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Chronology
OF THE
Year—1926
• e o
Compiled by EDW. WEBSTER
INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 9—United
States protested
against retroactive features of Mex
ico's new petroleum and land laws.
Jan. 12—Silas H. Strawn, American
delegate, made chairman of interna
tional commission on extraterritorial
ity in China.
MaJ. Gen. William Lassiter named to
succeed General Pershing as president
of Tacna-Arica plebiscite commission.
Jan. 27—Great Britain and Italy
signed debt funding agreement.
Jan. 30—Allies evacuated the first
sone of occupation in the Rhineland.
1—United States formally
notified League of Nations and 48 na
tions it bad voted to enter world
court.
March 8—Special session of League
of Nations opened with Viscount Ishii
in the chair. Deadlocked over new
members. Spain threatened to resign.
March 8—League of Nations received
German application for entrance.
March 6—Germany's admission to
League of Nation's postponed until
fall.
March
April 6—Secretary Kellogg submitted
to Chile and Peru new plan to settle
Tacna-Arica dispute without plebiscite.
April 19—United States formally de
clined to participate in League of Na
tions conference on American adhesion
to world court.
Chile, rejecting Kellogg's plan, de
manded Tacna-Arica plebiscite on May
27 as scheduled.
April 21—Italian debt
ratified by United States senate.
April 24—Germany and Russia signed
treaty of amity guaranteeing recipro
cal neutrality if either were attacked.
April 26—United States senate rati
fied Belgian debt settlement.
April 27—Debt funding agreements
with Latvia, Esthonia and Rumania In
dorsed by United States
settlement
senate.
April 28—United States senate rati
fied Czechoslovakian debt settlement.
April 29—Funding arrangement of
French debt to America signed In
Washington, providing for payment
over 62 years of grand total of $6,
647,674,104.
May l—Agreement on Yugo-Slavla
debt to United States reached in Wash
ington.
May 7—French and Spanish opened
offensive against Rifflans.
May 18—International preliminary
conference on reduction of armament!
opened in Geneva.
May 22—French captured Targuist
headquarters of Abd-el-Krlm but the
Riff leader escaped. '
May 26—Abd-el-Krlm surrendered te
the French.
June 4—French senate ratified the
Locarno treaties, 272 to 6 .
June 6—Great Britain and Turkey
signed the Mosul treaty.
June 12—Brazil gave two years'
notice of her withdrawal from League
of Nations.
June 14—Tacna-Arica plebiscitary
commission formally declared the pleb
iscite impracticable.
July 27—Britain concluded agree
ment with General Andrews to balk
rum smuggling into the United States.
Aug. 9—Italy and Spain signed
nitration treaty, and Rumania and
France signed treaty of amity.
Aug. 25—British, French and German
experts worked out plan for Germany's
ar
entry into League of Nations, with
Spain and Poland to have semi-perma
nent seats in counclL
Aug. 26—Spain's demand that inter
national district of Tangier be annexed
to Spanish zone of Morocco formally
before the powers concerned.
Aug. 27—Nicaragua appealed to
League of Nations against Mexico, al
leging Calles aided revolutionists.
Aug. 30—Great
Spain's invitation
Tangier.
.. Sept. 4—Spain rejected League of
Nations offer of serai-permanent seat
In council.
6—League of Nations assembly
met with Spain and Brazil absent.
Sept. 7—Spain resigned from League
ef Nations.
Sept. 8—Germany elected a member
of League ot Nations and glvén
nent seat in council.
Sept. 10—German delegation took Its
seats in League of Nations assembly
Sept. 11—Turkey applied for member
ship in League of Nations, stipulating
It must be given seat in the council.
Sept. 14—Locarno treaties filed with
League of Nations, and Germany de
allies ed evacuation of Rhineland by
2 i"7 Irencb cabinet gave Briand
free hand in working out accord with
Germany.
Committee report on American res
ervaUons accepted by world court
judicial committee, but its interpreta
tion of fifth reservation declared
acceptable by President Coolidge.
Sept. 22—Withdrawal of French
troops from Rhineland begun.
Sept. 23—World court states adopted
reply to American reservations,
cepting them with one modification.
Oct. 19—Removn! of tariff barriers
and other restrictions upon European
trade recommended by a group of lead
ing international bankers In a signed
vLw nt v m t de p , ubllc «'multaneous^y
1 Oct 30—Unit a eri d J= u r°P« an capital!
net 30 United States government
served notice on Mexico that diplom
atic relations would be severed if
American properties in Mexico should
be confiscated under the terms of the
new Mexican land and oil laws effective
January 1.
Nov. 13—Foreign Ministers Tchltch
erln of Russia a<id Tewfik Rushti Bey
of Turkey met to formulate treaty of
alliance.
Nov. 17—Nicaragua asked United
States to help in stopping Mexican aid
to rebels.
Nov. 18—Nicaraguan rebels asked by
United States to lay down their arms.
Nov. 19—President Coolidge notified
Nicaragua the United .States would
Britain
to conference on
refused
perma
not
a«
Nicaragua the United .States would
use its good offices to maintain peaca
there.
; Nov. 20—Pope Plus denounced perse
cution of Catholic church by Mexico.
Nov. 27—Italy and Albania signed
treaty of amity and co-operation.
Nov. 28—Report of Strawn interna
* tlonal commission said powers must
retain extraterritorial rights In China
until chaos there was ended.
Dec. 4—China gave notice It would
terminate all unequal treaties on their
expiration.
Dec. 6—League of Nations council
<1
net.
Dec. 10—Nobel peace prize for 1925
awarded to Charles G. Dawes and Sir
Austen Chamberlain; for 1926 to Aris
tide Briand and Gustav Stresemann.
