Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
WEEK ENDING OCTOBER /, 1904.

President Roosevelt acceded to the re-
quest of the Interparliamentary Union, and
announced that at an early date he would
ask the nations of the world to join In a
second conference at The Hague; a petit
ton calling upon him to intervene in the
affairs of the Congo Free State in the in
terests of civilizati ton was presented to the
President; Gov. Wright of the Philippines
in a letter to the President declared that
agitation for freedom for the Filipinos in
this country caused restlessness there.
Hugh Quincy. third secretary Of the Brit
lsh embassy. was arrested and fined for ex-
ceeding the speed limit in an automobile at
Lee, Mass. In violation of the Jaw granting
him immunity; the affair was brought to
the attention of the State Department and
expressions of regret for the occurrence
were received from Gov. John L. Bates of
Massachusetts, and Special Justice H. c.
Phelps of the municipal court at Lee; the
British ambassador notified the State De-
partment that Mr.. Quincy wished to ex-
press his regrets If he had not conformed
to the regulations at Lee. Consul General
John Goodnow at Shanghai was granted
permission to return to the United States
for the purpose of answering charges pre-
ferred against him of maladmnistration of
the affairs of his office. Judge Parker's
nomination for the presidency was made
pubic. 1t was announced in New York
that democratic headquarters will not be
established in the west. The American Bar
public accountants and the pure food con-
gress held annual meetings at st. Louis.
The third eucharistic congress of the
Catholic Church convened in New York.
Judge George Gray sustained the decision
OF Umpire Carroll d. Wright in the matter
OF check-weighman and check-docking
bosses in favor of the anthracite coal
miners. Sixty-two persons were killed and
129 injured. some fatally, in a wreck on the
Southern railroad at Newmarket, Tenn.
Among those who died were George Frisbie
Hoar, senior United States senator from
Massachusetts,, at Worcester. Mass; Rear
Admiral +. p. Gilmore, United States navy,
retired, and Milton 6. Barlow, veteran
minstrel.
Foreign Affairs.
Sharp fighting occurred near Mukden. and
Gen. Kuropatkin's outposts were driven in,
the Japanese being reported. as prepared
for an aggressive movement to force him
to battle at Mukden or a retreat to Tie
Pass; the Japanese captured Da Pass and
pressed Gen. Kuropatkin's left flank: a
fourth Japanese army began concentration
at Sfanchan, south of Mukden and an adj
vance northeasterly through Korea toward
Vladivostok was reported to have been in
augurated; new gains at Port Arthur were
made by the Japanese, it being reported at
Tokyo that six forts in the second line Of
defense had been captured, among them
Fort Kuropatkin, controlling the water
supply of the fortress; Admiral Togo was
reported to be blockading Chefu to prevent
the Russian warships at Port Arthur from
escaping to that port; the car detached
Maj. Gen. OrlOff from the Manchurian
army, the latter being blamed for the Rus
sian defeat at Liaoyang: Gen. Grippenberg
was appointed to command a second Man.
churian army, to consist of 300, 600 men, in
dependently of Gen. Kuropatkin; the new
railroad around Lake Baikal was opened.
greatly facilitating the sending of Russian
achievements to the front. Vice Admiral
Doubason was appointed Russian minister
of novtr, ,ysa% IL
sumed office as Russian minister of the in
terror. The British expedition in Tibet left
LhasSa on it's way to the Chumbi valley.
The British torpedo boat destroyer Chamois
sank on the Island of Cephalona. The
Irish Reform Association drew UP a pro-
gram for a number of changes in the gov
ernment of the island. car containing
United States mail, on train from Paris
bags were rified. Mount Vesuvius broke
out in the most violent eruption since 1872
The revolution in Uruguay was reported at
an end. The present threatened rising in
China was declared by the foreign board
at Picking to be anti-dynastic rather than
anti-foreign. Among those who died were
LafcadiO Hearn, a famous author, at To-
kyo, Japan; Prof. Niels R. Finsen, discov-
erer of the light ray cure for lupus, at Co.
penhagen, and Sir William Vernon Har-
court, the noted English liberal leader.
In the District.
proposition to build the tunnel under Capt.
tol Hill by the 'cut and cover method in
stead of boring; the suggestion was received
with favor by two of the Commissioners of
the District, but the matter was left in
allegiance awaiting the acquiescence in the
matter of the superintendent of the Con-
gressional Library and Capitol buildings,
and because of the possibility of the presen.
law forbidding such change in the plans
without further action by Congress. An
nual estimates for the Public Library and
the sewer department were presented to
the Commissioners. The Northwest Subur-
ban Citizens Association presented an es-
! innate of 1914, 600 for improvements in that
section of the city. A committee consisting
of Auditor Garrison, Assessor Darneille and
Acting Collector of Taxes Collins of the
District government estimated the apparent
receipts of the District government for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1906. exclusive
of water rents, at So, 532, 325 The treasurer
of the United States submitted his annual
report on the sinking fund and funded debt
of the city. Chief Justice Clabaugh of the
Supreme Court of the District adjudged
Thomas e. Waggaman a bankrupt and re-
ferred the cause to Andrew Y. Bradley, q
referee in bankruptcy. The archbishop Of
Canterbury delivered a Salutation urging
Christian unity and Bishop Doane OF Al Al
bany, N. Y, a sermon to more than 10000
persons at Mt. ST. Adams number of
Frenchmen, representing the principal me-
chanical industries of France and members
sciences, visited the city. Negotiations for
the purchase of control of the Citizens Ma
tional Bank by outside capital were con-
cluded. The monitor Puritan was formally
turned over to the District Naval Battalion
of the National Guard. The tournament
for the championship of the District at ten
mis- was won by G. P. Parkes, defeating J..
C. Davidson in the finals. Howard Mack.
twelve years old, was killed by fall down
an elevator shaft. Edward Rollins, color
ed, thirty years old, was crushed by an ele-
vatOr and killed. John F. Dudley, one year
DID, was drowned in a tub of water. Ed
ward Wilson, colored, was shot and proba-
bly, fatally wounded by Lincoln Mitchell,
also colored, in an alteration over a game
of pool. Armistead r. McGill, a drug
clerk, committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid James Mckenzie, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home. committed suicide by shoot
ing. James Mcmahon, a clerk in the War
Department, attempted to commit suicide
by cutting himself with a knife. Among
those who died were DR.. Leroy Taylor, well
known as a physician and a traveller; VIM.
H. Hammersley, a Washington business
man of long standing, and Hector Van
Dorslaer of the Interparliamentary Union,
clerk of the house of deputies of Belgium.
Naval Movements.