Evening star., 1898-11-12
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER IL, 1888.

State and congressional elections were
! held Tuesday in all the states but Maine,
! Vermont and Oregon: the republican party
I achieved a marked triumph. carrying the
governorship in such doubtful stares as
| New York, New Jersey, Kansas and Cali
fornia ard securing heavy majorities for
the state tickets in Michigan. Ohio and
! other midde-western states. The demo-
| Gratis elected their candidate in Minnesota:
| a republican House of Representatives was
! elected, the majority being reduced to
about thirteen: the republicans captured
| senatorships from the democrats in New
York, New Jersey, Delaware, West Nir-
Sinia. Indiana. Wisconsin, California North
Dakota, and possibly from the populists IN
Nebraska, giving them, together vita the
republican seats retained, fifty four seats
in the Fifty-siXth Congress- possibly fifty
live, and ensuring control until at least
March 4, 1868: in New Yorw Theodore
Roosevelt was elected governor by t pll-
raity of about II 00O after one Of the most
remarkable campaings ever waged that
| state; in Pennsylvania Stone, republican.
| was chosen governor by overwhelming
plurality. AT Paris the American peace
commissioners presented a reply 20 the
Spanish refusal to grant the demani for
| the cession CT all the Philippines, insisting
| upon that demand and reassertinS the
| province of the commission to dispose of
! the archipelago in that manner; the Span
| lsh commissioners took the matter under
| further advisement. The joint high com
mission considering questions affecting the
| relations of Canada and the United States
resumed its sessions, in Washington.
| Race troubles occurred in North and South
| Carolina; at Wilmington, n. c., the whites
| after carrying the elections. overturned the
existing city government, assumed charga
with newly appointed officials and expelled
certain of the negroes and their white lead
| ers, including negro editor who tai pub
| llshed libel on the white women; his office
was burned and in the eXcitenlen. follow
whites Were wounded the President and
his cabinet considered the advisabiity of
sen seh1ing troops INTO those states to quell
| the disturbances, despite the failure of their
governors to call for help. The war in
Vestisating commission continued it's work
| in sections, and it was announced that the
| inquiry was nearing completion. The le-
| port of Major General Miles on his par.ici-
| patton i'll the Spanish war made public
and also the reports of Adjutant General
Corbin and the paymaSter general of thu.
| army. Following the report of the loss of
| the former Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa
| came the news tat she had not sunk as
| was hrst supposed, but had drifted ashore
on Cat Island i'll the British West fndieS,
| and steps were Immediately taken to res
| cue her and to bring her to this country;
| 1t was reported that the British admiralty
authorities proposed to take possession of
| the cruiser as "a derelict. The report CT
| Commissioner General PowderIy of the i'm
| migration bureau showed slight decrease
| of immigrants during the year Rear Ad-
| mtral Schley arrived in Washington With
| the report Of the Porto Rico evacuation
commission. Lieutenant Colonel Chas. W.
| Williams of the United States army died
| OF yellow fever in Havana.
Foreign Affairs.
| Lcrd Salisbury, in q speech delivered at
| the lord mayors banquet denied that En-
| g.ard intended to establish a protectorate
| over Egypt, and declared that the entrance
| of the United States into Asiatic politics,
| while it would probably be ultimately bene-
fetal to Great Britain. would prove an ele-
| ment for the disturbance of the peace in
the far east. War preparations continued
both in England and France. but with less
ACTIVITY. 1t was reported that Emperor
William planned to call at CadiZ, Spain, on
his way home from the Holy Land. and
many speculatons were rife as 10 the pos
siblity of this action bearing upon the Span
ish-American situation. The Greek ca bnet
resigned The powers agreed to the appoint
ment of Prince George of Greece to become
commissioner for Crete. The board of trade
inquiry into the loss of the steamship Mo-
hegan was opened in London. Lucheni the
Italian anarchist who killed the Empress of
Austria, was tried and convicted at Geneva
and sentenced to rigorous Imprisonment
for life: he fully confessed his crime and
acknowledged that he had intended to kill
the Duke of Orleans and the King of Italy,
and that the latter saved only by the
fact that Lucheni lacked the means to tray
el to Rome Thirteen African chiefs were
| hanged by the British authorities in Sierra
Leone for the murder of American mission
aries George Leacke, an American, was
murdered at Chemulpo. Corea. The stor-
thing, at ChriStiana, adopted n resolution
to introduce a distinctive Norwegian flag
without the emblem of the union with Swe-
den. The American minister al COnStanti-
nople successfully closed negotiations lasI-
ing over three years for the establishment
of an American consulate at ErZeroum. Ar
mcnta. Lottie Collins, the well-known con-
cert hall singer, attempted suicide in Lon
don. Among those VINO died was T. V. Pot
ter, founder of the Golden Club of London
In the District
A disastrous fire occurred at the Capitol III
the wing occupied by the Supreme Court
and caused several thousand dollars dam
age. besides wrecking the court quarters
and necessitating an adjournment to an
other portion of the Capitol it was believed
that the fire originated from an explosion
of gas in the basement of the building: val
liable records We're seriously endangered and
considerable damage was done to the walls
OF the building. The work Of mastering out
the District volunteer regiment was begun
at the National Guard headquarters The
public school trustees took formal action de-
signed to prevent the construction of rapid
transit street car lines in front of school
buildings being actuatcd by the recent kill
ing OF 4 boy in front of the Peabody school
The annual review and parade of the police
ana IRE departments occurred the President
reviewing the two forces; as a result of the
competitive inspection the banner of excel
lence was awarded to the eighth precinct
Lieut.. Kenny commanding. The Metropol-
itan Railroad Company filed its answer in
court to the demand of the Brightwood
Company for joint trackage ARRANGEMENTS
ofterlng to institute a free transfer system
but declining to admit the cars of the
Brightwood road to its tracks The annual
meeting of the Association of Official Agri-
cultural Chemists was held. Among those
WHO died was Enoch Totten, one of Wash
inGtons foremost lawyers.