Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-29
WEEK ENDING AUGUST 90, 1908.

The State Department was advised that
Vice Consul w. c. Magelssen at Beirut,
Syria, was shot at but escaped unframed:
President Roosevelt Immediately ordered
the European squadron to proceed to
Beirut to support any demand for redress
to be made of Turkey. The President ac-
cepted the resignation of Elihu Root as
Secretary of War, to take effect January I.
and designated VIM. N. Taft. governor
general of the Philippines, to succeed him;
Gen. Luke b. Wright was named to sue
coed Judge Taft as governor general OF the
Philippines. Reliance won two races from
Shamrock III, the first by seven minutes,
three seconds and the second by one min
ute, nineteen seconds. The army was CIV
en- the victory over the navy in the naval
war game or the Maine coast Public
Printer Palmer ordered all the employees
Of the government printing office to take
the oath of allegiance to the United States
Officials connected with the land depart
ment of the Indian territory requested q
full investigation by Secretary Hitchcock
into alleged land scandals. The American
Bar Association met in annual session at
Hot Springs. Va. The board of concilia-
ton for the anthracite region met In New
York and heard disputed questions. The
democratic state convention OF Ohio nomi-
mated Tom L. johnson by reclamation for
platform; the Nebraska democratic state
convention reaffirmed the same platform.
Lou Dillon broke the worlds trotting rec
ord on mile track, going in 200. PillaEer
and Bear Island Indians were reported to
have begun war dances in Minnesota and
settlers sought places Of safety. Heavy
damages were inflicted by rain and floods
in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri.
napoHs Water Company's canal at Fair
view Park, Indianapolis, drowning a wo-
man with her baby and injuring fifty
others. Three persons were drowned by
the oyerturning of carriage into creek
near Pittsburg. An explosion at the In
dependent Powder Companys works near
Carthage, Mo-, killed three persons and in
jured three others, one fatally. Six sailors
of schooner in collision with a steamer
near New Haven, Conn. Seven lives were
lost in storm which swept over New York
city and vicinity. Two men were killed by
Ill; two trainmen were killed in
the New York Central near Little
Falls. N. Y; two persons were kill
cursion train filled with Elks near Che
halls, Wash. Walking Delegate Sam
Parks convicted Of extorting money from
a contractor for settling strike in New
T. Goodwin, who committed suicide in
Philadelphia last summer, was charged by
his former employers with having stolen
81 OOO, 600 belonging to the firm. Among
those who died were Frederick L. Ohm
stead, the noted landscape architect; Major
Chas. H. Smith, known in the literary
world as bill Arp and John Blazer, once
a noted abolitionist.
Foreign Affairs.
Revolutionary bands appeared at a village
within six hours of Constantinople, but
were vanquished by the Turks, three Bull
garian villages in the neighborhood being
devastated; an express train between Con-
stantinople and Bucharest was blown up by
dynamite near Adrianople. seven persons be-
ing killed and fifteen injured; details of the
conflict at kurschevo, Macedonia. show
that the city was sacked for three days by
the Turks; Turks were also reported to
have devastated twenty-five villages In the
Monastir district; the Russian squadron
sailed from Turkish waters, Turkey having
yielded to the demands of Russia. The re-
port Of the British commission on the South
African war stated that the number OF Brit
ish troops engaged was 44S, 435. Eight men
of the crew of the yacht Lorena, owned by
A. L. Barber, were drowned near Colches-
ter, England. The sixth Zionist congress
met at Basic, Switzerland. A large tract
of land in east Africa was offered by Great
Britain to Jews for colonization, an autono-
nous government subject to British suzer-
ainty being guaranteed; committee was
appointed by congress to investigate the
matter. M. and Nine. Humbert were sem
fenced to five years solitary confinement In
Paris for swindling. Twenty soldiers were
killed and eighty injured in a collision of
trains near Udine, Italy, where royal re-
ed by the bursting of steam pipe on the
steamer Neckar, bound for Baltimore, while
in the North Sea. The Congregation of the
Propaganda recommended the appointment
of Francis Bourne of Southwark, England,
as archbishop of Westminster. Rev. Thos.
A. Hendrick of Rochester, N. Y, was con-
secrated in Rome as bishop of Cebu, Philip
pine Islands. A great assure opened in the
side of Vesuvius and the flow Of lava occa-
stoned great alarm among nearby inhabit-
ants Fire in a fancy goods factory in
Budapest caused the death of twenty-five
persons and the injury of sixty others
Many lives were lost in the Cayman Islands
during the hurricane which devastated ia
maica. Floods in China caused great loss
of life, 300 Chinese being drowned in Chefoo
alone. Among those who died were Lord
Salisbury, ex-premier of Great Britain, and
Gen. MenOtti Garibaldi, eldest son OF the IA
nous Italian patriot.
In the District.
Assistant Attorney General Robb of the
Post Office Department decided that the
District of Columbia was not a part Of the
federal government, in that 1t did not have
the right to make use Of the franking privi-
lege. In an opinion on the matter Of the
District renting a building for detention
camp purposes Controller Tracewell of the
treasury decided that as the District Is a
branch of the federal government no con-
tract can be made for the rent of a build
ing until an appropriation is made there
for. The new District auditor submitted
suggestions to the Commissioners in the
matter of the transfer of funds. A petition
signed by many women of Georgetown ask
Ing for needed improvements in that part
of the city was received by the Commits
sioners. The sale Of houses on the pro-
posed site for the union station was con-
tnued. DR.. William A. White, first assist
ant of the Binghamton, N. Y, State Asy
lum for the Insane, was rendered and ac-
cepted the position of superintendent OF
the Government Hospital for the Insane.
Roland Sparks, colored, eleven years old.
was drowned in the river. A new pool
room enterprise was started at the District
line on the Great Falls railroad. August
Shaffer killed his wife at the corner of Attn
and H streets northwest. William Wal
dron, formerly an inmate Of the Soldiers
Home, committed suicide at hotel.
man known as 'Bilr' McEdwards attemnted
to commit suicide in judiciary SQUARE nv
taking poison. Among those who died Was
DR.. r. Henderson Graham, welI-known
physician. w."
Branch Office, 7th and T SITS. N. ".
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