Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22
TELEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.

RICHMOND, Va, December 21.-An
additional and beautiful inscription is
being cut on the Jefferson Davis monu-
ment in Hollywood cemetery. it being
the tribute to Margeret>Howell Hayes
of Colorado Springs to her mother,
Varina Howell Davis. wife of the presi-
dent Of the southern confederacy."
senator Clark left Butte last night for
New York confessing inability to medi-
ate the differences between the labor
unions of Butte and the Rocky Noun
| tam Telephone Company. The refusal
OF the company to dismiss restraining
order directed against the unions was
the rock upon which negotiations split
! PHILADELPHIA, Pa, December 21.-
Joseph n. Choate OF New York has ac-
cepted an invitation to be orator of the
day at the Washington birthday exer-
cises of the University of Pennsylvania:
The university has for a number of
years observed Washington's birthday
with great ceremony and as the most
| important occasion of it's academic year.
PARIS, December 21.-The Echo de
Paris announces today that the MaximS
are constructing for Japan a new type
of ship for the transportation of small
submarine vessels to the scene Of bat
tie. The submarines will be stored
away in species of tunnel traversing
the hold of the vessel, whence they can
emerge unperceived by the enemy by
means of locks.
BERLIN, December 21.-Just at the
moment the agitation against the high
price of coal is extending the coal
! syndicate, with headquarters at Dussel-
dorm, publishes its price schedule for
| twelve months beginning April l. By
this the price Of nearly every quality of
coal will be increased 10 to IL cents
ton. Coal suitable for making gas, how
ever. is reduced cents ton.
BUCKsPoRT. Me. December o1.-The
trustees of the East Maine Conference
Seminary have received notice Of be-
quest of $4,000 from Fred b. CHM.
whose death occurred recently ~ Cali
fornia. The deceased was native of
Orland and an alumnus of the semi
nary.
SYDNEY. c. B., December 21.-Five
men were injured, two probably fatally
as a result Of a boiler explosion at No.
2 colliery of the Dominion Coal Com
pany here today. One side Of the boiler
house was blown out.
| PARIS, December 21.-Mrs. Joseph
Nelson Patterson Of Philadelphia, who
yesterday was taken in charge by the
police of this city. because OF ner &C.
day transferred from the Conciergerie
| prison to a private asylum, where she
will be treated until she Is in condi-
ton to be sent to the United States.
NEW YORK, December 21.-Gustav
Mailer. former director of the Imperial
Opera Company of Vienna. who will d.
rect the music. of~o or two operas at
son, arrived here today on the steamer
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. F. Vasquez.
Mexican consul general at Paris, also
was a passenger on the steamer.
ST. JOHN, N. B.. December ol.-The
action of the Thomson steamship line
| against the Allan line. growing out of
the collision between the t,s Allan line
liner Hurona last September mas been
dismissed by the British admiralty
| court The court in its decision holds
that each party was equally to blame.
| BRIDGETOwN, Barbados. B. w. l.,
December 21.-Delegates from all the
| British West INDIAN Islands will meet
here January "A to hoid an agricultural
| sentatives to the conference to arrange
l. for reciprocal trade with the islands.
| This step is preliminary to closer
| union between Canada and the West
| Indies.
CHICAGO, December 21.-Judge An
| derson today. in the trial of John r.
| Walsh, sustained the objection of the
| defense to the Introduction of balance
| books prepared by National Bank Ex-
aminer Moxey The books were offered
| by the government to show summary
| of Mr. Walsh's transactions with his
three banks.
| NEW HAVEN, Conn, December 21.-
| The British Museum has sent to the
Peabody Museum Of Yale University
10 la1c of thn haa
| of prehistoric elephants They will
| form part of series showing the evo-
luton of the elephant race now being
prepared for exhibition at the Yale
| Museum, reaching back to the age be-
| fore the elephant developed it's trunk.
ESCANABA. Mich. December I'll
Warrants were issued today for the
| arrest of twelve striking employees of
| the Escanaba Manufacturing Company,
who armedJw guns. last night drove
the non-union firemen from the boiler
room and let the water from The boil
ers In riot at the plant last night
between strikers and non-union en-
ployes three girls were beaten INTO I'M
| consciousness
turbiner Mauritania, which left Daunts
| Rock at 1880 am. December 10, arrived
at the Sandy Hook lightship yesterday at
Gas am, making the passage TN B days
|
% knots, and her highest days run 6O3
| knots.
DUBLIN, December 21.-Laurepce Gin
nell. member of Parliament for North
| Westmeath, who has been prominent in
the cattle-driving campaign in the west
of Ireland was sentenced yesterday to six
months imprisonment for contempt of
court. Mr.. Ginnell committed his offense
in a recent speech, in which he, COM
mented upon the cattle-driving trials.
PHILADELPHIA, December 21.-Wil-
liam MCGEE, q well-known shipping man,
died early yesterday in a hospital. as the
result of injuries received by falling over
a stair bannster in his home in this city.
How the accident happened is not known,
but a servant hearing the fall. rushed into
the hallway and found MCGEE uncon-
| scious. MCGEE was sixty-fve years old.
| OMAHA. December 21.-Edwin Price of
New York, former husband of Fanny
Davenport, died in Omaha last night Of
| pneumonia.
| BELLEFONTAINE. Ohio, December 81
Mrs Ann Hulsizer of West Liberty, who
| celebrated her 1O8th birthday last month
died last night, following paralysis. She
was born in New Jersey. and was said
| to be one Of the oldest white women liv-
| ing in America She retained her facul-
| ties until one week ago. -ts,-.- 49, -~
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