Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-30
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


Gen. Jacob 8. Coxey's house, near Mas
s,ilon. Ohio. was burned Saturday night.
Inc loss Is estimated at $4,000 to $4,000.
Arguments on the appeal Of John Y. Nc
hane from the sentence OF six years inn
prisonment for procuring violation of the
election law by inspectors of election vera
heard by the court of appeals yesterday at
Albany, N. Y.
Thomas NJ Burke of South Beach. Staten
Island, who on August Is caused the death
OF Fred Bergman, his son-in- law by means
or trapgun set at Burke's house, was
yesterday sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment By advice of his counsel
slaughter.
The long drought has caused great dis
tress among farmers and lumbermen along
the Little Kanawhs In West Virginia.
Wells and springs thar never failed before
nave been dry for months, and many
streams have dried up. Stock has suffered
sreauy having to be driven miles to water.
n large proportion of late crops has failed.
Midland Pacific railway is to be built
from sioux Falls, s. D., to Seattle and
tacoma, Washington. a distance of some
sixteen hundred miles The success h
assured OF what win undoubtedly he one of
the great transcontinental routes
Onciai government statistics Just COM
piIed IN washington state show that the
low price OF wheat has developed the pork
packing interests in Washington, and places
the number OF hogs being fattened on
wheat In whitman county alone at $4,000
busSel is reaIised ev tho 10 twenty cents per
Col Cienfugos, the young lieutenant of Gen.
Ezeta, VINO was released on Saturday on
an order from Secretary Gresham, took
passage on the steamer San Jose, which
sailed yesterday afternoon for Acapulco
1t Is his intention to go straight to that
place to return to his young wife.
Dlspensary Constable Cain, charged with
RI Qfn g ~
discharged on nolle pros. yesterday, the
district attorney at Darlington being sat-
isded, after the acquittal of Constable Nc
could be convicted.
Adam Eberle was in family killed yester-
Gay at Buffalo by a blow with the list
struck by John Liske. The men quarrelsd
In saloon, and then fought Liske, who
is plasterer. struck Eberle, a barber a
vicious blow over the heart, with the result
stated.
Train wreckers placed ties on the Louis
Vile and Nashville track in Dudley's Cut,
three miles east OF Frankfort, KY, on Sum
day night The timely discovery Of the OBJ
structions saved the Washington express
train.
The trial OF the men charged with lynch
ing six negroes near Millington, Tenn, on
the night Of August 81 was contin led until
November 8, at Memphis.
Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of
Corinth, Tenn. Several cotton fields have
been destroyed, valuable timber ruined. and
the country laid waste. Hundreds of farm.
ers are fighting the flames.
jury at Philadelphia yesterday awarded
Henry w. Purchase So, 0OO damages against
the z. w. and Il. railway for injuries sus-
tanned in the South street collision, Feb
ruary -, 1888.
The late +. w. Porter secretary of the
Normal Park Loan Association of Chicago,
was defaulter to the extent OF So 700.
1t is now evident that he did not die Of
apoplexy, as first thought, but killed hini-
self.
Snow storms are prevailing In Iowa,
Nebraska and Colorado.
Jesse j. Hoy and Mir ME Ball of Rich
mond, Va, eloped last Saturday and were
married in this city. Yesterday Hoy was
arrested, charged with larceny Of wear
ing apparel-the bridal trousseau.
The Supreme Lodge, German Order OF
Black Knights closed its annual session
In Baltimore yesterday. The following
supreme officers were installed: Commander,
A. Wittstaedt of Baltimore; lieutenant COM
mander, II. Diering OF Brooklyn, n. T.,
secretary, IL. Hitter OF Philadelphia; treas
urer. Louis Mueller of Baltimore; sentinel,
F. Horskey of Washington; guards, Michael
Koenich of Philadelphia and II. Hummer
Of Baltimore. The order has lodges In
Maryland, District of Columbia, Pennsyl-
vania, New York and New Jersey.
j. j. Porter q Co., wholesale dealers In
millinery and notions, at Nos. S20-S24 Lib
erty street. Pittsburg, were entirely burned
out last night. The loss on stock Is S2OQ.-
600. The building. which is owned by d. p.
Jones, anu Nalueu at $OO,OOO, - alInoSt
entirely destroyed. Nothing Is left but the
walls.
Harry l.. Brown was held at New York
yesterday to await the action Of the grand
jury on the charge OF having received
stolen postage stamps, knowing them to
have been stolen from the bureau Of en-
craving and printing in Washington. Chas.
Harer was discharged, as there was No
evidence OF his guilt.
There was great excitement In New
Orleans last night over reports that the
negroes would attempt an armed attack to
avenge the action Of the mob Saturday.
The governor arrived and held q long corla
ference with the directors of the cotton ex-
change. The white 'longshoremen struck
against working with negroes. John VILE
liams, colored screwman, was shot and
mortally wounded In the afternoon By
Michael Biri at Madison and Decatur
streets
Some cadets have caused a sensation by
hosting piratical sort OF flag over their
quarters in the Naval Academy.
s. A. Cameron and E. r. Ellison became
involved in quarrel about a business
settlement at York. Ala. yesterday. Shoot
ing followed, and both were wounded. The
chief of police j. w. Thompson, attempted
to disarm Cameron. and was killed by the
discharge Of Cameron's pistol
A political fight of great Intensity IL now
raging at st. Johns, N. f.. and in the adj
Joining districts Eleven seats are to be
contested. The government must win I'VE
to secure a majority in the assembly. The
citing ever seen.
The shocks OF earthquake which began
last Tuesday afternoon In California con-
tinued during the week, and reached an
end with very perceptible shock. A
spring OF water which had been obliterated
two years ago again sprang into existence.
Gen. Amos Beckwith. U. 3. A, died In his
rooms at the Southern Hotel, St Louis,
Saturday night He was chief commissary
of subsistence In Washington during the
war, up to January 10, 1854, then Joining
Gen. Sherman.
The celebrated Carter divorce suit, which
has been fought in various courts almost
five years, came to an end yesterday at Chi
cago The decision was handed down by
the supreme court, sustaining the verdiot
in the circuit court, which gave Leslie "a
Carter a decree of divorce from his wifet
gave him custody Of their child and refused
Mrs. Carriers application for alimony.
Samuel s. Buxton, who was Saturday ar
rested at Sparta, Wis, on the charge Of
having murdered Mary A, Jones 2 maiden
lady, at her home a few miles from THAI
city, on the 21st instant, where she was
found hanging by the neck. has confessed
the murder.
VIM. Penn Bauman, twenty years old.
surrendered to the police at Wilkcsbarr4
Pa, last night, and confessed that he and
George Metzger shot and killed an Arabian
peddler named John MikskieF, on the Goth
Of Ia ar hQr