Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
WEEK ENDING SEPT 10, aso4.

The army maneuvors in Virginia were
concluded. Minister Barrett was instruct
ed to try to settle the boundary dispute be-
tween Panama and Colombia. The isthmian
canal commission ssileI from Colon for
New York. The republicans carried Yer
mont by more than 10000 plurality, the
democrats losing twenty members of the
state house of representatives. The North
ern Securities Company filed at Trenton, n.
j., its answer to the Pierce suit
tc restrain the distribution of the formers
assets. The board OF visitors to the Naval
Academy recommended q return to the
four-year course. The knights Templar
held their annual ccnclave at San Fran
cisco. The Interparliamentary Union
rived in Philadelphia on a tour of the
United States. President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor refused to
call meeting of the national executive
council to recommend general sympathetic
action of unions in support of the Chicago
packing house strike. President Donnelly
OF the Butcher Workmen's Union declared
the Chicago stockyards strike at an end.
FIVE men were drowned In Lake Erie by the
cepsizing of launch. Five men were kill
ed and five hurt by sn explosion of nitro
glycer1ne at Findlay, Ohio. Fourteen per-
sons, mostly children. were burned to death
IN tenement house fire in New York. Eight
men were injured. four fatally, by an ex-
plos1on OF gas in mine at Edwardsville.
"a. Four persons we're killed and forty in
Jured In wreck on the Wabash railroad
at Pendleton, Mo. Six persons were killed
and two fatally and fifteen severely in
Jured in collision between a street car
ana wabash train at st. Louis. Four
persons were killed and thirty-five others
injured by the derai,ng of train on a
trestle on the Seaboard Air Line at the Ca
tawba river. 8. c.
Foreign Affairs.
After terrific fighting. in which the Rus
sian loss was unofficialIy placed at 10000
and the japanese 10000 men. General Kuro-
patkin was forced to evacuate Laoyang
and retreat to Mukden. the Japanese under
General kuroki pressing him hotly; the re-
treat was accomplished in good order
ana without the loss of a gun, as reported
to ST Petersburg. and the Japanese were
unable to head him off from the Manchu-
ran capital, although pursuing holly; the
impression prevailed that another big battle
would be fought at that point. although the
Russians were reported to have made ar
rangements to retreat still further to Har-
bin; as a result of the Japanese successes
two fresh army corps We're organized to
be sent from Russia to Manchuria the
Russian forces to be reorganized into two
armies; General Stakelberg's LIST Siberian
Army Corps. numbering 5000 men.
ported cut on and captured by the Japa-
nese at Liaoyang, escaped and rejoined the
main Russian army; the bombardment OF
Port Arthur continued without decisive
was reported blown to pieces by land mines
near that point. A strong anti Russian SEN
ument developed among the Chinese in
Manchuria because of the Russian course
in burning villages and supplies to harass
the advancing Japanese. Japan and Korea
signed an agreement by which the former
secures control of Koreas foreign affairs.
The cZar Issued a ukase extending the priv
ileges of hgher-class educated in Russia.
Prince Sviatopokmirsky appointed
Russgian minister of the interior. The
British trades union congress at Leeds
voted to ask that a minister of labor. with
cabinet rank, be appointed. A formal
treaty between Great Britain and Tibet was
signed at Lhassa. Premier Combes of
France, in a speech, declared for a COM
plete separation of church and state: the
population of France in 1901 was placed at
IS, 961-945. an increase of only 444.G13 in ten
years. Serious rioting took place during the
sailors strike at Marseille. France. Ar
menian insurgents were reported to have
successfully resisted Turkish troops at
Van. Uruguayan rebels were defeated by
government troops with heavy loss. The
engagement of Crown Prince Frederick
William OF Germany to the Duchess Cecilia,
sister of the reigning Grand Duke of Meek
lenburg- SchWerin, was announced by Elm
peror William.
In the District.
Commissioner West approved regulations
requiring all scenery and woodwork in local
theaters to be treated with fire-resisting
ington Asylum submitted his annual report.
A committee of Northeast Washington citi-
zens petitioned the Commissioners to keep
that section of the city from being tenn
porarily isolated during the construction
of the union station. The brief of Super
intendent Warner Stutler of the street
cleaning department in the investigation
into charges against him of maladministra-
ton was filed. The eighth International
geographic congress began its sessions La
Gnr law generally observed in the g
trict. The Hebrew new year was cele-
brated The answer of Thomas L. Wagga-
man to the rule issued several days ago by
the court to show cause why he should not
be adjudged bankrupt and why a receiver
should not be appointed to take charge of
his property were filed, but action in the
case was postponed until Monday. The Mu-
sicians Union declared general strike or
members of the orchestras of local theaters.
The District National Guard participated in
the joint international shooting tournament
at Sea Grit, N. ]. Toma MAJ ga, a laborer,
Gied from lockjaw resulting from an injury
to his foot at the new railroad tunnel.
James Taylor, colored. was killed by fall
from a window. Mrs. Virginia Scott Hite
seventy years old, died from injuries re-
ceived by falling from street car Reuben
Chichester, Mexican war veteran was
killed by a fall from a window at the Sol
diers' Home. a coroners jury decided that
the death of Matthew Thompson, who was
killed by fall down an elevator shaft at
the Mills building annex, was due to care
lessness in running The elevator Miss Rosa
Stern died the result of Self-inficted in
juries with razor John H. Brown, jr.,
a clerk in the Navv Department committed
suicide by shooting Charles Crow, a print
er, committed suicide, according to the cor
oner S report. by inhaling Illuminating gas.
George w. Sengstack, a painter, and Hat
tie Lowry, seventeen years old, colored at
tempted to commit suicide by taking poison
Jennie Williams. colored died from blood
poisoning, the result of having been bitten
by her daughter, Rose Craig who was held
by a coroner's jury. The body of a white
baby was found in Rock Creek. Among
those who died were Richard M. Evans one
of the principal attaches of the District
building inspection department, and Charles
HI. Trunnel, noted as an antiquarian.