Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
WEEK ENDING JUNE IA, 1902.

| anniversary celebration of the Military
| Academy at West Point and conferred d.
plomas upon the graduates; distinguished
| array of graduates of the academy at
tended the exercises, well many Off
| Gals of the War Department and officers
| high in rank in the army. The President
sent special message to Congress strongly
urging action on the Cuban reciprocity bill;
Mr.. F. B. Thurber testified before the Sen
ate committee on Cuban relations that the
| military government of Cuba had spent a
| large sum of money in creating in the
| United States sentiment favorable % reci-
| proclty; beet sugar republicans in both
| House and Senate declared that they would
stand firm in their opposition to reciprocity,
While the supporters of the administration
reiterated their intention of standing by
| the bill; the Senate passed the naval APP
preparation bill and agreed to vote on the
isthmian canal bill on June 49, debate on
the measure being continued throughout
the week: the House passed the anti-an-
archism bill and the irrigation bill and de-
| feated the bill to transfer certain forest re-
serves to the Agricultural Department and
| TO authorize the President to establish
| game and fish preserves and the Pacific
| cable bill. which was killed by striking out
| the enacting clause; the House committee
| on insuar affairs voted TO substitute the
| Cooper bill providing civil government for
| the Philippine Islands for the measure just
| passed by the Senate for that purpose. The
commissioner of internal revenue decided
/ that no artificial coloring matter can be
| used in the manufacture of oleoma rgarine
| without increasing the tax. The Count and
Countess Rochambeau sailed for France
! on La Touraine. American scientists re-
| turning from the West Indies stated that
| conditions in st. Vincent are worse than
those experienced in Martinique Violence
| IN the anthracite coal miners strike was
| abated except in isolated cases; President
| Mitchell placed himself on record as OPP
| posed to the strike of soft coal-men While
! rioting was in progress in Pawtucket r. L.
l a 1nrTz
troops fired on a mob and seriously wound
! ed boy. Judge Pennypacker, Senator
! Quays candidate. was nominated for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania in the republican
! convention. The validity of the Kansas
antitrust law was sustained in the case of
| the State Grain Dealers Association
thousands of Mystic Shriners arrived at
! San Francisco to attend the Imperial Coun-
| Gil Dr. Patton resigned the presidency of
Princeton University and was succeeded
| by Prof. Woodrow Wilson. Five lives were
| lost and property worth $3.50 600 was de.
! stroyed by fire at Saratoga, n. Y One per-
son was seriously burned and many others
! oadly injured in $4,000 fire in a leather
! factory in Philadelphia. Twelve men and
women were burned to deaf and thirty
more were injured, four probably fatally in
| nre that destroyed an old hotel in Chi
| caso. used as a drink-cure santa rum; the
| otTclals OF the institution were arrested
| and charged with negligence tornado
| cut SWath of destruction through north
! ern and central Illinois central Iowa and
nan a dozen other states of the northwest
| Killing over thirty persons and DESTROYING
! d vast amount or property. The whaleback
steamer ihomas Wilson was cut almost in
| hal1 by the steamer George G.. Hadlev half
mile south of Duluth Mimi and nine Of
! her crew We're drowned Three men were
kllled outright and fifteen persons were in
1ured, TWO or three probab ly fatally in a
! railroad collision on the Nashville Cbat+a
noosa and st. Louis railroad near Hooker.
Ienn. one man killed four We're ia
!aIy hurt and forty-two persons were in
| frli
wrecked on the Detroit and Mackinac rail
ROAD near Alpena. Mich Forty-fve per-
s sHns were injured some fatally, in a colli-
sion between trolley car and an engine al
surface crossing near St Louis Two
persons were killed and many injured in a
coInslon on the Southern railway near Ju-
lle'te, Ga Two negro boys were lynched
! near Charlotte. n. c.. and negro ma n sI1f
Tered the same fate near Newport News
va. Ihree Sicilians were killed and three
others badly wounded in a fight supposed 10
have been caused by the Malta in New Or
| leans. " VI
Foreign Affairs.
rear Admiral Watson. General j. H. Will
son and Consul General H. CLAY Evans ar
rived in London to attend the coronation
| ceremonies; the king and a brilliant COM
| pany We're guests at a dinner given nv
United states Ambassador Choate: Cam
! bridge University, England. conferred the
Gegree OF doctor of laws on Whitelaw Reid;
9oi. arthur Lynch. who fought with the
| in the house of commons and was arrested
/ on charge of treason; the British gain
Tax was severely criticised in the house of
commons during debate; a bitter feeling &c
reported between the Beers who surren-
dered while the war was in progress and
those surrendering now. An expedition
started from London for Tromsolg, from
whence 1t will sail to the relief of EVELYN
Baldwin, the Arctic explorer: the English
polo team won the second game of the in
ternatlonal series; nine young girls We're
burned to death and fifteen persons were
injured in fire in factory in London
ii was reported that the ant-German feel
ing had aroused the Polish people OF high
ptch. Ihe French chamber of deputies
sustained the new ministry of NJ Comics
by a vote of 800 to 124 The famin. in g.
IBERIA was reported to be assuming alarm
ing proportions. Musolino, the noted ItaI-
ian brigand, was sentenced to in,nrison
ment for life. Mount Soufriere in ST Vim
! cent continued to emit steam and smoke
and Mount kilauea in Hawaii was also re-
ported to be in eruption. c. F. W. Nicely,
serving a ten years sentence for Cuban
postal frauds, released from prison
under the amnesty act. A civil war in
Haiti was reported to be imminent Vene-
zuelan government forces were reported TO
be bombarding La Guayra, and two Ger
man cruisers. which were at St Thomas
Danish West Indies. were hurried to thai
country Sid Ali, the Bey of Tunis, died
In the District.
The Senate committee on appropriations
reported the District appropriation bill to
the Senate; as reported, the bill appropriat-
ed SS4S673-97. which was an increase over
the bill as passed by the House of Renra-
sentatives of 1851, 463 and sgls,S24 less
than the Commissioners estimates; the
Senate passed the bill relating to the ex-
tension of telephone wires in the District
exactly as it was passed by the House NO
reference being made to a change in the
DILL referring to rates which NAV he
charged subscribers by the company for
| telephone service; the union station was
discussed at length by the House commit
tee on the District. The Commissioners
submitted an adverse report to Congress on
the bill to incorporate the Columbia Heat
and Power Company of the District of Co.
lumbia. The special committee appointed
to inquire into system of sewage dis
posal for part of Takoma situated within
the district made its report to the Com
missioners. President Roosevelt received
the committee appointed by the Bar Assoc
citation of the District to lay before him
the desire of the bar for the appointment