Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29
WEEK ENDING OCTOBER go, 1904

President Roosevelt received congratula-
tons on the occasion of his forty-sixth
birthday; a letter from him declining to
withdraw his denunciation of the official
conduct of James N. Tyner, formerly as
sistant attorney general for the Post Office
Department, was made public, and he sub
seQuently reiterated his views in another
letter to the latter. communication was
dispatched by the State Department to the
signatory powers of the original Hague
treaty looking to a reconvention of The
Hsgue peace conference. The chief of the
bureau of equipment asked for $4,000 for
wireless telegraph extension in the navy.
Six retired officers of the navy were ap-
pointed to investigate and make recommen-
dations for changes in the system of steam
boat inspection. The Supreme Court of the
United States held that the use of palm
oil in the manufacture of oleomargarine
constitutes a coloring matter, and the
product therefore is taxable. The armored
cruiser Colorado averaged 22.26 knots an
hour on her trial trip making her the fast
est of her class. Governor Wright sent from
Manila reply to Judge Parker's charges
concerning conditions In and the cost of the
Philippines; ex-Attorney General Knox is
sued a reply to the speeches of Judge Par
ker and ex-President Cleveland; Secretary
Taft replied to Judge Parker's speech on the
Philippines; Judge Parker made a speech at
Esopus vigorously advocating a reduction
of the tariff. The interstate commerce COM
mission resumed at New York it's inquiry
into the charges that certain coal-carrying
railroads were in collision to fix and main
tain prices. The new underground railway
in New York city was formally opened.
The triennial general convention of the
Episcopal Church at Boston closed its ses-
sions; the house of bishops and house of
deputies reached an agreement on a divorce
canon. From thirty to sixty men were
killed in a terrific explosion at mine No.
nf hnP oExv 1fai n M
pany at Tercio, near Trinidad, Col, which
also set fire to the mine Five men steal
ing ride Wabash freight train were
killed in Illinois Geo. W. Blount, colored,
was taken from the police at Berkeley. Va.
and shot to death. Among those who died
were Cornelius Van Colt, postmaster OF
New York, at New York, and George X.
Nash, former governor of Ohio, at Column
bus.
Foreign Affairs.
The Russian second Pacific fleet. or Baltic
squadron, while passing the eastern coast
of England on it's way to the far east, fired
or the Hull fishing fleet off the Dogger
Bank, and the steam trawler Crane was
sunk, her captain and one of the mates
having their heads cut off by shot; about
twenty fishermen were also wounded and
two other trawlerS were hit by shot one of
them being completely riddled; the British
foreign office sent an urgent note to Russia
situation was one that did not brook delay;
the car replied in a message expressing
deep regret for the occurrence and pract-
cally acknowledging that every demand
made by Great Britain would be satisfied;
Admiral Rojestvensky, commanding the
Baltic squadron, in his report on the af-
fair, expressed regret for the accident and
stated that he thought his fleet was about
to be attacked by two torpedo boats and
that he fired at them, sinking one, and that
he did not know of the presence of the fish
ing fleet in those waters; the British cham
mel squadron sailed for Gibraltar, while Adj
miral Rojestvensky ordered to remain
at Vigo with the ships that had participated
in the incident; Premier Balfour practically
declared in a speech that all danger of fric-
ton between Russia and Great Britain was
averted for the time being; the captains of
the Swedish steamer Aldebaran and a Nor
wegian vessel reported that their craft had
also been fired upon by the Russian fleet;
the car appointed Gen. kuropatk-n com
mander-in- chief of all the Russian land and
naval forces in the far east; it was esi-
mated at Mukden that the total losses in
the recent battle of the Shakhe river were
81, 000+5,000 Russians and $4,000 Japanese;
Marshal Oyama reported that his losses a
the battle were 1879; the two armies at
the latest report confronted each other in
intrenched positions, the Russians massing
their forces against Gen. kuroki in prep
aration for continuation of the conflict;
the Japanese were forced to hastily aban-
don Shakhe village; a message from Port
Arthur stated that the garrison would be
able to hold out until the arrival of the
Baltic fleet; the Russian admiralty council
ordered the release OF the British ship AL
1anton. reversing the decision of the Vlad-
ivostok prize court. Eighty defendants
were arraigned at Gomel. Russia, in con-
nection with the Jewish disturbances there
last year. The French chamber of deputies,
by 325 to 237, sustained Premier Combes
policy toward the Vatican; in a question in
volving the war department, Premier
n ,hncs dyvoit, ST. foin
the chamber by a majority of only four
votes; the trial of four French colonies on
charges growing out of the Dreyfus case
began in Paris; King George of Greece Wis.,
tied Paris. The radical party in Italy IS
sued a manifesto at Rome for the coming
elections, advocating a vigorous democracy.
A bomb was exploded in Barcelona during
welcome to the minister of agriculture,
but no one was injured A treaty of peace
between Chile and Bolivia, by which the
German emperor is made arbiter in case
of disputes, was signed. Nomination day
for the elections next week in Canada oc-
CURED.
In the District
Commissioners Macfarland and West re-
turned from the st. Louis exposition; bids
for furnishing stone for the municipal
building for the District government were
opened. Chemical engine company No. l
was disbanded and engine company No. 10
was organized with headquarters ID
street near 18th street. The milk shipping
farmers in the vicinity of the District eff
fected an organization and decided upon a
raise in the price, of milk; the bakers main
tanned the price of bread at cents a loaf.
The meetings of the creditors of Thomas E.
Waggaman were continued. The equity
branch of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict heard argument in a suit brought by
w. S. Wilson of Hinsdale, ILL.,, to restrain
the Secretary of the Treasury from ma king
payments or issuing bonds for the acquisi-
ton and construction of the Panama canal.
The Harper's Ferry pulp mill authorities
agreed to cease emptyng refuse into the
Potomac river within ninety days. The
seventeenth annual meeting of the Women's
Home Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Baltimore conference,
was held. The annual chrysanthemum ex-
hibition at the government propagating
gardens was opened. The supervising in
spectors of the steamboat inspection serv-
ice met to suggest changes in inspection
regulations. The Columbia Golf Club de-
feated the Chevy Chase Club in the con-