Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-THE British
Mia yesterday with 147,o20 bags OF sugar
for local refinery. There were 10 5S4 600
| pounds. and the sum of $145. 900 duty was
paid in gold. The sugar came from Iloiio.
GIBRALTAR. July 1.-the salvage
steamer Gibeltarik. which was sent to
Spartel upon receipt yesterday OF a report
that the New York schoolship, st. Marys.
had stranded at that point. returned today
and reported having found the school ship
| at sea- When sighted the St. Marys was
bound for Gibraltar and required no as
| sistance
SALISBURY. England, July 1.-THE
bulletin issued at the infrmary this morn
Ing reporting the condition or the passen-
| gers injured in the railroad wreck Of July
l announced that Edward w. Sentell' of
| Brooklyn, N. Y. was weaker and that the
condition OF Robert s. Critchell Of Chicago
was not so favorable yesterday.
SEATTLE, Wash. July 14-An autopsy
held last night demonstrated that George
Mitchell was not insane. although q jury
Edmund Franz Creff1eld, the Holy Roller"
| on that plea. The autopsy followed the kill
ing OF Mitchell by his sister Esther, q
fanatical follower OF Creffleld.
SEATTLE. Wash. July 14-The official
trial trips OF the battIeshp Nebraska will
be made on Monday and Tuesday next
Monday the vessel will be tried on a mark
ed course and Tuesday will occur her open
sea trial. The speed required Is nineteen
knots.
SAN FRANCISCO. July IA corpora
ton composed of the members OF the finance
committee together with Gov Pardee and
Mayor Schmltz. having at its command
IS. 10000 OF the relief fund. will imme-
diately proceed to erect permanent houses
Tor the shelter OF the citys homeless.
BUTTE. Mont. July 14-The Hebrew Be-
nevoient Society. controlling the Jewish
cemetery will begin an action in the courts
to Dust Herman Mueller. a welI-known and
wealthy saloon man. from the ground occu-
pied as their burial plot Mueller having
| Jumped tie cemetery as a placer claim
Mueller says he has found unmistakabIe
evidences of gold and proposes to mine for
the yellow metal In the graveyard.
CHICAGO. July 14-"steve" C. Sumner,
union temperance crusader, used practical
methods yesterday to convert 500 members
| OF the Milk Wagon Drivers Union. Steve"
opened a can Of buttermilk and a keg of
beer In the union meeting and allowed
| drivers to witness the effects Of the two
beverages themselves. The result was that
| eighteen members drank beer and remained
unconverted BY far greater number
however, tasted the buttermilk and swore
| allegiance to Summers crusade.
CHICAGO. July 14.-Dr. W. J. McCrann
of South Omaha announces the first death
In his stepiadder family. May c. McCrann,
Oldest of fourteen children who have made
their parents famous leading exemplars
OF the Roosevelt anti-race suicide maxims
succumbed yesterday to long Illness from
typhoid fever, complicated by pneumonia
CHICAGO. July 14-William H Busbey,
for nearly thirty years member OF the
editorial staff OF the Chicago Inter Ocean,
died early today after a lingering Illness.
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several newspapers during the civil war.
He Joined the editorial staff of the Inter
Ocean on April Is. 1878, and was in contin-
| uous service until claimed by death.
CHICAGO. July al. A. Gourdain, who
was released from the Cook county Jail yes
terday bonds of $4,000, presented
short time later the unique spectacle of a
man trying to break into the peritentiary.
Just after he was given his liberty the for
mer banker hurried on an electric car to
Joliet and demanded of the chief deputy
that he be tncarcerated Immediately within
the walls Of the prison.
CHICAGO, July 14-Forty negro walters
hired to serve at the banquet of the ILL.,
nois State Bar Association at the Chicago
Beach Hotel struck just before the first
course was ready last night. arousing the
wrath Of the barristers, and for time
threatening to force a postponement Of the
festivities. An increase of 80 cents over
the price promised them, maing the pay
ment for the evenings work 81. was de-
manded.
CHICAGO, July 14.-There is famine In
apricots this summer. Crates Of apricots
which could be purchased last summer for
30 and 40 cents now cost $2.65 to $3.50.
Where ], 500 crates day were shipped into
Chicago last year on the average only 400
or 800 crates of the fruit have reached Chi
cago during the present season.
PORTLAND. Greg. July 14-President
Hill Of the Great Northern railroad, who Is
on trip OF inspection, yesterday said that
the Portland and Seattle railroad would be
extended to Spokane over a new route and
that surveyors are now in the field.
NEW YORK. July IA man who de-
scribed himself as Peter Lepine, forty years
old. printer. Of Montreal, Canada, was
committed to Bellevue Hospital today for
an examination as to his sanity. Lepine
was charged with having made several at
tempts to set fire to st. Patrick's Roman
Catholic Cathedral. He said that he had
been an inmate of an insane asylum In
Canada for six months.
NORFOLK. Va, July 14-The breaking
Of ground today by the Rhode Island
state commission for their building on the
jamestown. exposition grounds marked the
commencement of the first of the numerous
state buildings on the exposition site. Rhode
Island was also the first state to appoint
jamestown commission.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. July 14.-D. H. suili-
van. vice president of the United Mine
Workers OF Ohio. declared today that there
could DO no question that the 1908 scale
had Deem agreed upon at the conference
with J. III. Winder June ID. and that MIR.
Winder ives merely mistaken In his atti-
tude. which has caused the miners in the
employ OF the Sunday Creek Company to
cease work.
RICHMOND. Va, July 14-In the vir-|
ginia- Carolina Chemical Company case
Judge Con today denied the writ OF habeas
corpus. sustained Judge WaddilI and Mr.
Tinsley. representing the defendants In tho
test case. was remanded to the custody OF
the marshal Judge WaddiIrs decision was
ton Of the Tsnnesses court where the In.
dictment was brought.