Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-13
THE WEEK.

Mrs. Augusta Mack made a confession
on the witness stand in the Thorn trial in
New York to the effect that Thorn killed
William Guldensuppe and then cut the
body up; owing to the sudden sickness of
| a juror the trial was postponed until No
vember %. The hanging of Theodore Dur
rant, which had been fixed for yesterday,
| was delayed by the supreme court of CAL
fornia on the ground that no Official in
| formation of the United States Supreme
| Courts action in the case had been re-
ceived and for other reasons. At meet
ing of the New brunswick, N. J., presby-
| terry, Prof Charles w. Shields of Prince
| ton withdrew from the church on account
| of severe criticism Of his acton in signing
| the petition for a liquor license for the
Princeton Inn. passenger train on the
| Louisville, Henderson and st. Louis rail-
| road was wrecked near Lewisport. KY,
and was destroyed by fire that Started
| from 4 car stove. Miss Frances E. VIII
lard gave 5000 toward the fund for the
Chicago temple Of the Woman'S Christian
Temperance Union. Judge 'Grosscup de-
cided at Chicago that the Worlds Column
bian Exposition Company is responsible TO
| the French government and other French
exhibitors for their losses by the fire at the
worlds fair grounds, January ., 1894. Jos.
| E. Kelly, who said he had made a COM
| pact with Satan, which will expire Janu-
airy 10 next, vas sentenced at Dover. N
H, to thirty years Imprisonment for MUIR
der. Bud Beard, on trial at Carrollton
Ala, Oh charge of felonious assault, was
taken from the court house there and
lynched. The marine hospital service an
noCnced that it would aid in a thorough
cleaning and disinfection of the cities in
which yellow fever has been prevailing
Clarence New, a corporal of Company G.,
4th Infantry, was reduced to the ranks. He
| testified against Captain Lowering. The
negro building Of the Georgia State Lunatic
Asylum, at Miledgevflle. was burned; the
700 inmates were saved. Deputy United
States mershals had a battle with a gang
of West Virginia desperadoes in a church
In the mountains near Muddlety; one officer
was killed, another fatally wounded and
the leader of the gang killed Sir Wilfrid
Lauricr. premier of Canada, accompanied
BY other dominion officials, arrived in
Washington and a series Of conferences
was begun between these delegates from
Great Britain's colony and representatives
of the United States concerning trade and
other matters affecting the relations of
the two countries. Benjamin Butterworth,
United States commissioner of patents, was
taken dangerously i'll with pneumonia at
Cleveland, Ohio, and for several days his
life was despaired of; he later gained
strength and recovery was promised Rear
Admiral Alex. c. Rhlnd United States
navy, retired, died.
Foreign.
A strong column Of troops, under General
Westmacalt. fell into an ambush of the
tribesmen in northern India and were
routed with heavy loss; in another fight a
native officer and thirty-five Sikhs of the
British forces were slaughtered by tribes
mer in a ravir.e. 1t was-asserted in Madrid
that the reply of the United States govern
ment to SPANS latest note declared that
the United States had made the greatest eff
forts to stop filibustering. Sir Robert Peel
and the Duke Clement de Cirella arranged
to fight a duel with swords, but the diff
Guilty was explained away and the affair
Was declared of. Glasgow joiners refused
to work in manufactured wood imported
from the United States. The senate of
Peru sanctioned the project of the chamber
of deputies providing for civil marriage
The fifty-sixth anniversary of the birth of
the Prince Of Wales was celebrated in Lon
don. The fight between the Germans and
the Czechs in the Austrian reichsrath
minister of war announced that the Drey-
fus case would not be reopened. The lord
mayors pagenant in London was some
what marred by bad weather. Chile, Peru
and Argentina were reported to be planning
an alliance to wipe Bolivia Off the map and
divide her territory. King Oscar and 9TH
ers contributed money for a Swedish polar
expedition in 1885, An Athens newspaper
demanded that Prince George be tried by
court-martial in connection with the dis
covery that many torpedoes supplied to the
Greeks in the recent war with Turkey were
worthless. A man named Dreyfus, his wife
and three daughters committed suicide in
Paris. Mount Vesuvius began active erup-
ton. 1t was decided to appeal to Europe |
anu Amerlca ZOE $lUU,UUU 10 reileVe distress
in Greece. The pope received Archbishops
Kahn of st. Louis and Bruchesi Of Mon
treal General Weyler sailed from Porto |
Rico for Spain. Horatio David Davies. the |
new lord mayor Of London, was installed
Amy Sedgwick, the English actress, died. |
General Blanco issued an edict pardoning
in full all those who have been prosecuted |
In Cuba for the crime of rebellion. The
Russian minister at Washington. NJ. e. u,
Kotzebue, was relieved at his own reque !
and Count Cassini, the present Russi, -. /
minister at Picking. was appointed in his |
place. A conference Of engineers and ex- |
plorers was called at st. Petersburg to dis |
cuss the feasibility Of constructing an ice- |
breaking steamer to penetrate the arctic /
seas. The police at Barcelona, Spain, seized /
800 rides intended for the Carlists. John
Bagnold Burgess. the distinguished Eng /
lish painter. died In London. in his sixty /
eighth year.
In the District.
Chairman Cannon Of the House appro-
priations COMMITTEES announced that the
subcommittee on the District Of Columbia