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THE CARROLL FREE TRESS, CARROLLTON
CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922.
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INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 8—War between Russia anil Fin
land begun over alleged Finnish aid to
Karelian rebel*.
Jan. 6—Allied supreme council railed
economic and financial congress to meet
in Genoa In March; Germany and Russia
included.
Jan. 7—Conferees at Washington adopted
resolutions forbidding submarine opera
tions against merchantinsn and banning
poison gas in warfare.
Jan. 8—Brland agreed at Cannes to
partial moratorium for Germany In re
turn for defensive alliance for France
with Great Britain.
Jan, 11—Shantung controversy between
China and Japan settled.
Feb. 1—Washington conference adopted
five-power naval limitation treaty with
agreement on Pacific fortifications,
f .domed resolutions declaring open door
n China; approved treaty for restriction
Hept 13 -Western portion of Smyrna
burned; loss $00,000,000. many lives lost.
Germany refused to deposit gold guar
antee demanded by Belgium and defaulted
on payment of private pre-war debts to
allied nationals.
Sept, lo—Great Britain Invited the do
minions, France, Italy, Serbia, Rumania
and Greece to Join in the defense of the
Dardanelles.
Kept. 18—France and Italy opposed mili
tary operations against Turks.
Sept. 18-Entlre British Atlantic fleet
sent to Dardanelles.
Hungary admitted to Dengue of Nations.
Kept. 18— Rental Pasha demanded of al
lies Immediate conference on guarantees
for neutrality of tin- Straits and permis
sion to send troops Into Thrace.
Kept. 2b—Allies agreed to conference of
eight nations on Near East, excluding
Russia.
Kept. 23—Allies Invited Turks to peace
conference, agreeing to return Constan
tinople, Adrianople and Thrace In return
for freedom of the Dardanelles,
j Sept. 26—Gniut Britain agreed to admit
Russia to Near East conference concern-
j lng the Dardanelles.
Sept. 28—Greek troops revolted and King
Constantine abdicated.
I Russia, In note to the nlllos, demanded
the restoration of Turkey In Europe.
Sept, 28— Kemal Pasha accepted allies'
Invitation to armistice parley, and to
; peace conference on condition that Con
stantinople and all of Thrace be ceded at
once to Nationalist government.
Oct. 1—Turk Nationalists agreed to ar-
I mlstlce conference at Mudanla on oct. 3
i und suspended military operations.
Oct. 3— Armistice conference opened at
Mudanla.
| Oct. 10—Allies. Greeks and Turkish Na-
i tlonallsts agreed to armistice convention
j at Mudanla, providing for evacuation of
Thrace by Greece wltnln 16 days and Its
delivery to Turkey within 46 days.
I Oct. 11—Mudanla protocol signed.
Oct. 23—United States Invited Central
•II oniiie, approveu neavy ioi ruuiuivni American republics to conference on ltm-
of use of submarines and poison gas 111 J Ration of armament and other subjects,
warfare; Mr. Balfour announced Great , ln_Washlngton Dee
Britain would restore Wei-llal-Wei
China.
Feb. 4—Washington conference approved
treaties relating to China and resolution
•resting International commission to re
vise the rules of warfare.
Feb. 8— Delegates to Washington con
ference signed all the treaties und the
conference adjourned sine die.
Feb. 10— President Harding submitted
Washington conference treaties, with full
minutes of conference, to the Henatc.
Feb. 11—United States and Japan signed
treaty defining rights of former on Yap
and other Islands mandated to Japan.
Feb. 16—International permanent court
of Justice held first session In The Hague.
Lloyd George and Poincare agreed on
V-year Anglo-French pact and postponed
Genoa conference to April 10.
Feb. 28—Premier Lloyd George an
nounced Great Britain abandoned protec
torate of Egypt
March 1—United States senate ratified
Tap treaty with Japan.
March 24—United States senate ratified
feur-power Pacific treaty.
March 27—United States senate ratified
supplement to Pacific treaty, excluding
Japanese mainland, and reservation
straightening out tangle over declaration
•n domestic affairs.
March 23—United States senate ratified
aaval limitation treaty and treaty on use
of poison gas and submarines In warfare,
March 30—United States ratified ntne-
power treaty concerning China and treaty
on Chinese tariff
April 7—Germany rejected allied repara
tion commission's demand that she Issue
IMS,000,800 In additional taxes.
