Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-11
WEEK ENDING JULY IL, 1908.

William J. Bryan of Nebraska and John
w. Kern of Indiana were nominated for
President and Vice President by the DEM
ocratic national convention at Denver. The
executive committee Of the republican ma
tionRl committee in conference with Mr..
Taft at Hot Springs, elected Frank H.
Hitchcock chairman, George R. Sheldon
treasurer and Arthur l.. Vorys manager
Of the campaign in Ohio. The resignation
Of Judge William Lochren of the United
States district court at st. Paul. Mimi.
was accepted, and M D. Purdy was ap-
pointed to the vacancy. Secretary Sleeper
Of the American legation at Caracas ar
rived here and told Assistant Secretary
Bacon of conditions in Venezuela: Senior
Volez-Geitfcea was recalled, and all diplo-
matte relations between the United States
and Venezuela were severed Commander
Peary sailed in quest Of the north pole
Fire caused loss of over 81. 800, 600 on
Boston's water front. Seven persons were
killed and several injured in a collision
of trains near Medicine Hat, Wash, owing
to a telegraph operators blunder. A coro-
neTs jury in Philadelphia admitted its
inability to solve the mystery OF the poi
soning of Dr. William H. Wilson. The
United Mine Workers called a strike Of
all union miners in Alabama. Fifteen bat
tleships of the Atlantic fleet sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu; the Nebraska
was detained at quarantine In San Fran
cisco by an outbreak Of scarlet fever on
board. Thirty soldiers with machine guns
were sent from Fort Huachuca to Fort
Wingate, n. NJ, to aid in quelling re-
ported uprising Of Navajo Indians. Capt.
J. w. Breatch of the Marine Corps COM
mitted suicide in Cavite.
Foreign.
Prince Helie de Sagan ana Mime. Anna
Gould were married by civil and religious
ceremony in London. The American
athletes entered in the Olympic games
arrived in London The British charge
at Teheran demanded an apology from
the governor for putting guards near the
legation to seize refugees. The Russian
minister of finance reported a number or
good offers for a loan Of Sc3O.OOO.O0O con-
templated by the cZars government. A
Russian torpedo boat went on the rocks
in the Gulf of Finland and was wrecked.
Paris contractors voted to order a gen.
eral lockout owing to strikes and boy
colts by workmen. The Brooklyn singers
visiting Germany were received by the
crown prince and crown princess at Pots
dam Over 400 buildings. including the
courthouse. prison and the arsenal at
Port-au-Prince. Haiti were destroyed by
fire. A papal decree declared the United
States, Great Britain, Canada and Holland
to be no longer mission countries Korean
insurgents killed 926 pro-Japaness Koreans
and burned many houses.
In the District.
Commissioners Macfarland and West
filed a report generating the engineer
department of the District of the charges
of favoritism made by P. J. Brennan, at
the same time admitting that the evidence
showed a lease of sporadic dishonesty
in the acceptance of gifts and loans by
Charles Fernald. Numerous complaints
against the present methods of operating
local street railways were considered by
the District railway commission at it's
second meeting; rules for the operation
of the local lines were adopted. Control
of the Washington. Arlington and Falls
Church railway. which was taken out of
the hands of receivers, passed TO new in
terests, represented by r.. A. Chester, for
merly vice president of the Commercial
National Bank. A receiver was appoint
ed for the First Cooperative Building AS
ISOLATION of Georgetown. Machinsts en-
ployed by the Washington Terminal Com
pany went on strike. demanding better
wages for work on Sunday. holidays and
overtime. The temporary appointment
Of Frank A. Sebring as clerk of the Po-
lice Court to succeed fhe late Joseph Y.
Potts was made permanent Col. Bronl-
we'll took practical steps for the tearing
down and removal of the old Pennsylva-
MIA passenger station. Fires in the Dis
trict during the week caused aggregate
loss of $1,000. Burglars attempted to
rob the safe of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the Office at 10th and q
streets. Among those who died was The
odOre Hodes. ii typographical expert in
the government printing office.