Evening journal., 1905-04-26
THE WORLDS NEWS
WAsHINGTON.

Secretary Taft made public a letter
Ia which he says that the reduction Of
rates on the Panama railroad will
probably not affect transcontinentalI
trafiic, and that the government has
no intention of using the isthmian
route to cause transcontinental roads
TO lower their rates.
The government has adopted a de-
vice to prevent the accumplation of
gases in guns Of warshps. and thus
do away with the danger of narebacks
such as occurred recently on the bat
tleship Maine.
Great Britain and the United States
have agreed to accept each others in
spection Of steamships.
Attorney General Moody sustained
Secretary Of the Interior Hitchcock in
his Interpretation Of the Interstate
Commerce act questioned by the Con-
troller OF the Treasury. that rebates .by
railroads could be made legally to the
government.
Secretary Hay cabled that he is get
ting better steadily, and Il was learn
ed that the heart affection from
which he suffers is not serious.
Minister Barrett, of Panama, noti-
fled the State Department that many
Americans are stranded In Panama as
/ a result Of coming there to seek em-
/ ployment as only the toughest kind Of
work Is obtainable.
FOREIGN.
: Norway has declined to negotiate
further with Sweden. The contention
now goes to the Council of state.
The newly promulgated Transvaal
constitution gives the right to vote to
the burghers
The Powers have declared their
readiness to energetically quell the
movement in Crete for union with
lGreece.
The Porto Rican Board of Inquiry
decided that the three Frenchmen al
legged violators OF the alien contract
labor law must be deported.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Senator Mitchelrs plea in abatement
was denied in the land fraud case by
the United States District Court at
Portland oregon.
John d. Rockefeller authorized de-
lnial Of allegations made by DR.. Wash
lington GLADDEN., upon which a charge
of perjury was based.
Congressman Pinckney and three
others were killed at a shooting af-
fray at Hampstead Tex, during a pro-
hibition mass meeting, and rangers
I were summoned to patrol the town
and prevent further outbreaks.
The Baltimore and Ohio awarded
contracts for locomotives representing
an outlay Of S4OOo,O00. A small part
Of the contract went to the Baldwin
Locomotive Works.
/ The Steel Trust earnings for the
i March quarter were announced as
S2&025S96 Unified orders on hand
, April 1 were 5,697.560 tons.
Confidence was restored in the Nil
7 waukee banking institutions affected
, by the defalcation Of Frank G. Bige-
, low OF more than S100O,000, and the
run OF depositors wanting to withdraw
deposits ended at noon.
Miss Geraldine Boardman. Of New
! YORK, was killed by falling through a
skyieht in "a hotel at Florence. Italy.
I Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon de-
, clared at the Nan Patterson trial that
{ he had changed his first opinion that
Caesar Young committed suicide.
3 lt was announced that the differ
r ences between the Wabash and the
Steel Trust had been adjusted.
I charter for the New Jersey stock
/ Exchange was granted in Trenton and
, Il was said that IL is backed by New
= York brokers, who desire to dodge the
new tax on stock transfers, which goes
into effect June /.
The eleventh annual convention of
5 the National Municipal League con-
lvened in New York.