The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-01-22
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

American gold brick swndlers are
operating in England.
Two or three brand new revolutions
have bobbed up in Venezuela.
An engineer and fireman were
, killed by a collision near Parkersburg,
w. Va.
Diphtheria caused the death OF pros.
pective bride and groom at Ianes'
vile. o.
Several business houses and resi-
dences were destroyed by fire In liar-
risburg Friday.
w. +. Whitehouse Jr., of Newport,
II. l., will explore the unknown Afri-
can country of Sobat.
Beno Iiinterholzer and James Per
son were killed by an explosion of
dynamite at Mackay. Idaho.
| A mining settlement near Washing
ton. Pa. has been quarantined to pre-
vent the spread of smallpox.
A Pittsburg and Western engine ex-
ploded at Broadford Wednesday after
noon; four men were injured.
British transport Montrose arrived
| hJ llhhg liOih SuP' ip"h
with 200 Boer prisoners on board.
Ex-Director of Posts Rathbone. at
the Havana trial, swore that he paid
for livery with public funds at the
postmaster generals suggestion.
Four buildings in the heart Of De.
trolt's business district collapsed and
the goods were destroyed by fire.
The town of Edinboro, 1G miles
south of Erie, Pa, was practically
wiped out by fire Wednesday night
The United States is preparing to
make Bulgaria. and possibly Turkey,
pay for the long Imprisonment of Miss
Stone.
George T.. Smith. father of Congress.
man Walter /. Smith. was killed by
gas in his room at hotel in Council
Bluffs, la.
Ambassadors Reid and Choate
will be the only Americans who will
be assigned seats at King Edwards
coronation.
Expenditures aggregating 100000
600 will be made bd railroads of the
United States this year in physical
improvements,
American Bridge Company officials
and union representatives held a con.
ference in Philadelphia on proposed
increase in wages.
The United States Steel Corpor-
atoms policy of concentrating plants
will be held in allegiance until the ad-
vent of a duller season.
Three hundred persons were killed
and as many more injured by an earth
quake in Mexico, in which churches
and other public building were razed.
Mahoning and Shenango Bessemer
Association made a sale of 10000 tons
of pig iron to the United States Steel
Corporation at $15.75 per ton.
Chief Justice Burford. of Oklahoma
Territory, ordered that If there be
only one colored child of school age
, in a school district the authorities
must provide separate school house
and teacher.
A woman killed two musicians
/. because they refused to play rag.
, time" music and fatally wounded a by
stander at a dance in West Virginia.
Rev. G. F. B. Howard was sentenced
at Detroit to 80 months in the House
of Correction for using the mails to
. obtain money under false pretense.
) William II. Howard, Chicago mana
ger for the Clinton Wire Cloth Com
pany, has been arrested in Denver
on charge of embezzling s4.5OO from
the company.
The Brotherhood of Railway EN-
ployes, in session at San Francisco
I decided to place an organization In
Pittsburg and to establish headquart
t ers at Chicago.
Preparations are being made for the
: first annual reunion of the One Hun
dred and Forty-eighth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers, to be helt
at Bellefonte, Pa. February 10 and 20
. Roy Mason, a Philippine soldier
: reached his home Saturday at Wood
!. hull N. ", in time to prevent the
[ marriage of his sweetheart to another
and weds her himself.
General Frederick Funston. who ar
rived from Manila on sick leave, will
, undergo an operation for the trouble
: that followed the one for appendi
> citis. General Funston is now IL
Oakland. CAL, will come East within
; a few days.