Evening star., 1897-03-27
THE WEEK..

The United States Supreme Court decided
that the antitrust law Of 1890 was apph-
cable to railways and that the traffic agree
ment of the Trans Missouri Freight Asso-
citation was illegal. The four days general
debate in the House the Dingley tariff
bill closed. and the measure was submitted
for amendment under the five-minute rule.
The Greater New York charter bill passed
the New York legislature. Four members
of the "Button gang" who We're to have
been hanged at Sante Fe, n. NJ. We're re-
spited by President Mckinley. The cele-
hration of the hundred and tenth an
niversary of the Western University of
Pennsylvania was held at Pittsburg. On a
joint ballot of the Kentucky legislature for
the senatorship DIR. w. G. Hunter. republi-
can. received sixty-seven votes. two less
than the number necessary to elect. More
than 5000 colored refugees from the Mis-
sissipp river floods We're cared for at Mem
phs. Rev. DR.. Silas C. Swallow. editor of
the Pennsylvania Methodist. was convicted
at Harrisburg. Pa. of criminally libeling
John c. Delaney, state superintendent of
public buildings and grounds. Three men
We're Killed and ten were injured by an eN-
plosion of nitro-glycerine at chemical works
near Philadelphia. DIR. Joseph j. Luis, the
alleged Cuban fiipuster, was convicted
and sent to Jail at Baltimore pending the
hearing of a motion for a new trial. A cy-
clone that swept over southwestern Geor-
gia and southern Alabama blew to pieces
the Academy at Arlington, Ga, killing
seven pupils and woundiEg many others.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs Jacob Ade,
their two children and Rosa Morrirer We're
found in the ruins of the AIDE family 5
home. Paradise Ridge, Tenn. The house
had been burned, and the five persons were
murdered.
The monument to Emperor William l was
unveiled with elaborate ceremonies and
amid great enthusiasm in Berlin, the one
hundred h anniver sary Of the late emperors
birth; 300 persons paraded in front of
Prince bismarck $ residence, at Friedrchs
rune the prince. who was ill. sent his
| thanks through his son. Desperate lighting
continued between Christians and Turks
| in the Island of Crete: the Christians
! drove the Turks from their hlockhouse and
| captured two Turkish forts; the warships
of the powers opened fire on the Christians
| but the bombardment lasted only ten min
utes. The consstory court of the diocese
of London ordered the delivery of the origi-
nal logbook of the May.iower to the United
| States government. Francis Cazauas. i'm
prisoned by the Spanish authorities in
| cuba. released. The Manitoba legisla-
| ture ratified the settlement of the Roman
Catholic paroChial school question. Howard
| Potter of the firm of Brown. Shipey ~
Co. bankers, of London, died in that city.
| In the District.
| 1t was expected that the President would
| nominate successors to Commissioners
| Truesdell and Ross during the week and
| the claims of various candidates we're
| urgently pressed by their friends; it
| announced, however. that the-o would be
no change before the 1st of April Sev
| eral bills of local interest that failed of
| passage at the last session of Congress
| We're rentroduced: also some new bills,
| among them one providing for The com
| pulsory support of children by parent; and
| one providing for the widening Of the
| Aqueduct bridge. in order to accommodate
| street railway tracks. In charging the
| Jury in the of the trial . Dan GRAY.
| charged with murder. Judge Bradley held
| that the act of January Il last, giving
| juries the right to sentence convicted muir
| derers either to death or life imprisonment.
| applied to the District of Columbia and
further held that by reason of a certain
| contradiction in its terms il had the effect
| of repeating all statutes providing for the
punishment, Of capital offonses committed
| in the District prior to the passage of the
act: the decision caused considerable COM
| ment among attorneys and Others, for it
| was held by some that this woui prevent
| the punishment of "Lum Pearson. con-
| victed of murder and sentenced to he
| hanged. and would also prevent the pun
ishment of other murderers NOW untried:
Gray was acquitted. Controller Bowler
| decided that the appropriation for ex' end
| ing Connecticut avenue could be used i'll
| part. pending the securing of the right of
| way along the entire route. AT special
| meeting of the board of trade the subject
! of providing sanitary homes for the work
ing poor was discussed Ex-Secretary
John W. Foster delivered an address be-
fore the National Geographic Society, in
| the course of which he urgently advocate
| the annexation of Hawaii to prevent its
falling into the hands of another power:
the annual reception of the society was
held the night previous and was attended
hy "A large number of people, including the
President of the United States The local
| German Americans celebrated with apprO-
pirate ceremony the centenary of IN"
birth Of the late Emperor William | of
Germany. The dead body of Daniel Bar
| bour a Colored ''voodoo' doctor, was found
| in James Creek canal. Just across the Po-
tomac In Virginia. near the Chain bridge.
| Charles Jackson killed Rosa Lowe, and
was in turn killed by Arthur Parker, a
brother Of his victim; all Colored. There
was unusual mortality among well-known
| citizens OF the District during the week
| among those who died Were William j.
SibIey William S. Roose. Robert Ball.
Alexander NJ. Kenaday and Levi IL. York.