Evening star., 1902-09-13
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 13, 1902

WEEK ENDING SEPT. 13, 1902.
| President Roosevelt arrived at Oyster Bay,
! L. L. from his southern trip: the President
appointed Representative George w. Ray
| United States district judge of the northern
district of New York; President Roose-
Welt disapproved the findings of the
ccurtmartial which acquitted Captain
1 A. Ryan, 10Th Cavalry, The bat
| tie ship Wisconsin was ordered to
| Panama to prevent bombardment by revo-
| lutionists, and the cruiser Cincinnati to Co
| Ion on a similar GRAND; the steamer Pan
| ther ordered to Colon with $50 ma
rines. Col. Robert NJ. OReily assumed his
duties surgeon general of the army. The
sum of gold now in the United States treas
ury exceeded all records. Secretary of Ag
riculture Wilson stated that he did not
think meat prices would ever return to the
low prices once prevailing, AT the begin
ming of the eighteenth week of anthracite
coal miners strike the situation was prac-
tca1ly unchanged; Governor W. A. Stone
and other Pennsylvania officials induced P
A. B. Widener to see J. P. Morgan and urge
MIN to end the coal strike, but Mr. Morgan
declined to interfere; thinking them nom
union men pickets attacked Frank Portray
and Sistino Van Costello, strikers at Swoy-
ersville, Pa, Van Costello being killed and
Portray badly injured. One person was
Killed and a score injured in an explosion
III d HidSaZiile at OIQ tOrt Winthrop, in the
upper harbor near Boston. Mrs. William NJ
Stewart, wife of the senior senator from
Nevada, was killed in an automobile acci-
dent in California. Fire started by a care
less workman caused serious blaze in the
beaumont Texas) oil field. Five freight
wrecks occurred during one afternoon on
the Pennsylvania railroad between Johns
toWh ana Harrisburg, two men being killed
John *. MurreI former speaker of the St
Louis house of delegates returned from
Mexico and confesses a part in the whole
sac bribery, admitting having the custody
or $4,000 intended for the gang and sc-
cuses eighteen associates in the city Iegis-
!atlVe body, who We're indicted by the grand
jury.
Foreign Affairs.
John Redmond. in a speech at Waterford,
| said that the proclamation of the crimes
act justified armed rebellion in ireland and
England. The general synod of the Angeli-
can Church of Canada, in session at Mon
treal, voted to prohibit a man from marry
ing his deceased wife's sister or the sisters
daughter. The German army maneuvers
took place at Frankfort-on-the-Oder 90 eD
troops taxing part as the invading and de-
leno1nS armies; the maneuvers were wit
messed by the American representatives
VINO We're shown marked favor by the
kaiser; notable funeral was given Prof
rudolf Nlrchow in Berlin. The Bank of
france was mysteriously robbed of s44 coo. |
The corner stone of a new Campanile if
was announced, will be laid in Venice April |
=, l9H'. Five persons Were killed and ten |
We're wounded in a conflict between troops
ana strikers at Candida, small town of
Apulla, in the extreme southeastern part
of Italy John j. Girimondi former
American consular agent. who had been
oHlcldtinS as priest, was arrested at
Ofeslla, Italy. on charges of fraud The
Haitian revolutionary gunboat Crete-a-
f'lerrot was sunk by the German gunboat
Panther; Admiral killick it was reported,
perlshed with his ship: the Haiti pro-
al Df,y-a
1t was not offended by ,le sinking of the
1nsurgent gunboat, it being regarded as a
pirate; Colombian insurgents severely de-
feated government troops near Santa
Marta; by the capture of Aqua Dulce the
colombian insurgents made prisoners of
5000 government troops; troops We're rush
ed to Colon, Colombia, to defend 1t from
a threatened attack by Insurgents Prof
Angelo Heilprin stated that the scene of
danger from Mount Pelee in the latest
eruption was greater than on Nav s; the
, volcano of kilauea. in Hawaii. was again
active; the volcano of Stromboli was in
futl eruption. Fifteen persons were killed
and fifty injured by a cyclone in Argen-
tina Three deaths from cholera occurred
on the American transport Sherman be-
tween Manila and Nagasaki. Five thou
sand Chinese Were reported to have been
lost in another of the great floods caused
by the overflow of the West river
In the District
Alexander R. Shepherd. the last surviving
governor Of the District of Columbia and
the one man to whom more than any other
individual is due the credit for the develop
ment of the capital city of the country
died at his hacienda at Batopilas, in the
province of Chihuahua, Mexico of appendi-
citis after a brief illness. The annual re-
port of the District superintendent Of re-
pairs was submitted to the Commissioners
1t was announced that the Library of Com
gress would be open in the future
10 o'clock, The Wheatley estate prop
erty was acquired as a site for the
proposed Business High School. The
Chief Engineer John D. Kurtz Of the fire
department was retired with a pension, |
selected to succeed him. The Christian En- |
deavor Union of the District held it's annual !
business meeting. 1t was announced |
that judging from indications the highest |
point in the outbreak of typhoid fever in |
the District had been reached. After being |
separated from her son for thirty-seven |
years, Mrs. Croft. a resident of Cleveland |
Ohio, met her long lost boy in this city !
Maj. Daniel O'Driscol prominent attor- |
ney of this CITY, was struck by train on |
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at La
mond's, Md, while driving in buggy and |
instantly killed; a coroners jury exonerat- |
ed the railroad company from blame. |
Ralph Davis, fourteen years old, while gun |
ming on the Eastern branch, fell overheard |
from a skiff and was drowned. D. A. I
Phillips. conductor of the Washington !
Traction and Electric Company, fell from |
his car on Brightwood avenue and sustain
ed injuries from which he died. James |
Bundy, colored, twenty-eight years of age |
was tried for assault Policeman Arthur
D. Moffett with intent to kill. The police |
were informed that kid Gibson, alias
Washington, a young negro man living in |
this city, was stabbed and killed in Phila-
de.phia. Cora Brown, eighteen years of |
age, colored, was found dead in an alley
back of her home, 42o Q street. A man
giving his name as John Smith endeavored |
to commit suicide at the corner Of 9th and |
E streets by taking poison. John A. Her.
gershimer attempted to commit suicide at a |
down town hotel by inhaling Illuminating |
gas. Bessie Ford, colored, after a quarrel |
with her sweetheart committed suicide w