The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-02-25
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


| cent.
w. b. Hays, candidate of Citizens
party, was elected Recorder of Pitts
burg. Pa.
East joined west February 1G In Sc
we're storm that became general all
over country.
r. j. Arnold & Co.'S string Of horses
mysteriously disappeared from San
Francisco
Eight persons were killed as result
| of explosion in magazine cane factory
| In Fostoria, o.
Government is asked to buy four
dams on the Little Kanawha river in
West Virginia.
Judge Grosscup, of Chicago. decided
every point in combination charge
| against beef packers.
The British gunboat Horrler has cap
tured In the Red sea three Arab pirate
ships and their crews.
New low temperature records for
the winter were made at many points
In the west February IT.
Frank A. Lapham, we'll known In
heart disease in New York.
Attorney General Knox cabled for
NAL acceptance of Panama Canal Com
pany's offer to sell for $40,000,O00.
Steel corporation made contract to
supply eight blast furnaces with coke
In return for which they agreed to sell
their entire product to the combine.
Jennie E. McLelland, one Of the vic
Tins of the Newark IN. J) trolley dis
aster, died, making the ninth death.
Baltimore & Ohio railroad has de-
cided to build new line over the Allie
ghany mountains at cost of $2O,OOO,OOV.
Minister Powell informed govern
ment of Santo Domingo that Ameri-
can claims cannot be longer delayed.
Justice shiras, of the United States
Supreme Court. sent his resignation
to President. to take effect February
"a.
President Roosevelt has extended for
six months from March 2. 1908, the life
of the Spanish treaty claim commits
sion.
Senator-Elect Smoot. en- route to
Washington from Utah, said he ex.
pected cordial welcome in Washing
ton.
George Bruce Cortelyou took the
oath of Office as secretary of the new
department of commerce and labor,
February IS.
The Standard Oil Company declared
a dividend of $40 per share, payable
March Is. $40 more than the last divi-
dend declared.
Ten thousand cloakmakers have
gained advances in New York. The
20 to 40 per cent.
The police at Chicago raided the
office Of J. G. Rose & Co.. one OF the
turf investment frauds. but found only
a few worthless papers.
Minister Bowen for Venezuela and
Secretary Hay signed protocol arraDg-
ing for settlement of United States
claims against Venezuela.
Two hundred and two patients with
the plague have been admitted to the
lazarette at Mazatian. Mex. since It
was established. and 121 have died.
Chevalier Karl Scherzer. the we'll
known traveller, died at Vienna, Aus
tria. He was the author OF several
books Of travels in the United States.
Sherman M. Bell. member Of
Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the
Spanish-American war. was appointed
adjutant general Of the Colorado Ma
tional Guard.
The Chicago and Minneapolis pas
senger train on the Illinois Central
railroad collided head on with freight
train at Galena, Ill. Three persons
are known to be dead.
The North Atlantic squadron Is
working out an elaborate system of
drills devised by the general board
of the navy and will next undertake
three months OF gun practice.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
abolished the middle division of the
pension bureau, and created q new
division, to be known as the army
division, to take effect March /.
Burglars entered the Cathedral of
st. Isaac at st. Petersburg, Russia.
and stole three diamonds valued at
$4,000, which they took from the
frame of a picture of the Saviour.
Clarence S. Darrow, OF Chicago, was
sworn In as a member of the Illinois
House of Representatives. Mr. Darrow
was elected to the House last Novem-
her as public ownership representa-
tive.
Chancellor Won Buelow sent to the
Reichstag in Berlin. Germany, state.
ment from the imperial health office.
showing that out of 1000 deaths in
Germany of persons between the ages
of is and 60, 316 died of tuberculo.
sis. Persons under Is and over 60
are seldom affected.
DR.. William F. Brooks, director OF
Smith observatory, and professor of
astronomy in Hobart college, Geneva.
N. Y, has been awarded the comet
medal of the Astronomical Society
of the Pacific for the discovery of his
twenty-third comet.
Queen Wilhelmina. Of the Neither
lands, may be requested by the Wash
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