Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-18
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.


ST. PETERSBURG, October 1S-The
social democrats have decided to pre-
sent their own candidates during the
next stage Of the parliamentary cleo
ton in st. Petersburg. and are waging
a vigorous campaign against the con-
stitutional democrats. The so-calIed
united left" is presenting a third set
Of candidates. which will still further
split the opposition vote
NEW YORK, October 1S.-It Is learned
here that Thomas Agnew & Sons. art
dealers of London, are the buyers of
the famous Ashburton collection of
paintings, which are about to be dis
persed in England; that the price the
firm paid was about s3.OOO,GDO and
that some of the finest pictures are to
come to this country
CHICAGO. Octo~er 1s.-David c. Briggs.
vice president of the United Shirt and Col
lar Company of Troy, N. Y, died here
Wednesday of anemia after an illness Of
several months. The body will be taken
to Greenwich, N Y. for burial.
DECATUR, Ill, October 1s-Miss Helen
Louis to attend the dedication Of the new
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. building in that city,
was the guest Of the local railroad Y NJ
{. A. two hours Wednesday night. About
800 persons including many railway en-
pioyes and their families, were present at
reception given in her honor. 5'-S' 90.
PARIS, October 1s.-The Matin an
nounces that NJ. Welter, manager in Paris
of the Agence International des Concerts
Richard Wagner, has received from En-
rico Toselli, the pianist, who married the
Countess Montignose in London the other
day, letter in which he denies that he
and his wife have accepted an engagement
to appear in American music halls
ST. LOUIS, Mo-. October 1s-More than
100 European cotton manufacturers, &C
companied by twelve American manufac-
turers, arrived from Memphis yesterday
as guests Of local commercial bodies The
manufacturers will spend the day sight
seeing in st. Louis, and departed last
night for Chicago. From there they will
proceed to Canada.
CHICAGO, October ls.-Within the last
two days twenty-one of the striking West
ern Union telegraphers have applied in
the western division for reinstatement
Eighteen of them secured their old places.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. October 1s-several
hundred veterans Of the civil war. sur
flNo4 VI llit COIHIndHu OF zen.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, met here yes
terday in their fifteenth annual reunion
The day was ideal, and large crowds
thronged the streets to witness the pa
rade. About 400 veterans were mounted
and led the parade.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. October 49,
AS the result of what is believed to have
been a Black Hand demand, Angelo
Vitele, an Italian mechanic, twenty-four
years old, was shot yesterday and in
stantly killed by another Italian near
the local car sheds Of the Union rail-
way. The murderer, with two other Ital-
ians. who accompanied him, crossed
East Chester creek into the Bronx and
have thus far escaped the police.
PITTSBURG, October 1S.-As a result
of a heavy fog yesterday an eastbound
freight train on the Pan Handle railroad
crashed into a switching engine and ca
boose near Sheraden, Pa. Conductor Ell
mer Hoovler. who was in the caboose,
was killed and three trainmen were Sc
riously injured.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. October 1.-THE
wholesale price of spirits was advanced
one cent gallon here Wednesday. The
advance brings the basis of the price
of proof gallon of spirits up to $135
gallon, minus the revenue duty, the high
est reached since the civil war, and due
to the high price of corn and malt.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, October 1S.-By
unanimous vote the senate has adopted
a joint resolution providing for submits
sion to the people of a constitutional
amendment for s2OOOO,0OO bond issue
to proceed with the deep-waterway prof.
ect. The resolution was amended to pro-
vide for per cent interest on the pro-
posed bonds
MEMPHIS, Tenn, October 1S.-The
party OF European cotton spinners which
has been touring the cotton rowing
states arrived here from Arkansas and
Texas on a special train. Committees
from the cotton exchange here and other
commercial bodies received them. The
party was driven to the cotton exchange,
where reception was held, followed by
a drive about the Country and lunch
con.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, October 1S-Twenty-
two shoe factories which have been
closed for five weeks because of the strike
of shoe workers have reopened. Many
strikers returned and the factories re-
sumed work. though no effort was made
to run full-handed. George Frank, finan-
cial secretary of the union, said about 1
per cent of the $4,000 strikers returned
to work