Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-10
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

by a vote of of more than two to one re-
fused to indict the governor, treasurer
and auditor in the matter of printing the
Mississippi state warrants, it being al
legged by Chief Hazen, supported by Secre-
tary Carlisle and Attorney General Oiney
that they violated the laws. being in like
ness and similitude of the United States
currency and national bank notes. The
state officials were arraigned several
months ago on affidavits sworn out by
w. j.. Burns of the United States secret
service bureau.
Chicago clergymen have formed a poly
glot club for the purpose of nstructing
prospective missionaries in the various
foreign languages by means of the pho
nograph. President Harper of Chicago Uni
versity, with other prominent ministers,
has. secured as members of the organiza-
tons representatives of almost every ma
tionality visited by missionaries, and the
reproduction of conversation, the phono-
graph will take the place of instructors and
professors,
The british cruiser Calypso is missing.
She parted company with the training squad
ron to which she belongs on October "a dur
ing gale The squadron has arrived at
Las Falmas, but the Calypso has not been
seen. since she dropped the other vessels.
The police at Glasgow, Scotland. are still
secretly inquiring into the case of James
Kirkwood, a coal merchant OF 9th street,
Troy. N, T., whose body was found on the
morning OF november y IN a Canal IN lnat
city. The evidence, pointed to foul play,
and every effort is being made to unravel
the mystery Of his death.
At meeting yesterday in New York of
of seventy 1t was unanimously decided to
make the organization permanent
Salem c. Worden, one of the American
Railway Union men charged with having
wrecked a Southern Pacific train during
The strike in July last causing the death
of Engineer Clark and four United States
soldiers, was yesterday at Woodland, Cal,
convicted of murder IN the first degree. The
penalty Is death or life Imprisonment.
A bill has passed both houses of the
Cherokee legislature making 1t treason for
Cherokee citizen to sell real estate of the
nation to a non-citizen, naming a PEN
atty for so doing death by hanging.
A number of delegates to the National
Knights of Labor convention, which meets
at New Orleans next Tuesday, Lave ar
rived The usual executive meeting is now
being held in advance of the convention
10 anticipate such business as viii proba-
bly, come before the convention. Mr.. Sow
ereign said beyond a. few meetings of ad-
vance committees, whose sessions will be
private, no business will be transacted until
Tuesday.
Two of the Cook gang plundered the town
of Lenapah, l. T., and left a bloody trail
behind them yesterday afternoon. They
entered the town in their character of ban
dts, without any attempt at concealment.
and terroriZed the citizens until they had
carried out their plans of robbery. f. f.
Melton, a brave young man who attempted
to stop them when they were riding away
was shot, and another man is reported to
have been seriously wounded.
The seven-story stone building at the cor
ner of Craig street and Place DArmes Hill,
owned by the Montreal Street Railway Com
pany of Montreal, collapsed yesterday af-
ternoon. Twenty-one men employed on the
building were buried in the ruins, of whom
three are known to be dead. The dead are
Pierre Monetti, Regis Pouge and Joseph
Marquis.
John Pauis, German laborer, fell seven
stories yesterday afternoon while transfer
ring some elevator machinery in Arnold,
Constable & Co.'S dry goods store in New
York, and was instantly killed.
The safe in the Gowrie, Iowa, bank was
blown opel early yesterday morning by two
robbers The explosion awakened some citi-
zens, who were afraid to stop the robbers.
They had only one revolver, and the robber
on guard stood them off while his partner
proceeded to explode the steel chest, having
blown open the two other doors before the
crowd arrived.
: William Hallett formerly a conductor on
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, who
was discharged for joining in the A II. U.
strike, has sued the company for $4,000
damages for being blacklisted.
1t was stated on Wall street yesterday
that there would be an issue of S50,OO0,000 or
S100,0O0O0O per cent government bonds be-
fore Congress again reassembles. A lead
ing banker is quoted as saying: There will
be an issue of bonds shortly The President
and Secretary of the Treasury have deter
mined that the gold reserve shall not be
further impair ed They have been advised
that an export movement of gold viii begin
In a few weeks, and they accordingly have
determined to take prompt measures"
1.-The annual meeting of the National
League for the Prot ection of American In
situations was held at New York yesterday.
Dr. James NJ. King, the general secretary,
reported that a. satisfactory amendment TO
the New York state constitution had been
adopted by the people Tuesday protecting
the public schools against sectaran en-
croachments and also an amendment bring
ing the sectarian and private charities of
the state Under rigid supervision and con-
troll. The Unitarians and Friends had de-
cided to receive no more money from the
national II easury for their educa tional work
among the Indians. This, now, will leave
the Roman Catholics and the Lutherans as
the only recipients of money from the
tional government for sectarian Indian edu-
cation.
The custom of breaking bottle of cham
payne on the bows OF a vessel when it is
launched does not meet with the approval
of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
of Philadelphia. AT meeting of the union
yesterday a committee was appointed to
wait upon Charles II. Cramp and present
him with a bottle containing river water,
and request him that ii be used by Mrs.
Cleveland on Monday in christening the St.
Louis, instead of a bottle of champagne.
Thousands of dollars worth of property
have been destroyed by forest fires In west
Tennessee. The flames are close to the city
of Brownsville, and the town of Obion is in
peril fires raging on every side Of 1t.