The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-03-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

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secrecy by the brigands who held her
captive.
Jerome Wheeler. inventor of the
Wheeler engine, dropped dead in the
street at Worcester Mass.
1t is announced that Governor Mer-
riam will be appointed Director OF the
Permanent Census Bureau.
Ten sailors were rescued off Savan-
ma after three days of suffering as
their vessel was breaking up.
John Queen. the wellknown Minis.
trel. is dead at st. Vincent's Hospital,
New York, from consumption.
Lulu Watts. variety actress.
killed John Kirk at Nome, Alaska, by
severing his head with razor.
The Railway Steel Spring Company.
with an authorized capital of 100000
600, was incorporated at Trenton. n. ].
Prince Henry was wonderfully i'm.
pressed with his visit to the Lookout
Mountain-Missionary Ridge battle.
field
The Maryland House of Delegates
passed the bill to appropriate $4,000
for a bronze bust of Rear Admiral
Schley.
Prince Henry. of Prussia, Wis
| tied the naval academy at Annapolis,
Friday. and met the cadets under in
struction there.
Admiral Sampson has been named
on a commission to examine into the
matter of acquisition of naval arma-
ments in England.
Forest +. Russell, a member of the
"A Runaway Girl" Company. injured
In wreck near Decatur. Ind, died
| at Kalamazoo, Mich.
The officials of the beet sugar trust
| called on the President Saturday, urg-
| ing legislation to protect sugar men
from Cuban competition.
The Minnesota Legislature appro.
priatcd $4,000 to employ counsel to
fight the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific Railroad merger.
The officers of the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern were entertained at a
smoker by the members of the Union
League Club. at New York.
The grand jury in the New York
Central tunnel disaster found an in
dictment for manslaughter against
John NJ. Wisker, the engineer.
Unknown robbers entered the home
of County Superintendent of Schools
Farrel, at Clinton, Ia, chloroformed
James +. Farrell and his sister.
Philip Gerst ex.City Treasurer of
Buffalo. was arraigned on 13 indict-
ments charging larceny of s55,924, and
was released on $4,000 bonds.
Chicago dentist was found guilty of
murder because he failed to keep an
alleged agreement with married wo-
man to commit suicide with her.
The steamboat T. II. Bacon. en-
ploded her boiler in the Tennessee
river, killing Engineer Estil Hudgins
and fatally injuring Robert Bird, a
passenger.
The transports Hancock and Rose.
Grams have arrived at San Francisco
from Manila with 1913 returning SOL
diers. including many of the Twenty
second Infantry.
The series of festivities to celebrate
the centenary of the birth of Victor
Hugo. which will last four days, open
ed Wednesday with grand ceremony
within the Pantheon. under the aus
pices of the government in Paris,
France.
General Horace Porter, United
States ambassador to France. will de-
liver the Grafton at the Centennial an.
niversary of the West Point military
academy. June -.
Henry ]. Baker and Louis ]. Eek
hert. former employees in the City
Treasurer's Office at Buffalo. n. Y.
were arrested for larceny of public
funds and pleaded not guilty.
A south-bound passenger train on
the Columbus branch of the Southern
Railway went through a trestle in.o
a creek at Zetella, Ga. Friday. killing
four persons. and injuring many more
Bills to permit the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to tunnel beneath
the North and East rivers and the
borough of Manhattan. N. Y, passed
the Senate and Assembly at Albany
n. Y.
A man accused of having stoler
$50, 900 from a benevolent society ol
| Jassy. Roumania. was arrested on the
Hamburg American line steamship
PENNSYLVANIA upon the arrival of that
vessel at New York.
II. r. Fuller, legislative representa-
tive of the railway employees organiza
ton. was heard by the House Commit
tee on Commerce in favor of extending
the laws on safety appliances so as tc
cover locomotives and tenders.
Major Micah jenkins refuses to ac
cept sword at Charleston, S. c., un
der proviso made by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Tillman. In asking the Presi
dent to withdraw his acceptance o.
invitation to make the presentation
r speech.
The steamship Neckar, of the Nortf
German Lloyd line. with her propeller
: disabled, was conveyed into Halifax
N. S., harbor by the steamer Karls
ruhe, OF the same line. and the steam
er Matinhead. The Neckar and tn,
Karlsruhe are from Bremen, for New
, York. with a combined passenger lis
Of $500 people.