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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
RIOTlNG AT THE 500.
Discharged Employees Of Lake Super
ior CompanY Desnerate.

A message from Saut Ste Marie.
Mich. says: Serious rloting began
in the Canadian 500 Monday. An as.
sault upon the Office building by the
mob early before the arrival on the
grounds of the troops, was success
ful, and a mass of frenzled rioters
OF the building, destroying everything
movable that came in their path.
The arrival of the troops on the
grounds. armed with ball cartridges,
served to restore some semblance of
order. The rioters then contented
themselves with throwing stones at
the building and hurling invectives at
the soldiers, who established a dead
line" and prevented any approach to-
ward the building by any of the riot
ers. The greatest number of the mob
are Ignorant foreigners who have been
drinking, although the bars this after
noon finally obeyed the order to close
UP. The man they seem most anxious
to get at is Mr.. Coyne. the assistant
manager. who, in the absence of Mr..
Shields, is in charge of the works.
Mr.. Coyne discfeetly kept out of sight.
The leaders of the mob held a con-
ference and demanded that the COM
pany house the men in their hotel
and boarding house and feed them un-
till the money for their wages Is forth
coming. In order to appease the
crowd this demand was granted, and
the men have taken possession of the
white house" large boarding house
operated by the company.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
PHILIPPINE TRADE.
Exports for Month Of May Show
Large Increase.

Tho returns of Philippine commerce
for May. 1908. about to be published
by the bureau of insular affairs OF the
war department, show the foreign
trade of the islands, aggregating s6,.
S72,9S2, exclusive Of government sup
plies and gold and silver. Importa-
tions amounted to s3.391.655. being
considerably in excess OF the monthly
average as a result of heavy purchas-
es of food stuffs, rice imports alone
approximating nearly s1,750.000 worth.
The outgoing trade for the month of
May included shipments of Philippine
products to the value of S3.4S1, 1927. For
II months ending May 81. 1908, the
total trade amounted TO s60.57G,245.
while for the corresponding period Of
1902, the value was s50,S24.090. The
gain indicated by the foregoing fig-
ures is due to the extraordinary In
crease in exports.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
HANGED TWICE.
street Row Ends In Attempted Lynch.
inu-SeveraI Shot,

At oxford, o., a mob broke open the
jail and took Joseph Spivey to an elm
tree, one square away. on which
Henry Corbin was lynched in 1892.
Spiyey was strung up and let down to
pray. A second time he was strung
up and let down. and while he was
pleading for time to write his wife,
Deputy Sheriff Brennan, and a few as
sistants rushed forward. cut the rope
and dashed down the street with the
prisoner. He was rushed to the Jail
and has been spirited out of town.
John Spivey, his brother. is dying with
bullet through his head. e, V. Jettin.
of Monroe. o., was also fatally wound
ed by the Spiveys. The trouble arose
out of a disturbance created by John
Spivey and Joseph Spivey, who came
over from Kentucky with some friends
and began shooting in the streets Of
Oxford during the progress of fair.
The village marshal, Woodruff, and his
deputy, Jacob Manrod attempted to
arrest them. and were both wounded.
The crowd then pursued the Spivey
brothers with shotguns. The men were
overtaken, after Joseph had been shot
in the right side and John knocked
unconscious with stone. A stranger
who refused to give his name was
shot in the abdomen.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Robert r. West, of Kentucky, has
been appointed auditor for the gov
ernment printing office.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware
has returned from his summer vaca-
ton, which was spent at his Kansas
home.
Positions in the Philippines go beg
ging. Several months ago Col. Ed.
wards, chief of the insular bureau,
called upon the civil service commits.
sion to certify candidates for l5O
teachers positions paying from $500
to $4,000 per annum. There were few
applicants, fewer took the examina.
ton and only ~ were eligible for ap-
polntment
Assistant Secretary of War Oliver
has been appointed on the board for
the promotion Of rife practice in the
United States, IN place of Colonel Will
liam Carey Sanger, resigned. A meet
ing of the board in Washington has
been called for October T.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
NOT SCARED BY THREATS.
Northern Pacific Officials Guard Tracks
Against Dynamters.

