Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28
ENDING JULY Is, 1905.


cure legislation providing for progressive
Inheritance tax and greater federal con-
troll of corporations. The President received
the members Of the republican congress
committee and plans were discussed for the
coming campaign. Secretary Wilson an
nounced that the new meat Law would not
permit the sale Of foreign meat products
except in seaboard states. The Department
of Justice instituted proceedings In the
District OF Columbia to en3oin the payment
OF twenty-five 1900 United states bonds
presented by II. f. c1ews & Co. The State
Department interviewed In behalf of the
three prisoners on the Isle of Pines. and
they were released from prison. Assistant
Postmaster General DeGraw sent an IN
specfor to Carroll county to investigate the
complaints against the Encouragement OF
rural routes. The acting secretary OF the
navy issued an order directing that all vio-
lations of the eight-hour Law In naval
works during the past two years be >inves-
tigated and reported. Bids for the Panama
canal bonds aggregated $445,000.uoo or more
a large number OF banks were designated
"a depositories The American Federation
OF Labor issued an appeal to organized Ia
hpr to become active In Independent poll
tics. President George Westinghouse was
accused of using the funds of the Westfng-
house and Electric Manufacturing Company
for private enterprises. Mayor Tom Johnson
Of Cleveland avoided an injunction OF the
courts and was asked to show cause why he
should not be punished for contempt or
court. ST. Louis experienced fierce wind
and riiinstorm. telegraph poles and frame
houses being blown down. Col: A. NJ. shook
of Tennessee declared the Mutual Life In
surance Company should have a new set OF
officers II the interest Of the policy holders
was to be protected. and called the con-
script fashion of securing trustees unpre-
ceiiented J. Pierpont Morgan returned from
Europe. Frank Work, father OF Mrs Aurei
Botanvi. cut of her allowance OF xSuVW a
year ms a result of her marriage. In their
ascent in a balloon to the height OF four
miles. Drs J. c. Fulton and s. ]. Ottinger
made important scientific discoveries Inc
result Of a wreck on the Seaboard Air Line
In North Carolina was twenty dead ana
twenty-four injured. Five were Killed ana
four injured by lightning at a ball game In
Manitowee, Wis. Nine persons were Killed
and seven injured as the result or a tram
on the Great Northern railway running INTO
Diamond lake In the state OF washington.
Eleven bodies were taken from the col
lapsed building at South birmingham,
Mass A man said to be the murderer o.
Mrs. Louise Gentry OF Ghicago was ioea seu
up at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. William Lee. the
aesailant of two women paid the penalty
Of his crime on Smith Island Maryiano-
william B. Maddox Of Bridgevihe Del, was
charged with attempted assault on an eight
year-old girl. Hiram Wilson. western
North Carolina desperate. was Killed ny
Fred Sans, seventeen-year-olu MAJ
driver James Richard De Remar. pulloe.
Rio Grande railway, died in Denver. Rus-
sell Sage, the millionaire of New York. died
leaving an estate valued at Sloo,ooo,ooo TO
his widow.
Foreign.
Continuous rioting at ST. Petersburg was
repcrted M. Stolypin was appointed prem
Ter to succeed NJ. Goremyken- 1t was ex-
plained that the dissolution OF parliament
was forced on the car by the revolution
lists. The members of the douma In session
at yiborg adopted an address to the hus-
sian people, urging them to refuse all sup
port to the autocratic government The
new premier issued manifesto to all the
heads of provinces and projects Of cities,
ordering them to use all the forces at their
disposal to crush the revolt; the order was
addressed against the moderate reformers
as we'll as against the terrorist and radical
factions. An anti-Jewish uprising was re-
ported from Odessa. Strict censorship over
revolutionary news was exercised. Rus
sian government securities recovered sharp
ly on all foreign exchanges. AT the session
of the interparliamentary union In London,
the Bryan rider to the model arbitration
treaty was adopted and Limitation of arma-
ments was discussed; the union also adopt
ed resolutions relating to the limitation of
contraband of war. King Edward received
VIM. ]. Bryan in private audience. Over
800 Tfberans, fearing persecution, took ref
ugo In the BTltlSn consulate. Inc DoQy OF
Lady Curzon was buried at Kedleston. 1t
was denied that Major Dreyfus was insult
ed at the Military Club. French exports
to th6> United States were reported as
br eaking all records, totaling $107 FAC. 547.
The rumor was current that NJ. Jules Cam
bon, formerly French ambassador to the
United States, will be transferred from
Madrid to Berlin. French officials and the
press unanimously pronounce the dissolu-
ton of the Russian parliament unwise.
Queen, Wilhelmina again disappointed the
regarding an heir to the throne.
Representative and Mrs. Longworth met
with an auto accident in Bavaria. Secre-
tary Root and Baron de Rio Branco were
elected honorary presidents of the Pan
American conference at Rio Janerio. Pedro
Monte was chosen president Of Chill for a
term of five years. japanese spectators
and merchants have acquired nearly all the
most desirable land in Manchuria-
District of Columbia.
Public Printer Stillings appointed H C.
Mcfarland to be assistant foreman of print
Ing. the position being new one. The ice
famine was relieved by the arrival Of an
ice-laden schooner. Typhoid fever has
greatly increased during the past: week.
The Shippers and Jobbers Association con-
tinued the good work of booming Greater
Washington A Hagerstown excursion
train was deraled In the Baltimore and
ODfo ySfOss HO Otit uuTl. GSUrEt money
was arrested for running an automobile in
a reckless manner on Pennsylvania avenue.
Mrs. Sarah Gormley, forty years old, was
hurt by falling from street
car at 9th and New York avenue. George
Yates. thirty-five years of age, was drowned
In the Potomac. Leonard Raglan, six years
of age was drowned in the canal John
Holmes, a colored Lad nine years of age,
lost his life in pool of water at Ivy City.
Charles E. White attempted suicide by
swallowing a mixture of turpentine and
creosote. Whey Field, 11S years old, died
at her home without medical attention.
Capt. William II. Taliaferro, a Spanish
American war veteran, Is dead. James
o. Phelps of this city died at the home OF
his daughter in Glendale, Md. after an
Illness of several months. Charles e.
Hughes, a lifelong resident of this city,
died after a. three weeks Illness. V. Bald
win Johnson, a pioneer coal merchant
Of this city, died suddenly Samuel Donnel-
son died from heart failure.