April 3—Colombia and Venesuela signed
boundary treaty.
April 10—Economic conference of Genoa
opened. Ruealan delegatee accepted the
four domande of the other nations.
April 18—Germany and Russia concluded
treaty, canceling war debts and Breet-
Litovek treaty and establishing full diplo
matic relatione. Representatives of al-
llee at Genoa conference surprised and
angry.
April IT—Paace parley between Japan
and Far Bait republic broken oft.
April 18—Allied and little eubents powers
at Genoa barred Germany rrbm participa
tion in conference on Rueeia-
Aprll 21—German delegatee at Genoa
agreed to keep out of dlecusetons of Rus-
aian affairs.
April 24—France and Japan, at Genoa,
reached accord to oppose recognition of
•anvUt Rusala; -conference deadlocked. by-
Russia's financial demands.
May 1—Soviet Russia, In great May day
damonatratton at Moscow, defied the
''capitalistic nations of the world.”
May 2—Memorandum of allies' condi
tions for helping Russia handad to soviet
delegates at Osnoa; Belgium refused to
sign and France made reservation.
May t—France withdrew her assent to
proposals made to tha Russian govern
ment by Genoa conference. French press
-charged Lloyd George with trickery con
cerning Russian oil fields.
May 11—Ruaalana at Genoa replied
evasively to allied proposals.
May 14—Allies at Genoa Invited United
States to participate In new negotiations
with Russia to begin at The Hague
June 16.
May 16—United States declined Invita
tion to The Hague conference. Russia
•greed to participate.
Germany and Poland signed treaty set
tling Upper Silesia disputes.
Great Britain asked Ilnlted States,
France and Italy to co-operate with her
in Investigating and stopping Turkish
atrocities In Asia Minor.
Tacns-Arlca conference between Chile
and Peru opened In Washington.
May 18—Powers at Genoa adopted eight
months' truce with Russia and other so
viet republics.
May 13—Genoa conference adjourned,
Uoyd George warnlna the Russians to be
more reasonable.
May 24—International bankers’ commu
te* met In Parte to plan economic recov
ery for Europe.
June 3—United Statee agreed to help
Investigate Turkish atrocities.
June 8—France refused to agree to re
duction of German reparations.
June IS—Hague preliminary conference
on Russian affairs opened.
June 28— Russian delegates joined In con
ference at The Hague and Insisted credits
to Russia should be first topic handled.
July 1—Japan completed ratification of
all Che Washington conference treaties.
July 8—Russians at The Hague, after
submitting “amazing" budget, offered 600
concessions for $1,600,000,000 In crodlts.
July 10—Germany agreed to give allies
•ontrol of Its finances, hoping for a loan
of a billion dollars, and asked moratorium
•n reparations
July 17—Deague of Nations council met
In London to ratify the mandates. Amer
ica and Great Britain having reached
full agreement.
July 20—Conference at The Hague ended
without result owing to position of Rus
sian delegates.
July 22—Council of League of Nations
f dopted British mandate for Palestine and
'rench mandate for Syria.
July 27—Esthonla, Latvia, Lithuania and
Albania recognized as sovereign states by
the United States.
July 3ft—King Constantine proclaimed
Smyrna and Its hinterland an autonomous
State under protection of Greece.
Aug. T—Conference of allied premiers
opened In London. Poincare threatened
Prance would aot alone If necessary to
aompel Germany to execute the Versailles
treaty. French demands referred to ex
perts.
Aug. 3—DemuytiY, Belgium, won James
Gordon Bsnnett balloon race In Europe.
Aug. 3—French plans to coerce Ger-
asany disapproved by allied experts.
Aug. 10—Unltsd Stats* end Germany
signed agreement for determination of
war claims
Aug. It—Allied conference in London
broke up without result,
i Aug. 16—Grmany defaulted on payment
of 96,063,300 installment of pre-war debt*
' to allied nationals.
Aug. 18—Turks opened great offensive
i agaiaet Greek* In Asia Minor.
Aug. 16—Reparations commission granted
g#many six months’ respite.
gint. 1—Greece, her armies routed by
tho Turk*, offered to evacuate Asia Minor
JfTurtMr would sign armistice.
4—Loague_ of Nationalist In Ge-
Oct. 27—Allies Invited United States to
participate In Near East conference at
lauiaanne Switzerland, Nov. 13. Becre-
tary Hughes replied United States would
send observers. Russia Invited to part
of conference dealing wRh the Darda
nelles
Oct. 29—Turkey and Russia opened con
ference for economic accord.
