Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05
THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 8, 1908.

President Roosevelt appointed a commits
sion to Inquire into and consider in detail all
the land laws OF the United States: he re-
ceived Sir Henry Mortimer Durand. the
new British ambassador. The report of
Assistant Postmaster General Madden
showed deficiency OF "a, $50, GA. 70.
Rear Admiral Taylor chief Of the bureau
OF navigation. In his annual report recon-
mended general staff for the navy. The
annual reports If the Secretary of the Navy
and the Secretary Of Agriculture were
submitted. Gen. Rafael Reyes of Colon
bia was received by Secretary Hay. Gen.
John X. Brooke. in his testimony before the
congressional committee on the subject of
the confirmation of Gen. Leonard Wood as
a major general, accused the latter of in
subordination in Cuba. Ex-Secretary of the
Treasury John G. Carlisle appointed
arbitrator for the United States in the
claims of the Santo Domingo Improvement
Company against Santo Domingo. Nearly
$500 persons who believe they have claims
to large part of Harlem, in the upper end
or Manhattan Island, organized an indie
pendent government. Ex-City Attorney l..
X. Salisbury testified at Grand Rapids that
wholesale bribery had been going on in the
city government there. The industrial in
situations and the bank of Dowie's Zion
City were placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver. The submarine torpedo boat Adder.
While being towed to Norfolk, broke adrift,
but was saved by Boatswain Deery who
swan one hundred yards in a high sea to
carry line to the boat; the submarine
Moccasin went ashore. An explosion OF
dynamite and naphtha in railroad wreck
in the town of Greenwood, Del. wrecked
every residence in the town, killed two men
and baby, and injured nearly one hundred
others. Four men were killed in a collision
between two tugboats in New York harbor.
Twelve hundred cases Of typhoid fever were
reported at Butler Pa. Martial law was
declared in the Cripple Creek district of
Colorado.
Foreign Affoirs.
The canal treaty was signed at Panama
without amendment. The German reich
stag was opened. Chancellor Won Buelow
reading the emperor's address. The Span
ish cabinet resigned. Russia and Austria
proposed a plan for the joint control of
Macedonia by the powers. 1t was an
nounced in London that the government
had no intention to send the Thibetan ex-
petition as far as Lhassa: Queen Alex
andra celebrated her fifty-ninth birthday.
Through the efforts of Minister of War
Andre the first steps were taken toward
the revision Of the sentence of Alfred Drey
fuS by the Rennes court-martial. The revo-
lutionary government of Santo Domingo
requested recognition from other countries.
Many Chinese fishing junks were destroyed
in storm off South China. the list Of
killed reaching into the thousands. The
American ship Benjamin A. Sewall was
wrecked off the Formosan coast, and ten
of the crew were killed by savages
In the District.
Commissioner Mcfarland recommended
to his associates that Congress be asked
to pass bill granting more power to the
board in the abatement of nuisances, es-
pecially in cases where the holders of prop
erty are non-residents. DR.. Woodward, the
health officer, submitted his annual report.
An order was promulgated by the Post
Office Department denying the right of the
commissioned officers of the District Ma
tional Guard to make use of the penalty
envelope. Representatives of the Milk
Dealers and Producers Association pro-
tested to the Commissioners against. the
adoption of the proposed legislation affect
ing the inspection of milk bottles. The
North Carolina Press Association, the Dis
trict of Columbia Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution, the state super
intendents of the AntiSaloon League. the
United States Potters' Association and the
American Warehousemen's Association
held their annual meetings. Louis Man
ford fifty years old, locomotive engineer
was fatally burned by an explosion of gaso-
line Marie Hooper. an elderly coiored wo-
man, was fatally burned in her home
Thomas Edwards, a colored boy, was
struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train ON
the 4th street crossing and died from his
injuries James Thomas Parsley, seventy
years old, was found in an unconscious
condition on the street and died later in a
hospital; a bottle of laudanum was found
in his pocket. Luig Coratolo, an Italian,
probably fatally wounded Rosa Curato,
mother of his prospective bride, with
knife. William Il. Garden, former clerk
in the pension office, was reported as hav-
ing been missing two months. Among
those who died were Judge william M.
Springer. member of the House of Repre-
sentatives from 1875 to 1895, and Mrs.
Helen Douglass, widow of the late Fred
erick Douglass. the noted negro leader.