Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-20
FOR SALE-HOUSES.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


Some of the students of Richmond Col
lege Tuesday night hung in efilgy Prof. F..
w. Boatwright.- the newly elected presi-
dent of that institution.
Since the publication Of the Armenian
outrages the rigor of Turkish rule in that
country has been relaxed and many ar
rested Armenians have been released.
At Richmond, Va, yesterday Judge Con
Of the United States circuit court entered
an order confirming the sale Of the Rich
mond and Danville railroad property which
was disposed of at public auction there
few days ago. -. -.
Near Wheeling, w. Va, yesterday Miss
Annie Custer, aged sixteen years, was
criminally assaulted by an unknown man.
who was arrested.
President Cleveland and Captain Robley
D. Evans shot sixty mallard ducks yester-
day in South Carolina. Today they will
hunt deer. On Saturday the President will
attend reception given in his honor at
Georgetown, S. C.,-and on the. same day
will start fer Washington.
The South Carolina senate has passed a
bill creating aboard who shall have con-
troll of the, appointment of all policemen
and town marshals in towns of 1000 inhab-
itants or more. The purpose is to employ
the police to enforce the liquor dispensary
law.
The Improved Order of the knights
of Pythias' was formed-at Buffalo, n. Y,
yesterday by. represen tativeS of lodges dis
satisfied with the action of the Supreme
Lodge at Washington in abolishing the
German ritual. .-.
Colonel Nathaniel Gather, a former sec
rotary of state of Kentucky under Gov
ernor Magoffin, died at Harrodsburg, KY,
yesterday of cancer of the tongue, aged
fifty-nine- years.
An agreement is being prepared among
the newspapers of Alabama by which the
editors enter into compact not to print
the name of Reuben f. Kolb or any of his
political associates.
William Myers, aged nineteen years, was
sentenced to be hanged in Atlanta, Ga,
February for the murder of Forest Crow
ley.
In Philadelphia yesterday John P. Hew-
lit, an eXpressman, was injured by the ex-
plosion of powder in a trunk he was han
ding.
w. H. Power, manager Of the Star Thea
ter, Buffalo. N. Y, died suddenly yester-
day.
The Massillon, Ohio, arbitration commit
tee has decided against the miners.
Captain Schmittberger of New York was
indicted yesterday by the grand jury for
accepting brides. He was arrested by or
der of Superintendent Byrnes.
1t Is reported that a case will be made in
New York to test the income tax law.
A great many evictions of tenants in
New York are being made.
1t Is stated upon excellent authority that
a number of New York capitalists are
scheming to get possession of the Phila-
delphia gas works.
In interviews with the sultan the Rus
sian ambassador has declared Russia's
solidarity with Great Britain and France
on the Armenian question.
Mrs. Annie Charles of 100 Bank street,
Newark, n. j., yesterday by her heroism
saved her own life, her three children and
seven boarders. After all were out of the
burning building Mrs. Charles succumbed
to hysteria.
Over Z, 500 children from New York most
of them of the very lowest class, have been
left on the Kansas prairies. Many of them
are not in condition to be taken into
homes, 1t is claimed, without some pre-
vious training, and many of them run away
and drift again into city streets.
The bodies Of the wife and child of Chief
Yellow Bull, who were assasSinated by I'M
known persons, have been found ten miles
west of the Rosebud Indian agency S.
D., in terrible condition. Yellow Bull,
Lance and others have been arrested.