Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21
WEEK ENDING MARCH 81, 1908.

The Senate ratified the Panama canal
treaty by vote Of % to 5, the Cuban rec
iprocity treaty-subject to approval by
Congress-by a vote Of 90 to 16, and ad-
journed sine die. The President issued an
order calling a board of army officers to
meet March 80 to recommend officers for
the proposed general staff. s. N. D. North
was appointed director of the census. Capts
F. A. Cook and P. F. Harrington were
nominated to be rear admirals; Col. c. F.
Humphrey was nominated to be quarter
master general of the army. Attorney
General Knox in an opinion decided that
the words lis authorized" in an act of
Congress are mandatory. New York bank
ers renewed their offer to finance loan
for Venezuela. The lower Mississippi river
surpassed former records for high water,
causing considerable damage. One of the
worst billiards. Of the winter ragged In
Colorado, Wyoming and neighboring states.
A fire destroyed property to the amount
of $500, 600 in Pepperell, Mass. Six miners
were killed as the result of an explosion
in a mine at Cardiff, Ill. In collision be-
tween the Fall River steamers City or Ply
mouth and City of Taunton on Long Is
land sound six persons were killed. TWO
railroad engineers were killed in col
lision on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road near Washington, N, j. Three
young women were struck ana instantly
killed by a train near Pawtucket, r. l.
An inquest into the murder OF +. L. Bur
dick was begun in Buffalo. Mrs. James
Strowbridge of Pen Yam, N. Y, killed her
mother and daughter and commltteo SUI.
eide by running into house she had set
on fire Whitaker Wright, the noted Lon
don promoter accused of fraud, was ar
rested upon his arrival in New York.
Foreign Affairs.
Joseph Chamberlain was accorded a warm
welcome upon his return to England from
South Africa; the naval estimates of $179,-
1874. 2O5 were introduced in the house OF
commons. Shamrock III was launched at
Glasgow. The reichstag budget committee
voted in favor Of appropriating $7oOOOO Tor
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, German am
ba ssador at Washington, was attacked in
the reichstag The French chamber OF
deputies voted to refuse authorization to
Portugal, which refused to pay taxes.
stoned the courts. A revolution broke out
In Uruguay. Venezuela paid the first In
stallment to Germany Of the $4,000 stipE-
lated in the peace protocoi; venezuelan
with rebel prisoners and arms. War was
averted between Salvador and Guatemala.
As the result Of an explosion, followed by
fire in colliery at Grace Bay, c. B., four
men were killed and seventy-eight horses
suffocated.
In the District.
Under the new triennial assessment Of the
board Of assessors the total increase in
valuation was announced to be s26, 2O6, 25s.
the increase in revenue amounting to $421,-
1870. Secretary Root rejected all the bids
received at both the first and second COM
petitions for the filtration plant and called
for new proposals. The Commissioners de-
cided to hold a public meeting for the dis
cussion of a proposed anti-expectoratng
law. 1t was announced that the Citizens
National Bank and the West End National
Bank would consolidate. The Columbia
Athletic Club made an assignment for the
benefit of it's creditors. Benjamin G. Hill,
convicted of wife murder. was sentenced to
be hanged May 15 VIM. johnson, a negro
policeman, claiming to be hooded" shot
and wounded two policemen, U. w.
Hall and Frank Waters, both colored. Es-
Their Archer, fourteen years old, colored, was
sent to the reform school for attempting to
poison Holloway Furrow. VIM. Cairns, a
coachman, and Mrs. Emma Moore. colored,
committed suicide by shooting; Mae fischer,
an actress, committed suicide by poison.
Among those who died were Mr.. H. Clay
Stier, a well-known official OF the Treasury
Department