Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07
WEEK ENDING MARCH z, 1908.


order the return of the batteship fleet via
the Suez canal. The interstate commerce
commission decided to disregard petitions
to delay enforcing the nine-hour law.
Commander Sims testified before the Sen
ate naval committee and declared the
craftsmanship at Santiago to have been
''disgraceful." Senator Lodges bill to
reorganize the consular service was
passed: the bill increasing the pay of Off
GERS and enlisted men of the army was
passed: woman suffragists presented their
annual plea for the ballot to the Senate
and House. In the House a resolution for
an investigation of peonage in the south
was adopted; an investigation of the Post
Office Department was called for, charges
being made of fraud in the system of
weighing mails by which the railroads had
overcharged the government S10.OO0,c coo.
resolution to investigate Representative
1illey's charges of corruption in connec
ton with submarine boats was adopted;
the House passed the bill to appropriate
$403. 030 to pay the claims of the Roman
Catholic Church in the Philippines. The
Ohio republican convention declared for
Secretary Taft and Endorsed Roosevelt's
administration. Chief of Police Shippy of
Chicago killed an anarchist who had stab
bed him and shot his son and driver
About 10 children were cremated in a
burning schoolhouEe in Col'inwood. a sub
urb of Cleveland, Ohio. More than three
hundred buildings We're burned. with a
loss of $G00,OGO, at Tampa. Fla.
Foreign.
Seven terrorists condemned to death for
conspiracy against Grand Duke Mich
olas Nicholaiecitch and the minister of
justice were hanged at ST. Petersburg;
three of the seven were women. The
British campaign against the Zakkakhels.
tribe of Afridis in northern India, ended
with the complete submission of the
tribesmen. II. II. AsQuith, speaking for
the government in the house of commons,
said that further reduction in the naval
estimates must not be expected. the pol
icy of the government being to maintain
the two-poWer standard. The Empress
Dowager of Russia arrived in London on
a visit to Queen Alexandra. King Ed
ward left London for Biarritz for a
months stay. French troops under Gen.
d'Amade lost eleven men killed and thir-
ty-six wounded in an action lasting all
day with Madakra tribesmen. who We're
finally repused. Herr Dernburg. German
colonial secretary. said that a rising of
natives was possible in the Cameroons as
soon as the forced developments of the
rubber industry Sackened. \ letter of
Emperor William TO Lord Tweedmouth on
the subject of the naval program and the
latters reply caused a storm Of criticism
an American engineer named Mcrvart
were killed and fifteen were injured by an
avalanche in Switzerland The sweeping
concessions made by King Leopold re-
garding the new treaty annexation of ii,
Congo Were due. according to a dispatch
from Brussels. to fear of Great Britain's
intervention. backed by America. The
Chinese government approved a series of
laws intended to introduce western bank
ing methods. China decided to surrender
m a To Ian
In the District.
The Commissioners Forwarded to Chair
man Smith of the House District COM
mittee draft of a bill for the extension.
of Massachusetts avenue from its present
termination near Wisconsin avenue to
the District line. A bill was drafted by
Commissioner Macfarland providing for
the more stringent regulation of the
building associations operating in the
District, Col Bromwell, the officer IN
charge of public buildings and grounds. in
the name of the United States took for
NAL charge of the old 9th street passenger
sta alton. The joint committees of the
Board of Trade and Chamber OF Com
merce agreed to recommend to their re-
spectve bodies that both organizations
consolidate and that the consolidation &c
effected under the name of The Washing
ton Board of Trade At a business ses-
sion of the board of education a minute
expressing sorrow at the death of Crosby
S. Noyes. and appreciation Of his public
acts was adopted. The sixteenth annual
convention of the wholesale Lumber
Dealers Association was held. John III.
AdriaanS applied to the District Court o.
Appeals for reinstatement to practice be-
fore that tribunal; Adriaans was dis
barred October >, 1900. j. Edward Libby
was elected president of the association
of Oldest Inhabitants. The Court of Az
peals rendered sixteen decisions n cases
recently heard twelve judgments OF the
lower court were affirmed. three were re-
versed and one appeal was dismissed.
David Moore. real estate broker, filed a
petition in voluntary bankruptcy Peter
Wood coored. was instantly kiled by "a
train near 14th street and Maryland ave-
nue.. Among those who di6d We're: Sena-
tor Redfield Proctor, Senior Don Eduardo
de Beistegui, third secretary of the NaeXi-
can embassy: Francis G. Mattingly, A.,en
Dodge and Capt Paul Bachschmid.