Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-15
ENDING OCTOBER Is, 1910


plans for raising the wreck of the Maine
in Havana harbor. and, after confer
ence with Col. Goethals. decided to visit
Panama next month. The President re-
ceived the home rule Irish members Of
the English parliament as British SUBJ
jects. Theodore Roosevelt was given
cordial reception by southerners. He
made about fifty car-end addresses. on
character and race suicide, from Georgia
to Arkansas, and also assembled in an
aeroplane as a passenger with Hoxsey
at St. Louis EX-Gov. Charles L. Hughes
of New York was sworn in as ain asso-
ciate justice of the Supreme Court OF
the United States. The Supreme Court
set the Standard Oil, tobacco and corpo-
ration tax cases for argument January 3.
Many prominent railroad men made
strong witnesses for higher railroad rates
in the interstate commerce commission
hearing. The General Convention OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church was con-
tinued in Cincinnati. The various or
CARNATIONS of the Congregationalist
Church held conferences in Boston. The
United States circuit court at St. Paul
restored lumber rates from Portland.
Ore, cut by the interstate commerce
commission. William Barnes, jr., the re-
publican leader at Albany, resigned as
a member of the republican state commit
tee. Seven big claimants were arrested
in Seattle, charged with land frauds in
Alaska. The deaths caused by the forest
fires in Minnesota and Manitoba are va
riousiy estimated at between 40 and 800.
Fifty-two miners were entombed by an
explosion in coal mine at Starkville,
Cal. Duveen Brothers, art dealers of
New York were charged with a million
dollar customs fraud. John Deitz and
his family were arraigned on murder
charges at Hayward, Wis. Porter Charl-
ton, the self-confessed slayer of his wife,
was turned over to the United States
authorities.
Foreign Affairs.
ARRANGEMENTS were made for the King
of Portugal and his mother to go to
England and reside there permanently:
officials of the new republic expelled
Cardinal Joseph Sebastian Neto, ex-pa-
triarch of Lisbon, and other ecclesiastics,
and gathered more than 200 nuns to be
sent out of the country. The Lancashire
cotton mills resumed work after the
lockout of 10000 operatives, which cost
the workmen 100000. The body UNI
earthed in the London home of DR.. Har-
vey II. Crippen was buried; DR.. Crippen
and Miss Leneve were indicted and their
trial set for next week. Emperor Will
liam delivered the chief address at the
celebration of the one-hundredth anniver-
Sary exercises of the University of Ber-
lin. The German foreign Office expressed
regret for the attack on an American
correspondent. but declined to punish the
police involved. The University OF Ber-
lin conferred the degree of LII. ID. on
Emperor William, Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes and Prof. John William Burgess.
A railway strike in France threatened
the capital with famine; the workmen
refused to answer calls made on them
as reserves; vigorous governmental meas
ures broke the strike. The Greek cabinet
resigned, owing to the Turkish compiled
tons. Rogue SaenZ Pena was inaugu-
rated President of Argentina. A dis
patch from Rome announced many new
cases of cholera and eleven deaths in the
last twenty four hours. Meetings to hon.
or the memory of Prof. Terrier were held
ricane swept over Cuba and did much
damage Five persons were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed King $
Hall. in Montreal. Prisoners at San
Carlos, near Maracaibo Venezuela, burn
ed the prison and killed several officials.
In the District.
Arrangements were made to transfer
the management of the public play
grounds to the District Commissioners
July /, 1911. the Fairgrounds Association
relinquishing all control of the grounds
June so. 1911. DR.. William b. Hudson,
superintendent of the bathing beach, SUBJ
mitted his annual report. The first Ameri-
can interna tional humane conference held
it's sessions The Milk Producers Asso-
citation of Maryland and Virginia decid-
ed to fight in the courts the tuberculin
test proposed to be applied to mich cows
on dairy farms in the two states by the
Districts heath department. knights
Templar field day was celebrated by the
Grand Commandery of knights Templar
and it's five constituent Communicates
Claude Grahame-White and Clifford Har-
mon gave exhibitions of flying in aero
planes at Benning; Grahame-W White flew
to the War Department and back to Ben
ming. The amateur aviation meet at Col
lege Park, Md. under the auspices OF the
Aero Scientific Club of Washington, was
opened. Directors Of the Washington-Vir-
ginia electric railway virtually became
owner of the Washington, Arlington and
Falls Church and the Washington, Alex
andria and Mount Vernon railways by
the sanction of consolidation given by the
stockholders of the three lines at a re-
cent meeting. Mr.. Albert l.. Wolff an6
four others were injured when an auto
mobile in which they were riding was
struck and demolished by a Chesapeake
Beach railway train. Miss Josephine Hale
was instantly killed by bullet from a
pistol her brother was cleaning. Harry
Walker committed suicide by inhaling
illuminating gas. Among those who died
were Gen. William A. Knapp and Denis
Horigan.