Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-31
News Briefs.

me Bristol Chautauqua building, Bris-
toi' va an open shed, With a se.tiAg ca
,acay OF 500 burned to the grou-d !. es-
terday Afternoon. entai.ing a less of
s2,OOl President Tai. spoke in this build
ihs our ng his campaign.
The Italian cruiser E.ruria sailed YES
to-day from Norfolk for New YORK. She
passed Cape Hen.y outward bou.d at
noon ana Will reach New York this even
ing.
The United States circuit court at Nor
foik Is hearing arguments Why the pro-
posed bill Ct intervention, suomfttt d by
the Nandyke-Sell syndicate should not
be filed and the delivery of the Norfolk
ana southern railway TO the pu ,chaserS
postponed until a further he iring
Charles f. Smith was struck by an At
lantic coast line train yester, ay at Suf-
folk, Va, as he was or ssing the track.
one leg was broken and other serious in
JurieS were Sus aimed.
State Librarian McIllwaine of Virginia
has embe died in his annual report the
recommendation that the egslatu be
asked TO appropriate $1,000 to repair valu-
able pt rtrai S in the state lib a.y under
his care. Eighty-nine portraits are said
to be in need of repairs.
Mrs. John A. Mcdonald Of Portsmouth,
Va. was injured yesterday by the expio-
sion OF the water tank to her kitchen
stove. Water In the tank froze durin~
the night, and when Mrs. Mcdonald
started her fire the explosion resulted.
portrait of Capt NJ. J. D-mmock was
presented to Mary Washington He spital,
in Fredericksburg, Va, by his sen, NJ s.
Dlmmock, in an apprf pirate address and
was accepted by Mrs. J. f. Mason, Mss
Virginia S. Knox ard Mrs. NJ. +. Tankard
in behalf of the hospital association.
The Huntington. W. Va, Northern Rail.
way Company has closed deal for
ground on the Ohio side Of the river ror
The approach to the new bridge. paying
$3.50 for the property. The consunma-
ton of this deal fixes the ST atus of the
bridge question, and 1t means work eli the
new structure spanning the Ohio river Is
about to begin.
Thomas Episcopal Church, Ncrf Tx Va,
sustained second stroke of par Isis
Wednesday night ard Is not expac4ed to
survive it, He is an aged man and enc
Of the best known residents of the city.
The Lynchburg, Va, Poultry and Pet
Stock Association is ready for it's first an
nual exhibit" II, which is t. open Tues y
for four days. There are more than 800
entries in the poultry cl"sses, and bids
will be shown from PENNSYLVANIA, Mary:
land. North Carolina, Tennessee and All
rorticns Of Virginia.
Mrs. Medora Curtis. widow of Jesse
Curtis. died at her home in Culpeper
county, Va. of paralysis.
Isaac Van Meter died yesterday at
Oldfields. Hardy county. W. Va. near
Moorefield about seventy years old. He
was one o. the best known men in the
South Branch valley. and possessed fine
farm and colonial mansion. >where he
dispensed hospitality with a free hand.
He served in the Confederate army. He
raised fine cattle for export.
A delegation of prominent residents OF
rIrx,1ax To
Wednesday, and presented set of flags
to the new tug Parksley of the New
York. Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad
Company. The gift was made in recogni-
ton of the tug being named after the
town Parksley on the eastern shore OF
Virginia.
G. w. Farmer was badly burned and
Miss Annie Chessull. sixteen years old,
and her twe.ve-year-old sister Mamie
were injured in an explosion yesterday in
kitchen range in the Farmer household
burst on account of the water freezing
Such was the terrific force of the ex-
plosion that the windows to the room
injured that he had to be attended by a
physician. The two girls suffered innu-
merable bruises.
In the SANDER suit of Charles Cunning
ham against Robert Shrewsbury at Par
kersburg, W. Va. jury returned YER
dict for Cunningham of 81. Cunningham
sued Shrewsbury. who is his son-in-law
and wealthy merchant, for SIS 900 dam
ages, claiming that he had made a SLAM
derous remark about him. The evidence
in the case was sensational.
The coolest temperature of the year was
recorded yesterday morning at Fairfax.
Thomas and Davis, w. Va. along the
Western Maryland railroad, seventy-fiye
miles southwest of Cumberland, where
twelve degrees below zero was recorded.
There is about two feet OF snow, which
WAS flrifted by high WindS