Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 1e, 1905.

The engagement OF Miss Alice Roosevelt,
daughter of President Roosevelt, to Repre-
sentative Nicholas Longworth of Ohia was
announced at the White House. Secretary
Bonaparte approved the finding of the
court-martial which sentenced Mdshipman
minor Merlwether, jr., accused of caus-
ing the death of Midshipn,an James
Branch, jr., to one years confinement
In the Naval Academy reservation and
public reprfmand by the Secretary of
the Navy; Secretary Bonaparte announced
ms determination to put an end to hazsng
at the Naval Academy and declared that
every midshfpman guilty of that practice
would be summarily dismissed and turned
over TO the Maryland state authorities for
Iurther punishment. Bids for the construc-
ton Oh railroads In the Philippine Islands
, p nere ~. upeieu at the war Department. The
fanama emergency appropriation bill was
considered by the Senate; the item in the
Dill relative to the regulation of The issue
OIL canal ponds was taken out of the meas
uie ana passed as separate bill; the House
refused to consider the measure on the
ground that the Senate had encroached on
Its privileges and prerogatives; the Santo
Domingo treaty was sent back by the Sem
ate to the foreign relations committee for
| revision; Senator Tillnan delivered speech
on the alleged usurpation of power by the
President; Speaker Cannon In the House an
| nounced the appointments of standing COM
mittees; the House devoted considerable
time to the question of federal supervision
| of insurance; revolt. headed by Repre-
sentatives Lamar of Florida and Shackel-
ford of Missouri against the minority lead
ership of John Sharp Williams of Missis-
s1ppi, eliminated In personal colloquys on
the floor of the House. The battlsship
Louisiana, the first of the new 16,Uo0-ton
ships, made 1888 knots an hour of her en-
durance run. establishing new record.
The court of appeals of the state of New
York decided against the contentious of
w. r. Hearst in the New York ballot case
Thomas F. Ryan. United States Senator
Dryden and E. H. Hartman testified be-
fore the Insurance investigating committee
IN New York; Charles A. Peabody was
elected president of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company and George w. Perkins re-
signed as vice president and chairman of
the finance committee of the New York
Life. The anthracite coal miners met in
annual convention at Shamokin, Pa, and
decided to refer questions to conference
of miners and operators. The federal grand
jury at Philadelphia returned eight iud:ct-
ments and the grand jury at Kansas City
fourteen against meat packers, railroads
and agents on charges of giving rebates
and conspiring to secure rebates. ter
rifle storm swept over the northern Allan
tic states and relief light vessel No. IS on
Nantucket South Shoals was lost, the crew
being saved; the gunboat Wasp, which was
sent TO the assistance of the vessel, was
herself barely able to limp into port after
narrowing experience Six infants were
burned to death in a fire at Galveston, Tex.
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Elkton, KY, was blown up with dynamite
a result of trouble between rival fac
tories of tobacco men. Among those who
died was Edward Atkinson, a noted political
economist, at Boston
Foreign Affairs.
Communication with st. Petersburg was
opened, but the wires soon ceased to work;
reports from Tsarskoe-Seo were that the
car would support Count White, the cabal
advices from st. Petersburg said that a re-
public had been established in Kharkoff the
troops having Joined the insurgents; an
other series of outbreaks were reported from
the Caucasus; hundred sailors on the Rus
sion battleship Czarevitch at Colombo, Cey-
Ion, mutinied: messengers from Livonia
reached st. Petersburg with the news that
Riga had been captured by the insurgents
and that provisional government had been
established; latest reports from the Russian
capital stated that warships had been dis
patched to that port to retake the town;
the financial panic continued to spread, one
bank in ST. Petersburg failing and the runs
on others continuing. The British liberal
cabinet formed by Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-
herman made public at London the
premier received a deputation of the unem-
ployed classes and promised to give the full
est consideration to the labor question. The
pope held secret consistory and created
four new cardinals. gale which swept
over Italy caused heavy damage to ship
ping. NJ. Forrer. a radical, was elected
president of the Swiss confederation. Tur-
key yielded to the demands of the powers
concerning Macedonian financial reforms.
The boycott committee of the Chinese guilds
formulated a long list of demands which
must, they said, be granted before the ac-
ton against American goods would be re-
scinded. Among those who died were Will
liam Sharp, the author, in London, and
Paul Meurice. author and dramatist, in
Paris.
In the District.
The Senate committee on the District of
Columbia held It's first meeting of the ses-
sion and passed upon number of meas
ures of local interest; charges against Com
missioner West, preferred by former Super
intendent Of Street Cleaning Warner Slut
Ter, were laid over to be considered after
the holidays in connection with the nominal
ton of Mr. West to succeed himself
United States Marshal for the District Au-
lick Palmer was renominated. Electrical En-
gineer Allen, in a special report, stated that
telephone. telegraph and electric lighting
wires were being removed even beyond the
requirement of the law. The National City
Bank opened its doors for business. The
first annual convention of the Navy League
of the United States was held. The Asso-
ciated Charities of the District of Column
bia held its annual meeting. President Cor
don of Howard University resigned. The
contract was let for the construction of a
new Metropolitan Club building Roy Ma
honey, five years old. died from eating q
piece of bread which rat poison had
been spread Charles Denekas, a we'll
known business man. died from apoplaxy
soon after an automobile accident. r. H
Neff a Washington contractor, was killed
by falling under an electric car in Alexan-
dria. r. J. Frye of this city, thirty years
old, was struck and killed by an engine on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at Boyd
Md. The Court of Appeals affirmed thf
death sentence imposed on VIM w. Ham
ilton, convicted of the murder of Mary e.
Butler. Richard Chase, colored, charged
with killing his stepbrother, Henry Chase,
was indicted for murder Thomas Brown,
an elderly colored man, who was struck by
a brick thrown by a colored man named
George Butler, alias Schneider Wood, last
month, died as a result of his injuries
Among those who died We're Gen Herman
Haupt, veteran of the civil war ard
noted railroad man and engineer on a
Pennsylvania railroad train near Newark
N. j.. John G. Barthel, an old resident and
business man; Samuel M Yeatman for
many years secretary and treasurer of the
Georgetown Law School,, and Rev. DIR. j.
r. Wright.
WITHOUT A SNOW LAW.