Nov. 12— Lausunuc conference postponed
to Nov. 20.
Nov. 2ft—Near East peace conference at
Lausanne openurl, with return to secret
diplomacy In effoct.
Nov. 21—Eastern Thrace and Adrlunople
turned over to the Turks.
Dec. 2—Russia and nations on her west
ern border openud limitation of arma
ment conference.
Dec 4—Conference of Central American
republics opened In Washington.
Nov. 30—Allies demanded from Germany
apology and Indemnity for attack on al
lied officers In Bavaria.
Dec. 8—British troops forced Turks to
let Christian refugees leave Constan
tinople.
Dec. 6—Allies presented plan for control
of Dardanelles to Lausanne conference.
America's position stated.
Dec. 8—Turkey's plan for Dardanelles
submitted at lAusanne. Virtually ac
cepted by the allies.
Dec. 9— Allied premiers met in London
to consider German reparations.
Dec. lft—German reparations plan re
jected by allied premiers.
Shantung province formally restored to
China by Japan.
Doc. 11—Conference of allied premiers
adjourned to Jan. 2, France Insisting on
forcible occupation of the Ruhr.
Dec. 12— Baltin states served ultimatum
on Russia at Moscow which Russia re
jected and disarmament conference went
on rocks.
Dec. 14—Turkey agreed to Join League
of Nations whdn peace Is signed and to
accept measures for protection of minori
ties.
FOREIGN
wmT: jkuguslln Edwards of Chile elected
Boot. 6—Gen. Trlcouple, new Greek com
mander la chief, captured ny Turks.
Council of League of Nations blocked
all plans for merging of Austria with any
other nation.
Sept. 8—Greeks began evacuation of
gjnyma.
Sept. 9—Turkish Nationalists .occupied , enc#
Smyrna. ; Sept. 9-William Cusgravn elected presl-
Sept. 13—France and Great Britain ac- | dent n f i r | a h provisional government,
oeptnd Lord Robert t 8 8 f, Jill Sept. 26-Greek iroops revolted ana King
tarnation a 1 company assurance- agautir Constantine abdicated.
Jan. 7—Dali J.'.reann accepted Irish
peace treaty b.i vote of 64 to 67. De
Valera and followers decided to continue
the fight.
Jan. 9—Do Valera resigned presidency
of Irish republic and was defeated for
re-election. 68 to 60.
Jan. 10—Arthur. Griffith elected president
of Dali Elreann to establish the Irish
Free State. De Valera and followers
bolted.
Jan. 12—Premier Brland of France re
signed because hie ’policies at Cannes con
ference were opposed. Poincare made
premier
Jan. 14—Parliament of southern Ireland
ratified peace treaty. Michael Collins at
head of provisional government.
Jan. 16—Provisional government of Irish
Free State Installed at Dublin Castle.
Feb. 2—Premier Bonoml of Italy and
his cabinet resigned.
Feb. 6—Cardinal Achllle Rattl, arch
bishop of Milan, elected pope, taking
name of Plus XI.
Feb. 12—Plus XT crowned pope.
Feb. 22—Free State and republic advo
cates In Ireland agreed to have referen
dum on treaty with England and Free
Slate constitution three months hence
and to hold no elections until then.
Feb. 23—Japanese diet rejected universal
suffrage measure.
Feb. 26—New Italian cabinet formed by
Luiga Facta.
Feb. 23—Princess Mary of England mar
ried to Viscount Lascolles.
March 2—Lady Rhondda won seat In
house of lords, creating precedent.
March SO—Irish Free State and Ulster
representatives signed peace pact.
Two Portuguese aviators flew from Lis
bon to the Canaries on way to Brazil.
March 31—King George signed Irish
Wee State act.
April 6—Portuguese aviators, en route
te Brasil, flew from Canaries to Cape
Verde Islands.
April 18—Portuguese aviators flew from
Cape Verde Islands to St. Taul’a Rock,
1,400 miles, but wrecked their plane on
landing.
April 21—Gen. Chang Tso Ling, governor
of Manchuria, seised Peking and Tien
Tain.
April 28—Great battle between armies
of Generals Chang and Wu Pei Fu opened
near Peking.
May 3—Gen. Juan Vincente Gomez
elected president of Venezuela.
