Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-19
News Briefs.

Yesterdays sessions Of the National Prison
Association were held at Lake George,
N. Y. the members leaving for that point
at an early hour in the morning. The pro-
gram for yesterday consisted of a discus
sion Of the work Of prison chaplain. The
delegates returned to the city for the night
session.
R. ]. Tobin, one of the founders OF the
former president died yesterday after a
lingering Illness. He formerly was police
commissioner and was one Of the best
known citizens of San Francisco.
United States Commissioner Garrett OF
Newport News, Va. has dismissed the war
rents for alleged mutiny brought against
s,:y members of the fve-masted schooner
Grace A. Martin of Bath, Me-, and the men
have returned to the vessel which is st;n
in Hampton roads.
entific School Of Yale University has an
nounced at New Haven. Conn.,, gift Of
5000 to the board Of trustees of the school
from E. J. Moore Of Philadelphia. Pa. This
students of the school, and the income
from 1t will be loaned to needy students
under regulations to be established by the
board Of trustees.
The United States second cruiser squad
ron, under command OF Rear Admiral
Brownson, en- route to the far east, arrived
at Gibraltar yesterday and exchanged sa-
lutes with the British cruiser squadron,
Rear AQmral Prince LOUIS OF bdtCeHDerR
commanding, and the garrison. The Ameri-
can vessels are expected to remain there
for five days.
Monsignor Miscatelli, project of the Apos-
tolc Palace. has denied emphatlcally at
Rome, that the Vatican, as has been
reported, is employing any detectives to
secure the arrest of persons suspected Of
stealing art treasures. No important thefts
from the Vatican have occurred
The United States tug Iroquois has re-
IN nj frnn 1Sl nd
which she visited for the purpose of enab-
ling Capt. Carter to investigate and report
upon the amount of work necessary for
the deepening of the harbor there. Capt.
Carter saws that about 800, 900 cubic yards
will have to be dug out
Coroner Walsh, at San Francisco, has is
sued his annual report OF deaths for the
year ending June 80, 1906. Walsh figures
caused by the earthquake and fire, 343
deaths were accidental, 1T were suicides
and SO homicides, 1900 died of natural
causes, a total of 2,196 for the year.
Reports received at Manila from the pu-
nitive expeditions sent into the interior
of the island of Leyte in pursuit of the
Pulajanes, state that as result Of the re-
cent attacks by the troops the Pulajanes
have broken up into small parties. The
large band near La Paz has been dispersed.
The announcement was made yesterday
in New Haven, Conn.,, that the Yale AL
umni Weekly has been purchased by Clar-
ence 8. Day, Jr., or New YORK CITY, class
Of 1896. The managing editor will be Edwin
Oviatt, class of 1896. of New Haven. Conn.
The Rochester German Insurance Com
pany of Rochester, N. Y, is about to with
draw from the Pacific coast. Notice to that
effect has been sent far and wide to all
coast agents by H. F. Atwood, the COM
panys secretary. who is in San Francisco
at the present time.
The paint shop of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway, at Sedalia, Mo-, burned
yesterday. Eleven cars and coaches, in
GLIDING the private car of E. P. Allen, vice
president and general manager of the COM
pany, were also destroyed. Loss 100000.
Thomas W. Alexander. the cotton broker
Of Augusta, Ga. under arrest at Pittsburg, as
q fugitive from justice left there last night
for home in charge Of Lieutenant of Police
Collins. Lieutenant Collins says the
amount involved is between $15O,0O0 and
100000.
Maj Max Wesendorf, retired United
States army officer. died in New York Mon
day at the Elizabeth General Hospital, OF
disease Of the. stomach. He was born in
Denstett, Germany, seventy-four years ago.
As a first lieutenant in the LIST Washington
Territory Cavalry. he saw service in the
civil war. and subsequently with the 21st
Infantry, in which, by a special act of
Congress, he was made major. The burial
will be in Arlington cemetery