Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-01
THE EVENING STAR IS THE
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ST.
PREME COURT OF THE DIS.
TRicT OF COLUMBIA IN BANK.
RUPTcY MATTERS.
WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 1, 1905

|. President Roosevelt returned from his
| Panama trip, reaching the White House
| Monday night. Booker Washington's secre
! tary and Collector Anderson" leading
! negro politician of New York, urged the
President to modify the order dismissing
the colored troops. Secretary Root told
Senior Gown Of Havana that Cuba could not
hope for independence until the politician:
ceased their scramble for office. Secretary
Wilson reported that the products Of Ameri-
can farms this year would reach a total
valuation of $1,000, OOO, 600, an increase of
$500, 600 over last year. A Chicago syn
dictate offered to take over the United States
postal system, cut the rates In half and
save the country $1O0.O00.O00. Gen. A. B.
Nettleton, former assistant secretary Of the
treasury. after an investigation, declared
the Presidents course in the Brownsville
incident the only one that was open to him
and arraigned the negroes in the offending
battalion. Thanksgiving day was observed
| generally. Senator Tillman delivered an
address in Chicago on the race issue; he
| INDUCED in violent language amid scenes OF
great disorder. George Burnham, jr., coun-
| sci for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
Company, was placed on trial in New York
for misconduct d,H IL in that company,s affairs
A fine of $4,000 was imposed upon the
American Sugar Refining Company for re-
| batting. John D. Rockefeller was threat
ened by an insane woman, who demanded
| 81, GO0OO0 under penalty of death. EnricO
CaruSo, the tenor. was given a cordial re-
ception on his first appearance in opera
since his conviction on the charge of insult
Ing women. Mayor Schmitz of San Fran
cisco was arrested on his way home after
crossing the California border. Samuel
Spencer president of the Southern Railway
Company; Philip Schuyler of New York
Charles D. Fisher and F. T. Redwood of
| rear-end collision on the Southern railroad
near Lynchburg, Va. Among those who
died was Rev. William Howe, the worlds
| Oldest Baptist minister, in Boston, aged one
hundred years.
Foreign.
1t was reported in st. Petersburg that the
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch had
married Anastasia, Duchess of Leuchten-
berg; the enemies of Witte appealed to
the emperor to have the count, who IS gain
ing ground in Russia, expelled from the
empire; reports indicated that the Russian
famine Is the worst since that of 1891 large
stores of grain are unavailable because Of
lack of transportation facilities; Theodore
Smith, a naturalized American citizen, was
| released on bail in Russia after eleven
months Imprisonment. The general COM
mittee of the National Liberal Federation
of England denounced the house of lords
for its action on the education bill. The
British immigration board permitted the
entry into England of thirty-two Chinese
who had been detained under the aliens
act Karl Hau, the Washingtonian accused
of murder by the Baden-Baden police, is
| believed to be feigning insanity. The
agreement between l. rance and Spain, pro-
vidng for the landing of 5000 troops in
Morocco, If necessary, was made public in
Paris. A woman shot M. Merlou, ex-min-
lister of finance. of France, in a Paris
street, wounding him slightly. A squadron
of French warships sailed for Tangier. to
protect the lives and property of Europeans.
Chancellor Won Buelow, speaking before the
| reichstag on the German colonies. said
that the nation held them from necessity
and would not give them up. Forty per-
sons were killed and several hundred in
jured by an explosion in powder factory
at Amen. Germany, The new Spanish
King George of Greece visited the pope.
and was cordially received. Perfect quiet
was reported in Cuba, the capture of Ruis'
men. near Cienfuegos. ending the last Of
Posen, in Prussian Poland. was found dead
in his study from heart disease.
In the District.
Letters were received by the Commits
sioners from the heads of the Baltimore
and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad COM
panies declining to promise the installation
of electric motors in the District on theiI
lines; Commissioner Mcfarland announced
that he proposed to recommend to his col
leagues the presentation to Congress of a
proposal to- extend the operations of the
smoke law to cover railroad engines. The
Commissioners refused licenses to operate
in the District to proprietors of certain en-
ployment agencies a result of an inves-
tigation of charges of a grave nature pre-
ferred by the household research committee
of the Public Education Association. Com
missioner West presented the flag won by
the seventh precinct police station. Spe-
cial Thanksgiving services were held in
nearly all Of the churches. A tablet to
Capt. Thomas Tingey, first commander of
the Washington navy yard, was unveiled
Secretary Bonaparte and F. w. Hackett
making addresses. Testimony in the Bas-
sett divorce case was continued. The Phi!
Delta Theta held it's twenty-ninth biennial
convention. The members Of the Washing
ton Water Color Club began their first pub
lie exhibition in the hemicycle room of the
Corcoran Art Gallery. Melvin L. Cleveland
a member of the Naval Battalion, was
drowned in the lower Potomac by falling
overheard from q power tender of the
Oneida. George Draper was sentenced to
six months in Jail and fined 500 for turn
ing in a false fire alarm. Peter L. Mundel
was arraigned in the Police Court charged
with making handbook on the races
Joachim Thode was charged in the Police
Court with stabbing George Davis, colored
waiter at 800 Pennsylvania avenue.
Among those who died were Samuel Cross.
Thomas g. Hensey, Henry c. Burch, Wal
ter Paris, Capt Hugh H. Henry, Thomas l.
Murphy, Stephen Kane and Charles r.