Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14
THE WEEK.

Rufus W. Peckham was confirmed by
the Senate as an associate justice of the
Supreme Court. Senator J. Donald Cameron
announced that he is not candidate for re-
election. A beard assembled at the Navy
Department for the purpose Of revising and
codifying the navy regulations. Pittsburg
has been selected as the place for holding
the national prohibition convention. The
Indiana democratic state central committee
Endorsed Governor Claude Matthews for
the presidential nomination. President Nc
Bride called the American Trade and Labor
Federation to order in New York for its
fifteenth annual convention. William OCon-
nell bradley was sworn in at Frankfort as
the first republican governor of Kentucky.
The coroner's jury in Cleveland could not
find any one to blame for the bridge trolley
car disaster in that city. An effort was
made to mob the Kansas Medical College, in
Topeka, 1t having been discovered that
many graves were desecrated to furnish
subjects for the dissecting table. Clergy
men and private detectives gave startling
evidence before the investigating commit
tee In Philadelphia concerning vice and i'm
morality in that city. A cold wave swept
over the country causing the first freeze
of the season in the east. The deaths of the
week included Allen G. Thurman, jurist
and statesman at Columbus. Ohio, aged
e.ghty-two: ex-Congressman H. S. Bundy,
al Wellston. Ohio; William Augustus Camp,
banking circles in New York, and Samuel
G. Lewis, ex-controller of the Pennsylvania
railroad.
Foreign.
The Sultan of Turkey finally yielded to the
demands Of the powers, and issued orders
that the extra guardships be permitted to
pass through the Straits of the Dardanelles;
the British gunboat Dryad and the Italian
gunboat Archimede passed through the
Straits of the Dardanelles. A quarrel be-
tween two Armenians, resulting in one of
them firing a pistol. caused temporary
panic in the STEAMBOAT quarter of Constan-
tinople. plainly showing the nervous ten
sion under which the people are living. A
conference of the bimetallic leagues of
Great Britain, France and Germany was
opened in Paris. In the reichstag the min
lister for foreign affairs Marshall Won
Bieber stein, in commenting on President
CleVelandS message denied that there was
any differential treatment in Germany of
American cattle and insurance companies
The British steamer Principal took fire at
sea; she was run for the Farce Islands. but
struck rock and went down with twenty
seven or her crew. The forces of King
Menelik of Abyssinia surprised five COM
panies of Italian troops at Ambalaje and
in the battle that followed the losses were
heavy on both sides. The Cuban insurgents
are uniting under Generals Gomez, Maceo
and other commanders, and making rapid
progress through the province of Santa
Clara; seven generals and strong rein
forcements of Spanish troops arrived at
Havana There was big demonstration In
Madrid against the abuses of the municipal
administration. Mr.. Adrian Lachenal has
been elected president of the republic of
Switzerland. Herr Dove, inventor of bull
let-proof coat. and the Baron Dunleath were
among the deaths.
In the District.
Testimony as to property values was
heard by jury in the test case in the
matter of the proposed extension of streets;
hill to amend the highway act was
passed by the Senate. A committee of
clergy from the convention of the new
diocese of Washington called on Rev. DIR.
Satterlee. bishop-elect, at his residence in
New York to notify him of his election; a
committee of the laity was also present
to urge the acceptance of the. office; DR..
Satterlee's decision will be made at a later
date An inspection of the abandoned
aqueduct tunnel was made by board of
expert engineers appointed to make re-
port on the subject to Congress. s. w.
Woodward was elected president of the
Associated Charities. Indictments were re-
ported by the grand jury against several
dealers tor violation of the oleomargarine
law. The annual convention of the Ma
tonal Civil Service Reform League was
held