Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
TOLD IN BRIEF.

NEW YORK, December o6.-A. q. Sny-
der. American charge d'affairs at Bogota,
Colombia, arrived here today on the steam
er Allegheny.
NEW ROCHELLE. n. T.. December 90
Andrew G. Damery, a New York broker.
unconscious on Main street here last night,
and died today without having recovered
his senses sufficiently to tell what happened
to him. Damery's skull was fractured he
was lying near the street car tracks.
The pope yesterday received in private
audience Harry ST. George Tucker. presl-
dent OF the jamestown (Va.) Expos ton
COMPANY. who is In Rome with the object
of interesting the italian government In
the exposition
Christmas was productive OF several ac-
cidents in Houston, Tex. A toy lamp ex-
ploded and Thelna Cupper. aged three was
burned to death A. A. Anderson was play
ing Santa Claus when his clothing caught
fire, and there is lettle hope for his re-
covery.
The bodies of Robert Rutherford and c.
w. McMurray, murdered near Diaz, MeXl-
co, reached Ell PaSo Tex, last night.
Two masked men held up and robbed a
Pasadena (Cal. electric car near East Lake
Park Sunday night. There were fifteen pas
sengers on the car, mostly men, and these.
together with the conductor, were forced
to give up their cash. Two men then es-
capped in the darkness.
Mozart play based on the life of the
great composer and VIZ item by Miss Ivy
Root niece of Secretary Root. was given
a portrayal at Harrisburg. Pa, last night.
President Palma gave a dinner at the
palace In Havana last night to Monsignor
Giusseppi Aversa the new papal delegate
to Cuba and Porto Rico and the Most Rev.
Francisco de Barnado, archbishop of San
tiago.
general, J, B. Russell Parsons, will be
Brought from Mexico City, Mexico, Thurs
day, accompanied by his family, to this
country. His fellow countrymen here Will
take appropriate action in memory of the
late official
Former Representative James A. Lock-
hart of Wadesboro n. c., died in the Pres
byterian Hospital at Charlotte N c., Sun
day after prolonged Illness from gas
tritis. He represented the sixth district IN
the Fifty-fourth Congress. but lost his seat
to Charles II. Martin, fusionist, a result
o. a contest. He was fifty-five years old.
Mrs A. B. Dibble, first president of the
with Miss Frances e. Willard, founded the
organization, died at her home in Grass
Valley, Cal. Sunday after a long illness.
She was one of the early settlers in Cali
fornia.
Mrs DrusIla Hall Johnson. daughter OF
a soldier of the American revolution, died
at her home in Northampton. Mass. Sum-
day. aged 100 years. Her father. Aaron
Hall, was taken prisoner by the British
during the struggle for independence and
carried to England.
AS the result of the promiscuous firing OF
revolvers by a party of negroes noisily
celebrating Christmas, Frank Poston. a
prominent attorney of Memphis Tenn. was
shot and killed last night Poston was
standing on the sidewalk in the vicinity of
his home when he was struck by q bullet
from the revolver Of one of the party.
J. D. Flynn. well known In Geographic
circles over the country through his connec-
ton with the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Western Union Telegraph companies, died
at his home In Pittsburg yesterday Of
pneumonia, after three days illness. He
was born in Cleveland on December Is,
1916.
After a Christmas Eve card game one
italian was found dead in the house of
Angelo Giniglio, at Mineola. late yesterday
and another a short distance away, mortal
ly wounded. The latter had crawled few
hundred feet from the card table and
tainted