Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17
News Briefs.

Mrs. Ellen Barbara Williams committed
10 me psychopathic ward at Bellevue Hos
pitdt IN New York Wednesday on complaint
OF j. Pierpont Morgan & Co who afIaa1ad
tHat she was Of unsound mind was mo-
hotnced insane by Dr. Gregory. aIfenist in
charge of the ward
James Clark. sixty-seven years old. one of
|. the best-known horsemen- in Ohio 80 oI
found dead in bed at Springfield Ohio YES
teroay He had taken an overdose of
eeiicIoIorm TO ease pain, having suffered
from paralysis. He sold Fannie Foley
t2:111D to John D. Rockefeller a few Years
ago for $500.
K. S. Inui. a japanese student. won first
honors last night in the annual oratorical
contest of the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor and received 500 in gold and
me chicago .!s,S, alumni gold medal, His sub
1ecr was The Mission of New JAPAN
Deputy Marshals A. C. Long and Charles
Wheat arrived at Vinita T. T.. last night
with Jim Wickliffe and Louis Wickliffe.
uncIes of the Wickliffe brothers Indian out
Jaws, ana Two other Cherokee prisoners. No
trace of the Wickliffe brothers has been
discovered.
AT a council Of the family of Susan n
Anthony in Rochester, N Y, Yesterday it
was decided that Mary Anthony shall 90
to Oregon to aid in the suffragist campaign
there. She will start next week with Rev.
DR. Anna Shaw. and the two win sneak
from platforms in that state.
The William H. Baldwin, IT., fund of
-Sloo.Oo0, which is to be presented to the
Tuskegee (Ala.) Normal Institute was COM
pleted at New York Yesterday. the net
amount of the subscriptions being $780,
1874 The fund Will be presented April
f. the occasion of the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the Institutes founding.
ST. Vincents Academy at Shreveport La.
established thirty years ago. one of the
most widely known Catholic institutions in
the south, was destroyed by fire yester-
day afternoon. Loss, 100000; insurance
S12, 800.
The railway naturalization bill passed
the house of representatives at Toxic yes
terday without amendment by the vote of
2B to 100 1t is expected that the bill to
purchase the Seoul Flisan railway also will
pass. The cost of the purchase of home
railways Is estimated at $25o,o00.000.
The new neutrality-suspicious. Line steam
er kron PrinZessin Cecile, from Hamburg,
sailed from Dover England, yesterday on
her maiden voyage TO the West Indies and
Mexico. The steamer Is of $500 tons and
has speed of fifteen knots.
Thomas Taylor and his wife Nellie. MEM
bers of well-to-do family of Clifton
Heights, near Philadelphia, We're accident
ally asphyxiated by Illuminating gas dur
ing Friday night in their home at that
place.
With the close of the hop season a COM
In Oregon. which, with the shipments to
date bring the 1905 crop of Oregon up TO
1880 bales. Oregon will probably harvest
from 125,000 to 10000 bales in the fall.
After being out all night the jury In the
case of Robert Mccoy, an aged and wealthy
farmer charged with the murder of his
brother Hugh. returned a verdict yester-
day of acquittal at Beaver, Pa.
The Chicago fire department was in
creased in strength by the addition of 1879
men and the wages of firemen and police
men were raised by the council fire COM
mittee Friday The new men viii be in
stalled soon, but the increases will not be
effective until December l.
Practically the last OF the Bigelow col
lateral was sold in Milwaukee Friday
when the numerous notes on which
the defaulting bank president advanced
funds to friends representing a face value
of nearly So 900 were sold by the Wiseon-
sin Trust Company, trustees of the estate.
for S. 500, and were bid in at figures rang
ing from 5 cents up to $500
Fire In Chicago yesterday Ia the three
story building at 5o-54 Custom House
court. occupied by the Paper Mills Supply
Company, caused damage that will exceed
SJ00U0, and spread terror among the resi-
dents of Chinatown in Clark street whose
places abutted upon the rear Of the burning
building.