The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-08-19
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

John w. Gates, the Wall street OPP
orator is reported seriously III at Sar.
atoga, N. Y.
A demented man kills three persons
and wounds many more at a band con-
cert in Kansas.
Average condition of corn August
j, as determined by government ex-
perts. was 1871.
Charles NJ. Schwab will not organize
a company to compete with the U. s.
Steel Corporation.
Frank Tilley. of Rising Sun. Ind.
was the twenty-fifth victim of the Wal
lace circus train wreck to die.
Cripple, enticed by Indianapolis
ghouls into a trap, was murdered and
his body sold to dental college.
DR.. Samuel G. Smith, OF st. Paul,
Mimi, declined call to preach in
westminster chapel, London, Eng
land.
Battleship Massachusetts, was dam
aged by ledge of rock in Bar Harbor
while preceding to Long Island
sound.
Timothy Keck, glove manufacturer,
has accused Congressman Littauer of
buying off bidders on government con-
tracts.
Jim" Mccoy shot and killed John
Hancock, five miles south of Ozark,
Mo-, the result of family feud of years
| standing.
Pennsylvania railroad is said to be
| purchasing Reading stock in an effort
to prevent Gould system reaching
tidewater.
President A. w. Thompson, of the
Republic Iron & steel Company, talks
optimistically on outlook in iron and
steel trade.
1t is estimated that 10000 opera.
tiVes IN the textile trade reported for
duty at Philadelphia, August 10, at
various mills.
American fishermen on Lake Erie
will resist seizure of their vessels by
Canadian revue cutter Petrol and sea
fight is expected
Thomas MCGOWAN, of Philadelphia.
was killed in a fight in Montana with
three masked men In q Northern Pa
cific freight car.
James Martin, under sentence Of
|
broke from the county Jail at Butte,
| Mont, was captured.
No word has been had as to the
whereabouts of George II. Evans and
Miss Brown, who disappeared from
Canada Lake, N. Y.
c. p. Perrin, of Knoxville. Tenn,
has bought the large iron furnace for
| merly owned by the Virginia Iron,
Coal and Coke Company.
President Roosevelt and Senators
Aldrlch, Spooner, Plat and Allison
held conference at oyster Bay on pro-
posed financial legislation.
The postal receipts at the 80 leading
Offices during July show gain of al
most per cent. Columbus. o., made
the largest gain, so per cent.
Admiral Cevera, who commanded
the Spanish squadron in the battle of
Santiago, has resigned his cffice as
chief of staff of the Spanish navy.
Word reached Boise. Idaho, that p.
s. Bennett, New York capitalist,
had Leen killed while going into the
Thunder mountain by the upsetting Of
stage.
Miss Maud Espy died at the summer
home of her father, Maj. John Espy,
of St. Paul, Mimi, from eating toad
stools which she had mistaken for
mushrooms.
The International Typographical
| Union changed its constitution by fix
ing the dues at 35 cents a month per
member. Including cents for a special
defense fund.
The effects of the hurricane upon
the Island of Jamaica were greater
than at first believed. Port Antonio,
oil the North coast, was completely
overwhelmed
AS result Of neighborhood feud
at Guthrie, Okla, between farmers,
William Cooper and his sen, James
Cooper. are dead. and Samuel Bar
rett severely wounded.
George Rowley, the defaulting man.
ager of the Elgin Loan Company, who
pleaded guilty to three charges was
sentenced at st. Thomas, Ontario, to
IL years in the penitentiary.
A deal was closed at Saginaw, Mich,
whereby the American Sugar Refining
Company has acquired a one-half in.
terest in the Valley sugar factory,
capitalized at 100000.
The strike riots at Cracow. Austrian
Poland, have resulted, according TO a
Cracow newspaper, in 60 deaths since
August 5, through conflicts between
the strikers and the troops.
The Building Trades Employers as
soclation at New York announced that
the journeymen plumbers and gas fit-
ters had signed the arbitration plan
and would resume work at once.
Miners John Lang and John Mey-
ers were suffocated by smoke follow.
ing the explosion Of box of dyna.
mite at the seventh level OF the Ham
ilton-Chapin mine at Iron Mountain,
Mlch.
f. T.. Johnson, bookleeper for the
Commercial Banking Company, in Jail
at Duluth, Mich, charged with EN-.
bezzling $4,000 from the bank ad,
mits his guilt and the bank will close
its doors.
Edward Dwyer, former Napoleon OF
the Chicago wheat Fit, is a bankrupt
| New York Dolice believe that body