The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-01-07

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DR.. Edward Everett Hale makes n
special plea for public ownership Of
utilities.
New Orleans reports are that the
Beaumont oil pool in Texas has been
exhausted.
The United States g.eel Corpora
ton filed bricf in Hodge suit at
Trenton. N. J.
Rotschllds are in n new concern
that has organized to fight American
coal combine.
Baltimore e. Ohio employees were
arrested for cutting trolley wire near
Wheeling, w. Va.
Mr.. Justice Shlras. OF the United
States supreme court, will retire dur
Ing the February recess.
An Indiana inventor claims to have
invented an electrical appliance that
Will make the deaf hear.
Vice Admiral Beresford of Eng.
land said Great Britain ought TO fight
for the Monroe doctrine.
Chicago suffered for fuel New
Years day, though 100000 tons Of
coal were In the railroad yards.
Topsy. once famous as baby ele
phant, became man-killer and was
executed at Coney Island, N. Y.
In fleet maneuvers of Culebra is.
land the torpedo flotilla formed flying
wedge and dashed through line Of
fleet.
Conductor on Louisville e. Nash
Vile train was shot by train robber
who secured s25 from Pullman pas
senger.
State department at Washington
received President Castro's accept
ance Of the arbitration proposal De
ccmber 81.
The 10000 employees of the Pressed
steel Car Company are offered an
advantageous opportunity To become
partners In the concern.
An endowment Of $3.50, goo has been
raised for Hamllne university. at
Minneapolis, Mimi. James ]. Hill
contributing a large amount.
The pine line company at Corsi
cana, Tex, posted a bulletin advanc.
Ing crude petroleum Of light grade
from $1.Ol to $1.05 per barrel.
The entire plant Of the Charles
Abresch Company, Milwaukee. car.
riage manufacturers, was destroyed
by fro, entailing loss Of upward of
100000.
The disturbances in the interior OF
China are spreading. Five thousand
troops have been sent to suppress
the disorders in the province of
Che-Kiang.
David Cohen. his wife and their
son. died from asphyxiation in q
tenement house in New York as the
result of the accidental escape Of gas
from a stove.
The building occupied by the
Seventh Day Adventists and the RE
view and Herald" Publishing Com.
pany at Battle Creek, Mich, was
burned loss, s5500oO.
The price OF soft coal In New Yori;
advanced another notch, reaching
$50 wholesale, freightage not in.
cluded. Anthracite averaged $40 a
ton to tho consumer.
Brazil has accepted the invitation
TO participate in the st. Louis OK.
position in 1904, thereby assuring
that all the countries of the western
hemisphere will be representa-.
F. NJ. Atterholt, who has been en-.
Gagged for some time in an attempt
to form n somblnation of the paper
bag and rope paper manufacturers OF
the country, has given up the pro
ject.
Fire in a seven-story building In
Wooster street, New York, occupied
by small factories and printing estab
lishments, did 100000 damage. The
occupants, including many girls, had
narrow escapes
One hundred glass workers, headed
by James J.. Wise. a Muncie OndJ
merchant, are planning to construct
a cooperative window glass factory
The company will have a capital
stock of $4,000 paid up.
A lone highwayman held up the
Calistoga and California Clear Lake
stage on Mt. St. Helena. The ex
press box. thought to contain much
money, was taken and the four pas
sengers were relieved of few dol
lars.
heVleWS Dy eApertS Ol tne copper
development OF Arizona and Michi
gan show that the newer field
threatens to take the place of Michi.
gan as the second producing state.
The Pope is about to issue an en-
cyclical against the practice of duel
ing. He will appeal to all Christian
governments TO suppress the prac
tice. which is described as a survival
of the middle ages.
Judge Anderson, OF the United
States court at Indianapolis, has or,
dered the Chicago and Southwestern
railroad to be sold to satisfy a mort
gage Of s1,000,000 held by the Central
Trust Company of New York.
T. C. White. of Morgantown, w
Va, was elected treasurer of the
American Geological Society, in ses.
sion at Washington, d. C. C. A. Dud.
ley, OF Altoona, Pa, was elected a
chancellor of the American Chemical
Society.