Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-26

Col. Charles A Jewell died at Hartford
Conn, last night. aged sixtyfour years.
He was the youngest son of Pliny Jewell
ST., the founder of the firm of P. Jewell &
Sons and was brother of former Gov.
Marshall Jewell of Connecticut. SUISSE
quently minister to Russia and Postmaster
General under President Grant.
George Rodrigues. the Paris banker has
committed suicide 1t Is stated that the
f1nancier lost heavily in the recent sharp
decline in rentes. The liabilities Of his
bank are given out as 100000.
The chamber of deputies at Rome by a
large majority has voted the military bud
get.
After a quarrel with her lover, who re-
fused to return to her. Eugenia Cook. a
young girl, went down to the Hudson river
at Albany. N. Y. last night. jumped over
board and drowned herself. Life preserv-
ers were thrown to her, but she refused to
touch them and sank before help could
reach her
The conference Of the Southern Colleges
Y. M. c. A Students closed at Asheville,
N. c., last night with an address on Life
Work for Young Men," by John r. Mott
who stated that he regarded the conference
just ended as the most successful yet held.
The Norwegian steamer George Dumois.
Capt. Sorensen. which passed in the Vir-
ginia capes last night. had her bow badly
damaged In collision at sea with the
schooner Clara E. Bergen Capt. Edwards
The schooner was sunk, but the crew was
saved by the Dumois.
Joseph Birckhead. aged thirty years,
Southern railway trackwalker, fell asleep
on the track nine miles north Of Charlottes-
Vile, Va, yesterday and was struck by
south-bound fast mail train No. 81 and In
stantly killed.
Robert KittIe, a miner, and Mrs. John
McCuftin. at whose home Kittle was max
ing cartridges in Coalition. w. Va, were
frightfully burned by the explosion of a
twenty-pound key Of powder yesterday.
The tenth annual meeting of the Mary
land State Bar Association will be held in
Hagerstown Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday Of this week. Ex-Judge J. A c.
Bond OF Westminster, president of the as
ISOLATION. will deliver the annual address
Richard H. Alvey OF Hagerstown will de-
liver an address Wednesday evening on
1.-THE Bar Of Maryland"
Ex-Policeman McCallister and Policeman
Burt Foster engaged in a desperate combat
in cafe at Huntington. w. Va. yesterday
morning. the result OF a discussion over
municipal politics. McCallister knocked
Foster down with club. The latter sue
ceeded In drawing pistol and fred one
shot, the bullet completely tearing away
McCaliister's left ear and entering the
skull. McCallister is dying
Frank WEIGH. aged about thtrty-fye
years, employed On the western MARYLAND
operations near Oldtown, was found in
South Cumberland. Md. yesterday with a
dangerous bullet wound. He was In a sa
loon braW In Oldtown Saturday. ana had
provoked an aged man. bantering him to
shoot. The man at last did shoot using a
.SS-calfber Colt. WEIGH refuses TO give the
name OF his assaifant.
Lewis Stayton. aged sixty-four years wbo
lived near Burrsvtlls. Md. died at his home
yesterday under circumstances which point
to murder. Charles Stayton. son Of fhe
dead man Il held At Denton. He Is about
twenty-five years old and has been in
prison several times. "A few years ago he
was sentenced to the house of correction
for threatening TO kill Enos C1eaves of
Burrsviiie.
An unknown man. whose name Is EVIL
IDENTIFY John Nelson. committed suicide yes
terday at Wtlkesbarre. Pa. by shooting
himself while walking along the river COM
mons. The only clew that will probably
lead to his identity was letter addressed
to John Nelson, Braddock. Pa. signed by
Oscar Nelson. brother OF the suicide.
Fire in the retail shopping district Of
Nashville. Tenn. yesterday caused damage
estimated at between $4,000 and 1850, 600
The flames were discovered In the Palace
a big department store occupied by Harris
Brothers and Jacobus Brothers.
This development had the effect of cur
failing active trading in the stock market
to some extent. but there was little impair
msnt In consequence OF the markets tone.