Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-01
THE WEEK ENDING JULY I, 1890.

The President returned to Washington
from New England, shortening his tour
on account of the illness of Mrs. Mckinley.
1t was decided by the administration to
raise a provisional army sufficiently large
to give General Otis a fighting force be-
tween 10000 and 10000 men, and to this
end preparations were begun for general
recruiting; the transport Grant, with the
10th Infantry, arrived at Manila; the new
supreme court at Manila began it's sittings.
Admiral Dewey sailed from Ceylon for
Port Said Yellow fever developed at San
tiago. Another hitch occurred in the ne
gotiations with England for a provisional
boundary line in Alaska, owing to Canada s
attitude of opposition. The national social
and political conference assembled at Buff
falo and gavesstrikng evidences of oppos-
ton to the Administrations foreign policies.
The Kentucky democratic state convention,
after more than week of disorder, nomi-
mated a state ticket headed by William
Goebel. Prof. George Harris OF Andover
was elected president of Amherst College.
Foreign Affairs.
The new French ministry, headed by SEN
ator Waldeck- Rousseau, was sustained in
the parliament Monday; Tuesday Paul
Deroulede, head of the League of Patriots,
moved to amend the constitution by SUBJ
shutting popular for parliamentary gov
eminent, and was defeated by an over
whelming vote; it was reported that Cap
tain DreyfuS had been secretly landed at
Lorient in Brittany and hurried by rail to
Rennes; court-martial was named for his
retrial. Riotfng occurred in Brussels in
conjunction with great disorder in the
chamber of deputies as a result of con-
test over the new suffrage bill; at the close
of the week the premier made conciliatory
speech, which leSsened the pressure on the
government. Disorder occurred in Sara
al avis Of ,,ot to-. b.
ratified the cession of the Caroline and
Ladrone islands to Germany. Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain, in speech at Birmingham,
denounced the course of President Kruger;
mass meetings were held at Cape Town by
loyal cplonists strongly urging the govern
ment at London to insist upon the redress
of the grievances of the OutlanderS. The
International Council of Women assem-
bled in London. Sara Bernhard and her
company gave performance of Hamlet at
Stratford-on-Avon. daughter was born
to the CZarina of Russia.
In the District.
The District Supreme Court heard a mo-
ton for further orders to carry out the re-
Gently delivered opinion of the United
States Supreme Court ratifying the govern
ment's title to the flats and the water
front; i'll consequence the Commissioners
withdrew their notices to the occupants of
waterfront property to pay rentals to the
District. Encouragement in the assign
ment of duties of the Commissioners was
effected. Mr.. Wight relieving Captain Beach
of charge of electrical matters. The Com
misSioners decided to reject all bids for the
construction and rebuilding of school
houses for which bids had been three times
submitted, hoping TO secure larger funds
from Congress at the next session. The
Commissioners formally declined to issue a
permit to the Capital Traction Company 30
construct loop at the northern terminus
Sergeant q
Daley was promoted to be lieutenant of
police, to succeed James w. Gessford, re-
duced to sergeant. Policeman C. W. Mar
shall was dismissed from the force for mis-
conduct and was later arrested for forgery.
General Leonard Wood declined the offer
of the presidency of the Washington Trac-
ton and Electric Company. John A. Mer-
rift relieved James p. Willett as postmas-
ter. The members of the District naval
militia went on their annual cruise on the
Prairie. Wooster johnson, colored was
held for the grand jury for the murder of
Emanuel Dodson. also colored Mrs. e. D.
e. N. Southworth. the author, died.