Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14
WEEK ENDING SEPT. IA, 1907.


slump in the New York market. Gen. Luke
Wright the retiring ambassador to Japan,
| said the Japanese viewed the war talk as
not even respectable nonsense" The fed
eral crop report showed the condition OF
| cereals generally lower than last year. An
| agreement on Newfoundland fisheries, to
| last u year, was reached by English ana
| American authorities. The battleship YER
mont finished her trials, exceeding her con-
| tract speed. Secretary Taft sailed from
Seattle his voyage around the world.
| The Standa rd Oil Company applied for a
| writ of supersedeas to avoid paying the
| s29 500 900 fine The archaeological con-
| gress met in New York and was welcomed
by DR.. Ira Remsen. president OF the JOINS
| Hopkins University. 1t was announced
| that the state of Georgia proposed to at
| tack the val dity of the fourteenth amend
| ment to the Constitution a move against
| the railroad companies. The directors OF
the Western Union Telegraph Company de-
cided to resist the demands of the STRIKING
teeSraphers. The common pleas court OF
Philadelphia declared the two-cent-rate law
unconstitutional. Charles G. Burton OF Ne
vada, Mo, was elected COMMANDER in chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic at Sara
toga The new Cunard liner Lusitania
| made the voyage in five days and fifty-four
minutes. but did not beat the speed record
of her German competitors The Cudahy
plant in Philadelphia was burned. with a
We're ,Vte Brig. GEN. Harry G Kessler and D.
Willis James, New York philanthropist.
Foreign.
The STANDARD, with the Russian emperor,
empress and their family on board, ran on
rocks of the Finnish coast; the imperial
party transferred to anothe. vessel without
mishap. A Russian prison superintendent
was assassnated Prince Troubetskoy
was indicted for high treason for a news
paper article; all the students dormitories
at st. Petersburg and Moscow were closed.
I'M ~ Ar,fxx
tered protest against the Inadequate
protection given to British ships at the
time of the rioting. DR.. p. ]. Lennox of
the Royal University of Ireland. was APP
pointed professor of English literature at
the Catholic University Of America. The
will of Archibald Henry Blount, lord of
the manor of Orloston left 100000 to Yale
University. Premier Bond denounced the
modus vivendi concluded between America
and Great Britain, and said that the
lonial government would resist its enforce
ment by every constitutional means. A
new airship designed for the British
tried with satisfactory results Japanese
and Chinese obtained arms at Vancouve"
and gathered in their quarters to defend
their property against attacks of the mobs;
no deaths were reported; Mayor Bethune
was quoted as saying that no indemnity
| would be paid at Ottawa 1t was generally
expected that the dominion government
would have to pay an indemnity and apol-
ogize to Japan The armistice ordered by
Gen Drude, In command at Casa Blanca
was fruitless. as the Moorish tribesmen
failed to send delegates: Premier Clemen-
ceau announced that Germany's reply to
the French note regarding Morocco in every
way met expectations: France decided to
settle claims for damages through an In
ternational commission, Morocco being
held responsible fo- losses; Premier Glenn
enceau sent instructions to Gen. Drude to
attack the MOorS at the first favorable OPP
portunity., The American embassy at Paris
requested the French government to re
woke it's order of expulsion in the case of
James Norton Winslow. The Chinese gov
eminent appointed commission to visit
the most important countries and study
their constitutions. LANG Tun Yuen,
adhe~ent of Uyan Shi kai, was appointed
Chinese minister at Washington. COM
mttee of the peace conference at The
Hague adopted. by a vote of twenty-siX
to two. the motion to establish supreme
tribunal to deal with prizes captured at
sea. A new Persian cabinet was formed.
Smallpox continued to spread IN Vienna,
and public meetings and professions We're
forbidden; 10000 persons were vaccinated.
In the District.
Annual reports were submitted to the
Commissioners by Walker C. Allen, elactri-
cal engineer of the District; Henry B.
Davis, inspector of plumbing; W. p. Rich
ards, surveyor of the District. The Com
mssioners dismissed Privates ]. e. Mastin
and j. n. Browning OF No. u fire engine
company charged with turning in two false
alarms of fire. The beginning of a crusade
by the health department against milk deal
ers charged with selling deficient milk was
commenced when Food Inspector Guerrant
swore to seventeen violations of the law.
The national negro Baptist convention and
the women workers auxiliary to negro Bap-
fists held conventions A permit was grant
ed to Arthur Cowsill for the erection of the
Plaza Hotel at the corner of Massachusetts
avenue and North Capitol street and f
street northwest. The sale of Analostan
Island to a New York amusement company
for 500 900 was confirmed by Justice Gould
in the Equity Court. Four applications for
liquor licenses were rejected by the excise
board. Allison c. Jenkins. stock broker.
was indicted by the grand jury for VIOLA
ton of the gambling laws of the District.