Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-15
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Fading July
Is, 1911.

| Gov Dineen, testifying in the Lorimer
| case before the Senate investigating COM
| mittee, contradicted the testimony OF Ed
| ward Hines, who said that President tart
| favored the election of Senator Lorimer.
! The Senate reached an agreement to vote
! on bills upon which 1t proposes to act
and have them all disposed of August Z.
| preparatory to adjournment. The re-
moval of DR.. Harvey W. Wiley. on the
| charge of employing lawless methods OF
| conducting the bureau of chemistry, was
| recommended by an investigating COM
| mittee of the Department of Agriculture
and the finding was Endorsed by Attor-
ney General Wickersham: the House
| committee on expenditures in the ASrl-
cultural Department proposed to probe
| the matter. Attorney General Wicker
sham was charged by Delegate Wicker
| sham of Alaska with allowing the statute
| of limitations to intervene to prevent the
prosecution of the alleged coal frauds in
! the territory. Bud Mars sustained
possibly fatal injuries in fall from his
aeroplane at Erie, Pa. Revenue officers
| and officers and employees Of a butterne
factory was arrested at Chicago charged
| with conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment of the butterine>taX. Evelyn Arthur
See, founder of the absolute life cult,
| was found guilty by a Chicago jury of
| the abduction of seventeen-year-o Mil
| dred Bridges. Irregularities in the con-
duct of the quarantine bureau of New
York city are under investigation. An
autOm Oblle was run down by trolley car
| and two persons were killed and three
| hurt near New York. Gov. Hoke Smith
| was elected United States senator by the
| Georgia legislature. Twelve persons, in
| Guiding several from Washington, were
| killed and nineteen We're injured in the
derailment of the Federal express at
Bridgeport, Conn, on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford road; the interstate
commerce commission began an inquiry
| into the cause.
Foreign.
| new treaty of alliance between Great
Britain and Japan was negotiated. MAX
| ing possible the proposed arbitration
| treaty between the United States and
| Great Britain. One hundred persons per-
| ished in Canadian forest fires. Fifty
| lives were lost as the result of the col
| lisiOn of two steamers in Nicaraguan
| waters Edward, eldest son of King
George. was invested as the Prince of
! Wales at Carnarvon Castle, Wales. a
| memorial tablet to William Penn was I'M
| veied at the Church of All Hallows,
London. Clashes between Maderistas and
| federal troops We're reported from vari-
Gus parts of Mexico. The workings of
| the Cammorists We're explained before
| the court at Viterbo by a captain of
| earibineers. Russia informed Germany
| of its support of France in the Moroccan
| situation. John W. Gates, ill in Paris.
was reported improving. Five were killed
| and many wounded when civil guards at
| SaragOSSa, Spain, fired into mob of
| strikers. Venezuelan authorities failed to
| find traces of Castro, reported to have
landed on the Colombian border. Emma
Games, prima donna. and Emilio de
Gogorza, baritone. were married in
| Paris.
District of Columbia.
Aviator Atwood. landing his aeroplane
| in the back yard Of the White House.
called on President Taft having completed
| his trip from Boston: he made spectacu-
| lar flights above Washington. One hun
| dred thousand dollars a year as the in
| come of the estate Of Stilson Hutchins
the allowance of Mrs. Hutchins at the
hearing before Auditor Dent. Six men
were arrested on charges Of making
ha ndbooks. The Naval Battalion of the
National Guard sailed on its annual
cruise to participate in maneuvers at
Gardeners bay, r. l. Mrs. Laura Geagan.
convicted Of forging check, was
paroled by Justice Anderson under suS
pended sentence. Senior GiIberto CreSpo,
the new Mexican ambassador arrived in
Washington. Emil Kuhn succeeded the
late Samuel Einstein District pound
| master. Clarence King succeeded c. f.
Norment as president of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company. The
price of gas was lowered to 81 cents by
the Georgetown Gas Light Company.