The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-01-14
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

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$4,000.
Ambassador Won Holeben, Of Ger.
many. sailed from New York for
| home.
One man was killed and one Is
missing as result of wreck on Big
Four railroad.
Daniel II. Hastings, ex-governor OF
Pennsylvania, died at Rellefontc
Pa. January ..
John Matthews and Charles Brad.
Held were killed by a gas explosion at
Marshalltown, la.
Treasury statistics show large In
crease In domestic trade for IL
months of 1902.
Ernest Davis, colored, was hanged
at Manchester, Va, tor the murder
OF John II. Stokes.
A score OF lives we're lost In Aus
tria In the foods resulting from the
breaking up Of the Ice.
William b. Chic, of Toledo, shot
and killed his wife at Awrion, Mich,
and committed suicide.
Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswold, D.
d., OF Hudson, was consecrated Bpls.
| copal bishop of Salona, Kan.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, rep.
| resentative of Germany, will rank as
ambassador at Washington.
Uncle Sam employs nearly seventy.
| five hundred women In the various
departments at Washington.
Student at the Annapolis naval
| academy suffered broken jaw while
being hazed by upper classmen.
County authorities at Cleveland
who broke up local coal trust are
now after the wholesale druggists.
Another violent earthquake oc.
Cured at AndJan, Russian Turke.
stan, but there was no loss Of life.
| President Roosevelt will appoint
iteV Dr. Lyons, colored preacher
Oh Baltimore, as minister to Liberia
The steamer Plelades, which sailed
from Seattle, Wash, on December a,
for Yokohama, Japan, is 13 days over.
due.
Benjamin II. Ferguson, president
OF the Springfield Marine bank. at
Springfield, ILL.,, dropped dead in his
o'llce.
The sultan of Achim, Sumatra, has
rendered his submission TO the
Dutch, after being in rebellion 20
| years.
The consolidated tobacco trust
unanimously voted to increase the
capital stock from s30000,000 to s40,.
000. 900.
Western Union Telegraph Com
pany asked an injunction to prevent
the Panhandle railroad from ousting
| its wires.
Citizens of Arcola, ILL.,, seized an
| Illinois coal train, confscating the
coal but keeping strict account to
pay for it.
The colonial Curzon house at New.
buryport, Mass. which has furnished
a subject for many artists, was burn
ed to the ground.
Tho torpedo boat destroyer Law
renee showed speed of over 2G
knots an hour in her trial trip on
Massachusetts bay.
Miss Evelyn Burden, of New York,
daughter of l. Townsend Burden, was
badly burned while taking a vapoI
Mrs. Catherine Thompson, who
claimed to be niece of George
| Washington died in destitute circum
stances in Waukegan, III.
| In his annual message to the Con.
necticut Legislature Governor Cham.
berlain recommended publicity In the
transactions of corporations.
Joe Smith. suspected of being the
| bandit who singlehanded robbed
the North Coast limited two months
ago, in Montana, was captured.
The plant of the Commercial Trav.
elers & Farmers National Food Com.
pany at Battle Creek. Mich, burned.
Loss SIS 900; insurance $4,000.
The beard of trade and transpor
tation of New York adopted a reso,
luton for enlarging the Erie canal to
accommodate thousand-ton barge.
The Illinois court of appeals decij.
ed that the men who operated a cor.
ner cannot enforce contracts based
upon the fictitious prices that en-.
sued.
Henry Yeutsey told the story of the
plot which resulted in the killing OF
Goebel before the grand jury at
Frankfort, KY, but It was not made
public.
United States detectives arrested
w. S. Brown in New York. who is
charged with securing many thou
sands by fraud through the United
States mails.
Heavy snowstorms prevailed east
of the Mississippi river, and freezing
weather extended over Kentucky and
Tennessee and the southern half Of
| the cotton belt.
Attorney Shortridge, of the de.
fense, in the Tingley-Times libel
suit ct San Diego, Cal, declared the
same right to exist to print as to
think and speak.
President Roosevelt agreed to pre-.
pare for sending to King Edward VII
the first formal message by wireless
telegraphy across the Atlantic from
the United States.
The Treasury department has or
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