Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The plant of the electric light company
at Florence, S. c., was destroyed by fire
last night. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000
Three horses were burned to death.
China has sent new credentials to her
peace ENJOYS with a view to a renewal of
the negotiations with Japan.
The proposal to grant pay and travelling
expenses to members of the reichStag was
adopted yesterday by majority which in
Guided centrists, freissiniges, socialists and
most of the national liberals.
The cold weather continues undated
throughout England, the thermometer
showing IL degrees below zero yesterday in
London.
The Chilean government announces its In
tention to purchase all the railways in that
country.
John Redmond declared in the house of
commons yesterday that the liberals had
sheIyed nome rule. He urged an immediate
dissolution of parliament, but a motion to
that effect was beaten, 2i6 to 256.
Mrs. Davis, the teacher of a district
school, three miles from the village of
Lyons, n. Y, was found dead in a snow
bank near the schoolhouse yesterday, hav-
ing been lost in the blizzard last Thursday
and frozen TO death.
George W. Stouts wholesale grocery, In
Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire yester-
day. Loss, $115, u0U; insurance, SS5,UOO. A.
kiefer Il Co. S drug store was damaged by
water.
The trial of searcey and Morganfield. the
alleged Aqua Creek train robbers, will be-
gin at Stafford Court House, Va, February
20.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany has awarded contract for fine
passenger steamer to run between Newport
News and Norfolk.
In the Joint ballot in the Oregon legisla-
ture yesterday for United States Senator
the following vote was cast: Dolph, &c.
Hare 10: MISUNDERSTOOD. q; Williams, D:
Lowell. 10; Lord, q; absent, L. Necessary
for choice, 10.
The senate of Massachusetts has passed
to be engrossed bill providing for biennial
elections. The vote was on strict party
lires-17 to 3-the republicans voting for
the measure.
Continuing the plan to establish a gold
standard, the Austrian minister of finance
has issued four per cent gold renteS to the
amount of 5O,OOO,0OO hOrins. Half OF this
amount was taken by firm and the bal
ance will be taken at the option of a syn
dictate composed of the kreditanstalt, the
Bcdeu-Creditanstalt and the Rothschilds.
Mgr. and Vicar General May died at the
parochial house adjoining the Church OF
the Most Holy Trinity in Brooklyn last
right, of which he was the pastor for more
than thirty years.
States Senator in the Idaho legislature be-
gan yesterday without change. The result
of the vote was: Shoup, 10; Sweet, Is; Clag-
gett. 10.
Lizzie Began, alias Lie the Man, was
sentenced by Judge Ingraham, in the New
York court of oyer and Terminer, yester-
day, to ten years in state prison. She was
convicted of manslaughter in killing Brid-
get German. on January 6, at 20 Mott
street, by throwing a lighted lamp at her.
Mrs. Margaret Stanley of st. Louis, Mo-,
attempted to thaw frozen water pipe with
a gasoline lamp. The lamp exploded and
Mrs. Stanley was SD badly burned that she
died within an hour. Mrs. Henry Hick-
mann, a neighbor. attempted to put out the
flames ard was seriously burned.
Frederick T.. Conklin. thirty-seven years
old, reglmental clerk of the twelfth regi-
n,ent of New York, is missing. He was at
the armory on last Thursday, but has not
been seen since.
Mrs. William Siebert and two children
were yesterday drowned while crossing the
Ohio river at Coraopolis. eleven miles below
Pittsburg.
The Drayton divorce case was again post
poned one week yesterday, on account of
the illness of Mr.. Drayton's counsel.
Five firemen were seriously, three Of them
perhaps fatally, injured in fire that ragged
liz the West Bottoms, Kansas City, yester-
day afternoon They are Fred. Ricketts,,
James Houren. Sam Cox, F. K. Gaffney
and Cen OHearn.