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

Arthur II. Dingley, son of the late
congressman Dingley, of Maine, died
| In Denver.
William Scallay Whitwell, the miss
ing Harvard student, has been found
in Texas.
A steamer rammed an excursion
boat filed with Londoners, and six
persons were drowned.
Fire at Nashville. Tenn, destroyed
| Timothy Bros department store and
several other buildings.
Attempt of the National authorities
of the walters union in Chicago to
cut out the men there failed.
The postofIlce at Cape May Court
House. ~ j.. was robbed of money and
stamps amounting to $4,000.
Frederick r. Coudert. the famous
New York lawyer, is seriously i'll at
his home on Cove Neck, L. |.
Anderson Finch. colored, was legal
ly hanged at Richmond, Va, for an
attempted assault on Mrs. G. A. Gerg.
han.
A special meeting of the Southeast
ern Railways Land and Industrial
Agents Association was held at Buff
falo.
A threshing engine working on a
farm near Geneva, ILL.,. blew up, killing
John Stevens, farm hand, from West
| Virginia.
Duncan Swan. farmer residing
north of Otsego. Mich, accidentally
shot his daughter Mary. She died
from the wound.
AloysEus Cavanaugh, of Washing
ton Grove, Md. shot and killed NJ. II.
Quincy, his business partner. He was
mentally deranged.
Operators in the Indiana block coal
field announced an advance of 25
cents ton on all coal free on board
cars at Brazil, Ind
Sister Mary Leonldas, of Syracuse,
N. Y, the possessor of a rare voice.
will go to the leper colony in the Sand
wich Islands to sing.
Wax impressions have been taken of
the hands and feet of Mrs. Aurora
Hodge, to be used in the Ryan muir
der trial at Salt Lake.
Engineer II. w. Lucas was killed and
Fireman ]. w. Stafford fatally scald-
Winston Salem, N. G.
Daniel Minthorn, aged 80, a we'll
known inventor and geologist. died at
Watertown, N. Y. He was the first
to grind iron ore into paint.
Assistant States Attorney of Chi
cago was sent to Jail for contempt for
advising police officials contrary to
Judge Cavanaugh's ruling.
Deputy Sheriff Louis j. Cook. of
Baldwin, l.. l., shot and killed one bur-
glar, probably fatally wounded a Sec
ond and captured two others.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie are
passengers on the White Star Line
steamer Celtic, which sailed from Liv-
erpool for New York September 4.
stephen b. Roath, of Norwich, Ct,
second David Harum, is engaged in
distributing a fortune among his rela-
tives as a diversion in his old age
Good authorities are of the opin-
ion that the production of Wagner's
sacred opera "Parsifal" in the
United States cannot be prevented.
One woman was killed and two per-
sons were fatally injured by an ex-
plosion in building used for the man.
ufacture of fireworks at Maspeth, l.. |.
At Ligonier, Md, Mrs. William Bill
man, Mrs. Ollie Peters and Blandhe
Gill were run down and killed by
fast train while walking on the tracks.
L. A. Planving, principal of the
Pointe Coupee Industrial College for
Negroes, was shot and killed by un-
known persons at New Roads, La.
A meeting of the directors of the
Independent Glass company was held
at Columbus, o., and prices of glass
for the coming year were discussed.
In the North avenue Milwaukee sew
er r. ]. Hickey, contractor; Superin-
tendent Schunke, of the city water de-
partment, and a negro, were asphyx-
lated.
The Schweizer club Saengerbund, of
Chicago, was awarded first prize in the
fourth saengerfest of the Swiss-Ameri-
can Saengerbund OF the Central
States.
Sherman p. Mcpherson has been ap-
pointed United States attorney for the
Southern district of Ohio, at Cincin-
natl, succeeding w. e. Bundy, de-
ceased.
The secret service announces a new
counterfeit $40 National bank note on
the Mechanics National bank, of New
Bedford, Mass. The series is of 1882.
check letter b, charter No. TAB.
Action is expected at any time on
the evidence which has geen presented
to the Grand Jury regarding the acts
of a former postal Official both during
his term of Office and subsequent legal
practice.
Judge Belden, of Hamilton, O., re-
fused a new trial for Alfred A. Knapp,
confessed murderer of two of his
wives and three other victims. De-
cember 12 has been fixed for the date
of execution.
Secretary Of War Root, ex-Secretary
of state Foster, Hannis Taylor and
Judge John M. Dickinson arrived at
Liverpool for the meetings of the
Alaskan Boundary Commission to be
held in London.
OF the IL suspects arrested by the