Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
WEEK ENDING MARCH 81, 1907.


association Of Illinois manufacturers to
define his attitude on the railroad ques-
ton in a public speech but announced no
decision. Chief Justice Fuller was elected
president of the new Roosevelt industrial
peace committee. The interstate commerce
commission issued long list CT new rul-
ings. Ex-President Cleveland, in an inter-
view, expressed his ideas on the tariff. Sec
rotary Taft and party were feted at
Charleston, S. c., where they stopped on
the way to Panama Ambassador Bryce
told the New York Chamber of Commerce
in a speech that trade makes for peace
The general education board announced
awards to universities and colleges aggre-
eating $625.OO from the Rockefeller fund
The Minnesota supreme court upheld the
right of the Great Northern Railroad Com
pany to issue $50, O0O,O 600 additional stock
In response to appeal from western rail-
roads, Chairman Knapp OF the interstate
commerce commission and Charles +. NELL.
commissioner of labor, went to Chicago to
confer with representatives of the trainmen
and officials of the roads in regard to a dis
pute over wages, threatening to result In
strike. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany offered rewards of $500 for the ar
rest and conviction of persons who attempt
ed to wreck trains near Pittsburg. Justice
Fitzgerald appointed a commission In lu-
macy to pass upon the mental condition of
Harry X. Thaw. Officials of the New York
| Central Railroad were indicted for man
| slaughter in the second degree as result
| of the Harlem wreck. The Corbln Bank
| ing Company of New York failed for ST.
| 100000
Foreign.
| The Russian duma. by an almost unani-
nous vote, passed a resolution providing
steps to abolish drumhead courts-martial:
| Premier S:oypin made a conciliatory
speech: bomb thrown at the commandant
| of pa Of or h,,rp oil har "
| in the snow near him: there was Widespread
Indignation against the reactionaries be-
| cause of the murder OF DR.. Jolos. Lord
| Rosebery expressed the opinion that Great
| Britain would never tolerate a separate
parliament for Ireland; Sir Edward Grey
| said in the house of commons that the gen.
| eral negotiations in regard to the United
States and Canada would not be taken up
by Ambassador Bryce on his visit to OF
tawa; John Burns, president of the local
government board, said in the house of
commons that nine-tenths of the schemes of
James Kier Hardie were morally mischiev-
Gus and economically unsound. France or
dered troops to occupy Oudga, frontier
town of Morocco. until full reparation has
been made for the murder Of DR.. Maui
champ: M Clemenceau and Picquart
planned to visit Spain, presumably in con-
nection with Moroccan affairs. Hundreds
of rioting Roumanian peasants were killed
and wounded in charges on troops, who
fired with cannon: the efforts of the Rou
manian government to check the agrarian
disorders failed. in large measure, in spite
of several bloody encounters. the peasants
becoming more bold and aggressive. Cholu-
teca, the key to Tegucigalpa, was captured
and President Bonila fled to San Lorenzo.
Mile Leontieff, who killed Frenchman
whom she mistook for NJ. Durnovo last
summer. was sentenced to jail in Switzer-
land Prof. Won Bergman, the famous
German surgeon. died at Wiesbaden after
an operation.
In the District.
With a view of remedying conditions,
Commissioner mcfarland conferred with
| the health officer about Surgeon Gen. Wy
mans report relative to the investigation
of the typhoid fever situation in the Dis
trict In compliance with an act Of Con-
gress, Health Officer Woodward submitted
to Commissioner Macfarland draft Of reg
ulations for the prevention of the spread
of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whoop-
ing cough, chickenpox, epidemic cerebro-
spinal meningitis and typhoid fever.
Thomas E. Drake superintendent of fnsur-
ance of the District recommended to the
Commissioners certain changes In the Dis
trct code governing casualty insurance
companies and insurance companies issu-
ing against personal accident. that are char
tered outside of the District. Superintend-
ent Chancellor announced that an examina-
ton Of the normal school pupils would be
held between May / and 10. The secretary
of the committee of the allied building
trades appointed to consider the contro-
versy between the master plumbers and
journeymen received from the two asso-
Citations of master builders their ultimatum
concerning the recent award of the arbi-
traton board. The employers liability act
of June H. 1905, was invoked for the first
time in this District by George w. Wines
administrator of the estate of Burrell F.
Legg, the brakeman Of train No. &C. which
was wrecked at Terra Gotta December 30
last. Otto Seelhorst, the artist, who muir
dered Frederick van Iterson at the National