Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-15
THE WEEK.
EpitOme Of Events Ending No.
vember Is, 1918.

The per cent differential tariff rate In
favor of imports carried in American
ships. contained in the new tariff law,
was declared nullitied by its own provision
barring its construction as abrogating ex-
listing international treaties. according to
an opinion given by the Attorney General.
Dudley Field Malone. assistant secretary
of state was appointed collector of the
port of New York in succession to John
Purroy Mitchell, elected mayor of New
York city. Joseph P. Tumulty. secretary
To the President, was suggested for chair
man of the democratic national commit
tee Charles S Mellen, former president
of the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford and its subsidiaries, in a public in
/, terview, declared he was merely the agent
of financial interest in control and not re-
sponsible for conditions on that road un-
der criticism in defiance of law The
United Daughters of the Confederacy met
in annual convention in New Orleans.
Secretary Wilson of the Labor Depart
ment announced an investigation into the
operations of copper mines. The Amer
lean Federation of Labor assembled In Sc
attic, Wash. Trainmen and engineers,
numb ring 900. on the Atlantic division
of the Southern Pacific railroad struck
for better conditions of labor \ I per
cent increase of wages for trainmen of
the eastern railroads was awarded by the
arbitration commission. Heavy storms
swept the coast and great lakes 2o1 lives
were reported lost by wrecks on Lakes
Huron, Superior and Erie; wind. snow
and rain covered the states from Virginia
to the border Twelve were killed In the
wreck of a passenger train on the Georgia
Central road near Eufaia, Ala. Three
were killed when a passenger train on the
Pennsylvania railroad jumped the track
near Wooster, Ohio.
Foreign.
President Wilson announced more Ia
vorable aspect OF the MEXICAN situation
John Lind, personal representative or the
President, returned to Vera Cruz from
Mexico City after discussing the note OF
the United States with Mexican officials;
, DR.. w. b. Hale held conference with
Gen. Carranza, head of the constitutions
alists, at Nogales, Sonora; Gen. Felix
Diaz was ind -cted in the Havana courts
for shooting the man who attacked MIN
in the streets of that city. The American
fleet called at Malta and Rome. officers
and sailors were received by tne rope
custodian of the funds of the blue]ackets
set aside for sightseeing in Rome dlsap-
peared, but turned up later, and the sail
rors may have their good time. Theodore
Roosevelt, former President. was made
a. doctor of laws of the University OF
Buenos Aires; in a public speech he urged
South American nations to subscribe TO
the Monroe doctrine. Former President
Zelaya of Nicaragua turned up unexpect-
eddy in New York city; the State Depart
ment declined to receive him in WASH
ington. Zelie Emerson. an American girl.
was seriously hurt in suffrage riots In
London in which she participated. The
secretary of President Yuan Sh-kai OF
China was arrested as consplrator
against the life of the president. KING
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, now in vienna, u
was reported, may never return TO MS
kingdom, where he is blamed for the Bull
garian defeat in the Balkan war; Greece
and Turkey came to an agreement re.
garding border demarkat.ons. Mendel
Bells accused of the murder of boy as
a Jewish ritual sacrifice, was acquitted
by the jury at Kief, Russia. The Rus
sian duma denied equality to the Jews.
The Nobel prize in poetry was awarded
to Rabindranath. a Hindu poet. Serious
floods in France caused closing OF many
factories and threw thousands out OF
work Another earthquake shook Pana-
ma. Two hundred and fifty We're killed py
earthquake in the province of Aymareas
Peru.