Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-04
THE WEEK
EpitOme OF Events Ending Feb
ruary 4. 1911.

President Taft, in a speech before the
Ohio Society. quoted President Mckinley
as the advocate of reciprocity, and strong
~ advocated ratification of the agreement
with Canada: the President Cancelled all
but one date for his southern trip leav-
ing himself free to call a possible extra
session of Congress. Col William p. Bid
die was named commandant of the Ma
rine Corps. At the request of President
Davilla, President Taft proffered the good
offices OF the United States toward the
restoration OF peace in Honduras. The
Senate passed the river and harbor bill.
the Gallinger ship subsidy bill and the
bill providing 612 additional officers for
the army. Senators Brown and Root
spoke against the retention of Mr.. Lori
mer of his seat. The House. voted-2o9
to 43-to hold the Panama exposition III
San Francisco. Republicans in caucus
decided to pass congressional reappor-
tionment bill at the present membership
and not to reduce the representation of
tn esouth. Germany, in answering Amer
lean contractors. contends that the potash
levy is an internal tax and it's own affair.
Reports from the 200 national banks of
the United States showed a decrease in
deposits Of S191 oct. 4SS between November
10. 1910, and January = 1911 The consti-
lar vote on woman suffrage in California
pa ssed the state assembly. having already
passed the senate. Forty people We're
killed and hundreds injured by dyna-
mite explosion in New York
Foreign.
The second parliament of King George
assembled: Mr.. Lowther was reelected
speaker. The Duke OF Cannaught was
officially announced as successor of Earl
Grey as governor general of Canada. f.
r. Mylius, charged with circulating a
libelous report regarding marriage OF
King George. was convicted in London
and sentenced to a years imprisonment.
The German reichstag passed a bill to
tax the unearned increment. DR.. Pant
chenko. on trial in st. Petersburg. jointly
with Count OBrien de Lassv. on a
charge of numbering Count Boutarlin, re-
peated his confession on the witness
stand The governor of Ispahan and his
nephew were shot: the Russian author
tiles refused to surrender the assassin to
the Persian government .,a Persian
parliament in Te.-eran. voted to engage
ilFe American financial advisers. Ener-
getic protests We're made from official
quarters iii Rome. Italy. against the re-
ports on the cholera made to the United
States government by the american ply
stefan stationed at Naples Fight thou
sand Russian laborers on the Eastern
Chinese railway struck. owing to fear
OF plague and the refusal to discharge
native labOrerS. Three hundred persons
lost their lives in the tidal wave which
followed an eruption OF Mount Taal, in
Batangas. LuZon. President Alfaro and
the president-elect of Ecuador announced
that popular sentiment would cause them
to oppose the lease of the Galapagos
Islands to the United States j. A. D.
McCurdy flew from Key West to a point
ten miles from Havana. being forced to
allght in the sea. owing to loss of lubri-
the north coast OF Hayti, near Cape
Haytien. The Honduran congress re-
fused to ratify the Morgan loan arrange
ment.
District.
The House passed the District appro-
priation bill, carrying a prohibition
against the location of a reformatory at
Belvoir. near Mount Vernon Represent
alive Bennett in the House charged that
a member of the excise board was en-
gagged in improper realty transa ctions
the Commissioners began an investigation
j. W. Paxton, the new superintendent OF
street cleaning, started work. Henry g.
+. Mcfarland urged the Senate commit
tee to provide for big Panama celehra
ton In Washington Gov. Wilson. Gen
Leonard Wood. Secretary MacVeagh and
other noted men spoke of their favorite
ideas on hobby night at the National
Press Club. Cotton manufacturers from
north and south are in convention i'm this
city. The Georgetown Gas Light, the
Capital Traction and the Washington
Railway and Electric companies submit
ted annual reports to Congress. The fit
teenth anniversary of the Woman's Ma
tional Foreign Missionary Society was
celebrated. The famous Hope diamond
was purchased by Edward b. Mclean OF
this city. Graduation and class night eX-
ercises of the midyear graduating classes
of the Mckinley and Business high schools
were held. DR. Fiske Elgin was held UNI
der bail to answer to the charge of caus-
ing woman's death by malpractice
Six negroes serving terms at the District
workhouSe at Occoquan, Va, escaped. but
were caught making their way south al
Cherry Hill. Va. Mamie Clarkson, col
ored, was convicted of mingling poison
with coffee prepared for the family of he,
employer. Rufus G. Brooks committed
suicide by inhaling Illuminating gas
Among those who died were Rear Adj
miral Charles S. Sperry. DR.. James Kerr
Maj. George II. Morr'ssey, II. Y. Sand
ford and F. P. Lippincott.