Mav 4—General Wu's army victorious In
battle near Peking; General Chang’s army
In flight.
May 21—Russian government passed de
cree recognizing property rights within
certain limits.
June 1—Old Chinese parliament met and
President Hsu resigned.
Paraguay in throes of a revolution.
June 3—General DledrlchB elected presi
dent of Vladivostok government.
June 6—Portuguese aviators completed
their flight from Lisbon to Brasil.
Japanese cabinet resigned.
June 8—King Alexander of Jugo-Klavla
and Princess Marie of Rumania married
at Belgrade.
June lft-Cuban cabinet resigned.
June 11—LI Yuan-Hung assumed presi
dency of China and made Wu Ting-Fang
premier.
Admiral Kato became premier of Japan.
Juno 16—General Cnen captured Canton
and Sun Tat Ben fled.
National election held In Ireland, advo
cates of treaty winning.
June 23— Flold Marshal Sir Henry Wil
son. M. P. for an Ulster dlstriot, assas
sinated by two Irishmen In London.
June 24—Dr. Walter Rathenau, German
foreign minister, assassinated In Berlin.
July lft—Big revolution in Brasil crushed
after several weeks’ fighting.
July 18—Fact* cabinet In Italy resigned,
owing to actions of the Fascist!.
July 36—Bavarian government rejected
national Gorman legislation for defense
of the republic.
Aug. 8—Italian Fasclstl captured palace
at Genoa In face of heavy gun firs of
regulars. Martial law proclaimed In sev
eral province*.
Aug. II—Cork, last stronghold of Irish
rebels, taken by Irish Nationalist*.
Aug. 14—Peace parley between warring
factions in China opened In Shanghai.
Aug. 21—General wu, military master of
China, accepted policy of Dr. 8un for
reorganisation of China like the United
8lat*s.
Aug. 22—Michael Collins, bead of Irish
Free State, killed in ambuscade.
Aug. 27—Sweden by popular vote re
jected prohibition.
Aur. 30—General Crowder gave Cubs
ten days to act on his legislative reform
I p, s.v 7—Brasil began celebration of one
hundredth anniversary of her In depend*
, Sept. 27—Crown Prince George eworn In
i tie king of Greece.
; rtulHuli, famous Moroccan bandit, sur
rendered to the Spanish.
| Oct. 16—King Ferdinand and Queen Ma
rie of Rumania crowned at Albajulia.
Oct. 19— British conservatives decided to
abandon coalition; Prime Minister Lloyd
i George and hla cabinet resigned; A. Boimr
j Law invited to form new ministry,
j Get. 21—New provisional government of
i Dominican Republic inaugurated.
I Oct. 2.1—Bonar Law elected head of Con-
| sorvatlve party and accepted the post of
prime minister.
Oct. 24- Bonar r*aw announced his cab
inet, and an election was called for
; Nov. if,.
I Gel. 26—Japanese evacuated Vladivostok
! and troops of Far Kastern Republic occu
pied the city.
Get. 26—Italian Fasclstl prepared for
j militant action and Premier Facta and
1 his cabinet resigned.
King George dissolved British parlia
ment and called new one to meet Nov. 20.
Oct. 29—King of Italy invited Mussolini,
head of the Fascist!, to form a new min
istry.
Oct. 30—Premier Mussolini announced
new Italian cabinet.
Oct. 31—Gen. Francisco Murgula, Mexi
can rebel chieftain, captured and shot.
Nov. 1—Angora National assembly de
clared the sultan of Turkey dethroned,
declared the sovereignty of the nation is
in the hands of the people and changed
the name from Ottoman empire to State
of Turkey.
Nov. 4—Turkish Nationalists took pos
session of Constantinople and asked the
allies to remove their troops.
I Nov. 6—Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm married
Princess Ilermine of Reuse at Doom,
Holland. /
Alttes refused to evacuate Constan
tinople
Nov. 13—King of Italy gave Mussolini
ministry full power to make governmental
reforms.
Nov. 14— German Chancellor Wlrth and
hla cabinet resigned under pressure of
supporting parties.
Nov. 16—Prime Minister Bonar Law won
control of house of comtnona in British
elections.
Arthur Bernardes Inaugurated president
of Brazil.
Nov. lfr—Wilhelm Cuno accepted German
chancellorship.
Nov. 17—Turkish National assembly or
dered arrest and trial of the sultan, and
he started for Malta on a British warship.
