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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23

dent Lincoln appointed him to position
in the Post Office Department, where he
had been employed continuously ever
since.
He had been connected with Metropoli-
tan M. e. Church since the organization
Of that body. For several years he
served as trustee and secretary Of the
Washington Grove Camp Meeting Asso-
citation. at Washington Grove, in Mary
land. where he had a summer home. He
participated in the services there each
year, and was ever active in the welfare
of the organization. His wife and a
daughter. Mrs. L. D. Wilson, and a son.
p. M. Hughes, assistant superintendent
of the District schools. survive him.
Mrs Estelle Wallace and T. s. Hughes,
his sister and brother, also survive him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23
DEGREES Of Divorce Signed.

Four DEGREES of absolute divorce were
signed today in the District Supreme
Court. two by Justice Barnard and two
by Justice Wright.
Cecilia r. Holmes was granted d.
vorce from George w. Holmes. She was
given custody Of their child, Frances
Holmes.
Joseph Weaver's marriage with Mary
Lizzie Weaver was dissolved. He charged
infideuty against her.
Belle Honemond was also granted a d.
vorce from James Honemand.
Preston B. Wright was given an abso-
lutte divorce from ~arah T. Wright The
custody of the two children was given to
the father.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23
In Baron sternburg's Memory.

BY direction of the President services
will be held at the Concordia German
Lutheran Church, Thursday, October %,
at 3 pm, In memory of Baron Won Stern
burg. the late German ambassador at
this city. who died at Heidelburg in
August last.
Invitations to attend the service have
been sent to the diplomatic corps and the
principal ofilcials of the United States
government in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23
DEMAND ON DU POINT.
Cleveland Railway Company Secre-
tary Asks Possession of Property.

CLEVELAND. October 23.-Secretary
Henry Davies Of the Cleveland Railway
Company today made a demand upon
President A. B. Dupont, Of the Municipal
Traction Company. that the railway prop
erty be turned over to the Cleveland
Railway Company Immediately.
President DUPONT replied, saying he
would do nothing until after a meeting
of the Municipal directors which will be
held at once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23
NEW BATTLESHP ASHORE.

Unnamed Austrian veSSeI snaps
Her Cables During Gale.
TRIESTE, October %. - The new
Austrian battleship Erzherzog Franz
Ferdinand was driven ashore last night
at Isola, nine miles southwest of here
The battleship was launched only q shori
while ago. and had not yet been com.
pleted She was towed over to Muggia
last evening and anchored OF that port
There were no men on board of her
A gale sprang up in the night. the cables
parted and the vessel was driven before
the wind until she finally struck the beach
at Isola. She was discovered at day
break.
Several warships are engaged In efforts
to refiOat her,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23
Craftsman Winship Dead.

William Williamson Winship. a drafts
man, died today at his home. 1852 2Sth
street. He was in the seventy-sixth year
Of his age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23

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umns Of The Star
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
POSSE AFTER
NEGRO F|EkD
Outraged Two Girls and At
tempted to Do the Same
With Others

Pittsburg, Aug. 11.-Not content to
arouse the population of Swissvale
and vicinity to a state of fury by
dragging two little girls into a de-
serted shed near stable in SWISS
vale Thursday afternoon a negro fiend
made second attempt yesterday aft
ernoon to lure two small girls to a
lonely spot off Commercial avenue,
a new thoroughfare leading from
Swissvale through the Twenty-second
ward, Pittsburg, to the boulevard,
near the Country club.
A neighbor woman saw the negro
talking to the children, and warned
them against him. AS it was not
learned until later that the descrip-
tion of the man tailed in every way
with the man whom the police have
been searching for 36 hours the case
was not reported to the police until
late last night.
The woman giving the warning to
the girls had not learned of the as
saults upon the two children In Swiss
vale at the time. Upon the return
home of Fred Shaffer. dairyman of
Commercial avenue, to whom the
story was reported, he told of the
Swissvale case and at once went in
search Of witnesses In the vicinity of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
ELECTRIC CARS
CRASH KILLING
THREEPERS0NS
Nearly Forty Injured, Many
of Whom Are Not Expect
-
ed to Survive
ONE CAR was TElEsC0PEC
WHEN THE COLLISION CAME
Misunderstanding or Disregard for
Orders Caused the Disaster as One
Car Had Orders to Take Siding Be.
yond Where Wreck Occurred

