Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-25
WEEK ENDING JULY rs, 1908.

The President adopted as applying to all
government service the ruling Of the anth-
racite coal commission that membership or
non-membership in labor unions must not
affect an employees tenure; this decision
was made in case OF w A. Miller. dis
charged from the government printing
Office because Of his expulsion from union.
and ordered reinstated by the President:
bookbinders employed in that department
threatened to strike IL Miller was allowed
to work Representative Cannon had a con-
ference with the President on financial
matters. Rear Admiral Bradford submit
ted his reasons for opposing the plans for
the proposed 13.O0-ton battle ships The
treaty ceding the Danish West Indies to
the United States died officially. Charles
Hedges. superintendent of free delivery of
the Post Office Department, was removed:
former Postmaster General Smith replied
10 the charges made by John X. Proctor
or the civil service commission. The total
immigration for the fiscal year just closed
was S5I ,o46, an increase of 81 per cent
over the preceding year. Maj. Gen. George
W. Davis, commanding the division of the
Philippines, retired for age; the Manila
banks We're ordered by Governor Taft to
issue new currency: Philippine scouts and
rural constabulary defeated 30 rebels in
Albay. killing fifteen and wounding fifteen.
A bear raid in Wall street resulted in the
failure of Talbot J. Taylor & Co. and w
l.. Stow & Co. The Elks held their annual
convention in Baltimore. Five miners We're
drowned in a mine at Mahonoy City, Pa
One man was killed. four fatally hurt and
over fifty injured in collision on the
Cleveland and Southwestern electric road
near Oberlin, Ohio. District Attorney j.
Ward Gurley of New Orleans was shot and
killed by Louis w. Lyons. former client
Two murdererS were shot to death by
mob at Basin, Wyo., and a deputy sheriff
who defended them was also killed. f. v
La Bountie a law clerk of Buffalo N Y,
embpZZlpmpnt
dreds of thousands OF dollars. Among
those who died were Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay.
a noted figure of kentucky, and Frederick
w. Hollis a prominent lawyer
Foreign Affairs.
Pope Leo XIII died. after being critically
Ill for sixteen days: the body of the pope
lies in state in st. Peters, where 1t was
viewed by many thousands of persons; 1t was
decided by the cardinals to hold the concave
OF the Sacred College in Rome July 81. The
visit OF the King and Queen of England to
Dublin was marked by warm demonStra-
tons; the Duke of Marlborough was appoint
ed under secretary of state for the colonies
Count Cassini denied that an agreement
has been made to open certain ports in
Manchur1a. The Cuban congress adjourned
Fifteen hundred men were killed and
wounded in the taking Of Ciudad Bolivar
by Venezuelan government troops: Gen
Rolando and other noted revolutionsts
B. l.. Farjeon. noted novelist, in Eng
land.
In the District.
Mr.. John r. Garrison was appointed
auditor for the District; the Commission
ers requested Mr.. j. T. Petty to resign as
auditor. but he declined to do so. The
Commissioners again decided to urge the
establishment Of hospital for consump
ttves. Another crusade was ordered against
unlicensed dogs. Bids opened for
making repairs to school furniture. the
Commissioners having held up voucher
for 1900 for this work because no com
petition was held. A. III. Tyson was ap-
pointed superintendent of the municipal
lodging house. An investigation of the
auditors accounts by federal experts dis
closed the Watson shortage to be $13.-
1914 District Attorney Morgan II. Beach
appointed Charles A. keigwin assistant in
his Office, to succeed Thomas c. Taylor, al
though the latter declared that he had not
resigned the position, as stated by MI
Beach. Special services were held m
many Catholic churches in comment
grafton of the death Of the pope.
The University of North America was in
corporated. The District National Guard
went into annual camp at Leesburg. Va
The grand jury began consideration of the
alleged irregular transaction involving one
of the school boards vouchers Benjamin
G. Hill was executed for the murder of his
wife. VIM. Beverly, twenty-five years Of
age colored, attempted to commit suicide
clothes of r. Edgar Adams We're found in
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