Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-21
News Briefs.

Ed Hall, the negro who attempted a GRIM
inal assault on Mrs, Mack AUSTIN
sentenced to seven years in the penitenti-
airy at Charlotte n. c.. Friday.
A dispatch Thursday night from Somer-
set. a., states that DR.. A. c. Barron, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church of Char
iotte, n. c., was stricken with paralysis
at noon, just as he was preparing TO start
for Charlotte.
A monument to the confederate dead was
unveiled and a new court house dedicated
Thursday at Louisa. Va. Addresses were
delivered by eX-Gov. Cameron on The
Confederate Soldier" and Rev. DR.. John ".
Jones on What Louisa Did in the War
Between the States"
Caleb Burns, a retired farmer. died at
his residence near Charlestown, w Va
Thursday. aged seventy-stx years. his
birthday anniversary. He is survived by
four children.
The dead body of Dave Williams. colored.
a Southern railroad section hand. was
found the track near StokeSland Va.
Thursday. Wounds on the body indicated
that Williams was murdered and placed on
the railroad track by his assailant.
John Reid. brakeman on the n. and W.
road, fell from a train near Rices Depot.
Va, Wednesday night, and Instantly
killed. His body was cut in two.
The Cranberry Inn. one of the most popu-
lar and prettiest hotels in the western North
Carolina mountains, located three-quarters
of mile from Cranberry, n. g, was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday causing a loss
of $4,000, on which there was no insur-
ance.
Capt Lyman Hall. president of the Georgia
School of Technology at Atlanta, died at a
sanitarium in Dansville n. Y, Thursday.
Capt. Hall was forty-five years of age
and graduated at West Point Military
Acadamy in 1881.
George H. Thompson, city passenger
agent of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie rail-
road. aged thirty-three. died at Pittsburg
Thursday OF pneumonia after an Illness OF
but a few days. He was born in Cleveland.
Ohio, where he entered the service of the
Lake Shore.
L. A. Somers. a veteran telegraph man.
died at Cleveland Thursday of dilation OF
the heart, aged siXty-sfX years. He has
been connected with the telegraph business
practically since its inception, having been
associated with J. II. Wade, Arson Stager
and other prominent Western Union Off
Gals.
In an examination at Jackson, Miss, to
decide the West Point cadetship in Repre-
sentative Williams district, Charles NJ.
Haverkamp of Yagoo City was selected,
with Earl Johnson of Utica alternate.
The United States armored cruiser Brook
Ign arrived at Boston Thursday TO COAL and
on Saturday, with the Tacoma, will take
on board the Massachusetts naval reserve
for Its annual cruise
An imperial decree has been issued at St
Petersburg authorizing an internal loan OF
s0o,u00OU0 rubleS (S100,o 900 at per cent.
John F. Foster of England, where he rides
with the Quorn hounds was probably ia
tally hurt on tie Meadowbrook polo field at
Hampstead, L. l., Thursday. His right leg
was broken and he suffered internal inju-
ries, from which. it is feared, he will die.
Confirmation of the report that the Mar
shall Islands were visited by hurricane
and tidal wave on June 80 has been re-
ceived. One hundred lives were lost
The foreign office at st. Petersburg denies
categorically and officially the report that
Count Lamsdorff. the foreign minister has
resigned or has attempted to resign.
William w. Russell, the American minis
ter, Will present his credentials to President
Castro at Caracas. Venezuela, August -.
The will of Alan Wood, who made his mil
lions In Pfttsburg and who died on Sunday
last, was filed for probate in New York
Friday. The executors, in their petition,
estimate that he owned $4,000 worth of
sonal property is believed TO be in the
neighborheod of s. COG, COO.
Saturday night Mrs Chester Palmer. aged
thirty-three years, was shot and instantly
killed at FishkilI Landing by Ferris Mead
who was employed in the place. Mead gave
himself up. He is twenty-four years Old
and is believed to be insane. His father is
in an asylum.
William Hartman. colored. living near
Belle Haven. Va. Saturday night shot and
killed his wife. Lizzie Ann Hartman, and
William Stevens, also eolored
The death at Florence, Italy, of Oreste
Bimboni, the composer and conductor, Is
reported. Bimboni was director of a grand
opera school in Boston. and went abroad
cerous growth. He was sixty-three years
of age and formerly conductor for the
Grau and Mapleson grand opera COM
panies of New York.