Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-15
WEEK ENDING APRIL IS, 1905.

The public part of President Roosevelts
trip ended at Fort Worth, Texas, and the
party then started on a hunting trip IN
Oklahoma; at its conclusion start was
made to his hunting camp In Colorado
Commissioner of Pensions Warner threat
ened to suspend ten members of the board
of pensions review for allowing alleged IL
legal pensions to be granted. Colonel Col
ton, who Will be in charge or the Dofhlh-
lean customs was instructed by Secretary
Taft that he was to act as the agent oil
the Santo Domingo government and not as
a representative of the United States. The
executive committee of the Panama canal
commission decided to employ Japanese
and Indian labor In the construction of the
canal. The United States Supreme Court
decided that the Constitution extends to
Alaska. The arrangements for the transfer
of the remains of Ambassador Azpiroz to
the u. S. s. Columbia. at Annapolis. were
announced. Edwin Anderson Alderman
was installed as the first president of the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Va with appropriate ceremonies. The
prudential committee of the foreign mission
board of the Congregational Church de-
cided to hold on to Mr.. Rockefeller's gift
of 100000. Four men were indicted by the
federal grand jury at Chicago in connection
with the beef trust investigation for tam
pering with witness. Capt. George W.
kirkman, 25th Infantry, was found guilty
by a court-martial and sentenced to dis
missal from the army. Eight american
were reported murdered by natives j.
Morgan Smith and wife, brother-n-law and
sister, respectively, of Nan Patterson,
accused of numbering Caesar Young in New
York, arrived in New York and We're ar
raigned on a charge of conspiracy, with
Mrs. Patterson, to obtain money from
Young; the charge was later quashed;
Pawnbroker Stern failed to identify Smith
as the man to whom he sold the pistol with
which Young was killed.
Eoro;rr Affairs
The fleet of Admiral Rojestvensky, con-
sisting of fortyseven vessels, was reported
from Paris to be in the neighborhood of the
THAR banks 500 miles southwest of For
mosa The bold way in which the Rus
sian admiral made no attempt at conceal
ment was taken to mean that he courted
an attack by Togo who was reported 10
have selected Making harbor, on the fesca-
dores Islands, between Formosa and the
Chinese mainland, as his naval base;
steamer, which sighted the Russian heet
reported it's decks cleared for action; nu-
merous sharp engagements were reported
between the advance forces of the two
armies in Manchuria, and the Russians
were said to be materially Strengthening
the defenses of Vladvostok, where 100000
men are garrsoned; advices from Hardin
stated that siege guns were being moved
against Kirn by the japanese; dispatches
from many points in Russia told of re-
newed disturbances among the peasant and
ed for May day; cholera broke out a Baku.
The British budget for the last fiscal year
showed a surplus of 81, 100000; American
AmbaS dor Choate was elected by the Brit
ish lawyers to the position of master of the
bench of the Middle Temple, an honor rare
ly conferred upon an outsider; Joseph
Chamberlain in speech strongly urged
an Anglo-Ja paneSe alliance as a sure con-
servator of peace A dispatch from Paris
announced the finding in the st. Louis
cemetery there of the body of John Paul
Jones; the French chamber of deputies, by
a large majority, passed the first article
of the bill providing for complete separation
of church and state, and discussed counter
proposals affecting the same measure; Capt
Volpert of the French army was arrested,
suspected of completely in an alleged mill
tary plot. -Four hundred persons were kill
ed or injured by the collapse of new water
reservoir in course of construction at Ma
drid. Late estimates of the fatalities during
the earthquakes in India put the total at
more than 1900.
In the District.
A protest was filed with the commission
in charge of the new municipal building
by the Blue Ridge Marble Company against
awarding the stone contract to the South
River Company on account of the method
used in conducting the arrangements for
the award. William w. Conner was elected
secretary of the board of education. A
meeting of prominent business men de-
cided to begin at once the raising of
funds for the erection Of a convention
hall. The National Council of Women held
its fifth triennal meeting. Samuel r.
Young, trumpeter, Troop H, 18th Cavalry,
accused of killing Policeman John ]. Smith
by shooting him with a blank cartridge,
was acquitted. George o. Burns, a yard
master, was killed by an engine in the
Benning yards of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. Michael Kelley, five years
old, was drowned in the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal. Mary Brown, fifty-four years
nv tai
Among those who died We're Judge Law
renee Weldon of the United States Court of
Claims, and Miss Margaret Edes, prom
inent figure in Washington society.