Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-26
Penalty Under the Law.
WEEK ENDING AUGUST 2e, 1905.

notes to the Japanese and Russian govern
ments urging an agreement on peace terms;
the announcement was authorized that
Emperor Nicholas answer to the Presi-
dents appeal was partially responsive;
Count Lamsdorff, the Russian foreign min
lister, announced that Russia would pay
Japan no contribution, direct or indirect,
and would make no cession Of territory;
the President went out the submarine
boat Plunger in Oyster Bay and was on
board while several dives were made. Ed
win H Conger, ambassador to Mexico, re-
signed from the diplomatic service. The
commission to revise the rules under which
the Chinese exclusion law is administered
called on officers Of the immigration service
for criticisms of the rules. Frederick A.
Peckham, charged with completely in the
cotton leak was arrested In Saratoga and
released on $4,000 bail. The court OF in
quiry on the explosion on the gunboat
Bennington found that the vessels boilers
were not defective. and suggested court
martial for Ensign Charles II. Wade. the
only one surviving OF those whom the court
held responsible for the accident. Con-
observe an order of the court prohibiting
the giving of rebates was brought In Kan
sas City, Mo, against number of rail-
roads. Senator Thomas S. Martin of Vir.
report of the yellow fever situation in New
Orleans placed the total number of cases
at 1865 total number of deaths at ~ and
total disease centers at 376. The twentieth
annual session of the American Bar Asso-
citation was held at Narragansett Pier:
Knabenshue's airship made a successful
two-mile trip over New York city. ST.
Louis and other western cities were shaken
nv an earthquake. The telegraphers on
the Northern Pacific, as well as those on the
Great Northern, voted to end their strike.
Over 800 persons attending the laying or a
cornerstone of Pittsburg synagogue were
fftaan feet into a cellar DV the col
lapse of a platform Nine persons were
killed and one fatally injured and thirteen
hurt in a collision between steret car
and a freight train at Butte, Mont. From
nine to twenty lives were reported lost In
the Rhode Canyon. Col, In a cloudburst
which washed away two towns. Two more
wreck near Norfolk Va. making fifteen
known dead. Among those who died was
Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge, poet and editor OF
st. Nicholas Magazine
Foreign Affairs.
The feeling in continental capitals IN re-
gard to the prospects of peace between
Russia and Japan was by no means BUOY
ant, and the Paris bourse reflected II In
depression Of stocks; the cars manifesto
providing for popular representation in
Russian assembly was received with much
favor and the expectation was expressed
that it would serve the purpose OF strength
ening the cars purpose not to yield TO
the Japanese conditions OF peace, although
a general strike was declared in Poland.
the people believing that their rights had
been disregarded in the proposed scheme;
eight persons were killed in an encounter
with Cossacks near Warsaw, and martial
law was proclaimed throughout the Baitlc
province of Courland; advices from Tokyo
stated that the Japanese army in northern
Manchuria has advanced, in spite Of the
heavy rains, and had driven all the Rus
slams across the Tumen; Gen. lInevitchs
strength was estimated at from 100000 TO
500 900 men. 1t was announced that new
treaty of alliance between England and
japan had been signed. A demand was pre-
sented to the Sultan of Morocco by the
French minister for indemnity in the case
of the arrest of a Franco-Algerian citizen,
and the French government stated that
military demonstration against Morocco on
the Algerian frontier would be made unless
there was prompt acquiescence in the de-
mand. Lord CurZon of Keddleston resigned
as viceroy of India, owing to differences
from the new scheme of army administra-
ton, and the Earl of Mimic appointed
his successor. Anthony Fiala, leader of
the Ziegler polar expedition, reached Hull,
England and told what had been accom-
plished in the exploration of Franz Josef
land. Because of revolutionary symptoms
additional Turkish troops were dispatched
into Macedonia. Among those who died
was Adolphe William Bouguereau, one of
the most distinguished painters in the
world. at his country place in France
In the District.
Indications were thar the epidemic Of ty-
phoid fever is on the decline; the first fill
tered water from the purifying plant at the
head of North Capitol street entered the
| mains of Washington. An indictment for
| embezzlement against Thomas E. Wagga-
man was returned by the grand jury of the
District. United States District Attorney
Beach announced that Edwin s. Holmes,
jr., had been indicted, well as Peckham
and Haas. who had already been arrested,
in connection with the cotton report leak.
Justice Stafford reversed his recent decision
in regard to the status of persons detained
with due course of trial at the Government
Hospital for the Insane, the effect of the
latest decision being to put a stop to the
threatened wholesale discharge of inmates
of the asylum. Rev. George P. Wilson,
DID, pastor of Assemby's Presbyterian
| Church, resigned, and tax of the CONSOLE
| dalton of that congregation with the First
| Church was again brought up. William
| Morris, seventy-five years old, died from
| injuries received in being knocked down by
| wagon at 18th street and Pennsylvania
avenue. Guy Earle Howett a ships yoe-
| man in the navy, committed suicide by TAX
| ink chloroform and then shooting himself.
| Vinson Walsh son of Thomas F. Walsh OF
| this city was killed in an automobile acct
| dent near Newport R. I.