Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-09
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Ending March
.. 1912.

> The formation of a national board of
trade was proposed by President Taft.
President Taft. answering Theodore
Roosevelt. in a speech made at Toledo,
Ohio. denounced the recall of judiciary
decisions. Senator Dixon, manager OF the
Roosevelt campaign. challenged Mr.. Nc
kinley, in charge of the Taft cause, to
arrange nationwide primary before the
meeting of the republican convention: re-
fusal was made. The resignation OF Sem
ator Leroy Percy was demanded in reso-
lutions adopted by both houses Of the
Mississippi legislature. The nomination
of Mahlon Pitney for the Supreme bench
was confirmed, and later reconsidered by
the Senate. The arbitration treaties with
Great Britain and France, with changes
and notifications, were ratified by the
Senate. Women and children of the fami-
lies of Lawrence, Mass, strikers testified
to the cruelty practiced upon them - the
authorities: denial was made by town Of
f1cials in testimony before the committee
of investigation of the House. An Ital-
ian bark was rammed and sunk near Nor
folk. Five were burned to death in a fire
at Beaver. Pa Five were killed and fifty
injured In a wreck on the Wabash road
near West Lebanon. Ind.
Foreign.
The south pole was discovered by Capt.
Roald Amundsen December IA, last year,
report being received from him by cable;
he did not encounter the British expedi-
ton. Secretary of State Knox arrived
in Amapala, Honduras; he was welcomed
and entertained extensively by govern
ment officials at Managua, Nicaragua.
Enormous damage was committed by
Chinese republican cabinet decided to
meet at Marking. although the presence
of the president, Yuan Shi Kai. must De
dispensed with; the ministers at Picking
decided to guard the railway and stated
that more troops were needed; the Anerf-
can contingent was ordered to be aug
mented by troops from the Philippines.
Torreon has been fortified by the Madero
government in anticipation of the ,ad-
vance of the rebels under Orozco upon
Mexico City. Admiral Aubrey, Italian
commander at the bombardment of Trip
OIL died at Taranto. Italy. Julian An
drade. Ecuadorean general, WAS killed
while leading police AGAINST revolution
cruisers were provided for IN the new
German naval bill, two extra arfnored
cruisers to be detailed for service abroad.
Window smashing by suffragettes in Lon
rested: MIR. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence
and Miss Christabel Pankhurst were
among those jailed on the charge Of con-
spiracy. The government brought about
sides in the coal dispute to be held next
week in the hope of avoiding the pos
sibility of tremendous strike of miners
Leopold de Rothschild was shot at in
London by q presumed anarchist, the bull
let wounding detective.
District of Columbia.
President Taft left Washington for a
three-day campaign trip into Ohio and
nf 11o n
tirely upon the District of Columbia, ig
noring the half-and-half provision of the
organic act, was proposed in the bill for
the levy of tax to meet the deficiency
in the police and firemen's pension bill.
as approved by the House District COM
mittee. Charges against the Tuberculo-
as Hospital were made in q report to
the womans welfare department Of the
National Civic Federation; workmens
compensation and bills pending for re-
form in judiciary practices were approx
ed by the federation, in sessions during
the week. In celebration of the sixty
second birthday of Champ Clark. he was
guest of honor at meeting in Conven-
ton Hall. Prospective designations of
five members OF the board of education
were rumored. Frank A. Kidd was elect
ed exalted ruler of Washington Lodge.
B. P. o. E. J. Louis Willige, real estate
broker, actuated by nervous breakdown
from business strain, committed suicide
by shooting himself with revolver.
Warren A. Hebard. a liveryman, by as
phyxiation with Illuminating gas, took
his own life. Among those who died
during the week We're Frank j. Land
voigt, for twenty years n labor bureau
statistician; Joseph II. Jackson. forty
six years messenger in the pension
bureau; Capt. G. e. III. Harmon, naval
medical director. retired, and Capt. II.
A. Bales of the auditors office in the
Post Office Department.