The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-10-15
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The Grown Prince Of Siam landed
in New York


Secretary Shaw says we must adopt
metric system OF weights and meas
| ures.
Production of coal per man EN-
ployed has steadily increased for II
years.
Building statistics show that ce
ment is crowding on heels OF steel az
building material.
Cuba is growing Indifferent to Uncle
Sam, and neglects to approve the
! treaty OF friendship.
Trainer Dyer was rescued from o
vicious lioness in st. Louis by the
use of redhot irons.
The main object of the Prince OF
Siam to this country is to complete
his political education.
General Thomas j. Stewart. OF
Philadelphia, was elected commander
in-chief of the G.. A. r..
Morgan and Yerkes. rivals for un
derground railway franchises in Lon
don, England. may combine.
Thirty corpses, supposed to have
come from Indianapolis, were fount
In cold storage in st. Louis.
Indiana undertakers are accused o
burying empty collins and selling bod
les to colleges for subjects.
Captain Alfred Fuller, Of the Secont
United States cavalry, died of typhoid
fever at the Chicago hospital.
Four men were killed and ST.,
wounded In Eldorado, Ark, as result
of feud growing out of love story.
The new forest commission is TAX
Ing action to preserve the historic
John Brown house at North Elba
N. Y.
Carroll d. Wright. United State.
commissioner of labor, will retire
from office when his term expires In
1904.
The transport America sailed from
Hamilton. Bermuda. for Cape Town,
Africa, with 1,025 released Boer pris.
| oners.
The National Board of Steam Navi
cation held its thirty first annual con.
vention in Cincinnati with rs mem
bers present.
According to the St James Gazette
London. England, Cardiff firm has
booked a single American order for
$4,000 tons of steam coal.
Miss Agnes McPhee, the young
woman who was assaulted near the
Cambridge-Somerset line, died at the
Cambridge. Mass, hospital.
Admiral Casey, at Panama, is try
Ing to arrange a meeting OF General
Salazar, government commander, and
General Herrera. insurgent leader.
Fred w. Mckee, a Pittsburg law
yer, has sued the Chautauqua assem-
bly,. charging mismanagement and
asking combination OF all branches
The entire body Of the Louisiana
militia has been assembled In New
Orleans in anticipation OF trouble
with the striking traction car work
ers.
John Corbett, Elliott Ashman and
Milan Morgan, boys, are supposed tC
have been drowned I'm Traverse Bay
Mich. as their empty boat has beer
found.
The Miners Federation, in confer
encc at Southport, England, adopted
resolution urging the naturalization
Of land, mines, minerals and rail
roads.
President Mitchell positively de
clined President Roosevelt's recon-
mendation that the miners return Il
work pending an investigation OF theil
grievances.
Governor Nash, OF Ohio, pardonet
Mrs. F. l.. Taylor and daughter, al
legged kidnapers Of the Taylor chile
rescued in Italy. His reason is doub,
Of their guilt.
The Sultan of Bacolod. Mindanao
Philippine Islands, has rejected
friendly American overtures with tn,
curt note: "Cease sending letters
what we want il war;"
Canada's minister Of militia statet
In Boston that Canada and Grea
Britain have agreed to subsidize
new line of fast steamers between
Halifax and Liverpool.
At the renewed strike conference II
New York Governor Odell demanded
that the operators recognize the min
ers' union and advance wages. TIL,
operators bluntly refused, and the
conferences are at an end.
janitor's unsuccessful attempt Il
remove large Confederate flag from
the stage Of Carnegie hall. Newark
KY. almost caused a riot with the
Daughters Of the Confederacy.
The convention OF the colored Odt
Fellows, In session I'm New Haven
Conn.,. elected ]. McIenry Jones. O
Wheeling. grand master and decided
to meet in Columbus. O., in 1904.
Secretary Wilson, of the United
Mine Workers, says that the bitumin
Gus miners throughout the countr,
would not be called on strike in sym
pathy with the anthracite miners.
William J. Reid, alias l.. o. Hoff
man, pleaded guilty to larceny from
Cooley's hotel and the Massachusett;
house, at Springfield, Mass, was finet
81. 200 and sentenced to jail for fou,
years.
The committee appointed by Secre
tary Shaw to pass upon the characte,
and sufiiciency OF State and municipal
bonds for public deposits have re
ceived about &4.OOO.O0O of thes,