Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-09
WEEK ENDING DECEMBER Q, 1905.

nual message to the Fifty-ninth Congress,
which convened for Its first session: the an.
rual estimates forwarded by the Secretary
| on the Treasury provided for appropria-
tons OF s622 1871 as against appropria-
lions for the current year of $500. 73s. OCT;
Joseph @. Cannon nominated for
Speaker of the House and elected: the
Panama canal appropriation bill was pass
ed by the House after 1t had been cut down
to sl1,000,00o and amended to call for
strieter government scrutiny of ali expendi-
lures; railroad rate legislation was dis
cussed In the Senate and several measures
were offered for considerations: Gov. La
Toilette of Wisconsin announced that he
would resign to become a United States
senator The Unitarians excluded from the
ihterchurch conference issued statement
IN Boston. The Insurance investigating COM
mittee In New York finished its work with
me Mutual Reserve and began the
security Mutual of Binghamton; Senator
Depew sent In his resignation as n direc-
Tor or the Equitable Lie Assurance So
clely' Former city officials of Philadelphia
we're indicted for alleged conspiracy to de-
Iraud the city, Eighteen miners were kill
ed by an explosion In coal mine at Dia-
mondvilie, Wyo. Ten persons were killed
and nineteen injured in a head-on collision
between the Overland Limited and an ex-
press train on the Union Pacific railroad
near Rock Springs. Wyo. Mary Mabel
rogers was hanged at Windsor, Vt, for
the murder of her husband over three years
ago. Albert I. Patrick, convicted of the
murder of William Marsh Rice in New
York. was sentenced to be eectrocuted in
the week of January %. Among those
who died was United States Senator John
II. Mitchell of oregon of hemorrhages fol-
lowing the extraction of four teeth.
Foreign Affairs
Conditions In Russia were apparently
growing worse; the adoption of reacticnary
measures gained strength, eliminating IN
the demand for the removal of Count Witte
the increase and the peasant agitation
showed no signs of subsidlng: the executive
committee of the Railway Employees Union
at Warsaw issued orders for "A general
strike and reg ment of infantry CHARTERED
there mutinied; mutiny of saDpers at
Kfen was quelled by troops, fifty of the
mutineers being Killed and more than a
hundred wounded; Gen. Linevitch's troops
were reported from Hardin TO be killing
their officers; accounts received in st.
Petersburg declared that a massacre of
Jews had occurred at Kieff and over 1,5OO
persons had been slain; mass9cr of the
Jews was also reported to have occurred at
Odessa; anarchy was reported to prevail
in the Baltic provinces the troops joining
the revolutionary movement there; commu-
nication by courier service was opened with
st. Petersburg. where it stated the
strike Will be temporarily abandoned with
effort to be made to organize the work
men for a great struggle in January; Gen.
Sakharon was asSasSnated at Saraton by
a woman who fired three shots at him Con-
lecture in Great Britain regarding the cab!-
net crisis continued, and it was reported
that King Edward had requested Premier
Balfour. who announced his resignation, to
retain the reins of government until an
election has been held. The Irish national
ist convention assembled In Dublin and
adopted resolutions demanding an Irish leg
islative assembly. The German chancellor
in a speech on the budget took a gloomy
view of the national financial situation;
Herr Bebel. the socialist leader. made an
attack in the reichstag on the governments
foreign policy. The French senate. by
vote of Isl to 102, adopted the bill for the
separation of church and state. The pow
ers accepted some of the Turkish sultan's
notifications in the demands for financial
reform in Macedonia Rioting continued in
Georgetown, British Guiana, the police
again firing on the strikers; the govern
ment officials and others were rescued
from the public buildings. where they had
been besieged. Eleven lives were lost in
the wreck of the steamer Lunenburg Off
the Cape Breton coast, japanese gen.
darmes fired on mob in Seoul. Korea;
high Korean official committed suicide and
great resentment was shown by the people
against Japan's course In obtaining control
of the country; Field Marshal oyama and
his staff had triumphal entry at Toxic,
general holiday being proclaimed.
In the District
The annual report of the Commissioners
OF the District of Columbia, submitted to
the President of the United States was
government for the fiscal year ending juno
80, 1907, were submitted by the Secretary of
the Treasury to Congress, that official MAX
ing a cut in them of 1926, 42215. A number
of bills of local interest were introduced IN
both House and Senate, among them meas
ures providing for the reorganization of the
educational system of the District and for
the purchase and equipment of a temporary
home for soldiers and sailors. Plans were
completed by the board of control of Rock
Creek Park to request from Congress au-
thority to purchase private land lying west
of the park. The regents of the Smithson-
ian Institution decided to accept the dona-
ton of the Freer art collection. The
nual report of the librarian of the Library
of Congress showed that the library now
contains 1,344.6lS books, S2.744 maps and
charts, 1873, 724 prints and 41o,352 pieces OF
music The Macfarland trophy flag was
awarded TO fire engine company No. l. The
Oldest Inhabitants Association celebrated
the fortieth anniversary of its organization.
Sixteen Of the largest printing houses In
Washington announced that and after
January 4, 1906, their composing rooms will
be operated as open shops, the hours OF
labor to be nine. The national child labor
committee held its second annual conven-
ton The American Warehousemen's Assoc
citation held its fifteenth annual convention
The Washington Retail Grocers' Protective
Association opened its national pure food
show and industrial exposition at Conven-
ton Hall. Negro students of Howard Uni
versity went on strike after hooting Presi-
dent Gordon. John F. Van Horn, who was
accidentally shot by his son while hunting,
died. An explosion caused SI50.000 damage
at the plant of the Washington Gas Light
Company In Southeast Washington. Joseph
Rountree committed suicide by taking laud-
anum. Whitney J. Hall was arrested for
forging check on the Commercial National
Bank for 5000.