Dec. 12—Allies agreed to transfer
control of German armaments to
League of Nations committee on Feb
ruary 1.
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DOMESTIC
Jan. 4—House passed
treasury appropriation
$867.600,000.
Jan. 11—House passed Interior de
partment bill appropriating $226,500,000.
Jan. 12—Senate by vote of 41 to 39
seated Gerald P Nye of North Dakota.
Jan 19—Army board of review
£ roved conviction of Col William
[itchell.
Jan. 26—Senate adopted Swanson res
ervations to world court resolution.
Haugen co operative marketing bill
passed by house
Jan. 27—Senate by vote of 76 to 17
passed resolution for American ad
berence to world court.
Jan. 30—Senate passed corn sugar
an • ndment to pure food laws
Peb 8—Senate adopted repeal of pub
llclty provision of revenue law
Feb 10—Senate voted to repeal all
tax»« on automobil»« admissions and
post office
bill carrying
ap
■ - i
a » d «tit*!, cutting revenue
9100 , 000,000 more.
Feb. 12— Senat e passed Us tax bill,
reducing federal revenue $466,000,000.
Peb. 15—Senate and house adopted
resolutions for making Inauguration
date In January and convening of con
gress two months after election.
House passed omnibus public build
ings bill carrying $166,000,000.
Peb. 16—Army and navy bills, with
total of $660,600,000, passed by house
and senate separately.
Feb. 10—Senate and bouse conferees
agreed on tax bill with cut of $387,811,
000 .
Feb. 28—House accepted conference
report on tax bill, 354 to 28.
Bert E. Haney of Oregon resigned
from shipping board.
Feb. 24—Senate approved new tax
bill by 61 to 10.
March 1—United States Supreme
court decided Wisconsin's gift tax law
invalid. .
House passed Watson-Parker bill
abolishing railroad labor board and
providing means for settlement of rail
way labor disputes by conference, med
iation and voluntary arbitration.
March 8—Treasury offered for public
subscription $500,000,000 in 30-year
bonds at 3% per cent interest, lowest
rate since first Liberty bonds were
issued.
March 9—Seattle, Wash., elected Mrs.
Bertha K. Landes mayor.
Air secretaries in three departments
recommended by E. W. Morrow, chair
of the President's aircraft board.
March 14—Board of temperance, pro
hibition and morals of the Methodist
church charged Coolidge administra
tion, because of political conditions,
was keeping men in office who are not
in sympathy with enforcement of the
prohibition laws.
House appropriated $10,000,000 for
foreign embassy buildings.
Daniel F. Steck (Dem.), was held to
have been elected over Senator Brook
hart (Rep.), Iowa, in report submit
ted by subcommittee of the senate elec
tions committee.
The White bill, to create a federal
radio commission of five members to
co-operate with Secretary Hoover in
keeping order in the air, was passed
by house.
The senate rejected Wallace Mc
Cament of Oregon as federal Judge.
March 18—Col. John C. Coolidge.
eighty-one, father of President Cool
idge, died as the President and his
wife were speeding by special train
to bis bedside.
March 22—New York senate by vote
of 27 to 24, defeated state prohibition
law.
man
March 26—Senate confirmed the
nomination of T. F. Woodlock of New
York as a member of the interstate
commerce commission by vote of 62 to
, . .. ,
bribery charge.
Senate committee opened twelve-day
hearing on Volstead act modification,
April 9—Spokesmen for American
Federation of Labor at senate hear
ln ® demanded beer and light wines
modification of Volstead act.
April 12—Sixty-five representatives
of women's organizations urged sen
ators not to weaken Volstead act.
Senate by vote of 46 to 41 unseated
Brookhart of Iowa; Daniel F. Steck
sworn in as senator,
Naval aircraft bill passed by house.
April 13—Frank L. Smith defeated
Senator W. B. McKinley for Repub
lican nomination for senator from 1111
nois.
25.
March 29—Crampton bill, placing tha
entire prohibition unit under civil serv
ice, passed by house.
April 1—House voted to Impeach
Judge George W. English of the east
ern district of Illinois, 306 to 60.
April 2—President Coolidge selected
Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland. Ohio,
as special commissioner to make a sur
vey of conditions In Philippines.
April 3—Former Governor Davis of
Kansas and his son acquitted of
April 19—New York legislature
passed resolution for beer and wine
referendum.
April 27—Foreclosure and sale of
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
ordered by Federal Judge Wllkerson.
bill
House passed bill creating separate
bureau of prohibition and a bureau of
customs.
April 28—National crime commission
met In Washington.
April 29—National elimination bal
loon race started at Little Rock, Ark.
May 1—President signed Spanish
American war pension bill.
Goodyear IV, piloted by Van Orman,
won balloon race.
May 4—Senators Watson and Rob
inson of Indiana renominated by Re
publicans.
May 5—Seven convicts killed a dep
uty warden and escaped from the Illi
nois penitentiary at Stateville; two
captured after bloody battle with po
lice at Leonore.
House appropriated $75,000,000 for
five year army air program.
May 6—Senate passed bill to In
crease pay of all federal judges.
May 7— H. M. Daugherty, former at
torney general; T. W. Miller, former
alien property custodian, and John T.
King indicted in New York for con
spiracy to defraud government In
American Metal company case.
May 11—Senate passed new railroad
labor bill as adopted by house.
May 13—Senate passed McFadden
banking bill.
May 17—House passed Johnson bill
making great changes in World war
veterans' act of 1924.
May 18—Congressman W. S. Vare,
running on wet platform, won Repub
lican nomination for senator from
Pennsylvania, defeating Senator Pepper
and Governor PInchot. Democrats
nominated W. B. Wilson.
