Evening star., 1902-08-09
WEEK ENDING AreqsT Q, 1soa.

troller or the treasury uectqed that hosts
| or guests must pay mess bills when Junket-
| ing parties are taken On watships. 1t was
| announced that July I theta were 9oe. 44e
pensioners on the government rolls. Arch
| bishop Ireland, in a sermon at St. Paul.
| warned Roman Catholics to rely on the JUS
| tice Of the United States and the wisdom
| of the pope to settle the question of the
| church interests in tho Philippines. Presi-
| dent Schurman of Cornell University, in an
| address on the Philippines, said he be-
| lieved in the ultimate independence and
| self-government of the Filipinos The 18th
| Infantry defeated band of Katipunans In
| Bataan province. Luzon; Rev. Santiago
| Paya. provincial of the Dominicans In the
| Philippines, said there are only about 300
| friars now in the islands; from March 20
| to May Is 1t was stated there were 1.o05
cases of cholera in Manila and 500 deaths
| tect the Haitian cable, which the revolu-
| tonists threatened to cut. Armed peace
| prevailed at Shenandoah, Pa. although
| several minor disturbances between strikers
| beaten to death by strike sympathizers;
William Steyn, mining inspector of the
| Shenandoah district, announced that col
| lieries had been permanently abandoned at
| q loss of 81, 500 900. Fifteen of the TWENTY
| eight plants Of the American Tin Plate
! Company shut down indefinitely. Violence
| attended the strike of the motormen of the
Camden Interstate Electric railway and
Va, and Hanging Rock, Ohio Corp. Rich
ard 'Brien was arrested at his home in
North Adams, Mass, on a charge of per-
jury in his testimony before the Senate
committee on the Philippines it being
stated that the charge would be pressed in
one of the criminal branches of the District
of Columbia Supreme Court in the fall. w.
]. Bryan, in an interview, said he would
not be candidate for President in 1904
being satisfied to live as private citizen"
Cornelius N. Bliss resigned as member
of the executive board Of the Protective
Tariff League. The Hotel Oceanic, at Car
oina Beach, near Wilmington, N c., was
swept away by a storm, and 100 guests
We're buried in the ruins, thirteen of them
being injured severely. Leo Wilder his
wife and three children were burned to
death in their home near Elliott. Colo. Two
young women were Killed outright on a
railroad trestle at Dawson Springs, KY.
and three others will die from injuries re-
ceived in jumping. Three boys were
drowned in the Allegheny river at Pitts
burg, and four were drowned within one
day in Baltimore. Four persons were Sc
riously hurt scores knocked down and in
jured and thousands were thrown into a
panic during an exhibition of fireworks at
Mount Vernon N. Y, by the premat ature
bursting of bomb. In collision on Lake
Erie the steamer City of Venice was
sunk by the lumber steamer Seguin and
three of the latter's crew were drowned
In freight wreck on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul railroad near Rhodes
Iowa, fifteen persons were killed and forty
injured a number of laborers who were on
the train being accounted for. A Rio
Grande special passenger train, with 800
tourists, was wrecked near Florence, Colo.
by being struck by wall Of water eight
feet high Harry Tracy, the Oregon con-
Wet who escaped from the penitentiary
June 8, was surrounded near Creston,
Wash, and so badly wounded that he COM
mitted suicide by shooting, himself in the
head. Masked men held up a Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad train near
"A ~ -n,
of the robbers being shot and killed Among
those who died was John H. Twachman,
the noted landscape artist.
Foreign Affairs.
The Cuban senate passed a loan calling
for an immediate bond Issue of s5,G0o,ooo
for agricultural relief and $4,000 600 in six
months to pay the army.,xking Edward
issued a personal message of thanks to his
people for their sympathy and prayers dur
ing his illness; Lord Salisburys acts as
British premier were ttack9d in the house
Of commons. members accusing him OF
neglecting his countryts intsrtsts in China
and failing TO stop Russian encroachment
in Persia and Asia minor; British stock
holders and creditors we're reported to have
lost millions of dollars in the forty-one
bubble" companies of Whitaker, Wright
and Robert Lemon; fears We're expressed
for the safety of st. Paurs Cathedral,
which showed additional signs of weak
ness, N the Sna ahe-up or the BRUSH caDl-
net Charles T Richie was made chancellor
of the eXcheQuer. j. Austen Chamberlain
postmaster general A. AkersDouglas home
secretary and the Earl of Dudley lord
superintendent Of Ireland: the Earl of FL
gin, Sir Henry Norman, Sir John Hopkins,
Lord Esher and Sir John Edge were ap-
pointed commission of inquiry into the
conduct of the Boer war; London put on
gala attire and the king was reported to be
in fine spirits on the eve of the coronation.
General Lucas Meyer, the Boer leader, died
OF heart disease. Andrew D. White, am
bassador from the United States to Ger
many. mailed his resignation to Washing
ton, to take effect November next The
kaiser decided to send party Of young
German mobiles to this country to study
American methods; the emperor sailed for
Reval, Russia, on his visit to the cZar,
where he was received with due honors and
where he reviewed the Russian fleet maneu-
Vers by searchlight; 1t was reported that
the car had promised the King of Italy his
aid in securing reduction of European
armaments. All the congregational schools
In France were closed with the exception
or those In three departments; serious riots
occurred in the expulsion of the sisters
from church schools near Brest. Slight
earthquake shocks were felt in Italy and
Portugal, and the San Stefano campanile
In Venice was reported to be on the verge
Of collapsing. The robbery of $500, 600 and
the misapplication of 81 100000 Of the city
funds or Maria Theresienopel Hungary.
caused the arrest Of fourteen officials. The
vatican expressed surprise at and dlsap-
proval OF the report from Paris that COM
panies headed by New York financiers had
bought the lands Of the friars in the Phil
ipplnes; 1t was reported that the Vatican
reared that Premier Combes of France will
revoke the concordat between that country
and the pope; Mgr. Guidi was selected as
apostolic delegate to Manila. About sixty
villagers We're killed in a fight over the
ownership OF a spring In Astatic Turkey.
premier Sagasta of Spain expressed his
desire to retire from office. Captain Johann
son made accusation against Explorer Bald
win, which were denied by the latter, that
ne refused to go further north when pressed
by the captain to do so. Shans attacked
the town Of Phrae, Siam, and killed twenty
five offcials. A fierce battle was waged
Tor a week at Aqua Dulce, the revolution
lsts being reported defes ted The Japanese
cruiser kasagi returned from Marcus Island
to Iokio after landing twelve marines, who
hold the territory claimed by an American
by right Of discovery.
In the District.
The plans Of the board in charge of the
selection of a site forr the bridge to take
the place OF the Long bridge across the
Potomac river were approved, the speci-
hcations providing foFIta bridge paralleling
the railroad bridge now under construc-
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