Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11
WEEK ENDING APRIL II, 1908.

President Roosevelt started on his trip
through the Yellowstone Park. The United
| States circuit court of appeals handed down
| In st. Paul, Mimi, decision which de-
ciared unlawful the merger of the Great
| Northern and Northern Pacific railroad
| companies and the formation of the Ma
| tional Securities Company. The State De-
partment held that naturalized citizens who
| go back to the country of their origin
without intention of returning to the
United States are not entitled to protection
| by this country. Forty-two officers We're
| selected for service the general staff
| of the army. Capt. Pershing's force cap
tured Bacolod, Island of Mindanao. killing
| hundred Moros and wounding many
| others, with loss of three men. Mgr.
Frederick z. Rocker secretary of the
| apostolic delegation i'm Washington. was
| appointed bishop of Neuva Caceres Philip
| pine Islands; Right Rev. George Mont
| gomery. coadjutor bishop of San Fra pcisco.
was appointed archbishop OF Manila. The
| James K. keene Southern Pacific pool was
| dissolved. Three men were killed and five
| injured by the explosion of shell in a
| l2-inch gun on the battle ship Iowa. near
| Pensacola, Fla. Thirteen persons We're
Killed and many others injured by lorna
| do which struck the town of Hopewell.
Ala: many persons We're reported killed
py the same storm in Arkansas and Mis-
] souri, Five men We're injured. three fatal
| ly, by ID fall of n derrick on the site for
the ST Louis exposition. The inquest on
| the death of 4. K. Pennell in Buffalo failed
| to establish the theory of suicide Mrs.
Emma Louise Ames van Weik grand
| daughter of the late Bishop Ames. and
| known in Washington, committed suicide in
Jersey City by shooting. Among those who
| died were Rear Admiral George r. Bel
KNAPP, L. S. A, retired. and Rev w. III. Mil
burn. chaplain of the United States Senate.
Foreign Affairs.
King Edward continued on his trip to
Portugal and Italy and signifed his inten-
| ton to visit Paris. The Czarina of Russia
was reported to be dangerously i'll with
peritonitis. Thirty persons were killed and
100 wounded by Russian troops who sup
pressed strike riot near Nishni Novgo-
rod. A general strike of all labor unions
in Holland was inaugurated. Student riots
continued in Madrid. mobs raising the cry
Long live the republic" n dozen strikers
were shot down in the streets of Rome dur
ing riot. Fifty persons suspected of being
| in plot to kill King Alexander of Servia
We're arrested. The Dreyfus case was again
brought up in the French chamber of dep
uties King Christian of Denmark cele-
brated his eightyfifth birthday. NJ Stcher-
btna, Russian consul at MitrovitZa, who
! was shot by an Albanian sentry, died. Gov
eminent troops who attacked Santo Do
mngo City were twice repulsed by rebels.
A new cabinet was formed in Haiti. French
troops were reported to have entered
Kwangsi province, China. where a formi-
dable revolt was in progress. Among those
who died was Mrs Horace Porter wife of
the United States ambassador to France.
in Paris.
In the District
A set of plans for the proposed tunnel
under Capitol Hill to the union station
| was received by the Commissioners. The
Commissioners decided to amend the regula-
tons in regard to the licensing of plumbers.
| Automobiles objected to proposed regula-
| tons requiring all machines to be numbered.
The first steps to acquire by condemnation.
| the site for the proposed office building
for the House of Representatives were taken
| In the District Supreme Court. The winter
term Of the United States Naval Medical
School was brought to a close. A plan
was presented to the stockholders of the
American Security and Trust Company for
an increase of the capital stock from
81. $50, 600 to $3,O0O,0G0 and the surplus from
s6OOOOO to 81, 100000. The stockholders OF
the Riggs National Bank voted to increase
the capital stock of the bank from $500. 900
to NOO0,0OO. Mgr. Denis F. OConnell,
the new rector of the Catholic University,
was presented to the faculties and students.
The Pythian fair opened at the Washing
ton Light Infantry armory. fire caused
IS 600 damage at the planning mill of Martin
Wiegand, on Maryland avenue southwest.
Landous johnson, colored, was sentenced
| to five years in the penitentiary for kill
ing his father. w. S. Shelby member OF
| the metropolitan police force. taken
to Newport News, Va. to be tried on a
charge of completely in the murder of
Amos Lysart. Samuel Dyer, colored was
accidentally killed by Illuminating gas.
The infant of Mrs. Walter Abbey. 321G N
street, was burned to death in bed Thad-
deus Baden. an employe of the government
printing Office, who had been missing from
home for week, was found drowned in
the river. Joseph Jonas. twenty-five years
old, a telephone lineman. committed sui
eide by inhaling Illuminating gas. Robert
Foertsch, a Waterman in the Winder
building. committed suicide by shooting.
Among those who died was Mr.. William
Dickson, a well-known Washingtonian.