Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-12
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Ending No.
vember II, 1910.

President Taft sa led from Charleston.
S. c.. on the cruiser Tennessee for an
inspection Of Panama canal conditions.
Mr.. Taft signed a two-year lease Of the
Peabody house at Beverly. Mass, for
the summer White House. Secretary
Meyer presented to the President his
plans to abolish minor navy yards and
save the navy $1OUOO.OOO a year. Ac
cording to report by the Treasury De-
pdrtment, there was more than $4,000
WU,UOO on deposit in the savings banks
of the country, an increase OF s3ol .OOO.-
600, compared with last year. The At
toIney General took steps toward the re-
covery OF 5000 acres of California oil
lands he'd by the Southern Pacific Rail
way Company. DemocI attic victories re-
suited generally from the election-demo-
sixty: the republican majority in the
Governor OF New York. Harmon of
Ohio. Wilson OF New Jersey. and Foss
OF Massachusetts. a federal suit was
brousht at Jackson. Tenn. asainst the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the
combined maximum penalty asked
amounting to S3O,OS4, 600. Charges OF
grossly discriminatory freight rates were
made against the Hartman lines by ium
Der companies. The striking expreSsmen
of Jersey City declined to ratify the
agreement effected between the express
companies and their employees in New
York. multiplying. the agreement made in
New York. Sixty-five dead miners were
taken out of the shaft near Deligua, Cal,
and twelve are still unaccounted for
Foreign.
King George of England, set June 80,
1911, as the date for the coronation. a
conference between members of the two
houses of the British parliament on a
plan to limit the veto power of the lords
ended In disag. cement. AN agreement
was signed in London by which + 81 sh
German and French banks will paftici-
pate In the loan of S5OO00,OO0 which an
American syndicate will make in China.
An English advisory board to deal with
The hanging OF DIR. C.1ppen was postponed
until November %. Germany refused to
acct de to the proposals submitted by the
United States in the potash dispute. Ger
man bankers agreed to take the Turkish
loan of approximately S31, 5000 En-
peror William and other membe of the
German imper al family attended the
opening lectures Of Prof. Hugo Muenster-
berg of Harvard, and G. Alphonso Smith
of the Unive sity of Virginia. at the Uni
yer sty of Berlin. Northern Germany was
swept by a snOwstorm, Berlin being COM
p lied to communicate with London by
means of the telephone by way of
France. Socialists and Catholics attempt
ed to overthrow the cabinet recently
formed by NJ. BRAND. but failed. vote
of confidence being adopted by 23j to 2C3.
Several villages in eastern France were
inundated by rivers overlooking their
banks, and Paris feared another overflow
of the Seine. The United States and
other leading powers of the world notified
the republic of POI tugal they were ready
to resume negotiations with the COVE n
ment on current affairs. Ambassador
Wilson reported attacks on Americans in
Mexico; Mexican officials investiga ed the
lyrching of Mexican at Rock Springs,
Tex. which caused the anti-American
outbreak. The conference of American
and Canadian rec. procity commission ers
adjourned in Ottawa. to meet again In
Washington i'm January. A Japanese
court found twenty-six men guilty of
plotting gainst the life of the emperor.
Chinese rioters demolished the Anne. lean
Presbyterian Church, hospital and college
in Kwangsi province, the missionaries es-
Gaping.
District.
With a complete general plan of d mu-
nicipal lighting plant In mind, Commits
sioner Judson announced that Congress
will be asked to appropriate money for
the preliminary steps toward Harvesting
the enormous water power a Great Falls.
Health Officer Woodward secured from
the Commissioners an order that here
after all milk bought for institutions I'M
der the District government shall be
laSteurized tuberc ulIn-tested. Six
thousand members of the Holy Name
Society of the archdiocese of Baltimore
MAJ ched along Pennsylvania avenue Sun
day afternoon as a pubic protest against
profanity and immortality. Senator Ste
phen b. E!kins was brought here i'll from
his home in West Virginia. John 4. Sims,
former local superintendent of the Life
Insurance Company of Virginia, was in
dicted for alleged embezzlement. Maurice
7. Clagett was placed under $1,000 bond,
charged with annoying Miss Bertha
Maus. James Douglas Brady, three years
old. was run over by motor truck and
killed. DR.. Henry NJ. Newman commit
ted suicide by shooting. Among those
who died were Col Wallace Clay Leon
ard Butler Fitch. Edward Graves aud