The officials of the Northern Pacific
Railway Co. have definitely decided to
refuse the demands of the gang of
unknown dynamlters who threaten to
blow up tracks unless they receive
$4,000 General Manager Cooper
said: 1T Is true that a demand for
$4,000 has been made upon the North
ern Pacific Co. by parties In Montana.
We have taken sufficient precautions
to make the tracks safe The North
ern Pacific has posted reward of
$4,000 for the arrest and capture Of
the dynamiters. The State of Montana
has posted another reward of $4,000,
and Polk county. Mont. has offered
another $500, making a total reward
now of $4,000" General Manager
Cooper believes that the men are pro-
fessional dynamiters. Every mile of
tho tracy through Montana Is being
guarded. The time limit fixed by the
dynamiters' in their ultimatum to the
railroad company expires on Octo-
Der 4.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
UNCLE SANS INCOME AND OUTLAY.
HIGHEST RATIO REACHED IN GOLD
Some Interesting FIgures-Report Of
Treasurer Roberts for the
Last Fiscal Year.

Elhs r. Roberts, Treasurer OF the
United States, las submitted to Sec
Rotary Shaw his report on the condi-
tion of the Treasury June 80, 1908, and
Its operations during the last fiscal
year. The total net revenues for the
year were 560,396.674. an increase Of
s03g, ,9ss.439 over the year preceding,
and the total expenditures s506,099,-
007. an increase of s35,7S2,034. The
surplus was s54,297,667, as compared
with s91 1,2S7,375 In 1902.
In the receipts there was an In
crease of upward of s96,000,O0O from
customs and falling off of over SAL, :
100000 from internal revenue, the lat
ter being the result or legislation en-
acted with that object. On the side
Of the expenditures there was an in
crease In every important account ex-
ceps pensions and interest, In which
there were slight savings. The ex-
pendltures for the two military depart
ments, which together amounted to
s191.237.554. forming by far the heav-
lest outlay for any single purpose,
were upward Of s21.000,000 greater
than the year before.
The aggregate income, including be-
sides the revenues the receipts from
bonds, notes and coin certificates, was
l,211 .394,097 and the aggregate outgo
81, ,641,655. At the close of tLe
year the Treasury held sS93, ,06S,S69 in
gold and silver on deposit against out
standing certificates and Treasury
notes, besides the S15OOO0,oO0 in gold
which forms the reserve against Unit
ed States notes.
Treasurer Roberts places the none
tary stock of the country June 80,
1903, including geld and silver bank
notes, but not certificates, at s2,6SS.-
149.G21, an increase of S124,SS2,963 for
.he year. The increase in gold was
s60.137,401 and in national bank notes
s5G,9e8,559. The total estimated
stock Of gold was s1,252,731 800, con-
stitutlng nearly AZ per cent of the
whole The gold in the Treasury
amounted tc s63i ,420.7S9 after gain
of S71,220.4S0 In IL months. During
the year s126,715,723 in gold was de-
posted at the mints and assay offices.
The increase of the money in circu-
laticn during the year was 1921, ,740,-
252, of which s59,776,462 was in gold
and gold certificates and s54, $50, 1893 In
national bank notes. The share of
money for each person increased SO
cents, and the proportion of gold to
the whole rose to AZ per cent, the
highest ratio ever recorded.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
Produces Refined Oil,

A well which produces naturally re-
fined water white oil has been struck
on the Swartzlander farm, near Karns
City. Pa. The oil came from strata
a short distance above the second
sand and indicates an output of 10 to
IL barrels a day. The oil has been
tested in lamps and burns as well as
the ordinary kerosene, it is said. A
similar well FIVE miles south on the
Smnmerville farm near Chicora has
been pumping. The product of this
well is put up in bottles and sold as
lair restorer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
A Bank TelIer's Tale.

"The Bismarck Quarry Company had
an option on three acres of land be-
longing to Sam Dunseith, good for one
year, the price being $1,000 an acre."
said the bank teller.
Before the expiration of the time
the company offered payment, which
Dunseith refused. He wanted more.
The man could not legally demand it,
but the company, wishing to avoid
lawsuit, asked my opinion in the mat
ter. | suggested payment in one-dollar
bills.
81 obtained a large coin sack, and
counted out the three thousand ones.
Sorting them separately and crumpling
them all up, | thrust them into the
sack, which looked like a bag Of
feathers. The President of the COM
pany, together with a lawyer and a
clerk as witness, proceeded to the
house of Dunseith and again proffered
payment which was again refused.
Walking over to the large table in the
centre Of the room, the president cut
the string and dumped the contents of
the sack in huge pile on the table.
"'Here is your three thousand dol
lars! VIII you take ito
"The farmer was amazed at the pile
of money, more than he lad ever seen
before. He stammered out:
"Tsguess I'll take it.
"In less than three minutes his sig
nature was on deed, witnessed by the
lawyers clerk."-New York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
TIN ORE FOUND.
Hundred.Foot Ledge Discovered North
of Cape Nome.


