The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-05-06
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Banks were wrecked and many kill
ed by dynamite in Bulgaria.
Rain marred the reception to Presi.
| dent Roosevelt in Des Moines, la.
Icy winds chilled guests at dedica-
ton of st. Louis worlds fair grounds.
Russian foreign Office issued state
ment OF their position in Manchurian
matter.
Three hundred persons were killed
In the anti-Jewish riots at Kischenef.
Russia
Martha Lawrence. a 19-year-old girl.
was murdered at farm house near
Laporte. Ind.
j. p. Morgan paid last dividend to
United State Steel Corporation flota-
tion syndicate
Safe crackers and citizens had
running fight near st. Louis and the
burglars escaped.
Stated Clerk Rev. DR.. w. II. Roberts
announced that two.thirds of the pres
Dyteries had voted for revision.
President Loree of the Baltimore e
ohio railroad announced important
changes in officials of the company.
The Wabash and Texas Pacific fled
with the Interstate Commerce Commits
Sion reasons for raising freight rates.
Deputy Game Warden d. d. Spafford.
of Cadillac. Mich. shot and killed
Christ Mclean. who had speared him.
Forest fires threaten the destruction
of Onaway, Mich. The lumber camps
near the city were surrounded by the
flames.
The German reichstag was finally
adjourned by Emperor William, and
the campaign foT the next relchstag
has begun.
SiX members of the French commits
sion to the St Louis Exposition ar
rived at New York on the steamer La
Gascogne.
Hartwel Stafford. Of Brooklynville.
Mass. fired three bullets into Stillman
Bishop, who had threatened dlsposse5s
proceedings
A Catholic missionary in Shan Tung.
China, says that n new sect. similar
to the Boxers, has assumed. enormous
proportions.
5. II. Guggenheim has given $780,
OUO and James Loeb S25.C10 to the
country sanitarium OF the Montenore
Home. New York.
A thousand houses In the town of
Marquina, Philippine islands. were de.
s;royol by fire believed to have been
started by insurgents.
The syndicate that promoted the big
steel combine was dissolved. the men,
bers receiving their final dividends, the
total profits being 200 per cent.
Russia is increasing her naval force
In Far Eastern waters. Japanese ad-
vices state that the Russian fleet will
soon be composed of AZ vessels.
Great Britain has withdrawn her con-
tention that the question of paying the
venezuelan blockade expenses should
be submitted to The Hague tribunal.
Gen. Baden.Powell in an interview
declared that tho British cavalry Is
superior to the American, He thinks
we live too well ind that we lack ply.
sique.
New York experts are surveying the
city of Richmond. Va, with a view of
finding a wy to stop the destruction of
the city's water and gas pipes by ele1-
trolysis.
Several rustic summer houses and
a large portion of the woods near the
mansion on William X. Vanderbilt's
estate of Idle Hour, Long Island, we're
destroyed by fire.
Seven Boston Italians asked for pro.
lection against the Malta. by which
they had been ordered to cuntribnte
to the defense fund of the New York
barrel murder case.
Port of the Brighton abatloir. near
Boston, was burned. causing a loss of
S150,000. of which 100000 falls upon
the Learned & Bird Company manu-
facturers of oleomargarine oils.
In an engagement between British
force commanded by Major Cough with
the, nativces near Danop. Somaliland,
l3 Of the British. including two officers.
and 200 of the natives were killed.
Mr.. Irving NJ. Scott, vice president
and general manager of the Union
Iron Works, San Francisco. the build
er of the famous battleship Oregon,
died at his home in San Francisco
The lower house of the Wisconsin
Legislature passed, by a vote of 60 to !
27. a resolution calling for constitu-
tlonal convention to provide for elec-
tion OF United States Senators by d.
rect vote.
The United States Court at Buffalo.
N. Y, refused the injunction asked |
for by the Chicago Board of Trade
to prevent the Buffalo Consolidated |
Stock exchange from using the quota
tions of the Chicago board.
The Macedonian Committee has in
formed the American missionaries |
that they need not fear being levied |
upon. as they regard the ransom of |
Miss Stone as an American contribu- |
ton to the revolutionary fund.
Two hundred Fllipinos were killed In
the operations of pacifying the rebel. !
llous Filipinos in Rial. Bulacan and |
Cavite Provinces, Luzon, Philippines.
The conditions in Albay are unsatls.
factory.
Secretary Cranborne stated in the
House Of Commons, England. that ne
gotiations were still proceeding at