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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
FIREMEN OUT TWICE.
Police Searching for Individual Who
Sounded False Alarm.

tween midnight and 1 o'clock this morn
ing. The first was turned in because Of a
blaze in house 1245 4th street northwest
the home of Edward Craig, while the
second summoned the fremen to 4th and
r streets northwest. There was no fire
to claim attention on the second occa-
sion. and the police are looking for the
individual who violated the law.
At the 4th street house the blaze re-
suited from washed clothing left In front
of a stove to dry and becoming overhead
ed. Occupants of the house were not at
home when the blaze started. The fire
was discovered before much Roadway
had been gained. and was quickly extin-
guished. Not more than S25 damage re-
suited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
BLIND GIRLS "sEE" GOTHAM.
Also Attend Matinee, Friends De-
scribing Scenes on Stage.

NEW YORK, December 24.-Ten blind
girls were taken on tour OF seeing
New York today in two automobiles, as
part Of a Christmas jollification arranged
for them. Then they attended a matinee.
Lecturers described the principal points
of interest, and the girls showed their
delight by frequent demands for fuller
details.
At the theater descriptive program
was read to them before the performance.
and beside each girl sat friend, who
painted the scenes in whispers to the ac-
compartment Of the stage dialogue and
music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
OPEN HOUSE TO BE KEPT.
New National Republican Club Will
Receive Its Friends Tomorrow.

Open house will be kept at the head
quarters of the new National Republican
Club, 1347 Pennsylvania avenue. tomor-
row between the hours of 10 o'clock In
the morning and noon. An appropriate
entertainment will be provided and a
buffet luncheon served. according to the
announcement of the board Of governors
through Secretary Henry NJ. Camp.
The clubrooms have been tastefully
decorated for the occasion and present a
homelike appearance. The clulis mem
bership is reported to have had a re-
markable growth since the organization
was formed. December 3. Many of the
prominent s.len of the capital are MEM
bers OF the club
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
A Chinese Hero.
From the Chinese Mercury.

From the Chinese Mercury.
At Looping Hsien is a statue draped
in full dress Of a mandarin-the Pu-
ting or police master named Chin, who
gave his life for the people. An exile
who was in the camp at Jaochow and
who owed the Hsien district magis-
trate) q grudge, rode a black horse 20
Looping. and having killed the Hsien
got back for the Jaochow roll call next
morning. AS the murderer could not
be found orders came from the capital
that large number Of the people
should be killed. To prevent this
slaughter Of innocent folk the Putting,
a good old man. said he stabbed the
Hsien after few words over the wine
cups, and he was consequently be-
headed. No resident OF the district
would deal the fatal blow, but an
itinerant cObbler or bambee worker did
1t for a reward Of forty taels. Tradi-
ton adds that he was struck dead by
lightning after leaving the execution
ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
SPEEDY TRIAL FOR NEGRO.
Will Face Jury in April on Murder
and Arson CHARGES.

RALEIGH, N. c., December 24.-Gov.
Kitchin this afternoon ordered a special
term Of court for Granville county for
the trial Of the negro. Nathan Montague.
charged with criminal assault on Miss
Mamie Sanders. the murder Of the young
woman, her father. J. l.. Sanders. and
his granddaughter, Irene Overton, in
Granville county. last Tuesday. their
home and the dead bodies in it being
afterward burned.
The court will begin April 16, and will
be presided over by Judge George w.
Ward. The special term for q speedy
trial was granted on the request Of the
county commissioners OF Granville
county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
YALE SOCIETIES WEALTHY.
Tax Returns Show They Hold Near.
ly $1,000, 900 in Property.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. December "a
Properties or the various secret societies
Al Yale a-e valued at nearly one million
io'lals according 20 the new tax list OF
ne ci!y- assessors
In all. forty-seven pieces of realty are
1eld. the richest society being the Clois-
.er. otherwise Book and Snake, of the
scientific school, with realty appraised
Al 10000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Commodore Vedder Dead.

