Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-03
News Briefs

The Standard Oil Company has purchased
100000 acres of land in eastern North Caro-
lima, containing several million feet of gum
timber, from which oil barrels will be man
ufactured at a cooperage plant to be estab-
lished on the line of the projected Virginia
and Carolina Coast railroad
The council of the empire at st. Peters,
burg has approved the recommendations of
the passport commission which include uni
versal recognition of foreign passports thus
meeting the representations of the United
States the subject of discrimina ton
against American Jews.
Benjamin Quinette, Chicago painter,
fell from a building and broke his neck
Saturday. He then walked a mile and
half to his home, holding his head In his
hands the entire distance. Physicians de-
clared that his neck had been fractured at
the fifth cervical vertebrae. The mans in
juriesi are expected to prove fatal.
c. M. Gibbons of Winchester. Va, is re-
ported slated for a consular position. the
President having promised. it is said. Vr-
ginia republican delegation that he would
endeavor to find place for Mr. Gibbons
At the soldiers home near Dodge City,
Kan, Daniel Truax has shot and killed
Herman LutZ and John Lee because Lee
had taken a supply of whisky which Truax
had brought from the city. Truax who
was intoxicated at the time Of the shooting.
was brought to Dodge City and placed in
Jail. All three are old soldiers.
At least five men were killed and two
seriously injured by the caving in of the
Gunnison. Col, reclamation mine tunnel
The dead are: Edward Schuler, Gettysburg
Pa: Floyd Woodruff. Montrose; A. B.
STEELE, oklahoma; Charles Hormhart and
James Cassidy.
The Maryland state building commission
met at Annapolis Wednesday, and directed
the contractor to begin ut once to remodel
the old senate chamber in such a way as
to restore it to exactly the condition in
which it was when Gen. George Washing
ton resigned his military commission In it.
The trotter Corintho- by Oratorio II. died
at Lexington, KY, Wednesday, as the result
cealed in his feed. The horse began to
have commissions and veterinarians believe
the wind pipe of the horse was lacerated by
the rat in trying to gnaw his way out.
Laughton Duguid, of Lynchburg, Va.
committed suicide at the home of his par
ents Wednesday. Last winter he tried to
take two-years' course of study in chem
istry in Philadelphia college in one year,
but broke down and had to return home.
The strike of freight handlers in the Della
ware and Hudson and the Boston and Maine
railroad yard at Mechanicsville. n. Y. was
broken Thursday when the men gave up
| the struggle and applied for their old posi-
tons. Only five of the $50 men who took
part in the strike movement were given
work.
George Weinberg, a sailmaker's mate
in the u. s. navy, committed suicide by
drowning at Annapolis Thursday He was
originally from Chicago, Ill, where his ia
ther is now living. He was about thirty
years of age.
Henry Charles Richards, conservative
member of parliament for East Finspury,
and Well-known advocate of old-age pen
sions died in London Thursday of heart
disease. He was born in 1851.
Every union hod carrier in Kansas City,
numbering close to LOCO men, went on
strike Thursday to enforce demands for an
increase in wages. Instead of 80 cents. the
men want 30 cents an hour. Nearly all OF
the strikers are negroes. The strike has
practically tied up all building operations.
Rev. DIR. Simon J. Mcpherson of Prince
tcn N. j., has been elected to deliver the
baccalaureate address at the Lawrenceville
School commencement exercises June Ii.
According to official advices received by
the meteorological department of the gov
eminent of Mexico an active volcano is
about to break forth near the town of Tam
aZ1ia, situated in rich mining district of
the state of Durango For more than two
weeks terrific subterranean noises have
been heard.
Tie proposed ordinance submitted to tie
voters of Los Angeles at a special election
yesterday prohibiting saloons within the
city limits was lost.
1t is reported from Eartham, N. NJ that
the town of La Mesa, on the opposite banks
of the Rio Grande, is under feet
of water. There was no loss of life. The
rise of the river was gradual and all the
people in the town escaped.
Speaker Canaires has resigned the presl-
dency of the Cuban house of representatives
at Havana because he does not agree with
some of the views of the liberal fusion.
The Neue Erie Presse at Vienna has an
nounced that Gen. Baron lFejervary has
practically succeeded in forming cabinet
for Hungary. and that the names of those
who will accept portfolios Under his pre-
miership will be made public at the begin
min gof next week
| The American board of foreign missions
| at Boston received cablegrann yesterday
| by way of Sydney, Australia, stating that
| a cyclone had destroyed it's mission prop
| erty at Kusaie and Ponape. In the Caroline
| Islands. The property is valued at $4,000.
|