Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11

AS result of an injury received in a
basket ball game at the Wooster fOhio)
University Miss Sarah Corbett had one
leg amputated at the Allegheny General
Hospital in Pittsburg.
The chair of chemistry at the University
of PENNSYLVANIA has been endowed with
the sum of 100000 by some one who
wishes his her identity concealed for
the present. 1t is generally understood
however, by university men that Mrs.
Annn .!eightman Walker has given the
money as a New Years present.
Mrs William K. Vanderbilt has decided
to sell the famous Fair ranch in Royal
county. California. This is the property in
which Senator Fair took such pride and
which he intended to convert into an i'm
mense c, ate. 1t is to be divided into small
farms and disposed of at auction
One of the most delicate surgical opera
tons in the history of the practice of med
fcine will be undertaken within few days
in Cleveland. o. The operation is for the
purpose of readiusting misplaced brain
cells forced out of position by pressure of
the skull resulting from a stroke of light
ming.
AS the result of the accidental discharge
Of gun. William Berlin. the eighteen
year-old son Of w. A. Berlin. lies at the
point of death at the home Of q neighbor,
near Stone Bridge. Clarke county, Va.
Young Berlin and a companion were out
hunting. his companion walking by his side,
when the gun was accidentally discharged
The contents entered Berlins neck and
head. .-
Miss Clara Fitzwater and Mr. Charles
Estep, runaway couple from Foltz run,
near Harrisonburg, Va. were married at
eran parsonage by Rev. Jacob s. Simon, in
Hagerstown, Md.
According to the first annual report of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching, f1ftytwo colleges in the
United States and Canada have been placed
on the accepted list, and professors and in
structors in them are eligible to retirement
on pensions after reaching the varying age
limits.
While the official returns of the triennfaI
assessment are not yet complete there are
enough figures to show that the valuation
of zeal estate in Lower Merton township
Montgomery county. Pa. will overrun 49,
600 900, an increase of 100000 as COM
pared with last year.
Fire in Richmond, Va, destroyed the
frame storage warehouse belonging to
James N. Boyd & Co. The fire is supposed
to have originated from cigar or cigar
cite. The loss on the building will amount
to "a, 500, covered by insurance.
Chesapeake and Ohio train with a con-
signment of wild animals for circus ran
into the mud. derailing several Of the cars.
near Belvin Station, Va. None of l { ami
mails escaped.
James A. Roberts. twenty-five years old,
has been committed to the Elmira, N Y,
reformatory for starting fires in Pough-
keepsie. He asserted that he developed
pyromania while taking part in an amateur
play given at the opera house.
Detective Sergt Joseph A. Daily Of the
Delaney street station. while taking two
prisoners to Essex Market court in New
York, was mobbed by two hundred strikers
and sympathizers OF the East Side Journey
men BARRIERS Union.
Mr.. Thomas ODonnell Of Camden, N. T..
who was injured while employed In taking
down the old Pennsylvania railroad bridge
at Havre de Grace, Md, died In Philadel-
phia.
The cornerstone Of Holy Trinity Cathe-
dral. the first Protestant Episcopal cathe-
dral in Cuba, has been laid. The ceremony
was conducted by Bishop Knight in the
Minister Morgan and other officials.