Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
WEEK ENDING SEPT. z, 1907.

The President upon the appeal of the
mayor of San Francisco ordered the gov
eminent surgeons to take charge of the
bubonic plague situation. Bids for building
five swift torpedoboat destroyers were
opened at the Navy Department. Acting
Secretary Newberry recommended the dis
missal Of Midshipmen Oscar G. Salb and
Clarence c. Riner from the Naval Academy
Members of a commission of experts to
study foreign tariff affairs were selected
The Mckinley monument was unveiled at
Buffalo. Representative Burton announced
his willingness to run for mayor of Ceve-
land against Tom Johnson. The Temple
Iron Company filed it's answer to the suit
of the government against the anthracite
coal roads and mining companies. Great
Northern stockholders We're asked by James
J. Hill to vote on the proposed consolida-
ton Of all lines under one management.
Gov. Conner of Alabama scored a victory
over the railroads in the fight for lower
rates. Souvenir hunters looted the Swedish
cruiser Fylgia in New York harbor The
American Pharmaceutical Association be-
gan its annual session in New York. Twelve
persons were killed and a dozen injured
when an engine jumped the track and hit
another on the Chicago and Rock Island
railroad at Norris, Iowa
Foreign.
1t was announced at ST. Petersburg that
popular interest in the campaign of the
third duma, about to be elected, was not
SO great as in the previous campaigns; the
emperor and empress attended the dedica-
ton at st. Petersburg of a church to the
memory Of Alexander II; there were no I'M
toward incidents; many Jews were killed
or wounded IN an organized attack Of the
Black Hundreds in Odessa, the police max
ing no effort to check the outrages; the dis
orders were ended by the action of Gov Gen.
Glagolleff, who announced in a proclama-
ton that excuses would ha tnlo tod.
M Gradevsky, former member of the
Russian parliament, who collected money
in America for Polish schools. was ban
ished and the money cenf1scated. The Trade
Union congress met at Bath, England; eff
forts are being made to unite the delegates
for political action. The British legation
the Bandit Raisuli for the release of Caid
Mclean; Admiral Philbert reported an
other sharp action with the Moors on Mon
day, in which the forces of two tribes
III the engagement Of the previous day were
heavy. the dead being elf on the field France
and Spain, according to a dispatch from
Paris, began preparations to occupy the
principal Moroccan 'seaports, the powers
having agreed to extend the scope of the
Algeciras convention. The lockout of dock
laborers at Antwerp resulted in strikes,
followed by violence; strikers set fire to a
lumber yard and warehouses at Antwerp,
causing damage estimated at $1,OOO,OOO;
troops were called out to check the flames
1 ne american proposal lot the correction
of contractual debts was adopted practically
unanimously by the committee of eXamina-
ton at The Hague. A total of 34S persons
were killed and 1899 buildings were
flooded by recent intimidation in Japan.
In the District.
The District Commissioners were threat
ened with a lawsuit in connection with the
construction of the Arizona avenue sewer
in connection with the title to the property
through which the sewer runs School Su-
perintendent Chancellor returned to Wash
ngton from Cincinnati, where he had been
i'll. Health Officer Woodward forwarded a
letter to James F. Oyster, president of the
board of education, calling his attention to
the Importance Of having all pupils vacci-
mated. The District of Columbia brigade
rife team which was participating in the ma
tional matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, ar
rived home. Three men were injured, one
of them seriously by the collapse of scat
fold at the new union station. Richard
Gregory, colored, who was arrested and
held at the seventh precinct station on sus-
picion confessed that he struck the blow
on Gamers head which proved fatal. DR..
William H. Abercro nbie, formerly United
States consul at Nagasaki. Japan. commit
ted suicide by asphyxiation in his apart
ments at Stoneleigh Court.