Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
WEEK ENDING FEB. IS, 1904.

Fire destroyed the entire wholesale dis
t-ict of Baltimore from Liberty street to
Jones Falls, east and west. and from Lex
ington to Pratt streets. and the wharves on
the basin. north and south. the estimated
loss being $So.000.O00; no lives were lost.
The President issued a proclamation declar.
ing the neutrality of this government dur
ing the Russo-Japanese war Secretary Of
State Hay sent note to the powers declar-
ing the position of the United States to
the limit of the operations Of the Russian
and Japanese forces and looking to the es-
tablishment of neutral zone" in China.
The Dominican minister called at the State
Department to express regret for the killing
of Machinist Johnston of the Yankee. War
ships were ordered to proceed to Honduras
and Santo Domingo to protect American in
terests. The naval appropriation bill was
reported to the Senate, which also passed
the diplomatic and consular appropriations
bill; $40 pension bills were passed by the
House in 1855 minutes; the Senate decided to
fix a time next Monday when vote shall
be taken on the Panama canal treaty. The
United States Shipbuiding Company was
declared by the circuit court In Newark.
N. j., to be insolvent, and Il permanent re-
ceiver was appointed. Senator Hanna's ill.
ness took turn for the worse. Mrs. Helen
w. Post, mental science healer, was con-
victed in Jacksonville, Fla. of a charge OF
deysing scheme to defraCd through the
mails. Four persons were killed and three
reported missing in fire in Brooklyn, n. Y.
Luther Holbert,, colored, and his wife were
lynched by burning in Mississippi for the
killing of farmer Four persons were Kill
ed and three wounded in a clash between
union and non-union laborerS at Coal creek,
Tenn.
Foreign Affairs.
War was declared between Russia and
Japan; within the first twenty-four hours
of the conflict the Japanese had captured
of disabled eleven Russian warships; three
Russian transports. with 1900 troops. were
also captured; Japanese troops were landed
at Chemulpo. Korea, and sent to Seoul: a
bridge the Manchurian railroad was
blown up 30 Russians being killed; the
Russian torpedo transport Yenisei was
blown up, the captain and three officers
and ninety-one men being drowned The
British government issued a blue book
showing that England had protested
against Russia's claims to Thibet. En-
peror William dined with United States
Ambassador Tower. new Servian cabi-
net was formed. Earthquake shocks were
felt at Brasso and Kezdi. Hungary. Fifty
workmen were killed by the caving in
of an embankment at st. Petersburg. Fiji
teen persons were killed and twenty in
jured in a wreck the Canadian Pacific
railroad near Ottawa. Canada. A fierce
battle was fought at Santo Domingo city
In which both sides lost heavily.
In the District.
The Commissioners concluded their con-
ferences with the subcommittee of The
House appropriations committee on the
District of Columbia appropriation bill. A
verdict of not guilty was rendered by the
direction of the court in the case of Mrs.
Martha ]. Lorenz in the Post Office Depart
ment conspiracy case. The National Amer
lean Woman Suffrage Associate held its
thirty-sxth annual meeting. Sergt. An
thony Shilling, metropolitan police, was
appointed a lieutenant. vice Lieut.. Swim
dells. promoted to be captain in the
place of Capt. Heffner. retired. st. Marks
Evangelical Lutheran Church was almost
destroyed by fire, the damage amounting to
about $1,000. Emmor G. Moore, a book
keeper, committed suicide by taking poi
SON and shooting. Mrs. Elizabeth Hyatt
seventy-six years of age. committed suicide
by jumping from window. Among those
who died was w. B. Powell formerly su-
perintendent of schools in this city, at
Mt. Vernon. N. Y.