S. S. Kresge gave $23,000,000 to
Kresge foundation for charitable and
public welfare purples.
May 19—House passed bill prohibit
ing transporting of pistols and revol
vers In the mails.
Senate ordered inquiry into primary
campaign expenditures.
May 21—Treasury department
nounced President Coolidge had signed
executive order authorizing ap
pointment of state, county and muni
cipal officers as prohibition officers at
nominal salaries.
House rejected Haugen farm relief
bill, 167 to 212.
Frederick Stelwer nominated for sen
ate by Oregon Republicans, defeating
Senator Stanfield.
May 31—President Coolidge delivered
Memorial Day address at Arlington,
urging world disarmament.
Sesqulcentennial exposition opened
to Philadelphia.
June 2— Senate passed army air ser
vice bill.
naval air
an
an
I
!
June 3—Senate passed naval air pro
gram bill.
Indiana Democratic convention noml
and Evans Wool
short senatorial
I
nated Albert Stump
len for long and
terms, respectively.
June 4—Omnibus rivers and harbors
bill passed by house.
June 7—Smith W. Brookhart nomi
nated for senator by Republicans of
Iowa, defeating Senator A. B. Cum
mins. Claude R. Porter nominated
by the Democrats.
June 11—Senate passed house bill
carrying $76,000,000 for federal aid
road construction.
June 17—House passed senate's corn
sugar bill.
June 20—Twenty-eighth Internation
al eucharistie congress opened in Chi
cago.
June 21—President Coolidge in his
annual budget address announced sur
plus for fiscal year 1926 was about
$390,000,000.
June 24—McNary bill for farm rslisf
by price fixing defeated in senate.
June 29—Fees farm relief bill, backed
by administration, defeated in senate,
which then passed the co-operative
marketing bill.
Second deficiency bill with dry law
enforcement fund passed by senate.
House passed army air service ex
pansion bill.
June 80—Gerald P. Nye nominated by
North Dakota Republicans for Unlt
Qov. A G. Sorlie,
^ ^
Ju 1 * 2—F. Trubee Davison appointed
assistant secretary of war for avia
tlon.
July t—Congress adjourned for ism
Mr recess,
July 6—President -Coolidge and party
left for summer White House Hi the
Adlrondacks.
ed States sfenator
re-nominated.
E. P. Warner appointed assistant
secretary of the navy for aviation.
July It—National convention of the
Elks opened In Chicago.
.Fourteen Ban Francisco men, worth
$106,000,000, formed foundation to give
surplus wealth for benefit of the
munlty.
Kansas City Star and Times sold to
present management for $ 11 , 000 , 000 .
July 14—Unton Wells and B. S.
Evans completed circuit of globe in
1 t , ya > hours and 37 minutes.
. J uly 1*—Corn belt committee met
in Des Moines to p
fight for agricultural
July 26—S
Ahb- « r_,, T „ -r, ... . ...
D W' ItlwaT? ^ P en 1,Can * " OT1 " ln . ated
of Senator r„l,^,« flll T^ nexpir ! d t#r T
no norn/mTti' Democrats made
no nomination
Chicago *!' * MacCrae } t * n .
of P nm' m îî p ^ te(1 assistant secretary
SvSSSSK* " C "* r *" "* * V, * , ' 0 "
I 10 Kn, Kl>ts of Pythias opened
bl n>^i 1 x>2S n K?. nt,0n in Ch . lca K°i „
to? P?a?k P S b wmf ren ° m,nated Sena
? k B ' WIllls - and named M. Y.
Cooper for governor. Democrats named
Atiee Pomerene for senate and re
nominated Governor Donahey.
c- A uk ™ 16 —American authorities near
8& n Diego, Cal., arrested 150 men
Cenir«*i ed w.tt^ "* xl ® an revolts under
General Estrada, and seized quantity
OI , arm8 -
»«ti-5i«;«^ Pr . e,,d -Sr nt . Coolld * e decided
intervention in Mexico was unwar
ranted.
Aug. 28—Dan Moody defeated Miriam
Ferguson in run-off primary for noml
nation for governor of Texas.
Aug. 31— Senator S. M. Shortrldge re
nominated by California Republicans.
John B. Elliott, named by Demo
crats.
Sept. 7—Senator Lenroot of Wiscon
sin defeated for renomination by Gov.
John J. Blaine. Senators Moses of New
nominated and Oddie of Nevada re
Sept. 13—Maine election won by Re
publican ticket beaded by Governor
Brewster.
Sept. 19—President and Mrs. Cool
idge returned to Washington.
Sept. 20—Sixtieth annual convention
of the G. A. R. opened in Des Moines,
Iowa.
Sept. 23—Maryland Democrats re
nominated Governor Ritchie on wet
platform.
Frank A. Walsh of Milwaukee elec
ted commander in chief of the G. A, R.
Sept. 28—New York Republicans
nominated Congressman Ogden L. Mills
for governor on moist platform and
renominated Senator Wadsworth. Demo
crats renominated Smith for governor
and named R. F. Wagner for senator.
Teapot Dome lease held invalid by
federal circuit court of appeals at St
Louis.
Sept 29—Investigating committee of
Republican editors charged corrupt
rule in Indiana by D. C. Stephenson,
Klan leader now serving life sentence.
Sept. 30—President Coolidge
pointed Charles Evans Hughes a mem
ber of the Permanent Court of In
ternational Justice at The Hague to
succeed the late George Gray.
Oct. 11—Jury in Daugherty-Miller
conspiracy case disagreed.
