Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-24

A MYSTERY IN A STEAMsuIp-As tba
steamship Bermuda was leaving New York
on Wednesday night a well dressed man,
about 90 years Of age, stepped on board
without any baggage. and took n state room
Nheh asked for his ticket he said he had
none, out would pay the full passage money
on arriving at HALIFAX. On Friday morn
ing ne was found sitting unconscious on the
cabin steps. He died about , O'Clock that
afternoon. In bis pockets were found n
pocket book, obtaining SI.G5 in American
silver, Sllve' watch, a lack knife two
uunk keys, brass watch key, n comb,
ChecFs Tor baggage in a railway station in
lesion also letter, addressed to no one,
OIL which tie following is n COPY.
July l5tA, 1914, Nettie Enclosed flud checks
OF my baggage, travelling trunk, and carpet
Dag. They are in the baggage room of the
passenger depot of The Eastern railroad in
Boston, and they will give you them on pre-
sehtlhg checks l need them no more. [
nave had nj, from which | do not expect To
get better, so you will have il all your own
Coo bless you.-WM.-IB Oston Adrertiser.
TIE ATTEMPT To BREAK ANroNELLI,s
VILLA Rome letter to the London Ne,vs.
devoted 10 the attempt of the Countess Lore a
EanCeTiinl 10 break the will of Canlina'
ATtonelli, says OF her plea: In effact she
says, " am the daughter of the CardinaI. T
90 not know whether his eminence has had
no oher children. 1 do not know whether
ne mas lett a Will. i only ask as his natural
daughter, the whole fortune be has beoueat,-
ed: (iO.WO, 900 francs.) The brothers A Mo-
neill, on the other hand plead You are not
the CardlnaIs natural daughter" To this
the countess replies, "I am ready to prove
that am" This constitutes the first stage
OF the trial.
MCDERMoTT VS.. BESSIE TURNER.-Mc-
Dermott, the hackman, has replied through
ahe local newspapers TO Bessie Turner. Con-
ciudlns MS letter, he says: at is not n
ne CHESS persecution for a brother to racog-
ME al depot "a sister whose board he naid
the previous summer by his hack-driving
a iII ms cialin eau scarcely be considered
'lulotic when he asserts that his own sister
Is none the less the child of his mo.bar
whether she is registered Mary or Eliza beth
McDermott, Turner or Avery"
.~Ex-Treasurer Carloza, OF south Carr
lima, was arrested q, Columbia. 8 q sam
uay on charge of mis- lppropria ton, and
helu ~ ozooCO Tor his app aarauce in October.
RSJudge James X. Ludlow declines tn he
candidate before the Pennsylvania demo-
tIs ,Ic state convention for The position of
Juuse Oh the supreme court Of the state.
When you start with your dear one for
rnoonign. walk, 1t is polite TO invite her
younger sister to accompany Won buf ~ Ia
not polite TO raise q row when she accants
n man on the west side is practicinp
oaily 10 see how long he can hold his arm
Out siraIgLt. be wants to be able IN hold
Out NICKEL until the street car conductors
get ready to take it.
~A New Haven clergyman has bean
nned 50 Tor violent demonstrations In a
little personal unpleasantness with a neigh
bor-fn other words, for taking part in a
knock down fight.
~ An aged Mexican, who belonged tn the
grand army Of tramps, relieved society of
his existence at San Jose, Cal, on Juiy "a.
by swallowing strychnine. He was fsund
IN copse by the roadside.