Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-17
WEEK ENDING OCT. II, 1908.

President Roosevelt issued an executive
order putting hundreds of additional gov
eminent positions under civil service
rules. Mr.. Taft made eleven speeches in
Tennessee. The United States Supreme
Court met for its autumn term. New
designs have been adopted for all postage
stamps up to 81 Bankers petitioned the
interstate commerce commission to re-
strict the money order and exchange bust
ness done by the express companies.
Steamship companies of Baltimore and
other ports in arguments denied the right
OF the Interstate commerce commission to
exercise jurisdiction over them. The
Virginia two-cent passenger rate case was
argued in the United States Supreme
Court. DR.. Angel Ugarte. the Honduran
minister to the United States. was trans
ferred to Mexico. The anthracite coal
miners formulated a set of demands TO
take the place of the present agreement. A
negro leper was found in Blackwood
n. j.. after he had been discharged from
a Philadelphia hospital. The trial Of G.
w. Morse and \. II. Curtis for alleged
violation Of the national banking law
was begun in New York Twenty-one
sent to the relief of forest fire victims
In Michigan.
Foreign Affairs.
ment began; enormous crowds. drawn by
the suffragettes. blocked the streets lead
ing 10 the houses OF parliament and kept
busy force of 5000 police: one woman
made her way to the floor Of the house,
interrupted the debate and was carried
out; twenty-four women were arrested.
Great Britain desires that Turkey accept
the recent changes in the near east
accomplished facts and ask a money COM
pensation. Great Britain. Russia and
France reached an agreement on a pro-
gram TO be submitted to the other powers
as a basis for discussion at the coming
conference on the Balkan situation: Bull
garia refused to accept some of the con-
ditions agreed upon by Great Britain.
Russia and France. A. Holland Forbes
and Augustus Post had miraculous
balloon race At Berlin, the envelope
bursting when they were 1000 feet above
the ground. Germany and Italy inform
ed Turkey they had opposed the infraction
of the treaty of Berlin without the con-
sent OF the powers. The first nterna-
tiOnal roads congress Logan in Paris. An
engagement between Chinese and Japa-
nese troops in Kantao, Korea. in which
several We're killed, resulted in strained
relations between the two countries.
In the District.
The Commissioners published their esti-
mates. aggregating S15.65S, 045.52, for the
next fiscal year. Recent examinations by
divers showed that there is I'm progress a
gradual deterioration of the piers of the
Aqueduct bridge. Rev. DR.. Alexander
Mann. rector of Trinity Church. Boston.
Mass. declined the bishopric of Washing
ton. The International congress on tuber-
culosis adjourned. The twelfth annua,
convention of the Railway Signal Associa-
ton was held. The convention Of the
Bakery and Confectionery Workers In
ternational Union was held. William
Jones. the man VINO tried to kill Guiteau.
the murderer of President Garfield, shot
and killed John A. Mcpherson, formerly a
member of the Marine Corps Among
those who died We're Col. Dewitt G.
Sprague, DR.. Charles +. Rand, James
Daly and Thomas F. Neale