The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-05-27
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
President Roosevelt was given en-.
thuslastic reception in Oregon.

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several buildings and injured two per.
SONS
Eight apartment houses In New
York were burned. causing a loss of
100000
Philadelphia school directors.
charged with conspiracy deny courts
jurisdiction.
Investigation of postal scandal re-
vealcd large deficit In appropriation
for free delivery.
A railroad will be established
through the Holy Land by the Otto
man government.
The Masonic temple at Bay City.
Mich. was destroyed by fire, causing
loss of 100000.
Two persons were killed and eight
injured by an explosion in a powder
mill In Madrid. Spain.
over 1900 machinists and members
of kindred unions In St Louis struck
for an Increase In wages.
Six hundred slot machines seized
by the police of Philadelphia were
burned on the City Hall plaza.
Pearl and Edna Gill. aged 3 and s
years, respectively, were burned to
death In a fire at Merrill. Mich.
Report from Vienna. Austria, says
the revolt In Croatia is spreading and
threatens to extend to Dalmatia.
Colonel Taylor. with constabulary
force. defeated several bands of IA
natics In the interior Of Cebu Islands.
The American Stogle Company filed
Mt Trenton, N. j., articles increasing
its capital stock from $4,000 to s11,-
$4,000.
The strike of the trainmen and
switchmen of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad has been declared off by
agreement
Fire destroyed the mill and build
lngs of the Lead Mining Company.
near Canyon City. Col, causing a
$4,000 loss.
Waldbrldge Taft, a nephew of Gov
ernor Taft, and another Yale student
were fined in New Haven for assault.
They appealed.
The plant of the Kenton tO) Toy
Manufacturing Company. burned. Loss
100000; insurance $4,000. Incendlar-
ism Is suspected.
The Waterous engine works at st.
Paul. Mimi, were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $4,000 partially COW
cred by insurance.
The commission of FIVE cardinals ap-
pointed to deal with Philippine affairs
Is now preparing nominations for bsh-
ops for the islands.
General w. e. Donaldson former
attorney general of Tennessee shot
and killed Thomas Choatte, farmer
residing in Marion county. Tenn.
The grand jury which has been in
vestigating the municipal conditions
of Colorado Springs has made serious
charges against important officials.
Rev. Henry Storey. a Baptist min
lister at Richmond, Mich, was burned
to death and his wife fatally injured
by fire which destroyed their home.
Williams & Rehling, of Richmond,
Va, were successful bidders for the
contract for 100000 pounds of Vir.
gina tobacco for the French govern
ment.
The distribution Of the new bonds
of the United State Steel Corporation
was begun through j. p. Morgan G.
Co.. managers for the underwriting
syndicate.
Statistics compiled by President T.
G. Power. of the Montana State Board
of Sheep Commissioners, place the to-
tai number of sheep lost in the recent
blizzard at 100000.
Thomas Phillips, Frank Bishop and
Fred p. Watts, members of the old
board of county commissioners of
Arapahoe county. Col. were found
guilty of malfeasance.
BY the collapse of bulkhead in a
coal scow at New Haven, Conn, four
shovelers were buried under an ava
lanche of coal. One man was killed
ana three others injured.
The U. S. Treasury department re-
ceived telegram from National Bank
Examiner Perkins announcing the
closing of the Southport National
Bank of Southport, Conn.
Masked robbers broke into the house
of Mrs. Marie Durando. at White
Plains, N. Y, and after beating the
woman nearly to death, stole SS45,
which she had strapped to her body.
Hon. Robert NJ. McLane was inaug-
urated mayor of Baltimore, Md, and
announced the appointment of Mr.
Harry w. Rodgers as his private sec.
retary and Mr.. James ]. McGrath as
city messenger and detective.
President Roosevelt, in a telegram
to Senator Hanna, has signified his ac.
ceptance of an invitation to attend the
wedding of Miss Ruth Hanna and Jo-
seph Medill Mccormick, of Chicago,
which will be solemnized in Cleveland,
O., June 10.
Leland Door Kent, convicted at
Rochester, n. ", of manslaughter in
the first degree. was sentenced to 20
years Imprisonment in Auburn prison.
Kent was convicted of having encour-
aged and assisted Ethel Blanche Din
gle to commit suicide.
The conviction of Messrs. Dorr and
| O'Brien. respectively the proprietor
and editor of Freedom, on the charge
of libeling Benito Legarda, a native
member of the Philippine commission,