Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-15
THE WEEK
Epitoms OF Events Ending April
Ii, 1911.

The House of Representatives passed
the bill providing for popular election OF
United States senator's; the Canadian reci-
procity bill was favorably reported from
the ways and means committee. President
Taft positively denied that japan is in
any way connected with the mobilization
Of troops on the Mexican border. Seventy
three miners lost their lives in the Pan
coast colliery, at Scranton. Pa One hun
dred and twenty-eight lives were lost IN
tho Banner mine in Alabama. Mrs. Ella
Wilson was sworn in as mayor of Hun
newell, Kan. Tom L. johnson, former
mayor Of Cleveland: John McLane, for
mer Governor of New Hampshire, and
Denman Thompson. the actor, arc dead
Local option was defeated in the Illinois
legislature st. Louis and other places in
the southwest were visited by tornado.
Judge William S. Kenyon. republican.
was elected United States senator by the
Iowa legislature. Jacob Chute. three times
mayor OF Schenectady, n. Y, committed
suicide. A new trial was granted to DR..
b. Clark Hyde. convicted of the murder
Of Col. Thomas M. Swope, in Kansas
City. DR.. David Jayne Hill resigned Us
ambassador to Germany. Mexicans have
been warned that American lives and
property must not be jeopardiZed by Dor
der warfare. Curtis Guild. jr.. former
Governor of Massachusetts, has been
made ambassador to Russia
Foreign.
Mexican revolutionists captured the
border city OF Aqua Prieto, after a battle
in which American spectators on the
frontier line were. killed or wounded;
another border city. Juarez. is menaced
by the revolutionists. Fifteen thousand
troops have been called out to suppress
Al. 10, LNran xuy,n
shops have been wrecked and millions Of
bottles of wine destroyed by the rioters.
The new Honduran cabinet has been an
nounced. The Vatican has directed
the separation of church and state with
out reserve. The small coast steamer
Iroquois foundered off British Columbia,
carrying twenty to death German pot
ash manufacturers are expected to con-
cede terms demanded by the United
States. Earthquake shocks felt in
Rome caused alarm and mutiny among
prisoners in the jails. Rebels proclaim
ed republic at Cantillas, de Aceituno,
Spain. Trigesmen still besiege Fee
District of Columbia.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the muster
of District of Columbia Volunteers into
brated by the survivors with parade
and banquet. P. C. Arlington. a United
States sailor and a native of Washing
ton, committed suicide aboard the Dol
phin, lying off the navy yard. Mrs. A. c.
Barney transferred her Washington prop
critics to her two daughters. The Com
mercial National Bank and the National
City Bank will merge. Father Francis
Goldbach. professor of classics at George
town University, was drowned in the
Potomac river. Harvey Phillips, charged
with having shipped ammunition to the
Mexican border under q false label, was
arrested. Dr. Edward Palmer, a noted
botanical explorer. died. Thomas j. Col
Inns, admitting that he started nineteen
fires, is under arrest as an incendiary. w.
C. Sennelbauer. respondent because Of
protracted illness. took his life. George
Rider was accidentally asphyxiated. Mrs.
Sallie P. Shepard, while cooking, was
overcome by carbon monoxide, and died.