Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-16
WEEK ENDING APRIL 1e, 1904.

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| The President nominated Gov. w. H.
Hunt OF Porto Rico to be United States
Judge for the district of Montana. Don
Cecilio Baez. Paraguay's first minister to
| the United States. was presented to the
| President. The State Department was
| notified by the Russian government that
| newspaper correspondents caught using
wireless biography would be treated as
spies and shot. Gen. Wood reported two
| Americans killed and four wounded In
| fights with the Moro Sultan Taraca's
| forces. The Senate passed the pest Office
| appropriation bill. the bill for the govern
| ment of the Panama canal zone and consid-
cred the sundry civil appropriation bill; it
| tabled Mr.. Germans amendment providing
| for the investigation of the Post Office De-
| partment by commission: a special Sen
ate committee exonerated Senator Dietrich
| from blame in connection with charges
| made affecting post Office patronage. The
House passed the emergency river and har-
Dor appropriation bill, the bill giving
government guarantee of interest on capital
invested in railroad construction in the
Philippines, and considered the bill amend
| ing the law relating to the Philippines and
the general deficiency appropriation bill;
the Mccall investigating committee report
ed that 1t found no evidence to implicate
members of Congress in any unlawful post
office transactions; the republican congress
sI0nal campaign committee reelected Jos.
w. Babcock Of Wisconsin chairman. The
United States Supreme Court decided that
1t was without Jurisdiction in the suit of
the state of Minnesota against the North
ern Securities Company. The motion of +.
H. Hartman and Winslow s. Pierce to in
teTvene in the settlement of the Northern
Securities liquidation decree taken be-
fore the United States district court at st.
Paul, Mimi Replying to papers filed by At
torney General Knox Federal Judge Wing
of Ohio says he refused to hold alleged
Cinnamon for deportation because their IA
tionality was not positively proved. The
United States Supreme Court denied writ
OF habeas corpus sought by George w.
Beavers. formerly chief of the salary and
allowance division of the Post Office De-
partment. Andrew Carnegie created a fund
OF 100000 for the benefit Of the de-
pendents of those who lose their lives in
heroic efforts to save their fellow men or
who are themselves injured The highest
bid for all of the 100000 Philippine GER
t.fcates of Indebtedness was 1O1. ISL. The
democratic campaign in the west was in
augurated at the IroQuois Club banquet in
Chicago. Philadelphia authorities refused
to allow Emma Goldman the anarchist, TO
speak publicly in that city. Three passen-
gers were killed, two fatally hurt and
twenty injured by the overturnng of
street car IN Santa Barbara, Cal Serious
race troubles threatened in Kansas City.
Kan. over the murder of school boy by q
negro.
Foreign Affairs.
The Russian battle ship Petropavlovsk
was blown up and sank in two min
utes outside Of Port Arthur. six hun
dred officers and men of the crew be-
ing lost, together with Vice Admiral Maka-
rolf and Vassili Verestchagin, the famous
Russian painter, who was his guest on
board; the japanese claimed that they had
set the mine which blew up the ship; the
Grand Duke Cyril was injured by the ex-
plosion; the Russians also lost torpedo
boat destroyer, sunk by the Japanese fleet.
in which forty-five lives were lost; the Rus
sian battle ship Pobieda was torpedoed or
struck mine which disabled here; the jap
anese army reached the Yalu, having over
run all Of that country, and skirmishes
were reported between the Russians and
Japanese al that point; the japanese fleet
again bombarded Port Arthur; Russia de-
manded the withdrawal of the Chinese
troops from the Manchurian frontier to
within fve-mile limit of the great wall;
the imperial palace at Seoul, Korea was
destroyed by fire, supposed to have been
the work of malcontents; Russia accepted
the new Anglo-French treaty as guarantee
against complications in the far east. The
British house of commons voted to sanction
the employment of Indian troops in the
Tibet mission; local Tibetan officials sued
Col. Younghusband, commander of the Brit
ish Tibet expedition, for peace; the Mad
Mullah escaped from the British in Somali-
land; 1t was reported that arrangements for
a Zionist colony in Africa under British
protection have been successfully closed
Emperor William visited Mr.. and Mrs Cor
nelius Vanderbilt their yacht at SYRIA
cuse, Sicily. Count Won KanitZ, the agra
rian leader in the reichstag, argued for a
reciprocity treaty between Germany and the
United States; caricatures of President
Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt by name on
the stage We're stopped by the Berlin police;
heavy additional losses were inflicted on the
Germans In Southwest Africa by the natives
who are in revolt. Col. Marchand the hero
of Fashoda, resigned from the French army
Premier Maura was stabbed in the breast
at Barcelona by anarchist youth but
was not severely injured. Soldiers at Bel
nut, Syria, fired the Turkish governor
United States Minister Powell at Santo
Domingo notified the government there that
settlement of the money due on account
of the claims of Americans was expected
May 1.
In the District
The Senate committee on the District of
Columbia passed a number of local
bills, directing an unfavorable report on
the House bill to provide for the accept
ance Of land by the Commissioners for
branch public libraries and their mainte-
nance; the House committee on the Dis
trict also passed upon number of local
measures, and determined to grant a fur
Their hearing on the proposed crosstown
railroad; the general deficiency and the
sundry civil appropriation bills, each con-
tanning local items, We're considered the
former by the House and the latter by the
Senate; an omnibus bill providing a num-
Der of amendments to existing tax laws
was reported to the House; a Senate SUBJ
committee granted hearing on the bill to
provide for the condemnation of insanitary
buildings. The Commissioners forwarded
to Congress their report on the proposed
conduit for the waters of Rock creek;
Commissioner Macfarland submitted to the
corporation counsel draft of a compul-
sorry education law; following an opinion
of the corporation counsel, the Commits
sioners issued order to the collector of
taxes to make a levy on the property of
the Metropolitan and Columbia railway
companies unless those companies pay
within ten days their taxes, for the year
ended June 30, 1903. The Supreme Court of
the District made ruling that hereafter
only qualified jurors shall receive pay as
such. The engineer department announced
that work on the foundation of the NUM-
cipaI building will begin June Is. The en-
gineers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company decided upon the temporary
tracks to be used by trains during the con-
structiOn of the union station. DR. T. c.