Evening star., 1911-08-26
THE WEEK
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August - 1911.

Congress adjourned Tuesday. President
Taft is in Beverly. Mass. where he is en-
joying his first vacation of any length
since last spring. Estimates for the army
budget call for S9421O. 400 for 1912. the
same as this year. John w. Gates, leav-
ing an estate of s35. .O0O. 900. died. Admiral
Togo, crossing into Canada on his way
home to Japan. bade farewell to the United
States at Niagara Falls. n Y. Former
President Roosevelt has declared that
under no circumstances will he be can
didate for President in 1912. Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson, before the con-
gressional investigating committee. con-
tradicted testimony given by DR.. Harvey
Wiley. and blamed the chief chemist Tor
troubles in the department Forty or
more were killed and sixty injured in a
wreck on the Lehigh Valley road near
Manchester. n. H.; Grand Army veterans
returning from the national encampment
at Rochester were among the victims.
| with murder of father. mother and broth
/ er. admits killing his father claiming
self-defense, and declaring the father
committed the other murders. A negro,
| identified as the assailant OF woman he
afterward tried to incinerate by setting
| fire to her house, was burned to death on
| a brush pile by an angry mob at Purcell,
Okla. Henry Clay Beattie, jr.. is on
| trial at Chesterfield Courthouse. Va. for
the murder of his wife. Capt. P. c.
Hams. jr. now serving time in Sing Sing
prison for killing William f. Annis in Au-
gust. 1908. was granted an interlocutory
decree of divorce and the custody of his
| children. Harry n. Atwood completed
his long flight from st. Louis to New
| York breaking the cross-country record
and traverslng the 1926 miles distance in
2s hours % minutes actual flight, and
| II days, hours and 3 minutes elapsed
time.
Foreign.
/ France communicated to Germany the
best terms she will offer for settle
ment of the Morocco question. royalist
| invarion Of Portugal was reported to be
| imminent. Manoel de Arriaga has been
| elected president of the republic. The
actual partition of Finland begun with
the separation of two large parishes from
Niborg province and their addition to ST.
Petersburg. The premier of Japan. Count
katsura, has resigned. Leonardo da
| Vinci's celebrated painting, Mona Lisa,
for which million dollars is said to have
been offered, has been stolen from the
Louvre Gallery in Paris. The British
parliament has taken adjournment until
| October "A. Sir j. p. Whitney, premier
| ity between Canada and the United
States. expressing the opinion that it
| would lead to annexation. The big strike
| of British railway employees came to an
end with mutual agreement to ar
bitrate the differences between men and
employers. The Cuban government or
| dered the deportation of J. NJ. and Man
| uel Nillaverde, newspaper editors, on the
| ground that they were seditious foreign
ers. Pope Plus Is gaining strength.
The seventh annual Esperanto congress.
| held at Antwerp, came to an end. Dr.
Edmund Richter. German engineer. held
| for $685. ransom since May % by
Greek brigands has been rescued.
District of Columbia.
Armies Of Red and Blue. consisting of
| divisions Of the brigade of the National
Guard of the District of Columbia, now
| In camp near Frederick, Nd, are engag-
| ed in mimic battle maneuvers; all per-
| mits to leave camp were withheld for sew
eral days following disturbance in
| Frederick caused by militiamen. James
! Clarence Price. lawyer and banker. vic
| tim of nervous breakdown, and grieving
! over the death of his brother-in-law, kill
| ed himself with a revolver shot in the
| forehead. Fire destroyed the stables of
| the Knox Express Company: Jesse L.
Frazer. charged with incendiariSm, is un-
der arrest on suspicion of having started
Columbia Supreme Court, Louis A. Dent,
has reported in favor of increasing the
allowance, from $1,000 to $500 monthly,
of Mrs. Stilson Hutchins from her hug
bands estate. Mrs. Julia A. Cox, widow
of s. S. Cox, statesman and diplomat,
known to fame as Sunset Cox, died at
her Washington home. Joseph Harper.
clerk of the Juvenile Court, is dead. Mrs.
Minnie Dennis. bringing from Panama
| the body of her husband, volunteer
officer in the Spanish war. for burial in
Arlington, arrived i'm Washington with her
j. six small children destitute. Prof. George
Z. Myers has resigned as principal of Nc
Kinley Manual Training School to become
head of the Normal Manual Training
| School at Pittsburg, Kan. Scott c. Bone.
| former editor of the Washington Post
| and of the Washington Herald, departed
| from Washington to assume editorship
| of the Post-Intelligencer of Seattle,
| Wash. John r. Early, who was isolated
| in a camp near Eastern branch as a
\ leper, has applied for the restoration of
| his pension a disabled veteran.