Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
WEEK ENDING JANUARY 6. 1905.

The President shook hands with over
5000 persons at the annual New Year re-
i ception a the White House: the frs; ievee
| OF the winter. the members OF the dlplo-
matte corps being the especial Guests. was
held at the White House. it was announced
that the wedding of Miss Roosevelt and Rep
resentative Longworth will take place ar noon
FEBRUARY IL. The trial of MdshIpman
stephen Decatur, jr.. on charges of haz.ng at
the Naval Academy was concluded and
| Mldshipman Peterson B. Marzoni was
| placed on trial. Both houses of Congress-
| reassembled after the holiday recess: ex-
noN- la Fol.ette was sworn in as a sena-
Tor from Wisconsin; Representative Hep
| burn introduced his bill in the FIo,lec 10
| regulate railroad rates; the House devoted
| a portion of its time to the discussion of
| the Philippine tariff bill Judge Thomas
n Paynter was nominated by the democrat
&c caucus at Frankfort, KY as United
states senator to succeed ]. c. s Black
| ourn. the nomination being equal to an
election Gov. Higgins. in his message to
| the New York legislature, advocated gov
| eminent control of the Insurance COM
panies; resolution was offered calling on
Senator Depew to resign his seat in tho
| United States Senate, but was later with
| drawn; James w. Wadsworth jr, was
| elected speaker. John a. Mccall resigned
| as president of the New York Life Insu-
rance Company and Alexander f. Orr was
elected to succeed him New England
wooden manufacturers voluntarily raised
| the wages of 5000 employees The union
| printers IN forty-four New York typothetae
offices went out for an eight-hour day.
twenty-five other typotheate offices grant
| ing the concessions asked the strike of the
! printers for the eght-hour day extended
| to cities all over the country. Walter
Weilman was ordered by Frank r. Noyes
editor of the Chicago Record Herald to find
| the North Pole. Twenty-three miners were
| Killed in gas explosion in the Cooper
coal mine at tolldale, w Va. The taking
of testimony in two suits brought against
| the Standard on Company by the state of
Missouri was begun in New York. Palmer,
| the Syracuse banker, found guilty of
| misapproprating funds and received a
| fve-year sentence. The trial of John W.
Hill, former chief of the Philadelphia Ultra
| ton bureau, was begun. Charles \. Ed
wards of New York city was found in
| New Haven, Conn, and died soon after;
| Allan MaXcy Hitler, his hrother-in-law, was
| detained without bail until the results OF
| the inquest are made known. Former Gov.
Frank Steunenberg of Idaho killed by
! two dynamite bombs, which were exploded
| by unknown persons just as he was enter
| ing the gate of his home in Boise. Mat
! thew Styer. infatuated with Pearl Wheaton,
| daughter of S. n. Wheaton. a wealthy far
mer, broke into the Wheaton home at
| Caledonia, Mimi, and murdered his sweet
heart, fatally wounded her mother and
young sister and committed suicide. Car
ence A. Barnum shot and killed his wife,
| his daughter. aged twenty-three years. his
son, aged sixteen years, and himself at
Rochester, Mich.
Foreign Affairs.
The workmen's council at ST. Petersburg
called off the strike and voted to continue
the work of organizing an armed insurrec-
ton; all Poland was again reported In re-
volt against Russian rule, strikes being
general at Warsaw and Lodz and no work
being done in the coal region; the situation
in the Baltic provinces was reported TO be
cttI measures
by the troops; three hundred strikers at
tackled and killed a number of dragons at
Riga and the assailants were afterwaru
surrounded in rubber factory which they
had seized, and after bombardment were
forced to surrender; serious conditions pre-
vailed along the line of the Siberian rail-
way; thirty-five persons, including eight
Cossacks were killed in riot at the Nevsky
shipyards near ST. Petersburg; no news had
been received from Gen. Linevitch. in COM
mand of the Russian troops in Manchuria,
for a period of five weeks: Admiral Rojest-
vensky made charges relating to Great
Britain's attitude toward Russia at the
time of the battle of the sea of Japan and
the British charge d'affaires at st. Peters
burg demanded explanation from Count
Lamsdorff New Year day was observed by
diplomatic receptions at the various CAPT
tails of Europe. Advices from Berlin stated
that an order for the quick delivery of 20
coo freight cars is a part of the measures
taken to meet the disposition of troops in
France; ii was stated in Berlin that the
danger of serious trouble with France was
considered impossible When the newly APP
pointed Austrian project arrived at Debrec-
zen the Hungarian population pulled him
out of the railway carriage, maltreated MN
and locked him up until he wrote out his
resignation.
Mail advices from Japan stated that thou
sands of persons are dying from starvation
in three provinces Gen. Rodriguez attacked
Porto Plata, the northern coast Of Santo -
Domingo and was repulsed. losing his own
life and the movement resulting in the scat
Of President
reached Santo Domingo and called speclal
session of congress, which promptly I'M
neached Carlos +. Morales. the fugitive
president The Ecuadorean revolutionists
captured Riobamba capital OF the state Oh
that name.
In the District.
Mrs. Minor Morris who called to see the
President on private business, was forciby
elected from the White House by order or
Private Secretary Barnes and in being TAX
en- from the building was in-treated' ac-
cording to eye-witnesses. by the policeman
who carried out the orders; Mrs Morris was
fined s. in the Police Court for disorderly
conduct; Secretary Barnes issued state
ment in regard to the occurrence which dit-
fered materially from the statement OF an
eyewitness. The charges against Commits
sioner West preferred by Former Superin-
tendent of Street Cleaning Warner Stutler
were heard by the Senate committee on the
District of Columbia General John NJ. VIII
son was elected president of the bo/rd OF
trade al meeting OF the board or directors.
The Columbia Heights Citizens Association
Endorsed the project for the establishment
of a high-pressure water service for Wash
ngton. Mr.. Charles c. Glover announced
his intention 10 resign as vice president of
the Capital Traction Company. Justice
Stanton ]. Peele was installed chief JUS
tice of the Court of Claims to succeed Chief
Justice Charles G. Mott, retired. About 125
journeymen printers went strike at four
teen book and job printing offices for an
eight-hour day. Mary Graves, colored.
was placed trial charged with infanti-
eide. William g. Crawford. convicted of
postal frauds. was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. Daisy Richardson,
twenty years old, committed suicide by taxi
ing poison at her home in Benning. A
known Vera Cool and Mr.. W COM
mtted suicide by inhaling gas at his lodg-
ing place. Edward Fl. Pullman, thirty-six
years old, photographer, attempted to
commit suicide by taking poison. Among
those who died were James ]. Farrell a
well-known business man and Charles II.
Smith. well-known employe of the Treas