Evening star., 1902-08-02
WEEK ENDING Aueusf 2. 1902.

Oyster Bay comforting with officials and
friends. The ordnance experts of the army
claimed to have produced ran explosive shell
which will penetrate thelarmot5of the most
heavily protected warships; on the other
hand, naval lieutenant was reported to
have discovered a new pFocesS for harden
ing armor plate by electricity that made It
almost invuinerable. The gunboat Machias
| was reported to have arrived at Cape Hay-
ten, where Commander McCrea would not
permit the town to be bombarded without
due notice being given. Ambassador Claw
ton secured the restitution of 50 600 Oeo in
money and securities obtained fraudu,ent,v
by MeXicans from Americans and English
men interested in Mexican mines The re-
cefptS from internal revenues for the fiscal
year just ended were less by S35 OO3 67o
than in the preceding year July, the first
month under the operation Of the war tax
repeal: showed falling off OF receipts of
81, ,49S.30S. According to the geological sur
vey reports the United States last wear nro-
duced 261. .521 433 long tons of coal. valued
at $34S, 763, ,O39. The anti-imperialist com
mittee. of which Charles Francis Adams is
chairman, severely arraigned the United
States army for alleged acts of cruelty In
the Philippines Iowa republicans indorsej
the Roosevelt administration Chicago
Judge issued an injunction to prevent GER
tain operators from maintaining CORNER
In July oats 1t announced that since
January l construction had been begun or
plans drawn for 462 new foundries in tho
United States. Forty-four steamships, with
an aggregate cargo of 100000 tons Of row
sugar, were reported to be on their wav to
this country from Java. Troops were ordered
out as result of a riot which occurred he
tween policemen and striking miners at
shenandoah, Pa, resulting in the shootin,
or about twenty miners and four policemen
and the death of Joseph Beddall a nromI
ncrt business man; the supply Of anthracite
coal i, was estimated to be sufficient to last
until September Is; United Mine Workers,
ornc1als were reported to be considering the
institution Of impeachment proceedings
against Judge ]. J, Jackson of Parkershmrr
w. w: va: Five thousand rug weavers went
out on strike in Philadelphia Professor Al
eXander Graham Bell was reported to bave
almost completed the arship which he is
building at Cape Breton. United States
Judge In St Louis held saloonkeeper re-
sponsible for the death Of an inebriated no
iron Following an accident. An earthauake
In southern California DESTROYED tanks and
pipes In the Careaga oil fields, unset hula
lhss at Los Alamos and did damage
amounting to 100000 and turned tho Dr.,
river bed of Santa Ynez into a torrent Tbe
losses by floods in Texas were estimated 81
Sl,oOO.OOO Mrs. Richard Meade of Rrook-
lyn il, Killed two children by strangling them
with tW1ne and nearly caused the death NJ :.
thlrd by the same means. At the funeral
OF Chief Rabbi Joseph In New York water
was poured from office building on tho
mourners. creating serious riot Riots oc-
CURED during the congressional primary
elections In Camden. N. j., and vicinity In
winch one man was killed and "Joe" Cod
caro-, pngi1ist, perhaps fatally wounded
NHafles Iiui craven, alleged to have murdered
william Wilson In Fairfax county. Va was
caught and lynched by a mob near eos
burg. ~"A ies
Foreign Affairs.
cardinal Girolomo Maria Gotti was an
poilteo prefect OF the propaganda to sue
ceed the late Cardinal Ledoschowski. A.
meeting Of the Cuban cabinet it was an
nounced that the American commission at
Vera Cruz had discovered the cause of VEL
low fever. DR.. C. D. Bourcart, Swiss min
lister to London, who was appointed tn suc-
ceed Mr. J. B. Pioda at Washington. de-
cined the assignment. King Edward issued
proclamation fixing the coronation for
august and the naval review for August
10; Great Britain Withdrew her claim to
hhoSSeleishty hoSes over a group of Islands which
belonged to Honduras; Andrew Carnegie
presented Lord Acton's library OF 100 GOO
DOCKS TO the Rt. Hon. John Morley En-
peror "llllam announced the recipients of
or o,g oec9Tatlons and gifts as souvenirs of
IiInce Henrys visit to this country; the
1arlH committee of the German reichstag
sioPted the pigiron clauses Of the tariff
oili, IL was announced that the kaiser's
Visit TO Poland would be of a strictly milt
.afs nature, and that all windows along
tne line or march in Posen would be ordered
closed: Italy and Switzerland resumed dip
lomat1c relations French clericaIs and
LIS n itluulged IN many demonstrations in
al 49, put ASIDE from many small fights no
serious disorder occurred; Vice Admiral de
Beaumont and Rear Admiral Seryen of the
rrehch navy were summarily relieved of
oisr si eonmands; many persons perished at
pls Hre at Lourdes, France, the mecca Of
roman Catholic pilgrims EVELYN b. Bald
WIN, the Arctic explorer. reached Trumsoe,
No.~aS' TO prepare for fresh dash to the
~, NJ ~ poie next year. The assassins of the
MARQUIS de Mores were sentenced at Tunis
several to death and the others to hard
iapoi' Choiera was reported to be spread
ins nt ,nn dn oon oManchuria and in Egypt. strike
T., - o,o'' nVvoVo aarm iaborers in Galicia resulted
li s1Ilous hsnts with the police. The steam
ers Prince Alexander and Ban-Iinzuan COL
Hued IN the straits of Maacca forty per
sons sons oeing drowned by the sinking of the
t ~ iel. oahalcans renewed the agitation
ior annexation to the United States The
oou1rlere volcano was again reported to he
III operation, While Mont Pelee continued to
shed great masses of red-hot rocks The
9GeNlty niy OF the Poas volcano excited Costa
.lIah M cities. Two hundred revolutionists
and nineteen government troops were re-
potIeo Rilled IN battle at Agna Dulce Co
lompla' President Castro abandoned the
Eastern part or Venezuela and concen-
oaleu ms 1orcs/ on La Victoria, near the
mountains; the insurgent general Luciano
Mendoza defeated 1000 Venezuelan troops
VINO were marching to relieve Castro. Two
oaitties G were fought in Hayti, General
Goln defeating the Firmin forces under
Juneau and Salnave defeating Gen. Nord's
government army; the Haytien provisional
government declared Firmin an outlaw and
Auihlrai .h klll1ck pirate. An explosion at
the Mount kimbla colliery about forty
miles from Sydney, N. S. W., resulted in
me kilnng or tWenty-seven miners and the
entomblng of 275, 149 of whom were res
cued.
In the District
controller Tracewell of the treasury de-
ciaed that the ten justices of the peace of
the District of Columbia were de facto and
de Jure Justices so far as the payment by
the treasury of their salaries is concerned;
tne controller also decided that the en-
ployes OF the government printing office
are not entitled to thirty days leave of
ABSENCE exclusive of Sundays, as are other
employees OF the government. The inter-
national sanitary conference. which was
TO nave been held here October Is, was
postponed until December 2. The old con-
troversy between General Geo. H. Harr.es