Evening star., 1901-07-27
THE WEEK ENDING JULY ~. 1901.

for an investigation by q naval court of
inquiry into the Santiago campaign; Sec
retary Long appointed court Of inquiry,
consisting of Admiral Dewey, president;
Rear Admirals Kimberly and Benham and
Captain S. C. Lemly, Judge advocate, to
meet in September The Porto Rican free
trade proclamation was issued by the
President. The treasury bureau Of statis-
tics reported the exports in the year ended
June 80. 1901, as 81 .4S7, 1856, ,557, and imports
as $S22, ,673 016 The receipts of internal
revenue for the year ended June 80, 1901,
were $3O6, ,S11 500, an Increase of $11, ,555, ,561
over the preceding year. A stretch OF
country thirty miles square at Fort Riley,
KAN, was designated by Secretary Root
for military maneuvers. Robert L.
Sprague was appointed consul to Gibraltar.
Fire in Davenport, Iowa, caused a loss OF
$1Oo,OOO. A strike occurred among the gar
ment workers in New York. throwing
nearly 10000 employees out of work. The
anti-ticket sca1ping law of New Yark was
declared unconstitutional. A new trial was
ordered in the case Of Caleb Powers. con-
victed of completely in the shooting of
Governor William Goebei of Kentucky.
The New York federal grand jury began
an investigation of the failure of the Sew
enth National Bank. Under instructions
from Judge Stevens, Robert 8. Fosburgh
sister at Pittsfield. Mass Michael Kekky,
an insane man, killed one man, probably
fatally wounded another shot four others
and was himself killed at Leavenworth.
Kan.
Foreign Affairs.
The ministers at Pekin agreed upon a
plan by which China is to pay the 1897 ,O0O,-
GOO indemnity in 1904. Reports show that
In June III deaths occurred among the S5.-
40 white persons In Boer concentration
camps in South Africa; Beers captured a
train with lib men at Scheepers, Cape
Colony, and won an all-night fight near
Cradock, in the same colony. The Spanish
government decided upon a program for
the reorganization of the army. The new
German tariff bill was officially announced.
Russia has demanded of the porte two coal
ing station on the Persian gulf. The new
Danish liberal cabinet was completed. Jer-
man Rtesco was formally proclaimed presi-
dent of Chile. Fifteen persons perished in
a fire on the American schooner Louise
Adelaide in the harbOr Of Stockholm, SWe-
den. The tuberculosis congress met in
London; Prof. Robert Koch of Berlin said
he was satisfied that human beings were
not liable to infection with bovine tubercu-
losfs. Among those who died was Mrs.
Kruger, wife of President Paul Kruger.
In the District.
Major John Biddle, Corps Of Engineers,
U. S. A., was ordered to assume the duties
Of Engineer Commissioner Of the District
of Columbia, vice Captain Lansing II.
Beach, ordered to Detroit. Mr.. John Joy
Edison formally placed in the hands of the
Commissioners the matter of appointing a
committee to consider the question of a
change in the date of the Inauguration of
the President Of the United States and to
take proper steps to secure such a change
il it be deemed advisable. The judges of
the Police Court submitted their annual re-
port. Col. Bingham issued his annual re-
port public buildings and grounds. Col.
G. J. Allen, In charge of Potomac river i'm
provements stated in his annual report
that work on the Memorial bridge can be
for the purpose; that vesseis drawing 20
feet Of water can reach the Georgetown
wharves at low tide, and that the Aqus-
duct bridge is in state Of decay and
should be rebuilt. The annual report on
the Washington aqueduct showed that
water was being wasted in reckless man
ner. A census bulletin was issued enum-
Grating the people of the District by ages
The District naval militia made it's annual
cruise on the Fern. Robert Larkins,
thirty-seven years old, died as a result of
injuries received from a fall in the ice
house of the Heurich Brewing Company.
A. Erwin Williams died from an overdose
Of morphine; Earl Stuart, seven years old,
was killed at Woodbridge. Va, by being
crushed with a railroad tie; Francis CAL
lagher, who had been missing for some
days, was found dead in a sewer: William
Black Smith, colored, whose mind was de-
ranged, starved himself to death; Maisie
Cissel, eight years old, was killed by the
fall Of lumber pile on which she was
playing. Among those who died during the
week was Brig. Gen. Samuel 7. Gushing.