The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-27
TELEoRApHIc sREVITIEs.

The net earnings of Southern Rail-
way for November decreased S4.31S.
Germany will rush troops TO the
scene of the revolt in German South
Africa.
The gross earnings of Wabash for
the second week in January increased
$4,000.
Additional United States warships
and marines will be sent to Chemulpo,
Korea.
The Japanese reply to Russia's last
note is not believed to improve the
prospects for peace.
Edward X. lands, a noted chemist
of Philadelphia. shot and killed him
self and his wife.
In st. Petersburg it is expected that
other nations will be drawn in If Rus
sia and Japan fight.
The Constitutional Convention Of
Panama held its first session and took
over supreme power from the junta.
Colonel John II. Bacon, Mayor Of
Colorado Springs. Col. in 1900 COM
mitted suicide because of Ill health.
Fire in the Chicago Milling and
hai'lhS Noihpaiy pant tduSNu Sio,-
000 damages.
A crippled little girl was trampled
to death in a panic during a fire which
destroyed a Dayton (Ohio) public
school house.
Mr. Spooner Rep., Wis.,, advanced
the argument that there might be
such thing as a right of international
eminent domain.
A law providing compulsory COM
pensation for Russian factory en-
ployes and miners in case of accident
became effective.
General John C. Black. Commander
in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. has been sworn in as civil serv-
ice commissioner.
In the Doodle trials at Grand Rapids,
Mich, former City Attorney Liant X.
Salisbury said he had assumed the bur.
den for the crimes of himself and
others.
Hon. William j. Bryan, in a speech
at Lincoln, Neb., declared for the
Kansas City platform. with the addi-
tion of new issues which have arisen
since.
The Socialist party will hold its ma
tional convention in Chicago May /.
The July option in cotton on the
New York pit sold for 14.2S cents, n
new high record.
The French government sent an ul-
timatum to the Vatican threatening
to dismiss the Papal Nuncio at Paris
unless the Pope approves the appoint
ment of five bishops.
BY a promise to dissolve the So
called candy trust and after entering
pleas of guilty officers of that concern
were released in New York under sus-
pension of sentence.
The Cramp Company of Philadel-
phia, being the lowest bidder, prob
ably will secure the contract to build
Idaho and Mississippi.
The senate foreign relations commit
tee adopted an amendment to the Pan
ANA canal treaty, giving the United
States partial jurisdiction over Colon
and Panama harbors.
Vienna reports say that Emperor
Francis Joseph will. If his health per-
ing the coming summer.
The Westinghouse Brake Company,
Limited (of London) declared a divi-
dend of 10 per cent for the six months
ended December 81 last, and a bonus
of per cent for the year.
In the trial of A. w. Machen, the
Groff brothers and Doctor and Mrs.
Lorenz, the court ruled the govern
ment must prove the existence of a
conspiracy to defraud the government.
A six-foot channel in the Mississippi
river at low water from St. Paul and
Minneapolis to Cairo, a distance of
900 miles, to be completed by the
time the Panama canal is put into op-
Grafton, is the project advocated be-
fore the House Committee on Rivers
and Harbors.
A passenger train on the Seaboard
air line was held up by robbers near
Sanderson, Fla. The door of the bag
gage car was blown open by dynamite,
but the train crew fired several shots,
and drove the robbers away before
they secured any booty
The United States supreme court
rendered an opinion to the effect that
the share holders and not the direc-
tors of bank shall decide whether
an assessment on stock shall be made
when the comptroller of the currency
gives notice that the capital stock is
impaired.