Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-04
News Briefs.

Baltimore and Philadelphia apple buyers
are IN western Maryland buying up the
crop as 1t hangs on the trees.
st. Stephens Protestant Episcopal Church,
at Eafleville. Cecil county, Md, was re-
opened for service.
The annual meeting Of the Teachers In
stitute for Hartford county, Md, will be
held this week.
George Bartlett committed suicide at Lau-
rel, Md, by stepping in front of train.
The official trial trip of the battleship
Virginia will be held October 10. and that
of the Louisiana on November 2.
The Roanoke plant OF the Iron Company
of America will be removed to Scottsdale
Pa.
A great change has been made In the con-
tract of the extension of the new tidewater
Virginia railway.
The RothwellLovett Company. Martins
burg. w. Va, has passed into the control Of
B. C. P. Rothwel.
Five Kentuckians, all Of them under twen-
ty-five years of age. are accused OF COM
pNcity in the killing of Cecil Crutchfield
the sixteen-year-old boy who was shot to
death during a dance at Ottenheim July 49,
Five thousand pilgrims. many coming
from Canada. visited the shrine Of Our
Lady Of Martyrs at Amsterdam N. Y,
where imposing ceremonies. including pom
tifcal mass, were held.
Mrs. Benjamin Day Of Boston. made de-
spondent by blindness. tried to drown her
self. and was rescued by Harry w. Hy-
land. fourteen years of age. who had to
fight hard to save her.
The bold attempt Of six desperate prison.
ers to escape from the Jail at Ithaca, N.
Y. was frustrated after they had sawed
through Ave OF the six iron bars Of their
cell
A dozen persons were injured at Pueblo,
Col, when seven coaches and baggage
car of westbound Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe passenger train jumped the track.
The ferryboat George H. Powers and the
steamer Young America were in collision
near Hudson. N. Y. The Young America
was sunk and four persons were drowned.
Miss May Muller of New York, who had
been Tilted by Charles Marsh. threw cay
enne pepper into his eyes as he was about
to be married to Miss Lena Coy.
The Johnston warehouse, at Johnston, 8.
c., was consumed by fire. 1t contained about
1000 bales of cotton. valued at $4,000.
There Is on foot In the Maryland Society
of New York movement to tender
ception to Mr.. Charles J. Bonaparte.
An injunction was granted in Pittsburg
restraining twenty-one dealers In oleomar-
garine from further selling that commodity.
Kyler Belts, ninety-six years of age. OF
Austin, Tex. and Mrs. Elizabeth Mobley,
a widow of seventy-four, eloped and were
married.
Jointly" Hughes, once a notorious coun-
terfeiter, is dying In Vineland, N. J., of
cancer Of the liver.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Bradley colored OF
Des Moines, Iowa, have christened their
seventh pair Of twins.
When Andrew Carnegie is installed as
lord rector of st. Andrews University, Oc-
tober II, the university will confer the hon
orary degree of doctor of laws upon him.
Ambassador Reid, Bishop Potter and other
Americans.
1t is now declared that King Oscar has
not changed his mind. and Is still In oppo-
sition to any prince Of the house OF Berna-
deotte ascending the Norwegian throne.
The harbor physician at Hamburg says
the transshipment of Russian emigrants
having been suspended at Hamburg fur
Their cholera infection Is improbable.
A bomb exploded in Barcelona. Spain, on
q parade ground. One woman was killed.
five persons mortal3y wounded and many
others injured.
The physicians OF Berlin believe that the
United States has more to fear from emil
grants shipping at Trieste than from Ger
man ports, as cholera exists In Austrian
Poland.
The British steamer Umgumbi, from LON
don for Cape Town. struck on the reefs OF
Brest. France but the passengers and crew
were rescued.
The departure OF reservists from LAbau
saturday was marked by socialistic rioting,
In which ten persons were killed and fifty
wounded.
The international Prison Congress and
the International Veterinary Congress held
their opening sessions at Budapest.
Seven thousand houses were DESTROYED at
Adrianople. Turkey, by FIRE and many lives
were lost.
The result of the republican primaries In
Aliegany county. Md. IL victory for the
friends OF Representative Pearrs.