Evening star., 1903-12-26
Price, so Cents per Box
WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 20, 1908.

w EEK ENO1Nt DECEm BEN 70, lSOo.
The President appointed Lawrence q.
Murray of Chicago assistant secretary OF
the Department of Commerce and Labor.
Oliver D. Hughes res gnsd as consul G neral
at Coburg, Germany, and Henry ID. Saylor.
consul at Dawson City, Yukon territory.
was appointed his successor. Gen. John e.
Black accepted the appointment as civil
service commissioner to succeed the late
John c. Proctor. Governor w. II. Taft
sailed from Manila for the United States.
The Navy Department ordered the cruiser
Dixie to sail for Colon with GOO marines.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Will
lam McAdoo was named for chief of the
police of New York by Mayor-elect McClel-
Ian. Cotton reached the highest price In
twenty years in the New York and New
Orleans exchanges. The new Williamsburg
bridge, connecting New York and Brooklyn,
was dedicated and opened TO traffic. Sena-
tor Charles II. Dietrich was arraigned in
Omaha, Neb., on charges of bribery and
conspiracy. Earthquake shocks were felt
in northern New York and Los Angeles.
Cal. Seven boilers in power house in st.
Louis exploded, killing three men and in
juring six others. Fire in a factory bu Id
ing in New York caused S250,0J0 damage
and killed two firemen, one of them being
Battalion Chief Coleman. Nine students
were killed and seventeen injured in the
fire that destroyed the woman's dormitory
at Walden University, in Nashville, Tenn.
The Duquesne limited train the Balu-
more and Ohio railroad was wle ecked by an
obstruction on the track and s!xtyfive per-
sons were killed and a large number IN
jured. The Meteor a st. Louis and San
Francisco fast train, was wrecked at God
frey, Kan, and nine persons were Killed
and thirty-two injured. Among those who
died was Rear Admiral Edwin White, re-
tired, at the navy yard in New York.
Foreign Affairs.
Great Britain officially recognized the re-
public of Panama. Reports that Colombian
troops had landed at the Isle of Pines, In
the territory of the Panama republic. were
confirmed. United States Consul Davis ar
rived at Alexandretta on the cruiser San
Francisco, where an apology was rendered
him by the Turkish government for the as
sault made upon him by native policemen
The revision commission in Paris decided to
give Capt. Alfred Dreyfus new trial A
treaty. of arbitration between France and
Italy was signed. Doctors gave up hopes
of saving the life of ex-Premier Giuseppe
Zanardelli of Italy, who has been i'll for
several months. The verdict in the Kische-
nef trials inflicted comparatively short
terms of imprisonment on the persons ac-
cused of completely in the massacre of the
Jews there last Easter, twenty-five persons
being sentenced. United States Consul Rob-
ert Skinner and his mission were received
by Emperor Menelk at Ads Abeba, Abys-
sinia and were given a promise of an Abys-
sinian exhibit at the St Louis exposition.
In battle at Jidballi, Somaliland, the Brit
ish in fight with 2,eOO dervishes killed 80
and wounded 100. The Santo Domingo pro-
visional government agreed to all the de-
mands of the United States relative to the
settlement of claims and agreements enter
ed into with the Vasquez and WoS y GIL ad-
ministratops. Russia, it was announced
from ST. Petersburg, is willing to reconsider
its last note to Japan. but holds out no
hope of further material concessions.
In the District.
The Commissioners decided that WASH
ington Is not to have a building at the st.
Louis exposition. Secretary Cortelyou OF
the Department of Commerce and Labor
advocated a national aquarium for WASH
ington. Mr.. Louis 4. l. cnt, register or
wills rendered his resignation. to take eff
feet April l next and James Tanner, IT
was announced, will be his successor. The
business men of Washington and many
others united in a protest against the in
efficient service being given by the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Company
Christmas was generally observed In the
churches and by the charitable organiza-
tions which provided dinners and enter
tainments for the inmates of the various
institutions. The petition of John A Moss
colored, an attorney, now in prison for al.
legged contempt of court, for writ OF
habeas corpus was denied by Judge Wright.
The Emergency Hospital severed its con-
nection with the training school for nurses
at the washington Asylum hospital f'idHS
were submitted for the proposed new
building for the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION to cost 100000. The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company awarded the
Company of New York
the general contract for the erection of the
new union station in this city The Edwin
l.. Stanton Public School was dedicated.
Edwin Seton. assistant secretary or the
national committee, was named
as a member of the committee for the Dis
trict of Columbia. Arthur p. Baer. MEM
ton barracks died from the effects OF
drinking wood alcohol Samuel r. WellS
of BaSsett, Va. was asphyXiated by gas In
a lodging house on Pennsylvania avenue.
Louis NJ. Brannon. two years old, and Mary
Roche also two years old, were burned to
DEATH Michael Mccormick, a cabman OF
this city, drove his vehicle into the Eastern
branch at Bladenshurg. Md. and was
drowned Mrs. Ida Hopkins, forty years
old attempted to commit suicide by inhal-
ing gas in her ROOM Mrs. Eva Linkins.
years of age, craZed by the
loss of sleep, jumped from window at
Providence Hospital and was killed. A
coroner's jury held Joseph Smith, coiored,
for the death of William Beron,
Smith, while riding bicycle. having
the latter down and caused tnJu-
ries from which he died. John Donnelly. q
War Department watchman, died OF heart
disease in the Agricultural Department
grounds. Among others who died were
Frederic r. Coudert distinguished New
York lawyer; Albert Daggett, for many
years prominent figure in this city; James
w Hunter, a well-known wholesale meat
dealer. and Rev. Robert Johnson, colored
pa stor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church
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