Nov. 18—Abdul Medjid Effendl, cousin of
deposed sultan, elected caliph by Turk
ish National assembly.
General Feng lead coup d’etat In Poking,
establishing martial law and ousting the
cabinet. Dr. W. W. Yen assumed pre
miership.
Nov. 20—Cuno named new German min
istry, Socialists and Communists being
not represented.
Nov. 24—Erskine Childers, chief aid of
De Valera, executed by Irish Free State
authorities.
Nov. 26—Italian parliament gave Pre
mier Mussolini full power to carry out
reforms.
German Chancellor Cuno given big vote
of confidence by reichstag.
Nov. 28—Five former cabinet members
of Greece and one general were convicted
of treason In connection with the Greek
debacle in Asia Minor and were executed.
Great Britain protested and broke off
diplomatic relations.
Dec. It—Prince Andrew of Greece de
graded and exiled for high treason.
Dec. 4—Parliament passed Irish consti
tution bill; Timothy Healy appointed gov
ernor general of Irish Free State.
Dec. 6— Irish Free State came Into being.
Dec. 7—Ulster parliament voted to stay
out of Irish Free State.
Dec. 8—Liam Mellowes and Rory O’Con
nor, Irish rebel leaders, executed in Dub
lin.
Dec. 9—Gabriel Narutowlc* elected pres
ident of Poland,
Dec. 11—Pope held secret consistory and
created eight new cardinals.
Dec. lft—President Narutowlc* of Poland
assassinated.
Ukraine parliament voted to merge with
Moscow government.
Dec. 17—Moscow government ordered
consuls of eleven nations to leave Vladi
vostok.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 3— Henry P. Fletcher appointed am
bassador to Belgium.
Jan. 9-George Wharton Pepper ap
pointed United States senator from Penn
sylvania to succeed the late Boles Pen
rose.
Jon. 12—Senate by vote of 46 to 41 seated
Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, with
robuke for lavish expenditure of money
in campaign.
Jan. 26— House passed antl-lynchlng bill.
Jan. 31—Senate passed foreign debt re
funding bill, putting limit for payment at
26 years.
Feb. 7—A. B. Houghton appointed am
bassador to Germany, Theodore Brentano
minister to Hungary and A. H. Washburn
minister to Austria.
Feb. 8—Senate passed the house co
operative marketing bill.
Feb. 17—Charles A. Rawson appointed
United 8tates senator from Iowa to suc
ceed Kenyon.
Feb. 18—Federal Judge K. M. Landis
resigned, effective March 1.
Feb. 27—Supreme court ruled Nineteenth,
or woman's suffrage, amendment Is con
stitutional.
Feb. 28—President Harding, In address
to congress, urged subsidies for American
merchant marine which will amount to
116.000,900 In first year and 830,000,000 an
nually thereafter.
March 2—Dr. Hubert Work appointed
postmaster general.
March 23—House of representatives
passed soldiers' bonus bill.
March 27—House voted to add 816.000,000
to rivers and harbors appropriation.
March 29— House passed army bill with
appropriations for army of 116,000.
April 16—House, In committee of the
whole, voted, 177 to 130, to amend navy
bill to provide for 88,000 men Instead of
67,000.
Senate voted to extend 3 per cent Immi
gration law for three year*.
April 19—House clinched "big navy"
action by vote of 221 to 148, and then
passed the bill.
April 20—Pan-American meeting of
women opened In Baltimore.
April 21—Congress appropriated $1,000,000
for flood control and relief In Mississippi
river valley.
May 1—United States Supreme court
found packers’ control act constitutional.
May 2—Former Senator Albert J. Bever
idge defeated Senator New in the Indiana
Republican primaries. Samuel M. Ralston
nominated by the Democrats.
May 6—House passed $17,000,000 soldier
hospital 1)111.
May 20—A. H. Gelssler, Oklahoma, ap
pointed minister to Guatemala.
May 24—Interstate commerce commis
sion ordered rail freight rates reduced
about 10 per cent, effective July 1.
May 30— Lincoln memorial at Washing
ton dedicated.
Juno 2—Senate passed army bill pro
viding for army of 183,000 enlisted men.
June 6—United States Supreme court
held labor organizations could be sued for
violations of Sherman anti-trust law.
June 19— Senate passed navy appropria
tion bill, providing for 88,000 enlisted men.
