Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-22
News Briefs.

News Briefs.
After falling 1876 feet from the central
span of the Williamsburg bridge into East
river New York. Charles Summerfield
workman employed on the structure, was
picked up by tug and is still alive.
William Sylvester was granted full par
don at Tallahassee, Fla, Monday, by the
state board of pardons. Sylvester killed
Edward Burton, master mechanic of the
Seaboard Air Line, at Fernandina three
years ago. He was sentenced to be hanged.
His sentence was committed to life inn
prisonment February II last.
At Chatham, Va, yesterday, Ernest Win
ter was given three years in the penlten-
tiary for horse stealing; James Turpln,
convicted of breaking, one year; Clai-
borne Harvey, on two counts for car break
ing, six weeks on each count. Irwin Cook,
Jacob Barber, Wiley Hall and Harvey
Quinn, convicted of malicious shooting,
were fined $40 each.
w. S. Mccartney, a patient at the Ne
braska State Insane Hospital. member of
a. leading Nebraska family. strangled
to death by. a fellow-patient. DR.. Olas An
cora. Both men had been inmates of the
violent ward.
Arthur Kerr of Buffalo scalded to
death and four of his fellow-workmen seri-
ously injured in Chicago Sunday, when
defective gasket on the boiler of the steam
er Bethlehem blew off allowing the steam
where the men We're at work
Near Red Ash, KY, Sunday Cal Mar
cum shot j. Marsh Siler through the body
the bullet penetrating both lungs With
Others they were playing cards, when a
dispute arose over 20 cents. Siler reached
to get the money, when Marcum shot him,
and then beat him over the head with his
pistol.
Four persons were injured during a fire
that caused $4,000 damage to the st. Vim
cent Infant Asylum at Providence, r. l.,
Sunday. Through splendid exhibit of
bravery on the part of the sisters who con-
duct the asylum and firemen every one of
the 10 children in the home was rescued
uninjured
George w. Dinges of Edinburg. Va mail
clerk on the Southern railway between
Harrisonburg and Washington. filed suit
Saturday for $4,000 damages against that
road for Injuries received in a recent
wreck at Fairfax Hill. between Manassas
and Washington.
Attorney General John Cunneen has de-
cided to apply to the courts for receiver
for the German Bank, which suspended re-
Gently at Buffalo, n. Y.
Several persons are reported to have been
killed during the disturbances at Moscow
Sunday last. Two policemen are suffering
from gunshot wounds. Forty-three of the
ringleaders in the rioting are detained in
custody and will be tried on charges of dis
turbing public order.
King Edward has conferred number of
knghthoods. including one on Joseph Will
son Swan, IA, president of the Faraday
Society inventor of the incandescent cleo
trio lamp bearing his name and a royal
commissioner to the st. Louis exposition.
The appraisal of the property in New
York of the late Philo S. Bennett of Con-
necticut of whose will William j. Bryan
was one of the executors was filed in the
surrogate's office Tuesday.
At farm about eight miles from Vic
toria Tex a double tragedy was enacted
Tuesday Neil Stubs. young farmer
rejected, it is said by Miss Julia Mischulka
shot her to death and then put bullet into
his own brain.
BEFORE a congregation of nearly 5000 per-
sons John Alexander Dowie has declared
that the assets of Zion were $30,OO0,OOO, and
of this sum s21 600, 900 was in Zion City.
He said that the total lndeotness was
less than $JO0,GU.
Four Moorish dancing girls and three
Moorish musicians, all of whom had been
left behind in st. Louis when the worlds
fair closed, have been deported to their
native country by the immigration bureau
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor.
Through the action of the authorities at
Juarez, Mex, taken upon the urgent re-
quest of the State Department at Wash
ington a number of American confidence
men who had congregated at Juarez to
prey upon tourists, have been sent to Jail
under heavy fines. 1t is known that these
men have robbed American tourists of thou
sands of dollars in the last two months.
The heroism of twenty women of
Vincennes Qnd) University is responsible
for saving the life of Miss Katherine Or
gan Following surgical operation Miss
Organ suffered greatly from the loss of
blood The physicians realizing the gravity
of the patients condition informed her
friends Twenty-three young women barred
their arms, from which quantity of blood
was transfused into the circulatory system
of Miss Organ, whose life was saved.
Manuel Egozcue, the mayor of San Juan,
on the steamship Philadelphia, has come
there for medical treatment. His mind
gave way after his reelection a month ago,
Following his removal for alleged malfeas-
ance in office. After Mayor Egozcue was
removed from Office a year ago on charges
cover up alleged extensive populations and
embeZzlements, he was acquitted by a jury
after three days trial
Sixty skilled miners from Pennsylvania
arrived at Zeigler, ILL.,, Tuesday, and i'm
mediately taken inside the stockade at
Letters mine, where there has been a
strike for some time. heavy guard ac-
companied the men. and there was no trou-
BILE.
Sheriff Hall of Holt county, Neb.. has
gone to Phoenix, Ariz., to get President
McGreevy of the failed Elkhorn Valley
Bank. who arrested there. O'Neill,
where McGreevy will be taken, is the place
where Barrett Scott, a defaulting county
treasurer. was hanged by mob about ten
years ago. Threats have been made against
McGrecvy. but the sheriff has made prep
arations to protect his prisoner.
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