Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07
THE WEEK.

Tie first session of the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress of the United States was begun;
Thomas B. Reed of Maine was elected
Speaker and the other republican EoE'tIrees
for the various offices were chosen; Repre-
sentative Linton of Michigan has the dis
tinctlon Of having introduced the first bill
in the new Congress; it was in tine interest
of railway postal clerks. Senator Lodge OF
Massachusetts offered resolution reafhrm-
ing the principles of the Monroe doctrine
and presenting them in such form as to
permit their enactment as a permanent
law: Senator Chandler of New Hampshire
introduced a bill for the free coinage of
silver when England France and Germany
should enact similar legislation; President
Cleveland sent to the Senate the nomination
of Rufus w. Peckham of New York an
associate justice of the Supreme Court A
cold wave swept over the country and two
persons were frozen to death in St. Louis
and a woman and child nearly persisted;
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, the temperature drop
ped to seven degrees below zero. Barbara
Aub. who confessed that she made false
charges of assault against Walter l.. 5.
Langerman, was indicted by the grand
jury in New York for perjury. A great
meeting of citizens of Philadelphia was held
to protest against the action of the Union
Traction Company in abolishing the free
transfer system. Rev. Louis w. Burton of
Louisville, KY, was elected bishop of the
Lexington Protestant Episcopal diocese.
Capt. Charles H. Parker. captain of Mary
land oyster sloop, was arrested. charged
with having caused the death of John II.
Henkle, member of his crew, by cruel
treatment. The anti-Platt republicans i'll
New York are leading a movement 10 re-
organize the party. There was d big blaze
in the wholesale district in Indianapolis;
the loss is estimated at $5OO,GGO. Theodore
Durrant. convicted of the murder Of blanche
Lamont at San Francisco was denied a
new trial.
Foreign.
An element of dramatic interest was in
jected into the situation in the Levant by
the flight to the British embassy of Said
Pasha, president of the Turkish council of
state who feared the anger of the sultan
because he had been unable to induce the
European powers to withdraw their demand
for additional guardshps at Constantinople
The German reichstag was opened, and
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe read the speech
from the throne; it was pacific in tone. the
harbor at Cronstadt Russia, is icebound,
and Navigation has closed for the winter.
Gen. Julio Sanguily, although he proved his
American citizenship, sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life by the court in Havana
for having committed illegal acts against
the Spanish government. Baron Won Keel
Ter. the Prussian minister of the interior.
was dismissed Mount Vesuvius in
eruption. Insurgent Arabs attacked the
sultan's forces at Saff a fortified seaport
of Morocco. William E, H. Lecky, the his
torian, was elected to the parliamentary
seat for Dublin University. A man giving
the ne me of Lenor fired two shots from a
pistol in the gallery of the French chamber
of deputies and caused great excitement;
nobody was hurt T. Chamberlayne, con-
sentative, representing Southampton in the
British parliament was unSeated for bribery
by his elections agent.
In the District.
Congress convened and the annual report
of the District CommssiC ners was sub
mitted. Three bazaars were opened: that
for the benefit of the teachers annuity
fund at Convention Hall is arranged On an
extensive scale, attended each night by
crowds at the Columbia Athletic Club
house the friends of that organiza ton are
helping to swell the fair receipts. while at
Carroll Institute fair is being conducted
in the interests of st. Nincents Orphan
Asylum. Committees have been announced
to make arrangements for the fair to be
beld in February for the benefit of the
building fund of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation. convention of the new
diocese of Washington of the Protestant
Episcopal Church was organized, with Rev.
DR.. Elliot president: Rev. DR.. Henry Y.
Satteriee of New York was elected bishop.
The President and his family removed
from their suburban home, Woodley. to
the White House fer the winter. The Pres
ident left for hunting trip the Caro-
lima coast. Evidence and arguments were
heard in the case of Mrs. William H. Slack
for the recovery of the possession of her
two children.