Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 81, 1908.

1 testant Episcopal bishops and an assem-
blage Of about 1900 persons at Mt. st. Al
bans. Washington; he celebrated the forty
| fifth anniversary of his birthday. Major
General A. r. Chaffee assumed the duties Of
| first assistant to Lieut.. Gen. g. B. NJ.
Young, chief of the general army staff
General @. L. Gillespie, chief Of army en-
gineers. in his annual report. stated that
the seacoast defenses Of the country are
more than 80 per cent completed. Major
General Haywood, commandant Of the ma
| rtne corps. in his annual report, urged more
| pay for the Marine Band. Rear Admiral F.
T. Bowles complained Of slow work on gov
| eminent vessels under construction in his
| annual report; Admiral Bowles resigned his
| position in the navy to become the president
| OF shipbuildfng company, to be succeeded
| by Naval Constructor Caps. The report
| Bristow on the postal frauds was placed in
the hands Of the President. The commits
sion which Went abroad last summer in the
interest OF establishing a system Of inter-
.tional exchange filed its report. The ia
1ese minister to the United States denied
IT, the Japanese consul who, it was al
legged. promoted the cause of the Fflipinos.
! acted with the approval or consent of his
government The Public Health Associa-
| ton expressed a sentiment favorable to the
restoration of the canteen. Two workmen
| were killed and the village of Wayne, N. J.,
suffered in an explosion Of powder at the
| Latin & Rand powder works. Two Italians
known only by numbers and George Hitler
were killed by the overturning of bucket
| In shaft at Niagara Falls. The subway
| In New York city caved in, killing ten men
and injuring seven. Mrs. Emma Booth
tucker. consul in America Of the Salvation
Army. wife of Commander Booth-Tucker
and Colonel Thomas c. Holland in charge
OF the army at Amity, Col, were killed. and
twenty seven other persons hurt, ten posi-
ply ratally, in railroad wreck near Dean
Lake, Mo. Three boys were run over and
killed by train at Bay Chester Station, NJ
=. Two men were killed and two fatally
injured by the explosion of a locomotive on
the Pennsylvania railroad near Rohrers-
town, Ia. Three trainmen were killed on a
runaway train on a branch Of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad near Cumberland,
MD. -Four persons were killed in rail-
ROAD wreck near Charlotte, NJ G.. Thomas
ii. Bechtel arrested on suspicion of murder.
| Ing his. sister Mabel, at Allentown, Pa,
committed suicide in a cell. One man was
Killed, one fatally wounded and three 9TH
ers seriously hurt in a clash between officers
and negro laborers at Flushing, Ohio Sam
uel Parks, the New York labor leader was
convicted OF extortion. Among those who
died was ex-Representative John o. Rus
sell or Massachusetts.
Foreign Affairs
The situation in the far east was reported
as being unimproved: Russian forces reoc-
cupied the port of Mukden. Manchuria;
Count Lamsdorf. Russian foreign minister.
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Paris. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand. British
ambassador to Spain, was appointed am
bassador to the United States; the British
foreign office issued a statement condemn
| ing the administration Of the Congo Free
State and calling on the powers to remedy
1t. Count Stefan TisZa was appointed pre-
| mier for Hungary, and formed new cabi-
net. In a bloody riot in Paris about 100
rioters and forty-f1ve police were injured
and 100 arrests made. During a riot be-
tween strikers and police in Bilboa Spain,
five Of the former were killed and large
| number wounded. It was reported at the
Vatican that TO new American cardinals
would be named, affecting strictly the
United States. Sagatel Sagouni, president
OF the Armenian revolutionary society in
London, was murdered in the suburb of
Nunhead, supposedly by member of the
Hentchakist Society. Prince Galitzin, gov
ernor general of the Caucasus, was stabbed
by three natives, but was not killed. Rev
olutionists in Santo Domingo captured San
tfago; the government declared martial law
and proceeded with a blockade Of Puerto
Plata. Three Catholic bishops were con-
secrated at Havana. A collision occurred
between the Russian Yushen Kalsha Com
pany's steamer Progress and the japanese
Tokai-Maru. sinking the latter and drown
| ing forty-f1ve of the lob persons on board
President Diaz had narrow escape from
being shot by man discharging a gun
during festival at Guanajuanta, Mexico.
Prof. Theodore Mommsen. the noted Ger
HAL SCuOldI, was PAL dlyZeO
In the District
The Commissioners completed the esti-
mates of the District for the next fiscal
year, amounting to $40 SS5. s25; the Com
missionerS granted q hearing on the sub
ject of restricting the sale and use of gaso-
line and kindred products. The board of
trustees of the Public Library submitted its
annual report. The fire marshal submitted
|
District Supreme Court handed down a
further opinion in the Manning telephone
test case. holding that the act of Congress
regulating telephone rates Al ,lied strictly
to local service and admitting further evil
dence. The report Of the board of charities
relative to the investigation into the af-
fairs of the Emergency Hospital was SUBJ
mitted practically sustaining the charges
The thirty-hrst annual meeting Of the
American Public Health Association was
held. The missionary council Of the Do
nestle and Foreign Missionary Society Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States, the Womans Auxiliary of
| the Missionary Council and the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of the District
held annual meetings The annual rifle con-
tests of the National Guard were held on
the Ordway range. General Gillespie SUBJ
mitted his report on engineer operations in
the District Wesley Chapel Methodist
Episcopal Church celebrated its seventy
| fifth anniversary. Mrs. Sarah Allison, f1f-
ty-six years old, was killed by a fall down
stairs at her home. Charles Howard, a
young colored man, was run over by an
express wagon, dying of his injuries The
body of Drawtender Richard ]. Eckert, who
disappeared at the time of the recent rail-
road accident on the Long bridge. was
found in the river. Patrick Donohue, a
former resident Of this city, was drowned
in the C. & o. canal near Great Falls. Ed
ward Farrow and Andrew Lumpkin, both
cOlOrad drowned I'm the river the
Long bridge. Mrs. Beulah Nesbit of Side
| burn, Va, committed suicide by shooting
herself at the home of her parents. Mrs.
Carrie Stellman. a government clerk, at
tempted to commit suicide by opium poison
ing. Among those who died were Lieu
tenant Colonel William E. Waters. U. s. A,
retired; Mr.. Peter Grogan, one Of the city's
best known merchants. and DIR. Arthur
Mills Muzzy one of the Oldest clerks in
point of service in the War Department
and prominent Mason.
The Commissioners have approved the
recommendation Of Snowden Ashford. in