Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-31
THE WEEK
EpitOme Of Events Ending De-
cember 81, 1910.

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President Taft sent a New Year mes
sage of appreciation to every officer and
man of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
wherever stationed; the President ap-
proved the expenditure of s30.oGN.0OO for
reclamation work i'm the west 1t was
learned that President Taft and eX-Presi-
dent Roosevelt were carrying on an active
correspondence. that the President had
solicited and received the advice of his
predecessor :nd that they had exchanged
Christmas fluctuations of cordial ma
ture Secretary Meyer i'm a letter to
President Taft denied the statements of
Sir Hiram Maxim that gun explosions In
the United States Army and Navy are
due to the kind Of smokeless powder used.
1t was announced that Attorney General
Wickersham would reject pleas for
clemency to be made by members of the
bath tub trust" and would insist on jail
sentences for those found guilty. Secre-
tary Nagel OF the Department of Com
merce and Labor Recommended in his re-
port the merit system in preference to
scholastic examination for promotions In
his department. Commander Sims sub
mitted a statement to the Navy Depart
ment explaining his London speech,
which aroused resentment in Germany.
Chairman Payne consented to support
Mr.. Taft's plan for the creation of a
permanent tariff commission. Arch
Hoxsey, the Wright aviator established a
new worlds record by an altitude flight
Of 11.474 feet at Los Angeles. The civil
suit against the beef trust was dismissed
in the federal circuit court in Chicago.
at the request of the governments, in
order to clear the way for trial of the
packers on criminal charges. Just as
he was about to be arraigned in court in
A1>, It'd \
banker Joseph G. Robin had taken
poison, and the case was postponed; the
Northern Bank of New York. with nine
branches, was closed by the New York
state superintendent of banks. Sixteen
men were killed and several others are
expected to die as result Of a boiler eX-
plosion at an icehouse at Moorehead
Lake, Mass. prisoner i'm the Hot
dering Of 4. sheriff, was taken from an
officer by mob and shot to death.
Foreign.
A dispatch from Paris stated that the
suspension by the Bank Of France Of the
sale of gold was not directed against
America, but to protect it's gold reserve.
One hundred and fifty members of the
French chamber of deputies united in a
petition to the government for new
trial for Durand, secretary of the Coal
Handlers Union, now under sentence Of
death Marquis Miro Paula and Alex
andre Laffon were killed by fall of
300 feet with an Antoinette aeroplane at
lssy. France. Farewell receptions were
given on American warships at Cher
bourg. France. The Royal Aero Club of
England received a challenge from the
Aero Club of America for the interna-
tional aviation cup. The biplane of
Claude Grahame- White was DESTROYED by
nre as ne was preparing to start from
Dover. England. on his second attempt
to win the Baron de Forest prize
burg that the expulsion of Jews from the
Russian capital had begun. Three COM
municants died and twenty-seven others
were made sick in ST. Petersburg when a
Lutheran church elder filled a cup with
poison instead Of wine. Mai. Gen. Du-
vail, commander OF the Department Of
the Philippines, caused military agents to
search Japanese houses In Manila: the
local police aided. A cable dispatch from
Tome STATED that large majority of
ninety thousand railroad employees in
Italy voted in favor Of strike. It was
reported that a clash had occurred he
tween troops of Santo Domingo and Haiti
at point on the border. Mexican in
su[rectos were driven from Nal Paso by
FEDERAL scouting force
District.
The District Commissioners announced
that the lights on vehicles rerulation
nom1nally in force since December ~
will be rigidly enforced after and inc,ud.
ing tomorrow night. With the ice and
snow on the streets softened by, the sun
added forces of white wings and n,,,,,-
per OF fiushers managed to clean q num-
Der or the streets in the downtown sec
ton Of the city. Attorney General Wick
ersnam issued new regulations for the
go into effect January l. fixing the hours
OF employment at from am to ; nm
District Auditor Tweedale asked the
controller of the Treasury to decide
Mhetner teacher in the District schools
is permitted by law to employ and nav
substitutes for extended periods. The
new Brookland school for colored pupils
was formally accepted by the Commits
sioners after inspection. DR.. Donald M.
Gallie of the University of Illinois was
elected president of the Institute of Dental
Pedagogics at the annual convention in
this city. John AmbrOsia shot and killed
Angelo Appitto. Frank Mannarino was
arrested for the alleged killing of his son
in-law, Francesca Cristandi. in the for
mer's store in Pennsylvania avenue.
Charles G. BastOn was indicted for the
murder of his wife.
fire in the basement of the Oxford
building. 18th street and New York ave-
nue. northwest. did several Thousand dol
lars damage before extinguished. Frank
Healy. for seventeen years an inmate of
the Government Hospital for the insane
fell heir to an estate worth $2ODOOO by
the death of his brother Edith Cope
land and Florence Thomas. both colored,
were killed by illuminating gas in their
room. Harry NJ. Ferris commit. ed sui
eide by inhaling gas. William LIE. CHI COM
mitted suicide by shooting. Among those
who died were Maj. W. +. Huxford DIR.
D. Elmer Wfber. James Cecil Hooe, j.
Hancock Robinson, George w. Bell and
Christopher Meade.