Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-09
WEEK ENDING MARCH Q, 1907.


WEEK ENDING MARCH 8, 1907.
The President appointed Regis H. Post to
succeed Beekman Winthrop as governor o:
Porto Rico when the latter becomes assist
ant secretary Of the treasury; President
Roosevelt, according to report. will check
mate western senators by Withdrawing 1OO-
100000 acres Of timber lands from registry;
the condition of Archie Roosevelt, the Presi-
dents third son. who is i'll with diphther:a.
was reported much improved. Secretary
Shaw retired from the cabinet, his place as
Secretary of the Treasury being taken by
Postmaster General Cortelyou, while George
Won L. Meyer became Postmaster General.
James r. Garfield became Secretary of the
Interior, succeeding Mr.. Hitchcock. At
torney General Bonaparte decided that
state cannot pay the fare of immigrants or
otherwise solicit settlers except by adver-
tisement. The printing commission is said
to have cleaned up 10000 tons of public doc
uments and saved S2,OOO,OOO on printing
bills. The J9th Congress came to an end
with the usual ceremonies in the Senate and
House. John c. Spooner, senior Senator
from Wisconsin, sent Gov. Davidson MS
resignation. effective May l. dozen Con-
gressmen. with Uncle Joe Cannon at their
head, left New York for the West Indies.
E. H. Hartman announced his willingness
to work for scheme OF cooperation pe-
tween the government and the railroads..
The defense in the Thaw trial announced
that it had rested it's case. The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company has advanced the
wages of brakemen in the local service. the
rector of the wealthy st. Andrews Epls-
copal Church in New York served notice on
the negro parishioners that they are not
wanted. After fourteen years of state dis
pensary South Carolina is now trying local
option. The coroner's jury held the 'operat-
ing and construction departments of the
New York Central responsible for the wreck
of February 16. The trial of the Standard
Oil Company on charge of receiving re-
bates began in the federal court at Chicago.
The jury trying the Strother case at Gull
pepper, Va, returned a verdict OF not
guilty Frank Furlong, twenty-one years
old who murdered his aunt in New York,
died in the electric chair at Sing Sing.
Foreign.
The people of ST. Petersburg made the
opening of the duma the occasion of great
revolutionary demonstration; mounted po-
lice and cavalry charged the crowds and
many persons were injured. Premier Stoly
pin has taken quarters in the Tauride Pal
ace owing to fear of assassination.
bomb was thrown under the carriage of
Gen. Neplueff commandant of the fortress
at Sebastopol; he was injured about the
feet; the man who threw the bomb escaped.
NJ. Golovin president of the Russian lower
house, was cordially received by the en-
at the university at Moscow. A bomb was
thrown into the house of the director of the
high school at Warsaw. The Russian press
generally expressed the opinion that the
spirit shown in the duma rendered a speedy
dissolution improbable London has repudi-
ated municipal ownership and socialism,
the reformers winning an overwhelming
victory at the polls. Gov. Swettenham OF
Jamaica has resigned as the result Of the
Kingston incident, and will soon leave the
island. King Edward left London for Biar-
ritz, France. The British women suffragists
say they will keep on having themselves
sent to jail until their object is attained.
The Dowager Empress of Russia is in
London. France is reported willing to sup
port discussion of limitation of armament
at The Hague, but Is said to fear that the
debate may cause discord among the pow
ers. French artillerymen at Toul mutinied,
and number of persons were injured be-
fore the outbreak was quelled. Mrs. Natalye
Dole Latham, portrait painter, formerly
Of New York, committed suicide in Paris.
An unexpected strike on the part Of prac-
tically all the electricians of Paris resulted
in the almost complete stoppage of the busi-
ness of the city. Emperor William dined
at Berlin with Mr.. and Mrs. Tower; the
foreign secretary commented on the am
bassadors large influence in Berlin. The
committee on appropriations of the reich
stag voted to increase Baron Won Stern
burg's salary by s5,OO0 The annual report
of the Imperial Bank of Germany showed
shortage of $185,OO0 due to falsely num-
bered notes stolen from the government
printers by the foreman, Gruenenthal The
japanese conversion loan of $4,000, coo
will probably be opened for subscription on
March II in Paris and London at 99h the
rate will be 5 per cent. 1t was reported
In Nicaragua that the rebels in Honduras
were gaining and Bonilla's forces were dis
organized; Bonalla reported a Honduran
victory and said Nicaragua's army was
diSbandng.
In the District.
The Fifty ninth Congress has marked
very material Improvements for the District
of Columbia; during the entire Congress
the Senate committee on the District of Co
lumbia received $50 bills, besides about fifty
amendments to appropriation bills. The
board of education tried Supervising Prin-
cipal E. L. Cardozzo; he was found guilty
and his dismissal recommended United
States Attorney Ba err of the District
of Columbia has under consideration the
report of secret service operatives who
investigated alleged irregularities in the
purchase of ink materials for the use of the
bureau of engraving and printing; the
amount involved is understood to be be-
tween SJO0,O0O and 81 100000, and the irreg-
ularities are said to have extended over a
period of from four to seven years. The fif-
teenth annual meeting of the National
Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association was
called to order in the small banquet hall of
the New Willard. In order to combat any
tendency toward the open shop in the
District of Columbia, representatives of
seventeen building trades assembled and
formed a central body to be known as the
Building Trades Mechanics Alliance. NJ D.
Sullivan, grocer, and George w. Kea, a
builder, filed petitions in bankruptcy. A
jubilee dinner was rendered to DR.. j. Ford
Thompson by his colleagues in medicine in
honor of his fiftieth anniversary as a prac-
ticng physician. The Harvard laundry
was destroyed by flames, the damage, esti-
mated at about $1,000 partially covered
by insurance. The residence of Mrs Gardi-
ner G. Hubbard has been purchased by Mr..
Edison Bradley Of New York city. BY the