Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-02
News Briefs.

1t was announced at Frankfort, Ky,
that the American Tobacco Company had
given directions to their representative
there to rent out their warehouse and
cease business until further notification.
Rev. Thomas P. Holloway, pastor of
College Avenue Baptist Church. Annapo-
lis. has resigned. having accepted a call
to the Second Baptist Church, Whining
ton. Del.
Orders on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road for retrenchment were carried out
at Cumberland. Md, when nearly all the
shop and yard FORCES were laid off. At
least 800 men were affected
The four-year-old daughter of Mrs
Elda Reutzahn: of Hagerstown. found a
bottle of carbolic acid and drank a portion
of the contents. Her lips mouth and
throat were seriously burned.
Jacob E. Fisher sold at auction in Ha-
gerstown, for John s. Winter, executor,
the Daniel Stephey farm, of thirty-four
acres, near Cavetown, to David II. Phette-
place. for $127.50 an acre.
Despite the fact that he is alive and en-
joying the best of health, Enoch Hartman
of Dallastown, Pa, veteran of the civil
war, has caused his own monument to be
erected in the cemetery there. where he
expects to be buried
Mrs. Richard Cox died at Laurel, Del.
Sunday night from injuries received
Christmas eve by falling down stairs
while acting the part of Santa Claus for
the poor children of her 'neighborhood.
A house occupied by the families of
John and George Sarnello at Export. a
mining town near Greensburg Pa. was
shattered Monday by an explosion of
dynamite. No one was seriously injured.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Samuels, seven
teen-year-old foster daughter of T. H.
Samuels. sheriff of Henrico county, Va
has been missing from her home since
Friday.
Pretoria when that steamship arrived,
charged with the embezzement of 5000
from a bank in Moscow. He was de-
tanned at the request of the Russian gov
eminent.
James Allen Bloch of Chicago applied
to the police station at Jeanette, near
Pittsburg, for lodging Sunday night and
Tuesday was found in his cell with his
| throat cut. He will die Bloch was
about thirty-nine years old.
Under the influence of liquor. and rails
ing disturbance in his home. John Hille,
thirty-four years old, of Baltimore, tried
to cut his throat Tuesday afternoon
when his brother, Henry Hille, tried to
quiet him.
Two foreign miners were probably fatally
injured and two dwellings partly wrecked
Tuesday at Willock,@Hear Pittsburg.
when a keg of blasting powder became
Pignited from ar open lamp which one of
the men was fastening to his cap.
William c. Reichard, fifty years Old ac-
cused of forgery, committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid Monday night in
Pittsburg just as the police were about to
arrest him. following chase all over the
city.
An operation for appendicitis was per-
formed upon Miss Cecilia Lotus, the
mimic and actress. at a private hospital
in Neiv York yesterday afternoon. The
operating surgeon said last night her con-
dition is grave.
The convent of the Sisters of Charity at
Rin,osky. Quebec; was DESTROYED by fire
last night At the time there were 800
young children in the building. but they
were all safely removed. The loss is
placed at 100000.
Mrs. Edward Kirby was fatally burned
al her home near Charlottesville, Va,
yesterday. Her clothing caught fire while
she was cooking, and before aid arrived
she was burned all over the body. The
tragedy occurred in the presence of her
five children.
Nine. Emma Calve, the prima donna,
who was threatened with serious illness,
has twice Cancelled her engagements to
sing at Mexico City, Mex. She is now at
| Cuatla, resort in the tropics, convalesc-
ing from a threatened attack of pneu-
| monia.
John Carols. who has been a Waterman
at the yards of the Spedden Shipbuilding
Company in Baltimore for the last seven
years, dropped dead yesterday morning
just as he was calling up his manager on
the telephone to make his first report for
1908.
Following q New Year prayer meeting at
Plymouth Church in New York yesterday
Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight Hills was seized
with a chill and hurried to his home in
Grace Court. He is. now confined to his
bed with severe cold. and his physicians
fear 1t may develop into the grip.