Evening star., 1904-01-23
WEEK ENDING JANUARY 90, 1904.

The annual state reception to the judi
ciary was held at the White House. The
Panama canal treaty. with several amend
ments, was reported to the Senate. The
Senate adopted the German resolutions
calling upon the administration for records
of previous acts of Intervention in Colom-
bia, New Granada. The Senate also
discussed the post Office inquiry resolutions
Senator Morgan introduced bill providing
for the annexation of Panama. The House
passed the pure food bill and discussed the
army appropriation bill. Secretary Root
advanced a plan to consolidate the adJutant
generals office with the record and pension
division of the War Department, the chief
to be known as military secretary. The
controller of the treasury made report
on the investigation of the finances OF the
interstate commerce commission, the sec
retary of the commission being exonerated.
The Supreme Court decided that the four
teenth amendment permits a negro accused
of crime to go before grand jury COM
posed of negroes. The value of raw cotton
exports the last calendar year was $3TS.-
$751; the greatest in this countrys his
tory. The formal calls for the democratic
and republican national conventions We're
issued. The United States district court in
Denver Col, upheld the right of the state
militia to arrest and hold a laborer without
a warrant The annual convention of the
United Mine Workers met in Indianapolis
The United States Steel Corporations tube
a
fire with probable loss of s3.00o,OOO Fire
damaged the wholesale district of Buffalo,
N. Y, to the extent OF $2o0COo All OF the
western rivers We're reported to De IN
swollen state and grave fears of flood were
expressed in Pennsylvania, Ohio and In.
diana. cyclone destroyed the town OF
Moundville. Ala. causing the death OF -
persons and the injuring of over 100. Seven
negroes were instantly killed by a boiler
explosion at James City, n. c. The burst
ing of a fy-wheel at Johnstown, Pa,
caused the death of three workmen and
the serious injury of nine others. An ex-
plosion which wrecked hotel building in
Marion Ind, killed three people. fatally
hurt two and badly injured ten. While IN
sane Mrs. Louise f. Elan of New YORK
killed her two children and committed sui
eide by shooting. Among those who died
was George Francis Train in New York
Foreign Affairs.
The United States entered into corre-
spondence with France and Great Britain
with view to mediation between Russia
and Japan. The opinion expressed in 81.
Petersburg and London was that Russia
was not likely to accept Japans latest
propositions, although the car continued
to talk peace; continued preparations TOT
war were carried on by both nations. queen
Wilhelmina opened the festivities at Ihe
Hague that marked the golden jubilee of
the queen mother. Emperor Wllllam as
King of Prussia opened the Prussian diet
in unusual state. The Middle european
Economic Society, one of whose objects Is
to combat American trade competition, was
founded in Berlin. King Peter of SerV1a
was reported to be on the eve of abdlcation
Five persons connected with the conspiracy
headed by Gen. Monplaisir in Hayu against
Gen. Nord were condemned and executed,
while several foreigners were deported.
Santo Domingo government troops captured
Porto Plata from the rebels; Minister of
Foreign Affairs Sanchez left Santo Domingo
for Washington to ask recognition by the
United States of the present administration
in the Dominican capital. The Uruguayan
government was victorious in three Dattles
with rebels the latter losing about 800 men.
Over sixty persons were drowned and a
number of buildings were demolished py
the bursting of reservoir at Bioemfon-
tein Orange River colony. Among those
who died was Sir Henry Keppel a veteran
British admiral.
In the District.
The House committee the District
granted hearings to the Commissioners on
measures of local interest and ordered
favorable report to be made on the bill
creating a board for the condemnation of
insanitary buildings; the first District day
OF the session occurred in the House and
the bill for the abatement of nuisances was
passed; the Senate committee on the Dis
trict passed upon legislation of local in
terest, favorably reporting the bill grant
ing the Commissioners power to remit fines
and grant pardons in police court offenses;
the Commissioners forwarded to Congress
a bill providing for three classes of privates
in the police department; an estimate of
$4,000 was made by the Commissioners
for the cost of replacing wooden stairways
in the schools with iron or stone. The
trial of August w. Machen and others
charged with conspiracy in connection with
the post office frauds was continued. The
excise board of the District issued an order
limiting the hours when liquor may be sold
in clubs. A committee to conduct the re-
publican primaries for delegates to the ma
tional convention was appointed. Numer-
Gus applications were made for member
ship in the proposed University Club of
Washington. The National Board of Trade
held it's thirty-fourth annual convention.
The Carnegie Institution decided to estab-
lish departments of economics and So
ciology and experimental biology, and
marine biological laboratory Fire
threatended the destruction of the build
ing occupied by the Y. M. c. A,
causing a loss of 5000. Leroy A. Cole
man, seventeen years old was drowned
while skating the tidal basin. Miss
Mary Waller, an employe of the bureau of
engraving and printing, was accidentally
suffocated by gas while asleep in her room.
Luigi Coratoli, charged with having stabbed
his prospective motherin-law, was arrested
at Springfield, Ohio.