Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-06
WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 9, 1904.

WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 8, 1904.
President Roosevelt sent to tho Senate a
mass OF correspondence relating to the vari-
GUS landings of United States troops in
Panama in past years. Judge William III.
Taft was sworn in Secretary Of War.
The annual report of the Philippine COM
mission was submitted, American ships in
Turkish waters were ordered to participate
in the Culebra maneuvers. The Panama
situation was again discussed In the Senate:
the Senate passed the urgent deficiency
bill, including appropriation for the St.
Louis fair; the House passed the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill. the urgent
deficiency bill, the agricultural appropria-
ton bill and granted Resident Commissioner
Federico Degetau of Porto Rico authority
equal to that OF delegates from a territory.
The conference of bituminous coal mine
owners and miners adjourned at Indianapo-
lis without reaching an agreement on the
wage scale. John d. Rockefeller resigned
as Il director of the United States Steel Cor
poration. The price of July cotton reached
the highest price since 1874. A blizzard
ragged in the northwest and many places
were snowbound. The bodies Of between
twenty and thirty men who persisted from
thirst while crossing the desert between
Moapa and Los Vegas. New, were found.
Three firemen were killed and fifteen in
Jured during fire In New York. Five men
were killed by powder explosion at the
Five men and boy burned TO death at
Trenton, Pa. An explosion of natural gas
in West Liberty, Pa, killed two persons
and severely injured six. Two men were
killed and twenty injured in collision on
the Chicago Terminal railway in Chicago.
Among those who died were Mr.. William
c. Whitney. Secretary of the Navy under
President Cleveland, in New York.
Foreign Affairs.
The Japanese minister to ST. Petersburg
made preliminary preparations to leave the
Russian capital; the Japanese minister to
Great Britain stated that if Russia refused
to sign treaty defining Chinas rights in
Manchuria, Japan would fight; the Russian
fleet sailed from Port Arthur: japanese
troops seized the Seoul-Fusan railroad in
Korea and carried artillery to Seoul; Rus
sian troops were also reported to be on
their way to that city. Mrs. Florence May
brick was Professionally released from
prison in England prior to receiving a
pardon. 1t was decided to abolish the post
of commander-in-chiefo of the British army
and introduce other radical reforms in
army administration. The Servian cabinet
resigned. A tidal wave swept the coast OF
Penmarch, Department of Finfstere, in
melting an immense amount of damage.
Premier Combes threatened severe meas
ures against prelates who are criticisms
acts of the French government The
Anglo-Italian arbitration treaty was signed
in Rome Consul SINNERS American mis-
sion to Abyssinia returned to Marseie.
The ports of Santo Domingo were taken by
Gen. Morales forces; insurgents de1iber.
ately fired on the launch of the L. s. s.
Yankee, killing j. G. Johnston an engineer,
L. 8. Minister Powell directed the captain
OF the Yankee to take drastic measures &c
avenge Johnston's death and the Insult to
the American flag Minister Squiers asked
President Palma of Cuba for the punish.
ment of Cienfuegos rioters who threw mud
on the U. s. consulate there. Uruguayan
rebels won an important victory over gov
ernment troops at San Ramon. Nothing
was heard from the governor of German
Southwest Africa, who has been making q
long march to the rescue of threatened
forts. Hundreds of persons were reported
killed by a volcanic eruption in the Island
OF Java. An explosion of powder killed
forty persons in the Punjab province OF
India
In the District.
The Commissioners made a favorable re-
port on the bills to allow the City and
Suburban. Washington Railway and Elec-
trio and the Capital Traction companies 10
extend their street car lines to the union
station; the Commissioners received the
draft of a new pharmacy law restricting
the sale of poisons. The House passed
bills for the condemnation of insanitary
buildings, to allow the Commissioners TO
rename streets outside of the city limits
and TO prevent the docking Of horses tais
the Senate committee on the District au-
thorized favorable reports on the bill to
allow the remaining of streets and the bill
TO regulate electric wiring The National
Republican Editorial Association held its
annual meeting. The thirty sixth annual
encampment of the Department of the Po-
tomac. G. A. r., was held. Rev. w H.
Pratt of Petersburg, w. Va, accepted "A
call to the pulpit of the Second Presbytee.
rian Church. The second annual cat show
was held. In the Machen trial two Jurors
complained to Justice Prftchard that they
had received letters intimating that they
ought to stand by the government. Joseph
Scotland, colored, was burned to death
after upsetting iamp. Washington Nc
CURE, sixty-five years old, was found dead
in an apartment house elevator Patrick
Linskey. fiftytwo years old, an inmate of
the Soldiers Home. committed suicide by
taking poison. Clarence c. Turner to-
bacco drummer, committed suicide by in
haling illuminating gas.