Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-27
WEEK ENDING NOV. ~, 1909.

President Taft appointed James L. DAY.
export to be commissioner of pensions,
James f. Curtis to be assistant secretary
of the Treasury and Benjamin s. Cable
to be assistant secretary of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. Presi-
dent Taft and Cardinal Gibbons were the
central figures in the pan-A1nerican
Thanksgiving service at st. Patrick's
Church The President approved the
regulations for collection of the corpora
ton tax submitted to him by Secretary
MacVeagh. The annual report of the
isthmian canal commission was made
public. A conference on the preservation
of the Alaskan seals was held. Ten more
men were removed by Collector Loeb
from the New York customs office. Speak
er Cannon. in an address in Kansas City.
defended the House rules and the Payne
tariff law and attacked the insurgents in
Congress. A proposal made to the
Chilean government to submit the AlSop
claim to the arbitration of King Ed
ward was accepted. The Cherry ILL.,,
mine shafts were sealed and the recovery
of additional bodies indefinitely de-
layed; twenty men We're rescued. Rep
resentative David A. De Almond of Mis-
souri, was burned to death With his
grandson at Butler. Mo.
Foreign Affairs.
The budget debate was opened In the
house of lords, Lords Rosebery and Bal
four of Burleigh advising against rejec-
ton. although declaring the liberal finan-
cial plan dangerous and unscentific. The
German naval budget for 1910 was an
nounced to total Sos, SOC. 900. an increase
of S7,OOO0OO. The German supreme court
decided that the recent patent cOnven-
ton between America and Germany did
not make it necessary to place the in
vention on the market within the three
years specified by the German statute A
report that German Ambassador Won
Bernstorff would be transferred from
Washington to London was denied at
Berlin. DR.. Brenckmann and Hugo
Francke, members OF the Aero Club OF
Berlin, were killed by the collapse Of
their balloon near Fiume. NJ. BRAND APP
pealed to Catholics in France to STAND
by their country in preference to the
leaders of the church. An attempt at
wholesale poisoning among the military
officers was reported at Vienna. Twenty
six prisoners, some of them nlurdererS,
tunneed out of the pententiary at Te-
huantepec, Mexico.
In the District
The traffic squad and the traffic reslla-
lions were severely arraigned in letter
sent to the District Commissioners by
Henry II. Ward. The first session of the
twenty-third annual convention of the
Association of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools of the Middle States and Mary
land was held. The corner stone of the
new hall to be devoted to physics. chem
istry and biology at Howard University
wa; laid The sale of the Analostan Is
land was formally closed by the River
View Exposition Company OF Chicago.
Dominica Falasco, accused of attempting
to wreck train in the Union station tun-
mel, was indicted by the grand jury. \
coroner's jury acquitted Bernard Brown.
colored, Of responsibility for the death OF
John S. I.angdale. Edward Henry Dor
sey, negro, committed suicide by drown
ing. and Miss Kate Wallace by drinking
carbolic acid. Among those who died
were Alfred Bissel Talcott. George Hay
Thomas.