The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-04-08
LkiE,T NEWS NOTES.


No action regarding bridge work
ers' strike will be taken by President
Roosevelt
II Is officially announced that King
Edward and Queen Alexandra will
visit Ireland in July or August of this
year.
Conductor Henry Cook was killed
In 2 train collision on the New York
Central railroad, near Amsterdam. N.
Y.
Gen. W II. Jackson, the noted Con-
iedorate officer and owner OF Belle
Meade stock farm died at Nashville,
Tenn.
John Wanamcher sold the rights
and title Of Everybodys Magazine TO
the Ridgway-Thayer Company of New
York.
District OF Columbia commission
ors adopted = regulation imposing n
fine Of 81 for cXpectorating on tho
sidewalks.
Frnak Morrison secretary Of the
Federation OF I.abcr. declared that the
total membership of that organization
is 100000.
Rev. Gamuol Mcpherson. former
rector Of 81. Johns Episcopal church.
Boston. las embraced the Roman
Catholic faith.
The Home Of the Marist Brothers. n
Catholic benevolent institution at St.
Hyacinth. Quebec, was burned to the
ground. Damage $4,000.
Vincent Beehm lost his life in a
fire in New York. which damaged the
upper floors Of the building at 400
East Twenty-fourth street.
Five hundred tanners. the majority
Of them being employees OF the Amer
icen Hide eud Leather Company, at
Chicago struck for higher wages.
Sir Liaag Ghcng Tung Chong, the
now CA,nese minister TO the United
States, left san Francisco March 80
FOR Washington on O special train.
Mrs. Edith whitney. wife Of Will
liam c. Whitney. OF New York. whose
death occurred on May 6, 1899, leaves
personal property Vailed az s243.C00.
Tie grand jury at Hamilton. o.. re-
ported indictments for murder in the
first Gcsfcc against Alfred \. Knapp
and Samuel Kecler, for wife murder
A tornado passed over the vicinity
Of CCrmcrc Va. doing srcat CANA 5e,
'eyoling buildings. fences and forests
FOR distance of over a mile. no loss
OF life reported.
In o collision on the New York.
New Haven apl Hartford railroad at
South Brooklyn, Engineer Chapman
and Fireman Newman were killed and
1G were injured.
DR. Hunter. ex-minister to Guate.aa-
IA. renewed his charges against J. J.
McNally, of Pittsburg, now consul at
Leige, Belgium. but Secretary Hay re-
fused to consider them.
Comptroller Grout, of New York.
has recommended that Mayor Low dis
miss Fire Commissioner Sturgis for
alleged violation of the city charter
in awarding contracts.
Illness will prevent Miss Helen
Could from attending the worlds fair
dedication ceremonies in St. Louis
April 80 She had planned to SO to
st, Louis with a party OF guests.
The attorneys for former Mayer
Ames at Minneapolis. Mimi. have with
drawn all The pleas OF not guilty TO all
the indictments against him and filed
notice Of a motion 10 quash each one
Tho total amount 10 date of three
and four per cent bonds offered to
the treasury department in EXCHANGE
for two per cent consols, under ito
secreiaTy's recent announcement is
S77S2.0C0.
Walter S. V. Cooke former select
man and treasurer Of the Milford
(MassD Cooperative bank was ar
raignod on charge of embezzlemept
Of $4,000 from the bank. and held in
$2O000 bail.
The New York board of aldermen
adopted a resolution indorsing and
urglng the immediate passage of the
legislative bill to permit the city to
contruct and operate municipal
lighting plant.
Charles NJ. Schwab. president of the
United States Steel Corporation. was
relieved of a personal tax assessment
of S500.000 at New York upon his dec
laration that his legal residence was
in Pennsylvania.
The Henry James Ten Eyck prize
for oratcry at Yale College was award
ed to William Pickeens. Of Arkansas,
a neSTo, member Of the junior academ-
&c class. The prize is the income of
$500 given annually.
Five persons were slightly injured.
four being railroaders and one a pas
scngcr. G. Earl MattheNson of Akron.
o.. in a collision between an east
bound Baltimore & Ohio limited and
freight, in South Chicago.
About 20,00O carpenters. plumbers.
masons and other mechanics en-
ployed in the building trades between
the New York city line and Hartford,
Conn. are out on a strike for 90
per cent advance in wages.
Eighteen men were arrested at Wa
terbury, Conn.,, on the charge of as
sault with intent to kill by the 20
lice in their efforts to discover the au-
thors of some of the outbreaks of VIC.
lence which have occurred since the
beginning of the strike of motormen