Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-01
News Briefs.

Ross Schafer a farmer, aged sixty years.
living near Belmore, Ohio, called John
Ham. aged thirty who had been employed
by him as a far hand from his residence,
and. under cover of the night, shot him to
death from a hiding place, with double
barreled shotgun
county. w Va. are closed, and couple
hundred children are unable to receive in
struction on account of the inability of the
trustees to secure teachers.
Rev. William II. Mitchell of portsmouth,
Va. fifty years old, was stricken with
apoplexy at Newport News Va, while de-
liverng an impaSsioned sermon before the
Friends Churea Sunday.
S. H. Buchanan, banker of Jonesboro,
Ga. was shot in Danville, Va, Saturday
right while in the room of Mrs. w. L.
White at the latter's home. She has been
arrested charged with the crime.
,-he boGy of Rev. George +. Kettel. who
vas drow ned Thursday in the river near
Sparrows Poin-. Md. was recovered Sun
day at a point about 1000 yards from the
point where he was seen to go down.
Norfolk bakers will hold meeting TO con-
s.der the bread situation. Prominent bak-
ers say shat unless prices are materially in
creased in the near future they will have to
close their plants and cease business
The body of William Morris, fireman on
Tie Chesapeake and Ohio steamship Kama
wha. who was drowned October 20, was re-
covered At Newport News. Va, Sunday,
near the spot where he went down
Martin Olson, who shot himself on DC
tober 81 after holding up the bookkeeper OF
Mundy's machine works and trying to get
away with $l,271, died yesterday from his
wounds.
Ed Winter & Co., manufacturers u
blinds sasheS and doors, have mace an as
Segment for the benefit of creditors at Bur-
lington Iowa. Their liabilities are estimat-
ed at s37 900 and assets at $4,000
William j. Bryan left Lincoln yesterday
for final campaign tour OF Nebraska. ne
,tl, ad6
the week Mr. Bryan will cover most or the
eastern half of the state and WILL make
about fifty speeches.
The full intinerary of General Nelson A.
Mi,es' western trip in the interest of the
democratic campaign has not yet been com
pleted by the democratic national commit,
tee 1t was stated, however. that he would
speak in Milwaukee on November ana IN
Indianapolis on November 8.
Cen C. c. Mason. distinguished BRUSH
officer. who served thirty years in lndla
with the Madras army, died yesterday d.
his home near Greenfelds, Cal.,, ageo
eighty years
Owing to the disturbed condition OF Mo-
rocco. the French government is sending
achievements of men TO the 1rontler, anu
Is holding ready two warships to go 10 ports
In the disturbed districts.
A masked man entered saloon at Tuc-
son. Ariz.. yesterday, and. having nned
eight players. hands up against the wall
was relieving them of their money, when
Policeman Wheeler entered and exchanged
shots with him. The bandit fell wounded.
and as he lay on the floor shot himself in
the head. He was overpowered ana taken
to a hospital. His condition is serious.
While a matinee was in progress at the
Grand Opera House in Atlanta, Ga, yester-
day a moving picture machine caught fire
and instantly filled the house with smoke.
stampede followed, but no one was Sc
riously injured
Mrs Matte f. Carter. colored last night
shot and killed her husband. William E.
Carter at Jamestown, n. Y. She then sent
for an officer and gave herself up. She
says the shooting was for an attempted as
sauit On her daughter, Carriers stepdaugh-
ter.
Elizabeth Large. colored. said to be the
oldest woman in Georgia. died at Bruns-
wick, Ga. yesterday. While 1t Is impossible
to tell her age exactly. she was reported to
be between one hundred and eighteen and
one hundred and twenty-three years old.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com
pany yesterday reduced the loan due the
United States government to $19i .SJ0.Sl by
depoSiting $4,000.
August E.. BROKER, cashier of the Man
chester Bank at ST. Louis has filed papers
In suit against nineteen directors and pro-
moters of the Title Guaranty Trust Com
pany. seeking to compel the payment into
the company's treasury of $4SJ, GOO The
company Is named as co-defendant.
Elmer Erickson, captain of the Stoughton
(Wis.) High School foot ball team. died at
a Madison hospital yesterday of conclusion
of the brain. Erickson was injured in a
game with Mount Horeb High School Sat-
urday.
p. s. Coffee was convicted of counterfeit
ing at Atlanta. Ga. yesterday. He was re-
Gently captured there. Eugene Mansion,
brother of Charles A. Mansion, one of the
alleged counterfeiters, attacked and se-
vereiy bruised William Howell one of the