Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-28
THE WEEK.


The New York democratic state conven-
ton nominated fer secretary of state.
Horatio C. King; the Grace-Fairchild dele
gates withdrew, their demands being re-
fUs ed. Chancellor McGill was nominated
for governor by the New Jersey demo-
cratic convention. The international deep
water ways convention met in Cleveland.
The United States treasury will show a
surplus at the end OF September for the
present month; this is the first time for
long time that the receipts exceeded ex-
penSes. The Irish new movement con-
vention N session in Chicago passed reso-
from English rule. An investigation was
begun in Pittsburg of charges of bribery
and blaokmail against the police depart
ment of that city. convention of the
Brotherhood of ST. Andrew met In Louis
vile. All five companies of the Michigan
troops. stationed at Ishpeming, Mich. to
prevent lawlessness during the miners
strike, left for their homes. Italians cele-
brated the twenty-flfth anniversary of the
occupation of Rome. The President, by
an executive order, extended the civil serv-
ice system to all consular officers whose
compensation is between $1,000 and s., 800.
was held in Memphis. Tenn, to appoint
committees for the different states, to or
ganize the silver forces. Judge Blake, in
law unconstitutional H. H. Holmes
pleaded not guilty in Philadelphia to the
charge of numbering Benjamin F. Peitzel.
At Hot Springs, Ark, a fire destroyed the
Pacific Hotel, the Crescent House. adjoin-
ing, the Valley livery stables. the Jewish
Asylum and five cottages to the rear of the
Pacific Hotel. The jury in the United
States district court in Wilmington, Del.
brought in a verdict of not guilty in the
case of twenty-one Cubans, accused of
being filibusters. Captain Benjamin F.
Revelle of Baltimore was murdered on
board his schooner, the John A. H. Dixon,
by Benjamin Johnson, the colored mate.
The Oxferd and Cambridge cricketers de-
feated the Philadelphians by four runs and
two wickets. The prominent deaths of the
week include Judge Hale of California, a
fcrty-niner, and S. Corning Judd, formerly
postmaster of Chicago.
Foreign.
The Japanese are suffering hardships in
their effort to crush the Formosan rebels.
Advices from Hodeida, in the Arabian
province of Yemen, report that one hun
dred lives have been lost by a landslide,
which overwhelmed the village of Hudeya.
A steamer at Geneva, Switzerland, ran into
and sunk a rowbcat containing seven per-
sons. all Of whom were drowned. The En-
peror of China has appointed Ii Hung
Chang and other government officials
commission to arrange an extra treaty with
Japan. The English government has APP
pointed Sir Herbert Murray governor of
Newfoundland. The Partisan who was ar
rested while trying to ignite an explosive
in the vestibule of the Rothschilds banking
house, in Paris, was sentenced to three
years imprisonment. Ten thousand dia-
mond cutters in Amsterdam went on strike
England Is concentrating warships in Chi
neSe waters with the evident intention Of
compelling that government to hurry the
punishment of those connected with the
massacre of missionaries The Mussulmans
at Antioch raided an Armenian church and
killed ten OF the ArmenianS, who were pro-
tecting their edifice The death is announc-
ed in Corea of Ye Sung Su, the Corean min
lister to the United States. The mirister
has been absent from his post for nearly a
year. Harry Payne. the noted English pam
feminist, Is dead. DR.. Henry Adolph Bar
deleben, a noted German surgeon, who at
tended the late Emperor Frederick in his
last illness, died at the age of seventy-seven
years.
In the District.
The public schools opened with an in
creased attendance, the weather, however,
being unseasonably warm fer school room
work. Timothy Dempsey was shot and
killed by Police Officer Vermillion; the cor
oner's jury decided that the officer acted in
self-defense. Three representative bodies
We're in session during the week-the an
nual conference of workers of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church among cclored peo-
pie, the annual convention OF the German
American Technical Society and the Dis
trict Women's Christian Temperance Union,
of which latter Mrs. Margaret Plat was
elected president. A majority of the board
of Commissioners decided that the Great
Falls electric railway had right to erect
overhead wires in Georgetown. Charles
Clinton Gardner. for fifteen years cashier
Of the local freight department of the
Pennsylvania railroad. has mysteriously
Disappeared; he is charged with being a
defaulter to the extent of 5000, but his
friends deny that he could have had any
intention of wrongdoing. The e,ght-hour
law was upheld by Judge Miller in the case
charging the contractor for the erection of
an addition to the government printing
Office with violation of the law; the judge
held, however. that the condition of the
building presented an emergency recognized
by the law, and the case was dismissed.
The croquet tournament in progress during
the week closes today. The governor of
Vermont and staff were entertained at
banquet by Myron NJ. Parker DIR. T. De
Witt Talmage accepted a call as co-pastor
OF the First Presbyterian Church. The
deaths of John A. Milburn and Capt. Will
lam Ross Browne occurred.