Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 2, 1908.

1dE WEkA ENUlMd JUNE q, l0V0s
President Roosevelt delivered addresses
under the auspices OF the Army and Navy
Union at Portsmouth. Va, and before the
students OF Hampton Institute Protests
from beef packers and stock men against
the proposed meat inspection law continued
to be received In Washington: the demand
for the publication of the Neiil-Reynolds re-
port on the inspection OF conditions In the
Chicago stock yards was so strong that 70
was decided at the White House to send the
document to Congress. The President is-
sued a proclamation inviting all the states,
through the governors. to participate In the
Jamestown tercentennial The United
states supreme Court adjourned for the
term. The Senate passed the Knox ''im-
munity' BILL the railroad company liability
bill, the omnibus lighthouse bill, the mill
tary academy bill and the post ONCE appro->
priatfon bill and discussed Panama canal
affairs; Messrs. Elkins, Cullom and Tfllman
were appointed conferees on the railroad
rate hill: the Senate committee on privi-
leges and elections decided that Reed Smoot
Is not entitled to his seat in the United
States Senate; the House passed the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill;
democratic hlibustering again delayed tho
proceedings. Gov. Lea of Delaware called
an extra session of the legislature to elect
a United States senator. The twelfth an
nual Lake Mohonk conference on inter-
national arbitration opened at Lake Mo-
honk. N. Y. Eleven more victims of the
San Francisco earthquake and fire were
discovered. bringing the total number OF
dead up to as. A third OF the people Of
Pendleton. Ore, were reported TO be tenn
porarily homeless from flood. One OF tho
big Armour grain elevators In Chicago was
destroyed by fire. entailing loss of from
$500. 600 to $1000,0o0. Eight persons were
killed and twenty-five injured In an acct-
dent on the Louisville and Nashville rail-
roal at Louisville. Three little girls IN
Kankakee. ILL.,. entered a trunk while at
play and were sufrocated. Five men were
drowned in flood which followed the
breaking of dam at Pole Creek Canyon,
twenty-five injured by lightning near
Macon. Ga.
Foreign Affairs.
The marriage of King Alfonso XIII OF
Spain and Princess Ena, or Victoria, OF
England. took place at Madrid, SPAIN with
great ceremony. the city being brilliantly
Illuminated and nearly all the courts or
the world being represented by special am
bassadors bomb thrown at the king ana
new queen OF Spain during the procession
from the church to the palace Killed aDoue
twenty persons and injured nearly sixty
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, however,
escaping injury, number OF suspected
anarchists were arrested. among them an
Engishman named Robert Hamilton. Inc
leaders of the constitutional democrats In
the Russian douma remained firm In their
demand for a responsible ministry and thetr
Il
government leaders were represented an
panc-stricken: bombs were thrown at Gov.
Gen. Alikhanor and his escort at Borgum.
in the Transcaucasus and the general was
seriously injured: Cossacks fired on the
crowd killing and wound.ag many persons:
a number of bombs were also thrown at a
review of the troops In Sebastopol; the war
den of the city prison OF st. Petersburg was
MORALLY wounded and an attempt was
made to kill the governor general at THIS;
the strike which began at Odessa was re-
ported as extending to all the Black sea
ports: the sentence of death was executed
on the eight murderers at Riga, for whom
the lower house OF parliament demanded
clemency; the assassins OF William H.
Stuart, American vice counsel at Batoum,
were placed under arrest. The government
in the British house of commons invoked
the closure rule and carried the first clause
of the education bill, involving its principles
a band of 600 Zulus attacked British force
near Buffalo river and the natives were re-
pulsed with heavy loss. The International
postal congress at Rome adjourned. Greece
decided to break all diplomatic relations
with Roumania. The Cuban senate passed
the Angio-Cuban treaty The municipal
council of Panama asked the United states
to intervene in the coming elections, ana
the council at Colon passed resolution
denouncing this action. Gen. CASTILLO. who
captured the city of Ocos, In Guatemala,
was driven out: President Cabrera issued q
statement announcing that the rebellion IN
Guatemala was crushed. Santo Domingo
ubin and the partisans OF Morales were re-
ported to be acting with the insurgents.
Twenty-Five lives were lost in the wreck OF
the British ship Lismore on the Chilean
coast Among those who died was Michael
Davitt, the noted Irish leader, In Dublin.
In the District.
The District of Columbia appropriation
bill, aggregating $40. 1s1, 206.16 an increase
over the measure as passed by the House
of 81, 299. s6301 ava decrease OF $780, O
net increase of fl ,29s 033.0I, was reported
to the Senate; the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill, containing many items of interest
to the District, was reported to the House;
the House passed the compulsory education
bill. The Commissioners approved the
Allen amendment to the fire escape bill
for the District. Memorial day was gener-
ally observed in all parts OF the District
George z. Green OF Binghamton, N. 7"
and w D. Doremus of Washington, ID. c..
were placed on trial under indictments
charging conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment and bribery. Leo r. Fitzgerald was
arraigned on an indictment charging him
with the murder Of Abner w. c. Nowlin.
Mrs Mary A. Dorsey was killed by pianq
falling upon her at her home at Buena
Vista Heights. Daniel Shannon, clerk IN
the War Department was drowned In the
Potomac river. Herbert Johnson, nine
years old, colored, was killed by train
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near
jr., of Pennsylvania. committed suicide In
his apartments at the Metropolitan Club
by shooting himself in the head. Harry
O'Connell thirty-three years old attempts
ed to commit suicide by inhaling illumins
ating gas John Duffy, white. a navy yard
was knocked down and kicked ia
death by negro In Southwest Washin6s
ton. Among those who died were Reuben
Harris, a well known business man; Gren+
Vile Lewis, a principal examiner In the
patent office; Lieut.. Col. James MCMILLAN
u. S. A. retired; and Robert Portner, the
last named at Manassas, Va