Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-15
WEEK ENDING JUNE Is, 1907.

President Roosevelt and party paid a sec.
ohd Visit TO jamestown and reviewed the
f1eet and the land parade on Georgia day
at the exposition. The President and fam
lily went TO Oyster Bay for the summer
The interstate commerce commission an
nounced that railroads and shippers had
practically agreed on a uniform bill OF lad
Ing. The government fled suits in Phila-
delphia to break the anthracite coal COM
bine. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco was
found guilty of grating. Secretary Taft
suffered an attack Of acute indigestion at
Fort Smelling, Mimi, but recovered SUM- !,
GENTLY to attend a dinner In ST. Paul. A
conflict between state and federal courts
arose In Missouri over the enforcement OF
railroad rate laws. In the suit against Mrs..
Mary Baker Eddy the court decided to ape
point master and have her examined AZ
to her mental competency. Contracts for
5000 steel cars were placed by the United
States Steel Corporation. Gov Hughes We
toad the two-cent rate bill on the ground
that injustice on the part OF the railroads
did not justify injustice by the state toward
railroads. A. +. Appleyard. a Philadelphia
broker, failed after trying to create a bear
market In a gas company's stock. Harry
Orchard completed his testimony In the
Haywood trial at Boise, Idaho, after a
DISCRIMINATION covering several days.
AS the result Of quarrel three negroes
were killed and four whites wounded near
Yazoo City, Miss.
Foreign.
Premier Stoypin presented a demand for
the suspension OF social democratic menu
bers, in order to try them for treason; the
house appointed a committee to consider the
demand, the rejection Of which, Ii was
warned, would lead to dissolution. Tho
deputy commandant Of the port OF St Pc
tersburg was murdered by a workingman.
The eighth international Red Cross confer
ence began its sessions at London. The
nationalist party in the house of commons
met and decided to oppose the government s
army bill and to open a campaign for homo,
rule In the English constituencies. Sir Ed
ward Grey, foreign secretary, informed the
house of commons that he hoped to obtain /
for Great Britain the advantages which :
Germany had derived from the United
States under the new tariff agreement. Sir
Henry Campbell Zimmerman prepared a res
olution, to be moved in the house OF COM
mons June "A, that within the limits OF q
single parliament the final decision OF the
lower>house shall prevail over the house OF
Lords. The wine growers Of France held
a monster demonstration and preciptated a
general strike against the government; the |
municipal officials of many towns and cities
in southern France resigned their offices. ]
The Franco-Japanese convention was sign
ed at Paris by the foreign minister, NJ.
Pichon, and Minister Kurino. The French
chamber of deputies adopted by vote 80
to 26l the first clause Of bill for the re-
lief Of the wine growers designed TO pre-
vent frauds. The disclosures concerning
Prince zu Gutenberg and his round ia
BILE" created great sensation in Berlin.
Nicaraguans. assisted by Salvador revolu-
tionists, captured Acajutla. Nakens and
Ilaria were sentenced to nine years i'm
prisOnment for completely In the plot to
kill the Spanish king and queen: the others
were acquitted. The Norwegian parlia-
ment voted to grant woman suffrage to
about three hundred thousand persons. An
earthquake In Jamaica caused a panic and
one in Chile killed five persons.
In the District.
The Commissioners heard the protest OF
the residents of Bloomingdale against. the
proposed erection of the general stables OF
the engineering department of the District
government. Mrs. Justina r. Hill and
Prof Barton w. Everman were reappoint-
ed members of the board of education by
the Justices of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia for three years; r. r.
Homer was appointed for three years to
succeed DR.. Oliver NJ. Atwood. At the sec
ond hearing granted by special commit
tee of the board of education to the teach
ers of the public schools on the salary ques-
ton, II was the unanimous opinion OF both
seventh and eighth grade teachers that
seventh grade teachers should be placed
in the same salary class as eighth grade
teachers. The District Court of Appeals in
an opinion by Mr.. Justice McComas dis
missed the appeal of Francis l.. Cardozo.
the deposed supervising principal of the
thirteenth division of the public schools.
The corner stone of the new Elks building
was laid with appropriate ceremonies. Flag
day was generally observed throughout
q Washington. Mrs Carrie Nation was found
guilty in the Police Court of disorderly con-
duct and fined SD. Richard Dexter, a
carpenter, forty-two years of age, who was
lying on the track was run over and killed
by City and Suburban car Charles King,
who resided at 4123 Conduit road, fell over
an embankment and rolled into creek be-
low and was drowned. John Swerdfiger. a
compostor in the government printing Of
fee tasted for nine days and died shortly
after he reached mis- place of employment.
Charles Hentzl, an inmate of the Soldiers
Home committed suicide by shooting.
Among those who died We're: United States
Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama, James
E. Price, William Z. Dennison and Or.
Charles b. Gilbert, one of the oldest ply
sicans of this city.