Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-02
WEEK ENDING MAY 2, 1908.

President Roosevelt continued his tour
making a number of speeches In various
states he participated in the dedication OF
the Louisiana purchase exposition at st.
Louis A part of Gen. Miles report. alleg-
ing cruelties in the Philippines. was made
public: Rial. Bulacan and Cavite were re-
ported to be pacified; q great public recep-
ton was accorded Gen. Luke E. Wright
| upon his return to Manila; Rios, a fanatical
leader. was captured in Laguna province.
The first-class armored cruiser Colorado
was launched. Charles II. Robb, an attor-
ney connected with the Department of JUS
tice, was appointed assistant attorney gen.
eral Tor the Post Office Department vice
Gen. Tyner. removed: Postmaster General
Payne issued an order forbiddiny the en-
ployment in the postal service of laborers
who do clerical work. The number Of i'm
migrants to the United States in the nine
months ended with March was 494 425 The
government receipts for the first ten months
or the fiscal year were $46S4 sol, and the
expenditures E'O999,S 55. a surplus of $35.-
4l9,646 In a case brought to test the dis
reimbursement of negroes in Alabama the
supreme Court decided practically that the
iederai government has nothing to do with
,he matter. The interstate commerce COM
mission stated that 266 persons were killed
ana Z.ISS injured in railroad accidents in
the three months ended December 81 1902
A number of strikes were begun Nav in
dl1ferent parts of the country; in New York
several thousand men employed on the
SuDways quitting work. Nine persons were
n Hi,eu ana twenty-one injured in an explo-
SION IN the plant of the Crescent Powder
Company at Canister. Pa. Molten metal
1Apioueu at the Vesta furnace, Marietta
- IA, kiliing two men and seriously fnturing
three others. Eleven men were killed and
twenty-five injured in rear-end railroad
collsion near Buffalo, Kan Twenty-fve
persons We're injured by the derailing of a
TTlncinnatl, Hamilton and Dayton train near
Ioledo. Ohio. Three persons were LiIIad
Two fatally and a dozen seriously in iured in
ao wreck IN the railroad yards at Terre
i1aute, Ind. Among those who diea 80
irving M. Scott, known as the mar ~
euiit the Oregon" one Of the bestknown
Hgures on the Pacific coast: Stuart RohSon
R BIZ n "a. s actor and Gov. De Forest
f'ichards OF Wyoming.
Foreign Affairs.
Russia evacuated the Mukden province NJ
Ndanchurfa and officially assured the Irnite,
states that she has no intention of putting
restrictions on trade there King Edward
eoeiVeo notable welcomes in Rome and
aiis' IN Rome he visited Pope Leo XIII.
II was announced in parliament that Great
Brlta1n would abandon the camnaien IN
oomahland. Rear Admiral Cotton. in com
mana OF the American squadron took mart
M m tne welcome of President Loubet at
Marsellle upon his return from northern
africa. Queen Wilhelmina accepted An
drew Carnegies gift of s1.5OO 900 to be de-
voted TO temple of peace at The Hague
p rem thousand , Jews fed from Kischeneff.
RUSSIA, the scene Of recent anti-Semitic
riots United States Consul Landger was
fined for disorderly conduct by local
Judge at Solingen. Prussia. A collision be-
tween turkish troops and Cossacks was
reported at kars, Asiatfc Russia: the Otto
man Bank at Salonica was destroyed by
insurgents with dynamite; the town was
declared to be In a state of siege: in a
sharp fight between Turkish troops and
Bulgarian insurgents eighty-three of the
latter and about a dozen Turks were kill
ed. BY tremendous fall of rock from Tur-
tie mountain 112 persons were estimated to
nave been killed in the town of Frank in
Alberta province, Canada. An appropriation
of 100000 for the st. Louis exposition was
granted by the Chinese empress dowager
Among those who died were Paul du
Chaillu, explorer and author, and Luigi
Ardit1. noted italian composer.
In the District.
The Commissioners formally approved
and promulgated the new regulations gov
erning the operation of automobiles within
the District. BY direction of the Secre-
tary of War, Gen. Gillespie, chief of en-
giEeers, took drastic measures for the
ejectment of squatters on government land
at the western end of Virginia avenue on
the borders of Rock creek. Col. Thomas
w. Symons reported at the War Depart
ment for duty in charge of public build
fngs and grounds in the District Asso-
ciate Justice Harry NJ. Clabaugh assumed
the duties of chief justice Of the District
Supreme Court, ex-senator Jeter c.. Pritch-
ard becoming an associate justice of that
court; members of the bar presented
silver bowl to retiring Chief Justice Bing-
ham; Frank E. Cunningham was appoint
ed assistant clerk, to succeed Michael A.
Clancy, deceased. The Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Association executive committee
decided to erect a memorial in Washington
in the shape of the Parthenon with
statue of Jefferson inside. The Association
OF Officials Of Bureau of Labor Statistics
of America met In annual session; the Wo-
mans 1nterdenominational Union of the
District held It's third annual meeting The
board of governors of the Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital decided to erect
new building. The twenty-three sus-
pended members of the Red Cross Society
issued a statement of their position. An
exhibit of art work of the public school
pupils was opened in the public library.
Clara Burns, sixteen years old was burned
to death by her clothes catching fire from
gas stove. Judge Leonard H. Mangum,
sixty-five years Of age, formerly clerk
in the census office Guy E. Padgett, thirty
years old, a real estate dealer, and Mrs.
Sadie Plummer committed suicide by TAX
ing carbolic acid.
ADRIFT IN A BOAT