NEW YORK, December 24.-Commo-
dore p Vedder, former state senator and
author Of the state Inheritance tax law.
died this afternoon at the Hotel Majestic.
where he had made his home for some
little time past. OF heart failure. He
was born in 1888. was a lawyer, civil war
veteran and long prominent in republican
state politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
ONE DELIVERY Of MAIL
BY CARRIER TOMORROW
Registry Division of City Post
Office Open From 9
Until II O'Clock.

Mail service tomorrow will include a
delivery by carriers from the main Office
and postal stations at 40 o'clock in the
morning. with a delivery of mail to
clerks in the executive departments, from
to 1880 am. at the official section,
10Th street corridor Of the city post
Office. The registry division will be kept
open at the main Office from 8 to IL
am, but the money order and cashier
divisions will be closed the entire day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Columbia Victorious at Chess.

NEW YORK, December 24.-By defeat
ing Harvard today in the final round OF
play, Columbia emerged victorious for
the seventh time in the annual intercol-
legiate chess tournament. Yale. Harvard
and Princeton finished in the order
named. The winning team is composed
of c. H. Ramsdell. '13, law; Z. L..
Gluck. II; J. B. Beadle, 10, captain,
and S. H. ChildS, II. In today's play
Gluck was the only winner. but his
mates all managed to get draws, scoring
two and one-half to Harvards one and
one-half.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
CHRISTMAS DEwEY's BIRTHDAY
Admiral Is Seventy-Three Year:
Old Today.

George Dewey, admiral Of the navy and
president of the general board. will be
seventy-three years old today.
The admiral will spend the day quietly
with his family and will attend no for
NAL celebration in honor Of the event
His son, George Dewey, jr.. who makes
his home I'm Chicago, Is spending the
Christmas holidays with his parents.
Undoubtedly Admiral Dewey's friends
will call upon him to express their good
wishes on his birthday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Found Unconscious in Alley.

CHICAGO, December 24.-Albert Lord
thirty-five years old. unconscious and ap-
parently suffering from pneumonia, Was
found in an alley in the downtown dis
trict early today. Revived at a hospital,
he said he was the son Of wealthy par
ents who lived at 212S Main street. Brad
field, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
REFUGEES FROM MEXICO.
Many Women and Children Gross
the Border Into Texas.

EAGLE PASS, Tex, December 4.-Of-
fetal reports disclose serious suffering in
Preside county along the Rio Grande
frontier. seventy-five miles from the
railroads. Not less than 700 refugees.
chiefly women and children, have re,
Gently crossed the river from Mexico te
this side at Preside and other points,
existence on the other side being unen-
durable owing to the active presence OF
soldiers and revolutionists, 1t is said. The
purse of $50, which will last about a
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Newspaper Managers to See Taft.

Louis n. Hammerling. president of the
American Association Of Foreign Ian
guage- Newspapers was a caller on Pres.
ident Taft. with Secretary Nagel Of the
Department of Commerce and Labor yes
terday. and arranged with the President
for conference with the directors Of his
association, representing the foreign
language newspapers in thirty-six states
January 4. The object Of the conference
Is said to be the discussion Of the re-
strictive features Of the immigration
laws which In many instances, 1t is
claimed. work many and pitiable hard
ships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Ambassador Bryce Returning.

LONDON. December 24.-James Bryce,
British ambassador to the United States.
and Mrs. Bryce sailed for New York on
the Cedric today. They were accom-
panied by w. G. C. Gladstone. q grand.
son OF William Ewart Gladstone. who
will spend six months at Washington Is
an honorary attache to the British EN-
ba
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
MAYOR REFUSES A SALARY.
New Rhode Island Towns Executive
Doesn't Want Pay for Services.

