Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-09
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 0, 1901.

including w. I. Jerome, candidate for dis
trict attorney Of New York county, was
also elected; the New York state legisla-
ture went republican: seventeen republic
cans and four democrats were elected to
the New Jersey state senate, which will
help elect United States senator. The re-
turns from Iowa indicated the utter demon
alization of the democratic party in that
state, the plurality of Cummins, republic
can candidate for governor, being extreme
ly large. The regular republicans routed
the fusionists in Pennsylvania, their ma
jority in Philadelphia reaching $4,000. In
the Ohio election large republican gains
were reported in Cincinnati, Cleveland, To- :.
ledo, Dayton and Canton, Nash, republic
can, being elected governor. In Maryland
the republicans carried the city Of Balti-
democrats have a majority in the legisla-
ture, but the courts will be asked to de-
eide many cases of fraud, which may
change the reported complexion of that
body; the state ticket remained in doubt.
The democrats in Louisville, KY, over
came republican majority of 5000 and
carried the city by 5000. A union labor
candidate was elected mayor of the city
Of San Francisco. President Roosevelt is
sued his Thanksgiving proclamation; the
President voted at Oyster Bay. l.. l., re-
turning immediatel to Washington. The
Schley court of inquiry listened to the ar
guments of counsel both for and against
Admiral Schley and ended its sessions the
court announced that some time would
eldpSe DeIOre the nnQlnSS Oh the court
could be made public. Lord Pauncefote
and Secretary Hay met and put the fin
ishing touches to the new isthmian canal
treaty. The Turkish government issued an
eXequator to DR.. Thomas H. Norton,
United States consul at Harpoot. The
commissioner of pensions submitted his an
nual report. 1t was announced that the
rural free delivery service of the Post Of
flee Department will be placed under the
classified service some time during the
coming winter Justice Bradley, sitting as
a United States district court, passed upon
the destruction of Spanish vessels in Ma |
Mia bay by Admiral Dewey and issued a |
decree awarding the prize money. Eleven |
persons were burned to death in a fire |
which destroyed the Kiondike Theater at |
Hurley, Wis. The thirteenth victim of
anti-toXin treatment for diphtheria died Of |
tetanus in St. Louis, Mo- Four hundred |
and fifty convicts at work on the new fed |
eral penitentiary at Fort LeaVenWorth, |
Kan, attacked their guards, killing one and |
wounding three; after one of their number |
had been killed and another fatally wound |
ed twenty-siX escaped. c. B. Thompson OF
Port Huron, Mich, supreme finance keep
er of the Knights of the Maccabees, con- |
feSsed to a shortage of $4,000 in his &C |
counts
Foreign Affairs.
The Butler affair was revived in England |
by the rumor that that officer is preparing |
to bring his case before parliament. An |
unusually dense fog interfered seriously |
with traffic and business in London during |
the week. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach in a |
speech at Bristol declared that the cost |
of enormous and intimated that |
taxes would be greatly increased. |
General Botha, in a proclamation, replying |
to Lord Kitchener, called the British troops |
outlaws; General Kitchener reported forty |
four Beers killed in the recent fight at |
Brakenlaagte; the British government de- |
cided to send 5000 more cavalrymen to |
South Africa. The French government en- |
forced their claims against the Turkish |
government by sending a squadron under !
Admiral Caillard to seize customs ports on |
the Island of Mitylene; the Porte acceded |
to all of the claims of the French govern |
ment. The Aero Club of Paris awarded NJ |
Santos-Dumont the 100000 francs offered /
by M. -Deutsche for dirigible balloon. |
Consul General Dickinson at Constantine |
Pile cabled the State Department that he |
had received a letter from Miss Stone, the |
missionary held by brigands for ransom
dated October % An unknown man at |
tempted to assassnate the project Of po- |
lice at st. Petersburg. Colombians made a |
night attack on VeneZuelans crossing the 1
river near Rubia, and many of the latter |
were drowned; liberal forces captured the |
town of Tumaco, south of Panama, taking |
4oo to GOO soldiers prisoners and capturing |
1--WE of six cannons, number of rifles and |
a small gunboat. Among those who died |
during the week was Ii Hung Chang, the
In the District.
The report of the engineer department of |
the District government, prepared by the
former engineer, Captain Lansing H. Beach,
was made public. Mr.. Robert W. Duttor.
chief engineer Of the District fire depart
ment. submitted his annual report. A site
for the proposed bureau of standards was
selected and purchased upon approval of
the attorney general; the site was chosen
at point about a quarter of a mile west
of Connecticut avenue on Pierce Mill road
and consists Of eight acres. The great tun-
Hel, commonly known as the Lydecker
tunnel, to carry water from the distrib-
uting reservoir to the reservoir near How
ard University, was tested and announced
to be completed. 1t was announced that
the properties of the Washington Traction
Company would he sold at Norfolk, Va,
on the 23d instant, in pursuance of a de-
cree of foreclosure In the case of the
United States Mortgage and Trust Com
pany against the Washington Traction
Company. Correspondence was had be-
tween the Secretary of War and the presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, looking to the securing of a modifi-
cation In the plans for the railroad bridge
across the Potomac river to replace the OK
listing Long bridge. Mrs. Katharine
Schlosser died the result of burns re-
ceived while preparing a meal; Agnes Nc
death while playing with paper, which be-
came ignited. Carl Schmidt, a deaf mute,
twenty-four years of age, was killed by
being crushed to death in a freight ele-
vator at the establishment Of the Charles
Schneider Baking Company. Mr. Albert
K. Williams. a well-known citizen, was
Instantly killed by being run over by a
Washington Traction Company car at 9th
and X streets northwest; a coroner's Jury
decided that death was accidental VIII
lam Frank Thyson, forty-nine years old
died as the result of injuries received in a
fall from a second-story window at Car
Held Hospital, where he was undergoing
treatment. A colored laborer, known as
Billy" Williams, was killed by falling into
an ash chute at the plant Of the United
States Electric Light Company.
Real Estate Transfers.