Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
News Briefs.

William II. S. Wood. president of the
Bowery Savings Bank of New York. an
institution with more than s1OO.OOOoOO IN
deposits. died at his residence there We'd
nesday night from complication of dis
eases. He had been in i'll health for some
time.
Death has put an end to the plans for
the wedding of Mrs. Dorothy Henry Hen
derson the noted equestrtenne of Mill
wood, Clarke county. Va, and Nicholas
Dunn, breeder of fine horses and club
man. Mr.. Dunn died Wednesday in New
York city from the effects of injuries re-
:eived during the recent Madison Square
horse show.
and his ward. Mary Yeager, whose age was
given as fifteen. procured a license and
were married at Hagerstown. Md. Thurs
day. The groom had to sign an order
as guardian before he could secure the
license, the girl being under the legal
age.
Col Arthur S. Colyar, one of the oldest
and most distinguished lawyers in the
south, is dead at his home in Nashville,
Tenn. He was In his ninetieth year. Col.
colyar was member of the Confederate
Congress- and when he was eighty-five
years old wrote The Life and Times of
Andrew Jackson.
Rev. William J. Birmingham, rector of
ST. Patrick's Catholic Church, in Whining
ton Del. for the past seven years. died
at the parochiai residence there Thurs
day, aged forty-eight years. Death was
due to typhoid fever. Father Birmingham
was native Of New York city. and had
been in the ministry nearly twenty-five
Delaware.
Judge Gorter signed an order i'm circuit
court No. 9 in Baltimore Thursday
granting John T. Ford. 1906 Battery ave-
nue.. an absolute divorce from Ellen Ag
mes Ford on the charge of unfaithfulness.
They rrip6 10 1902 in
this city.
The Lebanon Valley branch of the Read
Ing railroad was completely tied up near
Sheridan, Pa, all of Wednesday night
by freight wreck. Two locomotives and
about twenty loaded cars were involved In
the smash-up.
The North American Company at St.
Louis has gained control of all the rail
way. lighting and power companies of
that city by purchasing the Laclede Pow
er Company and the Edison Electric Illu
nination Company from E. NJ. Clark G.
Co. of Philadelphia for s3.0O0,00O.
The inquiry into the Naomi mine dis
aster of December /. when thirty-four
Pa. Thursday by Coroner Hogan of
Fayette county. Among the witnesses to
be heard are fifteen state mine inspectors,
who made examination following the eX
plosion.
Frank Hasten, wanted on charges OF
cago, Ind. Is under arrest at Toronto. On
tario. He was an agent of the Schlitz
Brewing Company, and is accused of en-
beZZing 81. 800.
terbury. n H.. was found in the woods
near Mortified Thursday beside a deer
he had killed. Death probably result from
heart failure. brought about by excite
ment attending long chase.
In branch of the Little Osipee river,
North Shanlaiph hn nf
Mrs Andrew Jackson Smith. sixty years
old. who left home Tuesday. was found
Thursday. Mr.. Smith also has disap
peared. He is also about sixty years old.
Four hundred employees of the Stewart
silk mills at Easton. Pa. struck just be-
fore quitting time Thursday evening be-
cause the management insisted upon the
weavers turning out better work.
Fire Wednesday destroyed the Elkins Ho-
tel at Elkins, w. Va, causing two deaths
and probably fatal burns to third per-
son. The dead are Herman Farrell
burned to death in the hotel. and man
named Stafford, who died after being TAX
en- to the hospital.
Benjamin Champney. noted landscape
artist, died Wednesday after three weeks
illness at his home in Woburn, Mass.
Champney celebrated his ninetieth birth
day November 20. More than seventy
years of his life had been devoted to art
and to its advancement in this country.
C. A. Thompson. travelling salesman of
Bedford. Pa. slipped upon an icy sidewalk
in Cleveland Wednesday. and sustained
fracture of the skull, and died at the city
hospital that night. Thompson was ar
rested for alleged intoXication and locked
up. Later 1t was discovered by the police
that the man was injured and not drunk.
Lieut.. Aaron F. Walcott, ex-senior vice
department commander of the G. A. r. in
Illinois, and eX-sheriff of Cook county,
died Wednesday, aged seventy-one years.
Lieut.. Walcott served in the Massachu-
sets Light Artillery and fought in TWEEN
ty-two of the principal battles of the civil
war He was q native of Boston.