Piqua. Ohio. Aug. 10.-Three per-
sons were killed and nearly forty in
jured, several of whom are not ex-
pected to survive, when two "lim-
tied" suburban electric cars of the
Western Ohio Traction company COL
lided at sharp curve a few miles
north of here last night.
The dead are:
JAMES KEHOO, passenger, Day.
ton, Ohio.
WILLIAM MCCLELLAN, a passen-
ger, Lockington, Ohio
WILLIAM BAILEY, motorman,
Piqua, Ohio.
Fatally injured are: Geo. Robin
son, banker. Sidney, Ohio; G. NJ
Humelhauser, Detroit, Mich. Others
were more or less seriously injured
Nearly all the injured were residents
Of Ohio.
Both cars were late and were max
ing up lost time. 1t is said that the
south bound car from Sidney had or
ders to reach and lay over at siding
just south of Sidney, there to wait
until the north bound car from here
passed. AS the south bound car
rounded curve just before reaching
the switch the north bound car ap-
preached at high rate of speed. In
an instant there was a crash. The
south bound car was telescoped.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
One tainted, But the Other
Freed Herself After Rob
bers Left
TOOK WOMEn'S JEWELS ApO
A SMALL sum Of MONEY
Fifteen Hundred Dollars Received the
Day Before for q Tract Of Timber
Was Found Where the Bandits Had
Overlooked It.

Washington, Pa, Aug. 11-Three
masked men entered the home Of
Miss Maria de Garmo in q remote part
Of the country yesterday morning and
after beating down the door, bound
and gagged Miss de Garmo and her
niece, Miss Lizzie Hartman, the only
occupants of the house. and robbed
them of their jewels and q small
amount of cash.
When no large sum of money was
found, the women we're tortured until
the elder one tainted, and when the
men left. Miss Hartman, bleeding and
cut. at last freed herself from the
ropes and released her aunt. One
thousand five hundred dollars, which
had been received the day before for
a timber tract, was found where the
robbers had overlooked It,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
CABINET WILL
ENTER CAMPAIGN
Wilson and Strauss Will Make
Speeches in Vermont Be-
fore Election

New York. Aug. 11-Secretary
Wilson of the department. of agricul-
ture and Secretary Strauss of the de-
partment of commerce and labor, have
both promised to make speeches in
the Republican campaign in Vermont
The election in that state will be held
on September 1 and is the first in the
list of states. The fact that two cabi-
net members are to participate in the
campaign was announced last night
by Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of
the Republican national committee.
Details of the campaign and dates for
the speeches will be made public to-
morrow, when Mr.. Hitchcock will
confer with Vermont Republican lead
ers:
Charles H. Keating of Mansfield,
Ohio. has been appointed assistant di-
rector of the speakers bureau and
will have charge of the work at the
Chicago headquarters. In the cam
paign of four years ago he was the as
sistant chief of this bureau at the Chi
cago headquarters.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
JEALOUSY AND
DOUBLE CRIME
Husband Kills Wife While She
Was Sleeping and Then
Himself

Cody. Wyo., Aug. 11-Domestio dit
ficulties following marriage arrang-
ed through matrimonial agency, are
assigned as the cause Of a double
killing in which Judge A. e. Swanson
shot his wife, Rose Browning Swan
son as she lay sleeping. and then put
q bullet through his own head.
The tragedy was enacted at Isha-
voc, remote mountain settlement
near the boundary Of the Yellowstone
national forest.
Coroner Alsworth, who has Just re-
turned from investigating the murder
and suicide. brought out the bodies of
the victims and supplies the first. au-
thentic details Of the occurrence.
Judge Swanson had resided in Isha-
was section for fifteen years and was
we'll liked and popular. He married
q st. Louis woman two years ago aft
or q courtship by correspondence. The
pair did not live happily together and
Of late domestic difaculties caused
Swanson to drink heavily. Evidently
he brooded over his home troubles
for weeks and deliberately made up
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
NEXT MEETING
PLACE OF K. P,'S
Milwaukee and Richmond, Va,
Making Strenuous Efforts
for Next Session

