Evening star., 1909-02-27
CHURCH NOTICES.
WEEK ENDING FEB. q. 1909.

fTeSlOenl Roosevelt sent a message u
Congress transmitting two preliminary
reports Of the naval commission which
he appointed; the President, in a long let
ter to Senator Hale, denounced the Hem
enway report on the secret service as
misleading and untrue: President Roose-
welt. Gov. Hughes and Bishop Harding
were given degrees by George Washing
ton University; the President ordered
that Jefferson Davis name be restored to
the Cabin John bridge structure: Presi-
dent-elect Taft completed his cabinet, as
follows: Secretary of State, Philander &.
Knox; Secretary of the Treasury, Frank
lin MacVeagh of Illinois; Secretary Of
War, Jacob NJ. Dickinson of Tennessee;
Attorney General, George w. Wicker
sham Of New York: Postmaster General,
Frank II. Hitchcock of Massachusetts;
Secretary of the Navy, George Won l..
Meyer of Massachusetts; Secretary of the
Interior, Richard A. Ballinger of Wash
ington; Secretary of Agriculture, James
Wilson of Iowa, and Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor. Charles Nagel of Mis-
souri,. The battleship fleet returned to
Norfolk from its voyage around the
world. The Supreme Court decided that
express companies cannot give franks"
Secretary Newberry put into effect a new
system of buying and distributing sup
plies on vessels of the navy. Secretary
that bleaching flour is deleterious and IL
legal. William /. Buchanan returned
from his successful mission to Venezuela.
bringing with him the protocol signed
with President Gomez. The Senate passed
the bill providing for a commission to con-
slider the cases Of the discharged negro
soldiers, the Notifications bill. the diplo-
matte and consular bill and the agricul-
tural appropriation bill. The House re-
jected the Senate amendments to the
lot tive h
the President. Vice President, the Speak
er and other officials The amendment
to the sundry civil bill restricting the Sc
cret service was adopted by a vote of
153 to Al. The House passed the Sundry
civil appropriation bill. The California
Astatics. United States District Judge
Anderson of Chicago ruled that the
Standard Oil Company may be fined not
more than $4,000 for accepting rebates.
stewart Douglass Robinson. a nephew of
President Roosevelt, sophomore at Har-
Vard, fell from a window and was killed.
Seven persons were killed in a wreck on
the Pennsylvania railroad at Delmar, Del.
Foreign Affairs.
Winston Spencer Churchill, president OF
the board of trade, considered legislation
requiring all British-owned ocean-going
steamers to carry wireless equipment
The battleship Vanguard, the seventh
vessel of the Dreadnought type. was
launched at Barrow, England. Great Brit
ain conferred with Russia relative to the
suppression of anarchy In Persia. The
delegates to the International naval con-
ference In London agreed on a new code
for naval warfare. Twenty-eight Eng
lish suffragettes were sentenced to one
month in prison in England The French
government refused to accept several of
the tariffs proposed on articles from
India and Egypt. The French
tariff commission adopted an amendment
restoring the old maximum and minimum
rates on all oils except cottonseed. Caran
d Ache. cartoonist, died at Paris. Heavy
earthquake shocks were felt in the dis
trict og Elche, Spain, the village inhab-
itants camping in the fields. Dispatches
from southwestern Russia say that more
snowstorms; all traffic was blocked
In the District.
Assistant United States Attorney Stuart
was commissioned by Attor-
nay General Bonaparte as a special as
sistant to the Attorney General to aid in
the prosecution of the canal libel cases.
bust of the late Mr.. Crosby s. Noyes
was unveiled the municipal building
The New sYork Avenue Presbyterian
Church and the Washington Heights
TIcSuytciidH NnuTcH decided not TO con-
sOlidate. Rev. DR.. Thomas J. Shahan
was formally installed as provisional rec
tor of the Catholic University of America
The seventy fifth annual meeting of the
National Monument Society
was held. Senor de La Barra. succeeding
Senior Creel as Mexican ambassador to
the United States. arranged for his for
NAL present alton to the President today.
The Capital Traction Company put in
operation on the 18th street line twenty
cay -you-enter cars. Oden B. Gray,
bookkeeper of the Washington Loan and
Trust Company. was indicted by the
grand jury for forgery. Trial was COM
before Chief Justice Clabaugh and
a jury in Circuit Court No. Of the suit
for $4,000 damages filed by D. W. Baker.
United States district attorney, against
B. H. Warner for alleged libel Miss
Frances Caspari was declared insane by
4 jury in Criminal Court No. 1, Justice
Gould presiding. John Wilkes. colored,
employed a driver of United States
mail wagon. pleaded guilty of robbing the
United States mails. Samuel Green COM
nitted suicide by inhaling illuminating
gas. Among those who died were Ad-
miral Samuel r. Franklin. Capt. l.. kar-
DeleS. Robert Collins and Charles Cheslev