Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30
TIE WEEK ENDING DEC. 80, 1905.

THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 80, 1905.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. with three
Of their children, spent portion Of the
Christmas holidays at Pine Knob, Mrs.
Roosevelt's place in Virginia: the
nouncement OF the summary removal Of IT.
win Baxter, United States district attorney
for Nebraska was made at the White
House. 1t was announced that viscount
Aok would be the first ambassador from
Japan to this country. The trial of Mid
shipman Trenmore Coffin, jr, on a charge
OF hazing at the Naval Academy was con-
cluded and that OF Stephen Decatur, jr..
was begun; the board of investigation at
the academy found evidence to justify fl
ing charges against number OF midship-
men. The report of the isthmian canal
commission was made public. The drydock
Dewey started from Baltimore on its H.
ooo-miie trip to the Philippines. An I'M
ions as to better observance of the
law forbidding rebates reached be-
tween managers of transmississippi rail-
ROADS and the interstate commerce commits
sion Three financial institutions of Mem
PMS. Tenn, closed their doors. Call money
reached 125 per cent on some privately ar
ranged loans in New York. Gen Theodore
A Bingham, formerly superintendent of
public buildings and grounds in Washing
ton, was appointed police commissioner of
New York, city. The insurance fnvestigat-
| Ing committee in New York finished with
the old line companies, The county seat of
butler county, Pa, with the county treas
ury, was seized by sheriff with a writ of
attachment. Eight men were killed by
fall OF LOCO tons of ore from a slip In the
Newport mine. in Ironwood. Mich. More
than twenty representatives OF leading coal
companies We're indicted by the Cincinnati
grand Jury on charges of Illegal combna-
ton. The federal grand jury in Chicago
round indictments against the Burlington
and Quincy railroad and two of its officers
Tor the alleged granting of rebates Among
.hose VINO died was Charles T. Yerkes the
hhahcier and railroad builder. in New York.
Foreign Affairs.
Latest advices from Moscow were that
the situation there was improving the
strike being under control and a number of
| Its participants returning to work: the cas-
uaitles in the battles between the revolu-
uonists and the military were variously es-
timated at from 5000 to 1900 innocent cit
izens beng reported the severest sufferers
IN the cannonading that was resorted to by
the soldiers to reduce the barricades thrown
up by the revolutionists: the rebels cap
tured nifty officers the outskirts of the
CITY, General Mistchenko having q narrow
escape; guerilla fighting, especially in the
northwest section of the city, was still
maintained at last reports; barbados were
| reported to have been erected In ST Peters,
Durg with slight clashes between the mil
ltary and the strikers; dispatches from all
parts of the Russian emrtre showed an
alarming spread of the agitation against
the autocracy: all Poland was apparently
ready for revolt, with general strike pro-
canned at warsaw. where machine guns
We're posted by the troops. and 1900
miners in the coal region prepared to take
the field at once; martial law was declared
at odessa and officials admitted that the
Baltic provinces would have to be recon
quered by the government; the new Rus
sian electoral law was made: It contained
concessions to the popular demands. but
neither a free nor direct ballot was
granted Berlin reported a rush of we'll
TODD emigrants out of Russia. Senior Rios
| ex-premier of Spain, announced that he
would not serve on the Moroccan commits
sion and would retire from public life The
Portuguese cabinet resigned. President
Morales of Santo Domingo made a
fugitive from the capital. and Vice Presi-
dent CacereS, the head of the uprising
against him. was made president. Precau-
tons were taken in Shanghai to suppress
a rising Of natives against foreigners.
British bark foundered off Puget sound and
| twenty-seven persons were drowned.
In the District
Christmas was extensively observed in off,
cial. diplomatic and private circles, charity
and church features being particularly
prominent The Medical Society appointed
a committee to see what be done to-
ward checking the waste of water. DIR.
John Gordon, president of Howard Univer-
sity, resigned as a result of friction with
pupils. The Washington Hebrew Congre-
Sat1On Generated It's u1t1etn anniversary
A. cave-in on the site OF the new home of
the National Metropolitan Citizens Bank,
on 18th street, caused the death of Pedro
Chandron an italian laborer, and the Sc
rious injury of four others. Mahlon T. Har-
ford was killed by City and Suburban car
on the District line; a coroners jury held
the motorman of the car and the aagman
at the crossing responsible for the accident
Mrs Mary Mason died from the effects of a
dose of carbolic acid taken by mistake for
medicine. William H. Pickelheimer fell on
the street from exhaustion and died from
the injuries he received James c. Peed,
Waterman and engineer employed on the
Long bridge, was killed at the draw by an
stepped into an elevator shaft at the De-
partment of Agriculture and fell to the
ground, sustaining injuries from which he
died. Mrs. Mary E. Minor was knocked
down by bicycle and killed at the corner
of East Capitol and LIST streets; John Eds
ness. who rode the wheel, was eXonerated
from blame by a coroner's jury. John Dent,
| colored was fatally injured by falling from
an electric which he working
James n. Corron, sixty-two years old. was
burned to death in his room in the rear of
432 Sth street. Lottie Hawkins colored,
threw her infant child into the Eastern
branch and was arrested on a charge of In
| fanticide the body was subsequently recoV-
cred by the police. Sam Moy, a Chinese
| Iaundryman, committed suicide by hanging.
Among those who died were ElphonZo
Youngs a prominent grocer, and William
P. Allan, one of the best-known men in fra
| terual circles in the city.
AMONG THE JONADABS.