Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
WEEK ENDING MARCH 4, 1905.

IneodOre Roosevelt ana CnarleS W. fair-
banks were inaugurated President and Vice
President of the United States with elabor-
ate ceremonials. The Fifty-eighth Con-
gress closed at noon today. All the reg
uiar supply bills We're disposed of and the
Senate concluded the trial OF Judge Swayne,
acquitting HIM on the articles of impeach-
ment presented by the House. Secretary
Hay. in a formal letter to Minister Leger.
stated that the United States does not in
tend to annex Haiti or Santo Domingo.
Venezuela resumed diplomatic relations
with this country. Commissioner CARRIED
completed his report on the beef trust. The
loss by the dock fire at New Orleans was
estimated at S0tJU,dOO. Two special trains
bound for the Inauguration at Washington
collded near Pittsburg, Pa, and six or
more men and one woman were killed and
twenty other persons injured. Fifteen bod
les were recovered from a mine near WEIGH
w. Va, in which there explosion.
Thirteen persons were killed and fifty in
jured by the colapsng of the floors of
negro church in Brooklyn, N. Y; Mrs. Jane
Stanford. widow of the late Senator Stan
ford of California, died at Honolulu, Ha-
wall and an autopsy developed the fact
that strychnine had been administered to
her With bicarbonate of soda. Among 9TH
erS who died was ex-Gov. George S. Bout
well, president of the Anti-Imperialst So
ciety.
Foreign Affairs.
a dispatch from Mukden stated that
hghting is going on along the entire line
that the Japanese left and center advances
have been checked but that they seriously
menace the left wing of Gen. EUROPA tkin' 5
army; Gen. kuroki captured TIA Pass and
part or his troops crossed the Shakhe river;
| reports of the action near Tsinkhetchen
showed that Gen. Rennenkampf sustained
severe defeat, losing about 600 men. Riots
were reported from fifty Polish villages and
the agitation was said to be spreading rap
idly among the peasants; fifty thousand
workmen were reported idle in st. Peters
burg; the committee of ministers voted to
grant the Russian people religious freedom.
III the house of commons the amendment
demanding that Great Britain take steps
to insure reform in Macedonia was de-
fea ted; on division after a speech by Mr..
Balfour In the house of commons the gov
eminent received majority of only "a.
Emperor Williams great Evangelical Prot
estant Cathedral was consecrated at Ber-
lin with imposing services. Emperor Fran
els Joseph decided to receive in private au-
dfence the thirteen leaders of the Hungar-
ian parties in the opposition The revolt in
Yemen was reported to be spreading and
Turkish garrsons, which had been relieved
were again in state of siege. The rail-
way strike in Italy increased in seriousness
and the government decided to draw on the
navy for drivers and stOkers President
Palma of Cuba formed a new cabinet rep
TeSentatlVe OF the moderate party.
In the District.
The conferees on the District appropria-
ton bill submitted their report the amend
ment providing for the increased cost of the
municipal building being allowed to stay IN
the bill; the sundry civil and the general de-
ficiency bill contained many items of inter-
est to the District; the bill authorizing the
Anacostia, Surrattsville and Brandywine
railroad to enter the District was passed.
The Royal Benefit Society formally pre-
ferred specific charges against Superintend-
ent of Insurance Thomas E. Drake The
Commissioners agreed on amendment to
the present smoke law which was passed
by the House and Senate An elderly col
ored man was fatally injured by a train a
LIST and M streets; Lettie Beard, one and a
half years old colored, was burned to
death; John Q. Ferguson, colored, was
drowned in the river at o street. Mrs. Han.
ma Prince wife of Mr. Abraham d. Prince,
was run over and killed by a train In the
Pennsylvania depot; one passenger was
killed and forty or fifty others injured in
head-on collision on the Washington, Alex
andria and Mount Vernon railroad at Spring
Garden, just outside Alexandria; John c.
Hutchinson was drowned in the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal; John w. Bradshaw, sixty
three years of age, fell from a car and was
fatally injured at 9th and B streets. Will
liam ]. Bolway, a Treasury Department
clerk, committed suicide by shooting; John
Holden, dentist, attempted to take his own
life by shooting.