Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
WEEK ENDING JANUARY 90, 1905
In the District.

1
| The bill providing for the erection of
| memorial bridge across the Potomac was
passed by the Senate The Commissioners
| appointed Mr. ]. T. Twohey, the assistant
| superintendent of the street cleaning depart
| ment to be superintendent of the depart
ment Mr.. Twohey has been assistant su-
perintendent since October /, 1903, and his
| promotion comes as the most tangible evil
dence of the Commissioners belief in his fit
ness for the place. Mr.. Twohey assumed
| the reins of office Immediately after the ap-
| pointment was announced. Mr.. Harrison
Stidham retired to become general manager
of the Washington Fertilizer Company. The
| annual conventions of the American Fores-
| try Association, national rivers and harbors
| congress and National Board Of Trade met
during the week. Secretary of Agriculture
| Wilson, president of the American Forestry
| Association. called the meeting to order and
| delivered address of welcome, in which
| he highly praised the efforts of the organi-
| cation. The national rivers and harbors
| congress began a two days session, Repre-
| sentative Burton making strong speech to
the delegates. Steps, were taken to settle
| the question of the constitutionality of the
District smoke law. The Carnegie Institu-
| ton has issued its year book, with an abb
| stract of the work done in the past twelve
| months. John r. Feaster, forty-five years
| old, fell from the steps of a house on 9Th
| street southeast and received injuries which
| caused his death at the Casualty Hospital.
|
mitted suicide at her apartments in the Ber-
| wick flats, 14th street and Park road north
! west, by shooting herself In the right tenn
| pie. An unknown woman while seated in
| the office of the board of charities, in the
| basement of the District building, attempted
| to drink carbolic acid from a tiny bottle,
! but was seized by an attending physician.
| Hannah Gunther, nineteen years old, at
| tempted suicide by swallowing laudanum.
| Hugh S. Tuohy, the oldest clerk in the
| Treasury Department. died at his home in
this city. John A. Frank, sanitary officer
| in the police department died of pneumonia
| at his home, SOP G street northwest. DR..
| Swan Nj. Burnett an oculist and scientist
| and well-known philanthropist, died at his
| residence, 916 Farragut Square Rev.
| George Bowman died of uremia at his home
on Chestnut street, Anacostia. Capt. Frank
| Dew. Ramsey of the United States army
died of pneumonia at his apartments at the
| Magnolia.
| Foreign.
The Moroccan conference at AIgeciras be-
gan Its sessions. The Duke of Almodovar
WAS unanimously chosen president. The
| Russian workmen in the capital have de-
| cded a strike with demonstrations to
celebrate the anniversary of Red Sunday.
All the members of the workmen's council
| in st. Petersburg We're arrested and many
| revolutionary documents were received. An
| unsuccessful attempt was made in st. Pc
| tersburg to assassinate the Korean minis
ter of war. NJ. Failleres, president of the
senate, elected president of the French
republic on the first ballot by the national
assembly at Versailles. The French gov
| eminent handed NJ. Maubourguet, the Vene-
Zuelan charge d'affaireS his passports He
| was escorted to the Belgian frontier by a
| special commissary of police. Venezuelan
| officials prohibited NJ. Taigny, the French
charge daffaires, from landing again in
Venezuela, and also expelled the heads of
| the French cable offices at Caracas and
| showed that the liberal and labor parties
| had 251 seats in the next parliament
| against 96 won by the unionists. a. j.
| Balfour the former prime. minister and
| leader of the union!st party, was defeated
| for parliament at Manchester by liberal
majority of nearly 20o0. Birmingham re-
turned Joseph Chamberlain and his seven
| candidates, giving rise to unionist hints of
| making the champion of fiscal reform the
| leader of the party in place of Mr.. Balfour
Carlos T. Morales former president of
| Santo Domingo, sailed from the capital on
| the Dubuque and was reported at San Juan,
P. r. Insurgent forces have captured
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and Vice
| President Moreno has assumed executive
| power
General
The nominations of Luke E. Wright as
| first ambassador to Japan, of Judge Ide to
| succeed him as governor general of the
| Philippines till June 1 and of James F.
Smith to succeed Mr.. Ide on that date were
announced. Major Gen. John c. Bates sue
eeeded General Chaffee chief of staff of
| the army. Marzonie, Foster and Coffin
were dismissed from the navy for hazing at
| Annapolis. Midshipman Minor Meriwether
| sent in his resignation to the Naval Acad-
| envy The report of the Department of Ag-
| riculture said that the methods of the bu-
| reau of statistics must be greatly improved
/ or the work discontinued. 1t was announced
| that the canal commission had decided to
| let the work in Panama by contract. Poult-
ney Bigelow refused to answer questions
put by members Of the Senate interoceanic
raj a S " a r.
rest for contempt, but soon released Sec
rotary Root, before subcommittee of the
House, defined the extent of American in
terests in the Moroccan conference. Mr.. ,
Tillnlan attacked the President In connec-
ton with the case of Mrs Minor Morris
and was rebuhed by Mr.. Hale and others
Mr. Tillman's resolution for an inquiry into
the case of Mrs. Minor Morris was laid on
| the table and the pure food and shipping
bills were discussed. The House passed the
Philippine tariff .bni by a vote of 25s to II.
The deficiency appropriation bill was d-s-
! cussed. The Carnegie fund commission in
| it's second annual meeting in Pittsburg was
unable to find hero among all the cases
examined. Eighteen miners were killed by
an explosion in the mine of the Kanawha
lost their lives in the tunnel under East
river, New York. through the breaking OF
the pipe by which abr was iorced into the
| shaft. Carl Summer. seaman of the
schooner Robert H. Stevenson. picked
up at sea by the German steamer Europa,
Capt. Keller; of the twelve Others who were
not one escaped. Capt. Van Schaick who
commanded the General Sloeum when she
was burned in New York harbor, was
placed on trial charged with manslaughter.
Seven persons, all members of the family
of Charles Ayres. are supposed to have
persisted in fire which destroyed Ayers
farm house near Pembroke, N. H.. Broker
l.. w. Prior, who committed suicide at
Cleveland, Ohio. is said to have left for
geries aggregating 100000 Marshall
Field died at the Holland House from |
pneumonia after an Illness of more than
q week.