Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-14
WEEK ENDING OCTOBER IA, 1905.

with a number Of well-known authorities.
on college athletics looking toward an i'm
provement of athletic standards. Robert
Bacon of New York took the oath of Office
as assistant secretary of state, and Francis
B. Loomis retired from the State Depart
ment Gen. Henry q. Sharpe was APP
pointed commissary general of the army
succeeding Gen. John F. Weston The
United States Supreme Court met for the
autumn term. The census bureaus report
on the total cotton available in the United
states from September l, 1904, to Septem-
Der 1, 1905, showed a total Of Il 49, y.p4
bales. Charles e. Hughes refused the NOM
nation for mayor of New York rendered
to him by the republican city convention.
The Massachusetts democratic state con-
vention nominated ticket and adopted a
platform containing plank commencing
the President for bringing about peace be-
tween Russia and Japan. r. D. Greene
and ]. F. Gaynor were brought from Mon
treal. Quebec. under heavy guard to Sa-
vannah. Ga. The application of joseph
Ramsey. IT.. deposed president of the Wa
bash railroad, for an Injunction made in
st. Louis to restrain the Missouri Pacific
and Iron Mountain roads or their trustees
from voting Wabash stock in the annual
Wabash election was denied; Ramsey was
subsequently badly beaten in the fight
against George j. Gould at the following
election Of directors. Capt Taggart re-
ceived a divorce from Mrs. Taggart at
Wooster, Ohio, and the court gave him the
custody of his two children. Eighteen new
cases Of yellow fever at the last report
were discovered in Pensacola, Fla. and
the spread of the disease was feared to be
beyond control The state superintendent
of insurance of Missouri demanded of
President Mccall Of the New York Life the
return to the treasury Of $148.702 campaign
contributions, on pain of revocation of the
company's license in Missouri. A farmer
named Graham was arrested and accused
of the murder of three persons near Mid
dletown. N. Y, by the woman who was
the only survivor of the tragedy.
Foreign Affairs.
Disquieting reports were received from
many cities in the Russian empire: bombs
were thrown at Cossacks in Tifis and the
troops charged the mobs, killing and
wounding many persons; strikers stoned
the police and soldiers in Moscow and 200
arrests were made; the strike in Moscow
continued to spread and a strong senti-
ment in favor of Joining the movement was
reported from st. Petersburg; a Russian
mail train bound for Vladivostok in the
Caucasus was thrown from the track and
twenty-seven persons were killed; Hohen-
tai. the murderer of Procurator General
Soininen Of Finland, escaped from prison
Statements In a Paris newspaper regard
Ing Great Britain's attitude at the time of
the Franco-German dispute over Morocco
caused renewed agitation in Germany;
Great Britain indirectly announced that
the British government had allayed Ger
many's disduiet by statement to the eff
feet that England had not offered assist
ance to France in the event of rupture of
relations and that France had not asked
for such assistance. The treaty committee
Of the Swedish riksdag decided unanimous
ly in favor of ratification; the storthing by
1O1 to 16 votes. accepted the Karlstad
agreement. Prof. Won Behring explain to
the international tuberculosis congress at
Paris his so-called cure for consumption
The Workmen's Federation in Argentina
decided to begin general strike and the
congress resolved to declare martial law
all over the country for ninety days. The
British steamer Leho was reported to have
been blown up by floating mine near
Shantung lighthouse. The British squad
ron under Vice Admiral Sir Girard Noel ar
rived at Yokohama and was warmly well
coined. Among those who died was Sir
Henry Irving, the famous English actor.
at Bradford. England, after a performances
of Beckett"
In the District.
Henry Litchf1eld West was reappointed a
Commissioner of the District of Columbia
by the President for second term. 1t
was estimated that the District revenues
available for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1907, will be s5.562549. The superin-
tendent OF street cleaning submitted his
first annual report. More than 1000 of the
VI the country were the guests OF
the District of Columbia during the thirty
fifth annual convention of the American
Bankers Association the second interna-
tional sanitary congress of the American
republics was held; the High Tent of North
America. Independent Order of Rechabites
also held its annual sessions and "Recha-
bite" Sunday was generally observed by the
preaching of more than fifty temperance
sermons in Washington churches; the Pro-
vincial Grand Lodge and Provincial Grand
Chapter of the Royal Order of Scotland
met In annual session. The annual field
day exercises Of the several Washington
Communicates of knights Templar were
held at the country home of Mr.. John r.
Mclean. 1t was announced that Mr. John
r. Mclean had bought an even half inter-
est In the Washington Post Company. J.
Archibald Williams WAS run down by a
freight train on a trestle in Anacostia and
knocked into the Eastern branch and
drowned. Leroy Herbert, two years old,
died from burns received while playing
with matches. Mrs. Brooks Burr, colored,
was burned to death in her home Joseph
G. Owings. forty-five years old. painter.
was killed by q fall OF go feet down the
shaft of the Washington monument the
accident being caused by the break
ing of a scaffold. Mrs. Margaret
Mack Murphy was struck by a Balti-
more and Ohio train and killed at the foot
crossing at 9th street northeast. Two dead
infants. one white. were found on vacant
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