Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Enaing 0cto-
Der II, 1912.

President Taft unveiled q monument to
civil war soldiers of Vermont at Mont
pelier, avoiding discussion OF politics.
woodrow Wilson carried the campaign
for President into California, Kansas.
Missouri. Illinois and Ohio. Theodore
Roosevelt challenged Woodrow Wilson to
prove charges made in campaign speeches
or to retract them. Charles +. TaIt T..
T. Stoteshury, Representative Mckinney
and others testified before the Senate
committee investigating campaign con-
tributions. Battleships gathered IN Ne"
York harbor for the great naval review.
The trust, estimated at s2OW'O0O, created
by the will of Mary Baker Eddy. was
declared void by the court. verdict or
$50. 900 was awarded the plaintiffs IN the
Danbury hatters' case. The trial or 70
lice Captain Becker, charged with the
murder of Gambler Rosenthal. began In
New York; gunner were identified. Two
seamen Of the submarine FL were drown
ed when the craft was struck by great
wave and grounded off Santa Cruz. Cal.
A package containing, $20OO0O, consigned
to the National Park Bank. New York.
from Havana. disappeared in transit:
Four trainmen were killed in a wreck at
Kobeen, Pa. on the Western Maryland
railroad. Nine young men were killed In
an automobile accident at Philadelphia. A
japanese aviator was killed by fall at
Savona, N. Y. Among those who died
were Franck C. Bostock, animal trainer
Kansas, former senator and popullst
leader.
Foreign.
Montenegro declared war against Tur-
key, and the Montenegrin army, under
the crown prince, defeated the forces of
Turkey along the frontier in a number
Of bloody battles; the allied Balkan
states, with Greece, were preparing for
hostilities, but formal declaration Of war
was withheld. In conflicts with Nicara-
guam rebels American forces lost seven
killed. and. seven were wounded: the re-
belfion was crushed, and the American
forces were to be Withdrawn within a
month, Rear Admiral Switzerland an
nounced. Over one hundred Mexican fed
eral soldiers We're surrounded by "a,
patistas at Aqua Blanco and nearly all
Of them killed. Comparative tranquility
along the border of Haiti and SantO Do
mingo was reported; the two customs
houses closed were reOpened- The British
ca binet announced that it was consid-
ering the matter of the Panama canal,
preparatory to drafting reply to the
American attitude, answering to inquiry
in the house of commons.
District of Columbia.
Capt. Julian L. Schley, U. S. A, as
sumed his duties as assistant engineer
commissioner of the District Of Column
bia. William H. K. Redmond, envoy of
the Irish parliamentary party, addressed
large audiences in Washington Plans for
million-doll building, with furnish
ings, for the German embassy were made
public on the arrival of a German COM
mission charged with the consideration
elected president of the Board of Trade.
Inordinate delay in trial of prisoners con-
fined in the Jail was complained of. and
abolition of capital punishment was rec
commended in the report of Supt Louis +.
Zinkhan. Lieut.. H. H. Arnold. army
aviator, won the Clarence H. Mackay
trophy offered for military competition,
in a reconnaissance flight at College Park.
Mrs John B. Early, wife of the man
who was held by the Washington health
office to be q leper and restrained of lib
erty, was granted a divorce from him at
Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Rose Keeling
Hutchins, widow of Sti!son Hutchins. was
refused by the court an order upon the
trustee of the estate for $500 monthly
allowance William F. Smith, house
painter working on the seventh floor of
the Hotel Bellevue, fell ninety feet and
was killed. Frank M. Cissei. real estate
broker ill, committed suicide by taking
poison Among those who died during
the week were Maj. Gen. Frank e.
Smith, L. S. A., retired; Capt. Henry
Casey, civil war veteran and former chief
of the pension division. Office of auditor
for the Interior Department.