at Steubenvile, o., is
threatened with assassination by anarch-
lists.
lncendiaries attempted to destroy tho
Cudahy mansion at Omaha, Neb., Fri
day evening.
General O. O. Howard favors the
army cantcen and says Congress has
made a mistake.
William Waldorf Astor has made an
other gift OF $4,000 for the families If
British soldiers
DIR. Pupin's discoveries at Columbia
university makes telephoning across
the Atlantic now possible.
The congressional committee secures
additional important evidence in its in
quiry into the Booz case
Efforts OF faithful sister finally Sc
cured William W. Kennedy's pardon
from the Indiana pcnitcntiary.
The Pawnil Lake Irrigation Com.
pany, OF Kansas City. Mo, capital ST.
100000, has been incorporated.
London physicians claim the elixir OF
life, known as sodium chloride or com
mon salt is many centuries old.
An explosion OF gas in coal mine No.
5, at Hondo, Cahuila. Mexico, killed
four men and injured 20 others.
EX-Congressmau Hogg, OF West
Virginia, lifelong Democrat, announces
his conversion to Republicanism.
From Berlin il is denied that Germany
is trying to place a loan OF 0oo,ooo,ooo
marks in New York and London.
Absolute control OF the vast interests
OF the nations express companies said
to be the plan OF railroad magnates.
Rankin Clemens. a wealthy farmer #
Fayette county, KY, will probably die
as the result OF all assault by robbers.
The act for the organization OF the
metropolitan police OF Manila has been
passed by the Philippine commission.
Patrick Doody and James Hoolihal
were fatally injured by an explosion III
the Standard Oil works in Brooklyn
Russa's representative denies any in
tention on the part OF his government
to make separate treaties with China.
The Greene county (Ark.) bank sus-
pended and went into the hands OF re-
cciver There is shortage OF $4,000.
Twenty nurses have resigned from the
Bellevue hospital. New York, and more
sensational developments are expected
Filipino civil officers notify insurgent
leaders that they must lay down their
arms or be hunted by their own country
men.
The law department OF the Wisconsin
university has been closed, owing to a
case OF smallpox among the 900 stu
| dents.
The transport Sheridan has sailed
from Manila with Fl officers and o54
men OF the Thirtyseventh volunteer in
iantry.
Ex-Counciman II. T. Lehan, of CAM
bridge, Mass, has been sentenced to a
years Imprisonment for illegal natural
ization.
T. w. Lewis, an American locomotive
engineer, imprisoned in Mexico because
his train ran down native, has been
released.
A resolution has been introduced in
the Minnesota Legislature favoriag cleo
ton OF United States senators b. popu-
lar vote.
The Escuadra gold nine near Oac-
tian, state OF Oaxaca, Mexico, has been
sold to a New York syndicate for 3d.
100000
Fire starting on the steamer Idlewild,
in the. Erie basin, at New York, did
$4,000 damage to shipping, stores and
buildings.
The heaviest snowstorm that has Wis
tied Colorado in many years is now rag
ing. Most OF the railroads are entirely
blockaded.
| Many measures for the benefit of the
farmer will be pushed by State agricul-
tural department in the Pennsylvania
Legislature.
Receivers have been appointed for the
Wilson Mercantile Company, of Wash.
ington, Ind, which went into voluntary
bankruptcy.
The United States gunboats Annap-
oils, Frolic, Wompatuck and Piscata-
muda, for Manila.
At Philadelphia, Pa, John Gee, 10
years OF age, committed suicide with a
revolver. He had been reprimanded ny
his mother for laziness.
Samuel X. Vansant was inaugurated
governor OF Minnesota Wednesday.
Robert Pitcairn, superintendent CT
the Pennsylvania railroad has been ap-
pointed brigadier general for the inaug-
ural parade at Washington.
The Cowenhaven tunnel, near Aspen,
Colo, was discovered on fire Wcdnes-
day. The fire is near the Smuggler
mine and, is considered dangerous.
Thomas, C. Mosher, a young farmer,
was murdered at Gorham, Me-. his aged
mother nearly killed and the premises
looted by a negro and white man.
Fourteen' hundred and fity pounds oi
dynamite exploded at Colchester Point,
VT, while the workmen were all at din
rer.
According to the annual report oI
| the New York state commissioner oil
prisons, drunkenness throughout the
state has increased to an alarming ex-
tent.
Capt. c. w. King, charged with ac-
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