Evening journal., 1904-09-28
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WASHINGTON.
william Dudley Foulke says Roose-
welt has done more for civil service re-
form than any other President.
President Roosevelt welcomed menu
bers OF Congress of Arts and Sciences.
POLITICAL.
Senator Fairbanks discussed the wool
tariff in his speech at Big Tiger Mont.
Thomas L. Watson. Populist candi-
date for President, broke down after his
speech at Jackson. Miss. He has been
advised 70 so home and rest.
FOREIGN.
A report from Shanghai declares the
Boxers Of the Province of Shantung
have fixed October II as the date for
the determination Of foreigners.
The British expedition TO Tibet has
left I.assa for the Chumbi Valley.
China has appointed an envoy to rep
resent the Empire in Tibet.
The condition of Lady Curzon is crit
ical her illness having taken turn for
the worse.
Many American Catholics viii make
pilgrimage for the jubilee Of the I'M
maculate Conception.
ID. II. Goss. president Of the American
Institute, strassburg. Germany. COM
mitted suicide on detecting. as ex-
planned In a letter, the approach Of in
sanity.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Chamois was sunk in the Mediterra-
mean. All on board were saved.
The King of Saxony Is III.
Japan has concluded purchase OF
American Tobacco Company's interests,
adding 100000 yen to price. assuring
monopoly.
The Institute of International Law, in
session at Edinburgh. commended Pres
ident Roosevelt's decision to call a sec
ond peace congress.
Interest in the coming conference be-
tween the German Chancellor and
Italy's Premier is heightened by the
prospect that plan OF mediation to
bring peace in the Far East Will be
discussed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Carlo Won Bauditz a wealthy young
Venezuelan, shot himeslf in a New
York hotel because he found a woman
with whom he had become infatuated
dining with another man.
The American Bar Association, in
session at st. Louis, adopted a resolu-
tion recommending mediation by the
United States in the war between Rus
sia and Japan. Reconsideration of
proposed antitrust legislation was de-
ferred.
The third General Eucharistic Con-
gress OF the Catholic Church in the
United States assembled in New York.
The earnings OF the United States
Steel Corporation for the quarter end
ing September 30 will be about S1s,-
100000. This is larger than expected.
Two hundred and six persons were
arraigned in New York on charges Of
violating the naturalization laws.
Cotton men met at Charlotte and adj
vanced the price of yarns. They say
they will close their mills il they cam
not get what they ask.
A new speed-increasing propeller for
steamships was tried with success, II is
said, on the Hudson river.
The Kaiser Wilhelm III arrived at
New York with many distinguished
passengers, after voyage nearly
equaling the record, Notwithstanding
the fog.
The acting governor Of Massachus-
etts called upon Police Court Justice
Phelps at Lee, to make proper amends
Tor fning Hugh Gurney, Third Secre-
tary or the British Embassy, $50. The
commonwealth will also apologize
Edward Dalheimer was locked up at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, charged with send
ing threatening and impertinent letters
to President and Miss Roosevelt and
Helen Gould
The conductor engineer and brake
man Of the freight train which came
into collision with a Sunday school ex-
cursion on the Chicago and Eastern IL
linois Railway near Chicago, July 13
last causing the death of eighteen per-
sons, were indicted for manslaughter.