CRANSTON, x. J.. December o4.-This
,ty has a mayor WHO refuses to accept
any compensation for his services Gran
;toh IS the youngest city in the state
~ a meeting OF the council last night
resolution was introduced allowing
Mayor Edward VI. Sullivan a salary Of
Il go.
Mayor sullivan declared that if the
motion was passed he would veto 1t
and il the council then passed il he would
not accept the money any way. At
withdrawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Slight Collision at Sea.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, December a.
1t was learned here tonight through
Delaware bay pilots that the British
steamer Menominee, from Philadelphia
for Antwerp, was in collision yester-
day outside the Delaware capes with
the British tank steamer Camilla, from
Rotterdam for this port. The collision
was not serious and the Menominee
proceeded seward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Long Speeches.
From the London Globe.

NJ. Jaures is not at all pleased with the
proposal before the French chamber to
limit the duration OF speeches to ten
minutes. All that really need be said on
most matters could. if the speaker clear
ly grasped his subject, be spoken in ten
minutes, but probably the socialist leader
is jealous OF the latitude recently allowed
the Austrian deputy, KOtlorsch. who
spoke for three hours. But his record is
beaten by an instance in England. when
an opponent OF O'Connell INSTRUCTED one
OF his bills by epeal1ig for eight hours.
Senator Sumner, at the time OF the
American war of secession, delivered an
grafton lasting eleven hours. At the as
sembly at Bordeaux in 1871 the mayor Of
Stra ssbarg brought about his death from
the exhaustion following upon his speech
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
FEDERAL POST FOR THOMPSON.
Ohio Secretary of State to Be Assist.
ant Secretary of Interior.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. December 24.-Sec-
rotary of State Carmi a. Thompson,
whose home is in Ironton. Ohio. today
announced the acceptance from Presi-
dent Taft Of the Office of Assistant Sec
rotary Of the Interior. His salary will
be 81, 500
Thompson's term here expires jan
uary 8. He was twice elected secretary
of state following one term as speaker
of the house Of representatives Of Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

CINCINNATI. Ohio, December "a
The body Of Fireman Charles Schwen-
gel, buried under the ruins OF the fire
here last Wednesday morning, was
found late today.
One hundred volunteers from the fire
department had gone over the entire
section of the burned district before
they uncovered the body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
BLACK HAND" BLAMED.
Murder Of q Prosperous Fruit Dealer
in St. Louis,

ST. LOUIS, Mo. December 24.-Damain
Cappuano. a prosperous fruit dealer. was
shot and killed tonight. The police at
tribute the murder to the BLACK Hand.
This ia the second outbreak within the
week in the neighborhood. The grocery
store Of Antonio Lorenzo was dynamited
last Sunday night. No attempt was made
to rob In either case.
Thomas Vfviana, who was arrested. adj
mitted firing several shots. He said he
heard five shots and saw a man lying on
the sidewalk. He declared he saw no
other person.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Express Companies Rushed.

Business at the express offices appears
to have increased in pretty much the
same proportions as at the post office.
Adams Express Company's Office report
cd about IL o clock last night that it had
closed down deliveries until early this
morning. Thousands OF packages and
boxes were then on hand and being load
ed on the wagons for the morning dciiv-
cry. 1t was said that between forty and
fifty wagons had been pressed into serY
ice, i'm addition 10 the thirty-three regular
wagons, with two men to wagon. The
volume of matter handled during the
Christmas holidays this year, 1t was said.
exceeded the highest previous record o.
the Office.
At the United States express Office IL
was learned that the number OF cypress
boxes and packages received for delivery
far exceeded that of previous years.
The local merchandise delivery wagons
were taxed to their limit, and in dozens
Of instances the wagons were run long
after midnight. The late deliveries last
night will be supplemented by others
during today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Gift Bearer Killed by Train.

PITTSBURG, December 24.-Hurrying
along with his arms full Of Christmas
presents, an unknown man was run
down and killed near Hawkins station, a
suburb, by Pennsylvania railroad train
tonight. The only clue to his identity is a
signet ring bearing the initials &C. l.. C."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
PRIZE MUSIC STOLEN
FROM EXPRESS WAGON
Package of Scores, Value
About $4,000, in Tran
sit to Boston.

