Evening star., 1913-12-06
THE WEEK.
EpitOnc Of Events Ending de-
cember q. 1913.

President Wilson read to the House and
/ Senate his annual message to congress-
| The second session of the Sixty-third Con-
greSS began. The President nominated
Brand Whitlock for minister to Belgium.
| Submitted to Congress were the annual
reports of the Secretary of the Navy, the
naval general board. the board of trustees
of the postal savings system. the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. Surgeon Geherai
George H. Torney, T. S. N; the librarian
of Congress and the public printer Inc
national budget was announced Gaining
for the expenditure of 81, 1os, osi' n-o@'
| The Senate began discussions on the
etch-Hetchy water-power bill. Repre-
| sentative Henry introduced a Dill 10
amend the Sherman antitrust law ne
| Hay bill to provide for raising volunteer
| forces in time of war was passed py the
| House. as also bill providing Tor
| separate ministers to Paraguay ana
| Uruguay, instead of one TO hoth.
Suffragists appeared before the HOUSE
rules committee and urged the creatloii
| of a House committee on woman sur
frage: anti -suffragists were also heard
Fairfax Harrison. president OF the Sni-
cago, Indianapolis and Louisville Kan.
way Company, was elected president oi
the Southern Raj way Company. to sue
Zelaya, the former Nicaraguan president,
arrested last week at the instance or ms
government, was released from t,e
Tombs on his promise to return promptly
to Spain. Suit to test the constitutionanty
Of the federal income tax was filed IN CHI
cago on behalf of Elsie De Wolfe. Tween
ty-eight men perished III flre Wnlch oe-
stroyed the Arcadia Hotel in Boston. The
teamsters' union in Indianapolis demand
ed that a general strike be called. Seri-
Gus floods ragged in Texas and the num-
ber of victims reached twenty-five. The
fate of the out aW, cornered In Otan
mine is unknown. The American Ex-
press Company reduced it's quarterly
dividend to per cent. After quarrel
with her sweetheart. Miss Hilda Schuler
of Rosedale, Nd. ended her life with
acid. George r. Bible of Midway, Tenn,
was killed by an electric car at Hyatts-
ville Md. Lieut.. Col. David Du B. Gail
lard, L. S. A., died in Johns Hopkins Hos
pital.
Foreign.
President Huerta of Mexico re1ter-
ated his intention not to yield to the
demands of the United States and de-
clared he was in position to resist
Indefinitely. According to Mexican ad-
vices, Chihuahua was evacuated by the
of that place. That portion of the
Presidents message dealing with
Mexico was sent to legations and en-
bass1es for the information of foreign
powers; the President said that the
power of Gen. Huerta was crumbling
and that the United States would continue
to pursue waiting policy The Mexi-
can congress confirmed all the acts of
Gen. Huerta since he assumed the dicta-
torSh1p. Battleships from all different
nations We're rushed to Tampico to pro-
tect great oil properties there. A pro-
visionaI contract was signed with man
ufacturers in Berlin and Vienna for
delivery to the Mexican federal gov
ernment of $4,000 Mauser rifles and q
million cartridges. The government of
Premier Barthou of France was defeat
ed on the vote as to whether the new
loan of $260,O0O, 900 should be subject
70 taxation; as soon as the vote was
read placing the government in the mi
norlty by twenty-five, the ministers
lett the chamber in a body and pro-
ceeded to Elysee Palace. where they
nanued their designations to President
Poincare. Emperor Francis Joseph cele-
Drated the sixty-fifth anniversary of
his taking the throne of Austria. Mrs
Ennmeilne Pankhurst was arrested upon
.anolng ian IN England from her tour of
the United States and lodged in the
Exeter tEngland) Jail Railway en-
Ployes went on a strike in South
wales package containing ss7 No
fn nerHan bank notes was extra cted
from the mail car Of the express train
between Brussels and Cologne. The
turkish government sent written
apologies to the Russian government
III connection with the arrest on board
Russian steamer of Kayakli Musta
pha, who had been sentenced to dcath
Ior the assassination of Skefket Pasba
FORMER grand yizier
In the District.
embracing total of SI4.491.6144a
the estimates of the Commissioners for
tue expenses of the District for tho
iiscai year ending 1915 were submitted
70 the House of Representatives. An
ihei ease or nearly nine million dollars
In the total assessed valuation Of ra.I
estate IN the District of Columbia was
Richardss ps the annual report of Assessor
I.lcndrds. Representative Hef1in rein
trouuced his bills providing for segrega-
non OF races on the street cars of the
District, and to prohibit labor Sundays
The "nsns.om fentb snnua1 on construction work.
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
was held here. The forty-fifth annual
convention of the National American
woman Suffrage Association was held
and a resolution was adopted calling
upon President Wilson to send to Com
gress a special message advocating an
amendment to the Constitution giving
sori. the Italian educator, and originator
Of the method of teaching that
bears her name. arrived in this
city. The sixth annual show of
the Washington Cat Club was he'd
The first annual exhibition of the Capt.
tai Poultry and Pigeon Association was
officially opened by President Wilson
pressing button at the White House,
and continued for a week. An egg boy
colt was started to reduce the price of
eggs. new record was established by
the justices of the Court of Appeals
when th.rty-one opinions were rendered
in one day. Use of the Districts public
school buildings as social centers, cor
relation of the citys recreation activities
and establishment of swimming pools on
Fairgrounds were the principal recon-
mendations adopted at a meeting of rep
resentative citizens at the White House.
About one thousand boys and girls from
raising. gardening and domestic science,
visited Washington Samuel T. Nc
Dewitt, store proprietor. was held up and
robbed of $79.s7 in cash and two checks
be an unidentified negro. Charles A.
Stockett, who was assaulted with an AK
and robbed by an unidentified negro,
died at Emergency Hospital. About
$4,000 is reported missing from the
funds of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation, trusted emp.oye being sus-
pected of defalcation. John Francis
Moran. twelve years old, was struck by
am automobile at the intersection of
Connecticut and Rhode Island avenues
dying IN an ambulance on the way to the
hospital Among those who died were
George G. Henning and \. *. Tingle.