Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-17
THE WEEK.
Epitome Of Events Ending Janu-
airy II. 1914.

ton, eliminating interlocking director
|ates and immunity baths. was laid by
the President before members of Con-
sress, who will pass upon the plan in
committee. John Shelton Williams. as
|sistant secretary of the Treasury, was
nominated by the President for con-
troller of the Treasury; Mr.. Williams
defended before the Senate committee
on banking and currency his part in
the recent financial emergency in Wash
fngton, and the committee ordered a
favorable report on the nomination. Con-
gress resumed it's sittinss after recess
over the holidays. Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh claims to be region
lal bank centers in the new currency
system We're heard by the reserve bank
organization committee. Representative
NJ Curley was elected mayor of Boston.
Gov. Cole l.. Blease of South Carolina
in message to the legislature assailed
Secretary Daniels Of the Navy Depar.-
lnent as small man.. William T. Nc
Combs. chairman of the national demo-
cratic committee, was doomed for sen
ator FROM New York. Pennsyivania pro,
gressives in conference urged Clifford
Pinchot to run for United States SEN
ator, but Endorsed no candidates.. Ed
ward r. Myths. alleged defamer OF
King George. was declared eligible to
admission into the United States ON APP
peal to the courts. A broken dam loosed
a food Of water in the upper Potomac
valley which swept downstream twenty
feet high, causing much Destruction. but
no loss OF life. Gales along the Atlantic
coast caused many wrecks. loss to ship
ping and some loss of life. Among
those who died during the Week were:
DIR. Edward c. SpitZka, famous alienist;
Mrs j. Weir Mitchell widow Of the
novels. physician. who died last week.
and Gen. Louis Wagner, former COM
mander-in-chief of the G. A. 4.
Foreign.
4 bust of former President Taft. TO be
placed in The Hague Peace Palace. has
been completed by the artist. F. Is.
Sayre and Mrs. Sayre. son-in-.aw and
daughter of President Wilson. We're en-
tertained by President Po.ncare OF
France. Mexico defaulted in payment OF
all interest on public debts; the Mexican
federal army. abandoning Ojiua2a to the
rebel forces of Gen. Villa. surrendered to
the American army patrol across the
border. and was intefned at Fort Bliss.
Fresh outbreak of the Balkan war owing
! TO conditions in -Albani&, was feared by the
! powers: the Prince o. WED refused the
! crown of Albania until an interna tional
| loan was arranged: famine threatens. \
: charge of graft was mcde against Joseph
| CaillauX, minister of finance Of France.
Norway appointed a woman. Henrietta
Hoegh, to be fl-st secretary of legation
/ i'll Mexico. The Chinese parliament was
dissolved by presidential pvocla nation
after weeks OF suspended authority. The
! tango dance was banned by the Pope.
Cardinal Merry del Val was selected by
/ the Pope to succeed Cardinal Rampolla
as archpriest OF St. Peters. Sarah
Bernhard was made an immortal of
! the French Legion of Honor. Nineteen
were hurt in an anti-Semitic riot at
skartschee, Russia. Flood closed the
al iis s of Belgium aknE the poor 4on BONE,
Mail packet Cobequid went ashore on
: Trinity rock, Nova Scotia; los pas
sengers and crew Were rescued. Southern
i Japan was visited by volcanic disaster,
! with many communities i'll ruins and
!, thousands of lives lost: President Wilson
appealed for aid to the stricken. Among
those who died during the week was
Count Ito. admiral OF Japan.
District of Columbia.
President Wilson returned to the
White House from his vacation in Pass
Christian. The diplomatic reception,
the first one of the year. was
| given by the President and Mrs. Will
son. The home-rule plans for Wash
ington of the committee of forty We're
outlined for presentation to the Presi-
dent. Washington bankers pleaded be-
fore the reserve bank organization
committee Tor Washington as re-
! serve center W. +. Guide was elected
, president of the Chamber of Com
/ merce. Representative Cooper intro
!; duced resolution providing for a
(, commission to investigate the fiscal
relations between the United States
| government and the District of Colum-
! bia. TaXicab companies started suits
! to enioin enforcement of the regula-
j
I commission. y public hearing was
/ asked for Deputy Fire Chief A. +. Sui
/ Ivan. who was requested by Commits
! sioneT Siddons to ask for retirement
! Justice Job Barnard OF the Supreme
! Court of the District of Columbia an
nounced he will retire i'll June. wher
| eligible, at seventy years of age. Ear
| IIintore. Engiands commissioner fol
arranging plans for the joint observ-
I ance of 100 years of peace between
England and the United States, ar
rived in Washington. C. D. HorninS
| loan broker. was found not guilty OF
| violating the loan shark law. ). *
| Gibson. a Central High School cadet
. accidentally shot G. S. Reed "a fellow
cadet at target practice in the drill
| hall Among those who died during
| the week were: W. S. Couch. a Wash
| mgton correspondent: Henry l.. Dun
lap. Washington correspondent OF the
| New York World: Bishop Oliver Sabl1
| of The Evangelical Christian Science
| Church, S. T. King, former chief clerk
| of the Washington Gas Light Com
pany, and Maj. Albert Akers. Confed-
| crate veteran.