The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-12-09
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

The schooner Emeraltl from Fair
| haven, for Toronto, with n cargo of
coal, has been given up as lost.
In dispute over . cents a Chicago
restaurant keeper killed Marcus Shee-
han. an elevated railway guide.
Mrs. Annie Ginter, of Blaine City
Pa, killed one of four men who were
trying to break into her house.
The will OF former Governor F. M.
Drake, of Iowa, admitted to probate,
leaves $4,000 to Drake university and
the rest of his fortune to his six chill
dren.
The Spanish ministry resigned as
the outcome of difficulty encountered
in getting the budget voted in the
face of the Republican policy of OBJ
struction.
The decrease in value of imports at
| New York for November of upward of
$7OOO,000 is an index of the favorable
tendency of our foreign trade in its
bearing on the money situation.
The reports of snowstorms in Great
Britain, Germany and Belgium show
that winter has set in early on the
upon this side.
Discoveries of forged documents are
said to have been made in the Drey-
fus case and there seems to be pros
pect that he will have full justice
done to him.
The Wabash has determined upon
the installation of long tele-
phones all along the line of the sys-
TEN. Every Office on the system will
be connected with this service.
The Rev. DR.. David Gregg. Of the
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church. Brooklyn, has accepted the
presidency of the Western Theologi-
cal Seminary Allegheny.
Emperor William has withdrawn his
offer OF a cup for a transatlantic
yacht race in 1904. on account of his
health. and has substituted for it the
offer of cup to be raced for in 1905.
The discharge of $50 men at the
mines of the Cleveland Cliffs Com
pany at lshpeming. Mich, was be-
cause of slackened demand for iron
ore and the enormous stock piles ac-
cumulated.
Judge Wickersham gave his opin
Ion confirming the title of the Alaska
Copper Company to the undisputed
ownership of the Bonanza mines near
Valdes, the key to the copper rail
way situation.
Lord Mayor Harrington, Of Dublin.
gave a luncheon at the Mansion
House in honor of william Jennings
Bryan. The guests included Arch
bishop Walsh. John Redmond and
John Dillon.
verdict of guilty was returned in
the case of Alderman John B. Bren-
nan, of Chicago, and his two political
friends, Charles McCarle and Herbert
f. Kent, who have been on trial for
violations of the election laws during
the judicial election last June.
Preliminary returns to the chief
of the Bureau of Statistics of the De-
partment of, Agriculture indicate that
the actual growth of cotton in the
United States in the year 10000 will
amount to 9,962 ,039 bales of an aver
age net weight of 490S pounds.
A wreck train and freight train on
the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley
railroad collided at North Bend. o.
Conductor E. b. Polling was killed,
Engineer Martin Dittmar fatally in
jured, and two others less seriously
hurt.
II. NJ. S. Flora went on the rocks
near Village Point, b. c., during a
dense fog, and it is believed the big
cruiser. valued at s1,250.O00, will be
total loss. No lives were lost, but
the officers and crew had to leave the
ship without securing any of their
valuables.
According to an official report pub
lished by the Ministry of Agriculture,
tire Argentine production this year
will be as follows: Wheat 3,726,000
tons and linseed $4,000 tons. There
will remain for expectation 2,766.000
tons of wheat and $4,000 tons of
linseed.
The special train of President Burt,
of the Union Pacific railway, arrived
in Omaha, on its return trip from the
Lucien dedication, making the 1000
miles from Ogden in "a hours. and
beating the time of the Union Pa
cific limited for that distance by 4h
hours.
President Harper. Of the University
of Chicago, has warned the students
against typhoid fever epidemic.
Several cases have developed in the
last few days. and the authorities
have begun rigid efforts to stamp out
the disease.
The United States Shipbuilding
Company failed in its efforts to re-
4 move the receiver appointed by Judge
Kirkpatrick in the circuit court for
the insolvent concern. Judge Ache
son In an opinion handed down in the
United States Circuit court of appeals
affirms the decision of the lower
court.