Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-08
WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 8, 1910,

President Taft received and accepted
the resignation of William H. Moody as
an associate justice of the United States
Supreme Court. Theodore Roosevelt left
New York on a tour Of the south and
middle west. Charles E. Hughes filed his
resignation as Governor Of New York to
take up his duties as associate justice Of
tho United States Supreme Court, which
convenes Monday. Supervising Architect
Taylor of the Treasury filed charges
against Assistant Charles E. Kemper.
The Interstate commerce commission sus-
pended transcontinental freight rate adj
vances until February =. The forty third
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America opened in Cincinnati.
A confessed attempt on the life of Prince
Tsai Sum was frustrated when detectives
arrested a heavily armed Chinese on the
deck of the steamer on which the prince
sailed. The American Bankers Associa-
ton convened in Los Angeles. Twelve
bodies OF sailors drowned In North river
when the battleship New Hampshire's
barge was swamped Saturday, were re-
covered. "A Iire IN New Ork did $l,5OO,-
UUO damage. Great loss OF life ATTENDED a
collision OF electric trains near Gillespie,
LII.
Foreign Affairs.
Leaders of the republican party in Por-
tugal proclaimed republic in Lisbon.
with Theophile Braga as provisional
president; the king, the queen mother
and the Queen Dowager Maria Pia es-
capped in the royal yacht and landed at
Gibraltar. The German imperial chancellor
expressed regrets to the Foreign Core
spondents' Association for the Moabit in
cident The German emperor bestowed
the Order of the Red Eagle, first class,
with star, on Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University, New
York The boundary troubles between
Venezuela and Colombia were so far ad-
justed that diplomatic relations were re-
established. New cases OF cholera and
deaths were reported from the city and
province of Naples Emo Azen, described
botn as political police spy and head o.
the Russian fighting socialists, was as
sassinated at Weisbaden. The Bank Of
Bombay advanced it's discount rate from
3 to per cent. Seventy-two miners per-
ished in the explosion at coal mine in
Palu, Mexico.
In the District.
ATTORNEY General Wickersham, in q.
opinion forwarded to the Commissioners,
concurred in their contention that the
District need not in the future purchase
its supplies through the Secretary Of the
Treasury and a central purchasing COM
hittee. The controller of the Treasury
rendered to the Commissioners decision
on questions affecting the pay of teachers
In the public schools or the District Ihe
District excise board dismissed F. Oden
Horstmann, assistant clerk of the board:
A garment workers union was organized
with $50 members. Griffin HaIstead. stock
broker. was indicted on charges of mis-
appropriating stocks and bonds. Two men
were killed and one other painfully in
jurec by explosions in the fuse and
primer shop at the Washington navy yard.
Algernon Moffatt was killed and two
women injured by runaway car in the
Union station yards. Mrs. Lucy B. Baker
and DIR. Charles Perry Gibbon committed
suicide. Among those who died were
Alexander E. Beall, Rev. DR.. John Ches-
ter and Rev. DIR. Alfred H. Ames.