Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-01
THE WEEK ENDING JUNE l, 1907.

The President and his party left for a
| trip to Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. At
! torney General Bonaparte in a letter to the
President reaffirmed his decision in regard
| to the labelling of whiskies under the pure
| food law. Secretary Metcalf demanded OF
Gov. Swanson of Virginia and President
| Tucker of the jamestown exposition that
| the exclusion of sailors from pleasure re-
sorts near the exposition be ended at
once; Admiral Evans threatened to with
draw the fleet Secretary Root and Am
bassador Jusserand held conference in
regard to a new tariff agreement between
France and the United States. The Su-
preme Court of the United States over
| ruled demurrer of the state of West Vir-
ginia in the original proceedings against
that state by Virginia, in which Virginia
seeks to compel West Virginia to pay a
portion of the debt contracted by Virginia
before the creation of West Virginia. The
cabinet discussed the recent raids on
japanese restaurants in San Francisco
and the protest of Ambassador Aokl
Monuments to Gen. b. F. Kelley and Gen.
J. A. Mower We're unveiled in Arlington
cemetery. The American Federation OF
Labor has ordered that no more union
beer be brewed. Eighty thousand cotton
mill operatives in New England received
10 per cent increase in wages. The Biz
mingham, the navy's first scout cruiser,
was successfully launched. Among those
who died We're Mrs. Mckinley, widow of
President Mckinley, at her home in Can
ton, Ohio, and Joseph L. Stckney, the
war correspondent who was with Dewey al
the battle of Manila bay.
Foreign.
The radicals in the duma took advantage
of the visit of the conservatives to Tsarskoe
Selo to table indefinitely the resolution
against terrorism; the vote was 219 against
1885, the preliminary debate on the agraran
feUy rpb iSt c
voting to continue the discussion; radical
members again fiercey attacked the gov
| ernments policy; the duma rejected as UNI
satisfactory the government explanation in
regard to the torturing of prisoners at
Riga the matter thus going to the en-
peror The Russian social democrats in
session in London decided to sever all rela-
| tons with the constitutional democrats and
other liberal parties in Russia. Paris gave
| a hearty welcome to King Haakon
[ and Queen Maud of Norway The
| Franco-Japanese convention was signed
! the terms were communicated to the
United States and no objections were found
| to them. general Strike of the French
| naval reserve comprising practically all
seamen. longshoremen and fishermen, began
at all ports; crews left the transatla ntic
liners at Hayre and the steamers at Mar
settles. Persia menaced by civil war
| and the shah was blamed for massacres. A
serious rebellion broke out at Wong-kong,
in the Chin-Chu prefecture, on the coast of
China attacks on missionaries We're also re-
ported at Lien-Chow and Pakhoi. The in
ternational cotton conference began in
Vienna. Father James Hayes, assistant
general of the Society of Jesus, died in
Rome.
In the District.
Commissioner West gave orders for an
| other summer campaign of cleanliness in
alleys cellars and back yards throughout
| the city The longest and most bulky petit
| ton ever received by the Commissioners
was presented from residents and prop
| erty owners in the vicinity of 9th and
| G streets, protesting against the closing of
| the public well at Gtn and u streets. The
| Commissioners received a protest from the
| heirs of Charles A. Beatty against the pro-
posed purchase of the old Presbyterian
| burying grounds by the District for use as
i a public playground. charge was made
| by residents In the northwest section of the
| city that the District government was vio-
| lating two of it's most stringent and i'm
portant regulations at the District stables
| on L street between 18th and nth streets.
| Changes affecting practically every employe
| in the public school system were authorized
| BY the board of education at its meeting in
| the Franklin School building. Two hun
| dred and four employees of the government
printing office were notified of their dis
| missal from the public service Members
! of the Journeyman Plumbers Union openly
| expressed dissatisfaction with the decision
| rendered by James f. oyster, presiding
| officer and umpire of the recent conference
| between members of the Employers Asso-
| citation and the executive committee of the
! building trades. Nicholas Scott, confed-
| crate veteran, whose home was at West
| Falls Church. committed suicide by cutting
| his throat William w. Skinner, seventy
| years of age, committed suicide by inhaling
| Illuminating gas. Among those who died
| was Mrs. Sarah Burnett Kealey, of
| Washingtons Oldest residents.
Pleads Not Guilty.