Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-28
! THE WEEK

i cember ., 1912.
| President-to-be Wilson the night of his
| birthday anniversary, December -, slept
| i'm the bed in which he was born II.
| Staunton. Va; i'll with grip, he was un-
| able to participate fully in the ceiebra-
! ton prepared for his homecoming. The
selection by President Taft Of Col. q. w.
Goethals to be civil governor of the Pan
anna Canal Zone was regarded as assur-
ed The President, arrived at Colon. Ca
| nal Zone. inspected the canal attended
| ball in Panama given in his honor by the
Panaman government and re-embarked
| on the battleship Arkansas on his return
| trip The suffrage army continued its
hike toward Albany from New York city;
announcement was made of a proposed
hike to Washington in February. VIII
liam Verbeck was appointed major general
commanding the National Guard of New
York by Gov Dix Lieut. Covell OF Wash
| iuyton in command of the revenue cutter
Seminole, located the abandoned steamer
Alcazar off Lookout lightsh.p and to~ed
1 her safe into port. The revenue cu,tst
Seneca took off the passengers OF me
steamer Turrislba. stranded off the New
| Jersey coast; the steamer was ioa;ed and
brought into New York harbor An un-
| known schooner Vas burned at sea OF
Block Island X. I. Competition by water
traffic is stamped OH; by railway and
steamship combinations OYER the nited
States, declared the commissioning OF cor.
porations in u special report. Officers O.
| The New York. New Haven and Hartford
| railway were indicted on the charge or
violating the Sherman antitrust laws IN
| the Grand Trunk deal. Fixing prices ior
| the sale of Il special commodity In Vlols-
| ton of the anti-truss law was the OASIS o.
! 4 81 Ia
Toasted Corn Flake Company. State SEN
ator G. n Cetone of Ohio was sentenced
To three years In the pcnitent'ary Tor az
tceptinG bribc. James K. kccne, horse
man. was reported seriously Ill. Repro
| scntative-elect L d. Sullivan of New York
was recovering from nervous breakdown.
Among those who died during the week
were: Representative j. g. McHenry OF
elected mayor of Roanoke, Va. and ". Fl.
S:incr, civil war correspondent.
Foreign.
y great celebration in 1914 of a century
of Anglo-American amity was discussed
| In Great Britain and the United States.
Negotiations for peace between Turkey
and the Balkan states reached dead
lock. with each side regarding as prepos-
ferrous the proposals of the other; the
porte declared it would pay war in
| u
| made by the representatives of both bel
| ligerents. Emperor Franz Joseph OF Aus
| tria-Hungary was reported gravely. Ill.
| Prince Ludwig. the new regent OF Ba-
varia, vetoed the plan to raise him to
king. Cardinal Rampolla accepted the di-
rectorShip Of the Vatican library. Ray
| mond POincare, premier, and eX-Premfer
Felix RibOt announced themselves as cam
| didates for President of France. A young
Italian anarchist. designated to STAY the
| King of Italy, tried to kill himself to es-
cape the mission. Lord Hardinge, vice.
roy of India, was dangerously wounded by
| a bomb. thrown by fanatic, during his
ceremonial entry into Delhi. King George
| of England was barred by illness from at
tendance at a Christmas day celebration
| in church. Cipriano Castro, deposed presi-
! dent of Venezuela, was reported on his
way from France to the United States; an
| alleged interview in Paris declared his
purpose to settle in the United States;
| the State Department considered the ad-
| visibility of causing the deportation of
Castro should he land. A colony OF Ameri-
can colored people near Durango was re-
| ported exterminated by Mexican rebels
| Under American supervision, the customs
| receipts of Nicaragua passed the million
| mark for the first time DIR. Elias NAL
| partida resigned as premier Of the Pc
| ruvian cabinet. following censure by the
| senate. The horrors Of the rubber indus
| try in Peru were described to the State
| Department by Stuart Fuller. American
| consul at Iquitos. designated to investi-
| gate. Brazil declined to remove the ban
! of exile against the former imperial fami-
| ly. The inhabitants of Papuan town
were exterminated by peregrinating Lem
ma natives. Thirty-three cases Of bu-
| bonic plague We're reported in Manila.
| Storm caused havoc off the coast of
| France, damaging new harbor works at
| Havrc. Several suips We're blown ashore
| off the British coast. Thirteen were kill
| ed in the panic accompanying fire in
| motion picture theater in Belgium. The
| steamer Florence was lost off the coast of
| Newfoundland. with the loss of twenty
| two men. X. G. Garros. French aviator,
| completed Il trip by aeroplane from Tunis
| to Naples. Edward Petrc. British air.
man. was killed by Il fall with his mono
| plane at Rrooklands. Among those who
| died during the week J. L. F. De-
| table, French battle painter.
District of Columbia.
| With SHOW the ground. ChriStmaS