Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15
THE WEEK ENDING JULY IS, 1905.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt appointed w imam D.
Calhoun of Chicago special commissioner
to Venezuela; in an address TO Long Island
doctors he condemned Panama talebearers
and praised Gen. Wood; Baron Rosen, the
new Russian ambassador and peace pleni-
potentiary presented his credentials to the
President: the evidence in regard to the cot
ton report scandal was turned over, by d.
rection of the President, by the Department
of Agriculture to the Department of JUS
tice with the request that every effort be
made to punish those implicated 1t was
decided that the Russo-Japanese peace en-
voys shall meet at the Portsmouth IN Id
navy yard. Secretary Taft and his party
arrived at Honolulu, after a pleasant voy-
age on the Manchuria, and sailed for Ma
Mia. Gov. Higgins of New York declared
that he saw reason for a legislative in
vestigation of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, and expressed the belief that the
public would be satisfied with Superintend-
ent Hendricks report when 1t was finished;
a new directorate appointed The Elks
held their annual convention at Buffalo,
N. Y; the American Institute of instructors
met in annual session in Portland, Me-
severe heat wave caused many deaths in
New England. the middle Atlantic and mid
die western states, the death rate in New
York being especially high Eight men We're
killed and number of others hurt by the
premature explosion of blast on the Penn
sylvania railroad near East Harrisburg.
Foreign Affairs.
NJ Muravieff resigned his position as
peace envoy and Count Serguis Witte was
appointed chief Russian p,enipotentiary;
there was rumOr IN ST. Petersburg that NJ
Witte had found complete lack of accord
between himself and the emperor and that
he might refuse to accept the mission OF
peace negotiator; the japanese occupied
the Russian post at Korsakovsk, Is
Ior1 Of Calyh a1i .pd N
envy twenty-five miles north of the
town, capturing four guns; the battleship
Kniaz Potemkine was sunk by the mutt
neers before 1t was turned over to the Rus
sian authorities. but subsequently
raised; Russia immedia tely began negotia-
tons with Roumania for the surrender OF
the mutinous crew; mutiny occurred In
a regiment on the parade ground at Theo-
dosla. which was overcome with difficulty;
TihiS was also the scene of an outbreak,
many bombs being thrown, and further
rioting between troops and strikers occur
red al Warsaw; a Russian regiment near
Tifis killed all its officers and Joined the
insurgents; mutiny of Cossacks near
LodZ was reported; twenty-four of the lead
ers in the Odessa disturbance were hanged
and seventeen others were sentenced to
death: Russian sailors on two cruisers at
Reval were disarmed owing to fears of a
mutiny; Project of Police ShuValOf at Mos
cow was assassinated by former school
teacher of ST. Petersburg. King Oscar of
Sweden was the guest of Emperor William
on the imperial yacht at Kiel and was
made a German admiral by the kaiser: the
report of an alliance between Sweden and
Germany was denied by the Berlin foreign
office The report that Norway had offered
the throne to Prince Charles of Denmark
was confirmed A scene of excitement pre-
vailed in the French chamber of deputies
when NJ Lasiem. during the reading of the
amnesty act, which had been passed by the
a
the late minister of war, Andre, and his
successor left the chamber the bill was de-
feated; France sent a messenger TO Fee
to notify the sultan formally of the &C
ceptance of the proposal for a conference
on Moroccan affairs. Field Marshal Lord
Roberts in the house of lords made a bit
ter attack on the popular feeling regarding
the army and said that the British military
was totally inadequate and unfit. More
than hundred miners were killed by an
explosion in pit of the United National
Colliery Company at Wattstown, Wales.
The international socialist congress opened
at Constance, but adjourned to a nearby
Swiss town. the Baden government having
forbidden speeches by foreign members. A
general strike threatened in Cuba owing to
the demand for eight-hour law Five
hundred Chinese We're drowned by the col
lapse OF mat shed over the river at Cam
ton.
In the District
Daniel w. Baker of Maryland was ap-
trict of Columbia to succeed Morgan H.
Beach, resigned. The ID, Cd and 4th Sepa-
rate Battalons of the District National
Guard were consolidated as the LIST Regi-
ment, with Col Charles II. Ourand in COM
mand. President Roosevelt addressed a let
ter to Commissioner Mcfarland on the
question of the high school trouble. Mrs
Thomas f. Ryan was announced as the
donor of the new SI25.00 south building at
Georgetown University. Engineer Walter
Minis was killed by live wire at the site
OF tie House of Representatives office
building the construction company for which
he was working was held responsible for
his death John w. Pyemont, fifty-eight
years old, died from injuries received in a
rail- on the sidewalk. John Baker. twenty
two pears old was drowned in Rock Creek
Park while swimming. Mr.. John Henry
Altschu of this city was drowned while
boating on the MeTenac river at ST. Louis
John Zohanskrow died from injuries re-
ceived while bathing at the ba thing beach
Walter s. Preck co.ored. of this city, was
drowned at Cape May, n. j.. Among those
who died were Frank L. Harvey we'll
known contractor and builder and Mrs
kilbourn, widowof HalIet kilbourn