Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-17
WEEK ENDING JANUARY II, 1908.

The coal situation remained serious; 1t
was charged that the companies at the
mines limited the miners to four cars per
day each in order to restrict the output and
keep the prices up; citizens of several towns
seized coal stored on railroad tracks, repre-
! sentatives Of the operators began the presen-
| tation of their side Of the controversy before
| the anthracite strike commission. The
House and Senate passed bill allowing
rebate equal to the tariff on anthracite coal
| for one year; the House passed the army
appropriation bill: the House judiciary COM
mittee decided to report unfavorably the
Senate resolution to change the date OF in
auguration; the Senate committee on for
eign relations agreed to provision that the
reduction on Cuban sugar be limited to 20
per cent and not granted to any other coun-
| try. Secretary Moody was thrown from
carriage at Annapolis and received cuts
upon the face Ex-Secretary Of State Will
liam R. Day was offered the Supreme Court
seat to be vacated by Justice Shiras. Gov.
Taft of the Philippine service declining the
honor In order to remain on duty at Manila.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford who
arrived in New York from London, severely
| criticised the Anglo-German alliance. The
| following were elected United States SEN
ators: Idaho. Judge Welda Hepburn: Cali
| fornia, Senator George c. Perkins; the fol-
lowing received caucus nominations for
United States senator: Utah, Reed Smoot;
| Illinois, Representative Albert J. Hopkins;
Wisconsin. Senator John C. Spooner; New
Hampshire, Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, and
| Connecticut, Senator o. H. Plat. A case
| OF blood poisoning was reported to have
been cured in New York by the injection of
formalin. Four trainmen were killed and
six persons injured in a rear-end collision
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near
| Cumberland, Md. Lieut.. Gov. ]. H. Till
man shot and probably fatally wounded
N. G: Gonzales, editor of the State, at Co.
In toI
ball pitcher. took his own life in San Fran
cisco.
Foreign Affairs.
President Castro stipulated that the block
ade Of the coast Of Venezuela be raised
pending negotiations. but the British foreign
Office was reported to be adverse to grant
ing the request. The reichstag voted to ask
the German government to denounce trea-
ties with countries where 1t is shown that
the most-favored nation treatment Is in
furious to Germany; the imperial German
budget for 1908 estimated the expenditures
at $616,24S, 1S3. Pope Leo XIII. appointed
Mgr. Denis F. O'Connell rector Of the Cath
Ollie University at Washington. A man
made an unsuccessful attempt to kill the
Duke Of Sotomayor while a royal procession
was passing in Madrid. Breton, France, sar-
dine fishers. numbering 10000, were re-
ported starving to death on account Of the
disappearance OF the fish. 1t was reported
| that many thousands Of persons in north
ern Sweden were on the verge of starvation.
European residents Of Fee, Morocco, fed
from the city with foreign consuls. The
Acre revolution was marked by active hos
tilities. The cost of the durbar at Delhi
was estimated at $10.OOO,OOO. Twelve per-
sons were killed in an explosion Of powder
at Departure bay, British Columbia. Among
those who died was Cardinal Lucido Mary
Parocchi, subdean Of the Sacred College
and vice chancellor Of the Roman Catholic
Church.
In the District.
Commissioner Macfarland recommended
to Congress that the enforcement of the
pure food law where it relates to the Dis
trict be reserved to the Commissioners. The
House committee on the District authorized
a favorable report on the bill creating &c.,
100000 loan for the District to run twenty
years. Secretary Root approved the plans
and specifications for the highway bridge
across the Potomac and asked Congress for
an extension Of one years time in its COM
pletion. The report of the board of trustees
of the public library was submitted to the
Commissioners. Ashley NJ. Gould qualified
as justice of the Supreme Court of the
District; Morgan H. Beach was appointed
District attorney by the Supreme Court,
pending congressional action on his nomi-
nation. The National Board Of Trade held
its thirty-third annual convention. Physi-
clans employed by the board Of charities
were forbidden to receive fees from poor
patients. The Washington Jockey Club con-
veyed the Benning race track property to
August Belmont Of New York. Miss Jessie
E. Thomas, twenty years Of age; Henry c.
Hamil, thirty-siX years Of age, and Arthur
Wasserbach. twenty-six years old. were
drowned in the tidal basin while skating.
Emma Carter. two years DID, was burned to
death by her dress catching at stove.
Curran l.. Gemmill Of York, Pa, travelling
salesman. committed suicide by jumping
from third-story window al the National
Hotel. Among those who died were Repre-
sentative Thomas H. Tongue Of Oregon and
Mr.. Frederick Pilling a well-known retired
business man.