Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-02

sued for divorce by his wife. for cruelty
yesterday.
| Burglars entered the bank at West Win
| field, Herkimer county, n. " yesterday
| morning and blew the door of the vault or
with dynamite They secured about a thou
| sand dollars in money.
By the breaking of a scaffold at the
eighth story OF building in course Of cree
| ton at 18th and Locusts streets, In st.
| Louis. Samuel Moore and Jacob Werner
| were killed and Jacob Enz fatally injured.
At the meeting of the Wonlan's Board of
| Missions of tn: Interior in Chicago yester-
day Mrs. Moses Smith was elected presi-
dent, and II was decided to hold the next
annual meeting in Cleveland
| Because pretty Lydia Bogert would net
| don boomers and appear In court with them
on the suit brought by a tailor was settled
| u, Justice Petterson's court, Brooklyn. yes
| terday by her paying for them Miss Be-
| CERT ordered pair of boomers for bicycle
| use from the tailor, and refused to pay for
| them because she said they did not 1T her.
| Mr.. Clarke then brought suit to recover
| $11, the value oil The boomers.
| James III. McCluskey, prominent labor
| leader. during a FIT OF insanity brought on
| by typhoid fever waded INTO the river at
Wheeling yesterday and drowned himself.
The man calling himself George Moonson.
| arrested at Cumberland, Nd. few -days.
| ago, who claimed to have participated in
| the Aqua Creek train robbery. now denies
the story he told at frst. He said he had
| taken chloroform to obtain sleep,-and knew
| nothing about the robbery.
| The New York grand jury yesterday af-'
| ternoon returned indictments against ex-
| Police Captain Doherty- and 'ex-Wardman'
| Meehan, who were recently dismissed from
| the force for alleged bribe-taking.
The house committee of the Washington
| Park Club has discovered that for five
| years the club has been systematically 4
| swindled by its steward, julius Refs, out OF
| about $4,000 a year. .
| Gov Penoyer of Oregon has issued the
following Thanksgiving proclamation: II
| hereby appoint the last Thursday of this
| month a Thanksgiving holiday. In the day
| of prosperity be joyful, but In the day of
| adversely consider Ecclesiastes vii, IA" =
| Avant Nichols was stabbed yesterday to
| death by Jim Rowland, a negro, at Cold
water, Miss. Rowland is in Jail and
| lynchng is threatened
| Sanford Fleming and w. II. Mercer. who
| went to Honolulu in the interests of the
| Pacific cable scheme are at Victoria, b. c..
| They state that their mission was salts
| factory and will leave soon to report to the
dominion government
The duck shooting season begins on the
| lower SusqCebanna today, and the sports
| men are on hand in force
1 Chicago bakers have increased the size OF
| their layes, hat have lot lowered the price
of bread.
Gilchlist Porter, ex-member of Congress
| and broth ar -in-iaw of j. c. Broadhead, min
| lister to Switzerland, died at Hannibal, Mo-,
yesterday, of heart disease, aged seventy
| seven =
The New York Evening Post says that &c
has evidence that Mr.. Goff was offered &c.
900 a fee for examining the title to q
| piece of real estate which was worth less
than $1,000. on condition that he would not
| call as witness in the Lexow police in
| Vestigation a certain captain of police or
mention the name Of said captain.
Fire started in the Hotel Ontario. at On
| tarfo Beach, Rochesters principal lake re-
sort, Wednesday night The flames spread
| rapidly and the tenants barely escaped with
| their lives. There was a high west wind.
| and all the hotels and cottages, with a few
| executions.
| The new anti-toxin remedy for diphtheria,
| known as ''diptherine," has been tried In
two CO ses in Philadelphia. In the first, Che
| little patient died the same day, and In the
| second where ii was given as a precau-
ton to a child which had been subjected
| to the infection, no traces Of the disease
| have yet developed.
Charles Rusey, Edward Busey and Richard
| Busey, sons of Mr.. James Busey. the Bal
timore politician, are locked up. charged
| with assaulting and shooting Richard e.
| Nunnally, jr., and assaulting and shooting
| Officer Michael Haley, as the result of q
| dispute about politics.
At the meeting OF the Petersburg Va,
| council last night a resolution offered by
Capt s. w. Venable, authorizing the sale
of the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina
railroad Qhe old Virginia and Carolina rail-
4 Oliver w. Barnes, James H. McCreery and
| Archibald A. Hutchinson OF the city of New
| York, was adopted by unanimous vote.
While celebrating All Halloween Wesley
| Archer Of Port Deposit. Md, ran into q
tree and was instantly killed, his skull be-
ing fractured.
/ Charles Wilkinson, a recognized social
leader. Sunday school superintendent and
| president of the Y. NJ. @. A. of HUNTINGTON,
| w. Va, is a defaulter. He has been as
sistant cashier of the First National Bank
| for five years.
Mrs. Carrie Sheets wife Of George Sheets
| of Bolivar, Tenn. killed her seven-year-old
| child yesterday morning with an adze.A jury
| found her guilty of the crime, but later she
was sent to an asylum on the certificate Of
a physician. When her husband returned
home he found the child's body In a pool
Of blood. while the mother rocked herself
| complacently IL a chair.
Mrs. Agnes Hart Of Waterloo, Va, was
killed by dead tree falling on her We'd
nesday while returning from the post office.
Samuel Rodgers, ID. D.. one Of the best
known ministers of the ME. Church South,
died at his home in Baltimore yesterday.
The organization Of a company to utilize
| the waters of the Susquehanna river to pro-
vide electric power for manufacturing and
| other plants in Baltimore Is In active pro-
gress. The scheme Is similar to that Of har-
Messing the Niagara. The plan is to locate
the plant at Conowingo. which IL thirty-five
miles In an airline from Baltimore. from
which power will be transmitted BY over
head wires taking in several towns In the
way.
The Industrial Land and Development
Company of Mays Landing. N. J.. has gone
! into the hands OF James l.. Haines of New
ark. as receiver, appointed by Vice Chancel.
lor Ritney. The company owns over 1900
acres of land.
Gen. Juan II. Cortina, once the terror Of
the Rio Grende frontier. is dead.
Police officer r. c. Parkinson was shot
and fatally wounded by Charley Epps. q
negro, on the corner of Main and Beale
streets, Memphis, yesterday afternoon.
Parkinson had arrested Epps.
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