Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
News Briefs.

Charles E. Church of Halifax, n. s, a
member of the Canadian senate and for
twenty-five years n prominent member of
the liberal party, died suddenly there We'd
nesday, He was seventy-one years of age.
Gov. Carter at Hanolulu has given an alb
solute pardon TO Stephen Mahaula who was
convicted of embezzlement and land Of
fee frauds. Mahaulu was chief clerk under
former Land Commissioner +. S. Boyd,
now serving ten years for embezzement.
The formers sentence was for one year.
The affairs of the retail jewelry firm or
Herbert L. Joseph Il Co, Chicago, were
Tuesday placed In the hands of re-
ceiver. The liabilities are said to be IN
the neighborhood of s200,O0O. The firm
operated three stores in Chicago and one
In Pittsburg.
Brief dispatches tell of disastrous fire at
High River, Alberta, I'm which several stores
and office building were destroyed.
Other buildings were damaged.
On crowded street in the negro quarter
of Philadelphia last night, Elsie Tinsdalc,
u young negro woman, stabbed to death
another negress named Bella Accoe. in a
quarrel over overcoat. She was cap
tured as she was about to leave the city in
male attire.
Nine million United States stamps of the
face value of $685., 900 were destroyed at
Panama Thursday Their destruction was
In accordance with executive order is
sued by Secretary Taft December 3, 1904.
The stamps destroyed have been replaced
]. NJ. CarnalI of Kalamazoo Mich. a
travelling salesman for New York dry
goods firm, was found dead in his room in
a hotel at Detroit, Mich, Thursday night.
An empty bottle, which had contained car
bolic acid, lay near the body, proclaiming
the dead man a suicide.
DR.. William Osler, regius professor OF
medicine In the University of oxford, ar
guest of DR.. Henry NJ. Hurd of Johns
Hopkins Hospital. He will remain about
a month. devoting much of his time to
hospital work, and will hold a number of
clinics. On January % he will address the
Legislature at Annapolis on tuberculosis
Jack Golf, who Roosevelts guide
during the Presidents Colorado hunting
trip last spring, during a lively encounter
with two mountain lions in Yellowstone
Park recently, was painfully but not seri-
ously injured.
An unknown: negro narrowly escaped
lynching at the hands of the excited citf-
Zens near Barton avenue, Memphis, Thurs
day. Wednesday the negro attacked
Miss Savannah Cooke, a white ri, who
is a deaf mute, but was beaten off by the
girl with a club. Later the negro again
attacked the young woman, but was caught
by the citizens. The police arrived in time
to save the negro from violence.
In the United States district court at Gin
cnnau Harry H. Baird of Pataskaia. ONO.
was appointed receiver of the Newark,
Ohio, Water Company Tbe receivership
follows the building of pew water works
at Newark under municipal ownership.
The Bennett & Morgan rectifying plant
at Marion n. c., the largest in the state,
if not in the south, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss is put at from 100000 TO
S2J0000 with $150,0oO Insurance. The fire
is believed 10 have been of incendiary ORR
gin.
George w. Cornwel. formerly treasurer
OF the Wheeler e. Wilson Company, was
released from custody yesterday at Bridge
port. Conn.,. the charge of the theft OF
bonds and other valuables from the resi-
dence of Mrs Johanna Lurapkin, who oc-
cupied an apartment in the house where
Co-nweil and his family have lived