Minnesota Republicans renominated
United States Senator F. B. Kellogg,
and Democrats renominated Mrs. Anna
D. Olesnn.
June 21—Illinois Supreme court upheld
the convictions of William Brosa Lloyd
and 18 other members of the Communist-
Labor party for sedition.
June 22—8trlklng miners In Williamson
county, Illinois, slaughtered 19 strike
breaker* and mine guards.
June 24—Gov. Len Small of Illinois found
not guilty of conspiracy to defraud the
state-
June 27—Wisconsin Democrats nominated
Mrs. Ben C. Hooper of Oshkosh for United
States senate.
June 28—Senator P. J. McCumbtr de
feated for renomination in Republican
primaries of North Dakota by Lynn J.
Frasier.
July 1—General Lord succeeded General
Dawes a* director of the budget
July 11—James H. WUkerson named to
succeed K. M. Iandls as United States
district Judge.
July 18—Robert B. Howell nomine ted
for senate by Republican* of Nebras 1 i
and Senator Hitchcock renominated Gy
Democrats.
Aug. 11—John W. Davis elected prvl-
dent American Bar association.
Aug. 16—MaJ. David A, Reed appointed
to succeed the late United States Senator
Crew of Pennsylvania.
Aug. 19—Senate passed the McCuiaber
tariff bill.
Aug. 23--House passed blit to create
coal investigating commission.
Aug. 24-3flcretary of State Hughes
sailed for BiasU,
Aug. 29—Senator Hiram Johnson renom
inated by California Republicans
Aug. 31—Senate passed soldiers' bonus
bill.
House passed emergency fuel bill, de
signed to prevent profiteering In coal
Proposed Midvale-Republic-Inland Steel
merger cited by federal trade commission*
as unfair competition, in violation of
trade commission act.
Kept. 1—House passed bill to prevent
forced discharge of 1,000 army officers.
Sept. 3—Associate Justice John A,
Clarko resigned from Supreme court.
Sept, f, Republicans of Wisconsin re
nominated Senator LaFollette and Gov
ernor J. j. Blaine.
Former Senator George TI. Sutherland
appointed to Supreme court.
Senate passed trie emergency fuel bill.
Sept. 7-Thirty-eight men Indicted for
parttclpstlon In the Herrin coal mine
massacre In Illinois.
Sept. 8—Senate passed Borah hill creat
ing coal Investigating commission.
Twenty-one more Indicted for Herrin
massacre.
Sept. 11—Senate bonus bill accepted by
conference.
Republicans won Maine election by nor
mal majority, Senator Hale and Governor
Baxter being re-elected.
Sept. 12—Senator Lodge of Massachu
setts, Senator Townsend of Michigan and
Senator Poindexter of Washington renom
inated by Republicans.
Sept. 16—House adoptud conference re
port on tariff bill.
Sept. 19—President Harding vetoed the
soldiers’ bonus bill.
Senate adopted conference report on
tariff bill.
Sept. 20—House overrode President's
veto of bonus bill, but sonate sustained It.
Sept, 21—President signed tariff bill.
Sept 22—Congress adjourned.
Conrad E. Spens appointed federal fuel
distributor.
Sept 23—Herrin mine massacre grand
Jury completed Its work, having returned
214 indictments.
Triennial conclave of Episcopalian
church closed, denying inombers marriage
with divorcees, refusing women place In
church management, end passing other
Important church legislation.
Six killed In crash of army bombing
planes at Mlneola, L. 1.
Sept. 26—G. A. R. In annual encamp
ment at Dea Moines. la.
Sept. 26—United States Senator Froy-
llnghuysen of New Jersey renominated.
Sept. 28—Dr. J. W. Willett of Tama,
lu.. elected commander In chief of G. A. R.
Oct. 3-Mrs. W. H. Felton appointed
United States senator from Georgia, to
surceod the late Senator Thomas Watson.
Oct. 6—Attorney General Daugherty In
sweeping decisions ruled liquor off of
American Blilps throughout the world
and barred foreign ships from American
ports If they have liquor aboard, sealed
or unsealed.
Oct. lft—President Harding appointed
the coal fact finding commission.
Oct. 16—Great Britain rejected Secre
tary Hughes’ appeal for treaty granting
reciprocal right of search and seizure of
ships outside territorial limits.
American Legion convention opened In
New Orleans
Oct. 20—Alvin M. Owsley of Texas elect
ed national commander of American Le
gion.
