Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-06
News Briefs.

Walter E. Northrup, president of the Cen
trail Bank Of Oneida, n Y, which collapsed
two months ago, died suddenly at his
home there Wednesday afternoon.
The new passenger steamer Prince Ar
thur, which the Southern Pacific is to
operate to Havana in connection with a
flying train from Chicago over the Illinois
Central, will make her first sailing from
New Orleans October Is.
Judge Vandeventer, at st. Paul, Mimi,
has decided that the officers of the Hen
nepin Paper Company, the tasea Pa
per Company and the Northwest Paper
Company should appear before the United
States examiner and answer such ques-
tons as might be asked of them in the
hearing of the case OF the United States
against the General Paper Company and
twenty-three other defendants.
Mrs. Martha Fannon made an almost sue
cesSful attempt TO cut out the tongue OF
her former husband, James Green, with L
butcher knife. at Kansas City. No, be-
cause, as she had alleged he had slandered
her. When Green was taken to the police
station his tongue was hanging by a mere
thread.
The Commercial Museums of Phiiadel-
phia received official notification that
commercial representative of Abyssinia Is
coming there He bears letter OF intro
duction to the Commercial Museums, and
is regularly accredited by Emperor Meme
liz.
Officer James Bradley and Edward CALI
CHER had an exciting pistol fight in Abing-
don, Va, Monday night; Bradley was
ously In the thigh. Physicians say that
Gallagher cannot live.
Capt Meyers Bennett. for nineteen years
master of the schooner Cassie f. Bronson
of New York died at New London. Conn,
Tuesday night. He was ffty-one years old
and native of Barnegat, N. j. The body
will be taken to Berkeley, Va, for burial.
The Standard Oil Company at Pittsburg
yesterday advanced the price of Pennsylva-
ar,d oil :. @ n
oil were not changed The quotations fol-
low: Pennsylvania, 1856; Tiona, les; Corning,
los; Newcastle, 1873; Cabel, III; North Lima,
o. South Lima and Indiana SO; Somerset,
SO, and Raglan, 40.
special dispatch to Toxic from Moji
Wednesday announced that several Jap
anese warships have passed Shimonoseki
bound eastward, evidently TO take part in
the coming naval review in honor of the
visiting British squadron.
Helena, daughter of Robert A L. Dick,
attorney of Homecoming, formerly of Wash
ington, and niece of David Z. Dick, repub-
lican candidate for state senator, fell down
stairway at Cumberland. Md, Tuesday
and fractured her skull. Her condition is
critical
Gen. Turner Ashby Camp, Confederate
Veterans, has appointed Miss Katharine
Boyd daughter of DIR. and Mrs Philip W.
Boyd of Winchester, sponsor to represent
the camp at the coming reunion of the
Grand Camp of Virginia, at Petersburg, Oc-
tober 1921.
Alexander Wilson. aged about thirty years.
married, was instantly killed by fan of
roof coal at the Columbia mine of the
Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company at
Homecoming. Md. Just three months ago
his father Alexander B. Wilson. killed
in Ocean mine. No. i.
Samuel Howard, fourteen years old, was
instantly killed bya live wire on the grounds
ef the Sacred Heart Academy, Unionport.
N Y, Tuesday night. He grasped a steel guy
cal