A 100-foot ledge of tin ore has been
discovered near Lost River, in Cape
York district. north of Cape Nome.
1t ii believed to be the greatest strike
of tin ore known anywhere. Three
hundred pounds of sample rock have
been brought down for shipment to
Pittsburg, together with small bricks
of tin reduced at Nome. Details of
the discovery are given by Joseph IL.
Hutchinson, former Lieutenant Cover
nor of Idaho, who has bonded eight
of II claims. which embrace the ledge
so far uncovered. Hutchinson repre-
sents Eastern capitalists ashociated
with the American Tinplate Company.
Upon his arrival at Teller he met Ar
thur Collier of the Geological Survey,
who informed him Of the discovery of
the tin ledge. which overshadows In
Importance stream tin previously found
through Cape York district. The ore
brought down runs 10 10 Is per cent
in tin, while tin crystals from decom-
posed ore will average 60 to 20 per
cent. Hrtchipson believes other tin
ledges will be found next year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
NON-LlNGUISTiC.
French and British Handicapped by
Indifference.


Among all the nations of the civil
lized world, or at all events Of Europe,
the French have hitherto been the
most perfectly contented with abso-
lutte ignorance of the spoken Ian
guages Of neighboring communities.
Our own country is sufficiently back
ward in this regard, but there is
marked shade of difference between
the Indifference of English people to
the tongues of other closely connected
and kindred nationalities and the at
titude Of mind assumed in similar re-
lations of the immense majority OF
Frenchmen. The latter are proud OF
the refinement of their language as
an instrument for conveying thought.
The incapacity of the average Eng
lishman to express himself in any Ian
guage save his own is due partly to
lack of Imagination, partly to a half
conscious belief that everything which
Is worth saying at all can be said in
English fully as well as in any other
tongue. and. very largely because the
absence OF confidence in his mastery
of any other idiom or accent makes
him shy and indisposed, as he would
say, to make an exhibition of him
self"
On this side of the Channel a rude
awakening at once in the sphere of
commerce and in that of war has
spread the opinion that we cannot af-
ford to remain any longer intrenched
behind the ramoarts of an exaggerat-
ed insularity. There is a widespread
feeling that. unless we arouse our
selves in this as in other things, we
shall enter upon some momentous con-
flict some day with even less knowl-
edge of our opponents than was dis
played In the case of the Transvaal
war, and that the rivalry Of our COM
petitors In trade Is rendered more
formidable by the fact that they are
better informed than we are of the
prevailing ideas in foreign markets,
q result largely due to their superior
skill in the use of foreign languages.
The French, 1t would seem, are
also becoming aware that they are
suffering from disabilities not very diff
ferent in kind. though less serious in
degree. since their commercial rela-
tions with the external world are not
comparable with ours. Still 1t Is OBJ
vious that France can no more afford
than any of her neighbors to be han
dicapped by imperfect opportunities
OF intercourse with the sur. ounding
countries. Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
REVIEW OF TRADE.
steel still In Demand-Hush Of PIG
Iron Orders-Car Short
age Continues.

r. @. Dun & Co.'S weekly Review
of Trade" says Aside from the reduc.
toin In blast furnace activity, manufac-
turing plants are more fully engaged
and several encouraging reports are
received, particularly as to footwear.
Wholesale and jobblng trade is well
maintained, many cities reporting a
larger volume than last year, and bus
mess at Chicago is stimulated by the
multitude attending the centennial.
Latest returns of foreign commerce
at this port are favorable, exports In.
creasing. while imports decrease as
compared with the same week last
year. Railway earnings thus far avail.
able for September exceed those OF
1902 by S.4 per cent and surpass earn.
ings of 1901 by 1913 per cent. II Is
practically certain that reduction of
zig iron output will be made, averag-
ing about 20 per cent, and this con-
certed action to prevent accumulation
of stocks has already had senti-
mental effect on the market, inquiries
increasing In number and extent OF
tonnage. Urgent requests for lmmedi-
ate shipments of new orders testify
to the pressing needs Of consumers
who have allowed supplies 60 fall
very low In anticipation of better
terms. Revival of activity at Clarion
and elsew here is encouraging evidence
of the fact that steel Is still required.
and in several developments of the In
iustry new business has appeared.
The week has brought few changes
In quotations. Car shortage has begun
to cause trouble, but the diminished
needs of HAST furnaces relieve the
situation at Cornellsville, where the
coke output has been moderately cur
tailed The dr. goods market presents
10 new features. Leather is fairly
steady. except that betting butts are
fully cents below the extreme prices
secured a few months ago. Record
breaking receipts of cattle naturally
depress prices, although foreign dry
hides are steady. Failures this week
in the United States number 226,
against 232 last week, 219 the preced-
ing week and 207 the corresponding
week last year. and in Canada 10,
against 10 last week, 10 the preced-
ing week and 23 last year.
Failures during the nine months of
1908 were 1,17G in number, with as.
sets of s5},109,2S5 and liabilities OF
slO1 .G55.S55. AS to number there ap-
pears a mcst encouraging decrease OF
exactly 500. as compared with the cor.
responding months last year, when the
aggregate was S,676, but liabilities
this year have been very much heav.
Ter than the sS5,407,40 reported a
year ago.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
Two Good Highlanders.

