Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-17
News Briefs.

The Wisconsin legislative committee In
vestigating the State University is making
earnest inquiry into the fraternity question.
Several students and faculty members tes-
titled to the bad influence OF Greek letter
bodies.
Thomas B. Scandrett director OF the Ale
gheny (Pa,) department of safety, charged
with extortion In connection with the recent
reform crusade in that city. was acquitted
yesterday The jury placed the costs OF
prosecution on Allegheny county.
Gov Deneen has referred to the state
board of pardons the petition of Johann
Hoch for communication of sentence. If
the sentence OF che court Is carried out,
Hoch will be hanged at Chicago next Fri
day.
Judge Graves, In the circuit court at
Aledo, ILL.,, yesterday granted trial
in the celebrated case of Mrs. Archibald
church worker, convicted OF extreme cruelty
to an adopted orphan, Stella Gray
1t is rumored that the PeruYans have
occupied the Ecuadoriau town of Andoas.
Gen. Garcia, who was recently deposed
from the presidency of Ecuador by Gen.
Alfaro, arrived from Duran, opposite Quay
aquil. and went direct to the British consul
late On Monday he Will embark d
steamer for Callao. Peru.
There was an extensive public demonstra-
ton at Santo Domingo Thursday night.
with music and fireworks. TO signify the
satisfaction Of the public at President
Caceres' decision to remain In power.
Richard Randall Ferry. who founded the
New York Free Circulating Library for the
Blind, died yesterday. aged seventy-one
years He was born in Bethel Conn. Be
sids widow, he leaves two sons.
Howard Hass, nine years old, stabbed his
thirteen-year-old brother Harry in the alb
domen with a poker at PittSburg last night,
penetrating the abdomen to the spine, and
within an hour the injured boy died.
The chamber of deputies at Paris passed
the bill granting subsidies to the merchant
marine. with an amendment requiring that
foreign ships entering French ports shall
adopt the same health and security meas
French ships.
The British cruiser Diana has been or
dered to Tabah. a port the Turko-Egypt-
ian frontier of the Sinai peninsula, In order
to enforce the British Egyptian demands
for its speedy evacuation by the Turkish
troops who some time ago occupied the
place.
son has been born to Prince Chun, the
Emperor of Chinas brother. 1t is believed
that this child is most likely to be desig-
mated a successor to the throne. An inl~
perial decree bestows upon him the name
of Pu.
The subcommittee on naval affairs which
has been In session at Annapolis investi.
eating haZing at the Naval Academy adj
journed yesterday Sessions VIII be re-
sumed Monday or Tuesday night
Two men were slightly burned and forty
others had narrow escapes from death by, p
fire which destroyed the plant OF Nell, Sell
burg C Co, in Allegheny, Pa. yesterday.
Three adjacent houses were partially
burned.
Frank Castor of Canton, Ohio, who shot
and killed Policeman Davis some months
ago, and who is condemned to die in the
electric chair April 6. said yesterday that
the Ohio legislature ought not to abolish the
death penalty for murderers.
Essie johnson, a negro, was hanged In the
jail at Dawson. Ga, yesterday for the muir
der of Eliza Banks, an old negro woman,
several months ago. His neck was broken
by the fall of more than seven feet.
Chappell Fowler, a car repairer. was
killed late yesterday at Plainwell Mich;
his wife Is apparently dying from shock,
and Charles H. Fairchild, Fowler's assist
ant was probably fatally injured Internally
as the result of an engine and caboose
striking the railroad velocipede upon which
the three were riding.