Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-11
WEEK ENDING AUGUST II, 1909.

cutter McCulloch to resume patrol duty In
guarding the Alaskan seal fisheries. The
President gave large luncheon at Saga
more Hill. A Washington lawyer was ar
rested on the Presidents grounds at Oyster
Bay. The President received ex-senator
Jones Of Arkansas Secretary Bonaparte
said in a speech that the pay corps had
given him more trouble than any other de-
partment Of the navy. Secretary Shaw an
nounced that the treasury would resume
the buying Of silver bullion for subsidiary
coinage. The crop report Of the Department
OF Agriculture showed an improvement In
the condition OF corn and the falling on In
that Of spring wheat The isthmian canal
commission decided to use Chinese coolies
to dig the Panama canal. The new Illinois
primary election law worked various sur
p pr the bigEest one being the defeat OF
bishop Villatte secured Land in Texas for
Catholic colony. The Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank of Chicago closed its doors; the
vice Ice president was arrested and the cashier
Julian p. Thomas and Roy Knabenshue
made successful trip Of fifteen miles by
balloon. 1t was announced In Pittsburg that
five persons would be arrested on charge
of conspiracy in connection with the Hartje
divorce case The summing up In the Hartje
diverse case ended. The carnival at Newport
opened with automobile races. District At
torney Jerome stated he would personally
conduct the trial of Harry Thaw. Five Jap
anese poachers were killed by Americans at
Attu and twelve prisoners were taken by the
revenue cutter McCulloch. Gov. Higgins of
New York ordered all gambling to be stop
ped at Saratoga Charles F. Murphy, the
Tammany leader. came out for Bryan.
Fourteen Ice men were indicted In Philadel-
phia. Destructive floods were reported from
Indian Territory. Texas and other places. A
freight steamer collided with a schooner
near New London. Conn.,, and the latter was
badly damaged. An indictment against the
Standard Oil Company was returned in Chi
cago. The New York grand jury declined to
bring indictments against the American Ice
Company and others Tugboat hands in
New York went on a strike. Cornelius Shea
was reelected president Of the Transfers
Union. The grand Jury at jamestown, ".
Y, Returned indictments against the Stand
ard OIL Company. the Vacuum Oil Com
pany and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, for giving and receiving re-
bates. Bishop Lawrence Of Massachusetts
denounced the endless chain" prayer
scheme started under his name as a hoax.
William Loeb. IT.. secretary to the Presi-
dent. was sued for $4,000 damages by Ma
dage Doree. a Jewish writer, on a charge Of
false arrest. Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson. wife
OF the author Of 'Frenzied Finance" died.
Lightning. during a terrific storm at Har-
risburg, Pa. killed two men and stampeded
the audience Of g. circus. Fifty-fve persons
were hurt. a number Of them seriously, in q
wreck on the Fort Worth and Denver City
railroad near Frutland Texas Two Amerl-
can customs officers were killed by smug-
glers in San Domingo. William Johnson. a
balloonist. was fatally injured at Utica, N.
Y. when his second parachute failed to
work at a height Of 1000 feet. Five Of six
negroes. on trial for the murder Of farmer
and family at Salisbury, N. C., were taken
from Jail and lynched.
Foreign.
The wires between Sebastopol and Odessa,
Russia. were cut. Civil war was resumed
in the Caucasus, and a number Of minor
outrages were reported from various dis
tricts. The Russian revolutionary bodies
issued call to the masses to rise and
cast down the cars government. The
workmen's conference decided to call of
the strike In st. Petersburg. The Russian
cabinet began a campaign to obtain q
tractable duma. The cabinet appropriated
$Z7,0OO,OOo for the famine relief Premier
cars approval Of his cabinet appoint
ments. Three members Of the Russian cab
met were officially confirmed. British adj
miralty abandoned its efforts to save the
battleship Montagu. The annual Cowes
regatta opened at Cowes. The battle of An
tietam was fought over at the British army
maneuvers. The text Of the recent Ttbetan
convention was given out in London. Many
English teachers applied for permission to
visit the United States. Emperor William
conferred an imperial order on Frau Krupp,
the widow Of the gunmaker. The kaiser's
kTdHOSOu VIII nave aS 8OOIatnerS the King
OF England and the Emperors OF Austria
and Prussia. The Equitable Life Insurance
Company decided to continue their business
in France. Maud Come, the Irish Joan
from her husband, Major Mcbride, by a
Paris court. Three hundred persons were
drowned in the wreck Of the italian steam
er Srio; the captain was charged with
that the pope was not indisposed. The
Spanish cabinet voted to ignore the papal
protest in regard to civil marriages. Tho
ministry of Spain has decided to make the
church subservient to the state. The
women suffragists convened at Copenhagen.
Volunteer troops paroled the streets Of
Cape Town to prevent riots. The Sultan
of Turkey was Ill and the sclamlik was
people a constitution and established rep
resentative assembly. The congress at Rio
Janeiro adopted resolutions in favor Of ar
bitrating all disputes between South Amer
lean states. The treaty Of arbitration of
pecuniary claims was adopted by the Pan
American conference. Secretary Root and
his party landed at Montevideo and were
warmly welcomed by all classes. The bat
tleship Mikasa, Admiral Togo's flagship in
the battle of the Sea Of Japan, has been
raised at Sasebo.
In the District.
The District Commissioners awarded the
contract for the construction of a new
sewer In Water street. Brig. Gen. j. Frank
lin Bell, chief Of staff, returned to Wash
ington after an extended inspection trip.
The thermometer on Monday reached LA
degrees. The negro educational congress
adjourned with a mass meeting. The Japa-
nese minister to the Netherlands was the
guest Of the Japanese charge in this city.
Capt. Hiram P. Marston was promoted from
shipper to chief of the delivery division at
the government printing office. The demo-
Gratis Of the District have appointed a COM
mittee to meet w. ]. Bryan at Madison
Square Garden. John w. Michael was ap-
pointed foreman of the Job division at the
government printing office. Florence A.
Poole, who had been missing from her home
since July 81, returned. Robert w. Sum-
mers was appointed assistant foreman at
the government printing Office The Dis
trict Guard returned from Mt. Gretna. Two
contracting companies pleaded guilty to vio-
iating the eight-hour law and were fined
SIS. Typhoid fever continued on the in
crease The Carriage and Wagon Workers
struck fer higher wages. Maj. Gen. Greedy,
who was in command of the Pacific d.
vision, returned. The bricklayers have
struck in sympathy with the plumbers. The
members Of the Department of the Poto-
mac, G. A. R., left for Minneapolis for the
annual encampment. George 8. Chase, a
Ia was overc0una nv the heat In the