Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
THE WEEK.
Epitosue Of Events Ending June
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Charging that big business was inter-
ested in impeding trust legislation, Presi-
dent Wilson declared his faith in enact
ment of pending measures by Congress
before adjournment. Charles 8. Hamlin.
T. B. Jones, w. P. G. Harding, Paul
Warburg and A. C. Miller were nomi-
mated by the President as the personnel
of the federal reserve board. Former
President Roosevelt announced himself
not a candidate for Governor of New
York. Johnson N. Camden took oath rs
senator from Kentucky. Former Presi-
dent Taft, addressing Harvard graduates,
favored the authority vested in the Su-
preme Court of the United States as
check on hasty and unfair exercise Of
the electorate power. Miss Margaret
Wilson, daughter of the President, ad-
dressed the General Federation of Wom
ems Clubs in Chicago. The degree Of
doctor of laws was conferred upon Secre-
tary Wilson If the Labor Department
by the Maryland Agricultural College.
in his Memorial day speech at Arlington,
declared he quoted from unknown
source. fractional differences in the
Western Federation of Miners resulted in
rioting at Butte, Mont. ending with the
resumption of work. An Illinois police
man fired q shot from his loaded revolver
at the chauffeur Of the automobile carry
ing the German ambassador Among
those who died during the week were
Adlai E. Stevenson, former Vice Presi-
dent of the United States: William B.
Hornblower, jurist, and once nominated
for the United States Supreme bench;
Frank Hiscock, former senator from New
York. and Judge J. X. Kennedy of Penn
sylvania-
Foreign.
Deadlocked over the issue of con-
stitutionalist for provisional President
Of Mexico to succeed President Huerta,
maintained by the United States nego-
tiants and opposed by the Mexican
representatives, the mediation proceed
ings at Niagara Falls seemed threat
ened to end in failure; the Mexican
representatives made public a state
ment Of their attitude, and were an
swered by the American representa-
tives; split between Carranza, head Of
the constitutionalists, and villa. his war
chfeftafn, on The question of military
authority. was reported; CarranZa was
said to have fed to the United States:
constitutionalists were repulsed with
heavy loss in an attack on Zacatecas;
the constituttonalist gunboat Tampico
was defeated and sunk by the federal
gunboat Guerrero, near Topolobampo.
Holman He. sa,, Philip. secretary Of the Ameri-
esent into Smyrna to determine the sit
uation Of Americans imperiled by an
antt-Chrfstfan movement Premier AS
quith of the British government con-
fragettes. Uprisings in China, suggest
ing an impending revolution, were re-
ported. Following deadlock over the
constitutional amendment bill. the
dissolved. A bomb exploded under the
pilot train. preceding the train carry
ing the imperial Russian family, near
Kishenef. The North German Lloyd
liner Buelow went ashore on the Brit
ish coast. near Portland, in a fog.
Storm devastated a large section Of
Paris. causing number Of deaths
District Of Columbia.
President Wilson spoke at Flag day ex-
ercises at the State, War and Navy
building. The framing of bill for self
government for the District Of Column
bia. combining the features of the
o'Leary and Prouty resolutions, is to be
taken up by subcommittee Of the House
District committee. The school year
ended, 5000 pupils beginning their sum
Commissioner Newman, to decide his ell
gibflity for Office, was set for June a.
before jury, in Circuit Court, No. 2. DR..
Z. N. Chapman was advocated for cor
OucT VI tL6 DlSlTlCI OF COluInDla, TO sue
coed DR.. J. r. hewitt incumbent, by a
committee of Kentuckians. who asked the
Presidents influence. s. T. Kalbfus, re-
stored to office as assistant assessor, re-
signed. The hearing before the Mccoy
subcommittee of the House into the i'm
peachment proceedings against Judge
Daniel Thew Wright. continued. The
Washington Gas Light Company, under
protest. paid the claim of the District of
Columbia for $1O9. O3O.64, when threatened
with distraint of property, and it began
suit to recover excess" attacking the
legality Of the assessment on the Kalbfus
decision. Due to lack of appropriation,
sixty employees of the pension bureau
were dropped from the rolls, with fur
Their reduction in prospect. Announce
ment was made of the prospective cruise
of the Naval Battalion to Bermuda, July
$40, on the battleship Rhode Island. Ed
ward o. Gisburne of Washington, navy
electrician, wounded at Vera Cruz, was
recommended for gallantry by Rear Ad-
miral Fletcher. Jack Fancuilli, fourteen
years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome
Fancuilli, disappeared from his home.
Among those who died during the week
were Albert B. Hines, twenty-five years
in business here: John B. Bloss. presi-
dent of the board of trustees Of Gun
ton-Temple Memorial Church and sixty
years a resident.
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