Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-27
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WEEK ENDING APRIL q, 1907.

The President in an open letter repeatel
his denunciation of Meyer and Haywood
and replied to his union labor critics.
President Roosevelt, with his family and
large party, left Washington to attend
the opening of the jamestown exposition.
Mr.. Herman Lagercrantz, the Swed-
ish minister, was formally presented to
the President Beckman Winthrop was
sworn in assistant secretary of the
treasury. The loan clerk of the Trust
Company of America in New York was
arrested on the charge of taking from the
company $4,000 in bonds. Distinguished
Catholics gathered in New Orleans to at
tend the comforting of the pallium upon
Archbishop James Hubertblenk. A Phla-
delphia woman gave Sl,ooo'ooo for the
rudimentary education of negroes in the
south The Rhode Island legislature adj
journed without electing a United States
senator. The National Association of Cot
ton Manufa cturerS elected officers at Bos
ton. The trial of more than a score of
alleged members of the Ri ick Hand began
at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Four men and 80
horses persisted in New York stable fire.
Foreign.
The Russian emperor received NJ. Colo
win. president of the house, and expressed
confidence that the duma and the ministry
would be able to cooperate. The strike on
the Caspian threatened to force hum
dreds of Russian factories to close for lack
of fuel. Terrorists killed three men and
mortally wounded five by bomb at LODI
and escaped with $1,000 of government
money The vice governor of the prison at
Rostov- on-Don. Russia. was assassinated.
Thousands of employees formerly employed
at the Woolwich arsenal marched on the
house of commons, where a deputation was
received by the premier The imperial con-
ference held another session in London and
adopted a resolution for the creation of q
general staff for Great Britain and her
colonies; the colonial premiers urged a new
system of naval support. Winston Spencer
Churchill, under secretary for the colonies
was made priVy councillor. An attempt in
the house of commons to revive the agita-
ton against American meat packers was
prevented by Mr.. Lloyd-George. president
of the board of trade. Prince Eitel Fried
rich. the kaiser's second son, was thrown
from his horse during a drill and was
seriously injured The $75,00O,00O German
treasury bond issue was subscribed some
forty-fve times over. There was little trou-
BILE over the Spanish elections, order being
preserved except at barcelona. where one
man was killed. Troops charged and dis
persed mob of strikers who attacked the
police in Paris; proclamations denouncing
militarism were posted through the prov
inces. The reply of the Moroccan sultan
to the French demand for indemnity showed
desire to negotiate rather than to meet
the claims. Marines from the Marietta
forced an apology from a rebel colonel for
threatening an American officer and hauling
down British flag. A treaty of peace be-
tween Salvador and Nicaragua was signed
at Amapala Tuesday night.
In the District.
The Commissioners settled the dispute
over the contract for laying asphalt pave
ments with vitrified brick cutters and as
phalt pavements without the brick cutters
by awarding the contract for the streets
with brick cutters to the Crawford Paving
Company and the contract for streets with
out the brick cutters to the Brennan Con-
struction Company. Mr.. Frederick l. Allen.
commissioner of patents, has rendered his
resignation. to take effect June 1, 1907
Members of the Jobbers and Shippers AS
ISOLATION, at a meeting, ratified the agree
ment adopted by the Business Mems Asso-
citation for a Washington chamber of COM
merce: a committee of five was appointed
to meet similar committee of the Business
Mems Association. Secretary Wilson ere
ated by executive order the board of food
and drug inspection to administer the ma
convention of the Architectural League OF
America met at the New Willard. Justice
Wendell p Stafford of the District Supreme
Court, in an address, denounced pleas OF
the unwritten law and temporary insanity
in defense and justification of murder. AT
meeting of the Horse. Owners Mutual
Protective Association. the alleged abuse OF
authority by the local humane society was
discussed and the executive committee OF
the association was directed to employ at
torneys to contest cases brought against
the members of the association and to
carry them to the highest courts. Exciting
scenes marked the close of the Hermann
trial. William Burge, colored, was hanged
for the murder of his wife. Among those
who died were Col. Robert G. Rutherford
U. s. A, retired; Lieut. Col. Lewis Smith
Rudolph A. King, Eugene James Tighe and
Sam R. Ireland,