Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-24
News Briefs.

The fourth attempt at suicide of John
Cashdolla" at Pittsburg resulted in death
Sunday night. He took carbolic acid FRI
day. Cashdollar was seventy-two years
old, lived alone and was considered &C.
centric.
John Young PheneZes, the negro ac-
cused of assaulting MS William r. c.
Hershey Friday. was arraigned at Co
fumbus Ohio, yesterday and bound over
to the grand jury in $4,000 bond.
Fire practically destroyed the w. J.
Pratt Wall Paper Company at Des
Moines, Iowa, yesterday. Loss. 100000.
Mgr. Porceffi, apostolic delegate to Con-
stant:lople has been appointed papal
nuncio at Brussels.
Albert Ballu, under whose supervision
the historical researches at the ruined city
of Timgad are being conducted. an
nounces the discovery of large monas-
terry, covering 1000 square yards, sur
rounding a Christian basilica
Miss Esther May Eyler. aged about
twenty-eight years. died yesterday on the
operating table at the Washington County
Hospital. in Hagerstown. She had just
recovered from typhoid fever.
Prof. Oskar Lassar, well known as
dermatologist and as member of the
medical aculty of Berlin University, died
yesterday as the result Of an automobile
accident. Prof. Lassar was born in Ham
burg in 1919
Mrs. Caroline Pollett Morris. a native
of Somerset county, Nd. but for some
years resident of Onancock. Va, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma
l.. Warren, Sunday. aged eighty-four
years. She was stricken with paralysis
last Monday
After telling her family that she knew
her end was nea- and patiently awaiting
ninety years old. died at Wheeling. w.
Va, yesterday. Mrs. Stamm was the old
est member of the st. Johns German Re-
formed Lutheran Church of Wheeling
and her descendants are among the most
prominent people in that city
Pierre Jules Caesar JANSEN the cele-
hrated French scientist and director OF the
Muebon observatory. is dead at Paris He
was born in 1924
Edward Faherty while hunting near his
home at Hutton, Garrett county. Md.
just west of Piedmont. w. Va. on Sat-
urday was accidentally shot Death en-
sued yesterday from the wounds
The large barn Of Robert NJ Washing
ton. -fve miles northeast of Romney, w.
Va. with contents. including several
horses imported recently from France
seventeen head Of fine horses, several cat
tie and lot of grain and farming imple-
ments, was burned up. The loss is
$4,000.
Fire yesterday almost totally destroyed
the Pure OIL Company's depot for Ameri-
can oil at Ludwigshafen. Baden. 1t is be-
lieved the fire was started by sparks from
a passing locomotive.
The Italian government announces that
the excavation Of Herculaneum will begin
forthwith. The work will be carried out
by the government with italian funds.
Truman H. Newberry, assistant secre-
tary of the navy. who is at Detroit for the
Christmas holidays, announces his sup
port of Secretary Taft for the republican
presidential nomination, and his belief
that he would receive 1t.
Secretary Taft arrived in Cincinnati
yesterday from Washington, having been
called to that city on business connected
with the administration of the estate OF
his mother, Mrs. Louisa NJ. Taft.
While on a visit to her sons home in
York. Pa, yesterday. Mrs. Mary Stump,
mother of Rev. Dr. Adam Stump Of that
city, dropped dead. She walked upstairs.
and a moment later dropped dead. She
was seventy-eight years OLD