Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-19
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 10, 1908.

Secretary Metcalf found an old law which
limits increase of navy yard employees
near election time. Forty arr = officers
are in Virginia. taking the ninety mile
test ride under Mai. Gen Fred Grant.
Forty-eight officers on duty al the Wan
Department were ordered to take the
ninety-mile test Government officials an
nounce that the commodities clause
railroad case will be carried at once to
the United States Supreme Court. Con-
troller Murray has planned to secure the
cooperation of clearing house associa-
tons in bank examinations. Revenue
and customs receipts are rapidly increas-
ing. showing an Improvement in the
country's business. BY new methods of
economy the battleship fleet will save
nearly 100000 worth of coal on its
cruise Samuel Gompers refused to an
swer the prosecuting attorney i'll the
labor leaders contempt of court case.
An organization of railroad officials and
employees was formed in Chicago to en-
courage friendly relations between the
public and the transportation Zines. The
liabilities of A Booth & Co. of Chicago
are now said to be nearer S7O0o.OO0 than
Sc OOO,OO0 In sham fight between four
submarines and a cruiser the Subma-
rines scored a complete victory The
United States district court in Illinois
decided that unless whisky has age and
natural color it must be labeled imitation
affiliation between the English union of
enginemen and firemen and the American
Brotherhood. A decree annulling the mar
riage of Helen Maloney to Arthur Her.
bert Osborne was handed down in New
York. That DR.. Frederic T. Rustin be-
longed to suicide club is the allegation
Of the Omaha police. Forest fires are rag
ing In g number of the states and in
Canada. The former western manager of
the E. McIlhenny Canning and Manu-
20 ut Of 90 n6 IN
a receiver. Three persons were killed
and thirty injured when train was de-
rallied in Mississippi and several cars
went down an embankment
Foreign.
The procession of the papal leeate and
prelates attending the. eucharistic con-
gress was held in London without serious
disorder. though the police had difficulty
in handling the enormous crowds: no
vestments were worn by those in the
procession and the host was not carried.
Many English newspapers attacked Mr.
ASquith'S attitude toward the procession
of Catholics in London King Edward
sent surprisingly polite message to the
Turkish sultan. Prof. Hauot Of Johns
Hopkins endeavored to prove to a reli-
gious congress in oxford. England. that
Christ was an Aryan. Gen. Charles Ed
ward Lizard. retired. of the British army
had been accused Of wife murder. Police
at ST Petersburg arrested eighty-tive
persons and seized bombs, dynamite and
doucments showing an intention to reopen
campaign of terrorism Laws to give
newspapers greater freedom are being
drafted by the Russian cabinet. More than
eight hundred new cases of cholera were
reported at ST. Petersburg; more than a
thousand cases have appeared among the
garrisons at the capital: the disease is
O q N n in
Buelow, the German chancellor. in adj
dressing the interparliamentary union,
which met at Berlin in the interests of
the world peace. pledged the cooperation
of Germany. The German foreign office
received the French-Spanish note on Mo-
rocco in friendly spirit but with eau
ton. Andrew Carnegie wrote a letter to
the fnterparliamentary union urging uni
versal peace and asserting that En-
peror William could abolish war. French
officials express pleasure at the atti-
tude of the powers on the Moroccan
note. Wilbur Wright was in the air
nearly forty minutes and the Wright
brothers now hold the records for the two
hemisphereS. The French government
was irritated by statements indicating that
Germany intended to have a hand in the
settlement of the cost of French and
Spanish military operations in Morocco.
The American battleship fleet left Albany
on its journey of $500 miles to Manila.
An Italian official declares the wedding of
the Duke of the AbruZzi and Miss Kathe-
rine Elkfns will take place. but that the
American attitude must change. Several
hundred strikers marched on the Cana
dian Pacific shops at Winnipeg, but the
police prevented an attack on the strike
breakers. Dispatches from Ontario say
that forest fires continue TO spread and
that many villages are in danger.
In the District.
BY consent of counsel a hearing on the
rule recently issued against the District
Commissioners. to show cause why they
should not restore Sidney Bieber, former
fire marshal, to the pension rolls of the
fire department. was continued until Oc-
tober. Bids were opened at the District
building for the construction of an inter-
cepting sewer from the city boundary to
Brookland. the construction of two engines
for the electric generating plant at the
sewage pumping station and for plumbing
repairs at the Tenley public school. JUS
tice Gould cited the District Commission
ers to show cause why pension should
not be granted to Mrs. Nellie E. Fletcher
widow of James II. Fletcher, a former
member of the police force. In connec-
ton with the crusade for a SpotleSS town
waged by officials of the District Maj
Sylvester is going to wage war on bill
boards and posters. The Milk Producers
Association of Maryland, Virginia and the
District of Columbia decided to raise the
price of milk to - cents a gallon. whole
SALE during the coming month of Octo-
Der, with an additional raise of 4 cents
for the six months beginning from No
vember l to May l. and the wholesale
price of cream from 81 and 20 cents a
gallon to so cents. Col William G. Has
kell, sealer of weights and measures of
the District. takes issue with the bakers
of Washington. who claim they cannot
make a profit selling a pound loaf of bread
for ; cents; Mr.. Haskell reported to the
Commissioners that bread can be made
for less than 31a cents loaf. The Wright
aeroplane was wrecked at Fort Myer. Va,
Lieut.. Thomas Selfridge being killed and
Orvile Wright being severely injured
The twelfth annual meeting of the Inter
state Association of Live Stock Sanitary
Boards was held The Pullman Palace
Car Company was named defendant in an
so 900. brought by Sallie Sayers. growing
out of an injury received by her while a
passenger one of the trains of the
Southern railway May 3 last. Burglars
invaded the British embassy and stole
q diamond brooch and two rings. Pri-
vate Linsan B. Anderson the oldest men,
Der of the police force, applied to the
Commissioners, through Maj Sylvester
for retirement. Eugene w. Pratt, forty
four years of age, committed suicide by
inhaling Illuminating gas. Daniel f. Tay-
lOr, civil engineer dropped dead at the
corner of 10th and G streets northwest
Carroll w. Ashby. veteran employee
of the southern Railway Company. was
found dead in the Lafayette Turkish
Baths. Among those who died was Her
man RenZ.er a Washington huSineSS man