Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-28
TEE wEHx ENDING Nay Is, 1900


| n,tal prize-day exercises OF the school at
| Groton Mass. Secretary Hay decided that
| the United States will protect the CAPTION
! Hankow railway in China as an American
| enterprise. Rear Admiral Chadwick. pur-
| suant to orders. sent the cruiser Brooklyn
| to Tangfer. Morocco, in connection with
| the Perdicaris abduction case. The war
| ships recently authorized Ivy Congress were
| named-ba ,.eship,-. New Hampshire ar
| mored cruisers, North Carolina and Mon
! tana; scout ships. Chester. Birmingham
and Salem. Fifty-three Fiiipnos friendly
to Americans were maSsacred by Moros
near Malabang, Mindanao. The Agricui-
| tural Department announced the discovery
| In Guatemala of a red ant that Is destruc-
| tive of the cotton boil weevil Census Di-
rector North estimated the population In
! 1910 at S9.0&1, 436. Colombia objected TO re-
| ceiving at present a minister from the
United States. Democratic state conVen-
| tions were held In Ohio. Tennessee. Mary
| land and Alabama, all but the last Nance,
which instructed for Parker, sending unin-
| structed delegations to st. Louis. me coai
! inquiry was continued before the Interstate
commerce commission. The congressman
merchant marine commission began Its IN
| vestigations in New York, later goshs 10
| Baltimore. Argument In the Northern Sc
| curities Company suit was resumed IN me
| United States circuit court at trenton, y
j. The question of organic uhon WAS tne
| chief matter discussed by members OF the
general assemblies of the Southern, NORTH
| ern and Cumberland Presbyterians at MO
| bile Buffalo and Dallas. respectively. The
general conference of the Methodist Epis-
] copal Church North was held at Los AN
| geles. The Baptist Home Mission society
| at Cleveland took strong ground against
divorce TIE third biennial meeting OF the
conference of Hebrew charities opened IN
New York. The Federation OF women
Clubs met at st. Louis. Twenty-e'ght
blocks of buildings were burned at Yazoo
City, Miss, rendering 800 persons nome
less. Ten miners were suffocated at VII
Jamestown, Pa. Thirteen persons We're
killed in the explosion OF toWDoat Vi,
Louisville Three persons were killed ana
two fatally injured by an explosion OF hre-
works in a Camden IN. j. factory. seven
persons were killed. five fatally injured ana
Twelve to fifteen others hurt by an expo
sion in torpedo and fireworks factory at
Findlay Ohio. Peter Eliot, or Olsen, VINO
created a scene at the White House In DC
tober last committed suicide in Mime
apolis.
Kin Chou. twelve miles from Port Arthur,
was taken by the japanese after desperate
nghting. in which they were reported to
have lost ~ 600 men; Vice Admiral Togo
again bombarded Port Arthur and estab-
| Hshed blockade around the southern end
| of the Liao-Tung peninsula. completing the
development the japanese torpedo-poat de-
stroyer Akatsuki was struck by sheil anu
| % men were killed; the Russian pattle
| ship Orel sank at CronStadt as result VI
| carelessness, but was refioated northern
| Korea was reported to be overrun by COS
| sacks, who also captured some japanese
| guns at Feng Wang Cheng, in Manchurla'
| the cZarinaS hospital train LETT ST. PETERS
| burg A Moroccan official was reported 10
| have left to meet Raisuli, the bandit CHIEF,
being empowered to grant all his demands
| If he releases Ion Perdicaris and Cromwep
Marley from captivity. France withdrew
her secretary of legation, as well as nef
ambassador, from the Vatican, and the
| chamber of deputies, by an overwhelming
vote approved the course Of the govern
ment. The international tuberculosis con-
| gress began at Copenhagen. Cardinal Sa-
| TOLL left Rome on his way to the United
States. An anti-Semite riot was reported
| at Chotyn. Bessarabia, Russia, in which
many hundreds of Jews were injured and
had their homes destroyed. Renal Pasha,
| the son-n-law of the Sultan of Turkey, was
exiled as a result of the discovery of Sc
cret correspondence; it was reported that
! the sultan contemplated forcing Armenian
villagers to leave the mountains and live
on the plains, where he can control them.
Col. Younghusband's British expedition in
Tibet was reported to be surrounded and to
have suffered a serious setback. Uruguayan
government troops defeated the rebels.
causing loss of $50 men. Severe fighting
| took place between government and revo-
| lutionarya troops in Santo Domingo; the
| Dominican rebels were reported to be rap
idly following up their victory at Esper-
ANA. Chinese gunboats threatened the
Portuguese colony of Macao. owing to the
non-delivery of a fugitive from justice.
In the District
President Roosevelt directed the heads of
the various executive departments to COM
ply with the anti-smoke law. Mr.. E. South
ard Parker was appointed a member of the
board of education, vice James E. Fitch
resigned. The Commissioners decided to
spend $4,000 in putting the plumbing in
the various school houses of the District
in thorough order The corporation ceun-
sci decided that national banks doing bust
ness in the District must pay personal
tax on the interest derived from United
States bonds held by them. The act of
Congress providing for the removal of
snow and Ice from the sidewalks was de-
clared void by the Court of Appeals. The
Association of Transportation and Car Ac-
counting Officers was formed. Members of
the local bar rendered Justice c. Pritch-
ard a silver bowl on his retirement. CO.
lumbar Law School won its first victory
in debate with Georgetown Law School.
James N. Tyner and Harrison ]. Barrett
were acquitted of conspiracy to defraud
the government in connection with the
post office cases. Several arrests were
made result of the crusade against
the hand book method of betting on
races. John w. Burnley, colored, convicted
of rape, was sentenced to be hanged. Hill
dra Simms. colored, was killed by falling
lumber at 18th and D streets southeast.
Mary Hartigan, twenty-three years old
was fatally burned Richard Queen, a
Waterman at Kings wharf. fell overheard
and was drowned. Joseph Carmody. fif-
teen years old, was drowned in the Poto-
mac. Mrs Fanny Reed Griffin, twenty
eight years old, and William Rider, a ne
gro, committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid; Aaron Stern seventy-four years old,
War Department messenger committed
suicide in that building by shooting John
M Hutchinson, reported missing since Sat
urday. was found dead in a Baltimore ho-
tel. Among others who died were Lieut..
Charles nj. Mccartney of the photographic
office, War Department. and Arthur James
McGuiggan, well-known newspaper man.
Deaths In the District.
The following deaths were reported to the
health office for the twenty-four hours end