Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-16
News Briefs.

MISS Ella Rhuark, who suddenly disap-
peared from the home OF James II. Patchett
| in Easton, Md, Sunday returned to Easton
accompanied by relative from Salisbury
She had been to Baltimore and Salisbury.
The brunswick and Middletown Railroad
company, recently organized at Brunswick
| Md, to construct a trolley line from Bruins
| wick to Middletown by way of Petersvllle
mas corps of engineers making a prelim-
| mary survey Of the road.
BY the will Of Charles 8. Nichols Of Mont
| gomery county, Md, filed in the orphans
| court at Rockville the Protestant Episcopal
orphan Asylum OF Frederick Is named as
reslduary legatee of his estate when II Is
divided after the death of his wife
Ex-City Clerk S. Newcomer Kelley OF
Hagerstown. Nd, was appointed equity ex-
aminer by Judge Keedy, to succeed Roger
| I. Edmonds, who resigned to become au-
ditor. r. ]. Hahn and Scott NJ Wolfnger
are the other examiners.
Robert j. Hartman and his wife, Sarah J
Hartman, have brought suit against the
| city of Cumberland Md. for $1,000 dam
| ages for injuries sustained by Mrs. Hart
man on an icy sidewalk She broke her
| left arm at the wrist.
George Leonard Calvert. a deserter from
| the United States navy, was arrested by
| Constable Frank p Hurd on the latter's
place at Upper Marlboro. He confessed that
he had deserted in Baltimore, December,
! 1906.
J OF nine saloonkeepers in Bristol. Va in
dcted on the charge of selling liquor to
minors, Brady & Son were tried yesterday
| and fined $50 in three cases.
E. b. Woodfin, who recently was appoint
| ed for third term as postmaster OF the
National Soldiers Home, Hampton has
rendered his resignation, to take effect
April Is.
| Rev. A. G. Hopkins jr, son OF Rev. DR..
A. C. Hopkins Of Charlestown. w. Va has
declined call from the PRESBYTERIAN
| Church at Hampton, Va, to the Presby-
| terrain Church at Front Royal.
The presbytery OF Winchester, Va, viii
meet at ciearbrook'o on April 10.
An "old residents society was organized
citizen must have lived in the city for
| twenty years, and of ,Ie 25,000 or more
persons in the city there are not more than
| seventy-five who will be eligible to MEM
| bership in the organization.
China and Mexico have assigned two
| navy and two army officers each to repre-
| sent those governments in the naval and
| military features Of the jamestown exposi-
ton.
The Indiana legislature has appropriated
| $4,000 for participation in the jamestown
| exposition and an exposition commission of
| ten has been appointed.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Guseman cele-
| bated the golden anniversary OF their mar
| rage at Reedsvie, Preston county. w. Va.
/ Seven of their nine children were present.
The Knox Oil Company las been moor
| porated, with $4,000 capital, to sink oil
! wells in the vicinity of Pennsboro. w. Va.
The incorporators are c. II. Helm. w. II.
Meservie. H. ]. Scott, 1. L. Fordyce and J.
w. Grinnan.
| At Warrington, w. Va, ]. F. Christie.
| candidate for mayor on the progressive and
citizens improvement tickets defeated II.
H. Rose. candidate on the peoples ticket
Brookl!ne was annexed by sixty-five ma
jority. Liquor license carried by 1O1-
jority.
Attorney General Bonaparte has appoint
ed Clarence S. Houghton of New York
deputy United States attorney general to
| assist in the prosecution of the peonage
cases which the government Is institut.ng.
Dean Liberty H. Bailey of the Cornell
College of Agriculture, at Ithaca. has ap-
pointed a commission to inquire into the
organization and policy which should pre-
vail to the expenditure of public moneys
provided for agricultural experiment.
An official dispatch received at The
Hague from the Island OF CeIebes Dutch
East Indies announced that the Dutch
troops had captured an important rebel
stronghold after a stubborn hight. The
fleeing enemy left $50 men dead on the
field, among whom were several rebel
chiefs. The troops captured 100 women
and Y men.
Ter, who died in Paris March H. occurred
at Pont Sur-Seine, France yesterday in
the presence of representative of Pres
ident Falliers. ex-President Loubet. Pre-
mier Clemenceau and the other cabinet Of
ficers, the members Of the diplomatic corps.
the senators and deputies and other nota-
bles.
Herbert H. D. PIERCE, the American min
lister to Norway, sailed from Liverpool for
Boston yesterday on board the White Star
Line steamer Cymric.
The Missouri house yesterday passed a
bill making the operation of a bucketshop a
felony. The maximum penalty for viola
ton is from two to five years in the peni-
Tertiary. The bill now goes to Gov. Folk.
A piledriver and locomotive on the Balti-
more and Ohio. Southwestern went through
the levee into the Scioto river at Chilli
Gothic, Ohio, yesterday. Brakeman John
Long and Thomas Wheeler were drowned.
Count Vladimir Lamsdorf, who was for
merly Russian minister Of foreign affairs,
is seriously i'll at st. Reno with a complfca-