Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-30
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1901.

President Roosevelt attended the annual
foot ball game held In Philadelphia be-
tween the teams of the Naval and Military
Academies; an order placing the rural free
delivery under the classified civil service
was signed by the chief executive The
total receipts of the war revenue act from
June b. 1898. were announced to be $685.
S3S. GA. The government bought San Juan
battlefield, near Santiago Cuba. and VIII
establish national park there. The SUBJ
marine torpedo boat Fulton stood success
fully test of fifteen hours immersion I'M
der water near New York, the officers and
crew suffering no inconvenience. Switch
men on all the principal railroads running
into Pittsburg struck, but a general tie-up
was not effected. A storm the coast Of
Delaware, New Jersey and New York
caused one million dollars damage and tho
loss Of fourteen lives. The bodies of the
eight officials of the Potohontas mine at
BluefelGs. w Va, who were killed by fire
damp were recovered by searchers. Twen-
ty- nine men were killed and number in
1ured by the explosion of a boiler I'm the
factory of the Penberthy Injector Company
at Detroit Mich From eighty TO one hun
bred persons were killed and hum
dred and twenty-five injured in a wreck
on the Wabash railroad near Seneca, Mich.
AT the Lambert mines. Masontown. Pa,
eight men fell 700 feet down a mine shaft,
all being fatally injured Stuart r. Young.
the city treasurer of Louisville, committed
suicide upon learning that his shortage OF
nearly $4,000 had been discovered. Young
Corbett defeated Terry McGovern in a fight
for the featherweight championship of the
world
Foreign Affairs.
United States marines took possession OF
the railroad across the Isthmus Of Panama
in order to guarantee unrestricted trans
portation; Colombian insurgents and gov
eminent troops, under General Alban,
fought at Barhacoa bridge. the insurgents
in with ha
ment entered into by the Colombian liberals
and the conservative government officers,
in the presence of the commanders Of
American and other foreign warshps, the
liberals at Colon surrendered to General
Alban, turning over their arms TO Captain
Perry Of the L. S. s. Iowa, who. in turn,
handed them to the Colombian government
commander; the report that Colombia and
Venezuela had severed diplomatic relations
was confirmed. The Turkish authorizes re-
ported that Miss Stone, the kidnapped mis-
sionary, and her companion had both been
killed by the brigands who carried them of,
but dispatch from Sofia stated that both
women were alive November 81; Consul
General Dickinson discredits the report Of
their deaths. The French chamber voted
for a Chinese indemnity loan of So. OU0000
The Grecian cabinet resigned owing 10 the
trouble arising from the proposed transla-
ton OF The gospels into modern Greek:
King George suspended the sitting Of the
chamber of deputies at Athens. Battle Alb
hey with the estate appertaining thereto
Augustus Frederick Webster for about
s1,Oo0,0c0- At a banquet in London Sir
Thomas Upton stated his intention of again
challenging for the cup, il no one else came
forward with like proposition.
In the District.
The Commissioners appointed Thomas E.
Drake of Ohio to be superintendent of in
surance for the District of Columbia The
board Of charities submitted its first an
in submitting his annual report stated that
for the first time in the past decade the
revenues of the District were found TO be
insufficient to meet its expenditures In
accordance with a decree OF the United
States court of the eastern district of Nir-
ginia the Washington Traction and Elec-
trio Company was sold at Norfolk, Va, for
100000, the purchaser being Brainard
Toiles. The Washington aqueduct tunnel
was put into and water began to flow
into the Howard University reservoir. One
section of the committee of twenty appoint
ed by the last general assembly OF the
Presbyterian Church to revise the West
minister confession of that church met at
the Church of the Covenant TO begin the
preparatory work. The trial of Mrs Lola
Ida Henry Bonine for the murder of James
Seymour Ayres, jr. was continued during
the week. Carl N. Hoffman,, charged with
offering for sale a copy of the isthmian
canal commissions final report, was brought
from New York to this city for trial.
Thomas z. Peddicord, thirty-seven years OF
age, of Gaithersburg. Nd, was suffocated
by gas in his boarding house. Mrs. Ada
Hardy. thirty-four years old. attempted to
commit suicide by taking laudanum, but
her intention was frustrated by prompt ac-
ton. Col Alexander d. Anderson. lawyer,
commissioner to the Chicago worlds fair
and notable public man, committed sui
eide by drowning in the Potomac river at
Mount Vernon. Among those who died DUR
ing the week were John y. Brady, the in
spector of buildings for the District Of CO.
lumbia, and Lieut.. Joseph A. Carr. a for
mer member of the Rough Riders.