The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-26

NEW YORK, March 26.-Among the
important news events scheduled for
the coming week are the following:
Monday.
Medal OF the American Geographical
society will be presented to Sir Ernest
Shackleton, the British explorer, al
New York.
Canadian Hospital association will
open its fourth annual convention IN
Montreal.
Catholics of Louisville will begin
three-day celebration in connection
with the enthronement of the new
bishop. the Rt Rev. Denis O'Donag-
hue.
Mrs. Taft will celebrate Easter Mon
day with a ball az the White House.
Filing of evidence by defense In
government suit to dissolve the al
legged Union acific-Southern Pacific
merger.
Proposition of municipal ownership
Of the street car system will be voted
on by citizens of Des Names.
American Association of Central
Passenger and Ticket agents will hold
55th annual convention in Havana.
Cuba.
William T. Aldrich, son of the Rhode
Island senator. and Miss Dorothy
Davenport. of Boston. VIII be married
An international fete will be held
in New York for the benefit of the as
sOciation for the blind.
Pure food exposition to continue for
three weeks. will open in Cincinnati
Tuesday.
Minister from Holland and Nine.
Loudon will sail for Europe, to be alb
sent until October.
Conference on corporation regula-
tons between representatives of the
various Canadian provinces opens in
ottawa.
Miss Harriet DAILY, daughter of the
late copper king, Marcus Daily and
Count Anton Sigray of Hungary will
be married in New York
Sir Ernest Shackleton the holder
of the fartheSt South record. will lee
ture in Carnegie hall. New York.
British parliament VIII reconvene af-
ter Easter recess, when the govern
ment will submit it's resolutions con-
corning the house of lords.
American Telegraph and Telephone
company (the Bell ("trust') will hold
special meeting of stockholders to in
crease capital from $300,000.000 to
100000.
Special election will be held to pass
on the annexation of Georgetown,
Wash, to Seattle.
A conservation and state develop
congress VIII open in Lincoln. Neb.
versary of the birth of John Tylet,
tenth president of the United States.
Wednesday.
Convention to consider the amend
ment of the New York state law for
the taxation of manufacturing corpor-
ations will be held in Rochester.
New York senate and assembly
committees will hold public hearing on
the Bracket Gray local option bill.
Extra session of the Philippine
Legislature will meet in Manila to
complete legislation on public works.
Thursday.
American Oriental society will be-
gin its 122nd annual meeting at Johns
Hopkins university. Baltimore.
Maximum and minimum features of
the Payne Aldrich tariff bill go into
effect at midnight.
Contracts between miners and oper-
ators expire in nearly all of the i'm
portant bituminous coal districts of
the country.
Trial of Architect Huston, alleged to
have been implicated in the Pennsyl-
vania capitol graft, is scheduled to
begin at Harrisburg.
Friday.
George Cabot Wards resignation as
secretary of state of Porto Rico be-
comes effective.
Unlisted department of the New
York stock exchange will be abolished
Minimum price of IS a thousand for
brick will become effective throughout
the country.
Manchurian posts agreement be-
tween China and Japan goes into ef-
feet
Tests for the seven submarines
comprising the third submarine fiotilla
will begin in Narragansett Bay.
Receivership of the Zion City prop
erty of the late John Alexander Dow
lie, near Chicago, will come to an end
American Express company will
take over the express business of the
eUnion Pacific an dother western roads
adding 5000 miles to its system.
General James s. Clarkson will re-
tire as surveyor of the port of New
York.
Millions of dollars in dividends viii
be disbursed by railroad and industrial
corporations.
Congress of the republic of Mexico
will convene in semi-annual session.
Saturday.
Eulogies on the late Representative
Cushman. of Washington. will be helC
in Washington, both representative
and senators participating
Four brotherhoods of railroad EN-
ployes will begin a session at Wor'
cester, Mass.
Hebrews from all over the country
will gather in Washington for the ma.
tlonal convention of the Independent
Order of B'nai Birth
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