Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-06
KILOGRAMS TO THE STAR
A Systematic Ferrer CapsareA.

TRAVELLING IN STYLE WITH nIs WIPE AVID
VALET, WHO DIDN'T KNOW HIS business
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. Jan. 8.-Some weeks ago
Incorporating gentleman. accompanied by q
pretty young lady. arrived In the city and regis
tered at . hotel Mr.. and Mrs. r.. W. Rail.
They were accompanied by y stylish negro SER
want week later Mr. bsli lei the city, his
the time cf his departure Mr.. Rail- gave "A dran
on the New York Cattle company la payment
OF his bill After be had gone Chief OF Police
Speers received q dispatch nom the sugs rim
tendent OF police in New Work asking him 20
hunt up a lady named Mrs ball and ask her n
and she said she would 40 back 10 her mother
Money was sent on To defray her travelling ex-
In the meantime the chief discovered
that +. w. Ball was a noted fonger,
visited h"a and an thai atlas The Tor city he
by the hotel was a clever Forgery. In
Balls room the detective found the Key to a
Ms Ba Se % sca, hs s v ~a.
an accomplished criminal. and had Travelled
through the states and Canada, dipping every
body with whom he came I'm contact The
negro said that he had been with him two
years and did not know what his business wa<,
AT one time, in Dayton, Bali was absent several
days, and when he returned he had 500 or
$500 In siiSer Ms. Ball never suspected her
brooklyn several months ago against the a.
vice of her mother, and has been travelling with
was fascinated by Balls manners. Chief
Speers has succeeded in locating Ball nj XeniA.
o., and he has been arrested there.
An lnsane MANS Murdereus Fr~ak.
KNOXVILLE, TENN, Jan. 6.-Jas. EvauA
well-to-do farmer, living twelve miles west OF
this city, threw his infant daughter into O weii
sixty feet deep. He called his children together
ana told them that the Lord had comma ded
him 10 Kill them all. The older children ran
from the house. and he took the infant, only
elght months old, nom the cradle and threw {.
Hp fri 10 tr.. ,-l,tla
and when neighbors finally succeeded In gel.
ting out the body he stood by and laughed. His
mind has been Qnsound for years hut this was
the first act of violence he ever committed.
He win Not Go laso business.
ARRESTED WHEN ABOUT To START A RHsTAu.
RANT WITH THE PROCEEDS OF ROBBERY
GALEsBrRo, III. Jan. 6.-Frank Roland has
been arrested here by Deputy Sheriffs Richley
and Stuckey for the robbery OF the express Office
| at Brinkley, Ark, W about $4,000 worth Of
yewelry some time ago. The Arkansas officers
naa peen looking out west Tor their man. The
officers here got "A description OF the supposed
Ihiei ana AT once suspected Roland, who had
been acquitted on a charge OF safe-btowing az
tne late session oil the circuit court. They
shadowed him closely for several DAYS until
convinced he was the man. when they nabbed
, nr,n. nnex secured good share of the stolen
iewelry Ia his possession. Roland had sold
! some of the stolen articles, and with the pro-
ceeas hao bought out a restaurant, and when
arrested was making preparations 70 go into
| business. He will be taken to Arkansas al
| soon as the officers can come after him
Oh On the Troubled Waters
4 captain r. {. Pendleton, commanding the
| steamer L. Miller. running between PhiIad..l-
! phia and Nassau, writes TO Commander Bart
| lett, chief Of the photographic Office i'm this
city, from Nassau, as follows: ''on my passage
to this port from Philadelphia December %
L took very heavy gale from N. n. w. to the
southwark of the gulf stream The sea nlade
up very quick, and 4 Thought one time
should have to bring her head to- but ha wing
read what You have said about using oil In
your monthly charts, placed a bag in each
closet forward and let her go =. e. The effect
was wonderful. and We shipped no water afier
| that