Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-04
THE WEEK.


Inc United Mine Workers officials and
the Pittsburg district operators agreed TO
SUBMIT 10 a miners convention next week
.~o propositions, one to pay 81 cents in
tne P1ttsburg district pending arbitration
the result of which shall not exceed "a
cents or be lower than 60 cents; the other
TO call the strike off and accept 65 cents.
Judge Hogans of the Marion county, w
va, court issued injunctions against sev
enty miners and other persons. including
Rev. w. II. Wiley, who had been holding
services in the strikers camps: President
re Armltt or the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company said that even If the
strike Is settled, their miners will have tn
carry out the contract legally made by the
WorKmen Fusion was planned nv the
OF N iac,lons OF the three political parties
OF Nebraska, meeting simultaneously in
separate conventions at Lincoln Presi-
uent Mckinley was present at the mar
rage, at Fremont, Ohio, of Miss Fannie
t ~ Ens,o oniy daughter Of President Hayes.
10 Ensign Harry E. Smith of the United
states navy. The commission to codify
the criminal laws of the United States met
In inns city. President Z. BENJAMIN An
h hreW Ms ., brown University was requested
py the university corporation to withdraw
EIs resignation. Ex-Governor w. b. Hoard
OF wisconsin was chosen president of the
Farmers National Congress of the United
Tyvp
deputy marshals We're killed and two yere
severely wounded by moonshiners i'm Pone
county, Ark. Russell d. Ward. the Enp
ushHhan who created sensation q short
,iine ago by clipping with the wife of Mil
Honaire John Bradbury of California cow,
united suicide by throwing himself from a
tram Inc Farmers Congress at ST PAM
Mill Mill declared against government own
elshlp OF railroads. Mrs. John Drew, the
actress and Col. George Bliss, a prominent
lawyer and politician of New York died.
Foreign.
Col. Gordons British column arrived at
hohat, India, without having met with
any opposition; the Afridis had apparentlv
ieIt the khyber pass; an outbreak was
reported among the Moplahs, or fanatical
Mohammedans, on the Malabar coast of
lndla' Col. Abbott, with a British force
made an attack on a large force of rebel
nous trlpesmen, routing them. The Queen
Regent of Spain announced that she would
receive Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford United
states minister, September 49, Four per-
sons s were killed and many injured by the
S ,ssn or passenger train at Mayfield,
sussex, England. The Indian council sus
pended the sale of bills of exchange on
CALCUTTA, Bombay and Madras: this action
is thought. may be a forerunner of the
gold standard for India. A number of Cor
man soldiers were killed by nontonp
bridge colapsing at Weimar while a repi
Ihehl was passing over 1t during army
maneuvers. General Azcarraga, the new
Spanish premier. failed in his efforts tn re.
unite the factions of the conservative
party. The King of Siam called on prince
bismarck at FREDERICKSBURG Eight Ar
,ileIlians VINO mad been convicted of taking
part IN dynamite outrages in Constant.
ncpie were sentenced to death. Rifaat
hey, councillor of the Turkish embassy in
London, was appointed Turkish minister in
washington: A block of buildings at
lqulque. Chile. was destroyed by fire Sun
DAY night. The Zionist congress at Basic
sWltzeriand, unanimously adopted a pro,
gram for re-estabishing the Hebrews I'm
raiestine. The Paris Journal stated the
car will visit the French capitaI In tbe
autumn. 1t was stated that the Hawaiian
government intends to ratify the annexa
1on treaty before the United States Con-
Eress oSes. Gen. Nelson A. Miles of the
United States army witnessed a parade of
me Berlin garrison and was presented to
EmPeror William A storm i'm England
t Wednesday night did much damage to
casualties to shipping in the channel
party of four persons ascending Mont
Pleureur, in the Alps, were swept NV an
aNaiahche into crevasse 1000 feet deep.
In the District.
The Engineer Commissioner officially de-
clared the Navy Yard bridge to be unsafe
basing his action on the result of an ex
pert examination of the bridge with the
view to determining the safety of permit
ting the Capital Railway Company to run
electric motors over that structure The
building inspector submitted his annual
report The safe in the office of the COL
iector OF taxes was opened by T. Varick
hawkins. the colored messenger in that
Office and approximately 5000 was taken:
hawkins disappeared and reward of x5a,
was orered for his capture The Commits
sioners reorganized the street cleaning de-
parfment. promoting Assistant Sunerin
tendenr Warner Stutler to be superintend
ent. reducing Superintendent Mckenzie In
pc inspector, and making other Changes.
Rifemen representing the District militia
attended the interstate shoot at Sea CIrt
~. ). r. >. Coburn, clerk in the Office
OF the auditor for the Post Office Depart
ment and manager Of the local substatfon
OF the city post Office at the corner of New
YORK avenue and 9th street, disappeared |
and 1t was found that he had fraudulenfIy
issued money orders in his own interest 10
the amount of aboEt $1,000 Dennis =
Canty and Herman w. Van Sender. carry
Ing on brokerage business under the
name OF CAVITY Co., were arrested on a /
charge Of fraudulently retaining funds in
trusted to them by Frederick W. ISmricb
and Joseph Wilkins for investment. a
coroners jury held Frank johnson. colored |
for the murder of John Marshall, a farmer
living near Forestville, Nd, who was mys-
teriously shot near the Pennsylvania ave-
year-old boy, was drowned off Sandy Point
In the Potomac river, while sailing with his /
father and two others. Lucy Kinsolving a /
fifteen-year-old school girl, attemp;ed sui
eide. Rollin Hood, son Of James F.. Hood
of Washington, was killed while hunting
near Boyd's Nd. his own gun being acct
dentally discharged.