Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-13
THE EVENING STAR,
THE WEEK.

THE WEEK.
Many lives were lost in Missouri and
Kansas by storm that swept over the
eastern watershed of the Rocky noun
and growing products throughout that re-
gion. The great Christian Endeavor con-
vention opened in Boston; services were
held in two big tents on Boston Common
and in Mechanics Hall. One thousand dele
gates were at the opening exercises of the
sixth annual convention of the National
Young Peoples Union Of the Universalist
Church in Boston. Negotiations are pend
Ing between the Navy Department and the
Cramps relative to making practical test
of the turret now used on modern war;
ships. Judge Woods reinstated his former
order in the cases against the A. r. U.
men, making their sentences concurrent
instead 'of cumulative. The Minnesota
supreme court has granted a stay of pro-
ceedings in the case Of Harry Hayward.
]. H. Ormandy and his wife. son and
daughter were arrested in Los Angeles,
Cal. for conducting an extensive counter
feiting establishment in the outskirts Of
the city. Thomas Mexican has made a
second donation of $4,000 to the endow-
ment fund for broadening the scope of the
University of Pennsylvania. The livery
stables of G. F. Case in Detroit were
DuTIlGu, HVC persons were DulHcu "
death. At a conference in Atlantic City
of prominent officials of the Order of Elks
it was agreed to compromise the differ
ences existing between the two factions;
by the falling of a floor during social
session nearly 200 were injured, one posi-
bly, fatally. The weavers employed at a
number of ingram carpet mills In Phila-
delphia went out. A fight occurred be-
of the Yellowstone Park, in Wyoming, and
one Indian was killed and fifteen cap
tured. Two unknown men robbed the
ticket offices Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at Harpers Ferry; they got about
500. The Colored Editors Association at
Baltimore passed resolutions condemring
lynch law and the imprisonment Of ex-
Consul Waller of Madagascar. Fifteen
thousand teachers are attending the Ma
tionai Educational Association convention
at Denver. Fifty houses have been de.
ST. Dyed by fire at bonneville, suburb OF
Cornwall, Ont, and 500 people are rendered
homeless; great distress prevails; one child
was burned to death.
Foreign.
General elections in Great Britain and
Ireland for the new parliament were begun
yesterday. The event of the week in Eng
land was the Henley regatta, owing to the
presence of crews from the United States,
Canada and Holland; of these only the
Hollanders were successful, the Cornell
University crew winning one heat by a
fuke, and collapsing in the second. and
the Canadians being barely beaten in their
first heat. Mr.. Gladstone in an address to
the liberals of London advocates the
granting of 1.-The just constitutional claims
of Ireland" An express train filled with
pilgrims going to the shrine of St. Anne
de Beaupre was wrecked on the Grand
Trunk railroad near Lewis, Canada; thir-
teen persons were killed and a score or
more wounded. The French chamber of
deputies adopted motion that the govern
ment open negotiations with the United
States for the conclusion OF permanent
treaty of arbitration. The ministerial
crisis in Chile threatens to involve the
resignation of the president. Bolivia sent
an uitimatum to Peru, demanding salts
faction for offenSeS committed during the
civil war Eight persons were arrested in
Moscow, charged with a conspiracy against
the life of the car. Severe earthquake
shocks have been experienced in the Cas-
plan and Ural districts; many houses have
been destroyed at Usunada, Astrachan and
krasnoyodsk. German warships have ar
rived at Tangier, with orders TO insist upon
the payment by the government of Morocco
of indemnity of S,G00 marks for the murder
of German citizen, named Rockstrop.
United States Minister Taylor at Madrid
called upon the Spanish minister of foreign
affairs and officially denied the purported
interview with Ambassador Eustis at Paris
on the affairs in Cuba.
In the DISTRICT.
AS the result of the competition at the
interstate drill at ST. Louis team from
company B, second be talon National
Rifes), won the second prize in the maiden
drill and the third prize in the free-for- all
class, while Corporal F. w. Albert secured
the fourth prize in the individual contest;
reception was given to the team on their
return to this city. The tie-up on the Ana
costa railroad continues, as does the car
penters' strike at the Catholic University.
In the case of the lexington road the order
asked for to restrain the District Commits
sioners from removing the overhead cleo
fused by the court; an appeal was entered,
which may enable the company to continue
the use of the wires till the Court of APP
pealS meets in the fall. A permit was is
sued to the Metropolitan Railroad Com
pany for preliminary survey of the F street
line, preparatory to putting down the I'M
foreground electric system, the equipment
of the 9th street line being practically COM
pleted. In the vestry contest case of ST.
Marks z. E. Church further legal proceed
ings were deferred until the final hearing
in the fall. Henry Clay England of Rock
vile, Md, lost his life by being run over
by an electric car at kensington, Md. The
corner stone for the Eckin gton Presby-
terrain Sunday school building was laid. A
large delegation of Christian Endeayorers
left this city to attend the convention in
land was held here, and a resolution was
adopted rea1firming the principles of the
Omaha platform EX-Gov. A. r. Shepherd
arrived in the city for a brief stay, pre-
paratory to a trip to Europe. The death of
w. E. Clark, president of the Central Ma
tional Bank, occurred at his country resi-
dence in Virginia.