The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-07-08
At THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals of New York denied the petit
ton of the Wright Company asking
modification of the decision dis
solving the temporary injunctions
obtained by the Wright Company
against Louis Paulhan, the French
aviator, and the Herring-Curtiss
Company, of Hammondsport, n. Y.
The first commencement at Har-
ward University under the direction
of President A. Lawrence Lowell
came to an end with the annual
meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Fra
ternity, which had Governor Charles
E. Hughes, of New York, as its
orator.
One police lieutenant, 6 sergeants,
a detective and Is patrolmen were
charged with pilfering from the Po-
lice Relief Association Fund by the
board of police commissioners Of st.
Louis
An explosion at the DUPONT Pow
der Plant, at Dupont, Wash, killed
Thomas Blake, foreman, of Wau-
kesha, Wis; George Strouse, of st.
Paul, and Edward Smith, of New
Orleans
The Congressional Bonding Com
mission in apreliminary report just
completed. will favor the bonding OF
all government employees by the gov
eminent itself.
Ex-senator Curtis Guild, of Mas
sacausetts, was appointed special am
baSsador to represent the United
States at the Mexican centennial cele-
bration.
President Taft is expected to name
ex-President Roosevelt as chairman
OF the Peace Commission.
Cadet C. V. Boykin, of the third
class at West Point, was dismissed
for lying.
The Swiss government has issued
decree postponing the prohibition
on the importation of California sui
phur-dried fruit until July l, 1911.
according TO official information re-
ceiyed at the State Department.
/ Out $50 candidates who took the
mental examination for admission to
the Naval Academy only 104 passed,
according TO reports received at the
Navy Department from the eXamin-
ing board.
Edwin S. Holmes, Jr, former as
sociate statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, pleaded guilty
to connection with the cotton leak
scandal and was fined $4,000 in
| Criminal Court No. l.
The sailors Of the battleship
Louisiana raised s1,559.25 for the
widows and orphans of the men who
were lost by the laundering of the
Naval tug Nina.
The State Department wants China
to ratify the s30,000,000 Hankow
railroad loan and has sent instruc-
| tions 10 Minister Calhoun.
William T. Thompson, of Nebras-
ka. has been appointed solicitor OF
the Treasury to succeed Maurice D.
O'Connell, resigned.
A House bill amending the immi-
CATION laws TO permit certain persons
| to complete their naturalization
without being subjected to the delay
generally incident to the naturaliza-
ton process was passed by the Sem
ate.
The state Department wants the
manufacturers in the United States
to participate in the great interna-
, tional industrial exposition to be held
at Turin. Italy.
The Senate adopted the joint reso-
luton. which originated in the
House, authorizing the appointment
of a peace commission.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion announced that the federal law
regulating the hours of service OF
train crews was declared constitu-
tional by Judge Morris, OF Iowa. in
test case brought by the Illinois
Central Railroad.
The appropriations made by the
session OF Congress Just closed
amounted to s1.027.133,446. accord
ing to an official announcement made
by the House Appropriations Com
mittee.
More than one-third of Turkeys
total trading is done through Con-