Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-13
THE WEEK.
Epftome of Events Ending De-
S..< eembcr rs, 1913. -

President Wilson was confined to his
room with a relapse of a severe attack
of grip. The President told a delegation
frpm the National American. Woman Suf-
frage Association he could not recon-
mend the creation of "a suffrage COM
n1ittee IN the House, because 1t was moi
in the democratic platform. Attorney
General McReynofds made his first report
to Congress. making few recommends
tons for legislation. Secretary Houston
submitted his annual report outlining
plans for the reorganization of the De-
partment OF Agriculture and for the
enforcement of the pure food law. Re-
t. ID pay for superannuated clerks. the
abolition of the observation-disclosures
grade. and the repeal of the statute ap-
port onng appointments among the
states and territories on the basis OF pop
ulat1ons in order that more appointments
be given TO residents of the Distrlct. Were
advocated by Brig. Gen. w. I'll. BlXpy'
in his last annual report as chief OF en-
gineers OF the army. The senate
sumed debate on the currency Dill. IN
creased salaries for all government en-
ployes IS called for in bill onereo W
Representative Fowler. The House APP
propriated $4,000 to Mrs: Galnara'
widow of Cox David DUB. GaillaTd-
Senator Hitchcock attacked the senate
democratic currency caucus auosnns
from THE New Freedom 10 sh'
that the caucus is contrary to the
pressed ideas OF President wilson me
House passed the naval holiday reSolu-
ton Representative Hobson pleaded Tor
q resolution which would submit to the
states a constitutional amendment for
nationwide prohibition. DIR. Joseph Kos
suth DIXON in report to President VIII
son. said that every Indian in the United
States has sworn allegiance to the Ameri-
E-aIa FIrdp rp A16rfch- Con-
cord. y. H., ruled that the mental con-
dition OF Harry h. Thaw must be deter
mined in the federal courts: The Cincln,
matt water famine threw sixty thousaHd
workmen out of employment. The num-
Der OF lives lost in the past ten days
by floods in Texas was placed at 16o. Miss
Jessie E. Mccain. a young social worker
of New York city, mysteriously dlsap-
Wilmington Del, did 10000 damage. The
case against DR.. W. B. Craig, who was
charged with the murder of Dr. Helene
Knabe. was dismissed at Shelbyvile, Ind.
Mrs. Cynthia Buffum, charged with muir
dering her husband, Willis Buffum. con-
fessed her crime, duplicating Ernest Fra
ham, her lover. A girl was killed by
homo in New York Rear Admiral Kos
suth Niles, L. S. n, retired, died sud-
denly in New York.
Foreign.
reports from MeAlcO lily say that a.
fierce battle was waged before Tampico.
and that Admiral Fletcher. commander
of the American naval forces, ordered
the rebels and federals 10 cease firing,
threatening 10 open upon them with the
guns of the gunboat Wheeling if his
order was not obeyed. Both sides COM
piled with the order. An American army
transport was ordered to Tampico TO take
refugees on board he Nobel peace
prize for 1912 was conferred on. Sena or
Elihu Root of New York, and that for
1913 on Senator Henri La Fontaine of
Brussels. Belgium. Mrs. Emmelne PaTk-
hurst was re eased from the Exeter Eng
land) Jail. but her daughter. Miss Sylvia
Pankhurst, with others, was arrested
after a severe clash with the polite at
Shoreditch- 4 libel suit brought in Eng
land by Grand Duke Boris of Russia
against the Frank A. Munsey Company
was settled out of court. The German
imperial chancellor was denounced by
socialist and centrist leaders in the reich
sta The Banco H.snan o. snericano. a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS inst tuition of Mad
rid, was compelled to suspend payment of
Its obligations. due to heavy run owing
to depreciation of investments which the
company held in Mexico and the Ar
gentine Republic. Mona Lisa was re-
covered in florence, Italy. The Costa
Ricans congress refused to ratify o. con-
cessfoHs sought by British concern An
attempt was made to assassinate Sir
Lionel Phillips at Johannesburg. South
Africa Col. Arthur Hoffman was elected
president of the Swiss confederation for
1914 Chang Hsun. commander of the
Chinese government troops at Marking,
proclaimed the independence of the prov
ince of Kiang Su. according to dispatch
received from Shanghai.
In the District.
District day in the House resulted in the
adoption of the Prouty resolution direct
ing the payment by the District to the
United States of 81 0o3 25724, as interest
upon the old $50 bonds, and the passage
of the bill to exclude from matching by
federal dollars on the half-and-haIf basis
OF appropriations liquor license money
and receipts from all licenses from prop
critics in which the United States has an
interest
The District House committee reported
lavoraoiy TWO measures, one providing
Tor new method of assessments for
street Improvement modelled after the plan
proposed In the local self-government bill
OF Representative Prouty, and the other
the measure requiring the reciting of the
true consideration in all real estate trans
actions or record. The first International
Anti-slvisection and Animal Protection
Congress ended it's sessions, during which
the speakers made a plea for mercy and
justice TO all dumb animals Steamboat
owners from all parts of the United
states and Canada met in their annual
convention The annual meeting of the
board of trustees of the Carnegie Institu-
ton was held and Elihu Root elected
chairman. Two thousand men and women
besieged the Capitol and begged the fed
eral government to prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale of Intoxicating liquor in the
United States by constitutional provision.
FIRST Iieuts. James A. OConnor and
Lewis H. Watkins, Corps of Eng neers.
having completed q postgraduate course
IN instruction at the eng. neer school at
Washington barracks, were assigned to
duties In connection with important pub
lie works IN progress in this city and
vicinity Frank a. Munsey issued a
statement concerning the recent absorb
ton of the United States Trust Com
pany of this city by the Munsey Trust
Company. The Supreme Court of the
Uniled states refused the application of
attorneys for John Barton Miller former
~ secretary-treasurer of the now de-
funct First Cooperative Building Assoc
Cation of Georgetown. for writ of
certiorari for the review of his convic-
ton by the District Court OF Appeals.
he was surrendered by his bondsman
and taken TO jail TO begin his twenty
year sentence Charles n. Chase finan-
cal secretary of the Y. NJ c. A., arrest
ed on the charge of embezzlng funds
from that association, was released from
custody on a 5000 bond. Justice Par
nard ruled that the Commissioners acted
within their rights when they deposed
Samue. /. kalbfus from the office OF