Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-12
WEEK ENDING AUGUST IL, 1905.

The peace ENJOYS met with the President
aboard the Maynower. and later the COM
rnfssioners proceeded to Portsmouth, N. H.,
where the japanese peace proposals were
submitted to the Russians. NJ White pre-
pared a reply which. It was stated. placed
the negotiations in great danger Of being
broken of. President Roosevelt was the
principal speaker at a meeting Of anthra-
cite coal miners and the Catholic Total Alb
Htinence Society at Wilkesbarre Pa; he
also addressed 10000 persons at the Chau-
tauqua Assembly grounds Charges Of
graft in the United States weather bu-
reau were denied by Prof. Willis L. Moore.
chief Of the bureau. Secretary Wilson is
sued report on the dismissal Of Holmes
as result of the cotton crop report scan
dal Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, one
of the heroes of the Spanish-American war,
retired from active service. The federal
authorities took charge of the yellow fever
situation at New Orleans; at last accounts
me totai number OF cases stood at sOs. with
l33 deaths, and the situation was reported
10 be slightly encouraging. Both sides con-
tnued firm In the strike of the telegraphers
on the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railroads. The International Brother
hood OF Ieamsters began its annual session
at Philadelphia. Fire destroyed S40O 600
worth of property on the Jersey City
Wharves Thirteen persons were killed in
Tue c0iiapse or q department store building
at Albany, n. Y. Among those who died
was Archbishop Chapelle, who succumbed
10 yellow fever at New Orleans
Foreign Affairs.
The promise of national assembly ap-
parently had slight effect on the asita ton
In Russia; many arrests were made at War
saw, Cossacks fred on socialists near Lodz
and the British consul at Riga asked for
tru'c {pfo
main Japanese army confronting Gen Line
wien. according to Russian estimate, was
placed at 100000 men and 1900 guns; the
Russian government decided to Issue an
otneT internal loan OF s100,0OO,0O0. The
Ziegler arctic expedition under the com
mand OF Anthony Fiala Of Brooklyn was
rescued by the relief expedition commanded
by w. s. Champ on the Terra Nova, which
reached Honningvaag. Norway: the Amer
lea, Fiala's ship. was crushed by the Ice
King Edward entertained Admiral Caillard
and other officers OF the French fleet at
Cowes. King Oscar. on account of i'll
heath. decided to leave Stockholm for a
watering place. leaving Crown Prince Gus
tave in charge Of affairs Chinese at Yoko-
mama voted to boycott American bankers
shippers and insurance agents. Jose Miguel
Gomez. Cuban liberal candidate for presi-
dent in an interview defied Palma's gov
eminent and threatened not to obey an adj
verse decision of the supreme court. The
Venezuelan federal court sustained the low
ei curt decision against the New York
and Bermudez Asphalt Company.
In the District
Justice Barnard of the District Supreme
Court set aside his former order appoint
Ing commission to assess the damages ac-
cruing to property holders in connection
with the erection Of the union station. The
typhoid fever epidemic slowly but surely
increased. The new National City Bank
acquired the property at 14O5 G street own
ed by the American Security and Trust
Company Rev. Father Jerome Daugherty,
town University. The Ama1gamated Sheet
Metal Workers International Alliance met
In annual session. Lewis Bocock thirty-one
years DID, committed suicide by taking
poison; Charles Johnson, twenty-five years
Old, a cavalryman committed suicide
by hanging at the Government Hos
pital for the Insane. Harry L. EVERY, a
thrown by Thomas Whitney, colored, while
at work in a saloon; Whitney was held for
the grand jury. John Jarboe fell from a
second story window on Missouri avenue
and sustained injuries from which he died.
Peter Marshall, eighteen years old, was
drowned while bathing at the north of the
tidal reservoir. John Berry, eighteen months
bread that had been left as bait for rats
at the Crittenton Home. The remains of
Gen. Roy Stone were inferred at Arlington.
Among those who died WERE Alexander
Melville Bell. educator, writer and scien-
list; Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham,
Y. $. navy. retired, at Lake Mohopac n.
Y; William Ryland Woodward, one of the
oldest members of the District bar, and DR..
William c. Tilden. at one time famous as
a chemist