The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-31
LATEST NEWS k0TEs.

george Bundahl shot and Killed
Caroline Mochn at Crookston, MINI.
Cold is pinching people in Philadel-
phia and New York and fuel famine
impends.
Natural gas has been discovered 10
miles west of Douglass, Wyoming, ia
an oil well.
Negro and his wife were lynched
near Greenwood, s. c.. for killing
their employer.
Operator blames the dispatcher for
causing the Grand Trunk railway
wreck in Canada.
American Economic Association
discussed powers Of Interstate COM
merce commission.
East Liverpool o., mayor will leave
his office In the spring, SO he can de-
vote his time to horses.
Henry Phipps, Jr., sent check for
$4,000 as Christmas present for
Education Alliance of New York.
Greenville Ull) contractor took
strange aversion of pretty bride and
twice attempted to kill himself
Dow Academy, at Franconia, N. H.,
IOT luH ldlt hDScS ~ DOW, VI
Charlestown, Mass, has burned.
Three sailors from ship frozen in
Lake Erie crept over the ice to se-
cure aid for imprisoned comrades.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
planned unuslpi number of Official
society functions during the season.
IIumbert family en- route from Ma
In In mi ..tstr hoo
cd by French crowds Mt the frontier.
w. l.. Elkins, OF Philadelphia, has
decided to build a home for orphan
daughters of Masons costing $1,000
000
DR.. Arthur Flint, in New York, an
nounced that Cornelius Vanderbilt,
who is i'll with typhoid fever, will re-
cover.
John Doyle, a wealthy mine owner,
OF San Francisco, Cal, has been miss
ing for two weeks. Foul play Is sus-
pected.
Commander Schroeder, U. S. N,
governor of the Island of Guam re-
ports island in need of financial as
sistance.
Lake Superior ore regions this year
swelled production by 7000,0 900 tons
to 2S,OO0,0 900. the most notable record
in history.
The residence OF Walter Legally at
Cuero, Tex. was destroyed by fire
ard Mrs. Legally and two small chill
drcn are dead.
The Cornell university register
| shows 2,96S students, gain of 1TG
over last year, and $50 instructors,
an increase of 80.
Prof. Jacob Forney. of the Alabama
State university, was accidentally
killed at Springville. Ala, while
| shooting sparrows with q parlor rifle.
General Francis vinton Green was
appointed police commissioner in
New York city in succession to
Colonel Partridge, whose resignation
takes effect January /.
The general council of Louisville,
| KY, has appropriated 100000, with
which site for the $3.50, 900 Car
negie library will be purchased.
President Donovan, Of the Troy
| IN. " Steel Production Company,
announced the sale of the company
to The United States Steel Corpora
tion.
| Nearly all the independent coke
concerns of the Connellsvllle region
will meet the wage advance of the
Frick Company, adding $l,300,000 TO
the pay Of 1908.
Sophia Mintus and Matte Leslie
were fatally hurt at st. Joseph, Mo-,
by jumping from windows of Chase
& Sons candy factory while the
building was on fire.
District Judge Booth, at Salt Lake
City, Utah.. refused a new trial in the
cases OF James Lynch and r. l.. King,
under sentence of death for the mur.
der of Colonel Prowse.
The 5000 railway freight handlers
of Chicago, whose strike last sum-
mer interfered with the industries
of that city for three days, are pre-
pariug to demand more pay.
The Marconi station at Glace Bay
N. S.. continues to maintain daily
communication with Cornwall, with
constantly increasing efficiency and
facility.
The Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, OF New York, Is back OF a
scheme to build an underground rail
road and an elevated railroad in Chi.
cago at a cost of s55,000.000.
While setting out apple trees
David II. Dix. farmer, residing
near Victor, Fayette county, West
Virginia, found an old locust wagon
hub, in which was $4,000 in gold and
silver
News has reached Seattle, Wash
that John II. Rouse starved to death
In the wilds of Central Bolivia In
June, 1900, while ON an exploring trip
But one man out OF a party OF 80 es
capped.
Reports that the Pennsylvania rail
road has bought controlling inter
est in Brooklyn Rapid Transit and
that proposals had been made for the
absorption of the Cambria Steel Com
pany by the United States Steel Cor
poration were officially denied.