Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08
WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 8, 1902.

President Roosevelt gave indications that
he earnestly favors the granting of tarin
concessions to Cuba; 1t was announced that
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., son of the Presi-
dent, was dangerously i'll with pneumonia
at Groton, Mass; protest against the
claim set up in Rear Admiral Schley's APP
peal to the President that he was in SUI
preme command during the battle of San
tiago. was filed by Rear Admiral Sampson.
through his attorneys. Leslie NJ. Shaw took
the oath of office as Secretary of the Treas
ury. It was announced that republicans
favorfng lower duties In certain schedules
of the Dingley act would not make a fight
for them on the war revenue tax repeal
bill, but would continue their efforts per-
sistently in another direction; a sensational
debate was precipitated In the Senate dur
ing the discussion of the Philippine tariff
bill; resolution was offered in the Senate
to inquire into the practtcability of the
San Bias route for an isthmian canal; the
Senate passed the urgent deficiency appro-
pria ton BILL the Senate confirmed the nomi-
nation of DR.. Rixey to be surgeon general
of the navy; majority and minority re-
ports on the war tax reduction Dill were
presented to the House from the ways
and means committee; by a margin of one
vote the ways and means committee re-
jected the Babcock amendment to the war
tax reduction bill to reduce the tariff on
articles made by the steel trust; the oleo-
margarine Dill was taken up III Tie I1OuSe,
the House committee on labor reported
favorably resolution prohibiting enlisted
men from competing with civ1llans; the
House committee on judiciary reported the
bill for the protection OF the PRESIDENT ana
the suppression of crime against the gov
eminent; the House passed the legislative.
executive and judicial appropriation bill
carrying s25, iii 1863. The text Of the treaty
for the cession of the Danish West Indies
to the United States was made public. Two
dead and three badly injured was the re-
suit of train going through trestle near
Berry's Siding, w. Va: rear-end coliislon
on the Illinois Central railroad at Apple
River H., caused the death of four stock
men and the injuring of five others Thir-
teen persons and three barges laden with
coal were reported lost at sea during trip
from Newport News to Boston. Ihlrty
acres Of business buildings were burned IN
Waterbury, Conn, entailing loss Of about
So, 500 600, and making hundreds OF people
homeless. Ten ST Louis flremen were killed
and several injured by falling walls IN
fire in that city. BY the explosion OF the
boilers of tugboat at Braddock. Pa, one
of the crew was killed, five were injured
and four were reported missing. SIX thou-
sand operatives went out on strike at the
American wooden mills at Olneyvllle, X L.
Edward and John Biddle. the Pittsburg
corvicts who broke Jail with Mrs. Peter
K. SoffeI, wife Of the jail warden, died as
the result of their wounds, at Butter, "a.
Noah Mullins, a farmer of Crane Nest
Creek, Va, killed his wife, three chlloren
and himself
Foreign Affairs.
The German foreign office confirmed a
story printed in Berlin paper to the ef-
feet that England wanted to help Spain In
the American war; this statement was In
dignantly denied in London. Mr. Balfour
announced in the house Of commons that
copies Of the correspondence between the
Netherlands and Great Britain had been
forwarded to the Boer leaders in the neid
through Gen. Kitchener Lord Salisbury, IN
a speech in London, said the Irish, as well
as the Beers, were menace to the British
empire. The British war office stated that
the total loss in South Africa had been 20
800 men, while the casualties were 5,24O Of
ficers and 100, 701 men. Lord Kitchener re-
ported the capture of the last gun Gen. De
Wet had and the killing of Field Cornet
Vessels, one of his principal ileutenahts.
The deceased wifes sister bill made it's
fourteenth appearance in parliament.
Many lives were lost in the terrific storms
that prevailed during the week off the Brit
sizing and drowning twenty-one Of her
crew. Heavy storms in northern Italy
caused severe floods, forty lives being lost
and one entire village wiped out The
condemned to death; the former was re-
ported safe In Paris and the Turkish gov
eminent unable to secure his extradltl4f.
Archduke Leopold and Archduchess
in a balloon. An avalanche buried the vii
lage of Bleiberg in Austria, killing num-
Der of persons. A Macedonian school
teacher assassinated NJ. kamtchen, the
Bulgarian minister of public instruction
Hadda Mullah, who figured prominently IN
the last uprising in Afghanistan, and who
is reported to have great weight with the
ameer. was reported to be preaching hoiy
war in that country. Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua and Costa Rica signed treaty
of arbitration. ]. Santos Zelaya was in
augurated as President of Nicaragua for
his third term. One hundred and six men
were killed in a mine explosion at Hondo,
Mexico. Among those who died was Ihos
Sidney Cooper, a noted artist, at Vernon
Holme, HarbledOwn. the spot near can
terbury immortalized by Chaucer
In the District.
The District Commissioners forwarded
favorable report to the Senate District COM
mittee on the bill to remove snow and Ice
from the sidewalks and for other purposes;
a number of amendments were added to the
bill The Commissioners appointed Q. l..
ingalls, of the engineer department. inspect
or of plumbing. The health officer submit
ted favorable report to the Commission
ers on the Senate bill to regulate the pro-
duction and sale OF milk IN the Dstrlct,
the health officer also submitted report
on the Senate bill for the promotion OF
anatomical science and to prevent the des-
ecration Of graves in the District. Inc
Sealer OF weights anu IuedSuIeS
ted a bill to the Commissioners to amend
the laws relating to his office. John c.
Dancy was sworn in as recorder of deeds.
1t was announced that another effort will
be made during the present session of Con-
gress to secure the retrocession of that
part of Virginia, which was formerly In
Guided in the District, to be reincorporated
as part of the District. An amendment to
the legislative appropriation bill was adopt
ed in the House providing that no public
building or it's approaches, with the excep-
ton Of the Capitol and the White House,
shall be used in connection with any inau-
gural ceremonies. The nomination OF
Thomas H. Anderson, associate justice
of the District Supreme Court, was con-
firmed by the Senate The plumbing board
which served between 1893 and 1898 applied
for $1O650 in pay. The annual reports OF
the Metropolitan, City and Suburban. Co
lumbia, Washington and Great Falls,
Brightwood and Anacostia and Potomac
River Railway Companies were submitted
to the House Of Representatives; as the
result of action taken at a meeting of the
board of directors Of the Metropolitan and
Columbia Street Railway Companies those
corporations went out of existence, the
properties being merged with the Wash
ington and Great Falls Company under the
new name of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company. The property owned by