Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-25
WEEK ENDING APRIL rs, 1908.


the Yellowstone Park participating in the
laying of the corner stone of the new gate
to the park at Gardiner, Mont. Judge Jas.
N. Tyner. assistant attorney general for the
Post Office Department, was summarily dis
missed, 1t being charged that Mrs. Tyner,
with the aid of an expert, opened the safe
in his office and carried away papers and
records. The Navy Department announced
that the European squadron would attend
the celebration at Kiel. Germany. The
Northern Securities Company and allied
interests filed at ST. Paul their appeal to the
United States Supreme Court in the merger
case. Coal operators locked out about 30, :
600 miners in thirty-two coiiieries in the
anthracite region because they refused to
work nine hours on Saturday. The inter
state commerce commission began hear
ing In New York on complaint of viola
tons of the law by the anthracite coal
carrying roads. A conference of Methodist
Protestants. Congregationalists and United
Brethren in the interest of church unity
began IN Plttsburg. Andrew Carnegie gave
$Goc,VU to Tuskegee Institute. VIM j.
Bryan in a speech severely criticised ex-
president Cleveland. Wild rioting marked
a session of the Illinois house of representa-
ives Ten persons, including the president
OF the company, were killed by the expIo-
SION or Oil tanks in the plant of the North
western Star Oil Company. at Minneapolis,
. HililI. Ihree men were killed and one in
IL.
N. Z. Forty-five passengers were injured
ana one man was killed in collision be-
tween trolley car and a freight train in
Iltlspurg; eight persons were killed and ten
were injured In collision between an ex-
press and freight train on the Erie rail-
ROAD, near Red House, NJ Y; five persons
were killed by wreck caused by a spread
~, ns ran on the Frisco road near Everton.
NO. MO the engineer of the Washington and
southwestern limited on the Southern road
Was killed In collision near Lynchburg
va. James Mckenney. bandit and muir
ueier' was shot to death in Chinese joss
mouse at bakersfield, Cal, after a battle in
Wmch two deputy sheriffs were killed. The
pody OF the murdered man found in a bar
rel IN New York was identified as that of
~ Senedotte Meduanio, an Italian of Buffalo
Foreign Affairs.
Russia notified China of her willingness
10 Withdraw from Manchuria only on GER
tain conditions, which were regarded as
prohbitive. being tantamount to Russian
sovereignty. The appointment of the Brit
ish commission to the St. Louis exposi-
ton, headed by the Prince of Wales, was
gazetted; Colonel Plunkett and nine other
onicers, with $50 men, were killed in battle
WIN tr1besmen in Somalland, forty of the
British escaping; the British budget
showed an estimated expenditure of S719,-
a'O,OOO; King Edward arrived in Naples
hve British soldiers who took part in a
$1,000 Nv III iCtOild, 1TdISNddl, were SEN
fenced to DEATH Storms swept middle Eli
rope, hurricane injuring many persons
ana destroying much property in Berlin
Inc governments of Prussia and the Grand
Duchy OF Mecklenburg decided to expel
Mormon missionaries. The 2,656th ami
versary of the founding of Rome was
celebrated. Captain Alfred Dreyfus sent
letter to the French war minister asking
a reopenlng of his case; disorder marked
the expulsion of monks at Versailles and
La Roche; President Loubet took part in a
durbar OF desert tribes at FL Kreider. AL
ger1a In an engagement between Turkish
troops and Macedonian revolutionsts the
latter threw dynamite bombs and killed
and wounded seventy Turks; Macedonians
killed fifty-five bashi-bazouks and gen.
darmes near Petritch. European Turkey.
Twenty-Five Jews were murdered and 30
wounded by Russian rioters at Kishineff,
Bessarabia. The brother of the Sultan of
Morocco was reported to have been pro-
claimed emperor. Brazil claimed the ter
ritory of Acre as her own. Nicaraguan
rebels captured Fort San Carlos. The
Dominican rebels beSieged Monte CriSti by
land and sea. An imperial edict in China
ordered a uniform monetary standard for
the empire.
In the District.
Commissioner West completed the draft
of the new automobile regulations requir-
ing all such vehicles to be registered. The
corporation counsel decided that the hack
men are justified in their complaint against
the hotel men relative to their vehicles
occupying space in front of hotels. Charles
H. Turner was appointed assistant United
States district attorney to succeed H. II.
Classic, resigned. 1t was decided to pro-
hibit the practice of "scalping" steamboat
tickets on Washington wharves Patent
attorneys objected to the Commissioners
against being claSsed as claims agents and
required to pay a license tax. At the
Catholic University Mgr. Thomas J. Conaty
was installed as rector; the board of trus
tees of the university and the archbishops
of the Catholic Church of the United States
held their annual meetings.; the corner
stone of the proposed apostolic mission
house was laid and ground was broken for
the foundation of the new Dominican
House of Studies The Presbyterian ALI
ance held it's annual reception. The
twenty ninth annual session of the Grand
Lodge, Shield of Honor, of Maryland and
the District was held. The National Acad-
envy of Sciences met in annual convention.
The Eastern Art Teachers Association held
it's fifth annual meeting. The National
Lumber Manufacturers Association held
it's first annual meeting. The Business
Mems Association passed resolutions
against the project to bring a Pennsylva-
mia railroad bridge from elsewhere and
replace the Long bridge with it. 1t was
stated in New York that within sixty days
work would be begun on the Pennsylvania
railroad project in South Washington; a
number of houses on the site of the union
station were Sold the ground to be cleared
within thirty days The boss paperhangers
decided not to grant demands made by
their employees. The Athletic Association
of the District National Guard held its
annual indoor contests. The championship
base ball season opened. Fire in a row
of two-story buildings at the northwest
corner of North Capitol and E streets
caused 5000 damage. The body of James
E. -Boland, a foreman for the Crawford
Paving Company, was found in the James
Creek canal; the body of Rudolph Baker,
smith, a well-known butcher. was found
in the river near the Long bridge; Thomas
T. Halls body was found in the river at
the foot of N street. Mrs Sarah F. Gar
rison was killed by a car of the City and
Suburban road at Brentwood; coroner's
jury held the road responsible. John Nc
Nally died from the effects Of a fall down
stairs. John H. Viers, a Georgetown gro
Ger. accidentally killed himself while han
ding a pistol. Rachel johnson, an aged
colored woman, was burned to death
Joseph Hagan, colored was held RESPONSE
BILE for the death of Walter Jackson also
colored, who was killed by blow with
sledge Among those who died were Ed
ward A. Quintard, son-in-law of the late
Gov Alexander r. Shepherd; Harry L.
Merrick. well-known newspaper para
graph writer: Michael A. Clancy assistant