National convention of American Le
gion opened in Philadelphia,
v —American Legion voted to
hold 1927 convention in France.
Oct. 16—Howard P. Savage of Chi
cago elected commander in chief of
American Legion.
Oct. 18—Queen Marie of Rumania
landed at New York and went to Wash
ington.
Oct. 19—Queen Marie entertained at
dinner by President Coolidge.
Oct. 21—A. Mitchell Palmer, former
attorney general, and others accused
of $5,536,000 conspiracy against gov
ernment in federal suit connected with
sale of Bosch Magneto company
sets.
Oct. 23 —Sacco and Vanzettl, sen
tenced to death five years ago, de
nied a new trial in Massachusetts.
corn
lan renewal of
relief.
enate slush fund commit
tee began inquiry into Illinois sena
torlal primary expenses, in Chicago.
July 80—A. F. Myers of Iowa
pointed member of federal trade
mission.
ap
com
ap
nied a new trial in Massachusetts.
Oct. 25—United States Supreme court
held President has power to oust fed
eral appointees without consent of
senate.
Oct. 28—Board of army engineers
reported against proposed all Amer
ican waterway through New York
state.
Nov. 2—In national elections Repub
licans lost seven senate seats and elev
en house seats to the Democrats. Sen
ator Butler, chairman of Republican
national committee, defeated in Massa
chusetts and Senator Wadsworth beat
en In New York. A1 Smith re-elected
governor of New York. Six of eight
states voting on prohibition went wet.
Nov. 4—Federal Judge G. W. Eng
lish of Illinois, under impeachment,
signed.
Nov. 11—Armistice day generally ob
served. President Coolidge dedicated
Liberty Memorial at Kansas City.
Nov. 13— De Bernard! of Italy won
Schneider cup in seaplane races at Nor
folk.
Nov. 18—Queen Marie of Rumania
canceled remainder of her American
tour at Indianapolis to hurry home
to sick husband.
Chicago, Milwaukee St St. Paul rail
way sold at auction for $140,000,000
Nov. 27—White Star Line fleet sold
Royal Mail.
Nov.
re
» ? 9 T^ rt ^? r . R Could, Repub
lican, elected United States senator
from Maine to succeed the late Senator
Bert M. Fernald.
Supreme Court upheld Volstead act
clause limiting medical prescriptions
of whisky to one pint every ten days
; S t 8 . quic ? nte P nial exposition
at Philadelphia closed with loss
ty of $20.000.000.
Dec. 6—Short session of. congress
opened.
Dec. 7—President's message received
by congress.
Dec. 9—Congress raised salaries
federal judges.
Dec. 10—House passed treasury and
?^.?®S?. appropr,ation b111 carrying
9090,054,248.
ways and means
committee decided there should be
tax legislation in short session.
Dec. 13—Congress dropped impeach
ment of ex-Judge G. W. English.
Dec.. 16—Albert B. Fall and E.
Doheny acquitted In Elks Hills
lease conspiracy case.
Senator-elect F. L. Smith of Illinois
appointed by Governor Small to fill out
unexpired term of Senator McKinley.
Dec. 22—congress adjourned
holiday recess.
clt
Dee. 11—House
Jan. I—G«n. T. H. Pangaloa p,„.
® lalm ^ d a d A ct ^°*'â hlp tor ° r88C8 with
cabinet re>i>rn»d
Jan^Fouryear-old^P*r?«; Mlch.,1
of Rumania was proclaimed crown
prince In place of Prince Carol, hli fa
th Jan W DU-Doctor* n Lufh!? rai?
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Dy uniiea
J an - 22— Spanish aviators, bound for
Argentina, reached Canary Islands.
t» aviators reached
Pe i n î m ? u ^' m®.? »
Feb. $—Portuguese government eup
pressed a revolt in Lisbon.
Feb. 12—Mexican government or
d,r * d closing of colleges, schools and
asylums conducted by CathoUe priests,
• Feb. 16—Miguel Mendez elected presi
d*» 1 .. 0 * Uolom^bla.
. Feb. 28—Mexican government or
dered all foreign prleetu and ministers,
Catholic and Protestant, to leave coun
new
budget
try.
March 8—-Ivan Lykke formed
cabinet for Norway.
March 8—Cabinet of Premier Brland
of France resigned.
March 9—Aristide
. . . Brian« ' made
premier of France for ninth time
March 20—New Czech cabinet headed
by former Premier Cerny, Dr. Eduard
Benes retained aa foreign minister
April *—Frencn parliament adopted
Finance Minister Peret's
scheme.
Pangalos elected president of Greece
Yugo-SIav cabinet resigned.
April 7—Premier Mussolini
of Italy
Idiot in nose by eccentric sister at
Baron AVhbourne of Ire-Und.
A]
•»■Revolt to northern Greece
Pangalos government snp
press
April 16—President Tuan Chl-Jul of
China deposed by coup of national
army 1
April 17—National army of Feng
•evacuated Peking; President Tuan re
instated.
April 1»— Chang's troops occupied
Peking; President Tuan fled to Tien
tsin.
April 29—Rlza Khan Pahlcvi crowned
as shah of Persia.
French captured Sueida. chief for
tress of Druses in Syria.
April 80—British miners struck.
May 1—Mexico ordered seizure of
Catholic churches closed by priests.
Negotiations between British govern
ment, mine operators and miners fall
;ln *- the Brltl » b Trades Union Congress
ordered general strike of 6.000,000 men
for May 8. Government declared state
Of emergency and Prime Minister
Baldwin became virtual dictator.
*«">"*■ .trik. Wn
May 7—Norge, Amundsen's polar dir
iglble, reached Kings Bay, Spitzbergen,
May f—Lt. Commander Richard E.
