Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-29
WEEK ENDING APRIL 20, 1905.

| President Roosevelt decided to conclude
| his hunting trip in Colorado a week earlier
| than he intended and start for Washington
May s. Frank B. Loomis. acting secretary
| OF state, declared that all the charges
/ against him of official misconduct while
| he was American minister to Venezuela
were unqualified falsehoods: the question
| of whether Minister Herbert w. Bowen
| should be recalled from Caracas to answer
| these charges was submitted to the Presi-
dent by Secretary Taft. Negotia tons fer
an immigration treaty between the Cpi.ed
States and China were abandoned he rep
resen'atives of the two countries being I'M
able 10 reach an agreement. Attorney Gen
eI"u MOODY, in an opinion, sustained the
secretary of the Interior in his rebate
asieenent with certain railroads. The
| United States Supreme Court issued it's
mandate for the removal of George w.
Beavers to Washington for trial on postal
Iraud charges a. gift of s10oo0oCO was
mace by Andrew Carnegie to provide an
nuites for college professors who. are not
apie 10 continue in active service. The confer
ence Tor southern education met in Columbia
3 C. The teamsters' strike in Chicago as
sumed serious proportions, daily scenes of
niolence being reported; the Employers
leaning Association asked for an injunc-
| .lon IN the United States circuit court,
which was granted. restraining all de-
lendarts from interfering with the bust
ness OF the country, the government thus
pehg made party to the strike. Frank
". 6lgeiow president of the First National
Bank or Milwaukee, Wis confessed to a
shortage of s1,4J0.CC0. and subsequent an
nouncement was made that he had filed a
petition in bankruptcy with Liabilities ag-
gresatlng over 100000 and assets near
the million and half mark Sixteen men
were killed and one will die as the re-
SUIT OF an explosion in a mine near Big
run. ia. Among those who died were
d hn
nome, the Reefs, Palm Beach, Fla. and
brig. Gen. Charles Smart, assistant surgeon
general OF the United States army, at St
Augustine, Fla.
Foreign Affairs.
pursuant to representations made by the
japanese government to France Adn,ir,,
RoJestvenskys fleet was forced to leave
hamranh bay; a dispatch from Tokyo an
hounced that the fleet had been sighted
seventy miles north of that point; both the
japanese and Russian plans for an engage
iheht were closely guarded; 1t was officially
announced at Tokyo that the Russian cav
airy In Mancburia had attacked Kinpscheny
ana hiid been repulsed; Russian recon-
nuisance pushed as far south as Eoj-Yu,n
y ou no was Iorced pack with a loss of 80 men;
L,"D troops entraining for the far east at
Borlson mutined and smashed Red Cross
cars ana plllaSed shops; rioting and insub-
oIoilatloh occurred al st. Petersburg on
eral adVlces from Russia represented the
situation in that country as more menacing,
rioliilg having occurred in VladikavkaZ and
IearS pelng expressed for uprising over
dH foland on May day; an imperial mani
festo was issued forcing communities TO nav
Ior damages caused by peasants all the
dock hands on the Folga struck and an i'm
mense quantity of freight was blocked
Germany gave notice that the treaty en-
utIing the United States to the most-favo--
ed-natlon privileges will cease to be effec-
i've after March |, 1906 Paris newspapers
caused renewed anxiety at the French ca nj
TAI over the Moroccan situation King Ed
ward and Queen Alexandra arrived at Mar
Seiie the former leaving that point for
fafls. AdViceS from Alden told of the crush
ing defeat of the sultan's troops and the
spread of the revolt; the belief was ex-
pressed in London that the rising is likely
10 lmperii the entire Turkish empire San
as, the capital of Yemen, was taken by me
insurgents and Manakha. an important
town was beseged. An official estimate
OF the loss of life in the recent earthquake
in India placed the number at not over
1o,OO0. President Castro in a speeco
at Calabazo, Venezuela, stated that the
vaior OF patriots will support him to sustain
reason, night and justice.
In the District.
The Commissioners fled petition for n
writ of certiorari to the Court Of Appeals
of the District in the Supreme Court of the
United States in the case of the alleged
violation of the regulation requiring the re-
moval of snow and ice from sidewalks by
John w. Lee; the Commissioners approved
the new names for streets in the section of
the District west of Rock creek and outside
the limits of the city proper. Commissioner
West announced the personnel of the com
mittee in charge of the scheme for the cree
ton of an auditorium building Secretary
Shaw decided to place on deposit in local
banks about $3,00O,O90 of the taxes annually
notice
indicated total population for the District
of 322,445. as against a total of 277, 49, in
1897. The new home of the Casualty Hos
pital and Eastern Dispensary was formally
opened. The annual spring tourney of the
Columbia Golf Club was begun. The
eIghty-sixth anniversary of the independent
Order of odd Fellows was celebrated Jus
tice Wright of the Criminal Court granted
the motion of Andrew A Lipscomb that the
court sever his trial from that of his CO.
defendant Thomas NJ Fields, Jointly in
dicted with him for embezzement. Prof.
Otis I. Billiard, a musician eighty-nine
years old, died from injuries sustained by
being struck by bicycle April 16; Joseph
Meyers, forty-one years of age, was ar
rested and charged with causing the acct
dent. Charles lppolite, a laborer, lost his
life during fire at the comnissary of the
Italian camp in Garfield Park. Truman
Beckett, an engineer on the P, w. & b. r.
R. was killed by the overturning of his
engine at 9th street and Maryland avenue
southwest. Edmund 2. Capron, sixty-ive
years old, former newspaper man, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison; Miss Mat
tie l.. Hopkins. "a trained nurse, committed
suicide at Beltsville, Md. by cutting her
throat. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, while on his
way to this city from Boston, was stricken
with paralysis on the train and died at
Providence Hospital Among others who
died Mr.. S. j. Haislett, a well known
retired business man.
Naval Orders.