Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-29
News Briefs.

Martha Jackson. colored, died at the Hos
pital ST. Vincent de Paul in Norfolk, Va,
Tuesday, as the result of a knife wound
which the police allege was inflicted by
Sarah Jackson The two women had dis
pute about man, which ended in fight.
DR.. George R. Koch was placed on trial
in the district court at New Ulm, Mimi,
Tuesday on the charge of having muir
dered DR.. Louis A. Gebhardt on the night
of November 1. The defendant is prominent
socially in New Ulm, as was also Mr..
Gebhardt.
Sister Farreria, of the Church of the Ma
tivity, dropped dead as she was coming
from evening prayer in the chapel of the
church at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Tuesday
night. Apoplexy was the cause of death.
Police Chief Sakaroff of shusha, Russia,
was killed on the main street yesterday.
William Cantrel and Joe Chastine were
killed and brother of Chastine seriously
injured near Burnt Mountain, Ga, by a
falling tree. The tree was blown by a high
wind across a small frame house in which
the men were at the time.
The State Bank of Dedham Iowa, was
placed in the hands of a receiver on the
order of State Auditor Carroll yesterday
and an effort will be made to liquidate its
affairs. which are involved through an al
legged $1,000 shortage of Cashier Cation.
The Vienna Neue Frefe Press today says
that the resignation of Premier Won Koer-
rendered yesterday, has been accepted.
Some warships showing the japanese coll
ors passed AMER. sixty miles west of Ba-
tavia, Island of Java, today.
The Rev. Richard Lovett, M. A.. secretary
of the religious tract society since 1899 and
a welI-known writer on religious subjects,
died suddenly in London today of heart dis
ease. He was born in 1851.
Sousa's band. under the personal direc-
ton of John Philip Sousa. sailed for
Liverpool from New York yesterday for
the fourth European tour. The party con-
sists of sixty musicians. with Maud Powell,
violinist; Herbert L. Clarke cornetist, and
Estelle Liebling, soprano, soloists. The
band will return to America about the mid
die of May.
Travis Johnson, a well-known citizen, was
foully murdered in rooms at the Arlington
Club at Pensacola, Fla. Tuesday, his head
being nearly severed from the body by
either a knife or Ratchet. John Griffith,
marine engineer, was arrested almost i'm
mediately after the assassination and
charged with the crime
Max Silverman, travelling salesman for a
New York house, Is in the Grady Hospital
at Atlanta, Ca, in a serious condition, with
the paper wadding from blank pistol
cartridge in his right lung, as a result of
having accidentally been shot by Sol Grood-
zinsky.
William B. Kelly. a veteran clerk in the
general post Office at New York. was found
dead from inhaling illuminating gas early
Tuesday morning in the room he had oc-
cupied for twenty-five years in a boarding
house. It Is believed that the gas was ac-
cidentally turned on. His nearest relative
is brother. priest. living in Washington.
d. G.
The monster B. and o. locomotive, the
largest In the world, which has been on
exhibition at the St. Louis exposition. will
be used on the Pittsburg division between
Hyndman and Sandpatch. The engine
weighs nearly twice as much as the mon
ster twenty-five hundred class engines late
ly put in use on the B. and o. Before
starting on its journey from st. Louis the
parts that were not absolutely necessary
for her to carry on the trip were taken on.
They nllod an ordinary coal car.