Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-05
News Briefs.

Harry WEIGH, one of the men who plead
ed guilty to conspiracy with Rev. George
G.. Ware to defraud the government by IL
legal land entries was sentenced at Omaha
Saturday to six months Imprisonment on
each of the two counts against him, the
sentence to run concurrenly A fine of
$50 was included in the sentence
John ]. Bowes, the British subject who
served three terms of enlistment in the
United States army, and who has been de-
tanned at Boston since January 49, will
shortly go to the soldiers home at Togus,
Me. immigration Commissioner George P.
Billings said: There has never been any
intention at this port to deport the man.
Fire at Richmond, KY, Saturday, which
at one time was so threatening that Win
chester was called on for aid, did dam
age aggregating $4,000. The fire started
in tine dry goods house of w. D. Oldham
& Co.
Madame Therese Humbert, the swindIer,
will be released from prison at Paris, and
Roman Daurignac has left for Rennes
accompanied by nurse, to bring her to
Paris.
Work on the Kesler tunnel. on the sixty
five-mile Wabash connection link between
Cumberland. Nd. and Cherry Run, was
completed Saturday, opening the link con-
Meeting the Wabash with the Atlantic sea-
board
The forthcoming gunnery report for the
British navy for 1865 will show the re-
points of 6S.26, against 1922 for 1904 The
best showing was made by the Channel
Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets.
A Madrid correspondent says that owing
to the British court being in mourning for
King Christian of Denmark, X ng Edward =
official visit to Madrid will not take place
In the spring, and that for the same reason
King Alfonso's marriage to Princess Ena Of
Battenberg has been postponed until June.
A blizzard caused the mercury to fall
fxvr.1 Afc.
Tex.s Saturday. 1t swept all through CEN
trai and southern Texas. Saturday night
the mercury registered % degrees above, a
drop of AZ degrees. A heavy rainfall ac-
companied the norther.
All the buildings of the Home for the
Aged. in the Faubourg de Paris, kept by
the Little Sisters of the Poor, were de-
stroyed by fire Saturday night. Nine
bodies have been found in the ruins. Three
women died from fright. Chaplain Stenou.
while attempting to save the inmates OF
the home. fell and was seriously injured.
Richard A. Garfield former gambling
king. has announced that ION account or
the children he had given zap gambling
forever. He absolutely denied the state
ment that he has purchased or is con-
templating the purchase of a hotel in
Havana with the idea of fitting it up for a
gambling palace.
While walking along the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks Saturday night near Spring
Mill, Pa. Joseph Nasal. twenty-eight years
old, and Michael Augustine. thirty-fiye
years of age, both of Spring Mill. were
struck by locomotive of fge:ghtetrain
and instantly killed.
With only q month intervening before he
would have inherited S6,00o, Frank Mooney,
aged ffty-six, dropped dead from heart
dlsease Friday at Denver. Mooney was
to have gone to West Paris. Me-. at tile
end OF the month to be present at the set
Element of the estate in which he was itl-
terested. Mooney had long worked as
tinaherfnan IN mining camps.