The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-02-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Fire at Waterbury. Conn. destroyed
$2OOO,0OO worth of property Sunday
John d. Rockefeller conditionally Of
fered to contribute $l,000,000 to Harry.
ard College.
President Roosevelt sent a dispatch
of congratulation to Emperor William
on his birthday.
J. Santos Zolaya was inaugurated
President of Nicaragua for his third
term Saturday.
The Somerset Coal Company. with
$4,000 900 capital, was organized in
New York Friday.
A child at Springfield o.. admitted
Friday she killed her mother by put
ting poison in her coffee.
John l.. Burley. foreman of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad cabinet shop,
was retired Friday at the age limit
Mrs. Ann Mcguire. 40 years old,
was found starving and suffering from
dropsy in Bloomfield. n. j., Satur.
day.
Governor Taft denies that there was
any disagreement between himself
and General Chaffee in the Philip.
pines.
The Atlantic hotel. the Columbia Of
fee building and n block of stores
were destroyed by fire Friday at Nor.
folk. Va.
John +. Dixon, of Pittsburg. Pa.
was charged with the embezzlement Of
81. 900 from the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company Saturday.
James A. Fruit, Collector OF Inter.
nal Revenue for the Western Penn.
sylvania district. died In Hahnemann
Hospital, Chicago, Friday.
It is reported that the President is
indignant at the House Ways and
Means Committee in seeking to de-
feat reciprocity with Cuba.
Farmers near New Castle. Pa, are
alarmed by an epidemic Of hydropho-
bia, which has broken out among their
stock caused by a mad dog.
Sixteen persons, including five
young women and six girls. were bap
tized in the river. at Rochester, Pa,
by cutting a hole in the ice, Sunday,
becomes the stumbling block in the
way 10 Sttlltllltul DttWttH tHt
| tors and the mine workers.
Weston NJ. KEEPER and Henry Rowe
were hanged at Harrisburg. Tuesday,
| i'm the presence of 1000 people for the
| murder of Cashier Ryan. of Halifax.
Pa.
The Cambria Steel Company has
| decided to move its coke ovens from
Connelsville to Johnstown and to
make other large additions to their
plant.
Howard X. Sloan. who pleaded gull.
| ty to robbing Mabel kearns. alias Ma.
bel Goodrich. at Philadelphia. was
sentenced to seven years and six
months and $500 fine.
Eighty.ive miners were killed by a
dust explosion in Mexico Saturday.
| Seven indictments were found by
the grand jury in investigating bribery
charges in st. Louis.
| The American Poultry Association
at Charleston, S. c., Wednesday elect.
ed DR.. +. ID. Kendall, of Columbia. 3.
| c., president. and reelected T. e. Orr,
of Pittsburg, secretary and treasurer.
Governor Stone Tuesday re-appoint.
ed WlnterS ~ iio"onei, VI mead
Vile, Pa. to the medical examining
board and appointed M. p. Dickinson
of Glen Riddle, in place of Allen IL.
Hulshizer of Philadelphia.
A warrant was issued Wednesday
for the arrest of Ellis Wainwright
millionaire st. Louis brewer, on the
charge of bribing councilmen to pass
traction ordinances; Wainwright is in
Egypt.
The Kaiser's present which Prince
Henry. OF Germany. is to carry to Miss
Roosevelt Is a gold jewel box. embel
lished with a miniature of himself
In enamel. which Is surmounted by
the imperial crown and monogram In
brilliantk