Evening star., 1901-12-14
WEEK ENDING DECEMBER "a, 1901.

WEEK ENDING DECEMBER Ia, 1901.
The Schley court of inquiry submitted its
report to the Secretary OF the Navy: 1t was
unfavorable to Rear Admiral Schley on
eleven points, although characterizing his
behavior while under fire as admirable;
Admirable Dewey submitted a minority re-
port favorable to Schley; Isidore Rayner.
senior counsel for Rear Admiral Schley, in
remarking upon the report, favored congress
SIGNAL action. The controversy between
the two South Carolina senators was re-
vived in the Senate, during which Senator
Hoar stated his belief that both seats were
vacant; the Senate committee on isthmiaa
canals authorized a favorable report on
Senator Morgan's bill providing for the ac-
QUESTION Of the Nicaragua route: a favor
able report to the House on the Hepburn
canal bill, to be used as a substitute for
the Morgan measure, was authorized;
Speaker Henderson Of the House announced
the committees of the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress; Senator Frye introduced a new ship
subsidy bill in the Senate; the ways and
means committee of the House authorized
favorable report on the Philippines tariff
Dill; the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was dis
cussed in the Senate and an agreement
was had for vote on the instrument Mon
day. The coinage Of the United States
mints during the fiscal year ended June 30
lSVl, was announced TO De 1lO,yF3, pieces,
valued at s136,340. 7S1. Santiago Iglesias a
representative of the American Federation
or Labor, was arrested and imprisoned at
San Juan, Porto Rico on a charge of con-
spring to raise the price of labor in Porto
Rico. Superintendent Atkinson issued or
ders that all the public schools in the Phil
1pp1neS observe Jose Rizars birthday thus
stamping him as the national hero. The
democrats swept Boston by the largest ma
Jorfty in many years. electing Patrick Col
Inns mayor. Mrs. Stanford. widow of the
California senator, gave $30.O00.OOo to Le-
land Stanford, jr.. University. Senator
Mark A. Hanna, in speech in Boston, de-
clared that the United States must have
the strongest navy in the world. The al
legged heads of the policy syndicate" in
New York city were captured and papers
found showed that the returns from the
business were from one and one-half to
two millions of dollars a year. A fire at
Wooster University caused $3.50, 600 damage
Foreign Affairs.
The latest Information from the abducted
missionary, Miss Stone, was that her con-
dition has been made more comfortable
and that the brigands still refused to re-
duce the amount of the ransom. Great
Britain transferred the control Of the South
African concentration camps to the civil
authorities; June %, 1902, was fixed upon
as the date for the coronation of King Ed
ward VII. Count Won Bulow declared in
the German reichstag that the powers con-
cerned In Polish affairs were united to pre-
vent agitation looking toward the inde-
pendence of Poland Count Won Kanitz the
German agrarian leader, and other promi-
nent German members Of the reichstag,
said in that body that American predomi-
nance in commerce is a menace to Europe;
1t was announced by the imperial secre-
tary of state for the interior that the Ger
man government was determined to carry
through the new tariff bill. Nicaragua
agreed to lease to the United States a sec
tion of country six miles wide for a route
for the proposed isthmian canal. Yukon
gold was declared by a Canadian metallur-
gist to contain large quantities of platinum
which the miners were carelessly throw
ing away. A clash between the govern
ment and the people Of Haiti was reported
to be inevitable. Chile submitted an ulti-
matum to the Argentine Republic in the
boundary dispute, and both countries con-
tinued preparations for military activity.
China decorated Yung Lu, the leader of the
Boxer outbreak.
In the District.
1t was announced from the White House
that Andrew Carnegie had offered $4,000
600 for the founding at Washington of a
university of the United States to afford
pest graduate courses to those graduated
from the various universities Of the coun-
try; the cabinet considered the Offer which
was in the shape of bonds Of the United
States Steel Corporation. A verdict of not
guilty was returned in the case of Mrs
Lola Ida Henry Bonine, charged with the
murder of James Seymour Ayres, jr. Secre-
tary Root asked Congress for s1,26OOOO for
the establishment of war college at Wash
ington barracks. The board of education
submitted its first annual report. The
American National Red Cross Society, the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the
American Forestry Association held their
annual conventions. The committee of the
Daughters of the American Revolution in
charge OF the project decided upon the
property at the corner of 18th and streets
northwest, as site for the proposed build
ing for the headquarters of the organiza-
tion. The plan of raising by popular SUBJ
scription the funds for the proposed Nc
kinley memorial arch was abandoned by
the William Mckinley National Memorial
Arch Association, 1t being proposed that
Congress be appealed to for an appropria-
tion for the proposed memorial. The an
nual parade of the police and fire depart
ments was witnessed by large crowds Mrs
Ada Gilbert Dennis, about forty-five years
of age and one Of the best known dressmak-
ers of the city, was found in her bedroom
at 1l1I K street with a fractured skull as
we'll as other probably fatal injuries; no clew
could be found to the identity of her assail-
ant; Mrs. Dennis was removed to Garfield
Hospital in an unconscious condition. James
Haskins, colored, about twenty-four years
of age, was found dead in barn on the
dairy farm of George A. Wise, just inside
the District line to the east of Chevy Chase
circle, having been shot through the head:
ton that Haskins shot himself, disappeared
and was followed by detectives into Mary
land. Florence Anderson of Columbia S.
c., was found in bed at 2l3 10th street
southwest, with the body of a new born
babe: the condition of the infant led to the
belief that 1t was killed by the mother,
who shortly afterward died herself at Co.
lumbia Hospital. HeZekiah Coates, colored
fourteen years old, confessed to shooting
Carrie Corbin, also colored and nine years
of age, with a shotgun, killing her almost
instantly, near Anacostia, d. c. Mildred
Hickman, colored, ,fifty-eight years old, died
as. the result of burns received at her home.
The body Of a colored man, later identified
as that of Basil Chase, was found float
ing in the Eastern branch at the foot
of 4th street. Among those who died dur
ing the week was William r. Hutton, an
eminent civil engineer, at his home in
Montgomery county, Md.
Deaths in the District.
The following deaths were reported to the
health Office during the twenty-four hours