Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
WEEK ENDING MARCH %, 1907.


President Roosevelt held conferences with
President MeIfen and other prominent rail-
road men. Secretary Garfield accused Gov.
Crawford of South Dakota of land frauds.
but explained that the statute of limita-
tons protects the governor from prosecu-
ton. Senator Cullom declared himself in
favor of putting E. H. Hartman in the
penitentfary for his part in the Alton deal
II conviction can be secured under the
law Vice President Fairbanks made sew
eral speeches In Chicago. Ex-President
Cleveland celebrated his SEVENTEEN birth
day. President Woodrow Wilson of Prince
ton University deplored the national hys-
terta' and attacked the tariff at the dinner
OF the South Carolina Society in New York.
The executive council of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor decided to aid the re-
formers In Russia William J. Bryan de-
clared In an address in Chicago that labor
unions had been a more powerful factor for
good than any other agency in the country.
Frank H. Jones. teller of a Charlotte. N.
c., bank, disappeared, leaving the bank
short $500 Important plans Of the bat
tieship Nebraska were stolen from Seat
tie shipyard. The Thaw trial was stopped
by District Attorney Jerome, who submit
ted ahdavits of alienists who consider
Thaw insane. and asked for the appoint
rent of lunacy commission. The San
Francisco grand jury returned seventy-ive
indictments for bribery, sixty-fve being
against Abraham Ruef The Chicago Linz
tied. one of the Pennsylvania roads fast
trains. was wrecked at Stewart, seventeen
miles from PittSburg. Two negro women
were lynched in Arkansas for assauting a
white woman and her children. Among
those who died were. Brig. Gen Theodore
j. Whit, U. s. A., and Thomas Bailey AL
drch, the poet and author.
Foreign.
Premier Stolypins declaration of policy,
which was read before the duma contained
more liberal measures of government than
any heretofore proposed in Russia; the fall
of large part of the ceiling in the hall in
which the duma has been meeting caused
an indefinite postponement Of the sessions;
a dispute in st. Petersburg hotel over the
merits Of the Russian army resulted in a
captain of Siberian sharpshooters looping
off princes ear and being shot twice by
his antagonist: eight persons were killed in
an encounter with police in Vladimir prov
ince; Count Lamsdorff. former Russian
minister of foreign affairs, died in Italy. H.
H. Asquith, chancellor of the exchequer,
gave reasons in the house of commons for
the decline in consols mentioning the de-
mand for money. commercial activity and
the San Francisco earthquake among the
causes: Mr.. Churchill the under secretary
for the colonies. defended in the house Of
commons the governments action In con-
Guiding the modus vivendi regarding New
rested for attempting to force their way
into the house Of commons, and two raids
were made, following meetings at Caxton
Hall; the project of building tunnel under
the British channel received Its quietus in
both houses of the British parliament. The
French chamber of deputies, by a vote of
$40 to 16l, adopted motion for the appoint
ment of commission to examine and make
public the contents of documents seized at
the nunciature in Paris; it was announced
that the French election bill would soon be
brought up in the lower house, providing
for the return of one deputy for every
q, 600 voters; the man arrested in Paris for
connection with the theft of mail bag
containing $500 600, from the United States.
confessed and more arrests are expected;
A. Arene. senator. and NJ Brisson, u
newspaper man, fought a duel with swords
at Paris. in which the former severely
injured. Socialist members of the reichstag
made charges of interference in the cleo
lions by departments of the government. A
dispatch received stated that after three
days fighting the troops of Nicaragua de-
feated those of Honduras and Salvador;
marines were landed at Trujillo, Ceiba and
Puerto Cortez. Honduras, from the gun
citizens of the United States in the war in
Central America. NJ. Bertheot, one of the
most celebrated chemists in the world, died
in Paris.
In the District.
The health officer of the District sub
mitted to the Commissioners a draft of a
proposed regulation to prevent the sale of
unwholesome food. DIR. Charles H. Clark,
a member of the medical staff of the Gov
eminent Hospital for the Insane, was ap-
pointed superintendent of the State Hos
pital for the Insane at Cleveland, Ohio. A
meeting of the committee on teachers and
jantors of the board of education was
held for the purpose of continuing its con-
sideration of the charges preferred by
Superintendent Chancellor against Arthur
L. Craig. colored teacher at the Arm
strong Manual Training School, A con-
ference of representatives of local fire in
surance companies with local agents of out
side companies, on the subject of reduction
af rates was begun. At a mass meeting of
horse owners held in Masonic Hall the
practices of the Washington Humane So
ciety were criticised. The action of the 10
cal authorities in promoting Lieut.. Mulhall
to a captancy, while under charges, was
strongly resented by the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. Additional compli-
cations arose at meeting of the master
builders and representatives of the building
trades over the Interpretation of articles
5 and of the recent award by the board of
arbitration. Among those who died were
Brig Gen. John Moore, formerly surgeon
general of the army, and William Jones
Rhe6s one of the oldest emplOyes of the