Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-16

semblege OF persons from this City and Wash
instOn.
MASONIC FUEBRAL.-Caspar Nauman, one of
the charter members and Past Junior Warden
OF George b. Whiting Lodge, No. %, F. A M. q,
as buried yesterday afternoon at O'Clock in
Oak Hin Cemetery with Masonic Ceremonies
The following brethren were pail bearers: j.
I. Shaw, f. ". A. JurgersOn, L. G. HaviIand
=; r. Dickson, W. a. Cunningham, and q. +.
WetZeTich.
GRAIN TRADE.-Arrived, schr. T P Morgan.
from Alexandria, with 200 bushels wheat for
Hartley q Bro, canal bost Medley, from
NnIte's Ferry, with 2,10O bushels wueat Tor
Hartley & Pro-, and sos bushels for II. NJ Tai.
bolt. We report no sales. Market firm.
The UTAH CONGRESSIONAL Contest. 4
telegram from Salt Lake City, NOE. Il saws: In
= netiCe OF the contest for a seat ia C0pCTess "a
delegate from this Territory, r. N BastiD
charges Geo. Q. Cannon with being an alien:
that he has violated the act OF COngr 81 Of 1862
regarding pOiygamy, and has married Eliza l..
1Uung, EsUtha Seeia, Eliza HOagland, and
Sarah Jane Young; that he married one woman
since the passage Of the act Of 1862; that he
REGARDS OILS obedience to his church as superior
70 bis obligations to any law OF Congress; tn AT
lie has not only violated lis law in regard to
tolygany, but induced others TO do the same;
that be cannot take the oath required of a dele
gate; that the House OF Representatives on
AIrI 3, 1914 passed bill to the effect that
thereafter 10 biganiSt or pOlygamtst should be
eIlgiDle TO seat IN Congress. aud that his con
sutgents voted for him knowing such a fact. IN
reply, Mr.. Cannon states that At the election he
received some q 900 TO 4,003 cast for his oppo,
cent, and has been natuTalized. He denies
mat by being Mormon or otherwise he has
entered into relations with any woman of such
character, or in such q manner as 10 subject
himself to punishment for any ofIense under
the act OF Congress OF 1862.
KIDNAPPING IN INDIANA telegram from
Fort wayne, Indiana, November Il, saws: The
full facts OF the kidnapping Of John Martins
three children, withheld by the detectives i'm
the hope OF their recovery, ere now made pub
Tic, and are substantially as telegTaphCd at the
tine, The only thing new is that the leader OF
The dastaTciy crime Is one John Diamond, q
man OF d'sre Fute, who, IL is cla med, had seduc-
ed the elder girl, Ida, aged Is. and that
tIotber, Il years old was his assistant. Diamond
L d-s cllled as beng heavy built, OF dark com
plcXi3D, black hair and eyes, five feet ten
inches, lef5 hand and fOref0ger crippled by
Un-fhot wound. The children are described
sc T. lows Charley VI eTtin, eyed 10 years, dark
-OmPiexiOn, small OF his age; Ida, aged Is, has
sea- on her right cheek, Is sprIght!y and hand
s NE; Clondeila, eyed -, IL very much of the
anne appearance as her sister. Excitement
still continues high, and there is every endeavor
btirg made for their recovery, which, 60 far,
has resulted in failure.
How NEW YORK CAR CONDUCTORS BEAT
TIE BELL PUECH.-A telegram from New
York says: Every conceivable method that
could be thought OF has been tried by the con-
ductOrs OF the several railroads using the
punch, to beat the game, as they call IL: but
the latest which has come under the eve of the
sUperlnte ndent Of the Third Avenue railroad, Is
that OF a wire run up the arm of q conductor,
al the end of which is attached a bell, similar
IN sound TO that In the punch, and connected
with the little finger OF the right hand. When
fares are received, the bell up the arm is rung.
the assenger hears the bell ring, and presumes
he Is duly recorded. Two Of the Conductors
have been spotted with these wire bells.
A MURDER AT CANADIAN VILLAGE
TAvBRN.-At WashagO, Ont, last Thursday
afterI con Alexander ID. Mcdonald caused con-
sideTsbls annoyance in the WashagO house by
insulting and striking several respectable resi-
dents. After being twice elected, and while
standing with his back to the hotel, report OF
firearms was heard, and at the same moment
Mcdonald was seen to fall on his face. On be-
ing raised up small wound was found in the
back CT the skull, from which flowed brain mat
ter and blood. The victim died that night. At
the inquest witness named Poison testified
that LIE saw Stephen Whitney, farmer, who
for years occupied respectable position in the
neighborhoOd, deliberately aim and fire at Nc
Donald at distance Of twenty feet.
FoReER IN BEEF BARREL.-Moses
Meyer, who arrived last Tuesday by the Goethe
from Bremen, was arrested last evening nv
Detectives walling and woolsey of the Ce9trs a
police Office, accused by Mr.. Barnard Wolf OF
100 Willism street of having obtained 2 234
forms on forged note from his brother. Lip
man Wolf of Darmstadt. The detectives traced
Meyer TO q houee in ATTORNEY street near
Houston. Meyer, lerrning that the officers were
close upon him, jumped from his bedroom
a cellar and hid himself in q large beef barrel,
where he was found by Detective Walling.-N
L. San, i4th.
BTEcHRR-TILToN- trial of the issue be-
tween Mr.. BeeCheT and Theodore TiltOn is still
deferred, and Is likely TO be again postponed
when il comes up next Wednesday. The rather
lively tilt between the counsel yesterday was
wholly inclusive. The proceedings are in the
form ofan application for bill Of particulars
Of what Mr.. Tilt0n proposes to prove, but the
Iona
legal expedients to bring about delay. AT any
rate, they appear q crab-like method Of reach
ing trial.-N.Y Y. Tribune 14th.
ETA '1oOking-glass Bible" is the latest sub
scTiptiOn book.
H2-A society fort introduction of temper
ance literature IN epubhc schools has been
formed IN Chicago.
RS-Among the South Carolina Congressman
elect is Robert Smalls, the famous cOlored
steamboat pilot.
r5-A test Of honesty-when an employer ees
AyOung man with good wages spend all he earns,
lie had better look sharp 10 see that he earns ali
he spends.
RS~A Upiontown, n. j., woman, by the free
use Of ea1bolis acid, removed all the freckies
Of her face. The doctor thinks new skin will
set in in about nine weeks.
ErWe are told that "Mr. Lotto, of Indians,
recently eloped with another mans wife, sister
and daughter" Brigham himself could hardly
have made cleaner sweep Of the family tn an
that.
ga dispatch from Csyan, Ontario, says that
nav gation on the Island lakes Of that province
l. about over for the season. The mail steamer
Ontario was stopped by Ice on the Blackburn
narrows. The steamer Vanderbilt had 10 cut
ice sll the way through Lindsay river.
R5~DnriDg q ire in a house in New York,
Saturday occupied by James Reilly and family /,
james Reilly ana his wife jumped out of one of
the npper windows and sustained serious inja-
ries. james Reilly, sged four years, and Mar
garet wbelan, aged sixty, were suffocated.
e3-Charies Whitman, bookkeeper In the Pa
cifc bank, New York, since 1915. Ia Charged
xrith H. zled naarlv 500 Rcfl.