Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-21
THE WEEK ENDING July Fl. 1900.

The Secretary of State received through
| the efforts of Minister WI, a dispatch from
Minister Conger, at Pekin, supposedly sent
on the 18th. stating that he was then in
the British legation, under continuous fire
| from Chinese troops and In imminent dam
| ger Of massacre; this news disposed ef-
| fectually of supposed details of the massa-
| ere already received and spurred the ener-
gies of the powers to the work of effecting
| a rescue; the allied troops at Tien Tsin
| suffered a defeat early in the week the
9th United States Infantry being sadly
cut up, among the killed being Colonel
Emerson II. Liscum and other American
officers; later the allies carried the r.ative
city with heavy loss to the Chinese; the
Chinese attacked the Russian town of
Blagovestchensk and were later repealed
with heavy losses; the St. Petersburg gov
erhment declared that a state of war ex-
listed In certain districts in eastern Russian
Asia; II was reported that the Chinese gov
ernment had appealed to France to mediate
with the foreign powers; Ii Hung Chang
started from Canton to Pekin at the COM
mand of the government; President Nc
klnley designated W. W. Rock hill, chief of
the bureau of American republics as spe-
cial commissioner to visit China and repre-.
sent the United States In future negotia-
tions and actions; the President returned
to Washington from Canton. Ohio. and
after consultation with the cabinet de-
clded that II was unnecessary to summon
Congress in extra session on account Of the
Chinese troEbles: he then returned to Can
ton. The Navy Department announced a
decision to recruit the marine corps TO its
full strength of 600 men, After Il con-
sultation with General Wood. governor
general of Cuba, the President decided to
withdraw all American troops from Cuba
within eight or nine months; 1t was report
ed to have been decided further to hold
the general insular elections September IL.
The. President nrDmnTe1 Rriyadier General
A X. Chaffee. recently appointed to COM
mand the United States forces in China
to the rank of major general of volunteers.
Veterans of the federal and conf lerate
armies met in reunion at Atlanta. Ga. The
Southern Industrial League assembled IN
the same city. The National League Of Re
publican Clubs met at st. Paul and elected
Isaac NJ. Hamilton of Chicago as president;
Governor Roosevelt addressed the meeting.
The War Department was Informed that
smallpox had broken out at Cape Nome
and that starvation had begun among the
improvident miners. John 6. Woolley. pro-
; hibition candidate for President, was form
ally notified at Chicago. The Kentucky
democrats renominated Governor j. c. w.
Beckham and declared in favor of
vision of the Goebel election law; the re-
pubicans of the state nominated John w.
Yerkes for governor. Judge Lacombe OF
the United States circuit court at New
York decided that the mere presentment of
an Indictment did not suffice to warran Mt the
cXtradition to Cuba of {. F. w. Nicely. the
postal embezzler. A fire at Prescott Ariz.
did 81 100000 damage United States Sem
ator John H. Gear of Iowa died In Wash
ington and was buried in Iowa.
Foreign Affairs.
Beers developed renewed activity in the
vicinity of Pretoria; Gen Methuen occu-
pied Heckpoort without opposition; the
Cape Colony parliament assembled at Cape
Town. Queen Victoria went to Osborne.
Dispatch from Fumsu, Africa, reported the
relief of Kumassi, Ashanti, besieged since
April. The governor Of Bombay reported
to London that GAIA persons died Of cholera
in the Indian famine districts in the week
ended July 4 The Shah Of Persia visited
Car Nicholas at ST. Petersburg. The Rou-
manian cabinet resigned President 1-oubet
reviewed the Mediterranean and channel
souadrons Severe earthquakes at Caracas,
Venezuela. did considerable damage. An
eruption of Mount Azuma. in Japan, killed
wounded upward of 200 persons. The
annual session of the worlds Christian En-
deavor convention was begun in London
with an attendance of about 10000 persons.
In the District.
The Commissioners sought to arrange 4
schedule of street car stops at certain
crossings in the hope of reducing to mini
mum the chances of collisions with fire APP
paratus. The District National Guard went
into annual camp at Gaithersburg, Nd
VIM H. Estep was drowned in James creek
canal. John Wheeler and John Ball, both
colored were arrested. charged with Il muir
derous assault on Thomas Wells in June.
An explosion at Indian Head proving
ground caused the severe wounding of two
men Among those who died was B. F.
Guy, long a prominent merchant Of Wash
ington.
Mary Freeman, colored, twenty-five years
old was taken sick in Iowa Circle about
n c1ock Yesterday. She removed to her
home No. 1910 Vermont avenue in the pa