Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-24
THE WEEK ENDING JUNE "A, 1905.

President Roosevelt received the degree OF
LID. at Clark University. Worcester,
Mass. where he made an address: he also
made an address at Holy Cross College
and received a degree at Williams College.
at Williamstown; the President directed
the dismissal of Herbert w. Bowen, former
minister to Venezuela, for reprehensible
conduct in causing unfounded charges to be
made affecting the official and personal
honor of Francis B. Loomis, assistant sec
rotary OF state 1t was announced that all
hope of an armistice between Russia and
Japan prior to the meeting of the peace
plenipotentiaries had been abandoned at
Washington. The United States government
received an invitation from the Sultan of
Morocco to act as member of the internal
tional conference on the Moroccan situation.
The intended resignation of Gov Carter of
Hawaii was announced in Honolulu Judge
Seaman, in the United tSates circuit court,
In deciding against the General Paper Com
pany, ruled that corporations sued by the
government under the antitrust law must
submit their books in open court. 7. w.
Hill. formerly chief of the Philadelphia fill
tration bureau. was arrested charges of
forgery and fraud in connection WITH fltra-
tion-plant contracts. Senator John H.
Mitchell was placed on trial at Portland
Ore, on charges of conspiracy. State
Superintendent of Insurance Hendricks
of New York submitted his report
on the affairs of the Equitable Life AS
surance Society and the court of general
sessions of New York was asked to remain
open during the summer, In order that if
suits were deemed justifiable against that
corporation they may be speedily brought
TO an issue; Chairman Morton accepted the
designations of James w. Alexander as
president and James H. Hyde as first vice
president of that corporation Nineteen
persons We're killed and about twelve in
1ured in the wreck of the east bound Twen-
ieth Century Limited train near Mentor,
oflo, caused by an open switch, which, it
was believed, was tempered with: an at
tempt was also made to wreck the west
bound limited in similar manner Twenty
llve laborers were killed and eleven injured
IN head-on collision on the Western Mary
ian railroad between a passenger and a
freight train near Ransom station Md.
Foreign Affairs.
Russia agreed to Japans reported sug.
gestion that the peace ENJOYS meet to open
negotiations August l. NJ. Nelidof, Rus.
sian ambassador to France, was chosen as
one OF Russia's representatives and Mar
quis Ito was named to represent Japan
The car appointed Grand Duke Nicholas
the new war head of Russia. The Russian
government explanation of the emperor's
speech to the Zemstvo delegates indicated
that the policy of repression will be more
strictly enforced. japanese troops con-
tlnued to drive the Russian advance rapid
~ northward in central Manchuria; Mar
gus Oyama reported sharp action on the
hlrin road June-21, a strong Russian force
moving south being checked and pursued
with heavy loss. Fifty persons were killed
and 200 wounded during rioting in LodZ
RUSSIAN Poland. where the strike stunned
general proportions by CoSsacks The ten
sion between France and Germany over
the Moroccan situation was relieved to a
degree by a conference between the French
premier and the German ambassador at
Paris: the French chamber of deputies up
held Premier Rouvier's refusal to make
statement regarding the negotiations. The
Swedish rlkSdag accepted the views of King
oscar and the members of the council of
state, who asked authority to treat with
the Norwegian storthing for a dissolution
of the union. The storthing in replying to
the rlksdag stated that while Norway hoped
to maintain friendly relations its act of
secession was final. An attempt to force
vote on the question of ADVOCATING the
union of Austria and Hungary failed in the
lower house of the reichsrath. The Span
lSh cabinet resigned and a new min stry
was formed, with Montero Rios as premier
-Four American yachts, either American
owned or American built. won their races
at hlel. Germany The American tennis
team won all its games in the semi-fnals
at the Queens Club in London.
In the District
The controller of the treasury issued
decision the new incorporation law for
the District In regard to taxes on increases
Of capital stock. The Washington high
schools and Normal School No. l held an
nual graduation exercises; many other ed
ucational institutions of the city also held
similar exercises The jury in the Craw-
ford case in Criminal Court No disagreed
and was discharged. Andrew A. I.ipscomb
was placed on trial under an indictment
for embezzlement. John Otis, thirteen years
old, was drowned in the river while bathing
off Analostan Island. Abramar.e Arshak
a Greek and former inmate of the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane committed
suicide by taking poison Among those who
died were Joseph Shillngton, a prominent
lawyer, and Gen. l.. Wagner of the gen
eral staff U. S. A, at Asheville N. c.
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