The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-08-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

rolsoIH penltentlary cOnVlCtS again
escape posse after hard fight.
New submarine torpedo boat was
successfully tested at Newport.
Furniture association OF America
asks for change in revenue laws.
Iron and steel imports for year just
closed were the greatest in IL years.
Twenty-Five persons were injured by
collision of street cars at Anderson,
Ind.
Two thousand Binns are coming to
American TO escape Russias persecu-
tion.
Doylestown, Pa. bank fails as a re-
suit OF unwlse speculation by its Of
ficers.
Receiver Smith thinks affairs of
Shipbullding Company will soon be ad-
justed.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Bristow has new lead In postal
investigation.
Lincoln monument In Prospect park,
Lrooklyn, N. ". was damaged by
falling tree.
Negro rowdies broke up a meeting
addressed by Booker washington at
Boston, Mass.
Russia and Japan said to have
reached amicable agreement on Man
churian situation.
Mrs. Helen Martin and Mrs. Il. A
Stevens were burned to death In a ho-
tel fire at Old Orchard. Me.
Over 100 employees of the Pittsburg
(Pa) Railways Company were dis
charged August 1 to curtail expenses.
DR.. G. Won Escherlch, professor of
mathematics, has been made rector
of the University Of Vienna. Austria.
Civil Service Commissioner Proctor
and President Roosevelt discussed the
charges against Bindery Foreman Mil
Ter.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mechthold and her
daughter were found dead In a room
at Baltimore as a result OF asphyxia-
ton.
During a storm near Lynchburg. Va,
Paul Gowan, Charles Custin and Au-
brey Wingfleld were killed by light
ming
Postmaster General Payne has writ
ten from Portland, Me-. saying that he
gust 3.
The joint session of the committee
Of glass manufacturers and the glass
blowers convened at Atlantic City
July 29.
Food products from Europe suspect
ed of being adulterated to be held up
at Philadelphia and New York for ex-
animation.
In shooting ARRAY at Rolla. Mo-,
four persons were shot and two of
them, Perry Andres and ]. w. Mellow
ell, are fatally wounded.
John Galloway. Philippine veteran,
was murdered and companion, Rob-
ert Carroll. was fatally wounded by
two robbers at Rockport, Ky.
w. II. Keech. of Plttsburg, was
elected president of the Furniture AS
sociatlon of America. and also a mem
ber of the board of directors.
Alexander Means and William
Starks. negroes. were legally hanged
at Montgomery, Ala. for the murder
of Fleming Foster another negro.
After having slept for A days, En-
dicott G.. Allen. the extraordinary pa
tlent at the Monmouth Memorial hos
pital in New York, has awakened.
The British tank steamer, Baku
Standard, from Tyne, arrived at Phil
adelphia with hole in her bow as
result of a collision with an iceberg.
The jury in criminal court at
Charleston, w. Va. found Kenna Rus
sell guilty of first degree murder for
the killing Of w. o. Davis, merchant.
Howard K Sanderson, postmaster
OF Lynn, Mass, has autographs of
every signer of the Declaration but
one, that of Button Gwinett, OF Geor-
gia.
The formal opening of Hers Island
dam on the Allegheny river at Pitts
burg was celebrated by the Allegheny
! River Improvement Association July
| 2Sth.
! j. p. Morgan & Co., of New York.
have taken over the Evansville &
Terre Haute railway interests of the
Rock Island at a cost estimated at
81 100000.
Joseph Corso was found dead at Re-
we're, Mass, with five stab wounds in
his body, and Anthony Montanino is
uhuNi AT ShVloti, Sndi6 6tu Will
the killing
+ But for the timely arrival of police
men John Posteoh, Hungarian steel
worker. would have been strung up
by an enraged mob on Wheeling is
land, w. Va.
: Mrs. William Davis, at Thackery,
w. Va. enraged over the thought
that her husband loved Sadie Evans.
shot the Evans girl to death with a
Winchester rifle.
Lawrence Murphy, the accused
treasurer of the stone cutters union,
was convicted at New York of en-
beZzling the unions funds. The jury
was out 20 minutes.
| S. e. Tracy was arrested at Wash
ington, charged with an alleged shrink
age of $4,000 in the funds of the
school board of Houston, Tex, Of
which he was treasurer.
President Joseph M. Riker, of the
Merchants National bank, Newark, N.
j., announces that Edmund ]. Smith,