Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18
WEEK ENDING APRIL 1s, 1908.

President Roosevelt continued his trip
through the Yellowstone Park. Postmaster
General Payne stated that the investigation
into Post Office Department matters would
be thorough. Assistant Attorney General
James NJ. Beck resigned to resume the
practice of Law. Milton E. Allies assistant
secretary of the treasury. resigned to ac-
cept the position of vice president of the
Riggs National Bank, Washington, D. c.
A plot to kill General Otis while in COM
mand of United States troops in the Philip
pines was revealed by examination of pa
pers captured from the Filipinos fortifica-
lions near Bacolod were shelled by Ameri-
can troops and many natives were killed.
Marapul being occupied later without re-
sistance: eighty skeletons of Spanish sail
ors were found in the wreck of the warship
Reina Christina when raised at Manila: de-
spite the statement that the army and navy
officers charged with smuggling goods into
Porto Rico would not be prosecuted, but
would be required to pay fines. the grand
jury brought in five indictments against
one officer each Of the army, navy and
There was a marked decline in Wall street
as result Of the Northern Securities
merger decision. The steamship Minnesota;
the largest ship ever built in this country.
was launched at Groton. Conn. One Of the
worst storms of the year prevailed on the
middle Atlantic coast. A tornado killed
ten persons in Alabama. A fire near Beau
mont. Tex. in the Oil region did damage
amounting to $1,O0O.OOO. Five persons were
killed and several others injured by the ex-
plosion of a boiler at Gallipolis, Ohio. Five
men were killed and two severely burned
by an explosion of gas in mine at Carbon.
l. T. A Baltimore and Ohio train STRUCK
a trolley in Pittsburg, fnjuring sixteen per-
sons. A negro, accused of killing a police
man, was lynched at Joplin. Mo. The body
of man with his throat cut was found in
barrel in New York. the murder being
alleged to be the work of the Malta
Among those who died were Col John F..
MACEDONIAN. veteran editor Of the Chatta-
nooga Times: Gustav Gottheil, a noted
Jewish rabbi. and Brigham Young. presi-
dent of the council of twelve Of the Mormon
Church.
Foreign Affairs.
The Irish national convention at Dublin
accepted, in principle, the Wyndham land
bill. King Edward was welcomed at
Malta. The commission Of British working
men who visited the United States reported
that the workingmen here are not superior
but conceded that there is something to learn
from the employers. Sir Thomas Lipton's
new cup challenger, Shamrock III. was dis
mantled by a sudden squall near Wey-
mouth; Col. W. F. Cody buffalo Bid was
Manchester. President Loubet arrived at
Alg1ers and was given notable interna-
uonal welcome. A report by the Berlin
chamber OF commerce stated that the
american company had secured the output
or German cigarette tobacco. An interna-
uonal anti-alcohol congress began in Berlin.
The striking laborers in Holland decided to
go back to work, alleging treachery. The
International agricultural congress, at
Rome, postponed action on the project for a
european customs union against the United
States. Gen. Manual Bonilla, claimant of
the presidency of Honduras secured pos
hA tt4I
forces secured a victory over the Vene-
zuelan rebels. killing 800 of Gen. Rolando's
men, The mikado held grand review Of
MS navy at Kobe. Four men were killed
ana ,.n, TWO fatally injured in a railway COL
nslon IN Nova Scotia. Among those who
oied was Rev. John Fenwick Kite, a ia
NOUS biblical scholar and author in London
In the District. -.
= The District Commissioners granted a
hearing on the subject of the pronosed
regulations as to the running of automo-
olles; the Commissioners formally ap-
proved the general plans for the proposed
union station. The contract for a new
truck and three combination chemical hose
wagons for the fire department was
awarded. Henry M. Classic assistant
United States attorney for the District, re-
signed to accept position in the De-
partment of Justice. class of thirty
ceived diplomas from the army medical
school. Major General R. Baden-Powell.
the hero of Mafeking." visited Washing
ton and inspected the cavalry post at Fort
Myer The American Society of Religious
Education held its fourteenth annual bust
ness meeting. The committee to revise the
International Sunday school lessons met
n Inc Washington presbytery held its an
OF the emancipation Of slaves in the Dis
trict was celebrated. Policeman W. s.
Shelby of this city was acquitted of a
charge of murder in Newport News, Va
A. B: George. a brakeman on the P. w.
9 B. R. R., died at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore. as the result of falling between
the cars Of his train at Bayview Junction.
Md. Shaaf Johns. twelve years DID, fell
from and was instantly killed by a car
Of the Washington Traction Railway Com
pany at the corner Of Connecticut avenue
colored. who had been missing for some
days. was found in the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal, and Vincent Jones, colored,
was held by the police pending an inves-
old, was seriously injured by an unknown
negro with base ball bat near Florida
avenue and 10th street The following
committed suicide: George A. Dunning,
by taking poison in Balti-
more; William H. Harvest, a salesman, by
taking poison; Wilson G. Reed. lawyer
and broker, by shooting: Patrick Meaney.
a clerk at the Washington abattoir by
taking poison. and Mrs. Sarah Hackenyos.
widow of a soldier, who also took poison.
Nellie Russell attempted to commit sui
eide by taking carbolic acid and jumping
down stairs, and George Rupert. locked
up in police station cell. attempted to
take his life by hanging himself with a
The body of Captain Thos.
W. Lord, United States army, retired, who
from his home in December,
1901, was found in the river near Marshall
Hall; the facts pointed to suicide. Among
those who died were H. L. Bond, a MEM
Der of firm of patent attorneys, in Chi
cago; ex-Representative Abner Taylor of
Chicago and Francis B. Lord, a well-known
business man.