Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-24
THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST "a, 1901

THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST "a. 1901,
Attorney General Knox decided that the
Porto Rican executive council has no au-
thority to grant exemption from taxation.
A total of 1854 go was received by the gov
eminent through the sale of lots in county
seats in the newly opened Oklahoma lands
The civil service commission examined dur
ing the past year 46.763 persons, of whom
35 ,O25 passed and 1853 secured positions.
The Virginia republican convention nomi-
mated Col J. Hampton Hoge for governor.
In Pittsburg 24OO men Joined the steel
strikers, making about $4,000 men now out
Sixty-seven lives were lost In a collision
between the steamer Islander ana an Ice
berg. Twenty-Five lives were lost as re-
suit of the capsiZing of the steamer City Of
Golconda near Paducah, KY. Five men
were killed and six injured in collision
on the Chicago and Alton railroad. Five
men were killed by an explosion in Water
Works Crib No. 3 in Lake Erie, near Cleve-
land, Ohio Twelve railroad men were
killed by an explosion of dynamite near
Herkimer, N. Y. BY the explosion of a
seven-inch shell at Fort. Riley Kan. one
soldier was killed and three fatally wound
ed. Five persons We're killed by a benzine
explosion in Philadelphia. Five men were
killed in a family seud near williamsburg
Ky. AS the result of atrocious crime
by negro. mob at Pierce City, Mo-.
cremated a third driving the remainder
of the negroes from the town. Alfred Will
der, negro. charged with the murder of
Mrs. Caldwell. was burned by "a mob near
during the week was Senior Don Carlos
Moria Vicuna, Chilean minister to Wash
inRton.
Foreign Affairs.
NJ. Constans, French ambassador at Con-
stantinople, broke off relations with the
Turkish government because the sultan re-
fused to comply with the demands about
French claims. The first parliament of
Edward VII was prorogued. Emperor
hwang Su postponed until September the
return of the Chinese court to Pekin; the
powers decided to destroy the forts between
Pekin ana the sea on the ground of mill
tary necessity Persistent attacks by CO.
lomblan rebels on the outskirts of Colon
and Panama continued; President Castro
dispatched war vessels and troops to the
coast of Colombia; the Colombian gunboat
La Popa sank near SavanilIa: General
Plaza was elected president of Ecuador
The Chilean cabinet resigned because of
difference about the national defense; It
was stated in the senate at Buenos Ayres
that Argentina and Chile have agreed not
OF Grandbourg in the Island of Maria Ga
lante, Guadeloupe, was destroyed by fire.
In the District.
The program for the architectural com
petition for the proposed new municipal
hospital was issued by the Commissioners
The attorney for the District gave it as his
opinion that the Commissioners may ex-
cept from the speed regulations certain
municipal vehicles, as well as the repair
wagons or the street railroad companies.
Ihe conductor on a Washington Traction
Company's car refused to accept as legal
fare Washington, Alexandria and Mount
vernon ticket, and caused the arrest of
columbus Brown, who rendered it. for dis
orderly conduct. Judge Mills, in trying
the case, dismissed the charge Of disorderly
conduct and gave 1t as his opinion that all
the street railways operating in the city
must a under the law, exchange tickets The
Associated Charities addressed letter to
the parking commission in which public
Fairgrounds for children were strongly
urged The electrical engineer for the Dis
he asked for 1857, $50 for the next fiscal
year. The annual report Of the surveyor
for the District showed an increase of SO
per cent over the work done last Year.
The new tenth precinct police station was
formally opened. with Lieut.. John Kenney
IN charge. AS result Of charges made to
the Secretary of the Interior against DR..
A. NJ Austin, surgeon-in-ch Of Freed
mems Hospital the resignation of the lat
ter was demanded and received; DIR. w. A.
Warfeld was designated as acting sur
geon- chief. A census bulletin showed
that flowers and ornamental plants repre-
ucts of the District Of Columbia; another
bulletin showed that the death rate of the
District was 22.S in $780, as against 237 In
1880; the figures of the health department
for those years were "a for 1890 and 21.O2
for 1900. Thirty bricklayers employed at
the navy yard struck for higher wages.
Marcellus Coles. colored, stabbed and killed
Albert Hawkins, also cofbred,: at Deanwood
Park. William Lee was arrested charged
with shooting Ethelberts Virgins Joseph
w. Compton. fifteen years s-of age, was
drowned In pond in the real, of the Wash
ington Base Ball Park I'll Northeast Wash
ington while In bathing Beh Gordon, col
ored. fourteen years old, was, drowned In
the river while bathingr William H. Yam
cey. coiored. twenty-five years Of age. was
killed by being run over by dirt train
on the railroad switch 1t the Government
Hospital for the Insane dolly Brown,
colored child, died as the result Of an over,
dose OF whisky John ,Floyd,o colored. If
teen years old. was OVERCOME, by gas while
Maivin Brown, young coloFed boy. was
choked to death by piece of meat which
lodged In his throat. Frederick FurlOng.
twenty-eight years of age, cripple, COM
mitted suicide by shooting Israel S~ayze,
Grand Army man, ffty-sixsyears Of age.
committed suicide by inhaling Illuminating
gas.