Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-14
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Brooklyn grand jury has found q
true bill against Benjamin Norton and D.
j. Quinn, president and superintendent of
the Atlantic Avenue railroad. They are
charged with violation of the hour
law of the state, on the complaint Of sew
eral strikers, who swore before Police Jus
tice Walsh that they had been forced to
work longer than the law prescribed. Upon
their complaint President Norton and Supt.
Quinn We're held for the grand jury.
Monday night was the coolest in Colo
RADIO for eight years. the temperature fall
Ing to % degrees below zero, where it re-
manned until morning. when it moderated.
There are from 10000 to $1,000 head of
cattle on the ranges near Rockyford, and
number have already persisted.
The Iron Hall funds in Maryland, amount
ing to $4,000 will be sent to INDIANAPOLIS
for distribution. The receivers at Raltf-
more will keep in their hands some $1,000
pending the settlement of certain attach
mcnt suits. Maryland claimants will now
get dividends amounting to 80 per cent
when they could not hope to get over 20
per cent were the funds to be distributed
at Baltimore.
Repairs on the damaged machinery Of
the steamer La Gascogne has been begun.
1t is expected that the boat will be ready
TO sail on Wedre sday, February 20.
The billiard and pool room proprietors
of New York Won victory yesterday when
Justice 1ngraham, in the court of oyer and
terminer in New York, discharged from
custody Robert Kenny, who had been ar
rested for keeping his pool room open last
Sunday. Justice Ingraham ruled that
playing billiards on Sunday, unaccompa-
lied by betting, is not in violation Of the
criminal code.
Judge Noble of Cleveland, Ohio, yester-
day declared unconstitutional the Ohio
statute making it unlawful to sell convict
made goods from other states in Ohio
secretary Of state of Ohio. The court held
that the law interfered with interstate
commerce.
Numbers of wretched, starving Armen-
ians are crossing into Russia from the
Erzoroum and Bitlis districts. A bad lar
vest has resulted in intense distress to
hundreds of Armenians in Asia Minor.
EX-Secretary of State Foster, counsel for
the Chinese peace ENJOYS, is being treated
with especial courtesy in Japan.
Governor Carr Of North Carolina has APP
pointed Augustus w. Graham of Oxford,
to be judge of the supreme court in place
Of Robert w. Winston, resigned
Thomas Ault committed suicide in Mem
phis, Tenn, yesterday by taking morphine.
He was formerly prosperous cooper, but
failed in business.
testified before the city council Investigate
ing committee in Philadelphia. yesterday,
denying that they held any stock in the
Mutual Automatic Telephone Company.
been talking over a plan for the forma-
ton of a society to discountenance the pre-
sention of bad or immoral plays at the
theaters by refraining from attending such
performances.
The Indianapolis Abattoir Company suf-
fered loss well up In the thousands yes
terday morning by fire. caused by an ex-
ploson. An employee, who caused the ex-
ploson, was badly burned.
The London Times, in its financial article
today, says that French operators are pre-
pairing to partake in the American loan.
No gold, however, is likely to be taken
from the Bank of England.
The London Chronicle prints the text of
manifesto, which is being widely cffcu-
lated in Russia, in the form of an open let
ter to the car. 1t embodies the protest
of the peoples right party against the
cZar's recent speech declaring that he
would uphold autocracy as his father had
done before him. The manifesto is evil
IDENTIFY the work of a man or men of much
knowledge, ability and experience:
Fire caused 500 900 damage In the Denfg
& FerSon block, a four-stOry brick building
at High street and Elm alley, Columbus,
Ohio last night
Three firemen were killed at a fire in
Lynn, Mass. last night-Capt. Henry Skin
ner, Thos. Murray and John F. Conlan. n.
H. Hutchnson's hardware store and adj
joining property was damaged to the ex-
tent of 100000.
The eighth annual banquet Of the Ro-
chester, N. Y, chamber of commerce held
last evening in the beautiful new hall Of
the Powers block, with Gov. Mckinley as
the guest of honor, was probably the most
brilliant affair ever held in the city.