Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
WIRELESS AT ANNAPOLIS.
Successful Operation to Distant Points
Fencing Final Bouts.
of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ANNAPOLIS, April S, 1905.
The operator at the wireless telegraph sta
| ton at the Naval Academy is now able to
| communicate as far south as Diamond
Shoals lghtship which is 2S0.7 miles from
| Annapolis, and 1873 miles south of Cape
Hatteras Messages were relayed to Wash
| ington today through the wireless tele-
graph station at the academy. This is the
| first satisfactory communication establish
| ed since the pole was struck by lightning
| two weeks ago. The communication with
Diamond Shoals is not the greatest, how
| ever, established from the station here.
! There has been communication with Cape
Cod Mass, a distance of 800 miles.
Considerable interest is being manifested
in the final bouts of the annual fencing
tournament which will be decided tonight
at the armory in the Naval Academy. The
bouts are expected to be closely contested
The events will be with foils duelling
swords, saberS and canes, and three mid
shipmen will contest in each event. The
tourney is for the annual prizes given by
Colonel Thompson of New York and the
Navy Athletic Association.
Miss Frances Terry, daughter of Prof.
N. NJ Terry of the Naval Academy, has
returned from Palm Beach, Fla.
Mail Orderly James X. Caldwell of the
Santee, at the Naval Academy, met with
o painful accident last night in being thrown
violently to the street from his bicycle, bad
ly decorating his head and right eye.
The fencing trophy, which the midship-
men won in the intercollegiate fencing
tournament in New York, was received at
the Naval Academy today 1t is the second
time the cup has been in the possession of
the midshipmen, having been won also in
1901 1t bears the inscription: "Intercolle-
giate Challenge Trophy, Presented by the
Racquet and Tennis Club of New York
City"
Joseph r. Pennell, a senior at ST. Johns
College, has been designated by Presiding
Elder c. Herbert Richardson of the Balti-
more conference to conduct services on the
South River circuit, this county, consisting
of four Methodist Episcopal Churches.
James H. Vansant, the local agent for
Adams Express, is critically ill at his home
here. He has filled the position for thirty
five years.
Former Captain Robert W. Miligan, u s.
N, who is retired today as rear admiral,
will make Annapolis his place of residence,
and will arrive here with his family April
IA, to remain indefinitely.
Admiral Miuigan has been frequently sta
toned here and at one time was head of
the department of steam engineering. His
retirement is by reason of length of serv-
ice. He brought the Oregon around during
the Spanish war and was subsequently made
fleet engineer of the north Atlantic squad
ron His family has always lived at
Annapolis until he was stationed at Nor
folk.
Lieut.. B. c. Decker, U. s. NJ, has return
ed from Washington, D. c., where he was
being examined for promotion.
The Navy Department has approved the
sentence of the general court-martial in the
case of Private Robert F. Vann, u s. NJ
confined for six months at the naval prison.
Boston, Mass, then dishonorably dis
charged from the United States Marine
Corps.