The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-02-11
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

ment of the Philippines.
The death of the former Boer com.
madant, General Prinsloo is announced
at Cape Town, South Africa.
AT meeting Of the Biscuit & Crack
er Manufacturers association, George
s. Ward was chosen treasurer
Fifty-six members OF the United
Lumber Dealers association arrived
In New York from trip to Cuba.
A bill providing for the executing OF
criminals by electrocution was intro
duced in the House at Springfield, ILL.,
Mobs attacked street cars at South
Bend, Ind. being run by non-unionists'
and caused suspension Of operations
Minister Bowen offered three
months preferential time to allied
powers as limit of Venezuelan conces-
sions.
Thomas b. Reed and Jerome Hulet,
each SO years old. were found frozen
to death in cornfleld at Mt. Rose.
N. j.
President Roosevelt refused to pass
upon claim of allies to preferential
treatment in claims against Vene-
Zuela
Lewis Kare, arrested at Buffalo for
the murder of his daughter, confessed
that he beat her brains out with
hammer.
crowd attacked a bus at Water
bury. Conn. run by strikers and sew
eral persons were hurt. Strikers bad
ly beat soldier.
p. w. Wexford and Palmer Keller
were instantly killed and l.. e. Payne
fatally injured Mt Roanoke, Va, while
thawing dynamite.
Lewis Well, aged 46, New York
broker, died of heart disease while in
rolling chair on the board walk at
Atlantic City, N. ].
President and Mrs Roosevelt gave
their annual reception to Congress at
Washington. Colonel and Mrs. Myron
7. Herrick were present.
Masked men at Mt. Gileao. KY,
bound John Ferrow and wife and rob-
bed them of S.. Being refused more.
they wounded Fe-row fatally.
The power house of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at the Waldo avenue
yards. in Jersey City, N. j., was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
Amelia Sach and Annie Walters,
baby farmers" were hanged at Hal
loway Jail. London. They showed re-
markable nerve on the scaffold.
According to the physicians bulle-
tins, ex-Secretary of the Navy John
ID. Long, at Boston, Mass, is making
a steady but slow improvement.
Receipts of cattle at Chicago, Kan
sas City, st. Louis, st. Joseph and
Omaha in 1902 were 7.7lO.559 head,
compared with 7,243,469 In 1901.
The strike situation at Waterbury,
Conn. has quieted down, but two COM
panies of militia will be held here
until definite settlement is affected.
Angelo Spinozzole was held in $50
bail at Altoona. Pa, by United States
Commissioner James II. Craig for pro-
curing naturalization papers by fraud
Mrs. Annie Peterson, Of West Ches-
ter, jumped from rapidly moving
street car at Sixty-third and Market
street. Philadelphia, and was Instant
ly killed.
Jordon Watkins was probably fatal
ly injured and william Taylor and
Charles Watson were seriously injur-
ed in dynamite explosion at Cumber-
land, Md
| Judge Wright, vice governor of the
Philippines, left for his home in Mem
phis. preparatory to his return to Ma
nila. He expects to start from San
Francisco about March 10.
| James F. Shirra, OF Pittsburg, was
sentenced at New Orleans, La, to $50
days in prison, accused Of forgery and
| embezzlement from the Home Coop
erative Building Company.
Four men who robbed the First Ma
tional bank at Cambridge, ILL.,, of $lO,-
900, were tracked through the snow
to barn and arrested In their hid
ing place under the hay.
The British government has revoked
the proclamation issued last year,
placing 13 districts in Ireland under
martial law, and comforting summary
Jurisdiction on magistrates.
George H. Daniels, general passen-
ger agent of the New York Central
denied that the Central contemplates
the withdrawal of its 20-hour train be.
tween New York and Chicago.
A carboy of nitric acid exploded in
a fire at the Schwab Stamp and Seal
Company. Milwaukee, Wis. the fumes
killing Captain Andrew White and in,
juring four men Of the fire depart
ment.
The New York banking house OF
Brown Bros. of San Francisco, Cal. has
closed the contract with the under
writing syndicate. furnishing the $27,
100000 consolidation of San Francisco
street railways.
In the Girard yards of the Erie
railroad, Youngstown, o., Timothy
Mahoney and John Lewis, stepped In
front of switching engine. Mahoney
was decapitated while the right leg OF
Lewis was cut off.
The Austrian Industrial association
has reported against participating IL
the st. Louis exposition because o.
the cost and because the United