Boston, Mass. Aug. 1.-THE active
rivalry Of Milwaukee and Richmond,
Va, for the next convention of the
supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias,
made long session today of the su-
preme lodge. which is lingering in
this city after the departure of the
uniform rank. which concluded its
sessions here last week. So import
ant was the matter that 1t went over
for special meeting to be held We'd
nesday. The uniform rank has al
ready selected Milwaukee for its next
convention, subject to the approval
within six months, of the supreme
lodge, but considerable sentiment for
q convention in the south has develop
ed.
Little headway was made today on
matters of importance to the subordi-
nate lodges and, after long debate
on the amplifcation of the ritual Of
the order, the matter still remains un-
decided.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
CROPS BETTER
THAN LAST YEAR
But One Per Cent Below a
Ten Years July
Average

Washington, Aug. 11-That crop
conditions in the United States were
in the aggregate somewhat better,
two per cent, on August 1, last, than
they were a year ago, but slightly,
one per cent, below ten year aver
age condition on that date. is the
opinion expressed by the crop report
ing board of the department of agri-
culture in a supplemental report is
sued today reviewing the general
crop conditions. The report men,
tions the crops that are above the
average, including winter wheat, hay.
cotton and tobacco. Corn, barley, rye.
buckwheat, apples and fax are slight
ly below the average, potatoes being
about five per cent and oats nearly
ten per cent below.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
Fireman and Unknown Tramp
Killed and Express Mes
senger Fatally scalded
DASHED UPON BURNT BRIDGE
BEFORE 0AnGER vas seen
Engineer Reversed Engine and Ap.
piled the Emergency When the En-.
gine Was Over the Brink and Thus
Saved . Disastrous Wreck.

Glendive, Mont, Aug. 11-Northern
Pacific train No. 2, the North Coast
limited. was wrecked about twelve
miles west of Glendive last night.
Fireman A. B. Mathews Of Dickinson,
N. D., and an unknown tramp were
killed, and probably twenty or thirty
persons were injured. Many Of these
were not seriously hurt and all but
one, Wilson, an express messenger,
will recover.
The train was running probably at
q speed of fifty miles an hour when
within two miles of Allard station 1t
rounded curve and ran into burn
ed bridge about $50 feet long. Engi-
neer Litch could not see that the
structure was out until the train was
virtually over the chasm. When he
did see 1t, he quickly reversed the
engine and put on the emergency
brakes, which action prevented all the
coaches except the smoker and the
nail car from going into the ditch.
The dead, together with all the in
jured, were brought to Glendtve.
Dead:
FIREMAN A. B. MATHEWS, Dick
inson, N. d.
TRAMP, NAME UNKNOWN.
Fatally injured:
J. B. WILSON, express messenger,
st. Paul, scalded.
Injured:
Engineer G. D. Litch, Dickinson. N.
II. Oliver, Mandan, N. D.
II. T. Frahl, Wilton, Minn., injury to
back.
william Newman, Great Falls. Mont.
D. W. Dean, BrcokAeld, MINI.
Ampnd. Tuftep, Amherst, Wis.
Mrs. Jennie, New UfmY MINI. ).
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
SAW HIM DIE
Fred Guy Drank Acid in Restaurant
Before His Former Wife.

before HIS FOrmef Wife,
Kansas City, Aug. 11.-Just before
he entered the Satire restaurant about
8 o'clock last night, Fred Guy placed a
bottle OF carbolic acid to his lips and
swallowed the contents. Then he
took seat at one of the tables and
ordered sandwich. At the other
side of the room, Frances Guy, his
divorced wife, who is employed as a
waitress in the restaurant was serv-
ing customer, when she saw him
beckon to her to come to him. At the
same time he fell forward; with his
head in his hands on the table. Mrs.
Guy rushed to his side. She uttered
a cry when she smelled the acid and
]. w. McCraken, manager of the res
taurant, came running from the desk.
Call doctor quick. He's dying!"
screamed Mrs. Guy. A number of per-
crowded around.
McCraken assisted Guy to his feet,
half carried him to the front of the
restaurant. Hardly had they reached
the door when Guy fell forward to
the floor. At the same time a two
ounce bottle rolled from his vest
pocket and turning over displayed the
skull and cross bones and the red
carbolic acid label. An ambulance
was called, but Guy was dead within
minute after its arrival.
Guy was employed by the Auditori-
UNI Bill Posting company. He was 80
years old and roomed at 500 East
Eleventh street. Mrs. Guy said she
obtained a divorce from him about
four months ago.
Mrs. Guy said that Guys parents
formerly lived in Atchison. Kas.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
SHAH A PRISONER
Tribesmen Brought in for Guards
Turn Grafters

