Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-13
THE WEEK.
Epitome Of Events Ending Sep.
Der Is. 1913.

Epitome Of Events Ending Sep
! Der Is, 1913.
John A. Peters. republican, carried the
(, third Maine congressional district by a
plurality of 500. and a vote of Is, LOG; W.
i a. Pattangall, democrat, obtain 1858
votes and Lawrence. progressive, 6,4sd
| The tariff bill passed the Senate by the
vote of A to 81. Senators La Toilette. re-
(: publican, and Poindexter. progressive.
] voting for it, and Senators Ransdell and
Thornton. democrats, against it: in con-
ference the House representatives yield
on most of the Senate amendments IN
the chemical, earthenware, glass tobacco
and wood schedules. Representative
| Anderson of Minnesota, republican.
charging force and fraud in caucus ma
, nipulation of legislation, resigned as d
! member OF the ways and means com
mittee. David Lamar indicted in New
, YORK for lmpersonating a congressman
in efforts to manipulate legislation. was
of Monaco arrived for a visit in the
| United States. Secretary of State Bryan
lectured at Salisbury, Md. following the
entertainment by Alpine yodlers. Sam
| Federation of Labor denounced labor
conditions as worse in America than IN
Europe, saying that an employer would
think more of horse than the man
who works for him. The United States
/ team won the Palma trophy in the
matches at Camp Perry. Harry X: Thaw.
| hustled out of Canada by immigration
authorities. was free three hours in
New Hampshire when caught by New
Hampshire sheriff Representative Tim
othy D. Sullivan. broken in health. dis
appeared from the sanitarium where he
was confined An express package con-
tanning 1900 was stolen from the safe
on an Atlantic Coast Line train on the
way to Savannah. Two of the crew OF
the destroyer Craven were killed by eX-
plosion of the boiler. Thirty-five persons
were injured in the derailment of the
Pennsylvania flier from New York to St
\ Louis at Wylees Station. Ohio Franklin
X. Lane. Secretary of the Interior. was
| taken ill while travelling in the west. w.
| J. Gaynor. mayor of New York. was
| stricken dead on the Inter Baltic on his
during the week were James Farley.
| leader of strike-breakers: Representative
| William H. Wilder Of Massachusetts.
Foreign.
| Manuel NJ. de Zamacona Inclan, for
mer Mexican ambass to the United
| States reputed to be in the United
| States on a mission from his government,
reached Washington and left the city
without divulging his purpose: admins
tration officials admitted that negotiations
| for mediation in the Mexican situation
had failed. President Menocal OF Cuba
applied to the United States for authority
| to borrow $15. ,OOO for public purposes.
Revolution broke out in Santo Domingo.
| the government gunboat Smelling Puerto
| Plata, the rebel stronghold; the United
States threatened to land marines to pro-
tect the town. Chinese troops in Marking
| assaulted a messenger Of the Japanese
consul and trampled the national flag;
crowds gathered in Toxic and demanded
a Japanese invasion of China: Japan sent
an ultimatum to China, demanding apollo
gies and reparation. Senior Don Juan
| Riano y Cayangos. present minister of
Spain, was reported to be slated for the
dignity of ambassador when the rank Of
the present legation shall be raised Sir
Oliver Lodge, president of the British AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF Science,
declared his opinion that science may
yet establish the continuity of individual
ity persisting after death. Sir Thomas
Upton announced his acceptance of the
Club for the America cup races.
German naval dirigible, sunk at sea in
a storm carrying her crew to death. Four
enloOkers were decapitated by military
aeror1ane not under control at Buechen-
beuren. Prussia. One of the assassins Of
Director Abe of the japanese foreign Of
fee. committed suicide by hara-kiri at
Toxic.
In the District.
President Wilson left Washington for
his summer home at Cornish. n. H., for
a weekend visit to his family. The
President directed the Department of
Justice to take part in the defense of
District Commissioner Newman in the
legal efforts to declare him ineligible to
office. The excise commission toured the
city, inspecting the establishments of ap-
plicants for liquor licenses. The Commits
sioners filed plea in abatement, asking
the court to abate the mandamus pro-
ceedings of S. T. kalbfus. recently dis
missed tax assessor. Roger Williams,
chief clerk of the former excise board,
and Waldo c. EIibbs secretary to three
former Commissioners, received appoint
| ments. respectively. to be clerk in the
disbursing Office, and as an excise in
Retail Merchants Association and the
| chamber of Commerce to down-river
points was a success Former Repre-
sentative George Curry of New Mexico.
once governor of Mindamas, P. l.. and
afterward chief of police of Manila, and
before that captain in Roosevelts
Rough Riders. eloped to Rockville, Nd.
with Miss NJ c. Cans of Pennsylvania.
and was married. The gift of $4,000 by
G. O. Robinson to Sibley Hospital was
announced. Commercial Club moved into
it's new home at 1884 l street.
Members Of the Coroa Fratres, an in
ternational congress of students, visited
Washington, in the course of a tour of
eastern United States. DR.. Frederick A.
Cook visiting Washington. again assert
ed his claim to having reached the north
pole. Parents of two Washington chill
dren treated for tuberculosis with the
turtle serum of DR.. f. Friedman, de-
clared that good results have followed
Two youths held up at the point of their
guns the cashier OF i local cafe, robbing
the till of $50. Linwood Lewis fell off
the rocks and was carried to death over
Great Falls. r. r. Mothershead drowned
himself in the Potomac river In sight OF
MANY persons. John A. Murphy, insane,
hanged himself with his bedsheet in the
Government Hospital Tor the Insane
BOURSE QUOTATIONS.