Evening star., 1909-05-29
WEEK ENDING MAY 20, 1909.

WEEK ENDING MAY ~, lSUS.
President Taft abolished the council OF
fine arts created by President Roosevelt
the President accepted the resignation OF
S. n. d. North as director of the census
and appointed +. d. Durand to succeed
him; Mr.. Taft reiterated his friendship
for the negro in an address at the com
mencement exercises of Howard Uni
versity: a cut of S160po.OOo in army esti-
mates was asked by the President. Rob-
ert ]. Wynne resigned as consul general
at London and John l.. Griffiths. consul
at Liverpool, was appointed to succeed
him. EX-Secretary NeWberry's plan of
naval reorganization Is partially retained
changes in the navy regulations made
public. The United States Supreme Court
declared Sheriff Shipp and five other resi-
dents of Hamilton county, Tenn. guilty
of contempt for combining i'll a con-
spiracy TO lynch negro named johnson
in 1905 after an appeal had been granted
by the court. A protocol for submission
to arbitration of the Emery claim against
Nicaragua was signed. Mr.. McCumher' 5
free lumber amendment to the tariff bill
was defeated by vote OF 56 to -: the
income tax question was sidetracked until
june I'D by vote OF 90 to 81; amend
ments eliminating the Dutch standard
test and reducing the duty on refined
sugar from 1.9O to 1921 cents a pound
were voted on and defeated. The House
passed the Philippine tariff bill, and
the bill amending the laws of Porto Rico
was considered. Representative William
I.orimer was elected United States sena-
tor from Illinois to succeed A. j. Hop
kins. Dr. William j. Long characterized
RooSevelts African trip as blood butch
cry and brutality. The battleship Missis-
sippi going down the river from Natchez
to New Orleans broke all river records.
The Erie railroad reported a surplus of
S2,.i3.oU for ten months. Two Buffalo
city officials We're accused of taking about
1900 from tax funds. The prospect for
a peaceful settlement of the Georgia rail-
road strike becomes more remote Clifford
W. Hartridge. the attorney of record in
the Thaw case, says in support of mis-
claim for S12O,oc0 counsel fees and So
136 disbursements that he spent $4,000
scandal
Foreign Affairs.
The Prince of Wales made an address
at the opening of the International Con-
sress of Applied Chemistry in London.
The English battleship-cruiser Invincible
on her run from Queens Ferry to Ports
mouth averaged over twenty y-eight knots
The French chamber of deputies rejected
a motion to restore to duty postal en-
ploNes dismissed for activity in the re-
revealed by the French investigating COM
mittee. which asked that NJ Thompson,
eX-minister of marine he prosecuted. The
strike of French seamen spread a rum
ber of steamers being unable to leave
port. The council of the Sorbonne in
Paris conferred upon Andrew Carnegie a
medal in recognition of his founding the
Curie scholarships: it was announced that
Mr.. Carnegie had practically completed
his gift of $1,0oO.HCo for a French hero
Nau
York man. committed suicide at Yer
sailes, France The German lib
erals and radicals joined the So
cialists in refusing to take part in
further discussion regarding new taxation.
The Turkish senate and chamber of depu-
ties almost unanimously voted confidence
in the ministry; the Turkish military au-
thorities considered the removal of the
place of residence of the former sultan
from Saloniki to an island in the Medi-
terranean; thirteen men. charged with
completely in revolutionary outbreak,
were publicly hanged in Constantinople.
One hundred fishermen were drowned in
storm on the coast of Spain. The Rus
sian duma adopted the bill legaizing the
sect of Old Believers A heavy earth
shock occurred at Messina. throwing down
walls and causing panic among the peo-
pie. Bubonic plague again appeared in
Caracas. and the authorities are planning
to prevent another epidemic. Dominican
rebels captured Guayubin and Dajabon.
ON the Haytian frontier; there was fight
ing at Monte Christi. Cuban financial
conditions caused grave anxiety.
In the District.
Snowden Ashford. building inspector,
was selected by the District Commission
ers as municipal architect of the District
of Columbia. Commissioner Macfarland
approved the recommendation for three
year contract with the Potomac Electric
Power Company at reduced figures. Rev.
DR.. Thomas J. Shahan was selected as
rector of the Catholic University of
America. A tablet commemoratng the
memory of Rev. DR.. Teunis S. Hamlin
was unveiled at the Church of the Cove
nant. Vice Admiral Baron Sotokchi Uriu,
chief of staff of the japanese navy, and
Baroness Uriu arrived IN this city. The
annual spring tournament of the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association was begun on
the Columbia golf course Company of
the Armstrong Manual Training School
won the annual drill of the colored High
School Cadets. DIR. Edward Ehers. di-
rector of the Royal Frederick Hospital.
Copenhagen. Denmark, declared that
Early was suffering with leprosy; DR..
l.. d. Bulkley of New York declared that
Early has not and never had ieprosy.
Tie fftieth anniversary of Sister Fred
erick's connection with the Little Sisters
OF the Poor wss celebrated by special
service. John P. Trilling was convicted
OF murder in the second degree III caus-
ing the death of Mrs Lucretia B. Corliss.
Oden =. Gray. former bookkeeper OF the
Washington Loan and Trust Company,
was placed on trial in Criminal Court
No. ! on a charge of forgery Albert II.
Willard was indicted for murder in the
first degree in killing Irving w. Beck.
Joseph Bennett fell from the new build
ing of the bureau of American republics
and was instantly killed. The following
persons were suicides: Louis Rosenthal.
tifty-three years. by shooting; Mrs. Eliza
beth Allen, forty-iive, gas; frank H. Ball.
twenty-five, by carbolic acid and Elmer
Wilkinson, by shooting. Among those
VINO G.ed were Philip l.. Rouse.