Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-03
THE WEEK 1HDrNa FEB. 8, 1908.


John c. Bates was nominated for lieutenant
| general and It was announced that Brig.
| Gen. ]. Franklin Bell will be made chief Of
STAN when Gen. Bates retires. The Philip
| pine commission and Gov. Gen. Wright
! made public their annual reports. The bu-
| reau of statistics reported that the Inn
ports Of the United States have doubled in
| the last seven years. The Senate passed
the consular reform bill and discussed the
! ship subsidy bill; Senator Patterson of
| Colorado tdem.) declared in favor OF the
Santo Domingo treaty; the House passed
| the deficiency appropriation bill and reso-
luton asking the President for information
| concerning an alleged Illegal combine be-
| tween the PENNSYLVANIA and other rail-
roads; Representative Hepburn reported to
the House the railway rate bill, which was
unanimously supported by the members OF
| the committee. Judge Giidersleeve in the
New York supreme court decided that H. H.
Rogers, vice president of the Standard Oh
Company, is not compelled to answer ques-
| tons regarding the control of oil companies.
| The conference between committees of the
| United Mine Workers of America and the
| operators at indianapolis on the wage scale
and other differences broke up In a dis
agreement and a strike, involving many
thousands OF men. was reported as pTobabl
| April /. The national insurance convention,
! called by Insurance Commissioner Drake of
| the District Of Columbia with the approval
| of the President, held it's opening session
| In Chicago. An attorney for the packers
| on the stand in Chicago told of an inter
| view in which Commissioner of Corpora
| lions Garfield is. alleged to have promised
| not to permit the Department of Justice to
| use information which he obtained. Ger
man training ship was Sezed by customs
| officials at Galveston Tex, the charge
| that 1t carried smuggled wines and liquors.
Representatives of the Chicago gas COM
| panies signified their willingness to accept
| a compromise fixing the rate of gas at So
cents for the NEXT five Col NViIlia
d. Mann. editor of Town Topics, was ar
! rested in New York charged with commit
ting perjury in the recent Deue-Hapgood
| libel trial. Three lives were lost and many
persons were injured in fire aboard the
| U. s. transport Meade In the harbor of San
Francisco. Four men were killed and three
others injured in head-on collision on the
Seaboard Air Line near Columbia, S. c.
Foreign Affairs.
King Christian of Denmark died suddenly
at Copenhagen of heart disease; Frederick
VIII was proclaimed King of Denmark and
issued manifesto expressing his desire for
the welfare of his people. The conference
at Algeciras met to discuss Moroccan finan-
cial reforms. but took no definite action; ad-
vices from Tangier stated that fighting be-
tween Raisuli and the Aniera tribesmeu had
been renewed. The Russian council of min
listers completed It's work of revising funda-
mental laws of Russia so as to accord with
| the creation Of the douma, and the scheme
was laid before the cabinet for discussion:
Workmen made an attack the Jail at
Riga, killed the sentries and set free all the
political prisoners: Gen. GriaZnoff was
sassinated by a man disguised as painter
with bomb, at Tifis; Provincial Councillor
Folinoff was shot dead by an assassin at
Poltava; encounters between rebels and
troops, in which several of the latter were
killed, were reported from Kutais, Trans
Caucasia. All except nine of the British
elections were held; the liberals showed a
| OLE otTtr
party fifty seats. British holders of poll
cies in the Mutual Life Insurance Company
passed resolutions demanding representa-
ton. and that the company increase Its Sc
curities in that country, falling in which
they will appeal to parliament. Over fifty
persons were seriously injured in rioting
which attended an attempt to make an In
ventory of the property Of church in
Paris. The Italian ministry resigned. Fire
in Panama destroyed many houses and
caused a loss Of S500.00 NJ. Taigny, the
former French representative at Caracas,
sailed from Curacao for New York; three
French cruisers remained at Willemstad;
twenty-five members of the diplomatic corps
at Caracas sent a note to the Venezuelan
government expressing disapproval of the
treatment of NJ. Taigny. Marquis Ito out
lined Japan's policy in Korea.
In the District.
The House committee on the District of
Columbia ordered the bill to establish
whipping post in the District for wife beat
ers introduced by Representative Adams of
Pennsylvania to be reported to the House
without recommendation; eight measures Of
| local interest were passed by the House on
District day. The Naval Battalion of the
District National Guard was ordered dis
banded. The school board decided to hold
open meetings in the future. Permanent
approved CLANS for the various halls Of
the George Washington University were
made public. Charles D. Freers art col
faction rendered Srni TnS-i-
tuition, was accepted by the regents. The
Chinese imperial commission visited Wash
ington. The executive committee in charge
of the proposed Washington auditorium ap-
proved bill to be transmitted to Congress.
Employing printers applied to the courts for
an Injunction against the leaders of the
striking union job printers; a letter re-
ceived in Washington from Chicago ated
that President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor might possibly be ar
rested on a charge of contempt OF court.
The new Good Samaritan Home was dedi-
Gated. Eugene L. Carroll, a stenographer,
was accidentally asphyxiated by gas while
asleep In his room. An unknown colored
man was found dead on the Pennsylvania
railroad bridge across the Eastern branch.
Joseph R. Brown. paperhanger, was killed
by fall from a scaffold while at work.
Mrs. Violet NJ. LiZear of Burnt Mills Md.
died at the Emergency Hospital from burns
received at her home. John +. Griffon a
plate printer of this city, who disappeared
from the Gundry Home at Catonsville, Md,
In June last, was found dead in the engine
room at that institution. Frederick W.
Reuter-, hotel proprietor, committed sui
eide by shooting; Mrs. Annie SQulres COM
mitted suicide by attempting to cut her
arm off with a pair of scissors and then
jumping from window, her injuries re-
sulting fatally; William knickerbocker Van
Reypen, son of Rear Admiral Van Reypen
Y. S. N, of this city, committed suicide in
New York by shooting. Joseph i.eaven
colored, serving a sentence IN the District
jail was held responsible for the murder
or Philip Wilkerson, colored who was killed
in Fairfax county, Va. Jacob Lacey, on
trial for manslaughter in causing the death
OF Frank Merrill. was acquitted The Jury
In the trial of VIM. R. Prultt charged with
having caused the death of VIM, Steele by
shooting him. at Twining City, d. c., dis
agreed and was discharged. William Wal
Ter Hamilton, colored, was hanged at the
District Jail for the murder Of Lizzie Iy-
man, also colored. Among those who died
were Thomas Baker Bryan, lawyer and
former member of the board of District
Commissioners: DR.. Thomas F. GIBBS a
'weH-knoWn physician; Sergt. James Null
10y and James a. Wineperger well-xnonn
citizens and members of the Oldest Iphab-