Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-28
WEEK ENDING NOV. %. 1908.

The President. Secretary Wright and
Gen. Porter spoke al the unveiling of the
Sheridan statue: the President appointed
Samuel b. Donnslly of Brooklyn. y. Y,
public printer To succeed John s Leech.
who resigned: the President also spoke AT
the laying OF the corner stone of the
Negro Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton in this city. The place Of Postmaster
General in Mr.. Taft's cabinet was offered
10 and accepted by Frank H. Hitchcock,
chairman of the republican national COM
mittee. Reports were circulated to the
effect that the United States and Japan
have signed a protocol iusuring peace in
the Pacific and the open door In China.
Government Investigators reported that
nearly one million divorces We're granted
in the United States In the past twenty
years The record of the Newport con
ference was made public by Acting Sec
rotary Newberry. The democratic national
committee reported receiving 5000 GA. - for
the campaign fund and spending all but
$1.234.71. Attorney General Bonaparte
filed III the United States Supreme Court
petition for writ Of certiorari TO re-
view the refusal of the circuit court OF
appeals at Chicago 10 grant rehearing
of the case in when the Standard OH
Company was fined $e9.opGn. The At
lantic. Gulf and West Indies Steamship
Lines was incorporated in Boston. with
wreck remnant. An Injunction was grant
ed in Toledo. Ohio. against the Bell Tele-
phone Company on petition alleging II
TO be an illegal combination. State troops
were ordered out TO uuell strike riots at
keasbey. near Perth Amboy. y. j. Four
persons We're drowned when the Panama
steamer Finance was hit by the freight
steamer George. near Sandy Hook. Roy
Lamphere. accused of the Guinness muir
ders at I.aporte, Ind was found guilty
Of arson. Prof. John II. Wright. head
Of the Greek department OF the Harvard
University, died at Cambridge.
Foreign Affairs.
Lord Roberts, in speech before the
house of lords. warned England that an
army of million men was needed to
guard against an invasion which might
result in the loss OF British sea power.
referring to Germanys ability to make a
landing without hindrance: Augustine
Birrell. chief secretary for Ireland. said
that S30.OOoGOo would be needed to carry
out the land-purchase act: he proposed
to raise SEQ .O00.NpO for pending deals by
an Issue of 3 per cents. leaving SJG0.uO.HU
to be prov ded later: the house passed the
bill on first reading. The educational bill
was brought up on second reading in the
house of commons: the Irish parl lament
AIRY party decided 10 oppose the measure.
Thousands of unemployed marched
through the fashionable districts OF Lon
DON The house of lords rejected the.
licensing bill by vote OF 212 to 96. The
arrest in Paris of Mime. Ste. nheil in con-
nection with the murder of her husband
and Nine. Japy caused great excitement
in that city. The socialists and radicals
in Germany started preparations for
campaign at the next elections on the
issue of n ministry responsible to the
reichstag. Russian frontier guards fired
on a German war balloon; the aeronauts
landed on German soil. The Aslatic
cholera broke out afresh in ST. Peters,
burg. Bulgaria and Turkey reached
basis of agreement. Turkey receiving
SS,GO0ou0 for the Oriental railway prop
erty and Sl2.0uoH1 as the capital value
of the Rum .lian tribute The Shah of Per-
STA revoked his proclamation refusing 70
grant constitution to the people. over
a hundred lives were lost by the burning
of the steamer Sardinia at the entrance
of the harbor Of Ealetta.
In the District.
In his annual report Alonzo Tweedale.
auditor for the District, recommended di-
rect local control over all estimates and
acquisitions affecting the revenues of the
District. The Macfarland trophy flag was
awarded to engine company No. II. Frank
II. Hitchcock. chairman Of the republican
national committee, appointed Edward J.
StellWagen chairman OF the committee to
conduct the inaugural ceremonies of the
next President. Rev. James F. Mackin,
pastor of ST Pauls Church. received the
rank and insignia OF n domestic preiate
of the pope. with title OF monslGnor. The
license Of Capt. Frank Phillips, maSte~
of the stea ner Washington. was suspended
for thirty days. and the license of Capt.
Henry kendlick of the Lackawanna for
ninety days result of the recent COLI
sion between the two boats Raymond
l.. Hibbs was killed when the ironwork on
a new warehouse in course of construction
near North Capitol and NJ streets col
lapsed: a coroner's jury began an lnvesii-
eatpn into the circumstances Henry
Fischer ifty-four years OF age, COM
mItted suicide by shooting.