Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-26
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 26, 1908.


to the White House from Oyster Bay; Mr.
Roosevelt accepted Mr.. Bryan's challenge
and exposed Gov Haskells relations with
Standard Oil in Oklahoma. The President
issued a statement in regard to the For
aker situation in view Of the published
letters, and appealed strongly for the
election of Mr.. Taft, whose defeat would
delight the corporate interests opposed to
the administration. Senator Foraker re-
piled. denying the charges made against
him In connection with the Standard OIL
Company and bitterly criticising Pres
ident Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft The Pres
tdent ordered Col. William +. Stewart to
appear before the army retiring board In
Washington for examination. Attorney
General Bonaparte announced that the
case against the powder trust will be
pushed from this time on. On the ninety-
mile test ride into Virginia Maj George
G. Bailey was thrown from his horse at
Falls Church and his ankle sprained. The
cruiser Yankee is aground near BuZZard'S
Bay. Mass, badly damaged, and may be
a total loss. improvements to cost $780,
600 are being made In the United States
Capitol. Samuel Gompers, in his bribery
charges. alleges that Broughton Brandon
burg wrote out a bogus "deathbed confess
sion'' regulating labor, which Gompers
was expected to sign.
The ordnance bureau Of the army has
devised a new projectile and high-power
powder that Is expected to surpass any
now in use in the world. The National
Wholesale Druggists Association held its
annual meeting at Atlantic City, n. ].
Active stocks on the New York Stock EX-
change declined from 2 to points fol-
lowing rumors of renewed attacks by the
government on Standard Oil. The Metro
polttan Railways Of New York. practi-
cally lodged 2.1G3 damage suits by going
into the hands of receivers. Railroads
belonging to the Southeastern Freight AS
commerce commission at Atlanta, Ga. to
explain the recent raise in rates on food
stuffs. Ten large steamship lines entered
into an agreement for carrying freight by
way of the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec in
competition with the transcontinental
railroads. Twenty persons were killed
and a score badly hurt on the Northern
Pacific railroad in Montana in q collision
between a passenger and a freight train.
Gagen and WoodborO, Wis, were de-
stroyed by forest fires. which .4reatened
other villages. The son of q California
millionaire confessed that he had perpe-
trated a number of hOld-upS and other
crimes. August Eberhard, who killed his
aunt, Mrs Otilie Eberhard, in Hacken-
sack, N. j., was given thirty years in the
penitentiary.
Foreign Affairs.
FOUR cases or cNOleTd were
ported in st. Petersburg in the last twen-
ty-four hours, case being discovered at
the Winter Palace, at ST. Petersburg, and
a number of prominent persons are re-
ported suffering with the disease. The
liberals in Newcastle-on-Tyne suffered
heavy defeat in a by-election for the
house Of commons, the Irish vote, alien
ated by the prohibition of the eucharist
procession, being the leading factor in
returning q unionist candidate. Andrew
Carnegie gave 81 10, 600 to found a hero
fund in the British Isles similar to the
one established by him in this country
several years ago. Thirteen men were
killed and many were injured by the eX-
plosion Of a gun aboard the French cruis-
er Latouche-Treville at Toulon. Chinese
at Canton threaten to boycott French
firms, owing to consul's refusal to per-
NIT the arrest of alleged pirates on
French steamer. Germany'S note to
France is couched in pacific terms, and
sem-official statement from Paris says
that the question Of Morocco is expected
to be settled by diplomatic exchanges.
Wilbur Wright made worlds record
flight in hts aeroplane near LIE Mans. re-
naming I hour, 81 minutes and 81 sec
onds In the air and covering nearly sixty
miles. The fire which destroyed the Cen
trail telephone building In Paris caused
heavy losses to firms whose trade de-
pended largely on the use Of the wires.
Germany in its reply to the Moroccan
note intimates that no power Will be al
lowed to occupy an extraordinary posi-
ton Augustus b. Legnia, the recently
elected president of Peru, was indicted
into office, and in his inaugural address
proclaimed his purpose of maintaining
peace japanese are said to be initiating
foreign trade marks. The auditor and
trea surer of Porto Rico sailed for this
country to borrow s. OGO,OOo to finance the
irrigation plan. Fiftyeight cases Of
cholera and nineteen deaths were re-
ported from Manila in twenty-four hours.
In the District.
Charles c. Rogers. collector of taxes OF
the District, declared, in no uncertain
terms. that from now on an earnest en-
deayor will be made by his office to col
lect unpaid personal tax bills. Physi-
clans of the District were criticised by
DIR. w. c. Woodward. health officer, in
his weekly health and mortality report
submitted to the Commissioners for being
delinquent in reporting cases of disease
to the health office, in compliance with
the regulations. The compositors en-
ployed temporarily at the government
printing office during the midsummer
rush were dropped and employees of the
COMPOSING division were Informed that
they were at liberty to take a few days
leave of absence If desired. The public
schools of the District were opened last
Monday with an enrolment of 40 2S2
pupils. The Worlds tuberculosis Con-