Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-14
WEEK ENDING JANUARY IA, 1905.

It was announced that President Roose-
velt will appoint Representative vespasian
Warner OF Illinois commissioner of PEN
sions; Joseph L. Bristow resigned as fourth
assistant postmaster general and was ap-
pointed by the President a special Panama
railroad commissioner; the President an
nounced his intention to withdraw the arbi-
tration treaties pending in the Senate IL
amendments neutralizing their intended ef-
feet are made. Brazil notified this country
OF Its intention to elevate its legation to an
embassy. The United States refused to
recognize sentence imposed by Haitian
court on an American citizen and threat
ened energetic Intervention. Lieut.. j. NJ
Jewell and Private w. F. O'Neill were
killed and number of Americans wounded
in fight with Moros in Jolo. The Senate
passed the legislative appropriation bill and
discussed railroad regulation and the state
hood bill; the House considered the cur
rency bill and the articles of Impeachment
against Judge Charles Swayne; the defense
IN the investigation of Senator Reed Smoot
began its case; Samuel Spencer. president
OF the Southern railway, spoke before the
House committee on interstate commerce in
opposition to enlarged powers for the in
terstate commerce commission. Argument
for the government and the packers in the
so-called beef trust case was closed in the
United States Supreme Court. A number
OF state governors were inaugurated; Gov.
against Gov. Adams for the governorship
of the state. Ex-Gov. Morgan G. Bulke-
ley was nominated by Connecticut republic
cans for senator to succeed Joseph r. Haw-
ley; James A Hemenway was nominated
by Indiana republicans to succeed Senator
Fairbanks; ex-Representative Sutherland
was nominated by Utah republicans to sue
coed Senator Kearns; Frank P. Flint was
elected senator by the California legis-
lature to succeed Thomas R. Bard Sena-
tors Lodge and Crane were nominated to
succeed themselves by the republicans in
Massachusetts,; Senator Bate was reelected
in Tennessee. The deadlock in the Della
ware legislature was broken by the cleo
ton Of w. D. Denny (Addicks republican,
as peaker Of the house. The board of in
quiry at Reading, Pa, decided that they
Ethelbert Talbot of Pennsylvania on trial
An extreme cold wave prevailed in the
western states. Four persons were burned
to death In freight wreck at Piggott, Ark
Former Mayor ]. Samuel McCue, convicted
of wife murder at Charlottesville, Va, and
sentenced to be hanged January 20, was
refused a new trial by the Virginia SUI
preme court.
Foreign Affairs.
The Russian government issued a strong
note of protest to the powers calling atten-
ton to alleged violations of Chinese neu-
trality, supplemented with proof of the
same, and stating that Russia will use
complete liberty of action in future abuses
of neutrality; the complete transfer of pris-
oners at Port Arthur according to Tokyo
advices. showed total of S7S officers of
whom All were paroled, and 90 491 men;
Lieut.. Generals Fock, Smirnoff and Gorba-
towski and Rear Admiral Wren elected to
go to Japan as prisoners; Vice Admiral
DoubasSoH, Russian member of the North
sea commission, after conference with the
car advised the conclusion of peace be-
tween Russia and Japan; Russian cavalry
was reported to be raiding in the rear of
Field Marshal Oyama s army in Manchuria;
the main division of the Baltic fleet remain
ed off Madagascar: Vice Admiral Botrov-
skys division arrived at Port Said, headed
east. King Edward issued his procla mat ton
calling parliament to convene II ebruary IA.
new cabinet was formed in Denmark.
More than 10000 German coal miners were
reported to be on strike. Advces received
In Vienna from missionaries declared that
all the whites on the upper reaches of the
Congo had been murdered in a rising of the
natives. German losses in the conflicts with
natives in southwest Africa were placed at
sos killed and 1S5 wounded. Paul Doumer,
who opposed many of Premier Combes'
measures. was elected president of the
French chamber of deputies. 1t was re-
ported in Tangier that an army recently
modified by the Sultan Of Morocco had
deserted and that he now has less than a
regiment under arms; Morocco yielded COM
pletely to the French demands All the
municipal officers of Uskub, Macedonia, were
arrested turkish authorities on the
charge of revolutionary conspiracy. The
American Public Health Association met at
Havana. The treaty of peace and amity be-
tween Chile and Bolivia was signed. 1t was
reported that sixty-seven persons We're
drowned in the wreck of the large Manila
schooner LegaZpi in the China sea. More
than fifty persons were frozen to death in
the recent cold wave in Germany and at
recent blizzard in the Alps. Among those
who died was Louise Michel, noted
communist and revolutionary agitator, at
MarSeille.
In the District.
William P. Richards assistant engineer
in charge of street extensions, was appoint
ed surveyor of the District to succeed the
late Maj. Henry B. LOCKER. The Commits
sioners sent letter to President Roosevelt
answering the latter's communication on
observance of the smoke law in the Dis
trict; the Commissioners recommended that
the remains of Maj. L'Enfant be allowed to
stay at their present resting place in Prince
George county, Md, and that monument
be erected to his memory in this city, Sen
ator Gallinger presented to the Senate
petition from the Public Education ASSocia-
ton on compulsory education and kindred
subjects; he also presented a petition to the
Senate asking for an Increase of the sal
aries of all school teachers in the District;
an effort was made by Senator Gallinger
to have the Senate set aside day for con-
sheraton of District measures but objec-
ton was made to unanimous consent on
the ground that if contested measures were
included in the agreement too much time
would be lost in debate; the House District
committee took up for consideration the
Cowherd bill authorizing the Great Falls
and Old Dominion railroad to operate a
crosstown railway; the proposition to es-
ahlish a whipping post in the District was
not received with favor by members of the
Senate. Ground was broken for the con-
struction of the proposed new Lane-John-
ston Memorial Choir School for Boys on the
cathedral site at Mt. st. Adams. The
American Institute of Architects held it's
thirty-eighh annual convention. Represen-
tative business men of the city announced
their intention to secure a modification of
the existing smoke law; during the progress
of the trials for violations of the law in
the Police Court Maurice Hoffman, MEM
Der Of the jury, asked to be excused from
further service because he considered the
law burdensome; the court refused to eX-
cuse him. Louis Murdoch, convicted of
selling liquor at the ST. Asaph pool room,
was fined $1,000 and sentenced to thirty
days in Jail: the promoters of the pool
room gave assurances to the circuit court
of Alexandria county that operations will
rot again be attempted in that county. A
motion for new trial was filed in the case
of James M. A. Watson, convicted of en-
bezzling $4,000 from the District. John
Ridout, member of the local bar, admitted