Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-20

She saw the tragedy through a window,
but was unable to prevent It.
James Patton and George Colson, both
colored, are charged with assaulting Mrs.
Robinson, white woman seventy years
old, in Clay county, KY, Sunday. Lynch
ing is threatened.
In the keystone Coal and Coke Com
pany's mining camp, in Mcdowell county,
WA, two colored men were killed and
two horribly injured by the explosion of
powder.
King Humbert has sent 10000 lire for the
relief of the earthquake sufferers and Pre-
mier Crispi has donated 1900 lire.
Congressman James c. C. Black of Au-
gusta, Ga, has written letter to Thomas
E. Watson, his populist opponent in the
recent election, concerning alleged frauds.
Justice Lawrence has decided, In New
York, that Jay Gould's heirs must pay city
taxes this year.
What it is thought will prove the death
blow of the Western Passenger Associa-
ton was administered yesterday by The
Rock Island road which announced its
withdrawal from the organization
The knights of Labor spent yesterdays
session in New Orleans considering the
cases of the Pennsylvania miners, but ad-
journed without reaching a conclusion.
The directors of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad Company met yes
terday at New York and elected the fol-
lowing reorganization committee, with pow
er to act: F. B. Cheney, jr, Thomas =.
Fowler. w. l.. Bull, George A. Nickerson
and E. j. BerWind.
Sir Julien Pauncefote, the British ambas-
r. Roosevelt, secretary of the United States
embassy at London, sail for New York on
December /.
H. o. Havemeyer emphatically denied
yesterday that he had any intention of
buying the famous trotting mare Alix.
o. V. Sage, formerly chief clerk of the
prisons department, will be agent and
warden of Sing Sing prison, to succeed
Warden Durston, deceased.
Two hundred worsted weavers in the
Lorraine mills at Pawtucket, r. T., went to
work yesterday after strike of seven
weeks. Troubles We're arbitrated by Mayor
Tichlke. The strike was one of the biggest
in the annals of Pawtucket.
William Dietrich and ]. L. Sterrel, rep
resenting a New York syndicate, are nego-
tiating for the purchase of the Wabash
Natural Gas Company.
The consolidation of all the Boston gas
companies under one management appears
certain of being carried out and already
steps have been taken to present the mat
ter to the legislature for the necessary au-
thority.
In a decision on a contested election case
in Kansas City yesterday. Judge Henry
remarked: IF it were under my control
l would make ballot-boX stuffing and forg
ing election returns treason against the
state and punishable by death"
Early yesterday morning fire was discov-
cred in a one-story frame dwelling on
Stone avenue, Scranton, Pa, occupied by
Casper Abodi and before any assistance
could be rendered the building was de-
stroyed. In 1t were Martin Abodi and An
tonic Abodi, who were burned to death
Pistol shots were heard shortly before, and
there Is a theory that the fire was intend
ed to conceal a crime.
The fourth biennial report Of the Califor-
MIA board of horticulture states that owing
to the railway strike California fruit grow
erS lost over $1,OOW,0OO.
Police commissioner John Q. A. Robson
of Baltimore died at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital Saturday.