Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The court Of inquiry appointed by Secre-
tary Herbert to investigate the accident to
the Cincinnati, which struck a sunken OBJ
ject Off Execution rock up the sound last
week, convened at the Brooklyn navy yard
yesterday.
A telegram received at Cowes, Isle OF
Wight, says that Lord Dunraven has
definitely decided to issue a challenge for
the Americas cup.
AT the adjourned executive session Of the
United Garment Workers Association of
America, at New York yesterday, the local
unions of Baltimore were granted formal
authority to organize strike against the
sweating system in that city.
The executive committee of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union yesterday, at
Cleveland. decided to hold the next annual
convention in Baltimore.
At the old Bailey, London, yesterday, II.
L. Winter of Denver, Col an organist. was
sentenced to six years of servitude for
perjury.
Natives of the Admiralty Islands, in the
South Pacific ocean, are reported to have
killed the white settlers and resorted to
cannibalism.
The Allan line steamer Corean, Capt.
Main. which arrived at st. Johns, N. f.,
yesterday, from Glasgow and Liverpool,
encountered most frightful weather and
had many narrow escapes from laundering.
Patrick Connors was buried alive yester-
day afternoon while at work In a sewer on
"a avenue, Paterson, N. j.
President Moraes of Brazil has issued q
decree granting amnesty to all political Of
Tenders.
Franz Kossuth. son of the late Hungarian
patriot, Louis Kossuth, has abandoned his
tour Of Hungary on account OF the excite
ment II has created.
The commercial treaty between Italy and
Paraguay has been ratified by both ma
tons
Another earthquake shock was felt in
Reggie, Sicily, yesterday, but no damage
was done. The people are still camping out
of doors
Gen. William H. Gibson died last evening
at his home at Tiffin, Ohio. He was a gal
liant soldier in the Union army.
Flames in the iron steamship Alamo Of
the Mallory line at New York yesterday
necessitated her submersion.
Frank Payson and George Brill. two
American prospecto have discovered an
old Spanish gold mine in Mexico. and from
samples of the ore it is one of fabulous
richness worked a century ago.
A special from Guthrie, o. T., says:
Word has been received here that a gang
of gamblers and confidence men from the
east have been holding high carnival In
the Sac and Fox country. Last week the
Sac and Fox Indians were paid their usual
annuity of $4,000. The gang of cut-throats
and confidence men at the agency was
larger and holder than ever before. and 1t
is alleged by paymasters that the Indians
have been literally robbed OF more than
$4,000.
BY the explosion OF q water heater IN
the basement below the barber shop OF J.
S. Stout. No. 6O3 West Taylor street, Chi
cago Wednesday night, several persons
were injured. though none Of them fatally.
Gov. Pennoyer Of Oregon. speaking or
Japan's reply to the offer Of mediation by
this government, said: Il see that the jap
anese government has followed my exam
pie by reminding President Cleveland to
attend to his own business. For the sake
of the country. the President really ought
not to have allowed himself to be snubbed
the second time"
II has come to light that bomb has
been lying In the office Of the chief OF
police at South Bend Ind, for weeks. Had
il exploded, 1t would have destroyed the
station and other property and killed a
number of people. The Intention may have
been to blow up the station. but this is I'M
likely.
Alma Howard, the daughter of Charles
Howard OF Milwaukee, a Northwestern rail-
way official, isnisslng from home under cir
that warrant the suspicion that
she was KIDNAPPED. The entire police fcrcc.
including tho central station detail OF de-
tectives, is hard ct work following various
clews.
A dispatch from Paris scys that ~ Fran.
coils de Caussada. librarian OF the magazine
collection. ts doad.