Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-01

lions. in accordance with the treaty. rn
Gently signed between Sweden and Norway
Is actively proceeding.
CHICAGO. December Mrs. Anna Nor
rlIi. widow of the late Bishop Stephen Nj
merrill. VINO died in New Jersey November
~ dled in this city last night of paralysis
of the heart.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, December Ia
belated passenger train on the 500 line
arrived here last evening, having been
stalled for three days on the Dakota pra1-
rJes In the midst Of raging blizzard wiIh
tie temperature as low as % degrees The
train was filed with passengers INT the
cars were warm and as food was sent to
the snow-bound travellers from the nearest
station they did not suffer except from the
delay.
PARIS. December 1.-Mr Meyer. Ameri-
can ambassador to Russia. left Paris for
Berlin today. The American embassy has
received dispatch from the embassy at
St Petersburg saying that all the mem
bers of the staff are well.
PARIS. December Premier Rouvier to-
day announced 10 the council of ministers
that the Moroccan conference had been
postponed until January owing 20 the de-
lay In the arrival of the Moroccan dele
gates.
SANTIAGO, Chile. December 1.-The Chill
ian government proposes to rent a porti{n
of the state railways. The idea has met
with the approval of public opinion
The plant of the Illinois Match Company
at Joliet, H., was destroyed by fire Wednes-
day. Loss on stock and machinery, none
of which was insured. is 100. The build
ing was insured.
Great excitement prevails in the gold
fields bordering on the Strait of Magellan
Many compa MES have been formed AT Son
hls han,,
opening of the fields and washeries The
territory is said 70 be second Klondike
Official announcement was published at
Cincinnati Wednesday that Henry ]. Rhein
general passenger agent of the Lake Erie
and Western. at Cleveland, will succeed
Warren j. Lynch as general passenger
agent of the Big Four at Cincinnati The
latter Will become passenger traffic man
ager west of Buffalo for the New York
Central lines, with headquarters at Chi
cago.
The body of Ernest Thillman. aged
thirty-eight, a night watchman. was taken
from the Detroit river at Detroit Wednes-
day. The police concluded Thillman COM
mitted suicide.
The body Of Miss Mabel A Williams, a.
member of the Junior class at Wellesley
tMass.) College. who had been missing
from her room since Sunday night was
found in the Charles river by the police
Wednesday. Miss Williams is said to have
written to her mother In Silver Lane.
Conn, that she would drown herself and
also told where her body might be found
The Jalisco Railway Company has been
organized at Portland, Me-. with a capital
stock OF $7500,000, of which 5000 600 is
common and the remainder preferred The
purpose of the company is to construct a
railway from Guadalajara to a point on
the coast of the Pacific near ChamelaIn-
ialisco and through line near Guadala-
lara to La Soiedad.
The body OF John N. Tisdale, a wealthy
mining operator who disappeared from
New York city November s. was found
Wednesday In the Harlem river. On the
body were found a gold watch with the
initials ~. N. T." and about $40 In money
William Bayard de Biliier identified the
body.
Constant Coquelin (Coquelin Aine) the
French actor, has been suffering at Paris
from pulmonary congestion. but his condl-
ton is improved. and he is no longer In
danger.
Coal operators In the Pittsburg district
have decided to offer the 81, coo members of