Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Contractor John Gillies has suspended
work On the dry dock in the Brooklyn navy
yard because the government is slow in
payment.
Four captains and nineteen vessels of
oyster pirates were captured yesterday In
| Chesapeake bay.
At the meeting Of the naval experts In
New York yesterday Commodore w. Il.
Sampson, hief of the bureau of ordnance,
read paper on the status OF fac e-harden-
ed armor.
Charles Parks, a New York alderman and
Tammany brave. was convicted at Free
hold of running a gambling house at AS
bury Park NJ. ,yesterday.
George x. Whitworth of Nashville, Tenn,
who killed Chancellor Allison. has issued
an ante-mortem statement in which he de-
clares Allison owed him money and broke
|. his word.
Caroline Agnes Bcresford, Dowager
Duchess of Montrose, known in the racing
world as Mr.. Man;on." and also as the
"Red Duchess, died in London yesterday.
A blizzard was raging yesterday in CEN
trail and western Nebraska and much dam
age to stock is feared. Snow plows were at
work on the railroads in South Dakota,
where the snow is three feet deep.
President Crandall of the johnson City
CTenn) National Bank has been Arrested
at the direction of the controller of the cur
rency on the charge of reporting falsely to
the treasury early in October that his bank
was solvent. :
An unknown. colouel man recently enter
ed the houses of tfourt white i;tdies in Ate hi
son, Kan, and assaulted them. Searching
parties are out, and there are threats OF
lynchipg.
The fores, Tres a.,u,,t Boulder. ,'oi have
been ex:nguished. The loss il estimated
Five alarms of fire nrcre sounded in Win
nipeg, Manitoba, yesterday. Property val
ued at $2OOOOO was destroyed.
a severe earthquake shock was felt on
the Island of Sicily yesterday.
The returns Of the Virginia election re-
ceived in Richmond show total vote for
Congressman of 2ll ,I39, a decrease of ~, BOG
compared With the congressional cleo ton
two years ago. This does not include thou
sands of imperfect ballots thrown out.
A contract for. building a fine passenger
steamer for the Norfolk and Washington
line has been awarded to the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.
NJ ". Straight, "a flour and feed dealer, OF
Elmira, N. Y, yesterday shot and Killed his
wife, who had left him, and her sister, Mrs.
Whitford, and then himself.
Louis Rosenberg leaped from south
bound Alabama Great Southern passenger
train yesterday near Dudley Ala, and was
instantly killed.
Adyices from Fusan Corea, under date of
November l6, state that battle has been
fought between Japanese troops and re-
bellious Tong Haks, in which the former
were victorious.
William ]. Myers was convicted yester-
day of the murder of Forest L. Crowley at
Atlanta Ga, and was sentenced to death.
The Patterson House at Harper, Kan,
was destroyed by fire yesterday morning,
and only the heroism of Maud Schermer-
horn, sixteen years old, prevented great
loss of life She went from room to room
warning the inmates.
Rev. Joseph Stockbridge, for many years
chaplain in the United States navy, died in
Philadelphia yesterday. He entered the
navy in lS41 and was retired in 1878.
Iron Nation, the head chief of the Lower
Brute Sioux, died Thursday at his home OH
the Sioux reservation, of pneumonia.
Robert Fitzsmmons knocked Con Rior-
dan, his sparring partner, unconscious last
night at Syracuse.