Evening star., 1905-11-11
THE WEEK ENDING NOV. IL, 1905.

service rules to be changed so as to put ap-
pointments and promotions on a merit ba-
sis: in regard to the appeals to the govern
ment to intervene in behalf of the Jews IN
Russia the President decided that nothing
can be done under the present conditions
of disturbance with which the Russian gov
ernment Is contendng: at the Presidents 9
request. Secretary Bonaparte issued an or
der for a searching investigation into the
death of Midshipman Branch, who died
after fist fight at Annapolis. The report
on coast defenses estimated that $4,000
COO will be required to finish the work
planned by the Eudicott board. Baron Won
Sternburg, the German ambassador, began
negotiations with Secretary Root for new
trade relations between Germany and the
United States in the form of a reciprocity
treaty. The controller of the currency re-
moved from service Bank Examiner X. III.
Mattern on account of his failure to dis
cover the conditions existing in the Enter
prise National Bank of Allegheny City, Pa.
In the November elections the democrats
carried the mayoralty campaign in New
York city, the state tickets in Pennsy1va-
MIA, Virginia and Maryland and the city
ticket In Louisville and elected a governor
of Ohio while the republicans made clean
sweep in Massachusetts, Chicago and Cook
county and carried their tickets iE New
Jersey, Rhode Island and Nebraska Mayor
Mcclellan was reelected mayor of New
York by about 1860 plurality, but w. r.
Hearst, the reform candidate, immed ately
began a protest. charging fraud III the
voting; upon investigation ballot boxes, I'M
sealed. were found in Illegal places. in
Guiding several which were found floating
in the North river; William T. Jerome Gnd.)
was reelected district attorney for New
York; John NJ. Pattison t0em.D was elected
governor of Ohio. although the republicans
carried the remainder of the state ticket;
in Maryland the Poe constitutional anend-
ment whose alleged purpose was to d s.
FRANCHISE negro voters. was defeated by
upward OF 20,t3s2 in PHILADELPHIA the city
reform party overwhelmed the organization
ticket by about 1000t0. Prince Louis of
Battenberg, with the second British squad
ron, arrived i'll New York from Annapolis
alter completing his visit to Washington.
A conference on quarantine, attended by
delegates from fourteen southern states be-
gan at Chattanooga. Tenn. The federal
grand jury in st. Louis returned an indict-
ment agaiust United States Senator Burton
OF Kansas for alleged completely in an at
tempted postal fraud. The New York leg
lSIatlVe committee resumed its inyeStisa-
ton of the life insurance business Four
men were killed and two wcrn Injured in a
he2o-on collision on the r. w & O. rail-
way near Liverpool. n. Y. Norkmen look
ing for gas leak in a bank at Ishpcrning
Nt.ch.' caused an explosion which killed
three children and injured thirteen persons.
Nine me'l We're killed by--7--7T Explosion in
the Eldewater company's mine at Vivian
W. va. S-eTen persons wdre killed bv a
tornado at Mountain View. Oklahoma. Mil
ION Il. Andrews, wanted or, the charge of
klIilhg BESSIE fouton at Colorado Springs
ana committing several other murders shot
ana killed the woman who was with
him and himself rs tho police were
about to arrest him in San Francisco
Foreign Affairs.
Count Write removed Gen. Trepoff as
governor of St. Petersburg in response to
a popular appeal and agreed to grant uni
versal suffrage; dispatches from the eau
casus showed that almost complete an
arcfy prevailed there, the various races
hghting each other as well as the troops.
lfoSh disorders occurred In Odessa, where
1t IS estimated that 6.60O people were killed
or wounded, while massacre of the Jews
with plliage and tncendiariSm, continued in
many of the interior cities of Russia: al
least hfty persons were killed and large
amount of property destroyed at Cronstadt
ana the troops firing into n mob at Minsk
kllled 100 and wounded 600 persons King
Edward celebrated mis- siXty-fourth blrth-
day; the Prince and Princess of Wales ar
rived at Bombay, India; a delegation of
women representing the UNEMPLOYED of
London called on Premier Baifour and told
him that bloodshed would follow unless the
suterlngs of the poor were speedily re-
Ileved. In socialist demonstration at
200 persons were injured In subsequent
riotins; similar demonstra tions in Vienna
resulted in the closing OF the university
there: 10000 railroad men went out on a
general strike movement in Austria and the
coal supply was reported cut off. NJ. Ber-
teauX minister of war, resigned from the
French cabinet, but a majority of the
French chamber of deputies supported Pre-
ihier Rauver; test vote in the French
senate indicated the passage of the bill
separating church and state; President
Castro's reply to French demands against
Venezuela was considered vague and un-
satisfactory. The rppOrt Of ha Ic
soner to investigate conditions In the Con-
go Free State, appointed by King Leopold
attributed the atrocities complained of to
natives H c. Hauge was appointed min
lister to the United States by the Norwe-
gian government and DR.. Fridjof Nansen.
the arctic explorer. was made minister to
Great Britain. An uprising in Santo Do
mingo was reported. mutiny of troops
at Rio Janeiro. Brazil, was suppressed
Among those who died was Sir George VIII
liams, founder of the Young Mems Chris
ton Association, at London.
In the District
The committee to report on the business
methods of the different branches of the
District government with a view to their
submitted to the Commission
ers it's supplementary and final report. Gen.
Mackenzie submitted his annual report on
the operations of various rivers and har-
bors In the vicinity of Washington Major
Sylvester, superintendent of police, submit
ted his annual report, the total estimates
for the fiscal year ending In 1907 being
81 Ola 525; the prize flag was awarded to the
tenth precinct after the annual inspection
Prince Louis of Bartenberg and his suite
left Washington for Annapolis. President
Roosevelt directed the Department of JUS
tice to claim for the United States govern
ment the art collection of the late Mrs
Harriet Lane Johnston, The American
Hardware Manufacturers Association and
the National Hardware Association held an
nual meetings. The key of the last arch of
the Connecticut avenue bridge was placed
in position. j. +. Peerce, an Inspector of
sewers for the District, died from injuries
received from fall into an excavation
Miss Margaret McIlvane, a charwoman was
killed by an elevator in the State, War and
Navy Department building Washington j.
Quiggle private secretary to Thomas F.
Walsh shot and seriously wounded his wife
and then committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart Edward Lacy
seventeen years old, was held for the muir
der of Frank Alvin Merrill, whom he shot
1oe a cubs