The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-02-04
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

ROAD.
Over score of persons were killed
and from 80 to so injured In wreck In
New Jersey.
Benjamin Gillen and Thomas Girls
man were killed by a train at Dar-
lington, Ind.
United States Minister John @. A.
Leishman returned to his post at Con-
stantinople.
| China and Mexico asked United
States to aid In plan to establish uni
form silver currency system.
Cen. Miles arrived In Paris, France,
from Berlin, Germany and will In
spect the French army system.
The department store Of s. Led.
erer & Co., Chicago, was damaged
to the extent of $4,000 by fire.
| Augustus Hervey, Henry Philips and
George Thomas were killed by a ca
vein at the Gypsy mine, Death Valley,
Cal.
Tin Plate Company at Anderson. Ind.
damaged the boilers and machinery
100000
Miners and operators found them
selves far apart on all questions dis
cussed at opening of conference in In
dianapolis.
The Legislature at Topeka, Kan, In
Joint session elected Chester Long to
succeed William Harris as United
States senator.
Boston's famous sculptor, painter
and musician, Cyrus Cobb, died at the
residence of his son in Allison. Mass,
at the age Of 6S.
The German Reichstag reelected
Count Won Ballestrem as president, he
having resigned because of trouble
with the Socialists.
At joint meeting Of the Swedish.
Norwegian council, Crown Prince Gus
taf assumed the duties Of the regency
of the two kingdoms.
Dr. Thomas Turnbull, Jr., was elect
ed vice president OF the Ayrshire
Cattle Breeders association at the
meeting in New York.
John C. Spooner was reelected to
the United States Senate from Wiscon.
sin by the two houses of the Legisla-
ture In separate session.
John T. McDonough, of Albany, N
Y, has accepted an appointment by
President Roosevelt as justice of the
Philippine Supreme court.
The California Legislature passed
resolutions instructing Senators Per-
klns and Bard to vote against rati
flying the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
Justice Leventritt, of the New Yorl
Supreme court. decided that William
S. Devery must be granted a seat IN
the Tammany executive committee
General Land Commissioner Herr
mann has recommended to the Secre
tary of the Interior the addition oi
8,375,260 acres to the Yellowstone
park.
Murry A. Werner and other Pitts
burgers have secured concession fol
trolley system in st. Petersburg, Rus
sia. involving expenditure of 100000,
900.
Gov. Pennypacker, of Pennsyl
vania, recalled from Senate the ap
pointments of three members Of stat,
pharmaceutical board for future con
sideration.
W. C. Dallas, a travelling salesman
for an oil company of Franklin, Pa.
died at st. Paul, Mimi, from hem
orrhage following the extraction o
two front teeth.
Eleven Chinese smuggled into thu
United States across the Canadian Dor
der are said to be in hiding in Pitts
burg. United States officers ar,
searching for them.
James Golden, an Englishman, wal
stabbed to death in Brooklyn b,
Thomas Lynch in a quarrel over tn,
conviction of Col Arthur Lynch II
London for treason.
The oyster schooner w. H. Smitl
sank near Ocean View, Va. Captain
John Collier and John Young, sea
man, and three negro sailors are be
lieved to have perlshed.
Rear Admiral II. G. Taylor, VIII
commanded the battleship Indian
during the war with Spain, Is to b.
presented with sword by the Indian
Legislature February 23.
A cablegiam from General Davis
dated Manila. reports the death G
First Lieutenant William X. Arm
strong, Twenty-eight infantry, c
Alabama. from smallpox.
The woman suffrage supporters hav
been assured by leading members O
the Kansas Legislature that a bill
? granting the privilege of the ballot vii
, be passed at this session.
An explosion caused two bank o
: ficials to hurry to the bank at Macki
r vile, N. c., where they exchange
. shots with robbers. who secured
? small amount of money and drov
1 off.
). Philip Doblip testified before bril-
j. cry investigating committee that h
: swore falsely in accusing forme
e Congressman Lemuel e. Qnigg of O
D fcring bribe through him TO Rel
resentative Lessler.
Victor Reiche, night engineer, rusl
q ed into a fire in the factory of tn
| Stanley Soap Company, New Yor
) City. to get his clothes and perishet
: The factory and lumber yard in tn
E rear were damaged to the extent {