Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28
WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1908.

President Roosevelt declined the invita-
ton Of Emperor william of Germany to
send the North Atlantic squadron to visit
Kiel during the regatta The anthracite
coal strike commission made public its re-
port. w. NJ. Collier was appointed solicitor
OF the Department OF Commerce and Labor.
Guantanamo, Cuba, was decided upon as
the principal naval station In the West In
dies. Secretary Shaw announced that after
April the Treasury Department would be-
gin the refunddng OF government bonds.
Judge James N. Tyner, assistant attorney
general for the Post Office Department, and
Geo. w. Beavers, chief of the division of
salaries and allowances, z. o. D., resigned.
Surigao, Island OF Minaanao, was captured
by Philippine ladroneS, Consta bulary In
spector Clarke being killed; the town was
retaken and American officials were found
safe in a barricaded building; Macabebe
scouts signaAy defeated the main body of
San ,Miguers force, killing San Migsnel.
Four travelling statesmen and two negroes
were drowned in the ofiod district in Arkan-
sas. Six men were killed by an explosion of
gas In coal mine at Athens, Ill. Five
men were drowned by the sinking of a
tugbeat in the Delaware river. Three
Mexicans were burned to death In a COLI
sion between the Sunset Limited and an
other train near San Antonio, Tex. Mrs.
Louise Burke killed her four children with
an ak at her home in Fiskedale, Mass. and
committed suicide. Three masked robbers
held up a trolley car just outside OF Los
Angeles, CAL, one man being killed and
three wounded.
Foreign Affairs.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty was amend
ed by the foreign relations committee OF
the Cuban senate to make it void If not
ratified by Congress before December 1. The
Irish land bill, providing for a $40. 0CO, 600
loan by the British government to enable
tenants to purchase their holdings. was in
troduced by the ministry in the house Of
commons; English consols dropped to 9Oss,
the lowest point since the Franco-Prussian
war; General Hector Macdonald, under or
ders to proceed to Ceylon to be tried on
charges OF immortality. committed suicide in
q Paris hotel. The British antartio ship
Discovery was found safe, having pene-
trated the farthest south by 100 miles. 1t
was announced In London that Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick would be released from
prison May /, 1904. Ambassador Won Hol-
leben was ordered to return to the United
States to present his letter of recall The
Empress Of Germany, Augusta Victoria,
while out riding was thrown from her horse
and her arm was broken. King Alfonso dis
solved the Spanish cortes and ordered new
elections. President Castro of Venezuela
offered his resignation. but the congress re-
fused to accept 1t and it was afterward
withdrawn. Peace was signed between the
government and rebels In Uruguay. At Port
Of Spain, Trinidad, fourteen persons were
killed and forty wounded in riots, the gov
eminent buildings being burned. The erup-
ton Of La Soufriere volcano increased In
violence. A revolution broke out In Nicara-
qua against. President Zelaya. The disor-
ders in Santo Domingo continued. Among
those who died was the Very Rev. Fred
erick William Farrar. dean, Of Canterbury.
In the District.
Justice Henry NJ. Clabaugh of the Su-
preme Court of the District was appointed
chief Justice to succeed Justice e. F. Bing-
ham, retired. and ex-senator Jeter c. Prit-
chard Of North Carolina was named to fill
the vacancy created by Justice Clabaugh's
promotion. The Commissioners gave a
hearing on the advisability Of adopting an
anti-spitting ordinance. A large delegation
Of property owners protested against the
location Of an automobile warehouse at
Rhode Island avenue and 18th street Bids
were opened for the proposed steel truss
highway bridge across the Potomac. As
sistant Chief VIM. T. Sorrell Of the fire de-
partment was retired upon his own applica-
ton and Foreman Andrew ]. Sullivan was
tfonal Bank applied to the controller OF the
currency for permission to increase its capi-
tai stock from $500, 600 to $1.Oc0,OO0 Orders
were signed directing the payment of the
awards in the Potomac fats cases. The spring
meeting of the Washington Jockey Club
opened at Benning. VIM. Wheeler, a negro,
while about to step into the prison van in
Georgetown attempted to escape and was
shot and killed by Policeman ]. L. H. Saw
yer. Maggie Smith, negro fortune teller,
was held responsible by coroners jury for
the death of Mary Hamilton, three years
old. also colored. who died from poison.
VIM. Bresnahan Of Washington, a brick
layer. was found murdered in Norfolk, Va.
Ebert K. Osborne was asphyxiated by flu
m1nating gas in his room. James D. Moler,
forty-seven years old. committed suicide by
taking laudanum. Miss Lillian Demaray,
nineteen years Of age. committed suicide by
inhaling gas. Among those who died were
Col. William p. Wood. a veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars; Garden H. Will
cox. Henry B. Mexican. prominent In pa
trtotic and Masonic circles: Col. La Rhett
L. Livingston, u. 8. A.. retired. and Will
liam e. Amin. a well-known newspaper
writer, formerly OF Washington, In Phoe-
nix. Ariz.