Turn Grafters
st. Petersburg. August 10-Special
dispatches received here from Teher-
an give tragic-comic description OF
the position of the shah Of Persia
who is vitually prisoner in the
hands Of wild tribesmen summoned
to Teheran to protect the throne
against the revolutionaries but who
have become greater menace to the
monarch than his other foes. The
tribesmen are extravagant in their
demands for money. which the shah
is unable to grant, and they threat
en- to destroy the palace and pillage
Therean. The $250,OO0 secured from
the Russian bank recently as a loan
on the crown jewels Of Persia al
ready is exhausted. General Liak-
hoff's Cossacks are unable to make any
headway against the tribesmen, who
have refused to permit the shah to
leave the camp at Badeshakh for Sal
tanabad, where the harem ia now
staying.
Famine is now reported to be Inn
minent in southern Persia and this
promises to bring about q crisis q
political acairs in the tutumn.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
PACIFIC COAST
GETS ADVANTAGE
Senator Perkins Heads Naval
Affairs Committee Since
Allison's Death

Washington. Aug. 11.-With Senator
Perkins as chairman of the senate
committee on naval affairs as all con-
cede he will become through the COM
mittee changes which will result from
the death Of Senator Allison, the Paci-
flc coast, will be given position Of
advantage and his probable advance
ment is favorable accepted by those
who regard developments in the Paci-
fc a. Of q nature to render necessary
the greater watchfulness In that
quarter. While the western coast has
generally been given representation
on this important senate committee
1t has never been awarder the place
at the head Of II.
That Senator Hale will leave the
committee with relutance is under
stood on all sides, but it quite certain
that he will yield to what It ia be-
lieved will be the almost general de-
mand that he transfer the center Of
his committee operations to the COM
mittee on appropriation. where he has
20 long been Senator Allison's first
lieutenant. He then will be permitted
Il he 80 desires, to retain his member
ship IN the naval committee. and will
probably resume second place on that
committee.
In Senator Perkins will also be
found q man Of conservative tenden-
cies. He is, however, q staunch sup
porter Of all west coast interests and
he may be depended upon to use the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
KILLED MISTRESS
Asked the Police to Lack Him up
After Taking a Bath.


Philadelphia, Aug. 11.--Wlth his
hands stained with the blood of the
young woman with whom he lived
as man and wife Robert Barring. a
young. negro, surrendered himself to
the police and asked to be placed uu.
der arrest.
Policeman Miller, of ths Twentieth
and Federal streets station was stand
ing on the corner of Seventeenth and
Dickinson streets when Barring walk
ed up to him and cody declared that
he had killed a woman and wanted
to give himself up.
Reckon you better lock INC ur,
boss. Use jes' killed a woman; but 1
done 1t in self-def,nsa, an / wants
to be locked up. jes' had OF du 1t
t. save myself
Miller accompanied Barring, and
his story was then investigated.
In a room in the house at No. 1901
Latona street the police found Mag
gle Albert, a llyoung negress, dead
with five bullet holes In her head
The revolver with which the ,nur-
der had been committed had been
held SO close to the woman's face that
the powder had badly scorched the
flesh.
Some weeks ago young Barring
rented the room in the Latona street
house from Georgeanna Jones, who
runs the place. He explained to her
that he was married, but that his
wife would only be able to be at the
house at intervals, as she worked out
at service.
The young couple evidently got
along very we'll and people about the
house several times noticed how fond
they were of each other.
Last night Robert Smith, another
lodger in the house, while bathing
heard five revolver shots, which do
not seem to have attracted the at
tention of anyone else.
He was hurrying through to dis
cover the cause of the shots, when
Barring raped at the door of the
bathroom and asked to be let in.
Smith promised to let him know
when he left the room, and some
time later raped at the door of Bar
rings room and told him he could
get to the bath.
Barring leisurely proceeded with
his bath, dressed himself, and then,
fully three-ouartefs OF an hour after
the murder, hunted up a policeman
and surrendered himself
Maggie Albert. the murdered wo-
man.. was the wife Of Cuban negro,
who left her sometime ago because
Of her waywardness.
1t was said In the ,neighborhood
that Barring did rot know until yes
terday that the girl was married, and
jealousy over his discovery Is ascrib-
ed as the motive for the crime.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
HEAVY ORDERS !
FOR new STEEL
Railroads Need New Equip.
ment and Idle Mills will
Resume Work

