Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-01

On the proposal of Russia, to which the
United States readily assented, a majority
of the powers signified their willingness to
withdraw their troops from Pekin pending
peace negotiations with China. Germany
and England were represented as being OPP
posed to the plan. Ii Hung Chang and the
southern viceroys were spoken of as the
probable representatives OF the Chinese
government. Japans action in selling
Annoy was considered unnecessary by the
other powers. Mail advices received at
Taku from Pekin told Of most shameless
looting of the city by some of the allies;
the Americans and Japanese did not take
part in the barbarity. President Mckinley
asked former Presidents Cleveland and
Harrison to serve as two of an interna-
tional board of four arbitrators to carry
out the universal arbitration section of The
Hague peace conference. George Henry
White of North Carolina, the only colored
man in Congress, announced that he would
not be a candidate for reelection. Adju-
tant General COrbin, in letter to Senator
Sewell a member Of the Senate Military
committee, argued in favor Of the army
canteen The cabinet decided to send i'm
mediately a transport to Cape Nome to
bring home stranded gold Seekers and also
to send aid to the starving Indians. The
board of ordnance and Notifications gave
gun manufacturers four months time to
perfect type of field gun meeting the re-
Z,
miral Watson on board, sailed from Green
ock. Scotland. yesterday, and is due at
New York September 10. Turkey made
proposition to settle the missionary claims
against her by including the 100000 in
contract for a cruiser. Census bureau Off
Gals announced that the total population
of the United States would be about 1000
900. Charges growing out of the recent in
vestigation Of immigration affairs at New
York We're preferred against ten employees
Of the barge office. The parade in connec-
ton with the Grand Army encampment in
Chicago was four and half hours in pass
Ing the reviewing stand; Maj. Leo Rassieur
of ST. Louis was elected commander-n
chief. The battle ship Alabama made an
average speed OF seventeen knots in her
official speed trial off the Massachusetts,
coast. The Supreme Lodge, Knights Of
Pythias. met in Detroit; the Pythian Sister
hood announced the exclusion Of negro
women. 1ncipient race riots occurred again
in New York; the outbreaks grew out of
the shooting of a white messenger boy by
negro. An alleged plot to kill w. ].
Bryan a Omaha caused the arrest Of w. l..
Williams of that city Secretary Hay was
reported to be improving in health at Suna
pee, n. II. Gen. j. b. Gordon, commander
in-chief of the United Confederate Veter-
ans, said in an interview at Atlanta that
the Grand Army is engaged in a fruitless
task in endeaVoring to secure change in
southern school histories. The p0pulist ma
tional committee placed Adlai E. Steven
son in second place the presidential
ticket, in place of Charles A. Towne. Sew
eral persons were killed by mob at Gill
man. ILL.,, in an effort to capture the pro-
prietress of lying-in hospital. The Ameri-
can Bar Association met at Saratoga. A
reduction of IL 10 per cent in wages was
proposed by Fall River, Mass, cotton man.
ufacturers. Governor Rogers won the
fusion nomination for reelection in Wash
ington state. The city council of Atlanta
began Impeachment proceedings against
Mayor Woodward.
Foreign Affairs.
Lord Roberts reported an all-day fight
Sunday with Beers at Belfast, in the Trans
vaal; Gen. Olivier, a noted Boer leader,
was captured; President Kruger moved his
headquarters to Nelspruit, on the Delagoa
Bay railroad The Roumanian government
sent another aggressive note to Bulgaria
on the recent murder of NJ. Karadjoff. Pope
Leo XIII declined to recognize Victor EN-
manuel III as King of Italy, holding to his
claim of temporal sovereignty in Rome.
Senior LanuZa, prominent Cuban, opposed
immediate independence for the island. 1t
was reported that Russia would take
hand in the Balkan crisis and avert war.
What appears to be the bubonic plague
caused two deaths in Glasgow, Scotland,
and eleven other suspected cases were re-
ported. Gen. Maxine Gomez was nomi-
mated as a delegate of the national party
to the coming Cuban constitutional conven-
ton Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King
Humbert, was sentenced at Milan to life
Imprisonment. coal famine in Germany
was reported to be causing great distress.
The Cuban teachers who made a long visit
to the United States returned to Havana.
1t was again stated in London that Lord
Wolseley would soon resign his position as
commander -in-chief of the British army.
A new cabinet was appointed in Peru. Gov
ernor General Wood, in a speech at Santi
ago, Cuba, said the United States would
accept no Independent government for Gu
ba except a stable one. The War Depart
ment gave out excerpts, from correspond
ence captured in the Philippines and bear
ing upon the Filipinos' plans TO take Ma
Mia last spring. A message from Sverdrup
A. Andree, the polar aeronaut,, which was
probably dropped from his balloon on the
day he started, was found. Second Lieut..
Henry N. Way, 4th Infantry, was killed
near Villa Vieja, LuZon Island.
District of Columbia.
The assistant to the attorney for the Dis
trict decided that the Commissioners are not
responsible for damages caused by the
grading Of streets. Martin Donaldson, a
District telegraph and telephone lineman,
fell from pole and waits instantly killed.
The colored Masons of the United States
decided to establish PERMANENT headquar-
tiers In Washington. The harbpr masters
annual report made tequisit ion for in
creases in the appropriation for his depart
twenty-three years. was drowned while
swimming near the Aqueduct bridge. The
Commissioners were enjoined temporarily
from removing The electric switches main
tanned by the Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon Railway Company. The act
ing district attorney decided that part of a
building used for religious worship cannot
be exempted from taxation. E. N. Reese
was chosen temporary manager of the pro-
posed Newsboys' Union Home. Rev. w.
D. White. said to be a Presbyterian clergy
man. was placed under bail charged with
committing an assault upon Sarah Ruder-
purchased two lots as a site for the new
public school building In lexington for ia