Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-14

Silas NJ Waite, who caused 100000 de-
falcation at Brattleboro. VT, in 1880, died
in prison. and was prosperously connected
with the Omaha and Grant Smelling Com
pany at the time Of his death.
Mrs. L. C. Hughes. black-eyed little
the Kansas legislature the other day so
that it was unable to turn a wheel" Mrs.
Hughes is chief enrolling clerk Of the
house. She says that the state owes her
$500 for extra services, and when her bill
came up her tactics stopped all business.
Nelson Harris was fined $40 at West APP
pomattox, Va, last week for living with a
colored woman, by whom he had several
children
AS Rev. 8. W. Hoover of Dayton. Ohio.
was saying "One by one they are passing
over" in sermon Sunday, he fell dead in
his pulpit.
VIM Thompson has been sent to Jail at
Cleveland. Ohio. for burning boys with acid
and sending them out to beg, under some
thing like the Italian padrone system.
Western railroads are hauling seed grain
free to destitute farming communities.
A man in Atlanta was kept in Jail ninety
days on a debt of forty cents.
A Terre Haute, Ind, girl. thirteen years
old. has been arrested for systematic barn
burning.
Anderson, Ind. officers are hunting barn
burners with blood hounds.
Two Mormon missionaries are PROSECUTING
near Newport News. Va.
T. V. PowderIy has formed a law part
nership with District Attorney Jones at
Scranton, Pa.
The next international medical congress
occurs in Moscow in 1897.
Baron Hirsch has sent some three or four
thousand Russians to the Argentine Repub-
lie, and he hopes to have Jewish COM
munity there Of 100000 within ten years.
The French industry of icing milk Is an
original departure in timed commodities.
The milk is frozen and placed in block
form in tins and Theoretically sealed.
A. v. H. Carpenter, for thirty years gen.
eral passenger agent of the Milwaukee and
ST. Paul road is dead. His name. it is
said, had appeared on more railway tickets
than that of any other man.
Denver pawnbrokers have been caught
$4,000 worth on California crystals treated
with acid to make them sparkle like dia-
monds. 1t Is said there is big gang work
ing several large cities with this scheme.
Lydia Wing died rich at Herkimer, N. Y,
but her wealth could not be found until
this week, in an old satchel under her bed,
her nephew discovered $1,000 in United
States bonds and gold coin.
The Bucyrus. Ohio. Telegraph had wo
mems edition the other day, sold by pretty
girl newsboys who got all sorts of fancy
prices for their papers. A silk copy sold
for 800
Maj Martin is eating a bird day for
forty days at Raleigh, N. c., so far sue
cessfully.
Muncie, Ind. has a wild man, clad only
in skins, running like deer. living on
TOOtS anu wearing nlQeOuSly long DearO ana
hair.
Rumor says W. K Vanderbilt may marry
the Duchess of Manchester, formerly Miss
Consuelo Yznaga a sister of Fernando
Yznaga, who at one time was the husband
of Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt's sister, now
Mrs. Tiffany.
A New York restaurant gives cigarette
free with every order.
A series of robberies near Birmingham,
Ala, have been traced to Mrs. Jane Cheek
a widow, her son Bob and Hiram Fields
They were arrested and some of the stolen
goods found in their house. The woman
has been robbing in male attire for years.
1t is announced that a successor to Ward
McAllster has been found in the person Of
J. V. L. Pruyn of New York city and AL
bany.
Pittsburg has raised the $50 900 necessary
to carry through the next Knights Templar
conclave.
Workmen found after a landslide near
Fort Washington, New York, the other
day, 32-pound cannon ball imbedded sew
eral feet in the ground
John Townsend, a respected citizen of
Lynchburg, Ohio, committed suicide by
jumping into Little Miami river When
found his body was standing upright under
water. the top Of his head only a few inches
from the surface.