Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-09
WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER ., 1899

1t was reported that the governments of
the United States and Great Britain had
closely approached provisional agreement
upon the Alaskan boundary line for tenn
porary uses, excluding Canada from ac-
cess to the Lynn canal for free port privi-
leges President Mckinley returned to
Washington after visiting Philadelphia
where he reviewed the parade of the vete-
rams of the G. A. R. President Schurman
of Cornell attended cabinet meeting and
explained to the President and his advisers
the condition of affairs in the Philippines;
American troops, under Lieutenant Colonel
Byrne of the 9th Infantry. scaled an al
most perpendicular height in Negroes and
routed body of insurgents in a fort at the
summit a force, under Captain Butler, de-
feated a body of insurgents at San Rafael
LuZon; Gen. Pillars forces were reported to
have been withdrawn to the north. Admiral
Dewey arrived at Gibraltar. The new bat
tie ship Kearsarge on her builders trial de-
veloped 17A knots speed The cruiser De-
troit ordered to La Guayra to protect
American interests in the event of an up
rising in Venezuela, which was threatened
The industrial commission resumed its SeS-
sions and heard testimony to the bust
ness of the Standard Oil Company. At the
annual encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic in Philadelphia resolutions
were adopted petitioning the President to
institute a more liberal policy in the adj
ministraton of the pension office. The re-
publicans of Maryland renominated Gov
ernor Lowndes by reclamation. The Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers met
at Scranton, Pa. The American Bankers
Association assembled at Cleveland. The
city of York. Pa, celebrated its sesqui-cen-
tennial. The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse broke the record on her run
from Southampton to New York, making
the trip in five days, eighteen hours and
fifteen minutes Rear Admiral Henry F.
Jv,,ft1 Go i,, Il
of the navy yard at Boston, died of heart
disease. John Y. Mckane, former boss of
Coney Island, died.
Foreign Affairs.
Testimony was closed in the Dreyfus
court-martial and after arguments by the
government commissary for the prosecu-
ton and NJ Demange for the defense the
court retired for consultation, rendering
verdict of guilty in about an hour and a
half; in the last stages of the trial applica
tions were sent by the defense to the En-
peror of Germany and the King of Italy to
permit Coils. SchWartZkoppen and PaniZ-
Zardi to testify before the court as to Drey-
fuS' status; the request was Professionally
granted on the basis of the taking of depo-
sitons of those officers without compelling
them to attend at Rennes; the court re-
fused to permit the dispositions to be taken
by a commission; Immediately thereafter
an official journal in Berlin published re-
productions of formal statements by high
German authorities that Dreyfus had never
been connected in any manner with the
German espionage system in France. The
Transvaal crisis advanced a stage; the
British cabinet council met Friday and dis
patched an undisclosed reply to the Beers.
which was believed to reaffirm the British
SuZerainty; war preparations were pressed
by both sides; in the volksraad at Pretoria
an attempt was made to require an ex-
PLANTATION by England of the massing Of
n the frontier. but abandoned,
A general strike of seamen and steamer
firemen began in England. Eduardo Ro-
mana was inaugurated as president of
Peru The provisional government of San
Domingo took complete possession of the
republic General Jiminez arrived in the
country and was received with unbounded
enthusiasm. The Oceanic, the largest
steamship in the world, sailed from Liver
pool for New York on her first trip.
In the District.
The assistant attorney for the District
rendered an opinion to the Commissioners
that the Georgetown and Tenleytown road
had no right under its charter to carry
freight within the District. The building
inspector submitted his annual report.
Labor day was observed in Washington.
The District rifle team at Sea Girt lost the
Hilton trophy and regimental matches but
won the Soldier of Marathon trophy in
the interstate match by tying the Georgia
team in the final score and scoring largest
in the long distance shooting. Senator
Clark of Montana purchased Stewart Cas-
tle" Henry Achterkirchen was struck by
a Baltimore and Ohio train while crossing
the tracks at LIST and H streets northeast,
in carriage containing his wife and in
FAINT child; the horse was killed and the
people were severely injured. Julian Baker.
an employee of the navy yard, was killed
by falling from the gallery of the main
gun shop Cheever Conlee wounded j.
Franklin McCarter in an attempt upon his