Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-01
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


the grand jury for the purpose of securing
an indictment against Chairman ]. r. Tan
ner of the republican central committee.
The mayor charges that Tanner circulated
campaign literature containing charges that
the former had levied blackmail on the
vices OF the city. Mayor Hopkins declared
that he will relentlessly prosecute the re-
publican leader for criminal libel. A hot
session followed, resulting in the refusal OF
the jury to take any action in the matter.
Mayor Hopkins then went before justice
Of the peace to swear out q warrant LOT
Tanners arrest.
Wholesale murder and express robbery
was the motive that inspired the recent
train wrecking on the 500 road. Two
men, charged with the murder OF the man
who lost his life by their work, were given
a preliminary hearing at Merrill, Wis, yes
terday, and were held for trial. One of the
prisoners has confessed. and his story de-
tails the methods pursued to derail the
through Minneapolis-Boston limited near
Heafford Junction on the night of October
Z. In the crash Fireman Charles Cottrill
was instantly killed and Engineer James
Dutch was seriously injured. The plan was
to cause a wreck that would kill every per-
son on the train and then rob the safe in
the express car, as 1t was supposed the safe
contained large sum of money. The man
who confessed is Levitt Hazelton, about
twenty~years old. claiming to be a resident
of Brainerd, Mimi. His companion is Frank
Williams, short, thick-set man,who claims
to have relatives and friends at Appleton,
Wis. Williams stoutiy denies that he knows
anything of the wrecking.
During Tuesday night two bombs were
exploded in front of two local police sta
tons at Milan, Italy. The buildings were
damaged, but nobody was injured.
A jury in the United States court at Tren-
ton, n. j., yesterday returned verdict or
$4,000 damages in favor OF Geo. Spencer OF
Murray Hill. in his suit against the Della
ware, Iackawanna and Western railroad, for
injuries received In a railroad accident near
Hoboken on January 10 last when several
persons were killed and injured. Spencer
sued for $4,000. This is the first suit grow
ing out of this accident, many claims haV-
ing been mutually adjusted
The statement was made at New York
police headquarters yesterday that the
grand jury had found indictments against
Police Captain Stephenson and Wardmen
Glennon, Burns and Smith upon evidence
brought out before the Lexow committee.
The specific charge. 1t is said, is blackmail.
The investigation of the police commits
sioner of Chief of Police Rogers of Seattle,
Wash, on charges preferred by John Col
Inns, proprietor of the Seattle Daily Tele-
graph ended yesterday, and Chief Rogers
was exonerated of taking brides or receiV-
ing money from gamblers, but ex-Mayor
Harry White was exposed by Gov. John II.
. McGraw Of having resigned to avoid publ
cation of the charges that he owned an IN
terest IN a gambling game while mayor
and of accepting brides from gamblers In
himself confessed on the stand that he al
lowed the ordinances to be violated, and
declared he should have been impeached
then and there.
The long deferred trial of Maj. Wham,
paymaster in the United States army, has
been resumed at Vancouver, Wash, after
an interval Of nearly month.
serious epidemic, pronounced py tle
physicians to be continual malarial fever,
has broken out among the students of Wes-
leyan University, there being at present
thirty-five cases there. Eight students nave
already been sent to their homes, ana one
case has developed into typhoid fever.
The pool rooms reopened at noon yester-
day at Covington, KY The mayor says the
proprietors will be arrested every day that
they open. There Is a bitter feeling be-
tween the Oakley interests and the pool
men, and an animated fight is expected
Chas T. Cowden, one of the party OF cav
alry which captured jefferson Davis, dis
euised In female attire, In 1865, has died or
heart disease at Seattle, ased ntty-.Wo
years He was q Nevada pioneer and
former city councilman or Seattle anu OWL
ed considerable property.
Six negroes engaged In government work
IN the river at Chattanooga started across
the river yesterday in a skin. When the
boat struck the rapid current In the middle
of the stream It was upset, and two or the
men, owen Hawkins and Henry Brown,
were drowned.
Association for the Advancement OF Women
met in the federal court rooms at Knox
Vile Tenn, yesterday morning. forty-nVe
women Of advanced thought from all parts
~ the country are In attendance. Mrs.
Julia Warde Howe OF Massachusetts Is pre-
siding.
A Convention Of pastors and delegates
from Lutheran Church societies In Penn
sylyanla Ohio, Maryland and Washing
ton, d. c., IL In session at Pittsburg.
The object Is to form central asso-
citation of Lutheran young peoples soci-
cites Today's session will be devoted to
framing a constitution and forming per-
manent association.
The British steamer Longships, which ar
rived at New York from the Dutch West
Indies yesterday, had a cargo Of 12,OOO,OOo
pounds of sugar.
The issue of California per cent bonds
for 100000. to pay for the new depot build
ing at the ferry landings in San Francisco,
was sold to Farson, Leach & Co. Of Boston,
at 1 7-S premium. The act authorizing the
bond issue omitted any reference to the
kind Of money In which the principal and
interest might be paid, and local capitalists
kept out of the competition.
A rock-drilling contest for the champion
ship of the world and purse of s325 is in
progress at Leadville, Col; Seven teams
are entered, Leadville, Telluride, Cripple
Creek and Red Cliff being represented.
Driver and McGilveray, a Leadville team,
have already beaten the worlds record of
80 5-16 by drilling 81 IL inches in fifteen
minutes.
Prof. Theodore Mommsen, the eminent
German jurist and historian, has been APP
pointed vice chancellor OF The order of the
Pour LIE Merite, for science
The distillers of Baltimore have taken &C
ton to test the constitutionality of that sec
ton of the new tariff law increasing the
tax on whisky in bond.
Advlces received from Port-au-Prince
Hayti state that rupture is imminent be-
tween Hayti and San Domingo. An en-
gagement is reported to have taken place
on October IS between troops of the two
republics near the boundaries. The San
Domingo troops, ii is said, entered upon
Haytian territory and were repulsed.
A special dispatch from Rome says that
the trial OF Merlino the notorious anarch-
list. has begun IN Florence. The charge is
that he published articles melting the peo-
pie to revolution.
In the United States circuit court at New
York yesterday Judge Lacombe handed
down an opinion on the petition of the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company to
compel John King and John G. Mccullough,
receivers of the Erie railroad, to pay the
interest on several coupon mortgages that
have fallen due, but have been unpaid since
the property entered the receivers hands.
Two robbers while at work in Polish
residence at Mahanoy City, Pa, early yes
terday morning were attacked by two
boarders, John Frank and Joseph Brenlski
The robbers drew revolvers and commenced
firing. Frank was shot through the left