Byrd of Virginia and Floyd Bennett
flew from Spitzbergen to North p
circled it thrice and returned with
landing. *»«.umeu who
French bombarded Mldan quarter of
Damascus, killing 600
May 11—Berlin police broke up roy
allst plot to make Von Hlndenburg dlc
tator.
Amundsen expedition in the Norge
started from Spltrbergen for Alaska
Belgian cabinet resigned.
May 12—General strike in Great
Britain called off; negotiations with
miners to be resumed.
Marshal Pllsudski started revolt in
Poland against government of Premier
Wltos. premier
Chancellor Luther of Germany,
zured by relchetag, resigned
Airship Norge passed over North
pole.
^May i$—Norge alighted at Teller,
Pllsudski occupied Warsaw
bloody
ers.
•
ole,
out
cen
oody fighting. a * t#r
x> **— -Prsslâent Wojciechowski
Poland and ths cabinet resigned and
flea.
May 16—Pllsudski mads Charles Bar
Î*L pr * ml ® r of Poland and Ratal act
ing president.
May 16
. .. Dr. Wilhelm Marx became
chancellor of Germany,
Premier Mussolini pro
claimed Inauguration of the Fascist
Ha* f0rm ° f »° var "« a nt f'î
f„îwiüî" Por . t ,V? U888 • ab,n#t resigned
following a military revolt.
May 80 —Swedish commission, after
prohibition*" ' tUdy * d0Cided a «* lnat
Commander Cabecadas In control
Portugal government,
June 1—Prof. Ignats Mosoickl elect
ed president of Poland.
June 6—Syrian tribesmen rejected
French peace terms.
C. O. Ekman, prohibition leader,
formed new cabinet for Sweden.
?—Dr. Kasmlr Qrlnlus elected
president of Lithuania.
June 15—Premier Briand
and ..* att f? cab Ij 1 r es Lgn ed.
^ on î e £. da Coata d
dared himself head of Portuguese gov
ernment. ousting Commander Cabe
1B D . * ^ .
June 18—Brland failed to form new
French ministry and Harriot undertook
y. 0A „ ....... _ -
J pn * I®—Herrlot failing, Brland was
'gain selected to form French cabinet.
German voters, by rafralnlng from
voting, defeated referendum to con
fiscale property of former kaiser and
princes.
June 28—Brland formed French cab
met with Calliaux as finance minister,
June 28—Prime Minister Mackenzie
King of Canada, being refused dissolu*
v «on of parliament, resigned with
cabinet; Arthur Meighen, Conservative
leader, named to form new ministry.
July 2—Canada parliament dissolved
hy T Gov. Gen. Lord Byng.
July 9—French chamber gave Brland
of France
gave
government vote of confidence.
Gen. Carmonia succeeded G«^. Gomes
da Costa as dictator of Portugal.
July 17— Briand cabinet resigned be
cause of adverse vote in chamber; Her
riot invited to form ministry.
July 19—Harriot's French cabinet
formed with De Monzle as finance min
July 21—Herrlot cabinet defeated
French chamber and resigned.
July 23—Catholic church leaders ar
rested In Mexico for sedition.
Poincare formed French cabinet con
talnlng six ex-premiers.
July 31—French chamber of deputies
passed Poincare's financial measure.
Futile attempt made to assassinate
Dictator de Rivera of Spain.
Catholic episcopate of Mexico asked
truce with government and a plebiscite
on religious controversy. New religious
laws put Into effect; churches aban
doned by clergy and taken over
civilian committees.
Aug. 2—President Calles rejected
truce proposal of Mexico Catholic
clergy. •
Aug. 8—Poincare's fiscal legislation
passed by French senate.
Aug. 10—French senators and dep
uties, sitting as national assembly,
passed constitutional amendment em
bodying Poincare's project for sinking
fund to redeem floating debt.
Aug. 22—Greek Liberals, headed
Gen. Condylls, overthrew dictatorship
of Gen. Pangalos In bloodless coup
d'etat.
Aug. 29—Revolutionary movement
Nicaragua growing serious.
Sept. 5—Revolutionary movement
started by Spanish artillery suppressed
and state of siege decreed.
8>ipt. 8—Cantonese army occupied
Hankow.
Sept. 9—Military revolt in Athens
against Condylls government sup
pressed after bloody battle.
Sept. 10—Nicaraguan government
asked U. 8. to help end revolt.
Sept. 11—Anarchist attempted vain
ly to assassinate Premier Mussolini
Italy with bomb; Mussolini and Rome
press warned Prance to desist from
sheltering plotters against the Fascist
regime.
Sept.
14 — Melghen's Conservative
government in Canada defeated in elec
tions by Liberals under Mackenzie
King.
Bept. 25—Meighen government of Can
ada resigned and Mackenzie King
came premier.
Sept. 80—Polish parliament out down
the government budget and the cabinet
resigned.
Oct. 1—Pllsudski became premier
Poland. .
W 2â.n'i'Ælî t °"w-dî.? < ïta.r , ' t ' ,r * 4
Oct. 1^—Prussian diet vote! to settle
Hohenzollsrn claims by giving the fam
"7 » "*"* " 4 »»»••«
Austrian cabinet rcsined.
o!t 18—NbrwS "tfd wet In na.
tlonal plebiscite on law prohibiting use
wUh "»■•• <»an J* p.r c.nt
np^'rar
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T&quIi mi t trlb#,
Seipel again became premier of
Austria. v
Oct. 31—Touag man shot at Premier
Museolinl In Bologna and was slain by
orowd
Nov. 1.—Gen. Chamorro, president de
facto of Nicaragua.' resigned.
