Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
WEEK ENDING MARCH 5, 1904.

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| sonhel of the Panama canal commission,
and the nominations were confirmed by the
Senate. Secretary Hay and Minister Que
sada signed a new Isle of Pines treaty con-
| f1rming Cuba's sovereignty over the island
| 1t was decided at cabinet meeting not to
send troops to Panama now, but to retain
the marines already there for police duty.
| Commander Miller of the cruiser Columbia
notified President Morales of Santo Do
mingo that he would not permit the block
aiding of any island ports. The United
| states cruiser Cincinnati was ordered to
| Ping Yang for American refugees there.
An expedition under Maj. Hugh l.. Scott
| in the Island of Jolo wiped out a band of
Moros, numbering 800. headed by former
priest, Hassan, the Americans losing one
man and having six wounded. The hearings
on the charges against Senator Reed Smoot
were begun by the Senate committee on
privileges and elections, President Joseph
S Snat ,,: OF the Mormon hierarchy being the
nrst witness; he declared his faith in po-
| Iygamy and admitted that he was living
| with nve wives at the presen time. The
| senate passed the bill requiring the trans
portatlon OF army and navy supplies in
American vessels and considered the naval
appropriation bill; the army appropriation
Dill was reported to the Senate; the House
passed the District of Columbia approprfa-
tion Dill and considered the Indian appro-
pr1atlon Dill; the House committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce directed an in
vesugation into the affairs of the beef
trust" The Venezuelan minister at WASH
ington was notified that his salary had been
stopped and ordered to return home The
court or claims decided that South Carolina
cannot recover taxes paid on dispensaries
to the United States Charles Dick was
elected United States senator by the Ohio
legislature to succeed the late Senator
Hanna. Prohibitonists made gains in the
license election in Vermont Sixteen men
were killed and fourteen injured in the col
lapse or a steel frame building in course of
construction in New York. The steamer
queen, arriving at Port Townsend. Wash.
a aepor.ed the loss of fourteen lives in a
storm. Three persons were killed and s5OO
w damage was done by a prairie Are
wmcn covered 5000 square miles of terri
m 1ory IN kiowa and Comanche counties,
ison ~. Inc Wisconsin state house at Mad
1son was burned with loss of $500 ono
Eisnt negroes were killed by poisoned meat
wnicn tney stole from a farmer near R,r
ingham, Ala. Two white men were killed
ously wounded in a race riot at RotaSha
l. y. Among those who died was Noah
Rapy, said to be 132 years old. near New
brunswick, N J.
Foreign Affairs.
1t was reported that Port Arthur was tn
De abandoned by the Russians after sink
ing the ships in the harbor; the Jananese
meet bombarded Port Arthur forts and
ships. disabling three cruisers and sinking
torpedo boat; the Japanese landed 100 600
men at Chemulpo and the Japanese gen.
G eal army stan left Japan for that point;
cen. Dragomiroff admitted that Port Ar
tnur was invested by land and by sea: the
car issued war rules giving list of con-
trapand articles of war. and including coal
shipped dt UNDER a neutral flag; King Edward
wrote pers onal note to the car assuring
MIN OF England's friendly neutrality:. Rus
sla expressed regrets to the United States
because OF wrongful charges against the
IN
naval battle at Chemulpo. King Edwards
Illness was described a slight cold: Pre-
mler Balfour won the vote in the house of
commons on the heavy naval budget. no
declared in parliament that he was not a
protectionist; Sir William Vernon-Har-
court the famous English liberal an
nounceu mis- intention to retire from par
lament; Lord Eshers second report on
British army reforms recommended a gem
eral staff; Lord Miner referred to the
grave financial condition of the Transvaal
ana orange River Colony in delivering the
presidential address before the intercoIo-
NAL council. The forty-third anniversary
OF the emancipation of the serfs of Rus
sra was observed; the car was reported to
have approved 100000, 600 canal to con-
meet the Baltic and Black seas. Socialists
caused a storm in the German reichstag
by accusing the ministry of cringing be-
fore Russia; a German steel trust com
prfsfng twenty-six of the twepty-eight
| great steel industries of Germany was or
gained. Natives in German South Africa
rose again In revolt. Turkey was reported
| to have yielded substantial concessions to
Bulgaria. The court of cessation in Paris
took up the case for the revision of the
conviction of Capt Alfred Dreyfus Lib
republicans retained the senate. Gen Wos
Y Gil. the deposed president of Santo Do
| mingo, sailed for the United States to try
to block the recognition of the Mora les
government. The election Of Cen Rafael
Reyes as president of Colombia was con-
firmed. The most severe earthquake in
thirty years was experienced in Lima
Peru.
In the District
The House passed the District of Columbia
ton to include the Police Court and the of
fees of the recorder of deeds and register of
wills in the new municipal building; the
Board of Trade decided to make a strong
protest against such change in the plans
for the building; the bill for the erection of
a building for the departments of State
Justice and Commerce and Labor was con-
sidered in the Senate, many senators ex-
pressing the belief that it should be located
on the south side of the avenue; the Senate
committee on the District approved the bill
to amend the tax laws of the District; two
bills for cheaper gas were introduced in the
House. The board of education forwarded
a draft of a bill providing for compulsory
education to the Commissioners The report
of the District excise board was submitted.
station of the city post Office owing TO eNor-
btant rents. A. w. M3chen, Diller B. Croft
and George E. Lorenz were each sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary and to pay
"a fine of $4,000 for conspiracy to defraud
the government in connection with the Post
Office Department.; Judge Pritchard later
sentenced Samuel A. Croft similarly, refus-
ing a new rial. The congregations of the
First Church of Christ. Scientist, and the
new Foundry Nj. E. Church met, respective
w. in their new buildings. The tenth
tional congress of religious education was
held The National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers Association met in annual session.
Fire in the Elsmere Hotel caused $4,000
damage W. S. Daniels, correspondent of
the ST. Louis Republic, was found dead in
his office from asphyxiation. George G.
Decker died from injuries received in bas-
ket ball game last Tha nksgiving day. Hugh
J. Connolly a railroad inspector, was killed
by car in the New Jersey avenue freight
Yards Harry Downs, fifteen years old, was
drowned In the river at Sth street. William
J. O,Brien, alias William Duffy, insane
discharged soldier, fired revolver promis
cuously in the Office of the mail and record
division of the War Department, and ser-
ously wounded Robert J. Manning. mes
senger, and slightly wounded Arthur