Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-11
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Union station used by all the rail-
roads entering ST. Joseph, Mo-. laid in
ruins by fire Saturday night. The loss will
reach 100000.
Two men who chung for forty hours to
the rigging of their vessel off Fire Island
beach were rescued at midnight by the
crew of the Lone Hill life saving station.
The vessel proved to be the schooner Louis
V. Place, Capt. SquireS, coal laden, from
Baltimore.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of En-
gineers says that all chance OF any diff
Guilty between the Southern Pacific rail-
road and the engineers is now at an end.
The printing establishment of Clarence
NJ Busch in HARRISBURG Pa, was burned
yesterday morning, causing loss OF $lUO,-
600.
Rev. Dr. Francis z. Rocker, secretary to
the Catholic apostolic delegation at Wash
ington, preached yesterday at the Balti-
more Cathedral on THE Rights Of Labor"
James r. Boise. professor Of Greek in
Chicago University died Saturday Sat rday;soI ne
one of the foremost Greek scholars in the
country.
is thought that Mexico's delay in dealing
with Guatemala is for the purpose of
gaining time in war preparations.
Near Newkirk. oklahoma. stage coach
was robbed on Saturday. but the town au-
thorities made such vigorous pursuit that
one of the men was shot and the other
quickly captured.
"A
land and the English mas characterized the
comments Of the German newspapers on
the sinking Of the Elbe.
A bobsled, with eight persons became
uncomfortable and ran of an embankment
at Knoxville Tenn, Saturday. killing
Arthur Meade and seriously injuring Car
RE Spence.
The Atlantic Transport Line steamer
Manitoba. from London. and the Red Star
Line steamer Rhynland OF Antwerp
reached New York Yesterday.
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Church, this city, lectured last night at
Harris Academy Of Music. Baltimore. for
the benefit of the poor of ST. Peters parish
of that city. The subject Of the lecture
was Dickens: His Powers and Pathos."
A dispatch from Shanghai SAYS that the
Chinese have a total of Us. 700 troops in
Mancnuria opposed to 10000 japanese.
According to his brother-in-law. Captain
Won Goessel of the Elbe while standing
on the bridge after the collision. wrote
few words of farewell and handed the note
to Deharde, who was rescued, to be given
to his wife.
The Gloucester. Mass. schooner Clara F.
Friend has been wrecked at Eastern Head,
near Liverpool. on the Nova Scotia coast,
and her entire crew of fifteen men lost.
A cardinal at Rome confirms the report
that the sultan invited the pope to mediate
in behalf of Turkey with the powers on the
Armenian question. The pope declined to
do so, but advised the sultan to appoint
Christian governors. This made the sultan
angry.
Jockey WHO IeSeiNeU Il lrdC-
tured skull by asfan from Free Trade in
the fifth race at Madison, ILL.,, Saturday,
died yesterday from the effect of his in
juries.
On board the Umbria. which reached New
York yesterday, were three survivors of
the steamship Elbe-t,ugene Schlegel of
Furst Germany: Jan Nevera of Cleveland,
Ohio, and Carl HOFFMAN, of Grand Island,
Neb whose wife and children We're among
the lost
4 dispatch from Pekin says that full
powers have been telegraphed to the Chi
nese peace ENJOYS with a view to the re-
newal of negotiations with Japan.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Cairo. Egypt says that a mob arm ed with
sticks attacked and severely beat in the
streets of Alexandria three men belonging
to the cruiser Scout of the British Mediter-
ranean squadron.