Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07
WEEK ENDING FEB. 2, 1908.

Charles B. Hart. minister to Colombia,
resigned. and was succeeded by A. N.
Beaupre General Corbin reported 1OS5s. 1896
men fitted to bear arms in the United
States. Treasury figures for 1902 showed
tEat exports Of manufactures Increased
$1o.500,O00 and agricultural products de-
creased $40 100000 compared to 1901. Brig
Gen. James F. Wade was assigned to re-
iieve Major General Davis Of the command
OF the division of the Philippines; United
states quarantine officials declared Manila
TO be free from cholera: reports showed
that Philippine imports had doubled since
1872 The statehood bill continued to be
the order of business in the Senate; the
Senate passed the House bill creating d
general staff in the army the Knox bill to
iaciiitate prosecution of cases begun under
the sherman antitrust law, the Elkins
antf-rebate bill and the army appropriation
bill; the Panama canal treaty was consid-
cred: the sundry civil bill. carrying $IS,O07,-
S29, over $17,oO0.O0O more than the current
appropriation, was reported to the House
the naval appropriation biz, carrying &c.
.420, $192,057 more than the present law.
was reported to the House; the House ma
val affairs committee exonerated Repre-
sentative Lessler and ex-Representative
Qufgg after investigating Representative
Lessler's charges of attempted bribery. and
recommended the reference of the case Of
Witness Doblin to the Attorney General.
Senator Edmund w. Pettus was reelected
from Alabama. J. Edward Addicks an
nounced his retirement from the senatorial
fight in Delaware under conditions which
served only to further complicate the dead
lock. Directors OF the United States Steel
Corporation announced that 27,633 men had
subscribed for 51125 shares in the profit
sharing scheme. Testimony before the an
thracite coal strike commission was con-
cluded. John Mitchell in addressing a wage
conference at Indianapolis intimated that
Ia ohod L.
a general strike in the bituminous field will
follow April 1. A blizzard in the middle west
and rain with high winds in the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys caused much damage
and the loss Of several lives. The American
ship Florence, Tacoma to Honolulu. was
reported lost with all on board. Two fire
men were killed and four seriously injured
by falling walls in Hudson, Mass. Chief
Foley and three firemen were killed and
nine others made seriously Ill by the fumes
of nitric acid in fire in Milwaukee Wis
Saginaw bay. near Bay City, Mich. were
reported drowned in a storm. Three men
were killed and a number seriously injured
by falling walls while building was being
demolished in Buffalo, N. Y. Two men
were killed. five seriously and six slightly
injured In rear-end collision on the Hi
nois Central railroad at Cloverdale. Ill.
State troops were called out to quell rioting
during the trolley strike in Waterbury,
Conn. Among those who died were Repre-
sentatives John NJ W. Rumple of Iowa and
J. M. Moody of North Carolina. and ex-Sen-
ator Henry Laurens Dawes of Massachu-
sets.
Foreign Affairs.
The British ambassador to the United
States was directed to ask President Roose-
welt to act as arbiter in the Venezuelan
trouble; Mr.. Bowen announced that he
was ready to pay the sum Immediately de-
manded by the allies. and that President
Castro desired equal treatment for all the
nations Venezuela owes; President Roose-
welt refused to act as arbitrator. King
Edward suffered from an attack Of influenza.
The German government decided to re-
admit the Jesuits. who since 1872 have
been excluded from the country. 1t was
announced that the new Russian tariff
was particularly unfavorable to Germany.
The French torpedo boat destroyer Es-
paignole foundered off Cape Ladder. Labor
disturbances again disturbed Spain. Boz
duras, and the hold-over president turned
over the presidency to a council of min
listers; Bonila prepared for a revolution.
Brazilian troops captured Puerto Alonzo
in the disputed territory of Acre. which
Bolivia had occupied. The Norwegian
steamer Avona went ashore at Lemvig.
Denmark and her crew of twenty-four
were drowned; the French bark Van Stabel,
thirty persons who were on board were
drowned. In a fire on Malcolm Island near
Vancouver, eleven women and children were
burned to death and seventeen other per-
sons were seriously injured. AS a result
of a combat between fishing smacks off
the Japanese coast forty-dve smacks of
killed. The plague was reported to be in
creasing in Toxic, Japan. Between forty
ano fifty lives were lost by the sinking
of steam launch in Kobe harbor. A fire
occurred in the Urushiu colliery, Fukuonka-
Ken, Japan, and siXty-four miners were
burned to death.
In the District.
Chairman Babcock Of the House District
committee filed the report in favor of the
100000 loan bill in the House; the House
passed the bill providing for an additional
building for the bureau Of engraving and
printing; bill Of similar import was re-
ported favorably to the Senate; the sundry
civil appropriation bill, carrying many items
Of interest to the District, was reported
to the House A committee representing
the Telephone Subscribers Association APP
peared before the Senate committee on
appropriations to protest against the re-
peal of the act fixing rates for telephone
service in the District. The District Com
missioners forwarded a number of reports
on street Improvement bills or proposed
amendments to the District appropriation
bill; the Commissioners executed a con-
tract for the construction of the sewage
pumping station at the foot of New Jer-
were notified by Secretary Root that he
did not consider the equipment of the
metropolitan police with Krag-Jorgensen
rifles justifable. The design Of Henry
Merwin Shrady for the Grant monument
was selected by the commission. The cor
ner stone of the Mills building to be used
by the Navy Department as an annex was
laid. Representatives of Independent to-
bacco manufacturers met in Washington
to form an association for mutual interest
A decision was given in the Police Court
against the Washington Gas Light Com
pany in the case involving the right of
the company to allow its waste products to
flow into the river. John j. Mountenev.
seventy-nine years of age was burned to
death in his bed. Benjamin NJ Halprin OF
New York committed suicide in LAFAYETTE
Square by shooting himself in the head,
Marriage Licenses.