Evening journal., 1904-05-13
The Worlds News
WASHINGTON.

The government viii continue the
policy Of educating a limited number
Of young F'ilipinos in American schools
and colleges.
The long and bitter legal contest be-
tween the Burns-Hicks and Hayes fac
tions Of the knights Of Labor was de-
cided in favor of the former by the
District OF Columbia Equity Court.
The British Government has made
formal representations to the State
Department relative TO the killing of a
non union miner, a British subject, by
Colorado strikers.
The investigation OF the New York
city postoffice by the Postoffice De-
lpartment exonerated Postmaster Van
Cott Of any intentional wrongdoing.
POLITICAL.
Indiana Democrats instructed the
thirty delegates from that state to
st. Louis TO vote as a unit for Judge
Parker.
Hearst partisans bolted the District
! of Columbia Democratic Convention,
and selected a contesting delegation to
st. Louis.
It was announced before the Illinois
Republican Convention that Congress-
man Hit would accept the Vice -Presl-
dental nomination If rendered him.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. has
given up the fight TO control the Him
ois Democratic Convention, conceding
that the Hearst Hopkins forces have
defeated him.
FOREIGN.
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camp at Gyantse the whole day long
from a fort only 1400 yards distant, and
their guns were effective. Another
force of Tibetans is gathering I'm the
Ring Valley, and the situation Of the
British mission is perilous.
Joseph Chamberlain made his first
speech since his return to England at
Birmingham. He rendered the fight for
fiscal reform, and was given a hearty
welcome.
SPORTING.
Athletics defeated Chicago Q to 8,
while the Phillies lost to Chicago Ma
tionals 4 to 0.
Judges at Morris Park aroused the
ire OF the spectators by deciding a long
sho, peat the favorite. Tanya, Med
der fiuy, broke the track Az furlong
4 scord. Sweet Dream, a Macdun mare
broke her setlock at st. Louis and was
destroyed Martimas, a heavily backed
favorite, captured the World Stakes at
Kansas City.
University of Pennsylvania lacrosse
team defeated Hobart College 3 goals
to nil.
Arthur Shrubb ran five miles i'm "a
minutes SO 3-5 seconds at the Stamford
Bridge grounds, London, supplanting
the worlds amateur record.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A device, said to be preventive of
collisions regardless Of the motorman.
has been adopted by the elevated rail-
roads of New York.
/ Theodore II. Price addressed the Ma
tional Convention of Cotton Manufac-
turers at Washington upon "The Effect
Of Speculation Upon Cotton Manufac-
d. ture." urging a trade enactment to
make corners" impracticable.
The Methodist General Conference, II
| is believed. will alter the rule of the
Church which places dancing, card
playing ei.d theatregoing under the
ban. An advisory restriction will be
substituted.
General Wood has ordered troops to
punish the MOros who massacred a de-
tachment Of Company +, Seventeenth
Infantry. in Mlndanao.
The body OF Josephine McCahill, C
years old a child OF the New York
tenements, was found wedged IN the
chimney fue next door to her home.
She had been missing since May 2, and
the police and citizens did all they
could 10 find her in the belief that
she had been Kidnapped.