Not. »•— Italy refunded her entire In
ternal public debt.
Nov. I*—'Vincent Massey appointed
«ret-Canadian minister to Washington.
Communists of Java rebelled against
Dutch authorities.
Nov. 11—Adolfo Dias elected presi
dent ot Nicaragua; Mexican Allbusters
landed troops and munitions for rebels
near Corlnto.
Nov. 20—British Imperial conference
announced the dominions are hereafter
autonomous units of the empire, equal
ta status.
Serious revolt reported In Albania.
Nov. 21—Gen. Chang Kai-sbek, lead
er of Cantonese armies, declared revo
» lotion in China would not end nntil
extraterritoriality rights and conces
sions were abolis', Ved.
Nov. 27—Civil government of China
nt Peking resigned.
Nov. 29—Former Vice President See
saw landed troops in Nicaragua ter at*
I taek oh Diaz government
British and French troops landed at
Hankow, China.
General Carmona, premier of Portu
W'j assumed the presidency.
Nov. 80—King Ferdinand of Rumania
issued a warning to former Crown
Prince Carol and all others not to at
tempt a coup d'etat to seize the
Premier Condylls of Greece resigned
and Alexander Zaimls formed
cabinet.
.. Uec. 1—Elections in Ontario won- by
the wets; prohibition to be abandoned
for government control of liquor sales.
Dec. 8—Socialist government of Den
mark resigned after defeat in elec
tions.
Dec. 6—Tugo-Slav cabinet resigned.
Dec. 17—German cabinet resigned.
Lithuanian Socialist
of
E.
of
in
throne.
a new
. _ government
overthrown by military and Catholic
revolt; Major Plehavichius made dicta
tor.
Dec. 19—Antona Smetona made presi
dent of Lithuania.
INDUSTRIAL
. J an - U —Supreme court held uncon
stitutional prohibitive tax on "put and
call" trading on boards of trade.
Feb. 1—Trainmen on Eastern roads
asked wage increase of $1 a day.
Feb. 12—Anthracite coal strike end
ed by signing of five-year contract;
wages not raised, check-off not men
tioned.
Feb. 16—Twelve thousand fur work
ers of New York struck.
March 2—Interstate commerce com
mission rejected Van Sweringen plan
for merger of Nlckle Plate, Chesapeake
& Ohio, Hocking Valley, Pere Mar
quette and Erie railroads.
March 16—Announcement of $40,000,
C00 merger of 18 quarry companies ln
limestone district around Bedford and
Bloomington, Ind.
June 1—Charles P. Howard of Chi
cago elected president of International
- Typographical union, defeating J M.
Lynch.
June 3—Eastern railroads rejected
trainmen's demand for 20 per cent
wage increase.
July 1—Forty thousand garment
workers of New York struck.
July 16—Interstate commerce com
mission denied 5 per cent freight rat#
advance to Western railroads.
Oct. 4—American Federation of La
bor convention opened in Detroit.
Oct. 7—Federation of Labor voted
organize the automobile industry.
Oct. 8—German-Australian and Kos
mos shipping companies merg#d with
the Hamburg-Amerlcan line Into
$31,000,000 shipping combine, with
total tonnage of 879,000.
Not. 28—United States Supreme court
upheld çonvictlon of Chicago district
carpenters and employers for plot
restrain Interstate commerce.
Dec. 2—New railroad arbitration
board gave eastern conductors and
trainmen 7% per. cent wage increase.
Dec. 16—United States Steel corpora
tion declared a 40 per cent stock dlvl
dend.
Dec. 31—Frederick D. Underwood
tired as president of the Brie rail
road, being succeeded by John J. Ber
net.
t#r
of
f'î
ot
Jan. 8—Disastrous floods prevalent
*- throughout western Europe, and
Mexico.
Jan. 18—Ninety-one men killed
«<>»1 explosion near Wllburton,
Okla.
Feb. 17—Snowsllde destroyed mln
- Ing camp near Bingham. Utah;
was killed.
Feb. 25—Tornado in Arkansas and
Mississippi killed ten persons,
April 7—011 tank fields at San Lula
and Obiapo and Brea, Calif., burned with
i OBS 0 f about $18,000,000.
cab- April 8—Forty men killed by
plosions on two oil tank
New Orleans.
April 11—Twenty-five seamen burned
his to death by explosion on tanker
Port Arthur, Texas,
May 26—Cyclone and tidal wave
Burma killed 1.200.
June 13—Disastrous storms In Illi
DISASTERS
steamers near
nois and Iowa,
June 24—Disastrous floods In Oer
many and Mexico, hundreds being
drowned in latter country.
June 28—Earthquake In Sumatra
killed 288 persons.
July 6—More than 400 killed by an
other earthquake in Sumatra,
July 10—Naval ammunition depot at
Lake Denmark, N. J., struck by light
nlng, was destroyed by explosions and
fire; twenty-one men killed and prop
«rty loss about $100,000,000.
July 14—Twenty killed in hotel fire
Twilight Park in the Catskills,
Aug. 25—Twenty-five killed in storm
* bat »wept southern Louisiana,
Aug. 26—Forty-four men killed by
nine explosion at Clymer, Pa.
Aug. 81—Earthquake In the Asores
wrecked city of Horta; 24 killed,
Sept. 3—Sixteen men killed by mine
sxploslon at Tehona, Okla.
Bept. 6—Twenty-seven killed In train
wreck
Fifty perished In fire In cinema hall
at Drumeollogher, Ireland,
Sept. 12—Disastrous
[ middle western states.
Bept. 1$—Terrific
hurricane swept
lower east coast of Florida, passing
across state and gulf to Pensacola.
