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THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 4, 1905. The President, after a fast trip by sea from New Orleans on the U. S cruiser West Virginia, arrived in Washington: he issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, fixing the date for November 30; he met Prince Louis of Battenburg. rear admiral of the British navy, and his suite at a reception given in their honor at the White House. Charles H. Darling retired from the office of assistant secretary of the navy and was succeeded by Truman H. Newberry of Detroit, Mich Secretary Taft and his party arrived at Colon and proceeded to Panama to see President Amador. The Philippine Datto All and several of his followers were killed in battle with United States soldiers The State De partment received the details of the killing of several American missionaries at Lienchow, China. and said that the participants in the attack on the mission would be severely punished and that full reparation would be made by China Rear Admiral Rae, engineer-in-chlef of the navy in his annual report stated that the lack of engineers in the service is becoming alarming. The battleship Rhode Island in trial test made a new mean speed record for battleships of over nineteen knots an hour The United States Supreme Court held that stockholders in national banks have the right to examine the bank's books A monument to J. Sterling Morton was unveiled at Nebraska City Neb., with ap. propriate ceremonies. Attorney General Bryan of Maryland warned the Gorman machine men in that state against violations of the election law That the city of Philadelphia lost over $6,000,000 and that 1,200 needless deaths were caused by typhoid fever due to graft in the contracts for filtration and boulevard works was revealed by a board of special examiners special counsel for Mayor Weaver intl mated that prosecutions will follow the report on the contracts District Attorney Jerome of New York reiterated his promise to criminally prosecute insurance officials found guilty of questionable practices The controller of the currency stated that the shortage of the Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny City Pa will not be less than $1.500,000 John B Cunningham receiver of the bank entered suit against W H. Andrews. territorial delegate from New Mexico, for more than $52,000. Thirteen persons were killed and thirty injured in the wreck of a train on the Atchlson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad near Kansas City caused by a loose rail Six minor officials of the Pittsburg and Westmoreland Coal Company lost their lives while attempting to enter a burning mine at Hazel Kirk, Pa. Mrs. Catherine Geary of Cambridge. Mass. identified the body found in suit cases in Boston as that of her daughter, Susan an actress Morris Nathan, fiance of the murdered girl, was found in Pittsburg and gave the police there information which they think will lead to the complete solution of the crime; a well known doctor was arrested in Boston charged with having cut up the girl's body An autopsy on the body of Mrs Margaret Todd. an elderly wealthy New York woman, who was found in a mangled condition on a railroad track in Philadelphia, tended to sustain the theory that she was murdered. Foreign Affairs, The Russian emperor granted in large measure the demands of the people for selfgovernment, issuing a manifesto for a cablnet of ministers, with Sergius Witte as the first premier of the empire, freeing all political prisoners and abolishing the press censorship and assuring civil liberty extension of the suffrage and inability to enforce any laws without the consent of the douma the general strike in St. Petersburg was formally raised and railroad trains were being worked through, but deplorable rioting oc curred in the provinces, especially at Odessa, where it was estimated 5,000 persons principally Jews, were killed and wounded during the disorder: disturbances also occurred at Moscow. where ten students were killed by workingmen; at Kleff. where 12 persons were killed and forty wounded and at Kishineff, where a renewal of the Jewish massacres was reported; at Warsaw over 20 persons were killed and 100 wounded by Cossacks, who fired on the crowds foreign residents in south Russia generally appealed to their respective governments for protection. The congress of the Austrian social democrats demanded the immediate convo cation of the reichsrath to substitute for the present parliament a body elected by equal and direct suffrage: grave disorders were caused in Vienna by the socialists demand for universal suffrage, which it was stated. Emperor Francis Joseph has decided to grant Prince von Buelow talked of a new trade treaty between the United States and Germany, for which negotiations are to be begun by Ambassador von Sternburg upon his arrival in Washington The European powers practically agreed on a joint naval demonstration against Turkey unless financial reform for Macedonia is not promptly accepted. Five American missionaries were murdered during an attack on the mission house by Chinese at Lienchow China Rear Admiral Train, commander-inchief of the Asiatic fleet, was assaulted by a mob near Nankin, China and his son held as hostage on account of the accidental shooting of a Chinese woman: Chinese maneuvers carried out by an army of 30.000 men were highly praised by the foreign military attaches. who considered that China has at last the nucleus of a real army Mon tero Rios was charged by the King of Spain with the formation of a new cabinet. The Venezuelan government suspended the dispatch of cable messages to the United States Great Britain and France because a reply had not been received from an agent abroad. In the District President Roosevelt appointed Charles A Stillings of Boston public printer, Prince Louis of Battenburg and his suite arrived in the city and were entertained by President Roosevelt, Secretary Bonaparte, Gen Chaffee and other officials. as well as at the British embassy The board of education decided to retain the services of Mrs. Annie J. Cooper as principal of the M Street High School The new building of the Young Men's Christian Association was formally dedicated The new ferry steamer Wood bury made its initial trip between this city and Alexandria It was discovered that a deficit of $30,000 exists at the Government Hospital for the Insane William W. Karr formerly disbursing officer of the Smithsonian Institution, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for embezzlement William H. White, an engi neer. and Clarence C Whitley a colored laborer. were killed; G W Hardy a color ed stoker was perhaps fatally injured, and three other men hurt by an explosion of a steam pipe in the power house of the Potomac Electric Power Company at 14th and B streets; a coroner's jury holding an inquest, decided that their deaths were due to an unavoidable accident Leslie C. Fuller, one of the assistant attorneys of
