Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-27
WEEK ENDING JANUARY 81, 1906
In the District.

The House of Representatives passed the
statehood bill, the vote being 194 TO $50
President and Mrs. Roosevelt issued invita-
tons to the marriage of their daughter to
Congressman Longworth. President Roose-
welt issued an order to all departments call
ing for briefer reports and reduction In the
amount of printing. report just issued
shows that the cost of the United States
navy since 1888 has been 81 .GIO 1901. The
imperial Chinese commissioners, who have
come to the United States to make a per
sonal study of its industrial. social and
political institutions. arrived in Washington.
The District Bar Associations report IS
said to recommend the dis5arment of three
Washington attorneys. The steamship
Valencia was wrecked off the Vancouver
coast and only forty passengers were saved
John H. Adrians, Washington lawyer, IS
on trial before the Supreme Court on
charges of fraud. Adjutant General Brett
issued an order disbanding the District of
Columbia Naval Battalion. Thomas Barker
Bryan, noted Chicago lawyer and for
mer Commissioner of the District of Column
bia, is dead. Miss Elizabeth Ray, who tried
to pass a check bearing Senator Depew's
name was arrested and is said to have con-
fessed forgery. Burglars broke into two
Washington churches and robbed the con-
tribution boxes. Collins Ross, colored, was
held for TIE action of the grand jury in the
Police Court by Judge Kimbal on charge
of house breaking Imagining she had lost
her reasoning powers, MIS-. Annie Squlres,
years Ola, Q4tu at udIHGlu NUS
pital as a result of self-intiicted injuries
John Addison was given six months in the
work house for assaulting William Bardley
near the corner of 18th and q streets In
vestigation disclosed a grave which Is said
to contain the remains of Philip Wilkinson,
the man alleged to have been murdered by
Joseph Leaveu in September last The
grave was located in Fairfax county, Va,
not far from the Chain bridge by Lula Ty-
ler Joseph +. Layne, colored, twenty-four
years old, was committed to Jail today TO
Ia as,tit Of lg wa
tanned by Jackson Lang ham Saturday night.
Gen Joseph Wheeler the famous confeder-
ate cavalry leader and a brlgaGier general
in the United States army since the war
with Spain. died at the home of his sister
in Brooklyn, n. Y. Gen. Wheeler will be
inferred at Arlington. Mr.. John +. Crowley,
one of the best known residents of this
city, died yesterday afternoon at Garfield
Hospital of a complication of diseases
Joseph r. Brown, a paper hanger and dec
orator fell from scaffold while working
in the Concordia German Lutheran LHurch
at Goth and Ct streets northwest and re-
ceved fatal injuries. Nicholas Sewell. who
was in point of residence the Oldest patient
cared for at the Government Hospital for
the Insane, died at the institution Sunday
afternoon.
Foreign.
The number of survivors, so far as
known, of the wreck of the steamer Valen-
cia, near Cape Beale near the entrance to
Puget sound, will not exceed twenty-nine
out of the 154 persons who were on board
the Inflated vessel. There was a more op-
timistic feeling in England over the out
come of the Algeciras conference, and the
announcement that Great Britain would
support France in regard to International
izing the police King Alfonso of Spain
visited Princess Ena of Battenburg and her
mother at Biarritz, and the formal pro-
posal is expected on Sunday or Monday. A
warlike reception was given to the peace
commissioners on the way from GuayaQuil
to Quito Ecuador, and one was killed and
two wounded. The first passenger train,
carrying public men. passed through the
new Simplon tunnel piercing the Alps. In
ternational political equality in Morocco
is said to be the point on which the con-
ference at Algeciras will have the greatest
difficulty in reaching an agreement; IL is
reported that the powers seem to be In
Ginning toward the German contention. The
proposed Balkan customs union has re-
suited in trade war between Austria and
Seryia. Col. Prosorovsk, chief of the
| gendarmes of Persia, East Russia, has been
notified by revo,utfonists that he is to be
assassinated. Emperor William will send
a so-called diVning rod expert TO German
Southwest Africa to try to break the water
famine there. Social meetings In sympa-
thy with Russians were held in Berlin, but
no disorders were reported. DR.. Jean Char
cot of Paris is planning an expedition to
the south pole by steerage balloon. Mall
matter worth 81 900, 000 was destroyed by
the burning of a railroad car in Brussels.
One hundred and ninety-sx men lost their
lives and thirty-siv were injured by an
explosion in the magazine of the Brazilian
turret ship Aquidaban. The anniversary OF
Red Sunday passed quietly in ~. Peters
burg and most of the larger cities or Rus
STA.