Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-19
WEEK EHDING OCTOBER 10, 1901.

WEEK EHDING OCTOBER 10, 1901.
President Roosevelt decided, on the rec
the present force of troops in the Philip
pines; the President entertained Booker T.
Washington at dinner. Governor Wood
notified the Secretary of War that the
Cuban presidential election had been set
for February "a. Four hundred bolomen at
tackled forty-siX men of the 9th Infantry
at Bangajon, Samar, and were beaten off
after killing ten, the Philippines were swept
by typhoons, twenty persons being killed
in Manila bay and much damage done to
shipping. Mr. Frank w. Hackett. assistant
secretary of the navy, requested to be re-
lieved from that office in order to allow him
to resume his practice of law; it was
nounced that Judge Charles H. Darling
would be appointed to the vacancy. The
estimates for the Navy Department for the
next fiscal year aggregated S9S,9l0,S94 an
increase of s31, las, 534 over the current APP
preparation. The commissioner of educa-
ton reported that over II 100000 children
are attending the schools of the country.
The Schley court of inquiry continued its
sessions throughout the week. adjourning
Friday until Monday. The general organi-
cation of the body having in charge the
work of erecting an arch to the memory
of William Mckinley in this city was COM
pleted. Speaking before the national con-
vention of bankers in Milwaukee, Secre-
tary of the Treasury Gage commended the
suggestion made by the president of the
Bankers Association for big central
bank with all the others subsidiaries,
and for the abandonment of the subtreas-
ury. The physicians who attended PreSi
dent Mckinley made official report on
the wounds which caused the Presidents
death. Peter Nissen again made a success
full trip through the rapids at Niagara
Falls in his boat THE Fool Killer" A
reservoir just completed at East Liverpool,
Ohio, gave way and destroyed $1oo,eJo
worth of property. The treasurer of Rich
land county, Ohio. sued the John Sher-
man estate for S277, ia back taxes Roland
B Molneux, convicted of the murder of
Catherine ]. Adams in New York, was
granted a new trial on the grounds of error
in admitting improper evidence. Fire de-
stroyed property at Beaumont, Tex, to the
amount of s1,H0,Oo0. Anarchist Most was
sentenced in New York to one years i'm
prisonment for publishing in his paper just
before the assassination of President Nc
KInley an article advocating violence. Five
men We're killed by cavern in the Rapid
Transit tunnel, New York city.
Foreign Affairs.
1t is again reported that Great Britain
had declared a prOtectorate over koweyt
on the Persian gulf; official reports for
September showed that there were 147 1867
persons in the Boer refugee camps" in
danha bay northwest of Cape Town; the
Car of Russia suggested to the rulers of
Italy and Austria, ignoring Great Britain,
a conference on the Balkan situation;
ST. Petersburg dispatch stated that Great
Britain and Russia have reached a COM
plete agreement regarding the Afghan sit
uation; the Russian ambassador to Turkey
insisted that the sultan should punish the
parties responsible for the persecution of
Armenians; one thousand students wrecked
the governors house at Kitchener, Russia,
and fought the police, eleven being killed
and thrty-six wounded the Russian naval
budget for 1902 called for $44, 80, 600; Count
de la VauiX, who made an attempt to cross
the Mediterranean sea in balloon, was
forced to abandon the trip on account of
adverse winds; Prof Otto Nordenskjods
south pole expedition sailed from Gothen-
burg, Sweden; Mussolino, the famous BAN
dit, who has committed twenty-five muir
ders in the past two years, was captured at
Urbino Italy; a large Afghan force has
been posted around Cabul to assist in
maintaining order; Prince Ching and Ii
Hung Chang gave bond for the Chinese in.
demnity to the allies; famine prevailed in
the region of China recently devastated by
the Yangtze floods; the latest advices in
dicated that war between Venezuela and
Colombia would be averted; Germany dis
patched two additional warShipS to Nene-
zuela
In the District.
The report of the president of the board
of trustees of the public library, embrace
ing the estimates for that institution, was
submitted to the District Commissioners.
Gen. George H. Harries, commanding the
District National Guard submitted the an
nual estimates for the militia, asking for
500, 145. The annual report of the assessor
for the District showed the total assessed
value of personal property to be S15,3G2. sos
and the total of real estate properly tC be
$1S2, go Cos. The board of charities sub
mittal its annual estimates asking
$745,O15, against $715,120 appropriated for
the current year. The American Telephone
Company of America purchased :he prop
erty of the Metropolitan railroad at the p
street bridge, a little over ten acres, for
something over 100000, the property TO
become the general factory of the company
it in its exchanges throughout the country
Surgeon General Van Reypen, his an
nual report on naval institutions in this
city, stated that the unhealthful condition
of the Anacostia flats eXerted a strong
influence on the health of the navy yard
The Chevy Chase Golf Club defeated the
Columbia Club In the third team match for
the golf championship of the District of
Columbia, played for The Evening Star
cup, on the links of the Columbia Club
The National Association Of Manufacturers
this city, beginning November 10. At the
meeting of the board of governors of the
National Bureau of Criminal Identification
1t was decided to remove the national head
quarters of the organization from Chicago
to this city, and bill was prepared to pre-
sent to Congress looking to putting the in
stitution on a government basis. The Ma
tional Spiritualists' Association held its an
nual meeting and dedicated, with appro-
pirate ceremonies, the new national head
quarters of the organization at 600 Penn
sylvania avenue, donated to the associa-
ton by the national treasurer, Theodore j.
Mayer. The Women's Home Missionary
Society of the Baltimore Conference, NJ. E.
Church. met at Foundry Church. Mrs.
Parmenter. wife of Lieut.. H. L. Farmer
ter. United States navy, committed sui
eide by jumping from a fourth-story VIM
dow In the Portland fats Among those