Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-22
News Briefs.

Two masked men. armed with pistols.
forced Cashier Gabriel Jones of the South
deliver to them 81 600, all the cash I'm the
safe, YESTERDAY. They then fled In buggy.
John Alexander Dowie and party have
reached Tampico, Mexico, after Inspecting
the offerings of proposed Zion COLONY.
and are ready to take the steamer for Chi
cago Via Havana and New York Dowic
has wired Zion City denying that he is ill.,
He says 20,oo0,00o acres of land has been
offered for his colony
The session of the National Foods Stand
ard committee at Boston yesterday was
devoted to discussion of fruit products
Several manufacturers gave their views as
TO the tentative standards which the board
has adopted. The opinions expressed were
almost wholly technical
Mabel Israel, an American fifteen years
old, whose case of yellow fever has for sew
eral days been under observation at Las
Animas Hospital died yesterday at Ha-
vana, making three deaths out OF eleven
cases No new cases were reported
Lying on couch at his home In West
Philadelphia helpless from paralysis, David
+. Rowe, an elderly man, was shot four
times yesterday by Caspar Cooper his
son-in-law. who then fled from the house
and killed himself by sending a bullet
through his head.
Suit to enjoin ticket scalpers on the
ground that they are interfering with inter-
state commerce was begun at Spokane.
Wash, Monday. The Great Northern filed
complaint against A. Ottinger L. H BiehIer
and nj. II. Miller running a cut-rate ticket
ctnce IN Spokane. The railroad company
gave notice that it will appear before the
federal court December and ask for an
Injunction restraining the defendants from
selling tickets at cut rates.
Mrs. William Holland of Norfolk Va
a young married woman, went to the house
OF Tennie Jackson, colored. where she
Saturday last carried her three-year-oid
adopted child, and asked for shelter With
a hat TIal1a 49,, 1,-a, IL
the contents OF bottle OF laudanum.
1t was announced by prominent broker
age firm at Cleveland yesterday that COM
bination of twelve out of seventeen brewing
companies in and around Albany, N. Y.
has been made under the name of the Hud-
son Valley Breweries Company The capt.
tai stock OF the company will be 81 ,500.0uU.
ALI the division engineers reported at
Panama yesterday to Chief Engineer Ste
vens to receive special instructions before
Mr. Stevens return the telegraph and tele-
phone systems and the fsthmian railroad
win be modernized
Insurance on buildings that are destroyed
during riots is not valid Such is the effect
of the decision of the Ohio supreme court
yesterday in the Akron case of John r.
Whitelaw ys. The Michigan Fire and Ma
rine Insurance Company. Whiteaw owned
a saloon building that was burned by mob
bent on lynchins prisoner.
An invitation has been issued by the stu
dents OF Milan. Italy. to all members OF
Harvard University for convention OF
students to be held in Milan. Italy. In 1906.
during the International exposition there.
The object of the convention is to bring to-
gether educated young men from all over
the world to discuss questions OF interest
to students.
A fresh delay in building the new Man
haitian bridge, at New York, parallel to the
Brooklyn bridge, across East river. was
brought about yesterday through the con-
tinuation of en- injunction restraining the
city of New York from awarding the Penn
sylvania Steel Company the contract for
constructing the bridge.