Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
WEEK ENDING JUNE as, 1909.

President Roosevelt attended the COM
mencement excuses of Harvard University,
where the degree of doctor of laws was
conferred upon him; in a speech which he
made there he denounced the critics of Gen
eral Leonard Wood, Governor General w.
II. Taft and Secretary of War Elihu Root;
upon the Presidents return to Washington
ne occupied rented quarters in the Town
send house at % Lafayette square. The
cabinet agreed to grant amnesty to all
political prisoners in the Philippines, in
Guiding Aguinaldo. on July 4. The Senate
ana House agreed to the conference report
on the isthmian canal bill, the House
agreeing to the Spooner amendmnt provid-
ing for canal by the Panama route with
out amendment; the Senate passed the bill
Great ting a national forest reserve in the
southern Appalachian mountains: the Sem
ate agreed to take up the omnibus state
hood bill early in the next session of Con-
| gress; the general deficiency bill, the last
or the big appropriation bills. was passed
by the Senate; the House receded from its
disagreement to the Senate amendment to
the army appropriation bill; the House
passed Its own Philippine civil government
Dill by vote of 14l to 81; the House de-
voted some time to debate on the Horton
VS.. Butler contested election case; Admiral
Dewey testified before the Senate commit
tee on the Philippines. William J. Bryan
in statement on the recent Tilden Club
dinner scored eX-President Cleveland.
Richard Croker announced that he would
| come to New York in August, and that he
would personally resent John c. Sheehans
| attitude toward him. Pennsylvania demo
Gratis nominated Robert E. Pattson for
governor of the state Gen. Lloyd Whea-
ton on his arrival from the Philippines at
San Francisco in a statement resented
criticism of the United States policy in
those islands. During 1901 the crop of cot
ton ginned in this country was stated to
amount to 1884 .945 bales. President John
n ha init Tod N{vn
sented the miners side OF the anthracite
coal strike in exhaustive statement
The militia at Paterson, N. j., were ordered
to shoot to kill If a mob appeared, and
citizens of the city were reported to be in
augurating drastic measures to drive an
archists from the vicinity. The govern
ment OF the city Of Cleveland was declared
to be unconstitutional by the Ohio supreme
court. storm did 100000 damage In
Indiana, Iowa and South Dakota and killed
six persons beside injuring many more. A
fire at Portland. Ore, destroyed six blocks
OF business property, valued at $500 600
Three men were killed by cave-in at the
rifle range at Sea Girt, N. ]. Two colored
boys and white tramp were killed on the
railroad near Roanoke. Va. Two men
were .Ailled and several fatally hurt In a
wreck on the Omaha railroad, at Ashton,
Iowa Jane Toppan. charged with poison
ing nine persons at Barnsyable Mass, and
who acknowledged poisoning thirty per-
sons. was adjudged insane and committed
to an asylum for life. One man was killed
and three fatally injured in a fight near
Knoxville Tenn, provoked by Islander OF
the army in the Philippine Islands.
Foreign Affairs.
The coronation of King Edward was post
poned indefinitely on account of his Illness:
an operation for perityphilitis was perform
ed successfully and the physicians In at
tendance announced that his chances for
recovery were good. Oxford conferred the
honorary degree of doctor of civil law upon
Ambassador Choate; Lord Miner took the
oath as governor of the Transvaal at Pre-
toria. Emperor Francis Joseph received in
audience Robert S. Mccormick, the United
States ambassador to Austria. German
torpedo boat was sunk by British steamer
at the mouth of the Elbe. Lightning struck
church at Pinerio, Spain, while a funeral
was in progress. killing twenty-five persons
and injuring thirty-five others. 1t an
nounced that the Vatican would re-establish
diplomatic relations with Mexico. 1t re-
ported that thousands of Firms are emgrat-
ing to escape service in the Russian army.
Colombian government troops recaptured
the important town of Aqua Dulce. The
Hayti presidential campaign resulted in
riots and reign of terror. Riots and other
acts of violence by strikers marked an at
tempt to operate tiedup Toronto street
cars. The Chinese cruiser kai Chi was
wrecked by explosion on the Yangtse
river and $50 officers and men lost their
lives; mob in Sze-Chuan, China, wrecked
and murdered missionary.
In the District.
The Senate passed the House bill to
amend the act in relation to taxes and tax
sales the Senate passed the House bill
tending 18th street beyond the Boundary;
Chairman Babcock of the House committee
on the District announced that there would
be no union station legislation at this ses-
sion of Congress. The Commissioners for
warded to Congress recommendation that
$4,000 be provided in the District appro-
priation bill for continuing work on the
Municipal Hospital. DR.. Francis r. Lane,
director of the high schools, resigned to
accept a position in Brooklyn. Percy NJ
Hughes, principal of the Central High
School, being appointed to the position, and
Emory NJ. Wilson being designated to sue
coed Mr.. Hughes. The Court of Appeals
handed down a decision sustaining the va
lidity of the anti-smoke law; it decided
to take the case to the United States Su-
preme Court for decision. The plans of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany for complying with the recently ap
proved act for the removal of overhead
wires in the city were presented to the
Commissioners. Mr.. Morrell Marean, for
many years local manager for the Western
Union Telegraph Company, died as the re-
suit of a fail from a second-story window
of his residence. DR.. William n. Fisher, a
well-known young surgeon, fell down the
elevator shaft at the Columbian University
Hospital sustaining injuries from which he
died soon afterward. William W. Jackson,
colored, died from injuries sustained In
being crushed by the elevator in the Sher-
man apartment house. Percy Ball, a
young man residing in this city, was struck
and killed by train near Germantown,
Md Private Harry c. Pancoast of the 4th
Battery, Field Artillery, stationed at Fort
Myer, was shot three times by unknown
parties near Rosslyn: as the result of the
shooting seventy troopers demolished a sa-
loon at Rosslyn owned by James A. Geary.
Among those who died was Judge Walter
S. Cox for many years a justice of the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.