The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-14
FORECAST OF NEWS
STIRRING DEvEL0PMENTs OF MA
 TTONAL CONTROVERSIES. .t
The widely HeraIsied Criminal Trials of the Week Wtli He Those of
 the Tennessee Night Riders,

Stirring developments of controver- sies in which President Roosevelt is a central figure, will draw the. attention of the nation, and, in a greater or less degree. of the world, to Washing- ton this week. where features of the final session of the Sixtieth Congress will be. for one thing. the return of the Brownsville (Tex.) episode of the colored troops in an extended discus sion of the matter in the Senate; for another. the inquiry of the special committee of the House of Represen- tatives into the Presidents remarks in his latests message on the subject of the limitation placed by Congress upon the activities of the secret ser vice force Of the Treasury Depart ment.
 Speaking of the interests of the col ored troops, makes germane reference be held at Tuskegee, Ala, where, for the whole week, the attention of the colored people of the South will be drawn to the bject of general hy- giene, especially with reference to measures available in the now wide spread battle against tuberculosis. Meanwhile. the eventful experience of negro population in self-government ina Hayti will give new developments
 
 elect a President in place of the de- posed Nord Alexis.
 President-elect Taft will spend most of the week in New York, delivering several speeches, perhaps the most nota- ble' of which will be that on Wednesday evening at the annual banquet of the Ohio Society of New York.
 The last of the week he is to leave for Augusta, Ga. where he win pass several weeks resting, and incidentally as he hopes, preparing at least the first draft of the address he will deliver upon the occasion of his inauGuration
 MT. Taft is expected to speak also before the annual meeting of the Na- tional Civic Federation, which takes place in New York City Monday and Tuesday. He Is chairman of that de- paftment of the Federation devoted to the interests of public employees, while Mrs. Taft heads the correspond ing woman's department. She is ex- pected also to make a report at the Federation meeting.
 The widely-hsralded criminal trials of the week will be those of the so- called night riders of Tennessee, ac- cused more especially of the 1ynching of Captain Quentin Rankin. and the att tempted murder of Colonel R. 2. Tay- Tor at Reelfoot Lake. and that of Thornton Jenkins Hains. at Flushing. who is charged with being accessory to the killing by his brother Captain Peter J. Hains, Jr., of the United States army, of William D. Annis, the well known magazine editor.
 In the way of civil litigation one of the most interesting cases of the week will be that embodying the attempt of Mrs. Charlotte Arnett to prevent the probating of the will of her brother. the late Peter Cooper Hewitt, a cousin of Senator Thomas c. Platt. Mir, Hew- its estate has been estimated as high as 2S,00O.000, and the legatees. after bequests to relatives not exceeding $100.000. are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and other institu- tions.
 A novel exhibition which begins this week Is that at Madison Square Gar den of the Junior Aero Club of Amer lea. Any boy in the United States un- der 21 may exhibit models of kites, balloons. gliders, aeroplanes, dirigibIes or wireless telegraph apparatus de- signed by himself.
 In the field of sports much interest attaches to the race between Dorando Pietri, the Italian Marathon runner. who recently took revenge upon John J. Hayes for having defeated him in the International Marathon, and the Indian runner. Tom Longboat. The pugilistic event of the week will be the Ego" at the Jeffries Athletic Club in Los Angeles between Billy Papke and Hugo Kelly
 This week the presidential electors meet to confirm the popular vote which chose Gomez to serve as Cuba's first chief executive