Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03
WEEK ENDING MARCH 8, 1905.

President Roosevelt issued a proclar,,
ton extending the lower tariff rates to
Germany until June. 1907; the President in
general orders, commended to the army
and navy Admiral Togo's farewell address
TO his fleet Secretary Bonaparte declared
there is a great shortage of coal in the
navy yards and called for an emergency
appropriation of $4,000. The Senate
agreed on a time for voting on the state
hood bill and discussed the railroad rate
bill; the Senate committee on the Philip
pines voted to 3 not TO report the Philip
pine tariff bill to the Senate; the House
passed the army appropriation bill, carry
Ing total of nearly $70.O00,o00. AS a re-
suit of letter written by President Roose-
welt to John Mitchell. president of the
United Mine Workers. a new national con-
vention Of miners will be called to bring
about an agreement with the operators.
Despite the presence of nearly regiment
OF soldiers in Springfield. Ohio, the race
riots there continued Old North College
of Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn. was burned, many of the students
barely escaping with their lives. John r.
Walsh. president Of the defunct Chicago
National Bank. was put under $4,000 bonds
on charge of making false returns to the
struck Meridian, Miss, doing great dam
age: 1T is estimated 100 persons We're
killed Among those who died were Prof.
Samuel P. Langley, secretary of the
note, at Aiken, S. c., and David B. Hender-
son, formerly Speaker of the national
House of Representatives, at Mercy Hos
pita1 in Dubuque, Iowa.
Foreign.
Emperor Nicholas ordered the codifica-
ton of liberties to be guaranteed the Rus
SLAMS imperial ukase fixed May 10 as
the date for opening the Russian national
assembly; ten men forced an entrance into
the Russian State Bank at Helsingfors and
robbed it of $37, 900. Ex-Premier A. J. Bal
four was elected to parliament by a ma
jority of IL ,340 the British naval estimates
for next year proposed a total expenditure
of S15s, BAT 500. Negotiations over the Mo-
roccan status continued at Algeciras; a
dispatch from Paris stated that the gov
eminent held that France had reached the
limit of concessions at Algeciras, and that
officials have little hope Of reaching an
agreement; members of the French cham
Der of deputies opposed the extension of
Notifications along the German frontier.
The governor of Nantung ordered that the
participants in the massacre of missiona-
ries be severely punished. The best part
of German Samoa was destroyed by the
lava flow from volcano in eruption. The
famine situation in northern Japan was
reported to be growing steadily worse. Mr..
and Mrs w. K. Vanderbilt, jr., Were at
tackled by mob at Pontedera, Italy. boy
having been run down by Mr.. Vanderbit's
automobile; he was rescued by the police
after having been beaten by the crowd.
The camp of the rioters which attacked
Cuban rural guards at Guanabacoa, Cuba.
was captured, but only one prisoner was
taken.
In the District.
Commissioner Mcfarland, President
Needham of George Washington Univer-
sity Supt. Stuart and others were heard
by the subcommittee of the House District
committee, which has charge of the va
rious bills introduced In this session af-
fecting the public school system of the city.
The controversy over the status of the
Naval Battalion of the National Guard of
the District of Columbia reached the Dis
trict Supreme Court in which a petition
was filed by Randolph B. Brummett and
William H. Lantz, who held the positions
of executive officer and chief engineer, re-
spectively, prior TO the recent order of dis
bandment, made by Gen. Harries. The
Naval Battalion was formally reorganiZed
The new Business High School was for
mal1y dedicated. The Kennel Club of the
District of Columbia held it's first dog
show Coroner hewitt decided that Elsie
Banks, colored, who died recently. had
who administered the glass was not devel-
oped at the inquiry. Miss Mary Ehret, who
was severely burned by flames from a pile
of rubbish, died at the Emergency Hospital
Charles Whittlesy Werden, fifty-four years
of age a former engineer of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, committed suicide by in
haling illumina ting gas. Among those who
died were Mai. George Ansel Bartlett, dis
bursting officer or the United States Treas
ury department: Richard w. Barker and
William H. Wetzel, an old resident.