Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
WEEK ENDING APRIL 10. 1902.

WEEK ENDING APRIL 10, 1902.
1t was decided that Judge ". II. Taft,
civil governor of the Philippine Islands,
should stop at Rome upon his return to
Manila to confer with the Vatican in re-
gard to. settlement of the friars land
question. Secretary Root ordered an in
ouiry into the allegations made against
Gen Smith in the Waller court-martial that
that officer had issued unnecessarily harsh
orders against the natives. Maj Littleton
w. I. Waller was acquitted at Manila of
improperly ordering the shooting of Samar
natives Attorney General Knox issued or
ders to have the alleged beef combine thor
Goghiy investigated. Archbishop Patrick
J. Ryan of Philadelphia was appointed a
member of the board of Indian commission
ers. succeeding the late Bishop H. b. Whip
pie of Minnesota. Santiago lglesias was ac-
Quilted at San Juan, Porto. of conspiracy
TO raise the price of labor, General Malvar,
the noted Filipino insurgent leader and die
tator, surrendered h. nself and his COM
mand Internationally and ordered all the
Pmippine insurgents to cease fighting The
Senate rejected the Chinese exclusion bill
passed by the House and passed in its place
the Platt substitute, which virtually re-
enacts the old law; the Senate began con-
slderation OF the bill to provide form of
government for the Philippine Islands; the
House, by a vote of 2i7 to So passed the
cuban reciprocity bill after the beet sugar
republicans, aided by the Democrats had
overruled the chair and passed an amend
ment to the bill taking the differentiai duty
on refined sugar; Representative Cushman
or washington arraigned the chair, the
committee on rules and the House leaders
for their methods of conducting the pro-
ceedings Of the House; a subcommittee of
the House judiciary committee reported
without recommendation the bill to change
the date of Presidential inaugurations. The
Presbyterian creed revision committee
completed its work and adjourned The in
terstate commerce commission issued a
bulletin showing for the three months end
ed September 80, 1901 total of 725 killed
and 2622 injured in railroad accidents in
the United States.
Foreign Affairs.
The British budget showed a deficit OF
S225OOO,OOO, which it was announced 1t was
proposed to make up by taxing grain, meat
and other articles: the new British war loan
was largely oversubscribed; three sections
OF the crimes act were put in force In Ire
land; Lord Kitchener reported severe fight
ing during the week in South Africa the
Beers and British dividing the honors;
peace negotiations We're continued both at
London and at Pretoria; eleven men were
killed by the bursting of a gun on the Brit
ish battleship Mars. Archbishop Falconio
was selected as the next papal 1egate to the
United States. Disturbances continued In
all parts of Belgium, a number of persons
being killed and wounded in clashes with
the military, and strikes prevailing else
where; the Belgian chamber of representa-
tives rejected the proposal to revise the
constitution so as to provide for universal
Suffrage; $4,000 troops were called into
service to quell the disturbances. Fran
co-Russ1an naval demonstration was inau-
gurated in the Mediterranean sea COM
mlttee or the German reichstag fixed the
duty on bacon at 36 marks per double hum
oredWeight. A strike of dock laborers
cd fIn
hagen The cabinet of Norway resigned
M. Sipiaguine. Russian minister of the in
terror, was assassnated in ST. Petersburg
py STUDENT 1t was stated that Queen
WHneimina of Holland was suffering Sc
verely from typhoid fever In a battle at
Soacha, Colombia, the government troops
won, 400 men being killed; the Colombian
resoIutlonists were reported to be threat
enlns Bocas del Toro. cyclone in Japan
deStroyed seventeen fishing villages and
Killed forty persons. The Chinese rebels
were reported to be holding 80 towns in
kwang-Si province alone Recent earth
quakes in the New Hebrides threw three
volcanoes into action. Among those who
died during the week were Don Francisco
Assise. the former King of Spain at Epi-
nay, France. at the age of eighty years
and Jules Dalou, a prominent French
sculptor.
In the District.
The Commissioners forwarded a supple
mental report to Senator Mcmillan. chair
man OF the Senate committee on the Dis
trict OF Columbia, urging the passage of
the Dill providing for union railroad sta
ton; Senator Mcmillan called up the bill
In the Senate, but did not succeed in having
1t considered; the sundry civil appropria-
Ilor Dill carrying many items affecting the
Dlstrlct, was reported to the Senate. Count
Matsukaka, prominent japanese states
man and financier, visited Washington and
met President Roosevelt. President Roose-
mad h.
ton Hall by touching a button which flash
ed on the electric lights. The general So
ciety OF the Sons of the Revolution held
Its trfennial conclave. Robert Edelin,, COL
oreo, on trial Tor manslaughter for having
caused the death of John Ward, also COL
ored, was acquitted. Lawrence Norman
colored, convicted of the murder Of Annie
Brown, also colored. was sentenced to the
Penltentlary for life. John Newcomb,
known as Keno Jack a resident of St
Elmo Va, and James Sullivan of this city
were killed by a train on the Pennsyl-
v&nia railroad tracks near Jackson City.
stantiy killed by train at the Az street
crossing Of the Pennsylvania railroad. JAS
Harvey, a resident of Prince Georges
county. Md. died from injuries received in
being run over by a train in the Anacostia
freight yards. John st. Clair alias Thomas
colored, was held on charge of numbering
Daisy Maddox, also colored. by shooting
her In the head with pistol. Charles F.
DdlieS, d pdrteuuer, attempted 10 commit
suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. Will
liam A. Coombe. twenty-one years Of age,
attempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself in the breast with pistol. Frank
Hoover, printer employed In the gov
eminent printing office, attempted to COM
nit suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor at 14th street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue., but was taken to the Emergency Hos
pftal in time to save his life; upon his re-
lease from that institution Hoover went to
the river and jumped in from the Long
bridge. but was again saved by the man
on duty at the draw. Among those who
died during the week were T. Dewitt Tai
mage and o. L. Pruden, one Of the assist
ant secretaries to the President.
Deaths in the District.