Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-19
THE WEEK
Epit0mc Of Events Ending No.
vember 10, 1910.

Panama canal, sailed for home. Presi-
dent Taft gave Clifford Pinchot permits
sion to present a brief to protest against
the granting of the Cunningham coal
claims, which the ex-forester says are
Attorney General Wicker
sham expressed dissatisfaction with the
fines imposed in the glass trust case in
Pittsburg and said he would in the future
seek jail sentences for men convicted of
the antitrust law. The United
States Supreme Court declined to review
six decisions of the lower federal courts,
in which the right Of the government to
collect the Spanish-American war inner
itance tax was attacked. Secretary Will
son and DIR. Whey Of the Department Of
glycerln-gelatin the monitor Pun titan was
of meat were fictitious and might be due
to market manipulation by the packers.
In his report as president of the Ameri. an
Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers at
tackled President Taft as an enemy or
labor. In a naval experiment to test the
effect of an unconfined explosion OF nitro
glycerin-geiatine the monitor Puritan was
badly damaged In Hampton roads. Ten
revenue cutters were ordered to leave
their respective stations December to
patrol the Atlantic coast during the winter
and early spring to render assistance TO
vessels. Belated returns give the demo-
Gratis sixty-three majority in the next
House. The striking express drivers in
New York and Jersey City returned to
work The Standard Oil Company Of In
diana was found not guilty at Jackson.
Tenn, of accepting rebates, the jury be-
ing instructed by the court to return that
verdict. Robin ]. Cooper was acquitted
In Nashville, Tenn, of the charge OF
numbering former United States Senator
Edward w. Carmack. Ralph tombstone,
holder of the words altitude record for
aeroplanes, fell $40 feet while attempting
a spectacular dip at Denver and was in
stantly killed. Mrs. Laura Farpsworth
Wheeling, w. Va, on charge of ad-
ministering poison to her husband, mil
lionaire packer.
Foreign.
The British house Of lords adopted the
resolutions of the Earl OF Rosebery
favoring selected second chamber in
place Of the existing assembly; Premier
Asquith announced in the house of COM
mons that the government intended to
dissolve parliament November 2s, IL the
lords in the meantime rejected the veto
bill; a larse deputation Of suffragettes,
headed by Mrs. Panknurst, reopened hos
tllitIes against the British parliament: I'm
q riot which ensued 116 were arrested
and later released on bail. A lieutenant
in the German army pleaded guilty In
II,
sketches of the fortlications there, and
was placed under bonds not to repeat
the offense A petition for the reprieve
of DIR. Hawley H. Crippen, sentenced to
die In London "Wednesday, was signed
comprising the American feet, which is
to spend two months in visiting French
and English ports. were reported as hav-
ing arrived off various points i'm England
and France. The French government
announced it's formal acceptance of the
American proposition to refund the debt
of Liberia. NJ. Legagneuz few from
Paris to Brussels with a passenger in an
aeroplane. covering 40 miles in 3 hours
overlooked it's banks at many points. do
ing damage in the low-lying parts of
Paris. fell slightly. The Nobel prize
committee. sitting at Stockholm. Sweden.
awarded the prize for literature for 1910
to Paul Johann Ludwig Heyte, the Ger
man poet and novelist and the prize for
chemistry to Prof. Otto Warach of the
University of Gottineen. A dispatch from
the importation of foreign live stock in
order to counteract the high prices for
meat now prevailing. Morocco aereed to
pay Spain $13.O0O000 as an indemnity
paiPn against the Riff tribesmen. Earl
Gray opened the Canadian parliament
with a speech from the throne. In which
the tariff NEGOTIATIONS with the United
states were the Keynote.
In the District.
The Commissioners adopted a regulation
requiring lights on all business WAGONS
and private carriaees from half an hour
after sunset until 1 am, liehts on cabs
and carriages for hire from half an hour
after sunset until half an hour before sun
rise. and metal number tags, similar to
auto tars, on all wagons used in business
and liehts on al bicycles. motorcycles,
etc.: protests were heard from business
men. The Commissioners appointed George
w. Inpham superintendent of insurance of
the District Of Columbia, to succeed
E. Drake. Stuart Mcnamara,
special assistant to the Attorney General,
RESIGNED. DR.. Charles w. Needhan, for
merly president of the GEORGE Washing
ton University. was appointed an exam
liner of the interstate commerce conl-nis-
sion. The thirty-four+h annual meeting
Of the Kni"hts Of Labor Of America was
held. Reassertsn~ it's right to make a
regulation prohibiting the admission to
the public schools OF children that have
not been vacrinated, the board of educa-
ton filed answer to the rule in mandamus
recently issued a~ainst it by the Supreme
Court OF the District The fifteenth on
nual meeting of .he National Association
OF State Universities was held. The first
open-air school ever conducted in the
District was opened at the Blake School,
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