Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-10
WEEK ENDING AUGUST 10, 1907.

President Roosevelt held long confer
ence with Attorney General Bonaparte at
which the question of conflicting state and
federal jurisdictions in railroad rate regula-
ton was discussed. The government amend
ed its bill in the powder trust suit SO as to
cover the possible dissolution of one of the
Dupont companies. The interstate COM
merce commission decided that railroad
must charge the full published rate, which
is as fixed and unalterable as If it were
special act Of Congress. Acting Attorney
General Russell stated that the government
does not contemplate a general prosecution
of railroads and large corporations. Com
missioner of Corporations Smith in q spe-
cial report declared that the Standard Oil
Company has not reduced the price of OIL
and has made $3.50 200 600 in profits since
1882. Final contracts for the two new
2uoNO-ton battleships were signed. Lieut..
George A. F. Trumuo of the 18th Cavalry
was convicted of writing denunciatory
letter to the mother of an enlisted man, be-
Ing sentenced to be reprimanded and con-
fined for two months to the limits of his
post Minister Russell was instructed to
press President Castro for the arbitration of
five American claims against Venezuela
Gov. Conner of Alabama announced that the
Southern railway must obey the 21a cent
rate law; a compromise between the state
and the company was arranged John
Sharp Williams officially declared to
have a majority of 64S votes in the Mis-
sissippi senatorial fight. The operators of
both the Western Union and Postal Tele-
graph companies struck in Chicago. and
the strike rapidly spread among western
and southwestern cities. Indictments were
found in New York against the Standard
and Vacuum on companies and the New
York Central and Pennsylvania railroads
for Relating, involving possible fines to the
sum of 81, 2l0.GT0. Brick manufactu. ers
obtained an injunction in Pittsburg against
rof1 rnn1 dc Of
the product. combination of fiftys big
spice firms was formed in New York. Fur
Their assaults on women and girls il New
York led to mob violence and attempts at
lynch.ng. -Four persons We're Killed and
twenty-five hurt in a wreck on the Penn
sylvania abroad near Kittaning, Pa. y big
smelter at Colorado City was burned. caus-
Ing a loss of SIJnG0O. Among those VINO
died was Augustus St. Gaudens, the Soup
tor, at Cornish, n. H.
Foreign.
Following treacherous attack by Moor
ish troops a French landing force at
Casa Blanca, warships bombarded the city,
firing 1000 Shells destroying a battery and
killing many men; additional forces were
landed from French and Spanish cruisers
and the Moors lost heavily in sharp street
hght1ng; the casualties among the blue
Jackets were few; after fresh mass ores of
Jews in Casa Blanca France landed 1000
more soldiers. Forty-one persons were
drowned when a train fell into the river
near Anglers. France. A vaudeville actress
rode through the streets of Coventry Eng
land, reviving the old pageants based on
the legendary ride of Lady Godiva The
British proposal at The Hague for a reduc-
non OF ornaments was modified to meet
the objections of Germany, the motion stat
ing that Limitation is highly desirable"
Andrew Carnegie gave 100000 to the King
Edward Hospital fund. A semi official an
nOunCS n1ent SWinpmun6o bo
German and Russian emperors were in ac-
cord on all international questions and that
the chief interest of both sovereigns is to
maintain the peace of the world dis
patch from Berlin said that bankers re-
garded unfavora bly, an attempt by Japan to
place loan in that city. Senator Albert ].
Beverldge of Indiana and Miss katherine
Eddy of Chicago were married at the Amer
lean embassy in Berlin. Nine German SOL
dlers We're drowned by the overturning of a
boat on the Pregel near konigsburg. Baron
Llndenau, the new Hau case witness, was
arrested at Mannheim on the charge of at
tempting to blackmail Fraulein Olga Moli-
'or. SIX russian provinces were officially
reported to be threatened with an outbreak
or cho!era Six thousand Turkish troops
invaded Persia and massacred MANY Chris
Cans; the town of Urumalo was threatened
venezuela advised Belgium that the dis
puted claims of Belgian creditors would be
pilo IN accordance with the decision of The
hague tribunal. Koreans fighting the jap
anese army called on the Christians to help
save the country from the invaders Pope
rus celebrated the anniversary of his coro-
nation A couple from Monte Carlo were
arrested with the dissected body of a WON
an IN their baggage.
In the District.
The Commissioners decided to refnse for
the present the permit requested by the
Potomac Electric Power Companv to erect
substatlon at the northwest corner of
sherman avenue and Harvard ,troo+ ro,.,,
west the residents and property owners
having protested against the plant The
commissioners agreed to permit the owners
of one-horse public vehicles to increase
their rates. The Commissioners awarded
the contract for paving the roadway of
South Capitol street to the Crawford Paw
Ing Company. Commissioner Mcfarland
recommended to the other members of the
noard OF commissioners the approval Of
the recommends lions made by Health Off
Ger Woodward regarding the immediate
PRONUNCIATION Of certain regulations govern
ing the local milk supply. At the close Of
an executive session Of the strike commit
tee OF the building trades workingmen the
business agents Of the carpenters and brick
layers made the rounds of certain struc-
lures In course of erection and ordered the
workmen to walk out on strike. The grand
jury returned an Indictment for man
slaughter against Henry II. Hildebrand
Frank Hoffmeier, Ira c. McClelland and
Ralph Rutter, all employed by the Bati-
neglect of duty on the night of the Terra
Gotta wreck December 80 last Robert Bar
ker. three years old, strayed away from Camp
Good Will Wednesday night, and was found
Friday in the woods back of the camp by
members of Troop F, 18th Cavalry Supt
David Hutchinson of the Library of Con-
gress resigned The t1fty-first annual SEES
sion of the National Grand Tabernacle of
the Grand United Order of Galilean Fisher
men was held. Capt Edward l.. Cogan
was elected commander of the Department
of the District of Columbia. United Span
ish War Veterans. Mrs Anna l.. Mandley
fell downstairs at her home and was in
stantly killed. Edith NJ. Hunt, four years
of age fell through a skylisht the roof
of her house and killed Douglass
Spencer. eight years of age, fell while play
ing a raft at the foot of 1872 street
and drowned. Eva Hollis six years
of age died from the results of burns.
George W. Leigh lost his life in the fume
at the plant of the American Ice Company.
Among those who died were Charles II.
Clifford. James Cistle, Frank Miller and
Paul Costinett, founder of the italian
Society of this city.
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