The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-11-12
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


Chop Yong Sin has been appointed
foreign minister of Korea. Is a pro-
Russian.
The projected combination Of West.
ern pulp and paper mills has been
abandoned.
Railroads are facing the greatest
car and power shortage in the his
tory OF the world
The bodies of man and woman
strapped together were found in the
oswego canal near Syracuse, N. Y.
Captain willard H. Brownson was
officially installed superintendent OF
the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Md.
The Indian government refused the
Standard Oil Company permission to
prospect in the oil fields Of Burmah.
A hill is to be introduced In the
next Massachusetts Legislature look.
ing to the incorporation of labor
| unions.
William p. Cornell, a well-known
Chicago newspaper man. dropped
dead just after casting his vote in
Lakeview.
G. j. Robbins, postoffice clerk at
Dayton. o.. is under arrest for steal
ing between $500 and $4,000 from
the malls.
The town marshal and a prisoner,
under arrest at independence, Kan,
fought double duel; both were NOR
| tally wounded.
| Chinese girls are being employed
In San Francisco as telephone oper.
ators. for the accommodation of Chi.
nese merchants.
The eight companies controlled by
the Rubber Goods Manufacturing
Compank will be in the future under
one management.
Owing to the drought the wheat
harvest in New South Wales is very
poor. The shortage Is estimated al
100000 bushels.
What Uncle Sam has done for tele
eraphy in Alaska, Cuba. and the
Philippines. Is told by General Greedy
chief of the signal service.
| Robbers blew open the safe of the
| Tampa State bank at Heerington
Kan, and took about s3,S00 In cur
rency, escaping on hanl.car.
John Mitchell's friends are urging
him TO become a candidate against
Samuel Gompers for president of the
American Federation of Labor.
4 Upon the raising of $1,000, 900 the
University of Chicago agreed to re
ceive the Rush Medical school as ar
organic part of the university.
Three small boys named Borcher
near Humphrey, Neb., plotted against
their stepfather. killed him and tried
to burn his body in a straw stack.
W. ID. Drake, a bookkeeper, died
from injuries received In the fire
works explosion in Madison Square
New York, making the thirteenth ia
tality.
Bandmaster Innes closed his sea
son at Raleigh, N. c., canceling al
other engagements and left New
York to be operated upon for ap
pendicitis.
August Rapps and l.. Bennock were
killed and Patrick Doyle, Harry Cron
in and William Sanders injured by
the premature explosion OF blast a
st. Louis, Mo.
Rev. w. C. Rabe, pastor of the Ger
man Baptist church at Omaha, an,
his assistant, Augusta Busch, wer,
found dead in the pastors study, du,
to asphyxiation.
New York is on the verge of tn,
worst coal famine ever known. TIL,
retailers say they have no coal AM
accuse the anthracite railroads o
withholding their product.
A meeting of silver workers, rep
resenting the 5000 of the craft EN-
ployed in New York city, Brooklyn
and Newark, decided to go on strik,
unless granted a ninehour working
day.
After being in jail four days Laur,
, Blggar. charged with conspiracy Il
connection with an alleged attempt T.
! gain possessions of the millions of tn
late Henry NJ. Bennett, was release,
in $1,000 bail
The cholera continues to be inter
[ mittent in different Parts Of tn
| Philippine islands. The recorde
, to,.al of cases is 10000 and of death
$1,000. 1t is believed that the actua
number of cases exceeds the recorde
number by 20 per cent.
Letson Balliett, the mining kins
, was fined $1,000 and sentenced to on
years Imprisonment at Des Moine.
, Ia. for fraudulent use of the mails 4
selling $1S0.000 worth Of stock in a
abandoned mine.
! It is reported at Costa Rica tina
the Colombian revolutionary genera
, Uribe-Uribe, who surrendered {
! forces of the Colombian government
, under General Marjarres at Rio Fri
! has been sentenced to death.
| Owing to the congested conditio
, of the dried fish market in Europ
and Brazil, the price of dried codfls
has dropped from Is to 25 per cent a
st. Johns. N. f., and some grades @
Goldfish are virtually unstable.
The battleships Alabama. Captai
c. H. Davis. and Massachusetts, Cal
; tain H. N. Manney, have sailed fror
New York for Culebra island, In tn
, Caribbean sea, where they will pa
!. ticipate in the winter maneuvers.
S Eight men were drowned, thre
Q vessels driven ashore and every lighte