Oct. 23—Judge Hand In New York fed
eral court upheld Attorney General
Daugherty's ruling against all ships
bringing liquor Into United 8tatea ports.
Oct 24—Supreme Court Justice W. R.
Day resigned, effective Nov. 14.
Nov. 7—Elections resulted generally In
Democratic victories; Republican major
ity in congress greatly reduced.
Nov, 9— President Harding called extra
session of congress for Nov. 3).
Nov. 13—United States Supreme court
held Japanese are not eligible to naturali
zation.
Nov. 18—Truman H. Newberry resigned
as senator from Michigan.
Nov. 3ft— Extra session of congress
opened.
Nov. 21—President Harding asked con
gress to pass ship subsidy bill.
Mr*. W. H. Felton sworn in to act for
a day as senator from Georgia.
Nov. 23—Pierce Butler of St. Paul,
Minn., appointed associate Justice of Su
preme court to succeed Justice Day.
Nov. 24—Government began series of
suits against contractors who built war
camps, alleging fraudulent expenditures.
Nov. 27—Senate defeated the bill for a
loan of $6,000,000 to Liberia.
Nor. ®—Governor Small of Illinois par
doned William Bross Lloyd and 16 other
Communists convicted of violating the
state espionage law.
House pasaod ship subsidy bill.
Mayor James Couzens of Detroit ap
pointed United States senator to fill out
term of Truman H. Newberry, resigned.
Dec. 4—Extra session of congress ended
and regular session began. President sub
mitted second annual budget calling for
$3,078,940,331 for fiscal year 1924.
Dec. 6—Two army officers and four en
listed men killed In airplane collision at
Langley field.
Dec. 8— President Harding In message
to congress called for strict and literal
enforcement of the prohibition law, a
thoroughgoing agricultural credit system.
Improvement of transportation and out
lawing of railroad strikes, and provision
for drafting In war all national resources.
Dec. 12—New Illinois constitution re
jected by people.
Dec. 16—Representative T. W. Harri
son of Virginia, Democrat, unseated for
election Irregularities.
Dec. 16—Associate Justice Pitney of
United States Supreme court resigned.
Dec. 18—Governors of 16 states conferred
with President Harding on prohibition
enforcement.
House passed navy bill appropriating
8326,000,000.
INDUSTRIAL
Jan. 22—United Htates railway labor
board announced new code of working
rules that reduces pay and eaves road*
160.000,000 annually
Jan. 30—Omaha packing house butchers
called off their strike.
Jan. 31—Judge LandlB made (Inal wage
award for 1922 for Chicago building trades.
Feb. 3—Chicago Building Trades council
accepted the LandlH wage award.
April 1—Union anthracite and bitumi
nous coal miners begun strike.
May 10—United States labor board for
bade railroads to use contract system of
farming out JobB.
May 28—United States railway labor
board cut wages of maintenance of way
employees 13.2 per cent—about $60,000,000
a year.
June 6—United States railway labor
board cut about $60,000,000 off the yearly
pay of railroad shopmen; union heads or
dered strike ballots sent out.
June 16—United States railway labor
board reduced wages of clerks, signal
men and stationary firemen about $26,600,-
000 a year.
June 23—Samuel Gompera re-elected
president of American Federation of
Labor.
July 1—Railway shopmen went on
Btrike.
July 3—United States rail labor board
"outlawed” the strilJ^ng mechanical crafts
unions.
July 4—Railroad maintenance of way
employees postponed strike indefinitely.
July 10— President Harding proposed
that striking coal miners return to work
at old scale and that new scale be arbi
trated.
July 11—President Harding issued proc
lamation warning striking shopmen
against Interfering with malls or inter
state transportation.
July 14— Railway stationary engineers,
firemen and oilers ordered to strike on
July 17.
July 17—President Harding’s arbitration
plan falling of acceptance, he told the
mine operators to reopen their mines un
der protection of federal troops and the
flag.
Sheriff and four others killed in mine-
strike fight at Cilftonville, W. Va.
July 22—A. F. of L. Inquiry board upheld
iAndls award in Chicago and recommend
ed reorganization of local building trades
council.
July 26—Interstate commerce commis
sion, declaring existence of national emer
gency because of the strikes, took charge
of traffic distribution of fuel and food.
Aug. 1—Chicago street car and elevated
employees struck against reduced pay.
