Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-18
The Sun and Moo,
THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 10, 1905.

THE WEEK ENDING FEB. ID, 1905.
President Roosevelt received the Santo
Domingo protocol and promptly transmit
ted it to the Senate; the President was the
principal speaker at the Lincoln dinner
given by the Republican Club of New York.
he ordered the Department Of Commerce
and Labor to begin a thorough fnvestiga-
ton of the Standard Oil trust. The Senate
passed the agricultural, the District OF Co.
fumbia and the diplomatic and consular APP
preparation bills and continued the impeach-
ment proceedings against Judge SWayne'
the sundry civil appropriation bill was re-
ported to the Senate; the House passed a
resolution to investigate the Standard on
trust, the Mann bill providing for the con-
struction of the Panama canal; discussed
the naval appropriation bill and heard trib-
utes to the late Senator Hoar; the House
sent back to the Senate the agricultural
appropriation bill because it contained a
clause regarded encroaching upon the
prerogatives of the House. the Senate sub
Sequently receding from its poSition; the
House sent the statehood bill to conference;
Congress accepted, with appropriate cere-
monies, the statue of Frances E. Willard
as the gift of the state of Illinois. The third
annual convention of the Religious Educa-
ton Association was held in Boston. Dead
locks in the Missouri and Delaware 1egis-
latureS over the election Of United States
senators continued. Senator Mitchell and
Representatives Williamson and Binger
Hermann were indicted by the Portland,
Ore, grand jury on charges of conspiring
to defraud the government of lands worth
$3,O00,OO0. A cold wave extended from the
DakotaS to Texas, belOw-zero temperatures
being reported from many places. May
wheat reached the highest price in Chicago
since the Letter deals. Among those who
died were Jay Cooke, the noted tinancier
and Gen. Lew Wallace. the well-known au-
thor.
Foreign Affairs.
Grand Duke Sergius, uncle and brother
in-law of the Gar of Russia, was assassi
| mated by bomb thrown under his carriage
while on his way to the Kremlin at Mos
COW, his assailant being captured In q
badly injured condition; the situation al
Lodz and other strike centers was reported
as very grave, and 10000 Russian troops
were stationed in the Sosnovice and Dom
broun districts of Russian Poland; the czar
appointed committee to investigate the
cause of the industrial disturbance. Dis
patches from japanese headquarters IL
Manchuria reported the repulse of Russian
attacks on Waitao mountain and the re
| treat of a heavy Russian cavalry force
which had been sent against the Japanes;
| left; the Russian third Pacific squadron lef
| Libau; French correspondents reported tina
| high Russian officials in the field were saw
| agely at loggerheadS and that want of CO
| operation lost Port Arthur. The British
| parliament was opend with historic POM
by King Edward, who read the speech from
| the throne; in the house of lords Foreign
Secretary LanSdowne said that Great Brit
| ain had maintained the strictest neutrality
| in the war, but if an opportunity presented
| itself to bring the conflict to a close i
| would be availed of with alacrity: in com
| mons Mr.. Balfour tainted the opposition
on the confusion in its plans and depre
| ciated the introduction of the fiscal ques
| ton at the present session; the date fo
| visit British
| try was fixed for October; at a cOnferenc,
| held in London on the Balkan situation {
| resolution was adopted urging the British
| government to take steps for immediate re
| forms; four men We're killed and fourteen
| injured by an explosion on the British sub
| marine boat "A-5," at Queenstown. Kos
| suth, the leader of the independence part.
| in Hungary, was received by Empero
| Francis Joseph, and strong hopes were ex
| pressed of an agreement on Austro-Hun
| gary relations. The Portuguese genera
| election resulted in a sweeping mOnarchiS
victory. A telegram from Paris stated tina
| the supreme court of Venezuela had re
| affirmed its decision against the asphal
| company, further appeal being thereb.
| blocked.
In the District.
| After a three days fight by two senator
the two amendments to the District appro
| priation bill-one increasing the amount TO
the municipal building 100000 and tn
other providing $4,000 for Piney Brancl
| bridge-were adopted by the Senate, am
! the bill was passed; the House Distrfc
| committee voted down the bill to amen
| the existing smoke law; the sundry civi
| appropriation bill. containing Distric
| items, was reported to the Senate. TIT
| Commissioners decided they could not an
swer the appeal of citizens for bridg
across Rock Creek at Q street for at leas
two and a half or three years. DR.. D. J
| 1ird resigned as the chemist of the Dis
trict and Dr. r. L. Lynch was appointed
| to Secceed him. The Court of Appeals UP
| held the snow and ice removal regulation
| recently promulgated by the Commission
| ers. The new Gage School building wa
| dedicated. Frank Handy, painter, wa
| killed by a fall from scaffold at the carr
| flats Miss Annie Molling, sixty years old
| was accidentally burned to death. GLIDER
| Scott coIored, thirteen years old, Wa
| killed by a Chevy Chase car near Clevelan'
| Park VIM. Lester, fifty-five years of age
| was fatally injured by a street car at Is
| and e streets northwest. George F. Cur
| RE thirty-four years old, committed sulcld
by taking poison; Pliny M. Hough, for
| mer resident of Washington, COMMITTEES
| suicide in Baltimore by taking acid; maj
| who committed suicide in Boston by tak1ni
| morphine was reported to be Hiram Nc
| Collilm, a War Department clerk. Anon;
| those who died were Mr.. John Marbufy,
| well-known resident of Georgetown, an
| Addison B. Atkins, a well-known neWspd
| per correspondent.