Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-24
WEEK SEPTEMBER "a, 1910.

President Taft reiterated his position
as to the New York state situation in
a conference with Theodore Roosevelt
at New Haven, Conn. Denouncing the
congressional pork BARREL" President
Taft, in a speech at Cincinnati, urged
reconstruction of the method of dealing
with waterways improvement. Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon, in accepting his TWEEN
tieth nomination for Congress, at Dan
vile. ILL.,, defied his enemies and stood
by the tariff. Representative Tawney
was beaten for denomination by $500
plurality. Col. Black reported that the
keel of the battleship Maine is submerged
eight to ten feet deep in the mud Of
Havana harbor The interstate commerce
commission suspended increased rates on
forty roads in the west and southwest.
Canada decided to establish a govern
ment bureau in this city. A postpone
ment of the Lorimer investigation until
after the November elections was denied
by the senatorial committee in Chicago.
Startling disclosures of railroad imitation
and stock manipulation were made at the
Chicago rate hearing before the inter-
state commerce commission. The annual
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic was held at Atlantic City. The
eighty-siXth annual meeting of the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows was called to or
der in Atlanta, Ga. Charles r. Heike of
New York, former secretary ana treas
urer of the American Sugar Refining
Company. convicted of conspiracy in I'M
derweishing frauds. was sentenced to
eight months imprisonment and fined
$4,000. The former wife of Chanler en-
tered suit to have the antenuptial agree
ment with Lima Cavalieri nullified. The
hearing of the extradition Of Porter
Charlton began in Newark A train on
in, fn
a river in Kansas on account of wash
out. sixteen persons being killed and thir-
teen injured Thirty-nine were killed in
head-on collision on an interurban
trolley line near Fort Wayne, Ind.
Foreign Affairs.
The German metal WORKERS organiza-
ton in Berlin decided to lock out or
ganized workmen in the trade October
unless the striking shipbuilders return to
work before that day. Indignation was
shown in France over the report that
Turkey will place the thirty-milliion-dol-
lar loan in England; the French foreign
office regards the portes attitude as lit
tie short of blackmail King Manuel Of
Portugal created sixteen peers and issued
a decree of amnesty for minor political
oHenSeS. The Bulgarian government cri-
sis was solved by the reconstruction of
the cabinet. DR.. Crippen and Miss Lee
neve were committed for trial on the
charge of numbering Belle Elmore. One
hundred and fifty persons were hurt and
eleven were killed and twenty-five in
jured in train wrecks in Portugal and
Austria, respectively. Vineyards and
olive orchards in southern Spain suf-
fered serious damage from floods. Mo-
manned Bey Ferid.. president of the
Egyptian National Congress, in session
in Geneva. denounced Theodore Roose-
welt for dishonoring Egypt on it's own
soil. A bomb factory was discovered and
seized in Brians, Russia. Russian Jews
won test case which decided that or
ders of expulsion were illegal. George
Chavez crossed the Alps in a monoplane,
rising at Brig, in Switzerland, and de-
scending at Domo d'Ossola, in Italy; in
attempting to land he broke both legs.
Thirty deaths and fifty cases of cholera
were reported from Naples. American
Secretary Of War Dickinson was ban
quoted in Picking.
In the District.
The acting superintendent of the insur-
ance department submitted his annual
report to the Commissioners. Commits
si6ner Rudolph approved Chief Wagner's
recommendation asking that members of
his force be allowed thirty days sick
leave. Under a decision given by Cor
poration Counsel Thomas, Coroner hewitt
will call in the services of a jury in all
future inquests over bodies of suspected
suicides. The annual report of the inspector
of gas and meters for the District was
submitted. The Secretary Of the Navy
arranged with the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for the construction and opera
ton of a new track connection with the
Washington navy yard Forty-six thou
sand pupils were enrolled in the Washing
ton public schools. Health officer Wood
ward announced the beginning of an in
spection to keep children who have been
exposed within the last three weeks to
acute cases of infantile paralysis from the
schools for at least fourteen days. Miss
Edna Doe a Washington singer was