Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
WEEK ENDING APRIL IS. 1904.


| the Senate bill for the government OF the
Panama canal zone: the House passed the
! general deficiency appropriation bill. the
statehood bill and substitute for tie
Senate canal zone bill: the Snoot inquiry
was resumed. The cabinet considered the
question of government supervision of wire
| less biography during time of war. Sea-
| rotary of War Taft approved the general
STATS plan regarding army camp sites
Capt. Cowles' report on the explosion
| the battle ship Missouri was made public
| The United circuit court at st. Paul de-
MED the applicat ton of Z. H. Hartman
| and w. s. Pierce for leave to interfere IN
the case of the United States against the
| Northern Securities Company. Gov. Jen-
| ninEs of Florida called a convention at
Tampa to consider how the south may take
| commercial advantage of the building OF
the Panama canal. The democratic state
convention of New York instructed for
| Judge Parker; the democratic state con-
yention of Massachusetts Instructed for
| Richard Olney; the Pennsylvania demo-
| cratic delegation was uninstructed: West
Virginia democrats declared for sGorinn
and then Parker. Blizzard conditions pre-
vailed in the north and west and cold
| weather extended as far south Char
| lotte. N. c. Two women and four children
| were burned to death in striking minors
house, fired by-an incendiary, at Garrett,
| Pa. David Rothschild. president of the
| suspended Federal Bank in New York. was
arrested on the charge OF misappropriat-
| ing s20O.000. The Church of the Evening
| Lights was dynamited while services were
| in progress al Blackburn Ind, and twenty
| women and children were injured. Tster
Niedermeyer, Gustav Marx and Harvey
Vandine. three of the car-barn bandits.
were hanged in Chicago. Among those wi-o
died was Mrs. Sarah Jane Lippencott,
known to the literary world under the pen
name of Grace Greenwood"
Foreign Affairs.
Twenty-one Russians. including an off,
cer were killed by the premature explo-
sion of mine they were placing at Port
Arthur; the Japanese landed force on
the Liaotung peninsula and a concerted
movement against Manchuria, following
landing at Newchang. was reported
imminent; General Kuropatkn ordered
10000 reserves to Nieuchang and mined
the Lao river; skirmishfng between the
Russians and japanese along the Yalu
continued almost constantly: the first of
fourteen submarine boats for the Russian
navy started from st. Petersburg for the
far east; Vice Admiral Skrydloff, Max
aroffs successor, was given an ovation at
st. Petersburg; Viceroy Alexieff applied
to the cZar to be relieved from his post
on account of previous friction between
Skyrdloff and himself; the japanese
claimed that they destroyed the Petro-
pavlovsk by countermines. A fire Destroy
ed property covering fourteen acres in
Toronto, Canada, fnflicting a loss of S13.-
ouV,uob- Oh winch ABOUT $1opn,Vu
covered by insurance. The general coun-
ell of the bar of England adopted resolu-
tons favoring an Anglo American arbi-
tration treaty; the British budget intro
duced in the house OF. commons. provided
for higher taxes on incomes. tea and to-
bacco; coach OF the train bearing King
Edward and Queen Alexandra from
copenhagen left the track, but the royal
party was uninjured The contract by
which possession of the Panama canal
passes to the United States was signed
sealed and delivered. complete. at Paris;
Henry lselin. a prominent American in
Paris, was arrested there on a charge of
alleged financial Irregularities; Col Mar
chand, the hero of Fashoda" who wrote
letter crlticising his associates in the
french army, was arrested: special pre-
cautions were taken to insure President
Loubets safety during his visit to Italy
GERMAN forces in southwest Africa were
reported to be in need of heavy Reinforced
ments In order to cope with the native
rebels there All of the state railroads
OF hungary were brought to a stapdstitl
as the result of a strike About 100 min
erS were buried by an avalanche near the
village of Pragelato. Italy; an avalanche
from the Spltzhorn swept away the ham
let oil Muehlback,: Switzerland thirteen
persons being killed. The worlds SUNDAY
sohool convention, meeting in JerusaIey,
erected f. X. Warren president Fishery
interests of Newfoundland protested
as snalis, the provision OF the Anglo French
agreement ending the catching season
octoper 70, six months earlier than M
present. The Australian cabfnet rasignad
on account of an adverse vote In parlia
ineht on the labor question fast north
bound train on the Mexican railroad W..
wrecked near Zacatecas and eleven ner-
s suns We're Killed and forty-nine Injured.
In the District. 20
The House of Representatives voted AZ
continue ts policy of placing the whole
cost OF street openings upon the abuttinx
a ha
passed a number of bills of local interest
on District day: the Senate voted for an
once building for its use. to be located
north or the Capitol, and agreed to a rnodi-
ned form of the House provision for the
extension of the Capitol; the general def
clency Dill. carrying items of local interest
was reported to the Senate. confarees acraed
upon the House bill TO authorize the anpre-
hension and detention of insane persons: the
senate passed the House bill to provide
Tor the payment of damages on account of
changes of grade at the union station; the
senate adopted the House bill to regulate
electric wiring in the District: the Senate
ADOPTED an amendment providing for a
statue OF Thomas Jefferson in this city: the
House passed and the Senate committee on
the District ordered favorable report on
the omnibus bill amending the tax laws of
the District; favorable report was author
lied in the House on the bill to permit the
Anacostia, Surra ttsvlle and Brandywiue
Railway Company to enter the District; a
House on the bill to reorganize the District
militia. The corporation counsel decided
that the District cannot buy repudiated
bonds of the state of South Carolina be-
cause, according to court decisions the Dis
tr1ct is not state. Citizens made protest
to the Commissioners against the proposed
closing of F street at the union station.
Louis p. Zinkhan was declared to be elief-
BILE for appointment intendant of the
Washington Asylum Prince Lun Bui Tsee
nephew of the Emperor of China arrived
in Washington, with suite Of thirty per-
sons. on a government mission. The thir-
teenth annual continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution was
held; the cornerstone of their proposed Con-
tinental Hall was laid with appropriate GER
emonies; the National Academy OF Sci
ences held its second meeting of the year.
Samuel A. Croft was suspended from the
police force pending his appeal to a higher
court in the post Office cases The quarrel
over the pastorate of the Metropolitan Col
ored Baptist Church was carried to court.
Toliver Waters, eleven years Old was run
over by Baltimore and Ohio engine and
killed. Frank Clements, colored, was ideR-
titled by Jacob Levin, the South Washing
ton grocer. as his assailant. Clark Muir
ply. colored, died while on his way to this
city after being shot at Sligo. Md. Rein