During the Crimean war a Scotch Of
ficer was appointed to command a regi-
ment of recruits In Glasgow, Scotland,
and, being Highlander, took a vote
of the regiment to determine whether
the men favored the adoption of the
Highland costume, says the Philadel-
Dhia Ledger.
In due time the regimental orderly
appeared before the colonel with the
result of the vote.
"Well, orderly" said he, "how many
Of the men favored the adoption of the
Highland plaids?"
"Only two. SIR"
"Only two! Well, am glad have at
least two good Highlanders in my regi-
ment. Who are they?"
Corporal Flaherty and Private Null
ligan. SIR"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
TEN LIVES CRUSHED our BY TRAINS.
MANY OTHERS INJURED.
Crowd Of Merrymakers Near PhlIadel-
phla Thrown by Express
Under Accommodation.

Five persons were killed and a
score of others were injured in a col
lision between the Wisconsin Central
Nimited passenger train and a Forty
third avenue street car at Fafty-sec-
ond avenue Chicago The street car
was crowded with passengers return.
ing from the Harlem race track and
every man in the car was injured.
The motorman had received the sig
nal to cross and had Just reached the
center of the tracks when the pas
senger train crashed into his car.
None Of the passengers had time to
escape. The dead are: f. Roberts,
body crushed, killed instantly; Will
liam Griffin, Kansas City, helper at
Hawthorne track. skull fractured Jo-
seph Butler, colored, skull fractured
and body crushed; J. Williams, jock
ey. who rode second horse in last
race at Harlem, body crushed and
skull fractured; James Gallagher, of
Elmira, N Y. died on way to hos
pital.
Four persons were killed outright
and five or six others were seriously
injured by an express train at Sharon
Hill station on the PHILADELPHIA Bal
timore & Washington branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad. The dead are:
David Farran Sc years old. Sharon
Hill David Farran, Jr., 12 years old,
a grandson of Farran; James Brown
Is years old, Philadelphia; Jane Clark
sister-in-law of David Farran, Sharon
Hill.
The injured: Thomas Brown, aged
Is years; Martha j. Farran, aged 81
years; Miss Clara Osgood. aged 40
years, OF Sharon Hill. Those who
were injured were hastily loaded onto
an accommodation train and sent to
the hospital Miss Farran, daughter
of David FaTan, is believed TO be ia
tally hurt. The accident followed a
gay family reunion at the home of Da-
vid Farran. The merrymakers were
on their way back to Philadelphia,
and the Sharon Hill contingent of the
family acc companied the guests to the
train. They carried horns, phono-
graphs and other toys, which were
scattered about the track and station
platform
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

