Evening star., 1911-05-27
THE WEEK
Epif0me Of Events Ending MAY
~. 1911.

Henry L. Stimson assumed the post Of
Secretary Of War in the Taft cabinet
The Senate discussed without conclusion
the suggested reinvestigation Of the Lori
mer election case Postmaster Hitchcock
was the object Of criticism by Senator
Davis on the floor of the Senate. The
battleship Wyoming. greatest of all
dreadnoughts. was launched at Philadel-
phia. Rev. W. D. Grant has been con-
victed Of hersey by the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church. Charles W..
Morse and John r. Walsh have been re-
fused pardons by President Taft. The
extent Of fire losses In the United States
is a national disgrace, Secretary Fisher
told fire underwriters. Springfield, Mass.
celebrated its 27Jth birthday. Democrats
were advised to keep their party pledges
in a speech made by w. J. Bryan before
the Albany. N. Y. legislature. A negro
woman and her son. accused OF killing a
deputy sheriff, were lynched by a mob
at Okema, Okla. An attempt to break
the will of Mrs. Ole Bull, on the score
that occult teachings had made her in
sane, Is being made in the courts. Presi-
dent Taft took part in the dedication Of
the new public library of New York city.
Foreign.
De la Barra has become President Of
Mexico. without disorder. upon the re-
tirement Of Diaz. who has left Mexico
City on his way to Europe: the legislature
OF the state Of Coahuila, refusing to ac-
cept provisional Gov. Carranza, is men
aced with force by the troops OF Madero:
Capt. Rhys Pryce and 1000 men in his
socialistic army hold Tijuana and propose
the conquest Of Lower California, while
large force is being sent against them
by the reorganized government Of Mexico.
Japan has expressed willingness to con-
slider an arbitration treaty with the
United States if invited to do so. Ameri-
can women were presented to the court
of st. James by the wife Of the Ameri-
can ambassador to Great Britain. The
Canadian premier, in a speech in Lon
cans and welcomed arbitration: Sir Ed
ward Grey, foreign secretary. indorsed
the Monroe Doctrine. A note on the
suggested arbitration treatey from the
German government has been received in
Washington. Vedrine won the Paris-to-
Madrid air race for the Petit Partisan
prize of $4,000, and was decorated by
King Alfonso: M. Berteaux, minister of
war, was killed, and Minister Monis. pre-
mier OF the French cabinet, was wounded
when an unmanageable aeropTane crash
ed into the official party gathered to see
the start Of the Paris Madrid race near
Paris; Gen. Goiran has succeeded to the
post of minister of war. Copenhagen ex-
fleet A wireless message. sent from
Glace Bay, B. c., via Paris, was received
one hour afterward at Dakar, French
West Africa English cotton spinners
have asked consumers to boycott Ameri-
can cotton goods. The construction by
American capital of a railroad in Asiatic
Turkey has been recommended by the
Turkish parliamentary committee. Sixty
passengers were probably lost with the
foundering of the steamer Taboga off
disrupted in the government Of Portugal:
troops have been sent to the north to
auell monarchistic disturbances. The
Cunarder Ivernia stuck in the mouth Of
Queenstown harbor, and after the passen-
gers were transferred was beached.
Meeting little opposition from tribesmen.
busy fighting among themselves. the
French troops have arrived at Fee, the
Moroccan capital. Strike riots in Monte
video are so serious that state of siege
dence that Bacon wrote Shakespeare has
been abandoned by DR.. Owen. Guerrilla
warfare in Haiti Is reported.
District Of Columbia.
At the unveiling Of the monument IN
Arlington cemetery to Maj. Pierre Charles
L Enfant designer OF the capital, ad-
dresses were made by President Taft,
Ambassador Jusserand and Senator Root.
Congratulations upon raising 100000 for
colored Y. NJ. C. A. building In Wash
ington were extended by President Taft
in an address made before those inter-
ested in the project. Miss Florence I.
Marsh. maid to the wife Of the President,
and George w. Riley. electrician at the
White House, were married. The Board
Of Trade voted against the proposition to
merge with the Chamber Of Commerce.
The knights Templar of the District Of
Columbia passed in review before Presi-
dent Taft. marching on their way to
church. Many colleges, academies and
seminaries of Washington held grad
uating exercises during the week. Edward
J. Macdonald shot and killed his wife
in the corridor of the Colorado building.
the action of the grand jury. Barney
Coughlin, a workman on the new Wood
ward building, 10Th and Fl streets, was
mangled and dead when picked up in the
cellar, after fall from the ninth story;
A. B. Gait, whom Coughlin dislodged from
the fifth floor as he fell. sustained a
broken leg and other slight injuries from
his tumble to the ground. Twelve charges
Of arson are contained In the indictment
J. Collins. Capt. Amory H. Shattuck. a
civil war veteran, is dead. The morality
and orderliness of the District OF Colum-
bia, especially as regards Sunday observ-
ance. was defended by the chief Of police,
Maj. Sylvester. The National Civil Serv-
ice Improvement Association was prac-
tically disrupted by the resignation of all
but one officer and most of the members
of the executive committee