The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

In Jail.
Admiral Higginson, with four bat
tleships. will spend holidays at Trlni
dad, within easy reach of Venezuela
trouble zone
An attorney of Canton, o., sued a
BARRIER for 5000 damages for an mar
tlstic haircut.
The New York board of aldermen
voted $250,000 to buy coal for the
poor of the city.
Sect Bishop, colored, was lynch.
ed at Marbury, Ala, for the murder
| Of Wade Hicks.
Shore connection of Pacific cable
was made at San Francisco and snip
started for Honolulu.
President Roosevelt will attend the
dedication exercises OF the st. Louis
exposition next April.
United States army and navy OIL
| GERS said TO be implicated in SNUG.
Cling goods to Porto Rico.
Dr. Harper announced Christmas
gilt of Sl,000000 from John d. Rocke.
feller to Chicago university.
Five children were killed and their
mother badly hurt by explosion of
acetylene gas at Port Lee, N. J.
Thomas Tobln was convicted in
New York of murder In the first de-
gree for killing James b. Craft.
Interstate commerce commission
has started an inquiry into causes oi
recent increases in freight rates.
Action of Great Britain and Ger
many in shelllng Porto Cabello was
inexplicable to Washington officials.
Italy ordered her minister, Signor
Riva, to leave Caracas, Venezuela,
and go on board the cruiser Giovanni
Rausan.
The name of the Rev. J. +. Regis
Caneyin has gone to the pope for ap.
pointment as coadjutor bishop Of
Plttsburg.
President Roosevelt has signed the
commission of A. B. Anderson as
United States district judge for In.
diana.
The steamer Silvertovn. laying the
telegraph cable from San Francisco
to Honolulu, is making eight knots
an hour.
The steamer Marlay foundered dur
Ing a voyage from Liverpool to Dub.
lin, and IL Is supposed l6 men were
drowned.
Comptroller Ridgely told New York
State Bankers association that the
law makes II too difficult to retire
bank notes.
The United States government has
for the second time used arbltra-
tion upon England and Germany In
Venezuelan dispute.
Albert Lawrence, a postal clerk,
between Buffalo and Plttsburg, was
arrested, charged with embezzling 81
letters and held in $4,000 bail.
Imports of raw silk from Japan,
valued at $5.0O0.000, have passed
| through Ogdensburg, n. Y, coming
from San Francisco by way of Can
ada
Matthias II. Utzler. pleaded guilty
at Hastings, Mich, to numbering
Mrs. Robert Garrison and was sen
fenced to solitary confinement for
| life.
j. ID. O'FIaire. one of the locators
| Creek. Col. has filed suit at Col
| orado Springs to recover $3,000,O0
| frcm the company.
After undergoing repairs In the
| Brcmerton navy yard the battleshin
| Wisconsin, recently returned from
Panama. will follow the Oregon Ia
the Asiatic station.
Louis Stern, note broker, was ar
rested in Chicago, ILL.,. while. it is as
serted, he was attempting to dispose
of alleged forged commercial paper
amounting to $500.
The last steamer from New York
which will reach Europe before
Christmas. the st. Paul, has saile,i
with $460,el5 in money orders pay.
able In II European countries.
Colonel John W. Ella. of Phlladel
phia, delegate 10 the Civil Service
Reform convention and president of
Chicago, died In hospital of paraly.
! sis.
! Beef packers in suit I'm Chicago
deny that the United States has juris.
| dictlon against them under the inter.
state commerce law for discrimina.
tlon In rates or because of com.
bine.
General Manager G. l.. Potter. OF
the Baltimore and Ohio road. an
nounced the appointment of M. l..
I,yers, engineer of maintenance of
way. as assistant 10 the general man
! ager.
City Marshal X. w. Coulter aud
Justice A. Il. Ausgrave. at Farming
ton, Ia, were fatally wounded by Geo,
Stlllwell, a deputy fish commissioner
who was afterward shot to death by
a posse.
Russia is pressing China TO assent
to the establishment OF customs and
postal services at the principal sta
tions of the Manchurian railroad
these stations to be under Russian
supervision and Independent OF the
4 Chinese maritime customs.
Louise X. Eames, claiming to be