Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-16
THE WEEK
Epi.ome Of Events Ending
September 16, 1911.

Epi.ome Of Events Ending
September 10, 1911.
President Taft started from Boston on
hs long trip 20 the west All charges
against Dr. Harvey w. Wiley. chief
chemist, were dismissed by the Presi-
dent The Chinese cruiser Hal Chi ar
rived in port AT New York: official visits
were exchanged by officers of the cruiser
and army and navy commandments sta
toned at New York. The annual con-
ference of governors. held at Spring Lake.
n j. resolved to protest to the Supreme
Court against what is regarded as m
vasion of state rights by federal courts
The interstate commerce commission
submitted to the Department of Justice
evidence of rebating in immigrant traf-
fc by railroads, and it was decided
to bring suit against the Baltimore and
| Ohio railroad Maine election returns APP
parently showed a slender victory for the
| dry ticket The trial of Jonn }. and
James j. Mcnamara, IL was an
nounced by the court from Los Angeies
will be held October II. Aviator Ward
on his transcontinental aeroplane jour
ney, was delayed by wind and rain at
| Callicoon. n. Y. Aviator Fowler, stopped
| by an accident to his aeroplane ana IN
y
| from the Pacific to thesAtiant.c coast. n
| P. Sherman, aeronaut. to escape death
! from exposure in oc0-m.le flight, slasned
| the gas bag of his balloon with a knf1e'
when the ribcord damned. RainStorm
| caused half million dollars damage to
Pittsburgh, Pa, suburban property Frost
damaged crops in New England to the
value of $J00.Goo, running standing To-
! Skagway to Seattle. foundered off the
Alaskan coast: passengers and crew were
| saved John d. Rockefeller. jr., narrowly
| escaped injury in an accident at Pecan
| tico Hills. n. y, in which five men were
hurt by falling pieces of steel: Ben1a-
| min Harper. ex-auditor Of the War De-
| partment, committed suicide at Fort
| Wayne. Ind. Among those who have
| died during the week were William T.
| Snithers, secretary of state of Delaware.
| Nebraska.
Foreign.
| Stoypin Russian premier. was shot by
an assassin in the Municipal Theater at
| kiev, but is expected to recover. Food
| riots broke out in France. The French
| reply to the German contemporaries
| regarding Morocco was delivered at
| Berlin; agreement seemed assured it was
authoritatively stated. The New West
| minister (B c. branch of the Bank of
\ montreal was TODDeu OF more imam SpUU,
| 600. the thieves escaping. Newfoundland
! proposes union with Canada to share in
| reciprocity with the United States. Oppo-
| sition to the reciprocity treaty with the
| United States continued to arouse anti
| American sentiment by libelous state
| ments. Ali Mira gave up his at
! tempt to regain the Persian throne, and
sought asylum in foreign country, it
was reported. Japan prepared to abandon
it's naval station at Port Arthur opening
| sieged by rebels: foreign missionaries in
disturbed provinces found shelter within
| the city walls; the viceroy was COM
| manded by imperial edict to suppress the
| uprising. Whole villages were wiped
| out and the victims number thousands
| in Turkey from the cholera scourge. Sew
eral lives were lost in a cyclone that
| swept the coast of Nicaragua. A stream
eruption. spread destruction in it's path
| and alarmed villages. who sought safety
! in flight; 10000 were homeless.
District of Columbia.
Eighty employees were dropped by the
supervising architects office, Treasury
Department. because of congressional
failure to appropriate money to maintain
the office. The fight for universal trans
| fers on street car lines was referred
by the District railway commission to the
interstate commerce commission as an
interstate problem. Records for cold
September weather We're broken this
week. The High Tent of North America,
| Independent Order of Rechabites. met in
annual session. Mrs. Stilson Hutchins
filed charges of Misrepresentation
against William j. Dante. trustee OF her
husbands estate. and asked for his re-
moval S. G. Peelle. assistant United
States attorney, resigned to take up
private practice. AccletO Palabay. the
Filipino leper isolated by the Wash
ington health authorities, and sent
away secretly. arrived on the Pacific
coast on his way home. AS responsible
for the death of fourteen-year-old Harry
Smith, killed in his cobbler's shop. which
was afterward set afire to conceal the
crime, Antonio Melano. an Italian. was
| held by the coroner's jury. Marjorie
Newheiser was killed when run down by
a motor cycle; Abraham Rice operator
| of the cycle, was exonerated by the
coroners jury. The Commissioners is
| sued regulation forb bidding the carrying
| of passengers on cycles built for one. Ten
| people were injured in a rear-end COLI
| sion on the Columbia traction line Will
| liam F. Tolson. bookkeeper for the Amer
| lean Ice Company. respondent because
| of hard luck. committed suicide in Balti-
more. HaZen Langguth, out of work.
drank carbolic acid to end his life.