Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06
THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 6, 1909.

President Taft arrived i'm Savannah and
received an enthusiastic welcome In tile
morning he spoke in Macon. Lee McClung
of Tennessee was sworn in as Treasurer
or the United States and a. Platt An
drews as director of the mint. Secretary
Dickinson, Clifford Pinchot and Repre-
sentative Randell addressed the water
National Geographic Society experts con-
firmed Commander Peary's claim to dis
covery OF the north pole and awarded him
gold medal. The State Department de-
clined the request of the society to in
struct Minister Egan to endeavor to OBJ
tain DR.. Cooks records from the Cniver-
sity OF Copenhagen. The United States
supreme Court summoned those involved
in the lynching of negro at Chattanooga,
Tenn, to appear November 10 for SEN
tence for contempt of court. Elections
were held in many states and cities, and
in New York Tammany received a bad
blow, electing the mayor, but losing con-
troll of the board of estimate; In Mary
land the amendment DISTINGUISHING the
negro was defeated. Rewards We're given
fifty persons for acts of hcroism by the
Carnegie hero fund commission. The cot
ton crop was estimated at =. 10000 bales
by the president of the National Ginners'
Association. The directors of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. at Philadel
phia, declared a stock allotment OF 70 per
cent at par. New Yorks criminal court
building was declared to be unsafe and
vacated. 4 boiler tube on the North
Dakota blew out in the last hour of the
battleship's fOur-hOur endurance test off
the New England coast, injuring sixteen
men. four seriously. a mail pouch sup
posed to have contained from $4,000 to
$4,000, was stolen at Chicago.
Foreign Affairs.
The house of commons, by a vote of
319 TO 40, passed the finance bill and re-
iected the lords amendment to the Irish
land bill by vote of 2l9 to 81 Two
militant suffTagettes, who were CHARGED
with breaking bottles of acid over ballot
boxes at the BermCnGsey by-eIection
London, were committed for trial. France
began the tariff war by imposing the
MAXIMUM rates OH American goods, owing
TO desire TO nave basis on which to
treat Tor concessions: fears are expressed
that the United States may bar French
wines. Ambassador Henry White was
given an impressive farewell in Paris be-
fore he sailed from Cherbourg for New
York. Henry Farman, tie English aV!a-
tor. won the Mlcheiin cup at Mourmelon.
France, by flying II miles in four hours
and minutes. Nine. Marguerite Stein
he'll. accused Of having murdered her hus-
band and her stepmother, was placed OH
trial in Paris. Nicholas TSchai koVSky
the Russian revolutionary leader. who was
released on bail, was re-arrested and con-
fined in the fortress OF st. Peter and ST.
Paul King Menelik OF -Abyssnia was re-
ported TO be sinking fast. Many leading
officials. including i've princes met the
body of Prince Ito at the station in Toxic
Eighteen persons were drowned by the
capsiZing of ferryboat on her trial trip
in Guayaquil harbor, Ecuador. A party of
five Alaskans organized to climb Mount
Mckinley, in order to test DIR. Cooks
claim.
In the District.
The annual report of the inspector OF