L. r. Wilmer was electrocuted III
Niagara Falls by grasping live wire.
Oberlin college has received a gift
Of $4,000. The name of the donor is
withheld
There are 800 Chinese students In
the colleges of japan and 500 more
are to be sent
Five prisoners escaped from the
Columbia county Jail at Hudson, N. Y.
Four are ex-convlcts. A saw made out
OF a table knife was used to cut away
the bars.
Four men were killed at Marion,
Ind, when an Interurban car ran into
a construction train on the Chicago,
Cincinnati and Louisville railroad.
Curtis Jett, sentenced to be hanged
December 18, for the assassination of
James Cockrell. at Jackson, KY, has
been taken to Louisville Jail for sa,e
keeping.
The arrival OF the Gear in Vienna
was not marked by the same popular
enthusiasm as was shown during the
visits of King Edward ana Emperor
William.
Since the United States mail wagon
drivers of New York City have formed
their organization their wages have
been increased to so per cent and their
working time reduced one hour.
Burton II. Parker, of Detroit was
appointed supervising special agent of
the treasury department, succeeding
w. S. Chance, of Canton, o., who has
Dpnu fra ncfnrrn1 10 CT Paul
Fitzsimmons and Gardner were
matched to fight at The Yosemite Club
the latter part of November for the
title held by Gardner. The contest
will be for 20 rounds at 16S pounds
Twelve hundred schools in Porto
Rico opened Monday, and sixty thous-
and pupils were received Three
times that number of children were
enrolled and the struggle for prefer
ence was very great.
EEgineman Frank Parker, of Chat
tanooga, was killed and seven other
tralnmen were badly injured. two ia
tally, In a wreck caused by Cincinnati
Southern passenger train No. s run
ming into a COW at Glen Mary, Tenn.
ht VI tlt
ish War Veterans Association at New
Haven, Conn.,, was welcomed by Gov
ernor Chamberlain and a parade of
1000 soldiers in blue and gray marked
the opening day.
Gen. Ballington Booth and his wife,
Maud d. Booth, of New York, COM
manders-in-chief of the Volunteers of
America, will attend the eight an
nual meeting of the Field Council of
the Army, which will be held In Pitts
burg, October 25 to 80 inclusive.
Rev. Truman Il. Allen. pastor of the
Thirteenth Avenue Methodist Church,
Minneapolis, was stricken with apo
plexy Just as he finished what he
thought might be his last sermon to
the congregation In three hours he
was dead. Rev. Mr.. Allen was born
in Vermont, SO years ago.
The Empire steel and Iron Com
pany, which operates two furnaces in
Allentown, Pa, and four at Catasau-
qua, and the Thomas Iron Company,
which operates four stacks at Hoken-
daqua and two at Alburtis, posted no
tices of 10 per cent cut in wages.
The reduction affects 900 men.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
THE WORKING WORLD.

A Central Trades Council has been
formed at Hoquiam, Wash.
Blast furnace workers of the United
States will demand an eight-hour day
on May l. 1904.
Furniture workers a. Grand Rapids,
Mich, have demanded a nine-hour day,
with ten-hours' Jay.
United Garment Workers of Ameri-
ca has increased in membership from
5000 to 10000 in IL years.
Steamftters at Atlanta, Ca. are on
strike to enforce their demand for an
Increase of 80 cents a day. They now
receive So.
Labor organizations throughout the
country have unanimously petitioner
President Roosevelt to appoint Will
liam S. Waudby, of Rochester, N. Y,
to the position of Commissioner of
Labor.
A settlement of the strike in the
building trades at Albany. N. Y. is In
sight. The strike has been on over
two months.
Painters at Washington. d. c., will
demand an increase in wages from SO
a day to $3.50.
Master printers of Providence. r. l.,
have rejected the wage increase pre-
sented by the Typographical Union,
and the journeymen In turn rejected
proposition from the employers as
not being satisfactory.
Heroic efforts are being made by the
trades and labor unions OF the South
to eliminate child and female labor.
The latest move made by the unions is
to practically adopt the children EN-
ployed In the mills.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
pEARLs u THO Uonr.
Wrong has no vested rights.
Character rests upon choice.
Sin aoMa the aead of snrrnu.

Wrong has no vested rights.
Character rests upon choice.
Sin sows the seed Of sorrow.
Character is never born full grown.
The hope of immortal life is the life
Of mortal hope.
The only way to make the best of Q
bad thing is to abolish 1t.
Spirituality without morality IL .
mere whistle without works.
Greater the motherhood Of the era
die than the monarch Of the king.
There Is a difference between the de-
serving poor and the deservedly poor.
The trouble with nutshell wisdom is
that 1t is easier to get in than to take
out.
He who expects to win the worlds
applause while he puriies its way had
better look for other business.
Some men pray in the morning for
the death Of their passions and then
spend the day In feeding them.-Ram's
Horn.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-07
CABLE NOTES.

Sir Michael Herbert. the British am
bass ador to the United States, died at
Davos.P Platz, Switzerland.
The negotiations in the Philippine
islands between the Vatican and the
United States government regarding
the sale of the land held by the friars
and the removal OF the native monks
from the islands have been called
off by Plus X.
The city council OF Dusseldorf.
Rheuish Prussia. appropriated $751;
geo for its exhibit at the st. Louis
exposition.
A sanguinary encounter between the
police and striking car men took place
in Budapest. Revolvers were used ON
both sides and many persons were
wounded. several mortally.