Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
THE WEEK ENDING JULY 8, 1904.


session in st. Louis. nominated Judge Alton
B. Parker of New York for the presidency.
and adopted a platform which omitted all
reference to the financial question: the pop
ulst convention. at Springfield. Ill. nomi-
mated Thomas l.. Watson OF Georgia for
President and Thomas II. Tribbles of Ne
braska for Vice President: the socialst-la-
Dor convention. in New York, nominated
Charles II. Corregan of New York Tor
President and William w. Cox of Illinois
for Vice President. The semi-centennial of
the republican party was celebrated AT
jackson, Mich. Injunction proceedings 10
prevent the introduction of the Guatemalan
ant in Texas to kill the boil weeNil were
withdrawn. The Rosebud Indian reserva-
ton in Nebraska was opened to settlers.
The centenary of the birth OF Nathaniel
Hawthorne was celebrated at Concord.
Mass. The first annual report of the Inter
national Mercantile Marine Company
showed 2 surplus for the year of H,f?1.I?t.
The American Cafe In the Jerusalem con
cesson at the St. Louis fair WAS burned.
many persons having narrow escapes. The
casualties of the Fourth of July were re-
ported as twenty-five dead and 1884 In
jured with a property loss of s1I1S1 A
train carrying delegates to the democratic
national convention on the Wabash rail-
road was wrecked near Litchfield. H.. eigh-
teen persons being killed and nearly fifty
injured. Floods and storms caused the
death of nine persons in the section around
Kansas City and six persons in the vicinity
of Okla homa City. besides inflcting heavy
and two others injured by being blown
from a bridge al Thebes, Ill
Foreign Affairs.
The Scandinavian American liner Norge
was wrecked on .Rockall reef, 100 miles
from the Scottish mainland. and out OF
IA on board only 1S5 were rescued. Gen.
Kurokfs outposts repulsed a Russian force
at Mao-Tien pass the Russians losing 40
killed and the Japanese nineteen: Cen
Kuroki was reported to be moving toward
Liao-Yang from Feng Wang-Cheng In spite
of rains and bad roads: Port Arthur was
reported to be entirely surrounded on the
land side; Admiral Kamimura's fleet chased
the Vladivostok squadron. but the Rus-
slams esca ped; an attempt to blow up Rus-
sian ships In the harbor at Port Arthur
by sending in japanese torpedo boats re-
suited in the loss of a guardship and
torpedo boat by the former; the Russians
claimed that they sunk two Japanese de-
stroyers and damaged one: the japanese
cruiser Kamon struck n mine and sank.
twenty men being lost: the announcement
was made that the Baltic fleet would SAIL
from CronStadt July Is. Field Marshal
Oyama and staff left Tokyo for the front;
Count Leo Tolstoi denounced the war ana
called the car IAN unfortunate, entangled
young man swept off his feet by the red
lust of conquest" The British govern
ment announced that 1t would send gun
boat TO NlucnWdnS 10 It's iilNtiS''7
there; the British expedition into Tibet
stormed and captured the fortress of Ca
jangtse. 1t was announced that MIS-
Florence Maybrick would be released be-
fore August !. Prince John Obolenski was
Amounted to succeed Gen. Bobrokir as gov
ernor general of Finland. The French par
liamentary investigation INFO the question
of bribery of NJ. Combes and son by Char
treuse ended by a report that there vas
no attempt at bribery. The steamer fflsn-
jof. with the relief party for the Ziegier-
Fiala polar expedition, sailed from rum
soe Norway. Raisuli, the Moroccan pam
dit leader, was reported to be within
short distance of Tangier and to be looting
villages. Cholera was reported TO be rag
ing in Persia 200 deaths occurring dairy
in Teheran. Gen. Rafael Reyes was pro-
claimed president of Colombia. In two at
lacks on Achinese towns In Sumatra 10y
Dutch troops the native losses were i;o'o
more than half being women and children
Among those who died was DR. Theodole
Herzl. founder of the Zionist movement, In
Vienna.
In the District.
The Fourth of July was celebrated gem
orally by citizens, there being no ofhclai
ceremonies. The Commissioners adhered
to their decision to locate the passenger
station of the Washington Alexandra ana
Mount Vernon railway d street near
10Th. despite protests from officials of the
Post Office Department. Justice Anderson,
I'm Equity Court No. L. upheld the consti-
nationality of the union Station act. The
University Club was formally opened. Sir
Hugh Gilzean Reid. LID. d., an emf
nent English journalist. visited the city.
The National Association of Coored Dent
lists held its annual meeting. A. i. Slaw-
son. a street car conductor, died from In
juries received in striking his head against
a trolley pole Annie Talbert colored and
her son James seven years old died from
burns received from a bursting gasoline
stove. Samuel r. Young Troop II, 10Th
Cavalry shot and killed Policeman John
]. Smith. on the Aqueduct bridge. Louis
Rickie, accused of causing the death OF
James Smith, was held by coroner's jury.
j. ]. Hill of this city. attached to the quar-
teTmasters department of the army. died
in San Francisco as the result of a frac-
tured skull the injury being inflicted by
an unknown person. S. Harvey Perry, a
tailor. committed suicide by hanging. Dep
uty Jail Warden Benton Russ committed
suicide by shooting. Among those WHO
died were General Thomas Baltimore How
ard a veteran of five wars: VIM. Thompson
Harris, we'll known In financial and social
circles. and Thomas I. keane, we'll
known business man.