Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-21
WEEK ENDING JANUARY 81, 1906

President Roosevelt in message to the
Senate recommended the appointment of
| six special agents to investigate trade con-
ditions abroad Secretary Hay received as
surancss from the powers that they will not
attempt to extend their territorial posses
| sions in China at the close of the Russo
japanese war. Information was received
| by the State Department from United
States Minister Bowen at Caracas, vene-
| zuela. that President Castro had made
proposition for the settlement of the United
| States claim which it was impossible to ac-
cept' PRESIDENT Castro left the capital for
Two weeks and Minister Bowen terminated
the negotiations for the time being placing
relations between the two countries in
| decidedly strained condition. The Senate
considered the statehood and fur seal in
| demnity bills: Senator Mitchell of Oregon
made statement defending himself from
the charges on which he was indicted IN
oregon; the House adopted the articles of
impeachment presented by its special COM
mittee against Judge Swayne of Florida
and passed the army appropriation bill.
The United States Supreme Court granted
convicted at st. Louis of using his infiu-
ence with the Post Office Department in
behalf of an alleged "get-rich-Quick' con-
Germ The following United States senators
| Moses Clapp; Michigan, J. c. Burrows;
New York Chauncey NJ. Depew; Connect
cut, Morgan G. Bulkeley: Maine, Eugene
Hale; Utah. George Sutherland Rhode Is
land. Nelson w. Aldrich; Massa chusetts,
Henry Cabot Lodge and w. Murray Crane;
North Dakota, p p. McCumber; Nebraska.
Elmer j. Burkett: Indiana. A. J. Beveridge
and James A. Hemenway; Pennsylvania.
Philander c. Knox; deadlocks in the Mis-
souri, Delaware and Washington legisla-
lures continued. Members of the Brother
hood of ,rrainmen on the PENNSYLVANIA rail-
| road held conference with the general
| manager of the road to consider the order
ing of strike. The Fall river cotton mill
strike was settled at a conference in Bos-
ton, called by Governor Douglas The
United Mine Workers of America rejected
a proposition to indorse socialism. The
Rev. DR.. Irvine filed notice of a suit for
SANDER against Bishop Talbot of Pennsyl-
vania. Trial of the suit of John r.. Platt,
who seeks to recover more than $6O0,OO0
obtained from him by Hannah Elias, a
negress, began in New York. j. Samuel
McCue, sentenced to hang for wife muir
der at Charlottesville. Va. was granted
respite by Governor Montague of Virginia.
The Philadelphia police expressed them
selves convinced that Gessler Rosseau.
arrested in that city, is the man who tried
to blow up the statue of Frederick the
Great in Washington, and also attempted to
blow up the steamer Umbria in New York
tire family of four lost their lives in the
burning of their home In New York
Foreign Affairs.
" nile the car VI TuSSid Wes pieSSibS AAic
waters of the Neva beside the winter pal
ace in St. Petersburg, and with his family
near by, rain of grapeshot and bullets
struck the chapel and palace, killing one
policeman and wounding three others; the
shot came from one of the cannon used to
fire salutes from the Bourse just across the
river, and had it been properly aimed might
have wiped out the entire Romanon dy-
nasty: the situation in St. Petersburg was
a critical with thousands OF
workmen parading the streets and half the
city in darkness and without fire protection,
owing to strikes: the authorities ordered
additional troops to the city to prevent dis
order: a young man, supposed to be a stu
dent fired three shots at General Trepof.
who was in company with Grand Duke Ser
gius al Moscow. Dispatches from Tokyo
stated that the cavalry raiders who got IN
the rear of Marshal Oyama's forces inflict-
ed only slight damage and were themselves
severely punished, while reports from st.
Petersburg claimed that the damage nf1ict-
ed on the Japanese was heavy; it was
charged in Tokyo that Chinese regular
troops aided the Russians this eXpedi-
ton and that the latter went outside the
war zone and violated Chinese neutrality:
the Chinese government expressed itself as
ignorant of any specific charges of viola
lions of neutrality as indicated in Russia's
note 10 the powers: the North sea commits
sion began its public sessions i'll Paris.
England sent note to the powers with the
view to paving the way to the adoption of
more dra site mea sureS in the matter of the
reform measures for Macedonia planned by
Austria and Russia. Germany continued to
send troops to South Africa, notwit hstand-
ing the statement that the end of the revo-
luton of the Herero chiefs is near The
coal strike in Germany spread to 49, mines.
Fifty-nne persons were killed by wave
caused by an avalanche into Leonvand
lake. Norway The new Danish cabinet
proposed universal suffrage in communal
elections. Snow fell in Rome for the first
time in ten years. Premier Combes an
nounced the resignation of the entire
French cabinet which was accepted by
President Ioubet. Among those who died
was the Grand Duchess Caroline of Sake
Weimar
In the District.
The Senate. by vote of so to "a took IN
fer consideration the bill for a crosstown
railroad in the District; the House commit
tee on the District held hearings on the
crosstown railroad bill and voted to change
the proposed route east of 18th street to
single tracks Oh L and n streets; the Sen
ate passed a bill authorizing the Surratts-
Vile. Anacostia and Brandywine Electric
Company to extend its lines into the Dis
trlct; the House committee on the District
gave hearing on the bill to amend the in
corporation section of the District code; it
was stated that radical change in the
form Of government for the District sub
stituting a governor for the board of three
commissioners. was being considered at the
Capitol. Business men held meetings to
protest against the proposed bill to license
master builders in the District, and also
to determine upon a course of procedure to
secure the amen iment of the existing smoke
law; the Senate committee on the District
granted hearing on the latter bill. The
Secretaries of War, State and Navy de-
clined to permit the buildings OF their re-
spective departments to be used for tenn
porary quarters for troops during the inau-
guration. The right of the Catholic Uni
versity to the tracts known Pretty Pros
pect and Woodley was attacked in the Dis
trict Supreme Court. The Western Presby-
terrain Church celebrated its l,tie.n ami
versary. The national board of trade held
its 25th annual meeting. j. NJ. A. Watson
convicted of e-nbeZzling $73 900 Of District
funds, was sentenced 10 ten years impr!s-
onment. George III. Harris, "a specials.
the bureau of entomology of the Department
of Agriculture, was accidentally asphyxi-
ated by gas in a downtown hotel Venarando
PuiiZzi died from the effects of fall from
bench at the first precinct station house
Among those who died was Dr. Henry T.
Woodbury., well-knoWn physician.
Hotel Arrivals.