Evening star., 1902-04-26
WEEK ENDING APRIL 90. 1902.

President Roosevelt attended the fnstalla-
ton of Nicholas Murray Butler as president
of Columbia University in New York Ben
Jamin +. Barnes was appointed assistant
secretary to the President. succeeding the
late Major o. L. Pruden Secretary Root
visited Cuba to confer with officials there
in regard to the evacuation of the island
by United States troops The Attorney
General ordered the district attorney at
Chicago to begin injunction proceedings
against corporations and persons who are
parties to the beef trust Orders were re-
ceived at Manila for an official investiga-
ton OF the Samar campaign; Americans re-
pulsed the MoroS in two fights in Mindanao;
the trial by court-martial of General Jacob
h Smith was begun at Manila. President
elect Palma arrived in Cuba, where he was
given warm welcome. The Senate passed
the river and harbor appropriation bill
carrying approximately s1o.ooo,00o. and de-
voted much time to the discussion of the
Philippines government bill: the Military
Academy and the fortitications appropria-
tfon bills were passed by the House; the
House sent the oleomargarine bill to con-
ference after agreeing to notifications to
the Senate amendments; the House rejected
the Senate amendment to the omnibus
claims bill and sent that measure back to
conference; the conferees on the Chinese
exclusion bill adopted the main features of
the Senate bill. The United States Supreme
Court granted leave to the state of Wash
| irgton to file an original bill for an in
junction against the Great Northern North
ern Pacific merger. The combination of
leading transatlantic lines under Ameri-
can interests represented by J. Pierpont
Morgan was confirmed, the new company
to have a capital of over s1J0.000,0o0. The
Confederate Veterans held their annual re-
union at Dallas. Tex Lord Kelvin, the
famous English scientist, arrived in this
country. John D. Rockefeller gave 81 ,09a.-
600 to further education IN the south.
Dyers at Paterson, n. J.. to the number
OF several thousand went out on strike
and several riots ensued. Kansas, Missouri,
Iowa and Minnesota experienced intense
heat, while snow storms swept the Da-
kotas and several other western states. The
steamer City of Pittsburg caught fire in
the Mississippi river near Cairo. H., and
was entirely destroyed. the number of lives
lost being estimated at seventy-five. A fire
in Marienville, Pa, destroyed half the
town and made 800 persons homeless -Four
fires at Dallas, Tex, supposed to have
been of incendiary origin caused the loss
of two lives and 100000 worth of property.
Foreign Affairs.
The list Of French official visitors who
will attend the unveiling Of the Rocham-
beau statue at Washington was announced.
The Danish lower house adopted the ma
jority report on the West Indies Islands
sale to the United States, the upper house
having ratified the treaty Internationally:
1t was announced that the vote taken in
the islands on the sale was probably pro-
sale, though close The Belgian chamber
| Of representatives upheld the recent killing
of rioters by rejecting a proposed inquiry.
The general strike in Belgium was declared
OFF. new treaty between Russia and
China provided for the surrender by the
former Of all claims In Manchuria and evac-
uation by its troops within a year. Fire
in the Barbican district of London caused a
property loss of over 10000, 900. Roting by
army recruits at Helsingfors, Finland,
against the new Russian eflict was contin-
ued, and vitriol was thrown at troops.
Damage done by the earthquake at Tapa
chula, Mexico, was estimated at one mil
hon dollars. Five hundred persons were
killed and vast amount of property de-
stroyed in disastrous earthquakes in Qua
temala. riotous outbreak occurred at
Annotta bay, Jamaica. The plague appear
ed at Montevideo. Uruguay. The Colombian
insurgents captured Bocas del Toro, which
was afterward retakcn by the government
troops. Venezuelan troops were routed
and Gen. Castillo was killed in battle
with the revolutionists. An explosion at
Managua, Nicaragua, destroyed the mill
tary barracks there and killed between 100
and 900 soldiers Among those who died
during the week was Heinrich XIII, reign
ing prince of Reuss-Greitz.
In the District.
The bill to provide a union railway station
in the District Of Columbia was called up
in the Senate and discussed; an amend
ment to the bill providing for the use of
the terminal facilities by roads. which
might be built in the future. was offered,
and, at hearing before the Senate COM
mittee on the District of Columbia was op-
posed by officials Of the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio railroads The Senate
passed the bill providing for the erection of
a hall of records. Senator Gallinger an
nounced an amendment which he intended
to offer to the District appropriation bill
providing for the requirement of Analostan
Island in the Potomac river for use as an
isolation hospital. In the final competition
to secure plans for the municipal hospital
the award was made to Philadelphia firm
Of architects. Justice Hagner of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia
signed the formal order ratifying and con-
hrmlng the verdict of the jury of apprais-
ers in the matter of the extension of 10th
street The American Social Science Asso-
citation held Its annual meeting A hear
ing on the proposed change of the date OF
pre- sidential inaugurations was given Com
missioner Macfarland, chairman of the ma
uonal committee and other prominent
members of that body. by the House COM
mittee on the judiciary. The Independent
Order of Odd Fellows celebrated their
eighty-third anniversary. A general ad-
vance was. noted in the price of all kinds of
meat as well as in other food staples The
oase ball season was opened by the Wash |
ington and Boston teams. Fire caused dam
age to the amount of $4,000 on the Riggs |
farm in Prince Georges county Md; the |
Haitian legation was damaged by fire to |
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colored, was placed on trial charged with |
shooting Noah w. Tryon an elderly white |
man. Elijah Chapman, colored. was sem
fenced to be hanged May % for the murder |
of Ida Simms. colored. Two men were |
found drowned in the James Creek canal |
one of them being Michael Deenehan. n rail- |
road employe. who disappeared from his |
home about month ago, and the other |
Joseph Mckenny. an employe of a boot and |
shoe establishment; it decided to send |
the proceedings of a coroner'S jury, which |
characterized the canal a deathtrap to |
Congress, the testimony showing that ten |
persons had lost their lives in the canal in |
ten months; a statement issued by the |
deputy health officer showed that since |
1ovl efghty-three persons have been drowned |
in the canal. Roger Murray, twenty-seven
years of age. who disappeared from his |
home in Baltimore last October was found |
drowned in the Eastern branch. Edward |
Galley. an engineer, thirty-six years Of age.
fell from steam roller which he was |
operating and was run over. dying from his |
injuries. David Bowen. an elderly colored |
man, died from the effect of injuries re- |
ceived in being run over by garbage |
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