Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-05
News Briefs.

| The safe of Dyer & Miller merchants at
| Fort Seybert. Pendleton county. w. va.
| was blown open with dynamite and $4o
! in cash, a bank check of $73.4O and
| number of articles were taken. The store
| was also robbed. The robbers rafded
| Mitchelps blacksmith shop for TOOLS
| Clarence KILLER. aged tWenty-one' un,
| married Of Shenandoah. Va. VINO 1eil
! from a Norfolk and Western freight train
last Tuesday evening and was run over,
| died Sunday at Hagerstown
| William T. Mason, b. and o. engineer,
| residing near Cumberland, Nd, was kill
| ed in a wreck near Grafton Saturday. he
| Jumped after his engine was derailed and
| was struck by car.
| Will Liggins, the negro who was nit on
| the head with a Ratchet in the hands of
Lyn Tyree, at Timber Ridge, Rockbridge
| county. Va, few days ago, will lose one
| eye and may die.
the estate of the late Senator Hanna will
| be compelled to pay to the state tax or
| about $4,000, under the direct inherit
| ance tax law passed by the legislature
! Last week at the tin-plate mill at Mo-
nessen, Pa open-hearth steel was used
| in the manufacture of tin plate for the
| first time in the history OF tin making on
| a double-mill system.
| Former Detective Daniel Ripley. nephew
| of Joseph Ripley. the late chief of the
| Chicago police department, has been
| found guilty by a jury of having muir
| dered Joseph ]. Hopkins in the room Of a
| woman known as Diamond LIZ Airing
ton.
| The municipal government at Santiago
| de Cuba discharged forty sweepers of the
| street cleaning force and fifteen cartmen.
| alleging that the step was necessitated
| by lack of funds Streets have been in a
| filthy condition since the recent food ana
will likely create a pestilance Many fam
| lilies are moving to the country in order
to escape a threatened epidemic.
Martin Otto, the young German sailor
under sentence OF death in Baltimore, has
had his sentence committed to life imprfs-
| a Baltimore salOonkeeper, on February u
| last
| Although the pope gave Mgr. FaIconfo
| the apostolic delegate, permission to remain
| in Italy any length of time, the delegate
| has decided to return to America on the
| steamer Sandman, leaving Naples July u.
John Bell. twenty-five years Of age, was
! run down and cut to pieces in Bristol,
Tenn, Thursday by a train in the Virginia
and Southwestern yards.
Va, Thursday lightning struck the Offices
| and warehouses of the Suffolk Feed and
| Fuel Company, totally destroying them
| The loss will be about $4,000.
Annie Metal of Chicago was given a YER
| dict of $500 in her suit against H. A.
'Morewitz for breach of promise at Newport
News. Va, Thursday. She sued for s., COO
| and this was the second trial.
A dispatch from Dawson. Alaska says:
The gold output to June 80 has been over
$l50,O0O more than during the same period
| last year. The seasons output is estimated
! at more than $13 600 600.
Chiefs OF the Anghera tribe have writ
| ten to the sultan demanding the release OF
| their tribesmen who are imprisoned ut
Tangfer. They say that unless their de-
| mand is granted they will capture am Eng
| hshman and hold him as q hostage for the
| release of the prisoners.