Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-17
News Briefs.

| DR.. J. +. Force, vino was president Of tho
Northwestern Life Insurance Company
when it was reorgan ized as the Northwest
| ern National Life, but who is now under in
dictment for grand larceny. returned to
Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday. from Los
Angeles, Cal, of his accord. Tho
amount he is charged with embezzlng 10
| Sl5, eco.
AT a meeting of the directors Of the Ten
nessee Central Railroad at Nashville Tues
day William Z. Collier OF Nashville was
| elected vice president OF the road.
The British steamer Bavaria, bound from
Barry for Bordeaux, has been lost off Belle
Isle. France. Part of her crew has been
landed at Noirmouter. France. The cap
tain and fourteen men are missing.
1t is reported that in the government OF
Erivan 1oO Armen!lns from a number OF
villages attacked the Tartar village of Gors
killing 100 of the villagers and plundered
| and burned all property.
After spending seventeen hours on a small
lock a mile off Bradford. in Long Island
sound. Harold +. Damon of Honolulu, Will
liam Baxter. jr.. of Wilmington. Del. and
w. III. Coursen of Scranton, Pa, three Yale
students, were rescued late last night from
their periious position by Capt. Edward
Baldwin of Bradford, who put out from
that place in a naphtha launch.
Two men were killed and two others Sc
rfously injured in a collision in the Bes-
semer yards at Braddock,- Pa yesterday
The dead are Robert ]. Loughrey OF Rade-
baugh. Pa, and Harry p. Parr of Du-
quesne. Pa. w. r. Boles was Injured in
| ternally and may die. and James Grassland
was scalded by escaping steam. All are
railroad men.
Harry c. Campion, aged sixty-fve years,
head of the wholesale drug firm of J. W.
Campion & Co. and a member OF the Union
League dled IN hospital at Philadelphia
as result of injuries received by being
run over by q trolley car
Seven girls were injured and damage
amounting to about $4,000 was caused by
hre which destroyed the five-story fac
tory building at Leonard and Meserole
street. Brooklyn, Tuesday afternoon. About
COO girls were employed in the build
ing and some of them were too panic
stricken TO walt for the fremen TO reach
them, and began jumping from the win
dows into the life-saving net.
Otto Hambruster attempted to initiate q
local clergyman's pronunciation of the
good old Methodist word Amen" IN
saloon at Nondovi. Wis, and dislocated
ms Jaw IN the attempt. Five men managed
TO help him reclose the jaw after two hours
work and suffering intense pain
Elmer H Dearth, former insurance COM
missioner, indicted on a charge of receiving
bride of $500 from w. F. Bechtel former
president of the Northwestern Life Insur-
ance Company, appeared in court a Mime
apolis, Mimi, Monday to withdraw his
plea or not guilty and enter a demurrer to
the indictment upon the ground that the
onenSe stated does not constitute a public
offense and that the charges are not direct
and certain. Arguments will be heard Mo-
veDber %.
Rudolph Aronson. who has Just returned
TO Paris from Italy, announces that he has
concluded arrangements with Ruggero Le-
orcavallo. the composer of 81 Pagliacci"
FOR an American tour, beginning in Octo-
Der. 1906. Sfgnor I.eoncayallo Will narsonaI
ly conduct II Pagliacci" and excerpts from
his latest opera, Roland Won Berlin f"
which he composed for Emperor William,
and also his "Bohme." "Zaza" and Chat
terton."
The Broderic,x & Wind Engineering ana
Construction Company OF New York city.
the contractors having in charge the con-
struction of quarters for some of the off,
GERS and the new cadet barracks at West
Point, has suspended work on their con-
tract, thereby throwing out OF employment
over three hundred men. The reasons for
the suspension are not given. The con-
tracts aggregate over $4,000. on which
approximately % per cent OF the work has
been completed.
The ocean-going barge Frank Pendleton
was cut In two and sunk by the Merchants
and Miners Transportatio Company5
steamer Kershaw off the Lambert's Point
coal piers in the outer Norfolk harbor
the Kershaw was coming in yesterday from
Boston loaded with freight and passengers.
Twelve oil well drllers from the north
western Pennsylvania oil fields will leave
Pittsburg for New York today and will sail
for Roumania on Saturday. The party is
made up of experts in their line and goes
to Roumania under contract with the
Standard on Company to develop the oil
field of that country.
The preliminary contest for the mayor
atty of the city of Boston ended yesterday,
when the joint primaries were held.
The democratic candidates were Edward
]. Donovan and former Congressman John
F. Fitzgerald. while three republican cand.-
dates were in the feld-Speaker Louis A.
rockingham of the state house OF repre-
sentatives. former Municipal Judge Henry
s. Dewey and State Senator Edward B.
Calender.