Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-10
THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 10, 1904

President Roosevelt sent his annual mes
sage to Congress. Annual resports were
submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury,
the Secretary of the Navy. the Secretary OF
the Interior. the Attorney General and the
commissioner general of immigration. Both
houses assembled for the third session OF
the Fifty-eighth Congress; the Senate de-
cided to vote on the Philippine civil govern
ment bill December 49, Senator Platt intro
duced a bill to reduce the representation OF
the southern states In the House OF Repre-
sentatives; consideration of the pure food
bill was caused to go over by action Of Sen
ator Illlman, who called up the case of w.
d. Crum, nominated to be collector of the
port at Charleston, 5. C: the House passed
the legislative, executive and judicial APP
Precipitation bill Argument In the so-called
beef trust case before the United States
Supreme Court was postponed to an
fixed date. The hearings in Chicago before
the interstate commerce commission on the
uniform bill of lading of the railroads
were continued TO December IL I'm Wash
ington. The business sessions of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance
Union ended in Philadelphia. The New York
stock exchange witnessed the most sensa-
tional decline in prices that II has known
since the Northern Pacific panic of May,
1901, stocks dropping from to II points.
General Nelson A. Miles was appointed ad-
tutant general on the staff OF Governor-elect
Douglas of Massachusetts,. Notice was
served on the Morris Run Coal Company OF
Pennsylvania that unless a settlement was
made with its strikers before Monday all
soft coal miners in northern ard central
Pennsylvania would be called out. The ex-
plosion of gasoline tanks in a garage in
New York caused the injury of ten per-
sons and the burning of the place and forty
automobiles, with property loss of S2Io.-
tOc Twelve miners were killed i'm "A mine
explosion at Burnett. Wash. Mrs Cassie
l.. Chadwick was arrested I'm New York on
a nf "a md hff Z Ing
a bank official in msapplying the funds of
a national bank: the case was noted as be
ing the most remarkable financial one Of
the century. Caleb Powers, twice convict
ed of completely in the assassination of
Governor Goebel at Frankfort Ky. was
granted a new trial by the Kentucky court
OF appeals. The second trial of Nan Pat
terson for the murder Of Caesar Young
begun in New York. A number of convic-
tions in the Oregon and Denver land fraud
cases were secured. An entire family con
sisting of a man, his wife and two chit
dren, was murdered at Trenton. :. =.
Foreign Affairs.
In an attempt to penetrate the principal
lines Of Notifications at Port Arthur the
Japanese assaulted the forts on Ehr-Lung
and Keekwan mountains and at the same
time pushed a strong force up the gorge
ofShui-shi valley and attacked the sup
porting fort in the rear of Sung-Shu
mountain to envelop the city from the
east but the movement was repulsed after
the most desperate fighting that has vet
occurred; terrible details of the slaughter
consequent upon the capture of 2,tS- Meter
hill by the Japanese were contained in a
report sent from japanese headquarters:
reports were received in Tokyo stating
that every one of the Russian vessels in
the harbor at Port Arthur had been dis
abled or DESTROYED by the Japanese guns
on 2Ui-Meter hill, which overlook the har-
Dor; uncontirmed reports were circulated
at Mukden that the japanese force sent
to turn Gen Rennenkampff's right flank
had been rcpulSed with loss of ] J,p dead
left on the field: the japanese opened a
heavy cannonade on Pontlioff hill. south
of Mukden; general advices from the vi
entity of the Sakhe were TO the effect
that no signs of general enga cement
We're apparent, and that both forces were
living in holes in the ground for protec-
ton against the weather; it was reported
that Russia was planning to send a third
squadron from the Baltic To the far east
instead Of dispatching the Black sea fleet
Car Nicholas in opening the diet at Fin
land promised to abolish some of the
restrictive laws. The indictment Of Sas-
oneff, the murderer of NJ. PlehVe. and the
assassins accomplice revealed the plot of
a so-called revolutionary society. Ni,.eroy
CurZon landed at Bombay. India. and i'm "a
speech declared that vigorous precautions
We're being taken to strengthen the land
defenses of India. A British mission to
the Ameer of Afghanistan was dispat ched
to Kabul. and a Persian mission to the
Car of Russia ;.rrived at st. Petersburg.
ROumania agreed to the proposed recon-
vocation of The Hague peace conference
A cabinet was formed in SerNia.
Pope Plus Y took part in the iftieth ami
versary of the announcement of the dog
ma of the immaculate conception in Rome
The Prince of Piedmont, heir To the ltai-
ian throne, WAS christened at the quirinal
NJ. Syveton. the nationalist deputy WI"
attacked Gen. Andre. WAS found asplNxlat-
ed in Paris. Secretary Taft and President
Amador announced full settlement OF
the differences between the United States
and the republic of Panama.
In the District
The Comm. ssioners submitted their an
nual report TO Congress. In submitting the
estimates of the District to Congress See
rotary Shaw cut the figures $i.4ei. ~ 80
from the original estimates forwarded {"
him by the Commissioners. The board If
charities submitted its annual report. 1t
was stated that the Commiss onerS may
make separate and diverse reports on the
proposed amendment to the District smoke
law President Roosevelt in his annual
message to Congress called attention 10 ine
need of corrective and constructive legis'.t-
ton for the capital The legislative. execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill WAS
passed by the House; Representative Cow
herd gave notice that he would offer an
amendment in the House providing for
Scent fares in the District The District
Court of Appeals decided, under the Dis
trict code. Saturday is a legal half holiday
for all purposes; the Attorney General, IA
commenting the decision, stated that "A
general department order recently issued
covered the point and that clerks in tine
departments would be compelled to work
as heretofore. BY unanimous vote the cred
itorS of Thomas f.. Waggaman elected Mr.
H. Rozer Dulany trustee of the estate or
the bankrupt The Civil Service Reform
Association of the District of Column a. the
American WarehouSemen'S Association, tie
Master Plumbers Association of the Al
lantic Coast and the United States Po;teTS'
Assoc ,ation held annual meetings. Neil
Dorsey. colored was found dying on ne
PENNSYLVANIA railroad tracks near Magru-
der's Station VIM. j. O'Brien was found
dead from exposure on the marsh near pot
ter's field. Edward Bartlett, boy, WAS
fatally injured by Baltimore and ONO
locomotive near lst and III streets. Peter
b. Cook an aged inmate of the Methodist
Home died from injuries received in he nS
knocked down by carriage three weeks
ago. John A. Regain. n waiter, committed
suicide by taking poison; Mrs. Temple w.
Bear committed suicide by inhal:ng iilum-
mating gas; Walter Jones. fifty-eight years
old "A drummer, committed suicide by talk
ing carboiic acid; Edward Dorsey, colored.
attempted to commit suicide by jumping
;,tn he Iap,aS Crack canal. Lieut.. Morris