Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-03

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WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 3, 1906
President Roosevelt. accompanied by Mrs.
| Roosevelt, went to their country home at
| Pine Knot. Va, the President taking with
| him his annual message to Congress. to
| which he will put the finishing touches.
I Postmaster General Corteiyou and Secre-
| tary Root conferred with the President on
\ the political situation. Treasurer Treat
| shows that the sum of sS77 296 2,3S is held in
| gold in the United States Treasury. Secre-
tary Wilson has issued number of new
meat inspection regulations At the re-
quest of the President Secretary Taft will
| go to Idaho to help elect the republican
| ticket, though he has been warned that the
| republicans are representing the Mormon
| sentiment. The interstate commerce COM
| mission reports that 1854 passengers We're
| either killed or wounded in the Is, 400 rail-
road accidents the last fiscal year. The
Panama canal commission estimates that
| 1t will require an appropriation of 81, 4o5,2oS
| for next years work. Secretary Root. IN
| the name of President Roosevelt and his
| own denounced Hearst at meeting in
Utica. Four hundred dollars in bills was
discovered in dead" letter addressed to
| a missionary in Africa, but giving no post
| office address. Senator John L. Morgan OF
| Alabama declares that the President
cannot force state to open its schools to
| Japanese. He fears that Japan is trying to
pick a quarrel with the United States.
| Many public men, 1t is said, share Senator
| Morgan's belief that Japan desires TO go to
| war with the United States. with the Phil
ippines and Hawaii prospective Spois-
| The land office disposed of 9,f1 1Sl acres
| of government lands the past year. Com
| plants of rate discrimination in Alabama
by the Southern Central of Georgia and
| n bar hip railroads Med with the in
| terstate commerce commission. Hereafter
each officer and soldier in the army Is to
wear a numbered aluminium badge that will
| identify him in case of deatn or accident
| An electric train plunged from the trestle
| over the Thoroughfare, the body of water
| separating Atlantic City from the main
| land, and fifty-nine persons lost their lives.
| Hearst and Hughes, the rival candidates
| for governor of New York, concluded their
| upstate tour and will wind up the cam
! paign with meetings in Manhattan. Emma
| Goldman and ten other alleged anarchists
| were held under bail in New York because
| they are said to have justified CZolgosz S
| act. Clifford Hooe the negro coachman
| formerly in the employ of Augustus Hartje
/ the Pittsburg millionaire, who has been
| suing his wife for divorce, was convicted
| 0. perjury, committed when he swore that
| Mrs Hartje was intimate with him. Lieut..
| Robert E. Peary failed to reach the north
pole, according to a message from him, but
| made the 'farthest-north' record. NeSotia-
| lions between the renegade Utes and the
United States troops continue, with every
| prospect of an amicable settlement. Rep
| resentative lockwood Hoar of Massachu-
| sets is dead.
| Foreign.
The anniversary of granting the Russian
constitution passed quietly in spite of fears
| to the contrary. The ST. Petersburg Uni
| versity, which was closed by the faculty
| council on account of students holding po-
| litical meetings, is to be reopened. Two
| amendments to the education bill were car
| ried by large majorities in the house of
lords against the position of the govern
rent; phase of the Irish question was
| discussed in the house of commons. A So
Icitor the Duke and Duchess of MARI
| borough issued d. statement in London that
no deed of separation between the duke
| and duchess had yet been signed, and that
| the sons of the duke and duchess are with
| the father at Benheim. Six bodies of the
| crew of the French submarine torpedo
| boat Lutin We're recovered from the vessel,
| and the others will be taken out soon. The
| French cabinet has decided to recommend
| the purchase of the Western railroad; NJ.
| Barthou has plan for the control of all
mines by the state. The program of the
| French cabinet is said to include public
| ownership of mines and abolition of the
| death penalty. Twenty-three members Of
! the crew Of the German steamer Hermann
| were drowned on October 49, the vessel
| having sunk in the channel after col
! lision. Japanese captain of engineers in
| disguise was caught sketching the Philip
| pine Notifications. Gorschurn, head of the
| fighting terroristS, escaped from the silver
! mines in Siberia. Governor Magoon has
| given the Cubans great surprise by an
| nouncing that American occupation will
be not only adminiStra tive, but reforma tive.
Father Gangotit, who gave warning of
the recent Cuban cyclone, now predicts
another. The Newfoundland government
has decided to test the validity of the
| modus vivendi, and intends to prosecute
fishermen who have been shipped by Amer
| leans outside the three-mile limit. With
the firing of a blast of dynamite from
Grant Peak, the Walker Lake Indian res
| ervation, new Eldorado, was opened to
settlers. George Herring, the noted Eng
| fish phianthroplst, Is dead
In the District
The special commission-composed Of En-
| gineer Commissioner John Bidde of the
army Superintendent Chancellor of the
| public schools and Supervising Architect
| Taylor of the treasury-which was created
| by the last Congress to formulate a gen.
| eral plan of consolidation of the public
| schools and for the abandonment of GER
| tain school sites and buildings, met yes
| terday morning The first step of the COM
mission is to make an inspection of all the
school sites and buildings In the District
| The LOO school teachers of the District of
Columbia will receive their pay checks for
| the month of October by applying in per-
| son at the Franklin school building. Con-
troller Ridgely declares that in the Etna
| Bank failure he can find no assets of SUBJ
| stantial value, and he concludes that the
| money Of the depositors has been stolen"
| Secretary Loeb announced the schedule of
| formal social affairs 10 be given at the
White House during the winter. Noted
| lawyers delivered culosies of the late Chief
| Justice Alvey at meeting of The District
| bar held to honor his memory. Six men
| had narrow escape from drowning when
| one of the big Golfer dams which was being
| used to construct the mammoth cement
| piers for the new Anacostia bridge across
| the Eastern branch of the Potomac was
| swept away by the current. The District
| Sunday School Association held its an
nual convention. Five divorces were asked
| in the District Supreme Court. For at
| lacking his niece, Jessie May Popkins, John
| Popkins was sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary. David Oliver, seventeen years
old, was killed in a runaway accident