Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02
THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 2, 1905.

President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt
| spent Thanksgiving day at Plain Dealing,
| their Virginia country place; the President
dismissed Assistant Treasurer Leib, at
| Philadelphia. for violations of the civil sarv-
ice law; Secretary Root, in letter to the
president of the American Club of the Isle
of Pines. stated that the island belongs to
| Cuba Herbert G. Squiers, minister to
| Cuba. resigned, and Edwin V. Morgan was
| appointed to succeed him. Formal notice
of the ending of the present tariff treaty be-
| tween this country and Germany was re-
| ceived by the State Department The re-
port of the chief Of the bureau of insular
| affairs advocated practically free trade Tor
| the Philippines. A bill comforting the power
to regulate railroad rates on the interstate
commerce commission was presented to the
| Senate committee having charge of the sub
| ject. Thanksgiving day was appropriately
celebra ted throughout the country. Bishop
| Scanned of the Nebraska diocese excom-
municated several well-known Catholics be-
cause they violated his order in attending
| the marriage of q divorced person. Gov.
| Blanchard of Louisiana asked the grand
| jury to act on alleged remissneSS OF the
| New Orleans authorities with reference TO
| the yellow fever epidemic. The opening OF
| the beef packers trial at Chicago was fixed
| for December 13. The life insurance in
vestigation in New York showed that the
| New York Life and the Equitable Society
| had been made to supply 1undS LOT StoCh
| deals. and that the profits went to ind-
| viduals; Richard A. McCurdy resigned as
| president of the Mutual Life Insurance co,
! The recount of ballots In Ave ballot boxes
| used in New Yorks contested mayoralty
| election showed a distinct gain for Hearst
| at a ratio which, if continued would give
| him the contest. The two hundred and f1f-
| tieth anniversary of the landing of the Jews
| in America was celebrated in New York
! The trial of Mldshlpman Minor Meriweather
! at the Annapolis Naval Academy for the
| slr1,i t,af, Inv
| martial was brought to close, except Tor
| the announcement of the verdict after it
| shall have been passed upon by the Score
| tary of the Navy. United States Senator
| Joseph r. Burton was sentenced to six
| months in jail and to pay a fine of 81 800
| upon his conviction in st. Louis of COM
| plicity in a post office fraud. A number of
| the leading universities of the east dis
| cussed the question of abolishing foot ball,
and Columbia University ordered the game
| stricken from the list of sports in which Its
| across the northern lakes and the Michigan
| peninsula, causing much loss of life and de-
| struction of property; the worst wreck was
| that of the steamer Mataafa, at the mouth
| of the Duluth ship canal, in which nine OF
| the crew lost their lives. Eighteen persons
| were killed and about thirty injured IN a
| rear-end collision on the Fitchburg division
| of the Boston and Maine railroad, near
Lincoln, Mass; Engineer Horace W. Lyons
| was held the charge of manslaughter as
| a result of the Inquest INTO the cause OF the
| accident Nine men were killed by an eX-
| plos on that destroyed the Keystone pow
| der works at Emporium, Pa. Nine men
| lost their lives in the burning of a pull
| boat on Middle river, Ala. Marshall Field.
| jr., died in Chicago from a pistol shot
| wound accidentally self-infiicted
Foreign Affairs.
| Four thousand sailors at Sebastopcl, Rus
| STA, mutinied and seized three ships, being
joined by regiment of troops, which, how
ever, later returned to duty; the fighting
| which resulted cost each side about five
| thousand men, the mutineers, according TO
| reports received in St. Petersburg. finally
| surrendering; a strike was called in the gen
| eraI telegraph Office at ST. Petersburg and
| for some time communication between the
! Russian capital and the outside world was
| stopped, the capital being entirely cut off
| from the interior of the empire; latest ad-
| vices stated that danger of an immediate
| general strike was considered to be prac-
| tically averted as the result of three-cor-
| nered negotiations between Premier Wltte,
| the employers and the workmen, by which
| It was decided that both the government and
private establishments which are now closed
! shall be reopened; a number of soldiers
| forming the private guard of the car were
| arrested at Tsarskoe-Selo for presenting pc
| titions one of which was against the use
of the troops for police purposes; the sec
| ond secretary of the American embassy at
| ST. Petersburg was attacked by rowdies IN
one of the principal streets of that city and
! was rescued by the police; the secretary of
|
! the embassy messengers. The fleet of the
| European powers took possession of Nifty
| lene with the customs house there; the Sui
| tan thereupon announced to the Austrian
| ambassador at Constantinople that Turkey
| would accede to modified demands of the
| powers with regard to financial reforms in
| Macedonia. Emperor William opened the
| reichstag and in his speech from the throne
| said that he was glad he could aid Pres
| ident Roosevelt in obtaining peace between
| Russia and Japan. Two hundred thousand
| Austrian workmen engaged in a remarkable
monster demonstration at the opening of
| the parliament in Vienna. The executive
| committee of the interDaFliamentary Con-
| gress in Paris adopted plan for a world
| legislative body landslide destroyed
| Rocca Soraggio, near Lucca, Italy. The
| Spanish chamber of deputies passed bill
| suspending the constitutional guarantees in
| king of Norway. A number of lives We're
lost and much property was damaged by
| severe storm the English channel. Po-
/ lice fired on a mob of striking wharf labor
persons and two British warships were dis
| atched from ST. Thomas; the governor and
| officials We're besieged In the public build
! ings by mob 1t was formally announced
/ in Toxic that ii had been decided to elevate
1 the Japanese legations at London, Wash
ington Paris Berlin and st. Petersburg to
| embassies: the resentment of martial law
| and the restrictions placed on the liberties
| of the press was passed by the Japanese
priyy council Every moderate nominee was
/ elected from President Palma to the pro-
ylncial councillors in the Cuban elections.
| In the District.
! Thanksgiving day was celebrated with
appropriate ceremonies in all sections OF
/ the District The President decided to re-
tain Maj John Biddle Corps of Engineers
IN the Office of Engineer Commissioners OF