Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Star Pastel Company of Atlantic
City has been declared to be a fraudulent
concern by the Post Office Department
and Postmaster Sayre has seized the COM
pany's mail and returned all money orders
to the office from which they came. The
company has been doing business for moro
than a year. working the country beyond
the Alleghanies. 1t did an enormous bus
mess.
The board of administration of Cincinnati
has issued an order which, If carried out
literally will wipe out of existence about
s6O0.0OO worth Of property. 1t is an order
directing the Cincinnati Inclined Plane
Railway Company to remove from the
streets It's tracks within one month and
it's inclined plane within two months,
except such portions of the track as are
composed Of full girder rail. This action
Is based on judgment of the superior
court that the franchise of this company
has expired by limitation.
Ell Marks probably the best-known gam
bier In the south. died in Louisville yester-
day. For years he made gambling bust
ness and acquired quite a fortune, but or
late has had reverses and died practically
reduced to poverty He was a member
of Morgan's famous raiders through Ohio
and southern Indiana during the war.
Samuel Cowles, an old man from Illinois,,
was recently found dead nearly mile from
home in Marian county, Arkansas. II Is
alleged that his wife had chased him from
the house with a harrow tooth, with which,.
1t Is claimed, she inflicted several wounds
which caused his death. The bloody in
strument and other signs of murder were
found In the house.
In Yesterdays Oregon senatorial ballot
the anti-Dolph republicans changed from
Williams to Lowell The vote stood: Dolph
40; Hare. 10; Raley, 9; 'Cogsweu, 1; Lowell
20; absent, 4.
The woman suffrage bill passed the as
sembly of the California legislature yes
terday afternoon by a vote OF 10 to -.
The vote for United States Senator at
Boise, Idaho, yesterday was without
change: Shoup 20; Sweet, 10; Claggett, 10
Nebraska and Iowa people were startled
yesterday by developments which Indicate
that Albert Whipple. the abseonding bank
er, merchant and army contractor or CraW-
ford and HyanniS, now fugitive from JUS
tice with creditors left in the lurch for
$4,000 to $4,000 and Albert b. Whippie,
who was sent to the Fort Madison prison,
Iowa, In December. 1886. are one and the
same man.
The Michigan house yesterday. by vote
of &C to n, passed the bill legislating out
of Office the present board of health OF
Detroit and empowering the governor to
appoint new board. The bill passed the
senate last week. The passage of the bill
Is a singing defeat for Mayor Pingree of
Detroit.
NJ Augusta Vacquerie. a well-known
French nterateur and editor-in-chief or
the Rappel, a radical republican organ, is
dead. He was born November 10, 1919. at
Villequier, Department OF Siene-lnferieure.
He was the author of number of works
of prose, poetry and also wrote several
dramas.
The funeral of Father Garin, the cele-
brated member of the Obiate order, oc-
CURED yesterday in Lowell, Mass. The
day was generally observed in his memory
by the merchants and citizens.
In the presence of Commodore Sampson
and other naval officers a test was made
of a plate from the two war vessels, In
diana and Massachusetts,. At Bethlehem,
Pa, yesterday, a fve-hundred pound pro-
tectile with a velocity of 1,940 feet per
second, was fred from g ten-inch gun and
not a single crack was made in the plate.
The test resulted in the acceptance of 100
tons of Harveyized armor.
1t was 40 o'clock when Mr.. Platt ar
rived at Albany, n. Y, yesterday, and he
was driven at once to the executive man
sion, where Gov. Morton awaited him. AT
the executive chamber it was learned that
so little did the governor think of the i'm
portance of the interview that he refused
to break social engagement last evening
to confer with Mr.. Platt.