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

Richmond Pearson. United States minis
ter to Persia, and his family arrived at
New York Tuesday on the steamer Stat
endam from Rotterdam.
The summer homes Of George Judson of
Morriston. Mrs. L. r. Plumb Of Ogdens-
burg and w. II. Hall of Gouverneur. located
at Terrace Park. summer resort ten miles
from Ogdensburg, N. Y, were burned. with
the contents, Monday.
During a thunderstorm in Amherst coun-
ty. Va, Tuesday, Clarence Ware. a young
white man. who was blowing in his IA
theirs field, was instantly killed, with his
horse.
Sanford Vaughan, tr., who admitted to
the detectives that he fired the shot that
killed Attorney Suter at Louisville. KY,
Sunday. made a statement Monday con-
tradicting his former story.
Prof John Bell Hatcher. B. s., curator
of vertebrate paleontOlogy in the Carnegie
Museum at Pittsburg. and one Of the most
noted scientists in the United States, Is
dead. victim Of typhoid fever
Gen. Reinaldo Flores died Sunday at
Lima. Peru He took prominent part in
Ecuadorian politics until 1895, when he
was ex1led to Peru.
Frank Loeffier. aged thirty nine, of Digh-
ton, Mich is under arrest charged with
shooting and killing Miss Louisa Yakel,
aged twenty-five. at Miss Yakers home In
Grand Rapids
VIM. H. Jones of Eatonton. Ga. and Miss
Myrtle Harper of Hancock county. Ga.
while bathing in the Oconee river Monday
were drowned.
The car has appointed Prince John
Obolensky to succeed Gen. Bobrtkoff
as governor general of Finland Prince
Obolensky formerly was governor of Kher-
son and later of Kharkoff.
Sir William Henry Rattigan, member of
parliament for northeast LanarkShire, was
killed Monday at London in a motor acci-
dent.
at London have announced their intention
of joining the parliamentary party which
will visit the st. Louis exposition in the
autumn.
says that $35 per bond Of the overdue in
terest on the Colombian debt will be paid
Immediately, and that the regular service
Of the debt hereafter has been arranged.
Martin Ockard. aged thirty years. an iron
worker of Baltimore. shot and killed Eu
genie Hildebrand, aged thirtyseven years.
at her home In Philadelphia Monday, and
afterward killed himself.
surveying corps started work In Fred
erick. Nd, Monday on the final survey
for the Baltimore and Frederick electric
railway.
Jerome Walker. colored was struck by a
Norfolk and Western train at GilmertOn,
five miles from Portsmouth, Va, Monday
and instantly killed.
Capt. Wickliffe ]. Bohannon. master of
the old Bay line steamer Alabama, is dead
at the Maryland University Hospital. in
Baltimore. OF cancer Of the stomach.
Martha Billups, colOred woman. was
SnOt ana Instantly killed MONDAY on the
tracks Of the Norfolk and Southern rail-
road at Norfolk, Va, by an unknown
negro.
While crossing the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railroad tracks in a buggy at Orrvilie.
Ohio, Sunday evening. Miss Pauline Gilman
was almost instantly killed.
Near Gainesville, Greensville county. Va,
Saturday. an Office in the yard of p F.
Weaver was burned. and Boiling Bass, a
well-known man. lost his life. He was
ninety-two.
In order to deter people as much as pos
sible from carrying concealed weapons Po-
lice Justice Crutchfield of Richmond Va,
has raised the punishment to $10O fine and
thirty days in Jail
While a party of young people from Vim
ton, Va. were driving In the vicinity of
Blue Ridge Springs the harness broke. pre-
cipitatfng the carriage over a cliff and
throwing the occupants against q huge
boulder. Miss Gertie Stin was fatally in
tured.
BY the premature explosion of a cannon
at Colfax. ILL.,, Monday. Leo Chapman.
Roy Harris. Fred Grending and Ralph
Hester were perhaps fatally injured
After fighting desperately to save his
boarded earnings. George Uhring. Slay
was shot and killed by a man supposed to
be Edward Floyd. a negro, who planned to.
steal his money, at Bessemer. Pa. Sunday.