The evening times., 1896-10-19
Wire Briefs.

l --'N>ASS 90 AboStcs pluHiUCI anu SdS ittteI
has been issued to Frank Hannah.
| Twenty-six American women have ma
circulated for the new term OF the Berlin.
| Two gas lamps on First street northeast,
between and G streets, discontinued sew
eral months ago, are to be relghted.
| The official count Of Georgia's vote ii
the recent State election shows that Atkin.
son, for governor. received SO, 100 plurality
Adam Hell is under arrest I'm Baltimore
| charged with causing the death Of Louis
| Nagengast by blow with a carpenter
| level
st. Patrick's Cathedral. New York, will
have 1t is said, the finest set Of stations of
| the cross ever executed, their cost being
S25.0o0
The steamship La GascOgne, which ar
rived ut New York from Europe yesterday,
brought 900 .O0Ufrancs gold consigned TO
Lazard Freres-
Herman Ostcrberg, aged sixty years, was
found suffocated by Illuminating gas in his
room in FhilaGtlphia hotel IL is be-
lieved he committed suicide.
William Waldorf Astor proposes erecting
in New York tie largest and finest banking
and office building in tie world. 1t will
| cost from $3,G0O,OCO To S4,OO0,O00.
Contracts for furnishing the District with
vitriried paving brick have been awarded
to the Savage Fire Brick Company. John
Mack ana McMahon, Porter x Co, respect
lively
Richard Hayes and his sister, Mary Anna
Hayes, who resided on a farm near st.
Mary's, Ont, Were struck by a train while
driving over Il crossing. Both were in
stantly killed.
The Colombian Line steamer Finance,
Capt Daily, which sailed from New York on
October 10 for Colon, has not yet arrived
and is now two days overdue. Her delay
is causing much anxiety.
AT Stevens Point, Wis, the Polish st.
Peters Church and parsonage were burned
yesterday. 1t is thought the fire was Of
incendiary origin The loss will be about
$4,000; Insurance, $12,060.
Two sons OF Tom Givens, Il ged fifteen and
eighteen years. We're burned to death, and
their sister probably fatally burned, on
Satnrday,in fire which destroyed the
family residence near Lewisburg, Ky.
Henry Ecker. aged fifty years, while
Walking in his sleep last night. fell from
third-story window OF the Colonnade Ho-
tel. at Pottstown, Pa. He landed on his
head, and was probably fatally injured.
Yeonans & Co.'S drug store at Belle
Vile, Ontario, was burned early this morn
ing. L.W. Yeomans. the head OF the firm,
who sleeps in Il room adjoining the store,
perished in the flames. He was about
fifty-two Years OF age.
y sensation has been caused in Rome by
the arrest OF Commander GiaconcIli, an eX
member OF the Chamber OF Deputies and
director of the Credit Immohilcr. He was
taken int" custody on charges against him
in oorneciion with the failure OF the Credit
Immohilier.
Mrs. p Cansey of Admission. Ala, slipped
away frouthe maTria ge feast OF her daugh-
ter and hanged herself 10 the limb OF "A tree
that stood In the yard. aim ost under the
yyiptluw of the -osm where the wedding
geusts We're assembled. Shcis supposed to
have been crazy.
Willie Wallace the little boy who was
struck by a train on the Mabone's Lake
tr,-Stle Of the Norfolk. Virginia Beach and
Southern Railway lf5is entered suit against
the company for $50 900 damages Tie
lad received internal injuries, which nearly
caused his death.
Merritt Briggs, for many years prominent
criminal lawyer m eastern Virginia, while
arguing 4 oase insthe court at suffolk Sat
urtiay aftcrnuon, stsidesly stopped, said
be was sick. and asked The fudge 10 excuse
Inn. and sat down.. Ann ost before those near
could reach him nc was de3h-
Miss Mary v IItaiser, preceptress OF the
Jnr Il. To- a. IrSfi a Inrt DaHpSIf Md
while out riding Saturday, on her bicycle,
ran against Il stone in the read. and was
thrown violenuy 10, the ground, breaking
her ght arm between the wrist and elbow,
and bruising herself very badly.
"A Howard Seftl, q young farmer living
near Westchester, Pa, is dying from in
juries inflicted by an unknown colored man
last night. Seal discovered the man bur
glarizinc hisIhouse and chased across the
country and caught up with him. The
thief turned and brat Sears head to
jelly with i big Stone.
Adyices from Elkin Va, state that late
Friday night, Rpbert Moseiy shot and Killed
Mat Guyer, his brother-inla law Mosely
claim sthat GHyer was trying to set his
res itiencc un fire when he shot him. The
place where it WAS said the shooting oc-
Cured was saturated with oil. and there
were a few burned matches ON the ground.
The National Oil Company's cotton oil
mill at Corsica ma. Tex. together with the
machinery, large quantity of cotton seed,
crude nd refined oil, was entirely destroyed
by fire yesterday. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, fully covered by insurance. The
origin Of the fire is supposed to be acci-
dental. Over 100 men were thrown out of
empioyme mt.
The Pittsburg. Pa, police officials claim
to haveinform ationthat Mrs. Harriet Walk
er and her daughter. who, ii was supposed,
were killed by poisoned tea, We're either
murdered or they suicided. The indications
point to murder. They refuse to talk, but it
is thought they secured their information
from Statehood Commissioner Frank Moose,
who has been working on the case. He said
last nj ght that it looks like murder.
Mrs. Scott was arrested in Lima, Ohio.
Yesterday, charged with giving her little
daughter cocaine. Sheis the woman whom
the Humane Society has been wanting to
have arrested for some time. She and her
daughter We're found in room sleeping off
a debauch. 1T alleged a quantity Of CO.
caine and morphine and syringes We're
found n the room. She was held in $3.50
bail. Mrs. Scott's arms are raw from u.s.
ing the syringe.