Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-17
A MONTGOMERY COUNTY SUICIDE.
A Young Man Shoots Himself and His
Mother Is Killed by the Shock.
Correspondence of The EVENING STAR:

Correspondence of The EVENING STAR:
ROCKVILLE, Nov. 16.
William Davis. IT,, q man about twenty
three years Of age, committed suicide last
night at his home, near Damascus, this
county, by shooting himself twice with pistol.
At the time of the occurrence his mother was
lying i'll. and the shock so Frustrated her that
she died in a few minutes thereafter The
young man was the eldest son of Mr. William
Davis, formerly keeper Of the toll-gate at
Sligo, on the 18th street pike, and who was last
summer ad1udged insane and sent to the Mary
land insane asylum, where he now is. Insanity
is hereditary in the family. The mother of
VIM. Davis hanged herself at Unity some years
ago, and one of his daughters is now an in
mate OF an insane asylum. S. NJ
The Scene of Another Historic Wedding.
To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR:
The wedding of the eminent Englishman,
Thursday, in st. Johns church, to Miss Endi-
colt, recalls a similar event which was ceIe-
brated in the same church: in 1s41 That was
the marriage Of Mr.. Parnel, an Irish gentle
man, to a daughter of Commodore Stewart. of
the American navy. The present great leader
of the Irish liberals was the fruit Of that mar
riage. state the fact on the authority of an
intelligent and respectable native of Washing
ton now deceased, but who spent his life here
/ suppose the church records will furnish evil
dence of it. G.
FUNERAL OF HOWARD L. HYATT.-The ftne-
raj of the late Howard l.. HYATT assistant
superintendent of the registry division Of the
city post-otiice, took place from his late resi-
dence, l0I street northwest. yesterday after
noon. The attendance, which was large in
ciuded q number OF his feiiow-clerks of the
post-ofice and members of Wesley N. E.
church and Dawson lodge, No. 16 F. A. A. n.
The services were conducted by Rev. ]. p.
Wright. The pali-bearers were George II.
Plant. jr., James E. Bell, w. b. Britton Orville
Drawn, John E. Birkhead and Fred. Walker
The interment was with masonic hOnors at the
Congressional cemetery.
New YORK VIoLAToRs OF THE ELECTION LAWS
PUNIsHED.-The following sentences were inn
posed in New York yesterday for illegal regis
tration and illegal voting: VIM. Mansfield, ille-
gal voting, two years and four months in
prison; Chas Griffin and Andrew Feather
stone, fraudulent registration, each two years
and four months in prison; Oscar Nephew, lille
gal registry, state prison one year and nine
months; Patrick Murphy, illegal registry, two
years and three months in prison; Richard
Dyer, alias P. H. Ryan, illegal registry, three
years and nine months in prison.
The MARQUIS OF QURENsBURY AMONG THE
SPoBTs.-A reception was given yesterday after
noon to the Marquis Of Queensbury at the Office
Of MIR. Richard X. Fox, the sporting man, in
New York. Among the celebrities present were
Jake Kilrain. Jack McAulife, Charley Mitchell
and Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper. On be-
half Of MIR. Fox the Marquis of Queensbury
presented q valuable cane to Kilrain and a
medal to Brodie for his Poughksepsie bridge
jump.
Advices from the Chickasaw nation repre-
sent affairs in critical condition. Partisans
OF Byrd and Guy, contestants for the guber-
Material office, are heavily armed, and the capi-
tai. Tishomingo, is in a state Of great disorder.
The hard-gloye fight to finish for $500
purse between Jimmy Larkin. Of Jersey City.
and Frank Steele, Of Boston. was fought up the
sound early Thursday morning. Larkin won on
foul in the seventh round.
Charles Pearl, a brakeman on the Baltimore
and ONO railroad, fell of his train near the
Opeqnon bridge. w. Va, Thursday, and was
crushed to death. He was unmarried and
about twenty-five years Of age.
~. d; Shaw, the ex-husband Of the whistling
prima donna, IL living in Pittsburg, Pa. He Is
detective, but declines to talk Of his marital