Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-08
WEEK ENDING FEB. 8. 1908.

cations of charges, and appointed Will
liam S. Rossiter as temporary public
printer: the Treasury Department re-
fused to accept the bond of the latter on
legal grounds; H., T. Brian, deputy public
printer. took the oath as public printer.
First ssistant Postmaster General F. r.
Hitchcock resigned to manage Secretary
Tafts campaign for the republican presi-
Dental nomination. Labor unions were
classed as trusts under the Sherman act
by Supreme Court decision as to an in
terstate boycott. The urgent deficiency
bill. carrying about s24.0OOOGO. was pass
ed by the Senate after debate over the
publication of The Canal Record" at
Panama; the Bailey financial bill was in
tradouced in the Senate: the Senate
passed the bill appropriating $7OO.OOO for
the Yukon exposition in Seattle in 1863
Widows pensions were made 81 a
viding ST.. TAI 900 additional for that pur-
pose. John Sharp Williams outlined the
democratic program, and warned against
some of the Presidents policies. Thomas
Lewis was elected president of the United
Mine Workers, to succeed John Mitchell
Judge James hargis a notorious leader
IN the Breathitt county, Ky. feuds was
Killed by his son. Night riders burned
two barns. with $1,000 pounds of tobacco,
and shot two persons in Tennessee
arrested in Pittsburg and one in New
York city.
Foreign.
King Carlos OF Portugal and his elder
son. LUZ, were killed by conspirators in
LISBON; the second son assembled the
throne as Manuel II, was proclaimed
King of Portugal; Premier Franco re-
signed office. and new cabinet was
formed hn toll
Franco fled to Paris. Mr.. Asquith speak
ing for the premier in the British house
OF comtlons, said that the government
had decided not to reintroduce the Irish
council bill; Mr. Birrell refused to en-
force the crime act, and the Earl Of Dud-
ley, in the upper house. opposed coercion.
MISS Robinson. a leading witness In the
bruce case, confessed that she was guilty
OF the charge of perjury. The Countess
of Yarmouth, formerly Alice Thaw of
Pittsburg, was granted decree multi
lying her marriage. kaisull entered
Tangfer and turned over Caid Sir Harry
MacLean to the British charge d'affaires.
receiving a ransom of 100000 The
Spanish council of state took precautions
TO forestall revolutionary outbreaks.
Eight French soldiers were killed and
fifty were wounded in an action with the
Moors south of kasbah Der Rechid. large
numbers Of Moors being slain. Freiherr
Won Stengel, secretary of the imperial
treasury OF Germany. resigned owing to
the financial questions remaining unset
tied. Negotiations were opened for the
agent accredited to the Vatican to deal
directly with the papal officials on the
protection of Catholics in Turkey. The
judge advocate summed up the govern
ment's case against the men who sur
rendered Rort Arthur, asking that the
death penalty be imposed ON Gems. Stoes-
sci, Fock and Reiss. The American bait
tleship fleet sailed from Punta Arenas
Friday evening for its next stopping place,
CallaO, Peru.
In the District.
Preliminary steps looking to an ANAL
gamation Of the Washington Chamber of
Commerce and the Board Of Trade were
taken at the monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the former organiza-
ton. The annual reports of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Company.
the Potomac Electric Light and Power
Company, the Washington Gas Light
Company and the Washington Railway
and Electric Company for the year 1907
were sent to Congress The House Dis
trict committee adopted an amendment to
the trackage bill providing for universal
transfer at six tickets for a quarter. The
Court of Appeals of the District of Co
lumbia affirmed the order of Chief JUS
tice Clabaugh of the District Supreme
Court directing the writ OF mandamus to
issue against the excise board of the Dis
trict and requiring the issuance of hotel
barroom license to Thomas B. LeCuyer.
Memorial services for the late Rev. d. }.
Stafford were largely attended. Alma &.
Arnold. accused of practicing medicine
without a license. was acquitted in the
Police Court. Herbert Thompson Lipp of
1924 14th street northwest committed sui
eide Among those who died were. George
Thomas Dunlop. president of the Capital
Traction Company; James Wallace Pin
chot. Waverl~y Dodson Drinkard, James
W. Webb and Prof. Edgar Alfred Tibbetts.