Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27
WEEK ENDING JUNE ~, 1908.

The President and Mrs. Roosevelt left
Washington for Oyster Bay to spend the
summer. The United States practically
broke off diplomatic relations with Vene-
zuela. James S. Sherman. republican
nominee for Vice President. became i'll in
Cleveland, but later was pronounced con-
valescent. President Eliot of Harvard
snubbed President Roosevelt when he in
terposed in the case of two suspended
oarsmen. The special grand, jury. which
indicted the American Ice Company, re-
fused to find indictments against indi-
viduals and adjourned. fine of $1,000
was imposed upon each of twenty-four
manila and fiber paper manufacturers
who had been in a combine In restraint OF
trade. Two thousand club women met in
Boston to attend the convention of the
Federation of Woman's Clubs. The Com
mercial Travellers Protective Association
met at Milwaukee, Wis. The Locke bill.
killing race track betting in LOUISIANA.
was finally passed. The Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association resolved to fight In
decent advertising matter. A monument
was unveiled in Worcester. Mass. In
memory of Senator Hoar. Nathan
Presser of Philadelphia burned himself to
business reverses. Six negroes were
lynched at Hemphill, Tex. Fire on the
Duluth water front caused a loss OF
81 600. 600. Grover Cleveland. eX-President
n. j.
Foreign.
A great demonstration was made by
woman suffragists in London. about 5OO.-
600 persons attending a meeting in Hyde
Park. The wedding of Miss Jean I.eid
and Hon. John Hubert Ward in London
was attended by the king and queen and
many other high personages. On the oc-
casion of the official celebration of King
Edwards birthday four new peers were
created, ten privy councillors. eleven bar
onets and twenty-five knights. The
French senators and deputies who voted
for the separation bill were excommuni-
Gated by the Catholic Church. Arabs at
tackled two French columns and both were
destroyed. The French Senate by vote
of 155 to 11S. passed the bill to buy and
operate the Western railway. The Lafay-
cite statue given by American school chill
dren to France was placed on its pedestal
at Paris. w. B. Leeds. one of the Rock
Island big four and tin plate king. died
in Paris. Emperor William transferred
Capt. H. G. Hebbinghaus. the German ma
val attache at Washington, to command
mander Retzmann to the Washington
pest. A second son was born to King AL
fonso and Queen Victoria of Spain. The
schoolship Nautilus. the first Spanish war
vessel to visit Havana since the Spanish
American war. arrived in that harbor and
was warmly welcomed. Nineteen persons
were sentenced to death by courts-martial
In various parts of Russia. The Russian
senate decided that the members Of the
constitutional democrats and other unrec-
ognized parties cannot hold offices in the
zemstvos or municipal councils. Rimsky-
kirsakoff. the Russian composer, died at
his country estate. Hundreds of persons
were killed or wounded In a battle in Te-
heran the troops of the shah bombarding
and storming the buildings of Parliament
after the legislators had refused to sur
render certain members. The Russo-Cni-
nese Bank decided to withdraw its
branches from the Japanese sphere Of in
fluence in Manchuria.
In the District.
Health officer Woodward called atten-
ton to two cesspools at the District bath
ing beach. which. he said are nuisance
and unlawful and should be replaced by
modern and sanitary equipment. About
$50 machinists and helpers in the gun
factory at the navy yard, who were fur
Laughed while Congress was In session,
were permanently dropped from the rolls.
Cars were started on the temporary line
to the Union station. The Southern rail-
way announced that the resumption OF
negotiations looking to reduction in
wages of employees of the Southern road
outside of Washington was postponed
from July to October l next. Extremely
high temperatures were recorded I'm Wash
ington. Frederick A. Hyde and j. H.
Schneider were convicted on thirty-four
counts on the charge of conspiring to de-
fraud the government out of western
lands. and Henry p. Dimond and John A.
Benson were acquitted. AlonZo Harris. a
negro. who stole 81, 400 worth of jewels
from Mrs. John F. Dryden during a recep-
ton, was sentenced to ten years in prison.
John Loeffier and Thomas O'Dowd killed
themselves. Among those who died were
Col G. p. Robinson, DR.. Florence Dono-
hue. Chatham Moore Towers ana Richard
L. Fowler.