Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-20
WEEK ENDING FEB. 20, 1909.

dependent children'S conference to Con-
gress in special message. President
Roosevelt sent to Congress the report OF
the engineers approving the present type
of Panama canal. The President decided
to invite all the nations to a worlds con-
servation congress to be held at The
Hague. The naval bill was passed by
the Senate, restoring the marines to the
vessels. and provulng for two 26.Wo-ton
battleships; the post office bill was passed
after a stormy debate; the army appro-
priation bill and the pension bill were
passed; the House passed bills increasing
the membership of the interstate COM
MERGE commission to nine. a hill making
the installation of wireless telegraph ap-
paratus on ocean steamships compulsory
and the penal code revision bill; the sun
dry civil bill was reported to the
House. A lowering of steel prices was
announced by Judge Gary of the United
Steel Corporation. The Hotel Clarendon.
at SeabreeZe, Fla, and ten cottages were
destroyed by fire with loss of Sth.W0
The eighteen hour flyer on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad was derailed by land
slide. The Pittsburg graft trials were
begun Miss Estelle Rocktashel was shot
and killed by George l.. knaut. VINO then
ended his own life in a taxicab In Read
ing, Pa. Geronimo. the Apache Indian
chief, died at Fort Sill, Okla.
Foreign AnalrS.
The British admiralty announced that
Lord Charles Beresford will retire as
COMMUNICATIVE chief of the channel fleet
March 4. King Edward reopened parlia-
ment his speech dealing chiefly with the
improved outlook for European peace and
plans fer legislation on social questions.
The Women's Freedom League met In
London and decided TO continue the mill
fn~ ff-ny
cases of women being stabbed i'll Berlin
were reported making a total of twenty.
the police being unab BILE to find the Grim
nal Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandra
ly in St. Petersburg. y dispatch from
ST. Petersburg contained report that a
plot had been organized by reactionary
leaders to depOse the emperor and es-
tabliSh a regency under the late Grand
Duke Vladimir. King Alfonso accepted
the Anglo-German proposal TO arbitrate
the dispute regarding the Walfisch bay
boundaries. The Sultan Of Turkey ac-
cepted the resignation of kaimil Pacha
as grand viZer. and instructed kilmi
Pacha to form new cabinet: Ali RIA
Pacha was reappointed minister OF war.
The American Red Cross gift of $4,000"
for an orphanage to care for hundred
children who lost their parents i'm the
recent earthquake was presented to
hundred persons persisted in theater
which was destroyed by fire at Acapulco.
Mexico. The publications of cable dis
patches between Gen. BIanco and the
Spanish government at the time OF the
Spanish war showed that the
government ordered the surrender of San
tiago ever Gen. Blanco's head. Rear Ad-
miral Charles Stanhope Cotton, U.S.N.
tretired). died at Nice. France.
In the District.
The Senate District committee approved
the GaIlinger substitute for all meas
ures now pending on the subject of gas
The House District committee gave a
public hearing on the Johnson Sunday
closing bill. To provide for the stricter
control of private hospitals and asylums
in the District by the health office
Health Officer Woodward drafted new
set of regulations. A banquet was ten
his tenth anniversary as president of
the Y. NJ. c. A. At the forty-first annual
encampment of the Department of the
Potomac. G. A. r.. E. H. Holbrook was
elected department commander. The
steamboats,, wharf privileges and offices
of the Washington and Potomac Steam
boat Company were sold at auction to
". b. Emmert OF Bristol, Va. Attorney
General Bonaparte ordered that no more
District prisoners should be sent to the
w est virginia peHlle1tlhIy III VNouHOS-
Vile. Charles F. Tabler of New York.
Henry Wimsatt and Leo Lucas of this
city pleaded guilty before Justice Gould
in Criminal Court No. to an Indictment
charging conspiracy to defraud the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pHny The District Of Columbia grand
Jury indicted the Press Publishing Com
pany. a corporation; Joseph Pulitzer. its
president. and Caleb M. Van Hamm and
Robert H. Lyman, editors of the New
York World. and Delavan Smith and
Charles r. Williams. owners of the In
dianapois News. for criminal libel in
connection with the publication Of stories
concerning alleged graft i'm the purchase
of the Panama canal Richard Gregory.
convicted o. the murder of William A.
Garner was hanged at the District Jail.
Joseph H. Lowe committed suicide by
inhaling Illuminating gas. and George F.
Ports by swallowing carbolic acid.
Among those who died were Representa-
tive Daniel Larned Davis Granger of
Rhode Island. Miss Emily Virginia Ma
son, George Hildreth. John Fl. Small. ST..
Judge Samuel NJ. Chittenden and Blu
chanan Beale.