Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
THE WEEK ENDING NOV. II, 1905.

| President Roosevelt and party landed at
Colon ahead of schedule time, later going to
Panama city by rail- taking sail on Pan
anna bay, and inspecting the canal work;
| the President was welcomed by the canal
executive staff and was received at Panama
| city by President Amador. Government Of
| fcials received warning that the negroes
! in Cuba had threatened to take up arms
| against the provisional government. It
| was announced that Mr.. Bonaparte, as At
| torney General, would direct the antitrust
crusade Gen. Nelson Miles declared he
| felt no resentment because General Shafter
was chosen to command the army which in
vaded Cuba. Floods in the state of Wash
| ingtOn did great damage A convention of
| delegates from various states was held in
Philadelphia in tho interest of a unification
| of divorce laws The wealth of the United
States was estimated at $1O6, SS1 ,415. OO9.
| Naval experts announced that the United
States now ranks as the worlds third naval
| power. Attorney General Moody, acting
through the resident district attorney, filed
a bill in the federal court at st. Louis to
have the Standard Oil Company dissolved
! for having engaged in a conspiracy in re-
straint of trade, and, 1t was announced,
criminal proceedings would perhaps be In
stituted later. Indictments were found
| against John D. Rockefeller and others in
connection with the Standard Oil inquiry at
Findlay, Ohio. Stuyvesant Fish was urged
by the united committee as president of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company. Goodwin
Smith predicted the annexation of Canada
to the United States. Accusations of the
free useAOf passes by the Pullman Company
were made by Chicago official. 1t was
charged that about 81 600 of the relief
funds sent to San Francisco had been taken
by persons unknown. Senator and Mrs
T. c. Plat signed a separation agreement
Universal peace, as beneficial to the work
ingmen of the world, was advocated in a
resolution presented to the Federation of
Labor convention. The trial of Harry X.
Thaw for the murder of Stanford White
was set for December B. Pfttsburg was
terrorized by crime wave VIII Harris
the negro who shot and killed five persons
at Nashville, N. c., was surrounded in a
barn was killed. Among those who died
was Gen. w. r. Shafter. who commanded
the American army in Cuba during the war
with Spain.
Foreign.
The Military Academy of Medicine, In
st. Petersburg, was closed by Gen. Rudiger,
minister of war, on account of revolution
airy agitation. A bomb thrown at Gen.
Rheinbot, project of police of Moscow, fell
short; the general, who was unhurt,' killed
the terrorist who threw it. serious re-
volt broke out among, political prisoners in
Odessa. King Edward invested King
Haakon with the Order of the Garter.
King Haakon and Queen Maud of Nor
way were the guests of the city of Lon
don at luncheon. An unfounded report
circulated in Paris that King Alfonso had
been assassinated in Madrid. 1t was stated
in Paris that there were over 10 600 less
| births in France in 1905 than in 1904 The
French government received a vote of con-
fldence in the chamber of deputies on the
church and state separation law. The
Countess de Castellane. formerly Anna
Gould, won her divorce suit against Count
Boni de Castellane, retaining the custody
of their children. Chancellor Won Buelow,
in a strong speech before the Reichstag.
declared that Germany's aims were peace
full, and gave warm praise to the United
States. The vatican denied the reports
which predict rupture between Spain and
the Holy See. Raisuli. the Moroccan
bandit, was made governor Of a town and
it's provinces by the sultan. Reports of
the death of President Castro were per-
sistently circulated. Walter Wellman ex-
pressed himself as confident of being able
to reach the north pole by balloon next
year. Cuban rural guards were active in
suppressing bands of marauders in various
parts of the island.
In the District.
The Washington Board of Trade held it's
annual election of directors. The Business
Mems Association elected officers and di-
rectors. The American Ornithologists
Union held it's twentyfourth annual con-
gress. Plans were selected for the RAN
doaph Hotel to be erected at the corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and 18th street The
| bronze equestrian statue of Gen George B.
Mcclellan arrived at the Washington navy
yard: Commissioner West granted a hear
ing to citizens who entered protests against
the issue of licenses to certain employment
agents VIM. T. Henning committed sui
eide at his home. sol D street northeast.
Charles Edward Grant, the condemned muir
derer of Eva Barnes. was hanged Friday
morning. ---s----..l
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