Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-12-20
BRIEF MENTION.

The suit of Mrs Evelne " Smith, of
Woodstock, VT, who claims to be the relict
of Hezekiah B. Smith, the late millionaire
manufacturer, of Mount Holly, n. j., came
up in the county courts Mrs Smith gave
testimony TO the effect that she had married
Mr.. Smith in 1916 and that he had left her
In 1861.
A committee of Philadslphians and eitisens
Of Camden called on Governor Green in the
interest OF the removal OF the Delaware
River islands. They as ked the governor te
advocate the appropriation Of 500, 900 to
ward the purchase of the islands.
Thieves have been busy in the small towns
in the vicinity OF Woodbury., N. j., and they
made quite a haul at Paulsboro.
Miss Emma Trautwen, of Hackensack, N.
j., has been awarded 5000 by jury for
broken nose
Charles Hickson, a brakeman on tho Lehigh
Valley road, was blown along with the car
roof off a bridge into the Lehigh river near
Mauch Chunk, Pa, and escaped serious in
jury.
A SOS, 900 railroad wreck near Beaver Falls
Pa, was caused by a sleepy operator.
Phil DAILY is said to have wept while testi
flying before the grand jury against his as
Sailants.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has glass leg, fitted
by DR.. Hammond on the limb which the
genial railroad president injured recently.
Ferdinand Carolin was convicted in New
York of murder In the first degree for killing
his wife with Ratchet.
Lawyer Trude, during argument in jury
bribing case in Chicago, charged Judge
Halves with having used undue influence
with the grand jury to have the indictment
found.
Miss Isabella Lee, of New York, great
granddaughter of John c. Calhoun, obtained
an injunction restraining the executor OF
Thomas q. Clemson, Calhoun's son-in-law,
from turning the Calhoun homestead over
to South Carolina for an agricultural college
Forty of the charmen of the Republican
county committees were called before the
United States grand jury in Indianapolis to
tell what they knew about the 50 called Dud
ley letter.
The report of the chief of the secret ser.
vice division of the treasury department
showed that out of 1S4 foreigners arrested as
counterfeiters, 67 were Italians Just so per
cent.
Mr. Faulkner introduced in the senate a
bin providing for the establishment Of pure
food division In the department of agricul.
ture.
Senator Cameron presented to the senate
resolutions of the chamber of commerce OF
Pittsburg praying for the adoption of the
decimal system of weights AMI measures
Lieut. Wissman, the African explorer, dis
believes tho story of Stanley's capture, on
the ground that the news could not have
reached Osinan Digna.
The new Servian elections have resulted
in an overwhelming majority against King
Milan, which may forcs him to abdicate
Sir William Pearce, NJ p, the famous shin
builder, who constructed the Etruria and
Umbria and other fast ocean steamships is
dead
Queen Victoria has dissolved the Honorable
Artillery company, OF London, the oldest
military organization in the country
The Indian Territory convention, at Hot
Springs, Ark, passed resolutions in favor OF
the immediate opening of the territory to
white settlement
Hester Ann Chase Riiout, of Annapolis,
who died recently, bequeathed her magnifi-
cent ancestral home (which was built in ITO.
by Judge Chase, one of the sIgners of the
declaration OF independence TO establish a
home for destitute, aged and infirm women.
The new Montefore Home for Chronic In
valids was dedicated in New York, Mayor
Hewitt and Carl Schurz making speeches
Tho corner stone of the Good Samaritan
Hospital for Colored People, which is being
built exclusively by whites, was laid in
Charlotte, n c.
The interstate commerce commission began
hearing in Washington in the tariffs and
classifcations of the railroads south of the
Potomac and Ohio rivers, associated under
the name of the Southern Railway aud
Steamship association
The convention of millers at Milwaukee
decided to limit the January -four output.
Governor Hill, Of New York, has granted
requisition papers on Governor Seay, Of Ala
bama, for forger Henry D. Goff, who is
wanted at Syracuse, Rochester and Pitts
burg.
Another bod attempt was made TO wreck
train on the ST. Louis and San Francisco
railroad in Missouri
Members of the pension legislation commit
tee have arrived in Chicago to consider
questions to be presented to the Fifty-1rst
rongress for the relief of old soldiers.
An attempt 20 wreck an express train near
Springfield, Mo, was frustrated by the fire.
man OF Wild engine aheal Of the express,
who, thouga HE ankle was broken Ia the
wreck of the engine, crawied back more than
a mile and Jagged the coming train
Herman Luther made a desperate attempt
to kin bis wife and adult children In Detroit,
and narrowly escaped lynching.
An oyster schooner wss upses Ia the James
river and the captain ana cook were drowned
IL l. reported that French naan-of-war is
going 70 Pznama to profess Yrsnoh intsrssiz
"A c@m Of discrdsEs