Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-23
WEEK ENDING APRIL %, 1910.

President Taft welcomed the Daughters
of the American Revolution. Mr.. William
]. Bryan held a long talk with the Presi-
dent, and had a conference with demo-
cratic congressman. The War Depart
ment issued orders for the joint army
and militia maneuvers at Gettysburg. The
Senate passed the river and harbor bill
carrying appropriations of So, 100000. and
took under consideration the administra-
ton railroad bill and the resolution au-
thorizing the expenditure Of $65.O00 for an
extension of the inquiry into the cost OF
living The House passed the Mccall
campaign publicity bill, bill to regulate
seal fishing bill authorizing the Presi-
dent to make Withdrawals of public !ands
for purposes of conservation, and the
southern Appalachian and White noun
tain forest reserve bill. Woman'S suffrage
advocates presented their claims to COM
mittees of the House and Senate. Repre-
sentative Fowler introduced a resolution
to deprive the Speaker OF power to ap-
point committees; it's consideration was
postponed. Gen. ]. Franklin Bell retired as
chief of staff of the army, to be succeeded
by Gen. Wood. James S. Ravens. DEM
ocrat, carried the Rochester On. " dis
trict by nearly 5000. The Philadelphia
car strike ended, many of the strikers re-
Stunning work. Great excitement followed
the discovery Of oil In New Mexico q few
miles uOrtH OIL I'll FSkSOs lex. OnOW AuU
frost caused great damage to growing
crops in the middle west. Albert Wolter
was convicted in New York of murder In
the first degree for killing Ruth Wheeler.
Twenty-Five miners were trapped by gas
explosion in the colliery of the Youghio-
gheny and Ohio Coal Company, near AM
sterdam, Ohio. Samuel Langhorne Glenn
ems Mark Twain) died at Redding, Conn.
Foreign Affairs.
The house of commons, by majority
of SO, passed Mr.. Asquith's cloture meas
ure: bitter speeches were exchanged be-
tween VILLAIN q Drien and Chancellor
Lloyd-George. There were rumors in
Liverpool that $2.5O0.0OO had been lost
through forged bills of lading for cotton
sent from the United States. The Cunard
Steamship Company announced from Its
Liverpool offices that two steamers of the
Lusitana and Franconia types will be
built. Col. Roosevelt was received in
Paris with unusual honors. Roger Som
mer, French aerOplanist, took four pas
sengers on a five-minute fight at Chare-
Vile, France, establishing a new worlds
record. The kaiser went to Homburg to
inspect the squadron of dirigibe balloons.
Twelve persons were drowned In severe
floods in Servia. The Cathedral of the
robbed Of gems worth $4,000. Several
missions outside of Chang-Sha were re-
ported burned, in dispatch from Picking.
but the foreigners escaped. The Grand
Duchess Elizabeth, widow Of Sergius,
who was killed by bomb in st. Peters
burg, took the veil Of a nun. Ten men
were killed and twenty-three hurt when
a construction train went through a tres
tie into lake in Quebec province.
In the District.
The District Commissioners approved
the site for the branch Of the public Ii
brary at Takoma Park. favorable re-
port was ordered by the District House
committee on the bill introduced by Rep
resentative Wiley providing for universal
transfers A hearing was given by the
House District committee on the Whey
resolution requesting the Attorney General
to make inquiry into the financial condi
The National Academy of Sciences opened
It's annual session. The nineteenth annual
congress Of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution was opened. The forty
eighth anniversary of the emancipation
of the slaves Of the District of Columbia
was celebrated. A monument was erected
at Arlington over the grave of Lieut..
Thomas E. Selfridge, who was killed in
the fall of the Wright aeroplane at Fort
Myer September IT. 1908. o. G. Staples
was assessed 3d. 500 by a jury in Circuit
Court No. for the death Of Albert Flynn,
who was killed by an explosion. Philip
Kleupfel was killed by street car. Eleven
hundred dollars worth of jewelry was
stolen from one OF the wards of Provi-
dence Hospital. Mrs. Mamie Hurd and
Arthur Lewis committed suicide. Among
those who died were Albert J. Halford.
B. r. Mason, Maj. James X. Thompson
and George A. Bailey.