About 600 persons killed and property
losses in Miami and elsewhere amount
ed to over $200,000,000.
Sept. 28—Vera Crus,
vicinity badly damaged by hurricane.
Oct. 3—Serious floods in Illinois. Kan
sas and Oklahoma.
Oct. 4—Twenty-eight men killed by
mine explosion at Rockwood, Tenn.
Oct. 20—Hurricane swept Cuba, kill
ing 600 and doing $100,000,000 damage
to property.
Oct. 22—Earthquake in Armenia de
stroyed Leninakan and twelve other
towns; 600 killed.
Nov. 3—Fifty-one men killed by cave
in of iron mine at lehpeming, Mich.
Nov. 6—Typhoon in Philippines killed
several hundreds.
Nov. 19—Sixteen men killed by ex
plosion on tanker at Baltimore.
Nov. 26—Tornado killed about 80
sons in Louisiana. Arkansas and
souri.
near Leadvllle. Colo.
floods in six
Mexico, and
Jam. S—Maj. Gen. W. H. Hart, quar
termaster general of the army.
Jan. IS—Mgr. J. T. O'Farrell, vicar
general of the Virginia Catholic dlo
ceee.
Jan. Il—Cardinal Mercier of Belgium.
Jan. 26—Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass.
Catholic bishop of Balt Lake City.
a::,
Dec. 8—Twenty-nine men killed by
mine explosion at Princeton. Ind.
of
NECROLOGY
Jan. 87—Viscount Kalo, premier of
Japan.
Jan. »0— W. 1* George, English au
thor
Jan. $1—George V, Hobart, musical
comedy author
Feb. %— W. M. Wood, former presl
«ent ot American Woolen company.
euioide
Feb. V—Brig. Gen. B. J. McClernan«.
retired. In Washington.
Feb. 11— W. C. Bobbs of Indianap
oils, president Bobbs-Merrlll Publish
g company
Feb. 18—Henry Holt, publisher an«
author, in New York.
Feb. 17—Archbishop J. F. Cleplak
of Poland, In Passaic, N. J.
Feb. 20—Dr. James A- Israel, world
famous Qermaa surgeon.
Archbishop Roy of Quebec, CathoUe
primate'of Canada.
March 6—Rear Admiral Richard
Watnwright, retired.
March 11—Leopold Schepp, financier
and philanthropist, ln New York.
Henry Sherman Boutell, former min
and Swlt,erland - at
il w ville
March 12—Edward Wyllls Scrippa,
publlsher. In Monrovia bay, Liberia.
^ M , ar ^v. !*—Mo^rd O. Heeler, presl
dent Chicago * Western Indiana rail
road, in H.nsdale, III
March 20—Dowager Queen Louise of
Denmark.
Marcn 24—Albion W, Small. Univer
slty of Chicago professor.
March 26—Dr. George Snow Isham,
leading Chicago surgeon. ,
Rt. Rev. Edward D. Kelly, D. D..
of the Catholic diocese of
Rapids.
March î«_LouU Philipp.. duk, ot
«'ÄSoT 4 *" »-«"•
April 4-—A. Q. Mellwaii *i«?d ta
surance man. In Hartford
in
bishop
Grand
August Thyssen, German steel mag
nate.
April »—Henry Miller, veteran actor
manager, In New York.
April 11—Luther Burbank, world
famous horticulturist, at Santa Rosa,
Calif.
April 14—Otto Stark, landscape
painter, in Indianapolis.
April *0—Ogden T. MeClurg of Chi
cago, publisher and explorer.
April 28—-Joseph Pennell. American
etcher.
April 86—Ellen Key, Swedish writer.
April 27—Marshal Kawamura of Ja
pan, hero of Battle of Mukden.
April 28—Miss Jeffreys Lewis, Amer
ican actress.
April 30— F. D. Counties, retired Chi
cago financier.
May 8—Oscar S. Straus, former am
bassador to Turkey, in New Tork.
Prince Victor Napoleon, Bonapartlst
pretender to throne of France.
May 6—Howard Van Doren Shaw of
Chicago, noted architect.
May 8—Rida Johnson Toung, Ameri
can playwright.
May 9—Benjamin B. Odell, former
governor of New York.
May 10—Alton B. Parker, Démocratie
candidate for Presidency in 1904, in
New York.
May 13—John T. King, former Re
publican leader in Connecticut.
May 15—Mrs. Christine Nielson
Dreier, American contralto, in Chicago.
May 16—Mohammed VI, ex-sultan of
Turkey.
May 17—A. R. Metcalfe, whist au
, . _. .
tb ?r ity, A n „ _ .
! May 19— W. E. Stokes. New York
i ho , t . el °l an - „
I May 20 —Donald Robertson, actor and
I stage coach.
June 6—Meyer London, former So
I clalist congressman from New York.
June 7—John D. Spreckels, California
capitalist.
June 9—Louis Sherry, famous res
taurateur, in New York.
Sanford B. Dole, former president of
Republic of Hawaii, in Honolulu,
June 14—Earl of Dunraven. English
yachtsman,
June 16—Miss Mary Cassatt, Amerl
ca " *5L Ba T* a
June 20—Dr. John Howland of Bal*
timoré, leading authority on diseases
of children,
June 21—Kate Jordan, author and
Playwright, at Mountain Lake, N. J.
Ju»*« 24—Cleveland H. Dodge of New
Yc . i: philanthropist and capitalist,
** Rapp of Chicago,
a * ■'■hifect
a June 80— Frederick Cunliffe-Owen,
English author. In New York.
f — Er il? French exponent
°f auto«..,,,asuou.
