Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-07
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER z, 1908.

WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER z, 1908.
| The United States government recognized
| the de facto government Of the new re-
public OF Panama. President Roosevelt
issued a proclamation designating Novem-
| Der 20 as national Thanksgiving day; he
appointed Sanford B. Dole, present gov
ernor Of Hawaii. as United States district
Judge of that territory. and George R. Car
| ter. secretary Of the territory, governor to
succeed Mr.. Dole. The Secretary of the
Interior authorized an official statement of
! the facts concerning the public land frauds
on the Pacific coast Minister Powell asked
| for a warship on account of the revolu-
| tionists threatening the capital Of Santo
Domingo. Postmaster General Payne es-
timated the deficit Of the postal service for
| the fiscal year ending June 80, 1905, at
50. 613, TOO. The State Department was I'M
officially advised that Japan and Russia
had reached an agreement concerning Man
churia and Corea. The B'nai Birth petit
| ton to the car, signed by $1,000 Ameri-
| cans, was presented to the State Depart
ment. The Japanese minister received from
his government an explanation of General
| MacArthur's charge that the japanese con-
sui at Manila promised assistance to the
Filipinos The report of the commissioners
of education showed that Ii, 10000 pup. Is
| are enrolled in the public and private
schools of the country. Elections were
held in eleven states, full state tickets be-
| ing chosen in seven; the following were
| elected governors of states: Massachusetts,
John l.. Bates. republican, reelected: Mary
land, Edwin Wartield, democrat; Rhode Is
land. L. F. c. Garvin, democrat reelected;
Ohio, Myron T. Herrick, republican; Iowa,
Albert B. Cummins, republican, reelected;
Kentucky John c. w. Beckham, democrat,
reelected: Mississippi. James K. Varda-
| man, democrat; George B. Mcclellan, Tam
many, was elected mayor Of the city of
New York. Midshipmen Joseph D. Little,
John H. Lafiand and Earl w. Chaffee
were dismissed from the Naval Academy on
| conviction of charges of hazing Telegraph
| wires were affected in the northern part OF
| the country by an electrical disturbance
| supposed to have been caused by the aurora
| borealis. Six men were killed, at least four
seriously injured and 100000 damage done
| by the explosion of two magazines on the
| government reservation on Iona Island n
| the Hudson river. Fire caused 81 600, 600
damage at Coney Island, N. Y, and killed
[ two persons. Twenty-Five persons were
burned to death in a tenement house fire
in New York city which lasted only TWEEN
| ty minutes and did but $1,000 damage.
Nine men were burned to death in a fire
| in Senator Millard's mine at Summit, Mont.
| Sixteen persons were Killed and over forty
! injured in collision between a special pas
| senger train and freight on the Big Four
| railroad al Indianapolis. B. F. Wessinger,
| a farmer living near Pottsville. Pa. shot
| and killed his two brothers, attempted to
| kill his sister and a sSter-in-laW, and kept
! the police at bay for nine hours. Six men
were killed during election fights in the
| state of Kentucky; two men were killed and
one fatally and another seriously wounded
| in an election row in Scott county, Va
Lieut.. A. NJ. Beecher was killed by fall on
| the battle ship Maine. A bloody battle be-
| tween a band of Indians under Eagle Feath-
| tle Wyo., resulted in the death of two
white men and the killing of number Of
the Indians.
Foreign Affairs.
| The state Of Panama, Colombia, declared
its Independence; United States warships
| and marines were dispatched to the scene
of the trouble: Colombian government
| troops were forced to evacuate the isthmus;
a provisional government was formed at
| Panama which city was shelled by the gov
| eminent warship Bogota, without, however,
| inflicting much damage. Lord George J.
| Goschen was elected chancellor of Oxford
| University to succeed the late Lord Sails
bury: Sir Edwin H. Egerton. British minis
| ter at Athens, was appointed ambassador
| to Madrid to succeed Sir Henry M. Durand.
| Two more members of the Armenian Revo-
| lutionary Society were assassinated in Lon
| don, their murderer then committing sui
side. The emperors Of Germany and Rus
| STA met at Wiesbaden. Germany. The Ger
man garrison at Warmbad. Darmaland.
| northwest Africa, was massacred by Hot
| tentots The Venezuelan arbitration court
| resumed its sessions at The Hague. Fire
| caused damage to the amount Of about
$4,000 in the Vatican. The new Italian
| cabinet was announced Over forty persons
| were wounded in collision between Jews
and police at Warsaw. The Turkish gov
| ernments reply to the Austro-Russian re-
| form scheme was communicated to the am
bassadors. Government gunboats attempted
| to re-establish the blockade of Puerto Plata
! Santo Domingo. The session of the Cuban
congress OF opened ,s,sl at Havana The entire
| were reported to be much incensed at Rms
sia's arbitrary demands. Among those who
| died was Prof Theodor Mommsen, IA
nous German historian.
In the District.
The President appointed Daniel Thew
Wright of Cincinnati as associate justice of
the Supreme Court of the District of CO.
lumbia to succeed Justice Hagner, resigned.
| The plans for the new union station were
delivered to the Commissioners for inspec-
| ton. The controller of the treasury decided
| that the District must pay to the Baltimore
| and Ohio railroad the sum Of $4,000. ap-
proprtated for the benefit of that corpora
! ton, In five annual installments of $150OOO
each. The sealer of weights and measures
| submitted to the Commissioners the draft
| Of proposed amendments to the act pro-
viding for an assistant to his Office The
ments was held. The tenth annual conyen-
| ton of the Sunday School Association of
| the District was held. An inquiry into the
death OF Richard J: Eckert the Waterman
who lost his life at the time the draw of
the Long bridge collapsed, was started.
| The federal grand jury took up the case of
James M. A. Watson, accused of being
I short 5000 in his accounts Louis Mort
| field, formerly contractor, and paroled pa
| tent of the Government Hospital for the
| Insane. shot and killed his wife in their
| apartments and then committed suicide
| Thomas M. Joyce colored, was found guilty
| Of murder in the second degree, having
| killed Henry Hall, also colored July 4.
| Thomas Perry died from injuries received
while riding a bicycle which collided with
/ a wagon In Anacostia. William McCauley
| a prisoner at the workhouse. died from the
| effects Of fractured skull. Mrs. LYDIA E.
| Farrell. sixty-seven years of age, commit
| ted suicide by hanging. P. Louis Rodier of
| this city, a photographer, committed suicide
by shooting at Rfverdale, Md.