Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-31
WEEK ENDING MAY 81. 1909.


guests left Washington for visit to Mag
ara Falls. after which they went to New
York city, where they were entertained:
Memorial day the party went to Newport
ana deposited wreath upon the tomb OF
Chevalier de Ternay; the French battle
ship Gaulois proceeded to New York CITY,
escorted by ships Of the North Atlantic
squadron. The President, in his Decora-
ton day speech at Arlington cemetery. de-
Tended the army, and gave expression to
several important thoughts on national
poIlcy; the President. members of the cabi-
net ana the supreme Court and other Off
Gals, together with officers of the army and
navy. attended the funeral services over the
remains of Lord Pauncefote. the late Brit
ism ambassador. at Washington; Gen.
Felipe Buencamino. late secretary of war
to ASuinaldo, was received by President
Roosevelt. Robert S. Mccormick minister
TO Austria-Hungary, was nominated for
ambassador, accredited to the same coun-
tries. Secretary of War Root rebuked an
army board for retiring officer charged
with drunkenness. instead of court-martial-
ing him. The Senate reached an agreement
to vote on fhe Philippine civil government
bill next Tuesday; the Senate isthmian ca
nal committee reported adversely the bill
10 allow the President to select a route for
the proposed interoceanic canal; the House
passed the bill to increase the subsidiary
silver coinage and the so-called Shattuc
immigration bill: the conference report on
the omnibus public building bill was agreed
to by both House and Senate: the conferees
| on the river and harbor bill reached an
agreement the total appropriation being
$6o.OOOOOo The reviewing authority at Ma
Mia disapproved the verdict of complete ac-
quittal by the court-martial which tried
Maj. L. w. T. Waller and Lieut.. John II.
A Day; court-martial was ordered to con-
vene at Manila to try Capt. ]. A Ryan.
United states army, on charges preferred
by Gov. Taft. Decoration day was widely
observed in the north and at national GEM
eteries in the south. The United Presby-
terrain assembly convened at Pittsburg Pa,
and Will take up the membership covenant
question. The Southern Methodist general
| conference. which has been in session for
several weeks at Dallas. Tex. adjourned.
Rev. DIR. p. j. Garrigan assistant rect or
OF the Catholic University at Washington.
was consecrated at Springfield. Mass, as
bishop of the Sioux City, Iowa, diocese.
Four persons were killed and several in
1ured by a terrific tornado at Union, S. c.
Two men were killed and four seriously in
jured in Manchester. Va. by the explosion
OF locomotive on the Atlantic Coast Line
road Nearly 100 bodies were recovered
from the Fernie mine in British Columbia.
which exploded last week. leaving about
thirty miners still missing. Flood in the
Fountain river at Pueblo. Col. did damage
to the extent of 100000. One man and
three girls were drowned near Martins
Bluf, Ore, by the capSiZing of a boat A
temporary sidewalk in New York gave way
during the Rochambeau parade, and pre-
II,
killing one and injuring eighty-seven, some
of them fatally. Frank Robinson. aged
twenty, of Kansas City. killed his sweet
heart, aged sixteen, shot his rival, aged fif-
teen, and fatally wounded himself.
Foreign Affairs.
A fresh eruption of Mont Pelee caused
more deaths in Martinique, and panic and
flight from Fort de France continued;
tidal wave at Fort de France crippled ship
ping and French cruisers; Prof Robert T.
Hill, George KEENAN, and George ]. Kava-
nagh, explored the volcano on Mont Pelee.
the last named ascending to within a mile
of the crater. Governor William r. Taft
of the Philippine Islands arrived in Rome
to confer about church property in those
islands. The British cabinet framed
answer to the Boer demands, and il was
confidently reported that peace would be
announced within a few days; 1t was
nounced in parliament that England is
building seventy-five ships, has just COM
pleted thlrty-hve and plans twenty-Seyen
more. Emperor William received the Shah
of Persia at Potsdam; the German chan
cellor announced that vigorous policy will
be pursued in the Denomination of Poland;
shareholders of the Hamburg American
line of steamships decided that the di
rectors and the board of supervisors of the
company must be German subjects living
| in the fatherland. President Loubet re-
turned to France from his Russian visit;
the French cabinet resigned owing to the
decision OF Premier WaldeckRousseau to
retire from politics. The murder of Prince
Obolensky. the governor who suppressed
Russian peasants riots in Kharloff, Russia.
was attempted; it was reported that
woman carrying an Internal machine was
arrested in the palace Of the car; the Rus
sian famine was reported to be on the in
crease and over 6.c00 cases of scurvy were
reported in the MinZelinsk district. TWEEN
ty survivors of the British steamship
Camorta, which foundered during cyclone
and which carried go passengers besides
arcrew of over fifty, were landed at Naples.
Rebels were reported to have slain an
tire battalion of Turkish troops In a vii
lage in Arabia. The Chinese rebellion in
Chill province was announced to be ended.
provisional government was installed in
Hayti. President Castro formed new
cabinet in Venezuela. Chile and Argentine
agreed to limit ornaments and to submit
question in dispute to arbitration. Among
those who died were Benjamin Constant,
one of the most noted of French painters,
and Henri Greville (Mme Durand), the
French novelist.
In the District.
The members Of the French mission fin
ished their visit to Washington and left the
city for Niagara Falls and tour of the
east before sailing for home. An announce
ment that President Roosevelt contemplate
ed the appointment of an outside man to
| the vacancy en- the Supreme bench Of the
District, caused by the death of Justice
Bradley, caused storm of protest from the
lawyers and business men Of Washington.
A hearing pro and con on the proposed Sun
day closing law was granted by the Com
missioners The conferees on the omnibus
public building BILL whose reports were
agreed to by Congress, provided that the
site for the proposed municipal building
should include E street as far north as the
north curb line Of that street between 1872
and 18th streets; the bill providing for the
| removal of overhead telegraph and tele-
phone wires and the construction of con-
Quits in certain territory. to enable the
| telephone company to install about 200 tele-
phones, was passed by. the House; the
House passed the omnibus District code
amendment bill. Memorial day was general
ly observed at all the cemeteries, and at Ar
lington by lavish ceremonies. which includ-
ed an address by President Roosevelt. The
remains of Lord Pauncefote. British am
bassador to the United States, were placed
in vault at Rock Creek cemetery after
impressive services at st. Johns Church.
The Board of Trade gave it's annual excur-
sion to Marshall Hall. The various COM
| manderies Of knights Templar were in
spected at the White Lot by President
Roosevelt. A number Of the educational
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