The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-03-25
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

uinner 10 u thousand poor Ut tne VAT
lean.
Argument was closed in the Wa
bash injunction case and decision re
served.
The Marietta and GAINESVILLE Rail
way Company was Incorporated at Do
| yer, Del.
International syndicate proposed to
lend s50.000.0O0 to Venezuela to pay
| her debts.
Missouri supreme court fined five
big beef packers $4,000 each for en-
| tering combine.
Senator Money. in the U. s. Senate.
| assailed the President for making ne
gro appointments.
ID. 7. Watson spoke in behalf OF
government in Northern Securities
case in st. Louis.
Miss Clara Barton Is to retire as the
active head of the American National
Red Cross Society.
U. S. secret service has made elab'
crate preparations to protect the Pres
ident OIL his western trip.
| Government Is in readiness to be-
gin work on Isthmian canal as soon as
Colombia ratifies the treaty.
Government asks same application OF
injunction law in merger case as rail-
roads use against employees.
| w. 8. Devery, known as the "iBg
Chief" likely to be Independent can
didate for mayor Of New York.
Baron Won Sternberg, German min
lister to the United States. was harsh
ly criticised in the German reichstag.
The navigation season on Lake
Michigan has been opened by the
steamers 500 City and Alice Stanord
lingo. the largest elephant In cap
tivity. died on board the steamship
Georgia while en- route to New YORK
Crank with club was arrested in cor.
ridors of capitol at Washington while
seeking interview with the President
Charles ]. Bonaparte. the Baltimore
lawyer, has been honored with the
Laetare medal by Notre Dame univer'
sity.
The letter in which Pennell Is said
to have threatened to kill Burdick was
found in Burdick's home at Buffalo
N. Y.
Secretary Shaw in an address urged
upon New Orleans board of trade need
of American ships to carry American
goods.
Comptroller tracewell approved
claim of w. II. Andrews for expenses
while working for passage OF state.
hood bill.
President Ramsey said wabash in
junction prevented strike that would
have put the anthracite trouble in the
background.
Grand jury report on battle between
posse and mob at Stamford, w. Va,
in which five men were killed, exon
Grated the officers.
United States Commissioner Alex
ander refused bail for Whitaker
Wright, the English promoter, pend
ing his examination.
The empress dowager has ordered
an appropriation of 100000 taels to be
made for the Chinese representation
at the st. Louis exposition.
Attorneys for defense in merger
case at st. Louis. Mo-, declared evil
dence showed that combination help
ed rather than retard trade.
There were no deaths from the
plague and no new cases March 23 at
Mazatlan, Mexico. The plague has
also been checked at villa Union.
Raymond Croceroft, Ralph Oaks
Charles Oaks. Peter Terry and Luther
Berry, to years old, at Chant, |. T.,
were drowned by raft capsizing.
Gen. Schuyler. Hamilton, a classmate
of Gen. Grant at West Point and a
distinguished veteran of the Mexican
and Civil wars, died at New York in
his SD year.
Panhandle coal operators refuse to
accept the scale adopted at the
Wheeling (W. Va.) sub-district con.
ference and state that they will op'
, pose II to the last.
Four men are missing, rs horses
were suffocated and $500, 900 property
loss resulted from an explosion fol
lowed by fire in Dominion No. / col
, liery at Glace Bay, G. B.
The Rev. Joseph Hunter, late chap
/ lain of the Tenth Pennsylvania volun
teers, who has been stationed at SaI
Francisco for year, received orders
to report at Manila June !.
: Former Mayor A. A. Ames, at Min
neapolis. Mimi, pleaded not guilty tc
all seven indictments against him
charging bribery, conspiracy and eX
tortion. Bail was fixed at $4,000.
After a long debate the Philadel
phia Methodist Episcopal conference
/. sustained the management Of the
Tract Society of the church agains
charges of unbusinesslike methods.
: Official announcement was made o
: the organization of the National AS
! ISOLATION of Manufacturers and Erec
I tors of Structural Steel and Irol
4 Work. with headquarters in New York
. A fire in the big shoe factory of NJ
c. Griffin, at East Pepperell, Mass.
q destroyed the factory and a score o
:. other buildings, including stores anC
dwelling houses. entailing loss es
timated at 100000.
Lizardo Garcia, manager of tn,