Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Epltome Of Events EndlDg April
g, 1911.

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consideration of reciprocity with Canada,
opened; w. ]. Bryan has been accused
Of stirring up facuonal strife in demo-
cratic ranks: a proposition to reopen the
Lorimer case, on the ground of new evil
dence to show that there was one-hun-
dred- dollar ''slush money" fund
used to elect him. is before the Senate
treaty of arbitration with Great Brit
ain it is President Taft's expectation to
lay before the Senate by May Is. A
Of the Chinese exclusion laws
is to be asked Of Congress by the Ha-
waiian legislature. Charles d. Hilles
took the oath Of once az private secre-
vealed by HI. H Kohlsaat as his inform
ant regarding a Lorimer election pool.
testified in court that Edward Hines. a
Chicago millionaire, asked him to con-
tribute to a one-hundred-thousan -doiiar
''slush fund: Mr.. Hines has made denial
Craige Lippincott, head Of the Philadel-
phia publishing house. killed himself with
revolver shot. The North German
Lloyd steamer Princess Irene went ashore
off Fire Island; her passengers were
brought to New York. Gov. Wilson OF
New Jersey in q speech declared against
the theory OF government by superior
people" Mrs. S. D. Armour OF Kansas
intimate woman friend. The order send
ing negro cavalry troops from San An
tonic to towns on the Mexican border
was rescinded on objection from residents.
A socialist is mayor-elect or berkeley
Cal. For the fifth time Carter II. Harri-
son, democrat, has been chosen mayor OF
Chicago Secretary MacVeagh has de-
nounced the civil war pension list as pe-
litical and not patriotic. and has advo-
Gated approximation pensions Sixty
I'D SnffnCafinn from
smoke in the Pancoast mine, near Ihroop,
Pa.
Foreign.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS treaty has been
formally ratified; the new Anglo-Japanese
treaty provides for reductions in Japanese
tariffs ON British textile and metal eX-
ports. Great Britain and the United
States will arbitrate the Webster claims
to land in New Zealand; nine hundred
meetings in England have Endorsed arpl-
tration with the United States, and the
Archbishop of Canterbury is to head
religious movement In favor or arpitra-
ton. Reforms demanded by the revoiu.
tionary party in Mexico were advocated
by President Diaz in his message to
Congress-; the revolutiOniSts have so far
refused to entertain peace terms. me
German crown prince and the crown prln-
cess were the guests of honor at din
ner given in the Quirinal by the King
and Queen Of Italy. Turkish forces nave
won victory over the Albanian rebels
Premier Canalejas has formed new
cabinet and announces his purpose to
carry out the program of the retiring
Spanish cabinet. That there are too many
United States war vessels on the great
lakes Is a complaint voiced by Cana
prisoners "S accused 1' Of camortst crimes.
denied that he was Camortst ON the
stand during the trial at Viterbo. Italy.
With the avowed purpose OF assassinating
the Pope man N Fired upon tine
and France are expected to demand tariff
concessions from the United States SINH
lar to those extended to Canada In the
pending agreement. Plague continues to
ravage Manchuria and many deaths are
reported from eastern Java A new
military program, appointing the regent
Of the empire commander-in-chfef and
proposing the increase and moderniZa-
China.
In the District.
A national university for Washington
was urged by DR.. Andrew. D. White in a
speech at a luncheon rendered him by B.
H. Warner. John Hays Hammond
charged d: J.. Sully. who is suing him
for $1.5OO.OOO. with taking him in in a
business deal. James Ormond Wilson.
formerly superintendent of pub
lie schools, died. aged eightyfour years.
Mrs. F. c. Hunt was badly hurt and her
child escaped injury when both fell from
q second-story window. A robber dressed
In woman's garb help up with a revolver
and looted q grocery store in daytime.
Arthur NJ. Frances was indicted for the
theft Of rare stamps while he was a chief
clerk in the Post Office Department. With
of pulpit assignments, the
Baltimore conference. Methodist Episcopal
Church. came to an end. Arguments in
the Hurd spirit influence" suit closed,
and the case was taken under advisement
by the court. Census bureau employees
and public school children have been put
fire drills. Thomas Anderson. a
railroad engineer, was killed by an auto
mobile truck. c. c. Lancaster and Sam
uel Nice. Hawken exchanged vituperative
epithets and were restrained from per-
sonal encounter in a row which has split
the Northwest Suburban Citizens Asso-
citation. Carl Hartman. twenty years
old. a youth posing as the son Of a mag
nate, is under arrest, charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.