Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
News Briefs.

At the annual convention of the National
Wholesale Grocers' Association. at Chicago
Mich. was elected president. The next
convention of the organization will be
held in Atlantic City.
Four new steamers fifty feet longer than
those in use are to be built for the Blue
Funnel Line, operating between Liverpool
and Tacoma via the orient. The vessels
will each be Of 10000 tons capacity.
The British steamer kumeric has arrived
at Honolulu with 200 immigrants brought
from the Madeiras by the territorial i'm
migration board.
Thomas ]. Arnold jr.. and j. /. Dunlop
of Eikins embarked from Cumberland. Md,
in canoes down the Potomac river to
Washington.
John Beamen, aged eighteen years, son
OF Mark Beaman of Gilmore Allegany
county, Nd, was killed in the Little Vein
mine of the Georges Creek Coal and Iron
Company. at Gilmour. by a fall Of roof coal.
His neck was broken.
The office of division passenger agent of
the Western Maryland railroad, with head
quarters at Piedmont filled for many years
by Capt. George w. Harrison, has been
consolidated with the main office and re-
moved to Baltimore. Capt. Harrison will
remain with the company in charge of the
relief department., with headquarters at
Piedmont
Daniel F. McMullen. member of the
firm of McMullen Bros, Cumberland Md,
morning. His left side is affected and his
speech is impaired. but his mind is clear.
The store and post office at Gilpin, near
Flintstone, Allegany county, Md, was
robbed Thursday. J. M. Dickens owns the
store and is postmaster. The robbers forced
both locks on the front door. They secured
about so in nickels and dimes from the
money drawer and safe in the store and
about $50 in stamps and S14 in cash from
the post office.
There is movement IN foot 70 rapooyo
the Braaddus Institute from Clarksburg to
Bridgeport. 1t is proposed to donate forty
acres. and in addition to the public SUBJ
scription already started to give $4,000
Nathan Tusing. gray haired moonshiner
of Hardy county, w. Va. was sentenced
in the United States court by Judge Dayton
to pay fine of $1,000 and to serve five
months in the Hampshire county iaiI at
Romney, Va, for Illicit whisky selling
James L. Steward Of Pittsbure. has mt
twenty men to work at Lick Run, on the
Morgantown and Kingwood railroad. ten
miles from Morgantown. preparing a site
for the erection of a large cement plant
The company is backed by Pittsburg men
and is capitalized at 100000.
Convicted of violating the internal reve-
nue. laws. Thomas F. Sager. a Frederick
county distiller, was sentenced to sixty
days in Jail at Winchester and fined $3.50
The second annual convention of the
Young Peoples Christian Union of West
Virginia is in session at Clarksburg. 1t
was opened Wednesday morning with an
address by President A. II. Reese of Hunt
ingdon. Rev. Z. s. Bowman of Harrisburg
Pa. is among the lecturers.
A. F. Morgan of New Martnsville, w.
Va, was killed Thursday at McVickers
drug store. at Morgantown, w. Va, by an
electric shock. He had been employed at
the drug store and was at work in the
basement. He placed a wet towel over
an electric wire. and 1t acted as a con-
ductor. Death was almost instantaneous
At Yates station. five miles south of
Grafton. w. Va, the dining car Of the
Baltimore and Ohio work train became
detached from the train Thursday and
rolled over the embankment. No one was
in the car at the time but the cook, s. b.
White. who was injured on the right arm.