Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-25
WEEK ENDING MAY Is. 1907.

President Roosevelt refused to state to
democratic citizens his objections TO the
new constitution OF Oklahoma Speaker
Cannon, Secretary Taft and Congressman
Longworth held political conference with
the President Nicaragua and the United
states agreed to arbtrate the mahogany
claims OF the American concessionaires.
Commissioner of Corporations Smith made
special report setting forth the relation
OF the Standard Oil Company to the petro-
leum industry Pauline s. Preciado of
brownsville testified before the Senate COM
mittee that he plainly saw a negro soldier
kill Frank Natous. The monument to En-
sign Worth Bagley was unveiled at Raleigh,
N. c. Mrs. Mckinley, widow of President
MSckinley. suffered stroke of paralysis.
south Cardinals farm contract law aim
ing to make idle negroes work. was de-
clared Unconstitutional. Abe Hummel the
New York lawyer convicted of conspiracy
vorce case, began his term of one year in
the penitentiary. The Chicago. Rock Island
and Pacific railroad was hr.ed for Relating
ana the furniture trust for maintaining a
monopoly. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
was placed on trial; further indictments for
bribery were returned by the grand jury.
Two negroes were lynched and four other
persons killed as the result of an attempted
criminal assault in Georgia Five thousand
trackmen on the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad went on a strike Tor
urged at the meeting Of the national ASSOC
citation to raise fund OF 81. SOC, 600 to fight
labor unions. John r. Hegeman. president
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany. was indicted in New York on Charges
OF forgery and perjury. The Kentucky court
OF appeals declared void the recent election
dered Gov. Beckham to fill the vacancies.
Capt. Mclaughlin resigne- from the New
YORK police force on pension presumably
10 forestall an investigation into his activity
In the Gould divorce case.
Foreign.
Serious rioting began in Odessa, follow
ing the murder of police officials by terror
lists: the authorities made no efforts to
check the outrages of the black hundreds;
the duma passed a resolution denouncing
the plot against the emperor; the radical
deputies did not attend the session; Premier
Stolypin gave an account of the discovery
of the plot; Premier stolypins speech
against appropriation of land was roundly
denounced by the radical deputies, and fears
were expressed that the agrarian question
would lead up to the dissolution of the
duma; peasant disorders spread in Tauride
and Perm; the full list Of Russian dele
gates to The Hague was announced at st.
Petersburg; negotiations continued In re-
gard to the discussion of reduction Of arma-
ments. The Irish convention at Dublin
unanimously rejected MT. Birrelrs bill. ana
all hope OF Irish legislation in the present
parliament was abandoned. Social demo-
Gratis of Great Britain met at London to
welcome the Russian delegates holding q
conference there; the speakers generally
denounced the efforts OF the government TO
bring about an Anglo-Russian understands
ing Ambassador and Mrs. Reid gave Q
brilliant reception at Dorchester House,
their London residence. Anxiety was ex,
pressed In Paris over the reported refusal
Of the United States to open tariff negotia.
tons. The French cabinet agreed on a bill
to suppress adulterated wines in the interest
OF growers in the south; the French gov
eminent sidetracked the bill for an increase
Finnish diet elected as president a man who
had been degraded and exiled The inter.
national Sunday school convention meeting
in Rome appointed officers and adjourned.
sons and did great damage in the Caroline
Islands. Two Hindu agitators who enc
deavored to arouse India against England
were sentenced to prison. Business at San.
tiago de Cuba was paralyzed owing to q
general strike of workmen in support OF
the longshoremens demand for an eight-hour
day; strikers were practically in control
Of the, town. the po.ice being unable to keep
order.
In the District.
The closing of shallow public wells was
recommended by the marine hospital serv.
ice in a report to the District Commission
ers in connection with the typhoid fever
situation; the Commissioners adopted the
recommendation. 1t was announced that
in their next annual estimates to Congress
the Commissioners will urge an appropria-
ton sufficient to open 18th street extended
to the District line. John Randolph Gar
rison auditor of the District Of Columbia,
rendered his resignation, to take effect at
once; Alonzo Tweedale, deputy auditor,
was promoted to succeed Mr.. Garrison.
Company d. Mckinley Manual Training
school, won the diamond medal in the annual
drill Of the High School Cadets. The second
meeting of the board Of directors of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce was
held Robert H. Cox, administrator of the
estate of Hugh s. Murphy. the engineer
who was killed September IL, 1906, by the
oyertilrning Of a locomotive of which ne
was in charge, filed suit to recover $l0.OOo
from the Philadelphia, Baltimore ana
Washington Railway Company and the
Southern Railway Company. Dr. Edward
Leon Thompson was sentenced by Justice
Barnard in Criminal Court No. 2, to serve
two years in the penitentiary at Mounds
VILE for performing criminal operation.
A coroner's jury held CASTOR Philip for the
grand Jury in connection with the death OF
Frank MacAboy, q hackman. James
Scott, nine years of age. was drowned IN
Rock creek Mr.. Ferdinand Ruppreeht,
sixty-nne years old, was killed by faihhE
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