NEW YORK. December pa package
prize music score. addressed to George
w. Chadwick. director of the New Eng
! land Conservatory of Music in Boston,
was stolen tonight from an express
wagon standing in front of an uptown
dwelling house. No motive is assigned
! In the report made to the police.
The driver Of the express wagon in
| formed the police that the package was
! one Of the two he had received a short
time before at the house Of Walter Dam
| rosch, the conductor.
Damrosch Greatly Perturbed.
When Mr.. Damrosch was informed OF
very much perturbed. Il am thunder
struck he said.
A number of musical scores had been
| submitted to him, he explained, as one OF
the judges in a contest which had been
going on quietly for some time under the
auspices Of the Metropolitan Opera
House.
From the hundred or more compositions
on which he had passed he had selected
six which he had instructed his secretary
to forward to Mr.. Chadwick. He did not
up in one package or in two, but he was
inclined to think they had all been sent
. under the same cover.
Value About $4,000.
In that case, he estimated the total
value Of the package might run to $4,000,
or even $4,000. The prize score was to
have received $4,000 and whatever the
loss, he feared it would be irreparable, as
he doubted if any duplicates were to be
had.
The two packages received at the Dam
rosch home were all the driver had in
his wagon when he stopped at q tene-
ment a couple Of blocks east in the same
street. He was ten minutes in making
q collection and when he left the tene-
ment one of the packages was gone.
In Questionable Neighborhood.
The block in which the theft was COM
United houses q number Of characters
known to the police as guerrillas.
1t was only few doors away that the
Rizzo and Longo boys recently restored
to their parents were held in captivity
by kidnapers. What guerrillas should
want with operate compositions the de-
tectiveS do not understand, but, as one
of them said tonight, it is often the Ital-
ians in the galleries who instruct the
boxes when to applaud, and there is no
accounting for the tastes in saint or SIN
ner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Burned as She Plays Santa Claus.

BUFFALO, n. Y, December 24.-Mrs.
fatally turned tonight while playing
Santa Claus for her four-year-old child.
The flame from a candle ignited a false
beard she wore. Her face and neck were
badly burned and she inhaled the flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

The overturnins OF an oil lamp caused
a blaze last night in room at the
house Of Charles Adrens, 500 Maine ave-
nue. southwest. No. engine company
responded to an alarm and the fire was
eXtinguished after about SIS damage had
been done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Former Ball Player Takes Bride.
ec.al D.spstch TO The Star

>rrc.aI U.5pStca TO Inc Star.
HAGERSTOWN. Md. December "a
Miss Katherine c. Kramer and Roscoe
NJ. Bragonier, the latter a former well
known base ball player, both OF Hagers-
town, surprised their relatives and friends
by going to Chambersburg and being
quietly married by Rev. w. c. Cremer
u the Reformed Church Upon their re-
turn from a wedding trip the young
couple Will reside in Hagerstown, where
the groom is engaged in business with
lis father.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Face Cut by Fall in Street.

While walking on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. between Sd and Az streets north
west last evening about $3.50 o'clock
Matthew Taylor of S43 Pennsylvania
avenue fell and cut the side Of his face.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

Mrs. Abigail Heffelman, eighty-one
years old, widow of Henry Heffelman.
died of general debility Thursday night
at the home of her daughter Mrs. Will
liam Shrader Hagerstown, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
YU[ECARO[S ROUSE
TAFT FROM HIS BED
there was that same old Christmas eve

Continued From First Page.)
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Truce Between Warning longs.

In Chinatown the merchants held a
peace meeting In an effort to make per-
manent truce signed this week between
the warning tongs. But in all this time
OF expectancy and fulfillment Felix
kownejinnsky. Polish scissors grinder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
DAY OFF FOR BUSINESS,
GOOD CHEER THE RULE
Helping Hand Extended to
Many Thousands in New
York City.

