The Washington times., 1914-02-02

A digest of the really big news of
the day, compiled for those readers
whose time is limited, but who feel
that they must keep In touch with
important world events.
GENERAL.
The wreck of the in-fated steam
ship Monroe was found twenty-four
miles south of Winter Quarter Light
ship by the revenue cutter Onondaxa,
but a choppy sea defeated immediate
efforts TO recover the bodies Of those
lost in the wreck
District Attorney Whitman Of New
York summoned several witnesses
from Erie and Albany counties to
testify in the John Doe graft inquiry.
He expects to develop hints of evil
dence obtained by James W. Osborne,
Governor Glynn's investigator.
Much discussion has been aroused
in educational circles by an article in
the Educational Review written by
Rear Admiral French "a Chadwick, in
which he said that women teachers in
the public schools of America have
resulted in ''feminized, emotional, IL
logical manhood"
New telephone rates were protested
by the New England Telephone and
Telegraph Company, in a brief fled in
Vermont. this brief giving the State
commission an opportunity to proceed
with its investigation with a view to
determining whether or not to revise
charges.
The Rev. DR.. Charles r. Aked, pastor
Of the First Congregational Church,
San Francisco, said by implication that
he did not adhere to and would not sup
port from the pulpit the doctrine CT the
miraculous conception and birth Of
Christ.
From Milwaukee 1t was reported that
common law marriages were becoming
numerous throughout Wisconsin, as a
means Of evadinS the new eugenics act.
Reports of the National Highways
Protective Society showed tes- 5sI per-
sons were killed by vehieiaa in the
streets OF New York last year.
Cardinal Gibbons, in a sermon in the
Baltimore Cathedral, said that compass
sion for suffering and the poor was the
most conspicuous feature in the LIE Of
the Saviour.
Chaotic conditions in the Republican
party of Illinois were reported from
Chicago. the leaders being without Gefi-
mite policies and the rank and file dis
cOuraged over the situation.
General Villa announced that The cur
rency of state banks in Mexico would
be regarded as counterfeit, and the Flint
in Chihuahua would be opened for the
free coinage Of silver.
The theatrical peace between the
Klaw & Erlanger and the Shubert in
tcrests was threatened by the refusal of
the former to allow its tickets 10 be
handled by an agency in which Q Shu-
bert representative had obtained an in
terest.
FOREIGN.
Nineteen men lost their lives when
the German bark Hera struck on the
rocks in the English Channel near
Sorthalla Blight. Only five were saved.
The suit of Count Boni de CasteI-
lane for an annulment Of his mar
riage with Anna Gould, now the
Duchess de Tallcyrand, has been for
mally rc-opened before the Rota tri-
bunal.
What is supposed to be the most
severe earthquake since the Messina
disaster has been recorded by the
Soismographs in Italian observatories.
The shocks lasted over two hours.
The deportation OF strike leaders
from South Africa has aroused the
EnElisb labor party to an extreme
pitch of evaporation, as a result OF
which the Liberal party may lose the
entire labor vote.
Suffragcttes repeatedly interrupted
and almost succeeded in breaking up
the conservation services conducted
at the bishops statement that there Is
chaers Church. The militants took this
means of expressing their indignation
at the bishops statement that there is
no truth in the allegations that the
suftragettes In Holloway Jail are sub
jected to torture while being forcibIy
fed.
Albert Ballin, director general OF the
Hamburg line, stated that his
company withdrew from the shipping
syndicate and went into free competi-
ton because he considered its interests
hampered by the hundred paragraphs of
the pooling agreement