The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-01-21
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

sail on May Is for Franz Joseph land.
President Roosevelt signed the bill
admitting coal free of duty for one
year
Adam Treadwell was hanged at
Norfolk. Va, for tho murder of his
WIFE
Thirty persons were hurt and engi.
neer killed in bad wreck near Syca.
ere, III.
Governor Hunts message showed
that Porto Rican treasury is in ex-
cellent condition.
Yale university during the year re.
ceived in gifts 1856, ,I23, and has as.
sets of s6.So6,752.
-Four were killed and three injured
by wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio
ut Cumberland. Md.
Pope Leo has planned q scientific
educational movement for the uni
versity at Washington.
The Ohio society Of Now York, gave
dinner, AT which Secretary of State
Hay was the chief guest.
Coal dealers refused to answer
questions of senatorial investigating
committee at Washington.
German cruiser Panther engaged
Venezuelan fort near Maracaibo and
retreated after the fight.
The President nominated Colonel
Edward NJ. Hayes, Thirteenth caval.
ry, to be brigadier general.
A monument 10 Baron Won Ketteler,
who was murdered by Chinese boxers,
was dedicated Ut Pelling.
Another rich gold strike has been re-
ported in Alaska and miners stam.
peded for the new Eldorado.
Editor Gonzales of Columbia, s. c..
was shot down in the street by
Lieutenant Governor Tillman.
Late DR.. Bushrod James left Phia.
deiphia property for an endowment
for free eye and ear hospital.
Myrtle East, aged 20, and Charles
Harris. aged 20. were killed at Nun.
Gle, Ind, by Panhandle express.
The Hon. A. b. Hunter was injured
and his son killed by boiler explos.
ion in Westmoreland county, Pa.
United States Senator George G.
Perkins, California, was elected to
succeed himself by the Legislature.
Officer Jacob Smith was shot and
killed at Pacolet, s. c., by William
Davis. whom he was trying to arrest.
North German Lloyd liner Lain
went ashore in thick weather 10 miles
east OF Gibraltar in the Mediterra.
mean.
George Stone, charged with the
murder Of a negro In Chicago in 1893,
was brought from London to New
York.
The Bryan infrmmy a Pensacola,
Fla, was destroyed by fire and Philip
Bracken a patient, was burned to
death
The second trial of Jas. T.. Wilcox.
for the alleged murder of Nellie Crop
sey, his sweetheart, at Fertford, ".
c., began January 13.
United States Senator Mason for.
his withdrawal from the contest to
be his own successor.
Report on civil war frauds sup.
pressed by President Lincoln turned
up and defeated old army claim in
House of Representatives.
John d. Rockefeller has promised
the Young Mems Christian associa'
ton of Brooklyn 100000 If 1t raises
100000 more during this year.
Thomas Whitman, aged 13 years,
shot and killed at Hopkinsville, KY,
his insane aunt, May Phipps, who
was choking his mother to death.
Official figures show that AHA per.
sons were killed and 33,112 houses
were destroyed by the recent earth.
quake at Andijan, Russian Turkes.
tan.
tives of the coal-carrying railroads
held a conference to discuss the coal
situation in the five boroughs Of New
York.
The steamer st. Louis. long over.
due, reached New York with passen-
gers indignant over slow progress,
shortage of food and water with which
to bathe, delay was due to leaky boil
ers.
The wife of Daniel S. Kidder, Uni.
ted States consul at Algiers, Africa,
streets and robbed of her purse and
jewels.
Lieutenant Mitchell, n graduate of
Annapolis, was an officer on board the
Columbian Government gunboat Bo-
gotta, died at Panama, Columbia, OF
yellow fever.
Fireman Lewis Hahn and James
Graham were so badly injured by tho
explosion of Baltimore and Ohio
freight locomotive at Monrovia, Nd,
that they died.
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.
Sixty Beers, former prisoners of
war, sailed to Natal, South Africa, to
serve in the British army in the
Somaliland campaign. They enlisted
for six months.
The National committee OF the
United Christian party has called n