NEW YORK, December 24.-For the
first time since Santa Claus and his team
of RENDERS drove down the Hudson to
New Amsterdam he paid a visit tonight
to Ellis and Hoffman Islands. down the
harbor, where go immigrant children
and fifty adults are confined with con-
the care Of DR.. Alvah III. Doty. health
officer of the port. Mrs. Doty received
permission from her husband this week
to set up twenty-one Christmas trees
for tho twenty-one hospital wards.
Business Takes Day OF.
The stock exchange and all other ex-
changes. save the produce exchange.
closed today. and the city entered upon a
triple holiday. All the Christian foreign
colonies began celebrations of their own.
Good cheer for 10000 will be distributed
tomorrow by the Volunteers Of America.
The 1900 inmates and employees of the
sixteen institutions. under the authority
Of the department Of public charities, will
have goose, with cranberry sauce and
mince pie.
The municipal lodging house will feed
1850. The Salvation Army will send bas-
kets to $1,000 families. State Senator
Timothy c'Big TIM Sullivan gives his
annual dinner to the homeless of the East
Side. There will be gifts tomorrow, but
no stockings were hung up tonight. at the
Sailors Snug Harbor, on Staten Island,
because one Of the old veterans lacks
both legs, and 1t is not wished to hurt
his feelings.
Truce Between Warning longs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Government Lacks Funds.

The imperial government is in such
straits financially that it is feared that
adequate assistance cannot be given. At
he best, it will be only temporary and
will not strike at the real difficulty.
The people are desperate. 1t is hard
~ preach q gospel Of love to those who
IRE starving, or on the verge thereof.
lnless at the same time one can help
heir physical need"
The reference committee refers contri-
buttons to the treasurers of the various
boards Of foreign missions or Of the Red
ross Society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

was found sitting in the rain tonight
dazed from starvation. He had been
four days without food or shelter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
Three Million Starving; Million
Dollars Needed.
FAMINE IS WIDESPREAD
Imperial Government in Financial
Straits. Gives Small Relief.
APPEAL FROM MISSIONARIES
Worst Floods in Memory of Living
Men Devastate Two Great
Provinces of Empire.

NEW YORK. December o4.-Private
advices received here state that the
famine in China, already reported in
news dispatches from Peking, has SO
far affected 100000 persons, and that
$1,000 goo is urgently needed for their
sid
The Rev. DR.. Arthur j. Brown. chair
man Of the committee on reference and
counsel. representing the boards and So
cieties of foreign missions in the Unit
ed States and Canada. made public here
tonight the following cable message
from the Observation-Disclosures commit
tee of foreign missionaries in Shanghai:
Famine in Two Provinces.
Famine to q great extent over north.
ern part Of Kiang-Su and An-Hui prov
inces. Three million people affected. Chi.
nese government and people generously
contributed relief.
According to report of missionaries ir
the district affected. relief is insufficient
international committee organized in
Shanghai proposes that missionaries CO.
operate with generous Chinese to raise
funds and in distribution.
"A million dollars is needed. Help
must be carried on until May.
please communicate this to missionary
Herald. urgently requesting they con-
tribute. FERGUSON, chairman"
The combined population of the two
provinces named in the cable is 81 $50, $40.
Worst Floods in Memory.
In greater detail the Rev. Edwin c.
I.obenstine. a Presbyterian missionary on
ne spot. describes the conditions in a
letter, in part as follows:
We are passing through another time
u famine here. The past years have
oeen marked by repeated floods, and this
year both the spring and fall crops have
been an almost total failure in large sec.
ions.
"a region thirty-three miles wide by
nearly sixty-seyen miles long has been
swept by the worst food within the menu
Dry of man. The people lost everything
hey had.
The imperial government has voted
10000 taels for the twelve devastated
-ounties 1t is a mere drop In the
bucket
Taking China as a whole, this partic-
lar district flooded is a small one, but
here are also famine conditions in other
PARTS of China.