Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-14
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Train No. 1 on the st. Louis and San
Francisco railway was held up Monday
night at a small station named Verona,
five miles east of Momett. Mo-, by two
masked men. The affair did not occupy
over twenty minutes. The amount secured
by the robbers was not over 800.
The largest cotton fire in years at New
Orleans took place Monday night at the
Texas and Pacific wharf across the river,
entailing a loss of s750,0Oo.
The Cornell University athletic council
has voted to send Cornell crew to Eng
land next June to row in the Henley re-
gatta, where they rowed unseccessfully In
1881
The congress of Episcopal churches was
opened at Boston yesterday in the diocesan
house. Rev. E. S. Drown of Cambridge
presided.
The Kolbites met at Montgomery, Ala,
Monday and decided to call itself the Ma.
tional Peoples Party.
Governor-elect Levi p. Morton's alec tior
expenses We're SD, 100. OF this he gave
$4,000 to the republican state committee.
Unofficial returns from every county ir
Tennessee give Evans, republican NOMINEES
for governor, a plurality of 1854.
General Booth of the Salvation Army wal
warmly received by local Salvationists and
other Christian workers on his arrival al
Cleveland Monday.
Colonel John A. McCaull of opera fame.
who fell on the ice and was paralyzed In
Chicago few years ago, died suddenly
Sunday afternoon at Greensboro N. c.
The superintendent Of police in Chicago
has suspended seventeen officers, pending
their trial on the charge of neglect of duty
election day.
The forest fires from Arkansas have
broken out in northern Mississippi on
more extensive scale.
Exceptions to the report of the matter In
the case Of Marie Decca, the famous singer,
against her husband, Francis Leon Christ
man, have been overruled at Harrisburg.
Pa, and the costs will be divided in &C.
ordance with the report.
The returns from the election in Texas
Indicate that Charles A Culberson the
democratic candidate for governor, will
have a plurality of 5000.
The annual New York horse show opened
at Madison Square Garden Monday.
Geo. w. Scoggan, the noted turf man,
died at his home five miles from Louis
vile Monday, aged forty nine years
Judging by present appearances, the Ia
Dor troubles at New Orleans seem to be at
an end.
According to a table published In the
Camden Courier Gen. SewelPs elec ton to
the United States Senate is assured.
j. Hood Wright, who was a partner in
the banking house of Drexel, Morgan q
Co, died suddenly Monday night or the ele-
waited railroad in New York.
Jurors Harrows and Patterson have been
peremptorily dismissed from tho jury in
the 1ynching case Mt Memphis by Judge
Cooper. The grounds on waiah taev were
removed was that they had previously
stated that they would hang no white man
for killing a negro.
The elections in Newfoundland have re-
suited in victory for the Whitewayites.
The French government has asked for a
credit to send 15,oO0 troops to Madagascar.
England is said to be in accord with the
French policy.
A terrific hurricane swept over Belgium
Yesterday. / RrnSSn1S n har IF
ished houses collapsed and three persons
were killed.
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