Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-27
ENDING OCTOBER ~, 1905.

President Roosevelt announced that Oscar
s. Straus Of New York would become Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor; George
Won l.. Meyer, Postmaster General; Charles
]. Bonaparte, Attorney General; Victor H.
Metcalf, Secretary of the Navy and George
B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury.
The President sent Secretary Metcalf to
San Francisco to investigate the anti-Jap
anese movement there, especially their ex-
clusion from the public schools President
Roosevelt has decided to visit Porto Rico
during the tour to Panama. Secretary
Shaw held conference with the President,
at which it is understood the monetary
situation was discussed. Secretary Root
is engaged in drawing the contract for the
construction of the Panama canal. Post
master General Cortelyou estimates the ex-
penses of the Post Office Department next
year at $2GS 191, $50, an increase of SIS, 121,-
$50. The japanese ambassador called on
Secretary Root and protested against the
exclusion of Japanese children from the
public schools of San Francisco. War
with Japan is said to be regarded in Of
fetal circles as possibility of the not too
distant future The Interstate Commerce
Commission decides that railroads cannot
use tickets or passes to pay for advertis-
ing. Secretary Cortelyou will retire from
the craftsmanship of the republican national
committee when he becomes Secretary of
the Treasury. Both Messrs. Hughes and
Hearst continued their aggressive cam
paign in New York. Objections have been
filed against petitions nominating indepen-
dent candidates for the bench in New York
under the Independence League emblem.
New York will see a strenuous week in
politics. and both gubernatorial candidates
will undergo a severe test OF physical
endurance. The relations of the Southern
railroad to coal mining in Tennessee are
being probed by the interstate commerce
commission. The new $3,5OO,OO0 Catholic
cathedral in Pittsburg was dedicated. Car
inn
Murphy, the Tammany leader, predicts that
Hearst will carry New York by $4,000
plurality, while Chairman Conner places it
at $4,000. Former United States Senator
j. R. Burton went to Ironton. Mo. to be-
gin his six months sentence in the jail
there for accepting money for services rem
dered the Rialto Grain and Security Com
pany before the Post Office Department.
Reports brought by incoming steamers
show the loss of life at the Florida Keys
as a result of the recent hurricane to have
been fully severe as the first accounts
indicated, and the survivors tell narrowing
tales Of hardships A snowstorm has been
raging during the last twenty-four hours in
the Rocky mountain region and the cold
extends down into Mexico. Four persons
are dead, eight missing, two fatally injur-
ed and fifty hurt the result of lodg-
ing-house fire in Kansas City, Kan.
Foreign.
Gov. Magoon found deplorable conditions
in the National Insane Asylum at Havana
Gov. Magoon has scored hit in Cuba by
receiving the resignation of two unpopular
moderate off1ceholders. In the work Of
destroying arms In Cuba the American
authorities will have the accumulation OF
the last forty years in MORO Castle at
Havana, thrown into the sea- Advices from
ST. Petersburg say that the capital Is teem-
ing with sedition and that arrests continue
daily. London experienced another Black
Friday when the Bank of England put its
interest rate up. Leaders of the women's
suffrage movement In England caused vfo-
lent scenes in the lobby of the House OF
Commons, and were elected by the police;
eight of-the women were arrested. The
houses of parliament reassembled at Lon
don; the government party in the lords de-
cided to press the discussion of the educa-
ton bill. 1t is reported that separation
between the Duke and Duchess of MARI
borough may follow prolonged estrange-
ment. M. Clemenceau's new cabinet, the
personnel of which Is announced. was re-
ceived with disfavor in Berlin and at the
Vatican. The French cabinet decided to
sequestrate the property OF the churches
If the clergy by December IL still oppose
the separation law. According to a Berlin
magazine, 156S dogs and S1,312 horses
were eaten in Germany last year. King
Haakon opened the sessions OF the Nor
wegian parliament with speech from the
throne. The resignation of Count Golu-
chowski, Austrian minister for foreign af-
fairs, was accepted by Emperor Francis
Joseph. Many Foreign attaches are attend
ing the maneuvers of the Chinese imperial
army, which is equipped and trained under
modern methods. Manuel Silveira. the Gu
ban agent Of ]. M. Ceballos & Co., whose
alleged defalcation is blamed for the fall
ure of the firm, has arrived at Caracas
and rented a fine house According to the
latest returns fifteen persons lost their
lives and forty-nine lighters were wrecked
at Havana in the recent storm, great dam
age being also done at Batabano.
In the District.
The Court Of Appeals has decided that
the new District weights and measures
law is not effective. Francis L. Cardozo,
colored. sued for mandamus to compel
the board Of education to restore him to
his position as supervising principal of
schools. The case of Mrs. Caroline Cor
bett and her daughter. who seek release
from st. Elizabeth's Insane Asylum, was
heard in part by Justice Gould. Gen.
Charles Bird surprised the Presbyterian
synod of Baltimore by defending the army
canteen. The Southern Relief Society held
special service in memory OF Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis. Capt. w. H. Matthews, COM