The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-04-02
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Textile unions OF Lowell, Mass,
have been refused an advance in
wages.
Paul Dana. of New York, may sue
coed George Won l.. Meyer, as Ambassa'
dor to Italy.
During a heavy storm Sunday the
steamer Belle McGowan was cap
sized in the Ohio river.
Atlantic steamship lines have
agreed on a slight increase in saloon
passenger rates after April r
Mississippi, Alabama and other gulf
States suffered incalculabe damage
from high rivers and heavy storms
f. j. Armstead shot and killed
Mary Hansen, colored. in Montgome-
ry, Ala, and then committed suicide.
Lowell, Mass, mill owners closed
their mills because of a threatened
strike, 10000 operatives we're locked
out.
James r. Garfield a son of the late
President Garfield, has accepted the
position of Civil Service Commits
sioner.
w. II. Wallace, sleeping car por-
ter, was lynched at La Junta, Col. for
an assault upon an aged woman pas
senger.
The French Chamber of Deputies
voted 100000 for the fine arts and
manufacturers exhibit at the st. Louis
Exposition.
Bill permitting the retirement Of pre-
| ferred stock of the United States Steel
Corporation amended in the New Jer-
sey Senate.
The Lower House of the Iowa Legis.
lature passed resolution favoring the
election of United States Senators by
popular vote.
Mrs. Green Older was murdered at
her home at SaXton. KY, eight miles
north of Jellico, by an unknown man.
who escaped.
Mrs. Mary Hively fell into pan of
boiling water during an attack OF
epilepsy at Warsaw, Ind, and was
scalded to death.
Rear Admiral Endicott, Chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks. will ask
Congress for s1,000,000 for new dry
dock in the Philippines.
Rock Island Railroad Company has
decided to spend $2,0OO,00O in the
building of 10 new trains for the Chi
cago to California service.
William Welch, of Claremont, N
H.. celebrated the one hundred and
second anniversary of his birth al
Boston, Mass, Saturday.
A train having on board President
A. j. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, made the run from Philadel
phia, 81 miles. in n minutes.
Samuel Flower, former Paying Tellel
of the Hibernia National Bank of New
Orleans, was sentenced to five years
in prison for stealing $4,000.
Three men were killed and severa
people injured in a head-on collision
at Sag bridge, ILL.,, between two carr
of the Joliet & Chicago Electric Rail
road.
The joint convention at Terr
Haute, Ind. OF miners and operator
for the Eleventh district signed tn
scale submitted by the scale commit
tee.
The United States is importin
J every day more than $1.000,000 Il
manufactured material and eXportin
( more than $1,000,000 in finishe
: goods.
A compulsory industrial arbitration
court has been established at Sydney
N. S. w. The membership include
representatives OF employe ers and en-
5 ployes.
Only two dozen pieces of mail wer
saved from the three tons of posta
! matter carried on the train of tn
. Southern Road, wrecked near Cha
a lottesville, Va.
: A corpse found in the river at Saul
: Ste Marie. Mich. was identified a
| that Of ]. V. NJ. King, former Episct
Il nal minister, who had been depose
I for dissipation.
l. Noriel, the only Filipino insurger
j. General, with the exception OF Ma
var, still in the field, has been cal
tured by Lieutenant Frank e. Ban
ford. of the Twenty-eighth Infantry
The findings Of the court-marti;
q at st. Paul, Minn., in the case {
q Sergeant Major Charles F. William
!. of Company F, Fourteenth Infantr
1 have been approved by General Oti
e Archbishop Feehan has issued
s letter to Chicago priests, stating thi
n all who are guilty of aiding, In an
manner, Rev. jeremiah ]. Crowle
will be suspended from the Cathol
Church.
Vt The State of New Jersey will los
r an annual revenue of $12.500 by re
l. son of the passage by the Legislatul
. last week OF the bill permitting Il
., United States Steel Corporation
= convert its preferred stock into bond
m The schooner G. @. Cramer. Ca
m tain Bragg. was swamped Of Cal
Hatteras light Friday