Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-29
WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 20, 1910

President Taft decided t. appoint Will
liam II. Lewis. a negro, an assistant att
torney general Of the United States; the.
President directed that all appointments.
Of experts by the tariff board be made on
merit, without reference to politics.; the
President commuted the sentence of
Frank B. Clay, a West Point cadet. son
Of Senator Clay Of Georgia: the President
was the guest OF honor at luncheon
given by the officers of the Argentine
training ship Sarmiento. SEE etary Bal
1inger issued an order for the sale at auc-
ton Of 1.650 COO acres Of Indian lands in
Oklahoma. The interstate commerce
commission suspended lumber. cement
railroads. An anonymous correspondent
promised Secretary MacVeagh an enor-
nous conscience fund II men guilty of
tariff frauds are not prosecuted Printers
eral Hitchcock for his award Of the en-
velcpe contract. Plans were perfected
for establishing bureau of bank credits
In the Treasury Department. Attempts
to counterfeit Mexican and NicaraEuan
banknotes were discovered by the United
States secret service. The census bureau
ordered recount OF the population OF
Tacoma, Wash. Alan r. Hawley and
Augustus Post Of the balloon America II
established new worlds record by flying
1850 miles. The National Lumber Asso-
citation announced a gift Of 100000 to the
Yale Forestry School Records were
broken at the International aviation tour
nament on Long Island. Senator Root in
a speech in New York urged the election
OF Stimson as means OF tnsurtnE the re-
election Of President Taft, with the posi-
BILE alternative Of the party nominating
Roosevelt in 1912 to save 1t from COM
plete defeat
Foreign Affairs.
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen, convicted Of the
murder Of his wife. app called his case In
London: Ethel Clara Leneve was acquit-
ted on a charge Of being an accessory
after the fact to the murder of Belle
Gilmore. Russia declined to meet the
English proposal to arbitrate the dispute
regarding the steamer Oldhamia and the
American request for compensation for
the seizure OF the cargo. Emperor Will
liam was warmly welcomed at Brussels
| as the guest of King Albert. The Hague
court Of arbitration decided the Orinoco
claims case. giving the American COM
pany an award of '$46,s67. with . per
$1,000 costs. The separation Of church
and state was announced in a decree is
sued by the government at Lisbon, and
another decree declared for the freedom
of the press. Premier BRAND said that
| confessions of the leaders in the recent
railway strike showed a plot to ruin
France. The religious debate on the pad
lock bil'' was begun in the senate at
Madrid. King Victor Emmanuel viewed
the destruction wrought by the recent
hurricane in the Island of Ischia; the loss
of life was estimated at 200; thousands
are homeless. The Chinese regent de-
cided upon the early opening of China's
parliament: the event probably to take
place in 1913, instead of 1916 The loan
of $jOOOO,OOO to China by group of
foreign bankers was consummated in
Peking. An explosion occurred on the
Haitian gungoat Liberte, and of the
ninety persons aboard seventy were
either killed or drowned
In the District.
The tuberculin test question was tenn
porarily settled between milk producers
and the health department, and an in
quiry into charges of an alleged milk
trust was started by the Department Of
Justice. The Supreme Court denied the Pc
titiors of the trading stamp companies
doing business in Washington for a re-
view of the cases which were decided
against them by the Court of Appeals Of
the District of Columbia. Bishop Harding
laid the corner stone of thc new addition
to the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat
horse show was held. Among those who
died were Col. James Rockwell and Capt
Electus A. Pratt.