Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-13
THE WEEK
EpitOme Of Events Ending May
13, l9Il.

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Delicate questions regarding various
aspects Of the commerce Of the port of Ell
Paso have arisen with the capture Of
Juarez by the revolutionists in Mexico;
the customhouse will stay open and the
usual business shipments be cleared;
four men were killed in the streets OF
FL Paso during the battle at Juarez.
President Taft has declared to a delega-
ton from the National Grange that he
will stick by the reciprocity agreement
with Canada. The second division Of the
Atlantic fleet has sailed for Europe. ia
cob Meg. Dickinson has resigned as Sec
rotary OF Var and will be succeeded by
Henry l.. Stimson. Sixty-seven ballots in
the Senate failed to elect a. president pro
tempore to succeed Senator Frye. Reso-
lutlonS authorizing Investigations of the
American Sugar Refining Company. the
army and navy shoe contracts and the
Post Office Department were adopted by
the House of Representatives. The House
passed the farmers free list bill without
amendment. Lieut.. George E. NJ. Kelly.
u. s. A. was killed by a fall from an
aeroplane at Fort Sam Houston. Tex.
Five miners were suffocated in a mine
fire near Wilkes-Barre. The investigation
OF bribery in the Ohio senate has begun
at Columbus. The American Federation
Of Labor has appealed for contributions
to defense fund for J. j. Mcnamara,
the alleged dynamiter, who has been re-
fused bail at Los Angeles. Ex-President
Roosevelt has arranged a trip to shoot
polar bears in the summer of 1912. For
est fires devastated wide areas in New
England and caused several deaths. Tel
ephone communication between New
York and Denver has been accomplished.
A thirty-five- million dollar merger Of
southern cotton mills is planned. The
New York-Havana liner Merida, rammed
by the fruit steamer Farragut, sank;
her 800 passengers were transferred to
the Farragut.
Foreign Affairs.
JuareZ, after a two-day battle. was
taken by Gen. Madero's revolutionary
army and most of the Mexican federal de-
tenders were captured: a provisional cab
met has been selected by Gen. Madero; the
revolutionists have declared their purpose
to advance on the national capital; meas
ureS for the protection of aliens in Mexico
CITY We're considered at a meeting of the
diplomatic corps; President Diaz an
nounces his purpose to resign when peace
is restored. President Estrada of Nicara-
qua has fled; the prospective loan will
not be affected by the change in admins
tration. Baron Rosen, Russian ambassa-
dor to the United States, has been APP
pointed temporary director Of the Russian
foreign office. Delegates from Great Brit
ain, Russia. Japan and the United States
assembled in Washington for the confer
ence for the protection of Pacific fauna.
The German reichstag has refused a con-
stitution to Aisace-LOrraine. Four hun
dred members of the British house of
commons are pledged to further the cause
of arbitration. Eight bodies including
those of Lafayette, the variety actor with
his dog. and four members of his COM
no lob
music hall in Edinburgh. destroyed by
fire. To fight plague and cholera in Rus
sia, $2,OO0,OOO has been voted by the
duma. Preliminary conferences on the
potash controversy are being held in
Hamburg, Germany. A retired officer of
the Germany army. Wilhelm Won CAT
from, was killed in duel near Berlin In
precedented damage to timber by range
fires Is reported from the country of the
Dauphin. Manitoba. Several American
of King Georges reign. Brussels gave
an enthusiastic welcome to President
Fallieres of France. Archduke John Sal
Vador of Hungary has been de-
court of Austria. Imperial edict author
ICES thirty-million-d dollar loan for rail-
road construction in central China. A thou
sand buildings in the town Of Yamagata,
Japan. We're destroyed by fire. Germany
has warned France Of dangerous con-
sequences that may follow the French
occupation OF Fee, Morocco. cabinet
has superseded the grand council in au-
thority in China. The Anglo-Chfnese
agreement for the reduction Of the ex-
portation of East Indian opium into
China was signed
District of Columbia.
DR.. Edward NJ. Gallaudet, for fifty-four
years president of Columbia institution
for the Deaf, has retired-being sue
ceeded by Percival Hall. The Play
ground Association of America held
Its annual session. Anacieto Palabay, a
Filipino. confined In the pesthouse. has
been declared a leper. The Episcopal
diocesan convention decided that church
01gnftaries shall not be addressed by
their titles. DR.. John Van Rensselaer's
collar bone was broken when his auto
mobile colllded with a carriage. A niece
OF Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian pa
triot, Nine. Ambrozovics. is a visitor in
the National Capital. Matte Lomax. the
first woman in fifty years convicted of
murder In the District of Columbia, may
expiate her crime on the gallows. EN-
ployes of the bureau of engraving and
printing have organized a systematic
District Supreme Court has directed an
examination by alienists to determine
the sanity of Stilson Hutchins. Myron A.
Tappan, a civil war veteran and a we'll
known business man, is dead. Uncle
Joe" Cannon. reaching his seventy-fifth
has announced his purpose to
live to be $50 years old. Chinese gam
blers were seized in a raid of Chinatown