Evening star., 1906-09-08
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 8. 1906.

President Roosevelt reviewed the most
powerful feet ever assembled in American
waters. President Roosevelt in a letter to
Public Printer Stillings declared that there
was nothing radical in the changes in spell
ing he has approved. but he said that If
the did not meet with popular approval
they would be dropped. State Department
officials declare there will be no interven-
ton by the United States in Cuba unless
the conditions in the island shall be more
desperate than at. present. Postmaster
General Cortelyou and Lucius n. Llttauer
took luncheon with President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay, and held long conlere nee
with him ON political subjects. secretary
Taft delivered a speech in Bath, Me-, urg-
ing the election or a republican Congress.
William Jennings Bryan arrived IN Lincoln,
Neb., and got regular home-1olk recep-
ton. The interstate commerce commission
has called on all railroads for information
concerning block and electrical signal appN-
ances. The department of Agriculture Is
making preparations for tnorougn ell
forcemenu OIL the pure food act, wMcn goes
into effect January l next. 1t was decided
to take steps at once for the return to TINS
country from Morocco OF the fugitive Sh-
cago banker, Paul o. Stensland. Brig. Gen.
Bell has generously offered to forego pro-
motion IN order that an older officer. Gen.
J. NJ Lee, may succeed Gen. Corbln Am
bassador Thompson, at the City OF Mexico
has been directed to investigate the seizure
of the American fishing smack Avian py
Mexican gunboat. Gen. w. S. McCaskey,
commanding the southwestern division, re-
ports that the abolition of the canteen sys-
TEN has affected injuriously the discipline
of the army. A charge of blackllstlng was
filed by the interstate commerce commlsso on
against the Baltimore and ONO Railroad
Company and the United States Express
Company. The exports OF the United
States to Cuba in the fiscal year ended June
loc
liam F. North and Marshall s. Collinswood
of the wrecked Real Estate Trust Company
of Philadelphia were held in heavy bail. II
was announced in Pittsburg that the New
York Central had begun a rate war on the
Pennsylvania by selling mileage books good
over twenty-four lines and branches. one
thousand strike-breakers have arrived at
San Francisco. but there Is prospect that
the street car strike there will be amicably
settled The stronghold of the rioting
Italians at Dubois was captured by the
state constabulary after 1t had been dyna-
mited and set on fire. The cruiser Boston
which went on the rocks in Rosario strait,
got of under her own steam and arrived In
Bellingham, Washington bay, leaking bad
w. but the inflow of the water mas Deen
controlled. A woman was wayialo IN
sleeping car IN Cnicaeo anu Foooeu VI d
watch and $50.
Foreign.
Cen. Turnenoff, a brigade commander at
Warsaw, was shot and slightly wounded at
Warsaw. Additions were made to the long
list of murders of policemen in Warsaw;
practically all hotels and private houses are
closed Fourteen officers have been arrested
at Odessa. charged with plot to kill all
the authorities. Troops fired on a crowd In
a village near Warsaw killing six and
wounding twenty-five persons. James Keir
Harde, the socialist member Of parliament,
In a speech at Blackburn, praised the use
Of the bomb by the Russian revolutionists.
The new program Of the Russian govern
ary propaganda and is otherwise tinged
with a reactionary spirit. Activity of the
Russian revolutionists is directed toward
fomenting trouble In the rural districts.
cities. Newspapers identified with the Rus
sian reactionary party are calling on Pre-
mier Stolypin to resign. The thirty-ninth
annual trades union congress opened at