. * " AOirian ,
oa H^ a «
_ Edward
Yo _ r ^ Tel**.'
July 12—<v
»tor ana seer» w
July
melodi
July 18—Martl i L - v u.tok, DüBi jerat
I« nominee for governor of Wi. vrstn.
July 19—Felix DJerJlnsky, head of
Soviet Russian c.'neka.
July 21— F. M. Woodruff of Chicago,
ornithologist.
W. A. Roebling, builder of Brooklyn
bridge.
July 26—Robert Todd Lincoln, last;
surviving son of President Abraham
Lincoln, at Manchester, Vt
July 28—George Inness, Jr., Ameri
can painter.
July 30—Albert B. Cummins, United
States senator from Iowa.
Aug. 1—Israel Zangwill, Jewish au
thor and Zionist.
Aug. 14—George A. Glynn, New Tori:
journalist and Republican leader, in
Watertown, N. T.
Aug. 16—Dr. Henry Wade Rogert.
federal judge and former president of
Northwestern university, in Trenton.
N. J.
honors, Chicago
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g. 21—Mrs. Frederick W. Vander
... in Paris.
H. H. Harjes, noted Paris banker.
Aug. 21—Stuart Pratt Sherman, au
thor and literary critic, at ManisieeL
Mich.
22—Dr. Charles W.
Au
blit
|
Eliot, presi
dent emeritus of Harvard university.
Aug. 23—Rudolph Valentino, noted
screen actor, In New York.
Bert M. Fernald, United States sena
j tor from Maine.
1 Rear Admiral G. H. Barber, U. S. N.
Aug. 26—Commander John Rodgers.
U. S. N., killed in airplane accident.
Aug. 80—Lafayette McWilliams, pio
neer merchant of Chicago.
Sept. 11—Dr. Policarpo Bonilla, for
mer president of Honduras.
Sept. 17—Joseph Byfield, Chicago ho
tel man.
Sept. 19—Maj. Gen. R. L. Howze.
commander of Fifth corps area, U. S. A.
Sept. 22—*-Dr. Heman Spalding, noted
city health official of Chicago.
Sept. 23—Rear Admiral W. F. Ful
1am, retired.
Oct. 2—Judge T. D. Hurley, Illinois
jurist, in Evanston.
Oct. 4—Arthur Jule Goodman, Amer
ican portrait painter, In Cleveland.
Oct. 11—Henry L. Fuqua, governor
of Louisiana.
Oct. 13— D. P. Davis, prominent Flor
ida real estate developer, drowned at
sea -
Oct. 14—Richard E. Bree
11c utilities executive, in
Cleveland Moffett, author and Jour
nalist, in Paris.
Oct. 19—Dr. J. A. Newman, psychi
atrist, at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Commissioner Thomas Estill, head of
Salvation Army in Eastern states.
Oct. 20—Eugene V. Debs, Socialist
leader.
Thomas Mott Osborne, prison admin
istration reformer, at Auburn, N. Y.
Oct. 22—John G. Shedd, merchant and
financier of Chicago.
Oct. 23—Rev. Olympia Brown-Wlllls,
pioneer woman suffragist, in Baltimore.
Oct. 26—Charles M. Russell, ''cowboy
artist," in Great Falls, Mont.
Oct. 26— Col. E. B. Ellicott, president
of Chicago school board.
Oct. 28—Maj. Gen. George Bell, Jr,
retired, in Chicago.
W. J. Hussey, professor of astronomy
at University of Michigan, In London,
England.
Oct. 31—Harry Houdini, magician, la
Detroit,
Charles E. Fox, architect, in Chicago.
Nov. 1—Joseph Q. Cannon, former
speaker, in Danville, Ill.
Nov. $—Annie Oakley (Mrs. Frank
Butler), ta nous marksman, at Green
Ohio.
Nov - *—James K. Hackett, Americas
, ac l? r * inPar , la -
Nov. lb —Lafayette Toung, former
! United States senator, publisher an«
of Des Moinoa Capital.
•. Nov. 17—Carl E. Akeley. big ga
N
noted pub
ew York.
me
naturalist,
, Congo.
j *î ov - 1 5~C le w m «ot Shorter. English
editor and author.
, S ° v ' 2 1 7T J .? 8 Ä McKenna, retire«
Justice of United States Supreme court,
'n We.hlngton
Nov - 22—Ha Ivor Steenerson, former
congressman from Minnesota.
C. P. J Mooney, editor Memphis Corn
merclal-Appeal.
a N . oy - 24—Leonid Krassln. Russian
Soviet representative in England,
Nov. 26—John M. Browning. American
w w.
Nov. 21—Albert E. King, secretary
treasurer of Brotherhood of Railway
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p€ , 1 T® na ^ Ph yBlc . lan . to John
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mÎm.S 'mL?* Royal Arch Masons, la
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1 R.°n T,w._ _ _*
! r/v Takahira, Japanese diplomat
alumni, t P?ovldence. R L
w ^ Porter. New tork banker.
! Dec. 2— Bishop J. J. Davis of Cath
©lie diocese of Davenport, Iowa.
: Dec. 8—Charles Kingllng.
; proprietor,
Dec. 6—Claude
1 French painter.
t Dec. 7— W. B. McKinley.
States senator from Illinois
Dec. 16—Nikola Pachitch. Serbian
statesman,
Dec. 12—Jean Richepln, French poai
and Plsywrlght.
, 1 ? a< 7 î ir?' Qhl1 ** Whitman, penolo*
ln «hlcago.
.«.ta chamjol?" LarnW! - ,0rm "
Pioneer Press
d.I&K:
circus
Monot. eminent
Unlted
In New York.
Galt, editor St. Faul