Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-08
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

A bill has been introduced In the Penn
sylvania legislature to prevent the black
mailing Of oleo dealers. It. provides also
for an appeal to court. -. -
The Four Seasons Hotel at MiddIesboro',
KY. was bought in Wednesday by I. I'm
termyer of New York for 1000. The orig
inal cost was s., SOC, 600. 1t was built owing
to the iron boom.
An application has been made for the
admission Of C. w. Couldcck to the Forrest
Home. signed by the manager of McVick-
er's Theater Of Chicago.
Eunice Conrad, one hundred and twenty
years old, died Tuesday at Cedarville, w.
Va. She was born August 4. ITS, few
miles from where she died.
When Charles Ellsworth died the other
day at Saratoga. N. Y. he was buried with
his boots on, as he directed.
A new gold find Is reported from Indio
Southern California. It is supposed to be
an old Aztec mine. and some Of its ore has
gone as high as 1858 per ton.
Bossard. committed suicide at Hagerstown
Tuesday by hanging herself with a rope to
beam in a barn. She was forty-hve years
old, and leaves husband and seven chill
dren.
John w. Mackey. jr., is engaged to Miss
Vanderbilt.
David Douglass, one hundred and FIVE
day, leaving three crops of children and
two conflicting wills.
In the circuit court Of Lamar county
Ala. Wednesday. a Judgment was given in
favor of Allen H. Burrows, administrator
of RUDE Burrows, for $294 against the
Southern Express Company. The suit was
for conversion of Rubes property, consist
Ing Of pistols. guns, oxen, wagon. trunk
and money.
The Lick trustees have applied to the
court to be discharged from their trust,
having executed the will. The enhance
ment Of property and income from interest
their trust.
Soldiers shot mad bull near Moulins.
France, recently with Lebel rifle. The
bullet cut a neat hole through the animal
from shoulder to crupper. It is believed
that the shot would have penetrated eight
ranks of men.
A Chicago dentist says the fumes in a
candy factory entirely ruin the teeth of the
operatives.
Abyssinia is coming for the first time
money of its own.
Clara Louise Kellogg has lost fortune
In the suspension Of the New York branch
of the publishing house of Cassell & Co.
She lost fortune in 1868 in London in
vestment.
George A. Ballentine the Newark, N. J.,
brewer. who got a divorce this week from
his wife In Paris, has an income of $780,
COO a year.
Georgetown. S. c.. has big kindling fac
and New York.
Gov. Oates pardoned Ann Holmes Mon
day, after she had served three years over
the time for which she was sentenced.
Great Britain's population. according to
the census just closed. Is IS, 776, 154.
Hundreds of Georgia negroes are tramp
Ing back from Mexico, where they colo
nized last year.
Hugh T. Galen. millionaire miner. politi-
clan and father-in-law Of Senator-elect T.
n. Carter, was married secretly to Miss
Laura B. Tague, q school teacher, jan
uary 6.
Norfolk is thinking of annexing Ports
mouth Berkeley and Huntersville.
The Minnesota legislature has passed q
law declaring all game state property and
regulating shooting. trapping and fishing
on that basis.
Archbishop Purcell's creditors have held
several meetings this week and are said to
be encouraged by a communication re-
ceived from Mgr. Satolli, the contents of
which have not been made public.