Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
WEEK ENDING JULY 81, 1908.

The President gave directions that Of
hcials In charge OF public works detect
and punish violations OF the eight-hour
law. Secretary Taft was in Oyster Bay
cor sulting with the President on various
matters. A deficiency of $4,000 was found
IN the accounts of Major Bartlett. deceased.
formerly disbursfng. Officer of the Treas
ury Department. Secretary Taft issued a
temporary permit to certain power COM
panies to take water from the Niagara
river and to import electrical current from
Canada The opening of the bids for the
per cent Panama canal bonds showed
that the issue had been subscribed for saw
era. times over Jerome and Folk were In
dorsed on the Democratic ticket by the
members Of the lower house of the Georgia
legislature. The federal grand jury at
Cleveland returned no indictments against
the Standard Oil Company besause of lack
of Jurisdiction. Insurance superintendent
Kelsey at Albany said he had no author
ity to strike out names from the list OF
nominations filed with him: the work OF
copying the names of about !. 800. 900 policy
holders of the New York and Mutual Lie
Insurance companies was begun at Al
bany. Laura Bigger received 100000 from
the estate of Henry NJ. Bennett, which
was finally settled. decision was hand
ed down in Boston against Henry h
Rogers in the Bay State Gas Company suit.
monument to Samuel De Champlain.
dedicated at Bar Harbor. The wages or
thousands Of cotton mill employees In Maine
and New Hampshire were increased. the
attorney general of New York dismissed
the contest brought by William Randolph
Hearst to test the election of George +.
Mcclellan as mayor of New York. Prof.
Willis Marshall of Sioux City predicted
locust plague for the west. Judge Henry
Melvin Of Oakland. Cal, was elected grand
exalted ruler of the order of Elks. Baron
Won Sternburg, German ambassador to the
United States, was overcome by neat IN
Boston. but recovered. Cities In New Mex
leo and Texas were shaken by earthquakes:
Three men were killed by an explosion OF
dynamite at a mill near Ashland. Wis
Walter M. Wilson was killed In an auto.
mobile accident at Buffalo. Timothy Ed
saved from death on the horns OF bull
by his little son, who flashed the suns
rays in the eyes of the beast with milk
pail.
Foreign.
The council Of the Russian empire adopt
ed q bill for famine relief which had been
passed by the douma and was signed by
the car; the murder of General kozloff
has had an adverse effect on the imperial
plans for a new cabinet: the conservative
element IN the douma was victorious and
adopted an address to the people on the
agrarian question. which was not inclined
to incite the country to open rebellion
against the government the town of Syrian
was fired by revolutionists; no decision was
reached to dissolve the parliament The
coroner's jury at Salisbury, England.
brought in verdict that the wreck of
the Plymouth express was caused by too
high speed. British grocerS stated that
the meat scare has had a most disastrous
effect on trade in all canned goods. The
education bill passed the committee stage
in the house of commons: Indian Secretary
Morley warned the house of commons
against the danger of involving India In
party politics. A. whisky warehouse In Dun
dee. Scotland was burned. with loss of
81 $50, Geo Great Britain decided to appro-
pirate $1.000.O00 for the relief of the I'M
employed next winter. Maj. Dreyfus of
France was assigned to the 18th Artillery
and Brig. Gen. Pcquart to the staff of the
military governor of Paris. The tomb of
Charlemagne at AK Ia Chapelle was opened
in order that photographs might be taken
of the two precious cloths French For
eign Minister Bourgeois gave dinner in
honor of Representative and Mrs. Long
worth. German agrarian bodies urged the
passage of a bill to exclude American cam
ned goods from Germany. King Alfonso and
his queen arrived at San Sebastian. The
warning countries of South America signed
a treaty of peace on the United States ship
Marblehead. Brazil ordered three warships
from Armstrong. Whitworth & Co. of Eng
land. Secretary Root arrived at Para.
Among those who died We're Lady Curzon
OF kedleston, formerly Miss Letter OF
Washington, and Alfred Belt, the South
African millionaire.
District of Columbia. -
The District Commissioners issued an Or
der to stop all kinds of assessments on
District employees. A bill for S33. $50 was
presented for auditing the accounts of
Thomas E. Waggaman, by the American
Auditing Company The indicted ice dealers
pleaded not guilty. The United States pat
ent exhibit was abolished and preparations
were made TO divide the collection of 15I.-
600 models between the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition and the polytechnic colleges The
Commissioners referred the bids for light
ing the streets to Electrical Engineer Allen
The business men of this city organized
the Jobbers and Shippers Assoca ton of
Greater Washington. Work was begun by
the Great Falls and Dominion railway to-
ward the double tracking of the road Pub
lie Printer Stllings made many changes in
his office. Miss Williams, a government
employe, committed suicide by inhaling gas
Henry Prettyman. shot on the Fourth Of
July, died from his injuries. Frank Hume
Max Goldsmith and w. w Burdette all
merchants of this city, died during the
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