Evening star., 1950-01-29

The Star for January 20, 1900 featured an
account OF reception and concert given by
Mr.. and Mrs. John r.
Musicale at Mclean the previous eve
the McLeons' ming in honor of Admiral
and Mrs. Dewey Nine.
Schumann- -Heink, Thomas salignac Gut
seppe Campanari and Harvey Murray were
the artists who appeared. The Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra played the accompani-
ments. After the feast of music" The Star
explained, "the guests enjoyed champagne
supper" Among those present were the
Ambassadors of Great Britain, Italy, Russia
and Mexico; the Secretary of State and Mrs
Hay, the Secretary of War and Mrs Root
Mrs. John w. Foster, William Jennings
Bryan, Herbert Putnam, Mr.. and Mrs
George Westinghouse Prof Samuel P. Lang
ley, Prince Troubetzkoy, Mr.. and Mrs. Seth
w. Brown, the Chief Justice and Mrs Fuller,
the Ministers of Belgium. China, Costa Rica,
Switzerland, Denmark and Guatemala, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Claude M Swanson.
Senator and Mrs Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs.
John w. Thompson, Senator and Mrs
Thomas C.. Platt and Senator Chauncey
Depew. 'It was one of the parties for which
perhaps an invitation was most coveted of
all the winter series"
Washington half century ago was wit
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proceeding-the trial of Ben
Smell Murder jamin H. Snell AZ, for the
Trial murder of Lizzie Weisen-
berger, a 13-year-old girl who
had been employed in his home at 10 cents
a day, but who had returned to her parents
against his wishes. Failing to persuade the
child to come back to him, he had invaded
her bedroom and cut her throat three times.
Now the wheels Of justice were turning.
The Star of January %, 1900, reported the
testimony of Lizzies father and mother and
reproduced pencil sketches of them on the
stand. In an adjacent column dispatch
from New York gave impressions of the
famous Molineux case, then also current
Smell was convicted February and hanged
June %.
The Hawaiian Islands were the scene of
an outbreak of the bubonic plague in 1900,
and The Star on January %
Fighting the published message to the
Poeue Surgeon Generals Office from
Major Blair Taylor, chief sur
geon at the United States Military Hospital
at Honolulu saying: "The process of burning
up the infected district is rapidly proceeding.
Its inhabitants are being isolated in deten-
ton camps, and the Government has placed
$270,000 at the disposal of the Board of
Health with the promise Of more if needed.
These measures will, think, be effective in
eradicating the disease in the course of
time" Meanwhile, three new cases of the
plague and one death were announced.
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The Star editorially commented under
date Of January Is. 1900: 1.-THE news comes
by cable that the Emperor
New Chinese Kwangsu nominally the ruler
Emperor of China, has designated as
his successor Putsing, the g.
year-old son of Prince Tuano, and that the
new ruler will take the throne on the
last day of the present month. This news
is interesting rather than important. The
abdication of a Chinese Emperor under
present circumstances is an item of imme-
diately slight consequences. 1t may reveal,
to be sure, certain conditions within the
palace at Pekin, which will eventually lead
to friction with one or another of the on
pressing powers, or between those powers.
But this Is not now regarded as likely. The