Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-01
THE WEEK ENDING JULY 1, 1905.

President Roosevelt participated in the
commencement exercises at Harvard Uni
versity where he delivered a speech after
which he went to his home at Oyster Bay
for the summer; in order to avert the
threatened boycott of American goods in
China the President ordered that Chinese
Of the exempt classes coming here shall be
treated as citizens Of the most favored ma
ton and that the exclusion law shall be
inforced with as little harshness as posi-
BILE: he received from Russia and Japan
the statement that peace plenipotentiaries
of both nations will meet in Washington
within the first ten days of August The
correspondence between President Roose-
welt, Secretary Taft and John F. Wallace,
who resigned his position as chief engineer
of the Panama canal was made public; Sec
rotary Taft severely arraigned Mr.. Wallace
for resigning at this time; John F. Stew
ems of Chicago accepted the position vacat-
ed by Mr.. Wallace. Charles ]. Bonaparte
entered upon his duties as Secretary of the
Navy. succeeding Secretary Morton. Sec
rotary Taft and party left Washington on
an inspection tour of the Philippines The
deficit for the fiscal year, ended July 30
was placed at 80, 305, 903. 30 John D. Rookie
Teller announced gift of $1O,0O0,O0O for
higher education. the donation being made
through the general education board. The
Equitable Life Assurance Society trustees
accepted the designations of all directors
but one and elected new members; a num-
Der of officials connected with the company
returned to the corporation the sums re-
ceived by them as profits from james F.
Hyde's syndicate transactions. Six per-
sons We're killed and twenty injured by a
storm at Phillipsburg Kan. Eight prison.
ers, seven colored and one white, were
taken from the jail at Watkinsville Ga,
and shot to death with the exception of one
colored man who feigned death and
capped. Among those who died were John
Hay, Secretary of State at his summer
home on Sunapee Lake, n. II.
Foreign Affairs.
General rebellion broke out in Poland and
in many provinces of Russia proper, the
mutiny at Odessa being the most severe in
ternal crisis Russia has faced In eighty
years; the crew of the Black Sea battIeship
Kniaz Potemkine mutinied. murdered their
officers and seized the ship, fired on the
city and assisted the rioters there in fight
ing the troops; the Black Sea squadron was
ordered to Odessa, and upon It's appearance
there the mutineers surrendered without a
struggle; nine Russian merchant vessels
and property estimated to be worth S25,-
coo, 600 were destroyed by fire; several hum
dred rioters and soldiers were killed and
a great many wounded; the car declared
a state of war to exist in Odessa and dis
trict and filled the city with troops; it was
estimated that over 1900 persons We're
killed and wounded during the rioting at
LODI, and many rioters were also killed
Dy troops at WARSAW, Wnere an uprising
began soon as the Instruction broke
out al LODI; troops finally suppressed the
disorder in both these towns: at Libau
1000 marines and sailors mutined after
breaking into the government stores but
surrendered after sharp fight with troops;
5000 enlisted men also mutinied at Cron-
stadt, but finally returned to duty; General
CZernolucki, chief of the Bessarabia gen
darmerie at Kishnev was murdered Dis
patches from Manchuria showed that the
Japanese advance toward Vladivostok was
maintained and that Marquis Oyama was
preparing to make wide turning move
ment east of Kirin and along the Grand
Trade route; Japanese warshios. Believed
to be torpedo boats. were sighted off
Vladivostok; the Danish steamer Princesse
Marie was overhaued and sunk by the
Russian cruiser Terek, which sank the
British steamer Ikhonia June 3; the Terek
was interred at Batavia. China expressed
wish to be represented at the meeting
of the Russo-Japanese peace plenipoten-
tiaries. The French official view of the
Moroccan situation Is that the worst aspect
of the case does not present cause for
war; Germany in her reply to the French
proposals regarding Morocco refused to
yield point to France, but the tone of the