Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
News Briefs,

1t cost Robert NJ Ward of Winchester
va, va. $3.50 81 for the honor Of representing
the tenth district in the Virginia senate,
and his defeated opponent, Judge F. 8.
Tavenner Of Woodstock, $571.25, according
to figures just filed.
John w. Miller. a driller at the Bessemer
quarries. north OF Martinsburg. w. Va.
received injuries Tuesday evening from
which he died Wednesday. A loose stone
fell and crushed his skull. He leaves a
widow and two small children.
The Valley River Lumber Company,
new corporation which will be organized
at Piedmont. w. Va. on July %. viii build
railroad from Mill creek via Bradys
Gate. Blue Springs. Sulphur Springs and
along Elk river to Glover Lick. on the Ches-
apeake and Ohio railway.
James Huffman OF Fairmont, W. Va, was
shot in the back of his head and the neck
near townsville by Henry Satterfeld while
they were hunting. They separated. and
Huffman stepped out from behind a bush
just in time to get the load Of shot. It Is
thought he will recover.
The plant Of the Gulf Compress Company
at Argentina. Ark. c. c. Tanson. presi-
dent. was destroyed by fire Wednesday.
Twenty-four hundred bales of cotton. val
ued at $149.416. were burned. The buildings
and machinery are valued at $4,000.
Thomas ]. Seward died of heart failure
at Cambridge. Nd. Wednesday afternoon
while working In his garden He was found
by neighbors in an unconscious condition
ana expired IN NIteen minutes. he Ii sur
vived by a widow. who was. before her
marriage. Miss Sarah Bennett.
John r. Rakestraw of Union Bridge. Nd,
lost his life. and Clayton Barnes of New
Windsor district was seriously hurt. and
Walter Johnson Of the same community
slightly hurt by the falling Of a scaffold
in New Windsor Tuesday. They were en-
gagged in stating a roof when the scaffolding
gave way.
Thomas ]. Blake OF Eckhart. Md. who
was recently graduated from the Maryland
Institute for the Deaf. at Frederick, taking
first honors in academic studies, has been
given free scholarship in Galaudet Col
lege. Washington. through Representative
George A. Pearre.
The will OF Rev. Dr. John Watson E. AN
Maclaren'). who died at Mount Pleasant.
Iowa, May last leaves an estate valued
at $685. to his widow and family. and
invests the control of all published and
unpublished works in trustees for the bene-
At of the estate.
An investigation into the life history Of
Leon MaiIle. the naval reservist who fired
two revolver shots at President Faillieres
at Paris Sunday leaves no doubt that the
man is unbalanced mentally. Furthermore.
he had been a victim of alcoholism for
years.
Edward Darlong Thayer. one Of the best
known wooden manufacturers In New Eng
land. died Wednesday following an opera
ton for appendicitis last week He was fifty
and East Dedham and was q partner in the
Crompton-Thayer Loom Company.
The bill designated to reduce the annual
output of the divorce courts In New York
was signed by Gov. Hughes Tuesday. The
new law makes unfaithfulness crime pun
ishable by imprisonment for six months or
by a fine Of $500. or both. 1t takes effect
September 1. The law was urged by Bishop
Doane.
Distinct earthquake shocks lasting for
about one minute were recorded at Salt
Lake City. Utah. on the seismograph re-
Gently installed at the University Of Utah.
Disturbance was noted at 11:59 am. The
movement was from little north or west
toward southeast.
Sinclair Weeks. who runs an electric
freight elevator at the Hotel Manhattan
New York, loaded up with trunks Sunday
and started downward from the fourteenth
floor At the seventh floor. surmising from
the "feeP' of the controller that something
allied the machinery, he stopped the car
bottom of the shaft he found Joseph Nc
Manus the hotel electrician. crushed to
death against the drum by two strands OF
cable.
Talbot county has awarded the following
free scholarships: State Normal School,
Baltimore-Misses Nav Beale Merrick of
Trappe, and Frances Pauline Sisk of Cor
dova. Maryland Institute School of Art
and Design, Baltimore-Miss Helen Eu-
genia Berry of Tunis Mills.
Richard Norman Satterf1eld OF Denton.
Md, a fireman on the p, w. and B. rail-
road. with q run between Wilmington and
Baltimore. while watering his engine lost
his footi1eld and fell and broke his neck.
He was about twenty-one years Of age.
A street fight occurred between William
Cannon, a white man. and Aleck Baylor,
colored. on the street at Tunneltoa.t wv. Va.
Cannon has a bullet hole in his right side
and Baylor one in his left side as result
OF the duel. Cannon is in a hospital at
Fairmont and may not recover. Baylor
is in Jail at KingwoOd.