Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-04
WEEK ENDING DEC. 4, 1909.

President Taft completed his annual
message to Congress. Secretary Meyer
promulgated the plan for the reorganiza-
ton of the Navy Department in accord
ance with the recommendations of the
Swift report. Secretary Knox broke on
diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and
denounced President Zelaya as a distur-
Der of peace and the executtoner or the
Americans, Cannon and Groce; the cruiser
Prairie sailed from Philadelphia for Colon
with Rear Admiral KimbaH and 700 ma
rines on board, but ran aground In the
Delaware river; the administration an
nounced that marines would not be land
ed unless necessary to protect American
interests. proposed bill exempting Ia
bor-union men from prosecution such as
that against Samuel Gompers was pre-
scented at the White House for the Presi-
dents consideration. The congressional
canal party returned and expressed the
belief that the canal will be finished by
January 1. 1915. Switchmen of thirteen
railroads, to the number OF 2,3OO, In the
northwest went on strike, causing a
complete tie-up of freight traffic and in
volving the closing OF many mills. Spe-
ciaI Agent Parr charged in the sugar
trust trial that officials Of the company
had tried to bride him. A plot to kill Or
kidnap John D. Rockefeller was told to
the Cleveland police. The sum Of $4,000
Stock Exchange. ]. P. Morgan purchased
the control of the Equitable life Assur-
ance Society.
Foreign Affairs.
The house OF lords rejected the budget
by a vote of $50 to rs; King Edward pro-
rogued parliament; the budget was in
dorsed by majority of more than 200 In
the house of commons after it's rejection
by the peers. Nine. Steinheil, after being
driven from a hotel in London, took a
train for Liverpool; she refused. to see re-
porters. Great Britain, Germany and
Belgium reached an agreement on the
boundaries of British Uganda. German
East Africa and the Kongo Independent
State Emperor William opened the reich
stag, announcing plan for sick benefit
insurance of the working classes and ex-
pressing the opinion that the triple ALI
ance would continue to stand together Tor
ously wounded at the Hotel Continental,
Paris by an Algerian, who mistook him
for Gen. Brun, the minister of war. The
attitude of French financiers caused an
other hitch in the conclusion of the Han
kow railroad loan. The French battle
ship Iona, upon which an explosion &C.
Cured in 1907. sank while being lowed
into port. The Italian cabinet, headed by
Premier Giolotti, resigned. The CHIEFS or
two Kabyle tribes submitted to Spain.
Theodore Roosevelt and party reached
Londiana, after a successful hunting trip.
on their way to Moro and thence to Maj
robi Several small villages near Bitits,
Asiatic Turkey, were destroyed by an
earthquake.
In the District.
delegation visited the White House
and presented to Secretary Carpenter the
democratic central committees indorse-
ment Of Louis P. Shoemaker. That the
Commissioners have no power to adopt
curfew regulations was declared by Cor
poration Counsel Thomas. A sweeping
change In the methods of handling the
money paid into the police stations and
the Juvenile Court in non-support cases
was recommended by Auditor Tweedale.
The board of education pledged co-opera-
ton with the George Washington Me
mortal Association in its aim to erect in
the capital a two-million-dollar building
in which to hold national conventions OF
patriotic, scientific. educational. literary
and art socities. Mrs. Douglas 2. For
rest reported the loss of about two-thou-
sand-three hundred dollars worth of jew
els. John r. Early, the alleged leper,
returned to the city, was arrested and
sent back to the detention camp. Anton
Bashey, aged five, fell out OF window
and was killed. John A. Kersky. twen-
ty-seven years old, was accidentally
drowned in the Anacostia river. The
trial of ex-Policeman John w. Collier
for the killing Of Capt. Mathews was be-
gun. Wilmot Duncan. fourteen years of
age, committed suicide at the Industrial
Homo School for colored boys.
Among those who died were Brig. Gen.
Thomas NJ. Vincent. Brig. Gen. Henry NJ.
Adams. Maj. George G. Cornish. Col.
George H. Roach and Charles M. Koones.