Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-26
WEEK ENDING MARCH 90, 1904.

The Senate passed the Indian appropria.
ton bill and discussed the District of Co
lumbia appropriation bill; the House passed
the post office appropriation bill; the sundry
civil appropriation was reported to the
House; the House judiciary committee vot-
ed for the impeachment of Judge Charles
Swayne, federal judge for the district OF
Florida; the Mccall committee continued
its investigation of the relation of members
to Congress with the Post Once Depart
ment frauds. Macario Sakay, president OF
the so-called Filipino republic. and fifteen
followers were killed by American troops
and the remainder of the band captured;
peaceful conditions were reported in the
Island of Jolo, the Datto Hassen having
been killed by American troops. Steps were
taken to dissolve the Northern Securities
merger and return the stock held by the
merger company. Governor Peabody again
proclaimed martial law in Trinidad, Col.
The state completed Its evidence against
Senator J. r. Burton on trial at st. Louis
Thirty-three shoe factories in Lynn, Mass.
declared a lockout against their employees
Flood and fire caused $2J0,00O damage at
Beloit, Wis; the damage caused by floods
in lower Michigan was estimated at over
81 600, 600; great suffering was caused In the
entire northwest by storms; at Chicago five
persons were killed. eighteen injured and a
property loss of $500 coo was caused by g
tornado; tornado at Higginsvile Mo-,
wreckedsfifty buildings, causing loss OF
$4,000 Two men and woman were killed
and two men MORALLY wounded in fight
between negroes and constables near Bir-
account of race troubles at st. Charles
Ark, were taken from the guards by a
crowd of men and shot to death. Among
those who died was ex-Mayor VIM. r
Grace of New York city.
Foreign Affairs.
The Japanese again heavily bombarded
Port Arthur and blocked the harbor by
sinking seven merchant vessels at its en-
trance; the Russian and japanese forces
were reported in close proximity near ANU,
and a battle was regarded as imminent;
Gen. Zhllinsky officially reported that the
Japanese had occupied Ping-yang and
Anju; the Chinese squadron arrived at
Chefu, the japanese parliament met in spe-
cial sessions to provide funds for the war;
Gen. Kuropatkin announced that the Rus
sian army will act on the defensive for tho
present and make the Japs fight on ground
of Russian choosing; he asserted that the
terms of peace would be signed in Tokyo.
after Russian invasion of Japan. The
Bank of England semi-annual dividend was
cut from per cent to Az per cent for the
first time in seven years; Sir Henry Camp
bell-Bannerman's motion for a vote of GEN.
sure for the British cabinet on the Chinese
labor subject in the Transvaal failed of pas
sage: the Herero negro uprising in South
Africa was reported TO be extending TO
British territory. Russia asked Canada to
abandon pelagic sealing in the Pacific. EN-
peror William of Germany arrived at Ma
pies. The German bark Mona collided with
the English bark Lady Cairns off Dublin
bay. the crew sof the latter, numbering
twenty-five, being drowned. The French
ministry received a check on the religious
education bill. Queen Wilhelmina of Hol-
land was ordered to Italy on account OF
her health. Turkey, Russia and Austria
agreed on the reform program In Mace
donia. The bubonic plague was reported
to be raging In Johannesburg, South Az
RIGA. Gen. Nicolas Arias, the alleged
slayer of Machinist Johnston in Santo Do
mfngo, was put TO death by order of Pres
ident Morales Among those who died were
Sir Edwin Arnold, the famous author in
London. and Prof. Carl Schumann. one Of
the worlds distinguished botanists, at Ber-
lin.
In the District.
The District appropriation bill. carrying
s11. 3S3, 20i, an advance of 81. 16s 727 over the
amount passed by the House, was reported
to the Senate; the sundry civil bill con-
tanning many items of local interest was
reported to the House: the District commit
tee of the House decided that the District
should bear the whole cost of street ex-
tension hearing was granted by the Sem
ate committee on the District on the pro-
posed extension of the Great Falls and Old
Dominion railroad into the District a bill
was introduced in the Senate providing for
a branch railroad to run into Georgetown
via Kensington; two measures were report
ed to the Senate providing for an open
space $50 feet wide through the mall. The
controller of the treasury rendered a de-
cison in regard to telephone rates, deciding
that the act of 1898 was the only law linz
iting rates in the District. The Commits
soners granted permit for base ball park
at the head of 7th street. The seventy
ninth anniversary of the founding of the
American Tract Society was observed. The
annual automobile show was held. Jacob
Lavine, grocer. was found unconscious
in his store with fractured skull. Miss
Annette N. Dye, daughter of the late Gem
eral William NICE. Dye, committed suicide
in her apartment by shooting Among those
who died were William Shaw Campbell, for
a number of years United States consul in
England, and Representative Charles w.