Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-05
News Briefs.

The mountain fire that was started by
burning brush above Smoketown. near
Hagerstown, Nd, on the land of Charles
Shank is now nearly four miles long and
extends from Black Rock over the line into
Frederick county. Scores of men have been
Fighting the fire.
Frederick G. Kingsley. convicted at Nor
folk Of killing Capt. A. c. Paul of the
Hampton Soldiers Home where both were
inmates, drawing pensions. is out of jail
again. owing to his age, wounds and In
firmities. His attorney has arranged to
send him to the Soldiers Home at Johnson
City, Tenn. Kingsley says he was born in
Maryland more than seventy years ago and
was a minstrel after the war.
Arthur Robinson, colored. charged with
the murder of Edward Knoll, also colored.
pleaded guilty at Rockville. Nd. Monday
to murder in the second degree, and was
sentenced to ten years in the Maryland
penitentiary.
Charles r. Fdshburne, the Roanoke (Va.)
banker was taken to the state peniten-
tiary. at Richmond. Saturday night to be-
gin a sentence Of five years for killing DR..
Fred Lefew. The supreme court deniei
a writ of error. and Gov. Montague refused
executive clemency.
American Minister Gummere, on behalf of
President Roosevelt, has presented to Mulai
Ali and Mulai Hamed, shereefs Of Wazan,
Morocco, handsomely inscribed rifles In rec
ognition of their services in the Perdicaris
affair.
The trustees of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity at Baltimore, elected DR.. Lewellyn
Franklin Barker of the University of Chi
cago and Rush Medical College to succeed
DR.. William Osler, resigned. DR.. William
Sydney Thayer. associate professor of med
icine in the Johns Hopkins University, was
elected professor OF clinical medicine.
James j. Hill. president of the Great
Northern railroad, arrived at Lakewood,
N. J.. Monday with his wife In special
She stood the trim from 1eky1 Is
land. GA, better than was expected Mrs.
Hill Is much Improved" said Mr.. Hill at
the railroad station. There Is really moth
ing to say. She is not dangerously ILL"
Rev. James F. Kelly. for the last fifteen
years pastor of st. Margarets Church. at
Riverdale avenue and Beach street, New
York was found dead in bed early Mon,
day morning. of spinal meningitis He fell
Ill week ago last Saturday.
Mrs. Louise Fisk, daughter of Alexander
Green of Philadelphia and widow of Har-
vey Fisk, the well-known New YORK bank
err died at Atlantic City, N. J.. Monday
from ailments incident to old age In her
seventy-first year.
The Iowa supreme court has re-
Gently handed down decision sus-
tanning the amendment to the state
constitution providing for biennial IN
stead of annual elections. BY the adop-
ton of this amendment there Will be no
general election in Iowa this fall, and
terms of all officers whose terms expire
then are extended one year.
wholesale silk robbery, supposed to be
the work of the same gang that has re-
Gently been operating in Indiana towns,
has been committed at Cedar Rapids. Iowa.
Reps & Jungk's store was broken into by
thieves, who secured 5000 yards of silk,
valued at 5000.
The report on fee conditions in the great
lakes issued by Inspector Conger OF the
weather bureau at Detroit yesterday
says that the ice has wasted rap
idly during the past week. and that 1t is
probable that navigation can be opened by
April 10.