Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-11
THE WEEK ENDING MAY IL, 1907.

Taft's report on labor issues on the 18TH
mus of Panama, approving the latter's
recommendations. The President wrote a
letter explaining his attitude in the Meyer
Heywood-Pettibone case. Offering to submit
| to the Attorney General any evidence Of a
miscarriage of justice. The Interstate COM
merce commission announced its decision In
the first express rate case considered
George B. Cox Of Cincinnati declared for
Taft for President and Foraker for the Sen
ate and urged harmony among the repub-
licans. Chas. g. Fairchlld. former Secre-
| tary of the Treasury. pleaded not guilty to
the charge Of forgery in the third degree In
connection with the New York Life dis
closures. The trial of the employees of the
Shelby Steel Tube Company on charges of
conspiracy to put defective tubes In war
ships was begun in Pittsburg. The trans
Atlantic steamship line in New York re-
fused all concessions to the striking long
shoremen and freight was piled high on the
wharves in that harbor. Serious disorder
marked the progress. Of the strike on the
United Railways in San Francisco several
men were shot In a battle between the mob
and strike breakers. The Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION Of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers be-
gan three weeks convention in Toledo
Henry Clay Pierce. the oil maguate surren-
| dered In st. Louis to answer Texas in
dictment for perjury. The trial of William
d. Haywood on the charge of being impli-
Gated in the Steunehberg murder was begun
at Boise, Idaho. The autopsy on the body
Of Horace Marvin. jr.. indicated that the
boy died from exposure and not from vio-
lence. Eleven OF the men on trial at Wilkes
barre. Pa. on charges of being members Of
the black hand" were convicted. A Cuban
official report blamed the trouble between
police and American sailors at Santiago on
the latter. A woman was killed and three
score passengers were hurt by the ditching
of train In Chicago. The Northern Coast
Limited on the Northern Pacific was held
up at WEIGH Spur, in Montana. and the en-
gtneer was killed. Among those who died
was Dr. John Watson Gan Maelaren). the
minister and author at Burlington, Iowa
Foreign. r.,
The Russian constitutional democrats de-
cided to join the moderate monarchists
| owing to fears of a radical move by the
socialists; the car signed the 43.OoO.O00
| famine relief appropriation. Augustine
Birrell chief secretary for Ireland, intro
duced his bill intended to meet the de-
mands for home rule, providing a meager
form Of self-gOvernment; the measure was
passed on first reading, after the cloture
rule had been applied. by vote of 416 to
! 121; the unionists won the by-election for
| member OF parliament from the Stepney
division of Tower Hamlets by a majority
| slightly reduced from that of the last
were troubled over the spread OF socialism
and the cabinets attitude toward the labor
unions 1t was reported that an agree
ment binding France and Japan to OBJ
serve the status. quo regarding their terri
tories In the far east was being negotiated
at. Toxic; 1t was regarded in France as
another step toward the isolation of Ger
many. Morroco's replies to the French
demands were rejected as unsatisfactory.
| The French steamer Potion was wrecked
| ON the coast Of Uruguay, and about 100
persons were drowned. The reichstag
passed the first. reading Of the commercial
agreement between Germany and the Unit
ed States. and referred the measure to
committee, which accepted the modus
vivendi by a vote of 20 to 8. The Master
Builders Association of Berlin and its
suburbs locked out all masons and brick
layers, over 100000 men. German strikers
attacked fertilizing plant at Ludwigsho-
darmes, four Of whom were severely
wounded. A son and heir to the throne
was born to the King and Queen of Spain.
The trouble between Mexico and Guate-
mala was satisfactorily adjusted. A de-
mand for the release of the Nicaraguan
and Honduran prisoners on the Marietta
In the District
Major John Biddle, Corps of Engineers,
U. s. A., who was relieved as Engineer
Commissioner of the District last week,
was rendered farewell reception by the
Commissioners, heads of the various local
departments and other employees. "A COM
mlttee, representing the MILK PRODUCERS
Association of Maryland, Virginia and the
District of Columbia, opposed to the pro-
posed application of the compulsory tuber-
cu..n test to cows supplying milk to Wash
ington, appealed to the Commissioners to
postpone the enforcement OF the test. Presi-
dent Roosevelt named committee of citi-
zens to investigate housing condi. .ons in the
District The President commuted the SEN
tence of Albert Green, convicted of murder
Kuroki, the famous Japanese commander;
ice Admiral Ijuin, the Duke Degll
d'Abruzzi and Capt. Lee Of the Chinese i'm
perial navy were entertained in Washing
ton as guests of the United States govern
ment. The newly organized Chamber of
Commerce met and elected Robert N. Har-
per, president. and James F. Oyster and
Charles J. Bell first and second vice presi-
dents The American medical congress held
its annual convention. The instructions of
the committee of the Building Trades AL
lance to call of from every building in
course of erection all bricklayers. carpen-
tiers. painters and other constructive trade
workers were carried out, wherever nom
union men were at work. The Merchant
Bakers Association of Washington signed
the contract presented by the Journeymen
Bakers Union granting increase of
wages from 81. IS to $2SS per day. Joseph
Paolucci, the young shoemaker convicted
of murder, was sentenced by Justice Bar
nard to be hanged Monday, November f.
William Oliver Rice. killed his wife, shot
his one-year-old son, and then committed
suicide. William Parks, an inmate of Sol
diers' Home. shot and killed James L.
Leslie and then took his own life.