Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 10, 1908.

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at the dedication Of the New Jersey monu-
ment OH the Ant1etam battlefield: he par
doned Geo. D. andB. F. Cosby Of Alabama,
convicted of violating the peonage law;
Central Labor Union organizations through
out the country were urged to adopt reso-
lutions asking the President to dismiss W.
A. Miller from the government printing
ONCE. Charles Joseph Bonaparte Of Bal
timore was selected by Secretary Hitch
cock to take charge Of the investigation
OF affairs and officials in the Indian terri
tory. Postmaster General Payne refused
to obey a subpoena to appear at the hear
Ing of Geo. w. Beavers in New York;
United States Commissioner Hitchcock. at
the preliminary hearing, upheld the Pea
vers Indictment; Post Office Inspector ]. w.
Erwin was arrested In San Francisco In
connection with post office scandals; three
more post office indictments were returned
by the Washington grand jury. Secretary
Moody disapproved the finding Of acquittal
by court martial in the case of Ensign
W. L. Workman, who was In charge OF
turret of the Massachusetts in which nine
men were killed. The cruiser Maryland,
which stuck on the launching ways at
Newport News, was f1oated without injury
The irrigation congress met In Ogden,
Utah. The National Encampment of the
Sons of Veterans was held in Atlantic
City. District Attorney Jerome of New
York announced his opposition to Mayor
Army members started for the mountains
in Kentucky to work among the residents
of the feud districts, The Maryland re-
publican convention nominated Stevenson
A. Williams for governor; the democratic
convention named Edwin Warfield. A ter
rife hurricane devastated Florida, causing
the death of twenty-one persons, the wreck
of many vessels and property loss OF
many millions of dollars; sixteen lives were
lost by the sinking of the British steamer
Mexicana off the Florida coast; a storm
struck the New Jersey coast, causing the
death of five men at the Delaware break,
water the loss of a yacht with six men
and several children off Atlantic City and
much property loss; an Atlantic fishing
steamer, Beatrice, with a crew of thirty
men, was reported missing on cape
Charles Va; two schooners were wrecked
by the storm off the Maine coast and f1f-
teen men were drowned; over thirty per-
sons were killed by the storm in the vicini-
ty of New York. Much damage was re-
ported to have been done by frost IN the
west. Two men were Killed by the explo-
sion of barrel of alcohol on the cruiser
Olympia at Norfolk The Rasin- Monu-
mental fertilizer works. near Baltimore,
Md, were destroyed by fire, with loss Of
$4,000 and the death of four persons.
Two men were killed. two fatally hurt and
six severely injured by the collapse Of
wall in Philadelphia. Twelve persons were
severely injured and thirty hurt by plat
form which collapsed in beef packing
house in Chicago. -Four persons were kill
ed and many more injured in wreck on
the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Chicago railroad at Kempston, Wis Fran
els v. Benque, who sent threatening let
ter to Secretary Hay. was committed to
an insane asylum in New York. gang
Of thugs took Na sion OF ctv dree
the night and in the riot that followed
one man was killed, two fatally shot and
many more wounded. Sir Thomas Upton
was taken i'll in Chicago. The aged father
of United States Senator F. M. Simmons
of North Carolina was murdered at Fol
louisville, N. c. Among those who died
was Representative Vincent Boreins OF
Kentucky.
Foreign Affairs.
Robberies and murders continued In Bel
rut and foreigners were kept In state OF
terror Bulgaria called 10000 reserves to the
frontier; Turks were reported to have mas
sacred the population of Kastorla, near
Monastir, numbering 10000 and 10000 per-
sons were reported killed by them i'll Monas-
tir vilayet. Kind Edward accepted the
resignation of Joseph Chamberlain as secre-
tary for the colonies. G. T. Richie as
chancellor of the exchequer and Lord
George Hamilton secretary for INDIA;
Joseph Chamberlain was Kissed by work
ingmen before meeting of the cabinet In
London. Arguments in the Alaskan boun-
dairy case were heard by the commission IN
London. Great Britain and Japan decided
to protest separately to China against &C
ceptng the latest Russian demands in re-
gard to Manchuria. Emperor William was
welcomed in Vienna by Emperor Francis
Joseph. Christians and Jews clashed at
Gomel, Russia, and five Jews were killed
and 200 houses wrecked. Premier Coombes
of France made speech at Irregular, Brit
tany, and was Kissed so fiercely that troops
were called out to suppress the disorder
The French government admitted the exist
eence of the plague at Marsellle. Emperor
Francis Joseph refused to grant ohcers
comma nding Hungarian troops permission
tO the Hungarian language. "A speed
Of JOG 40 miles an hour was developed on
an electric car near Berlin. The lnterna-
tional socialist congress. with ooo delegates
representing seven countries in Europe.
opened at Dresden. Imperial troops In MO
rocco were defeated by insurgents and 600
of them were killed A false report clrcu-
had been assassinated. The Colombian
senate passed the isthmian canal bill on its
first reading. President Castro of Vene-
zueIa continued to mass troops along the
Colombian frontier. Among those who
died was Prof. Alexander Balm, a. famous
scholar. formerly lord rector of Aberdeen
University, Scotland.
In the District.
The Commissioners accepted the design Of
Architect B. Stanley Simmons for the pro-
posed new Business High School. The con-
troller of the treasury has decided that the
Commissioners have power to rent build
ing as a temporary home for ex-sailors and
soldiers The Judge advocate general of
the army decided that the District militia
is entitled to the use of the postal frank as
coming directly under the control of the
War Department. The District engineer de-
partment reported on the effect on asphalt
payements of the flushing of streets. The
| auditor for the District asked an opinion as
| to whether the statute of limitations barred
| the claims for refunds Of duplicate pay
ments OF taxes made more than three years
| ago. The auditor for the District, the SUI
| Eerintendent of police. the District property
| clerk the assessor for the District and the
| surveyor for the District submitted their
| annual reports. The annual report of the
| Soldiers Home showed 1.414 inma tes The
| National Retail Grocers' Association held
| Its annual meeting. joint annual meet
| ing of the National Association of Railway
| Postal Clerks. the United States Railway
| Mail Service Mutual Benefit Association and
| the Women's Auxiliary to the postal clerks
| association was held. severe wind and
/ rain storm struck the city. causing many
| minor accidents. Henry Hedge, negro
| from Culpeper. Va. died at the Emergency
! Hospital from a bullet wound Edward
| Mitchell, colored. eleven years old, was
| drowned in the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
| George Hill. twenty-three years DID, was
| drowned in the river at the foot Of 9th
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