The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-08-12
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Eleven miners burned by explosion
of powder at Monongah, w. Va.
American pilgrims composed first
audience received by new pope.
British and French parliamentary
leaders agreed upon peace treaty.
Charles NJ. Schwab continues to pur-
chase big blocks of steel stock.
Chautauqua speaker who defended
saloonkeepers offended the w. c. T. U.
General Miles friends are urging him
TO run for Commander of the G.. A. r.
twenty-five persons were injured by
a collision of street cars at Anderson,
Ind
Increased bank loans considered new
evidence of national commercial pros
perlty
Westinghouse Company secured n
Sl,O0O,OOO contract from Canadian
company.
Twenty-ninth anniversary of opening
OF the Chautauqua assembly observed
August A..
Mount Vesuvius again threatens an
eruption; lava has began pouring down
its sides.
Mysterious decline in the market
price of United States Steel shares
continues.
Ofhclal order for Gen. Miles retire
ment was issued August by the
President.
Petty officers on receiving ship re-
fuse to eat with newly appointed ne
gro officer
Cardinal Gibbons rejoiced at sight OF
American flags in st. Peters cathedral,
Rome. Italy.
Lincoln monument in Prospect park.
Brooklyn. N. Y, was damaged by a
falling tree.
President Roosevelt declined to see
Mother Jones and discuss the child la
Dor question.
Attorney general of Chic entered
suit to oust National Glass Company
of Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie gave s2,5G0,000 in
steel corporation bonds to town of his
birth in Scotland.
Albert Seavis. negro, and Frank
Case, escaped Folsom convicts, were
captured near Davisville, Cal.
Joseph Saxton. aged 73. the last SUR
viving uncle. of Mrs. Mckinley. died at
Canton, o., of cerebrum anemia.
American Confederation of Catholic
Societies in session at Atlantic City
pledged its loyalty to the new pope.
The citizens of Honolulu are de-
termined to do all within their power
to promote immigration to the island.
Samuel Parks, the walking dele
gate, was found guilty of assault and
battery in the third degree at New
York.
Two stock exchange firms were
forced to the wall in New York as q
result of enormous shrinkage in stock
values.
J. p. Hall, professor of Greek at
McAlester college, Minneapolis, Mimi,
resigned to become instructor in
Princeton. I"
Congressman Littauer announces
that he considers Secretary Roots
finding in glove contract vindication
of his honesty.
knights of Labor are endeavoring
to break the building trades tie-up in
New York by furnishing men for
strikers places.
Pearce Thaxton. Of Millersburg, KY.
20 years old, was suffocated in a ho.
tel room at Atlantic City, having ap-
parently blown out the gas.
Alexander Means and William
Starks, negroes, were legally hanged
at Montgomery, Ala, for the murder
OF Fleming Foster. another negro.
William Hudson and william Jones,
negroes, having been convicted on
charges of highway robbery, were
executed in the county Jail at Birming-
ham, Ala.
Fire destroyed the store of former
State Senator ]. w. G. Havens. at
Point Pleasant. n. j.. containing a val.
liable collection of antiquities. Loss
100000.
Unofficial estimates of the net earn.
ings of the Steel Corporation for tho
month of July give $12,20O,OO0 as the
maximum, which is sl59,00O greater
than July, 1902.
The National Association of Window
Trimmers of America, elected Eugene
ii. Hyman. of Nashville, Tenn, official
editor, and chose Dayton, O., for the
next convention.
William Hamilton self-confessed
murderer of Mabel Richards. 13 years
old was taken from jail at Asolin,
Wash. by mob OF 1000 and hanged
to a telegraph pole.
An agreement has practically been
concluded between Russia and Korea,
whereby Russia acquires 200 acres of
land at Yongampho, on the Yalu river,
on 99-year lease.
The steam barge Colonial, of the Gil
christ fleet. loaded with iron ore for
Ohio points. sprang a leak and was
beached about four miles from False
Presque isle, Michigan.
A national relief organization, with
branches in every city and town in the
United States. with branch No. l in
her native town of oxford, Mass. Is
proposed by Miss Clara Barton. found
er and president of the Red Cross.
Rev. George C. Houghton, of "The
Little Church Around the Corner"