Di<&oh,,rp A,,~ - .N.,a-- -. ~
nno tons e aas aus; .al.,as n;..sS % .oI "a :.
seo ~ Up ~ ~ y, ,s ei ..ss pases, . ~ oluel ~
s.sii. ~ s.oe, 70 p.a1su ss WIN s ltsDuIs seeel
% tsar .nI aIf.,ng .u.e mAcMnery lneo aG-
:" on H,s anu eu1nfonlab nao1e Men Dach
W u.e,s WvsA; -,
A..sslu Wu as .tspuEs steo! pta!e manuiac-
s1reos s1 81 nan Msurlns On oraers Tor upwards
" u 1v.vvv cons OF Piates ioF steel cars
!or .or, ralsoaa @ r. requlrements, ana wnlcn
.lures ~ seeauy opefation OF the plants
wnen tne oroer Is piaced. there
mes snotnef contract tnat Is to be
~, aMafueu ~ prle1 perloa ana Wnicn
no aHests unese interests.
New 1oIK CITY Is building g. new
wsoSL suppiy man OF steei ana known
~ tne Amityvllle pipe line. It has
1waraea tne construction contract 70
t1e =: a. aiiiespie company, the build
eFs oL tne new nitration plant.
1ne AWARD OF the general contract
% tne fttsDurg company this week
20 oe oilowed py sub-contract
@ Do awarded by Gillespie company
TOR the entire tonnage Of steel plates
t0l tnls V1ss Mne oI riveted pipe.
iluon i0r tlatos
Ine tonnage - estimated at from
a4,Oo0 70 z1,OOO IONS. or IN round dg-
ufes vaiue IN steel plates amounting
70 $l.OoV,VOv. THIS contract fs to be
awarded within few days and the
assurances nave been given thus
purg mus wiil get the order.
me construction OF the Amityvtlle
PIPE nne lor tne new YORK city water
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
Government TO
BUY an A|RSA|P
Baldwin's Machine Will Be
Accepted by the Army
Signal Corps

Washington. Aug. 1.-THE military
dirigible balloon built for the signal
corps of the army by Capt. Thomas
8. Baldwin. will be accepted. eve
are going to buy Baldwin's machine; /;
we need it." Aaid Gen. James Allen,
chief signal officer, and yesterday he
indicated that the failure to comply
with the speed requirements will not
prevent the purchase of the airship.
1t is generally understood, there
fore, that the speed and endurance
trials will merely determine the price
to be paid for the dirigible.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
RIDDLE RECOVERING
Is Spending the Hot Months at .
Caucasus Watering Place

st. Petersburg, Aug. 11-Ambassa-
dor Riddles mother and his half
brother, Mr.. and Mrs. Flandreau of
Minneapolis. have Joined the ambas-
sador at Kislovodsk, watering place
in the Caucasus and will remain with
him during his convalescence. Mr..
Riddle was threatened with an at
tack of pneumonia and is making slow
progress toward recovery, but is still
confined to his bed. He expects to
remain at Kislovodsk until October.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-08-11
No Interference.

Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 1.-THE labor
department reports that at present no
government interference in the Can
adian Pacific railway strike is con-
templated. It is pointed out that un-
der the provisions of the Lemieux act
there can be no sympathetic strike of
other unions until a grievance has
first been stated and inquiry has been
made by board of conciliatton and
investigation which would necessarily
take some time. The only case In
which a further number OF Canadian
Pacific employees might now go out is
in consequence of the finding Of the
board appointed last May on appli-
cation of the operators union to in
vestigate the alleged wrongful dismiss
sal of an operator at Megantic, Que.
1t is understood that this board, of
which Judge Forth of Montreal is
chairman, is now ready to report and
that the finding will be in favor of the
union. The Canadian Pacific railway
will accept the award and conse-
quently a strike of the operators can
not take place on this score.