Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-21

Pacific. Alfred H. Smith. vice president
of the New York Central railroad, was
acquitted of granddaughter charges grow
ing out of the Woodlawn wreck last Feb
ruary. From 200 to $50 men met death
by an explosion of gas in the coal mines
Of the Pittsburg Coal Company at Jacobs
Creek. Pa. James H. Olphant. senior
member of a New York stock brokerage
firm. was shot and fatally injured in his
office by a ruined Spectator who then
killed himself. Gus Ringing, eldest Of
the brothers who control circuses in
America, died in New Orleans
Foreign.
All Jews were ordered to leave Vladf-
vostok. Gen. Stoessel was accused Of
twice showing cowardice at Port Arthur.
Great Britain and Russia decided upon
joint action in Persia to prevent the
threatened uprising. The new British
turbine torpedo boat destroyer broke all
records in her final trials by attaining a
speed of thirty-seven knots an hour. Lord
Kelvin. the eminent English scientist.
died in Glasgow. Tribesmen again at
tackled the French. but were repulsed. and
three of their villages were destroyed.
The trial of Maximillen Harden on the
charge of libeling Count Won Moltke, at
Berlin. was continued behind closed doors
In the interest of morality. The Persian
cabinet resigned. the monarchists de-
manded the dissolution of the assembly
to be whipped and placed in chains; a
new cabinet was formed and the capital
remained quiet. Christian Hauge, the
Norwegian minister to the United States,
died in Norway while on a snowshoing
trip bill appropriating S1.UO0OOO for
schools was the first measure passed by
the Filipino assembly. Pope Plus named
four new cardinals and recognized two
bishops at secret consstory. The fore
most men in Japan expressed the kindliest
feelings of friendship toward the United
States In discussing the sailing of Admiral
Evans fleet Twenty-Five persons were
killed and one hundred injured by the
explosion of a powder magazine in Pa
| lermo. Sicily. Yaqui Indians went on the
warpath after numbering twelve men, one
of their captives, an American, being re-
leased.
In the District.
The Commissioners held the Washing
ton Terminal Company and the Union
Switch and Signal Company. through
their agents. responsible for the wreck
in the southern end of the new tunnel Mo-
vember 10. A bill to regulate the So
called assessment life insurance COM
panies operating in the District Of Column
bia was sent 10 Congress. The trial of
DR.. William f. Chancellor superintendent
of public schools, was postponed to jan
uary .. owing to the illness of the de-
PENDANT. The twenty-nnth annual reunion
banquet of the Union Soldiers Alliance
was held. Fifty-two plasterers and skilled
laborers employed on the Municipal build
ing struck. The hearing on the excep-
tions to the report of Auditor Payne,
valuing the plant of the Georgetown Gas
Light Company at S41O,T17.3O, was held in
Equity Court No. .. before Justice Gould.
Justice Gould in Equity court signed a
temporary injunction against the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the other
defendants named in the suit instituted
by the Buck Stove and Range Company.
E. w. johnson. charged with running
handbook, was found guilty by the jury
in the Police Court. Aloysius Michael
Kelly, nineteen years of age. was killed
by train at the Potomac railroad yards.