Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-25
THE WEEK,

President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt
carried their contest for the presidential
nomination into New Jersey. where the
campaign continues. with many speeches
made daily Ohio primaries elected thirty
two delegates instructed for Roosevelt and
eight for Taft. with both opponents claim
ing the six delegates at large. The bill
making the Panama canal free to Amer
lean coastwise ships, and forbidding rail-
roads to own competing lines, was passed
by the House of Representatives. ".
Murray Crane, announced that he would
not be a candidate for reelection to me
United States Senate from Massachu-
setts. Over 10000 pounds of beef deliv-
cred by the contractors at Philadelphia
to the transport Prairie, under rush or
unfit. Eight new bishops were chosen
by the General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. among them DR..
w. P. Thirkield. president of Howard
Presbyterian Church ended its sessions
in Louisville. after refusing to open the
pulpit to women. Melville, La. was inun-
dated by the breaking of a levee on the
less. Clarence V. T. Richeson. slayer
of his sweetheart, was electrocuted in
the state prison at Charlestown, Mass.
Henry Spueh Won Armenthal OF the Ger
man nobility, respondent from alcoholism,
which was responsible for the breach Of
the engagement of Mrs. BENJAMIN Rosen-
blatt, niece of the late Nelson Morris. to
marry him, committed suicide in a Chi
cago hotel.
Foreign.
A negro uprising in Cuba assumed
| formidable proportions; towns were loot
ed, railway tracks torn up and many
otx <~0A nnrf
Prairie sailed for Guantanamo with ma
rines for the protection Of American in
terests: the State Department denies
intention of Intervention. The Mexican
| rebels under Orozco. again defeated, at
Rellano, by the federal forces under Gen.
Huerta, retreated; President Madero re-
ports the backbone of the rebellion bro
ken: Aapata, the bandit chieftian. from
Morelos. threatens to attack the capital
Mexico City, within eight days unless
Madero resigns. China's revised esti-
mates for 1912 showed revenues of $2O7,-
Premier Tang Shao-yi resigned his port
folio. Paul Deschanel was elected presi-
dent of the French chamber Of deputies.
King Frederick VIII of Denmark was
buried with his fathers in the historic
Roskilde Cathedral. Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst and Mr.. and Mrs. Pethick
Lawrence were sentenced to nine months
imprisonment on conviction OF conspiracy
and melting followers to malicious DAM
age. In fierce fighting in the streets Of
Budapest between strikers and police
cars were overturned. church attacked
and a factory set on fire, many being
injured. Transport workers, 1000 strong,
went on strike in London; the general
food supply of the city is threatened, and
the transport liner Minneapolis was held
up at her dock. Prosecution for SANDER
was begun in Brussels against origina-
tors of report that the Queen OF Bel
GUM, surprising her husband with lady
Of the chamber, had shot the woman
dead. Frank D. Hill. American consul
general at Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main, was
killed by falling over staircase railing
in the hotel in which he was dwelling.
Among those who died during the week
were: Sir julius Wernher. head of the De
Beers Diamond Syndicate; Count No
colai Dmitrijevitch Won der Osten-Sacken,
Russian ambassador to Germany.
In the District.
Newman and Costello factions of the
District of Columbia democracy engaged
in a controversy over the right to the en-
blematic use Of the portrait of Speaker
Champ Clark. Wives OF democratic con-
gressmen and their guests. women whose
husbands or forefathers were prominent
leaders in the party, 500 in number, gath
cred at breakfast in Rauscher's to COM
memorate the 140th anniversary of the
birth of Dolly Madison. Layton H. Bur-
dette held the lead and increased it ma
terially in the anti-hy crusade contest.
The clean city committee, perpetuatlng
the recent campaign for the sanitation of
the National Capital. was organized, with
W. H. Richardson as chairman. The
police and firemen pension bill. a substi-
tute measure for the bill passed by the
House. passed the Senate and will go to
conference. Brig. Gen. Robert X Evans,
L. S. A., appeared before the Senate COM
mittee on public buildings and grounds to
urge the erection Of a one-million- seven
Misunderstanding housand-do dollar armory
for the National Guard of the District of
Columbia. Fire Of unknown origin prac-
tically destroyed the stock and greatly
damaged the buildings on Louisiana ave-
nue. occupied the by r. p. Andrews Paper
Company: the loss Is estimated at $3.50 600
or more. Mr. 8. Stils0n Hutchins, suing for
81. 500 monthly allowance from her dead
husbands estate, was denied by the
court. which refused relief pending the
probate of the will or her election to ac-
cept or centest the WILL Mrs. LIE Droict
L. Barber received only fractured wrist
and shock as the result Of fall from the
tower balcony Of the Belmont, 14th and
Clifton streets. the Barber home. Among
w. Hoyt. former territorial governor Of
wyoming. and James s. Topham, pioneer
leather goods manufacturer.