Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-10
THE WEEK
EpltOme Of Events EndinG August
10. 1919.

Theodore Roosevelt for President and
Hiram W. johnson for Vice President
were nominated by the new progressive
party at the Chicago convention. Gov
Wilson was formally notified Of his NOM
ination for President, and made his &C
ceptance speech. The wool bill and the
steel bill were vetoed by the President.
| Rolla Wells of st. Louis was named as
democratic national treasurer, and Charles
r.. Crane of Chicago vice chairman OF the
! finance committee The Panama canal
bill with amendments providing free tolls
to coastwise vessels, single-headed gov
eminent, prohibiting railroad-owned ships
from using the canal, and American
registry for foreign-bult American-owned
ships. was passed by the Senate Inc
Senate committee to investigate particlpa-
ton of Americans in fomenting revoiu-
| lions in Mexico and Cuba was ORGANIZED.
The nominations of Col. E. T. Steever 10
| be a brigadier general and Col. george
Andrews to be adjutant general were suo-
mtted to the Senate. Luther Conant
was appointed commissioner OF corpora
| tons. Champ Clark was renominated Tor
| Congress in Missouri. ODD Felio"s OF
four states and the District OF C3lumo s pa
| held a reunion at Pen Mar. Md. The Su-
preme Lodge. Knights Of Pythias. elected
| officers at the convention in Denver, Col.
Graft in the Philadelphia police depart
ment was made the subject or inFestiga-
| ton. Sixteen aldermen OF Detroit, Mich,
were arrested on graft charges. Ihree
men were drowned when their motor boat
was run down by freight steamer in the
Delaware river, near Burlington, n. J.
Foreign.
Representations have been renewed to
the Mexican government and the rebels,
dema nding protection for American lives
and property: detachment of Mexican
| soldiers was reported surrounded by hos
| tile Indians in northern Oaxaca; Mexi-
| cans fired across the border at Ell Paso
| upon American troops, and the fire was
| returned. President Cincinnatus Leconte
| of Haiti and 400 others persisted In an
explosion which destroyed the palace at
| Port au Prince. Dajabon. Santo Domin-
territory. Severe lighting took place at
Wuchang. China. Italian naval ana
military forces occupied zuara, Tripoli;
A severe earth quake shock disturbed
| Constantinople. The porte and Monte
negro agreed to commission to settle
| the frontier dispute. A French cruiser
| was ordered to lombard Agadri Moroc-
CO. in consequence OF the murder OF
German commercial representative. A
! new royalist pot was discovered by the
| Portuguese government. The Pope. 1t was
announced, will receive q legacy OF $2SS,
eco from the estate of the late Cardinal
| Anthony Fischer of Cologne. One thou-
sand freight handlers went on strike at
| Port Arthur and Fort Williams. On
tario. BY explosion in a mine at Gerthe,
Germany, 1OS miners were killed.
District of Columbia.
President Taft returned to Washington
after attending the funeral of his father
| in-law, John W. Heron, at Cincinnati.
| Ohio. A bill to provide a subway trac-
ton system for Washington was intro
duced in the Senate. fund of $4,000
| for the benefit of the widow and two
daughters of the late Associate Justice
| Harlan of the Supreme Court of the
United States was proposed to be collect
ed by contributions from the bar Of the
! court. Washington was selected as the
location for a national home by the
| Knights of Columbus, in convention at
Colorado Springs. Col. The Retail Mer-
chants Association formally seeded
from the Chamber of Commerce. Gran
dal Mackey. commemorative attorney
for Alexandria county, Va. was hurt
when his automobile ran down a steep
embankment and overturned. Senior M.
A. Bonila. secretary of the Costa Rican
| legation, was robbed of jewelry valued at
$6O4. Winfield W. Hopkins, twenty-one
years old. out Of work and mentally de-
pressed, took his own life by hanging
himself from the banisters of his home.
geon in the public health and marine
hospital service, respondent. committed
| suicide by drinking poison. Among those
who died during the week were Charles
NJ Woolf, merchant: George F. r. Cook,
thirty-six years superintendent of negro
schools, and Capt. William H. Norton,
veteran of the civil war.