Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-09
WEEK ENDING MAY 8, 1903.

WEEK ENDING MAY 8, 1908.
President Roosevelt continued his trip
through the southwest to California. Of
ficials Of the United States government re-
garded with grave concern advices that
Russia is terrifying at Niu-Chuang, in
Manchuriai A. w. Machen. superintendent
of the free-delivery service. was relieved
from duty, pending the result of the Post
Office Department inquiry; Postmaster
General Payne stated that the investiga-
ton will be extended to include all post Of
fees whose annual receipts aggregate $500.
600: the Post Office Department investi-
gated charge that armed men held up
and intimidated a carrier on a rural free
route near Gallatin. Tenn. Secretary
Moody relieved from duty nearly all re-
tired naval officers in charge OF br,.nch by
spected the North Atlantic squadron. Cap
tain Pershings column defeated a strong
force of Moros in the Taraca country, Min
danao the Americans Capturing ten forts;
Willis Sweet was appointed attorney gen.
eral Of Porto Rico. Representatives of the
allied powers signed protocols to refer to
The Hague tribunal the question Of prefer
entail treatment in the payment of Vene-
zuela 8 debts. Andrew Carnegie offered
100000 to establish headquarters for
association Of civil, mining mechanical and
electrical engineers. The national chart
ties and corrections conference held its
thirtfeth annual meeting in Atlanta. Ga. !;
the American Medical Association met in
New Orleans. A delegation Of wealthy
German farmers arrived In New York and
started on a tour of the country. Fierce
forest fires ragged in New York. Pennsylva-
MIA. New Jersey and Delaware. Nine per-
sons were killed and sixty injured by an
express train which crashed into a crowd
of Polish excursionists at a railroad cross
n Thrnn Lil lnd
and twenty-eight injured. three fatally. by
an explosion of powder in the Thor Manu-
featuring Company, in Cleveland. The Old
Dominion liner Hamilton collided with the
Clyde steamship Saginaw off the Virginia
coast. causing the loss of more than TWEEN
ty lives. Ten men We're killed and five in
1ured by slide of solid rock at the Eggles-
ton tunnel, on the Norfolk and Western
railroad, near Bluefeld, w. Va. James r.
Marcum, a prominent Kentucky lawyer,
was shot and killed by an unknown man
while standing in the court house door al
Jackson, making the thirty-iirst victim of
the Hagis-Cockrill feud. jefferson Sanders.
a negro desperate. killed two policemen
in New York, and desperately wounded
another
Foreign Affairs.
Russian troops reoccupied Niu- Chuang.
Manchuria garrisoned forts at the mouth
of the Lao river and moved into Corea.
King Edward reached London from his
continental trip; he received warm well
come upon his visit to Paris; Lord Lans-
downe declared in the house of lords that
Great Britain would resist with all her
strength the establishment by any power
of coaling station the Persian gulf;
the house Of commons voted to guarantee
the new Transvaal loan of $175.OOp,Uo; the
Irish land bill passed it's second reading.
Emperor William visited the pope at the
Vatican while visiting the King of Italy
at Rome. The porte declared that reports
TO the effect that Turkey held the Bull
garlan government responsible for the
freedom allowed in Bulgaria to Macedonian
ag1tators were eXaggerat ted; in recent
battle at Okrina. Macedonia the rebels
lost 70 and the Turks 100 killed: an Aus
tr1an squadron arrived at Salonca: the
mastering of Turkish troops continued in
Macedonia. Thousands of Jews continued
to flee from Russian towns where the
ant-Semitc persecution is strong
French convoy was attacked by tribes
men In the Figuig district, Algeria. and
thirty men were killed. Strong opposition
developed in Colombia to the Panama ca
nal treaty. Gen. Matos the revolutionary
leader. landed in Venezuela. Fifteen per-
sons were drowned in the wreck of the
fishing schooner Gloriana on the Nova
Scot1an coast. Twelve laborers were killed
and many injured In collision on the
Canadian Pacific railroad near Port Ar
thur. Ontario. Kang Yu Wei. the noted
chinese reformer, was recalled to Picking
from exile.
In the District.
Commissioner Macfarland decided to ac-
cept the second term to which he was
appointed by the President The Commits
sioners received complete set Of the de-
tailed plans for the proposed union sta
ton. Assistant Secretary Clifford Howard
of the board Of Commissioners resigned
The contract for cleaning the principal
streets of the city was awarded to r. v
hold
the remains of the late Gov. Alexander r.
Shepherd at the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church interment being tempo
rarily at Rock Creek cemetery; an impos-
ing military and civic escort attended the
remains from the railroad station to the
church. An examiner in chancery took
charge of the case of J, F. Manning & Co.
against the Chesapeake and Potomac Tel
ephone Co. The Methodist Protestant Chris
tan Endeavor Union of the United States
met in annual session. The members of the
eighth annual convention of the Episcopal
diocese of Washington declared by de-
cisive vote against the proposition for a
change in the name of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church of the United States in
America. Orders were promulgated for
the condemnation proceedings in connec-
ton with the office building for the House
of Representatives. The annual presenta-
ton and anniversary day exercises took
place in the Kendall Institute for the Deaf
and Dumb. The High School Cadet Regi-
ment engaged in its annual drill and sham
battle on the White Lot. The opening game
of the season for The Evening Star golf
cup was played by the Chevy Chase and
Columbia teams, the result being tie: the
Chevy Chase Club held it's annual spring
golf tourney Policeman ]. l.. H. Sawyer
who shot and killed William Wheeler was
restored to full duty in the department.
Lizzie Herbert. colored thirty eight years
old. attempted suicide by swallowing car
boic acid The police were notified that a
man named Driscoll was drowned in the
Potomac off Analostan Island. Harry Will
lis formerly a hotel clerk in this city, at
tempted to commit suicide by inhaling il
Eliminating gas in Atlantic City. Among
those who died were John Fletcher Hurst,
bishop. and one of the best known repre-
sentatives of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; Capt. E. w. Brady, a well-known
newspaper correspondent; Edward E.
Markley, superintendent of the Union
Transfer Co.; Horace NJ. Ffoulke. a we'll
known young business man, and Dr. Thos.
o. Hills, prominent dentist.
Great alarm Is felt throughout Peru over
the reported appearance of the bubonic