Railway executives rejected President
Harding's plan that strikers returning to
work be reinstated in seniority rights.
Aug. 2—Rail strikers accepted President
Harding’s plan with reservations.
Aug. f-jChicago street car strike settled
by compromise.
Aug. 7—President Harding proposed that
striking shopmen return to work and tbat
both sUUs submit seniority question to la
bor board.
Aug. 10 -Brotherhood men refused to
move trains on the Santa Fc system un
less guards were withdrawn from shop
towns.
Aug. 11—Many trains in West tied up by !
sporadic .strikes of brotherhood men. :
Aug. 13—Railway executives accepted
President Harding’s plan, with conditions. !
Striking shopmen rejected It.
Aug. l.">—Operators and miners Bigned |
agreement at Cincinnati ending coal
strike except in Indiana and Illinois. For- !
mer wage scale holds.
Aug. 3S—President Harding laid Indus- !
trial situation before congress and sug- I
gested legislation making decisions of la- .
bor board enforceable and creating a coal ■
commission.
Aug. 22—Illinois coal strike Bottled, men :
winning their demands.
Sept. 1—Government obtained sweeping
injunction in Federal court in Chicago re- 1
straining striking shop crafts from inter- j
fering with operation of railways.
Sept. • 2—Anthracite strike settled, old 1
wage scale continued.
Sept. 13—Shopmen's Btrike broken by j
separate agreements with many roads.
Executive council of A. F. of L. demand
ed impeachment of Attorney General
Daugherty and Federal Judge WllkerBon. I
Sept. 23—Federal Judge WUkerson aus- j
tained the Injunction against the union !
railway shopmen.
Oct. 1—About 2,500 Great Lake* seamen |
struck. i
Nov. 13—Chicago Building Trades coun- |
cil reorganized on baaiz of LAndls award.
Dec. 7—National Association of Railway
Executives abandoned handling of labor
questions nationally.
DISASTERS
Jan. 4—Greek destroyer blown up by
torpedo explosion; 60 killed.
Jan. 28—Roof of moving picture tlieater
In Washington collapsed under weight of
snow; 97 killed and 133 Injured.
Fob. 2—Twenty-five men killed by explo
sion in mine at Gates, Pa.
Feb. 21—United States army dirigible
Roma, bought from Italy, destroyed by
fall and explosion near Hampton Roads;
34 men killed, 8 Injured.
March 16—One fireman killed, score in
jured In Chicago lire that destroyed
Springer block arid damaged the Burling
ton Railway Office building, with prop
erty loss of $8,000,000.
March 23—British submarine H-42 sunk
In Mediterranean with crow of 22, after
collision with destroyer.
March 29—Famous church of Ste. Anne
de Beaupre near Quebec burned.
April 14—Destructive lloodB tfiroughoi.it
Mississippi river valley.
April 17—Fatal and destructive torna
does In southern Illinois and Indiana.
April 18—Four hundred carloads of war
munitions exploded In Monastlr. Serbia,
killing hundreds and destroying center of
city.
April 24—Sudden flood at Fort Worth,
Tex., killed several score of persons.
April 27—Levee breaks Tn Louisiana
made 10,000 homeless.
May 19—P. & O. liner Egypt etmk In col
lision with French freghter; 98 lost.
June 11—Great storm swept New York
city and vicinity; GO persons killed and
vast damage done.
June 12—Three hundred drowned by
flood In San Salvador.
July 31—Great conflagration In European
business quarter of Hongkong.
Aug. 1—Forty persona killed In wreck of
pilgrims’ train near Lourdes, France.
Aug. 2—Fifty thousand lives lost In
typhoon at Swatow, on China coast.
Aug. 5—Thlrty-sevon killed and 133 In
jured In railway collision ut Sulphur
Springs, Mo.
Aug. IT—Town* of Fairbanks, Silver
Creek and Plmlo, Minn., destroyed by for
est fires.
Aug. 2C-Japanese cruiser Niltaka sank
In typhoon; 300 Uvea lost.
Aug. 28—Forty-seven men entombed In
burning gold mine shaft at Jackson, Cal.;
all found dead 22 days later.
Aug. JB— Chilean ship sank near Co-
quimbo; 81$ lives lost
' Sept. 28—Ammunition store* exploded by
lightning destroyed Falconers rort. Italy,
killing 174 soldiers and Injuring a thou
sand.
Oct. 6—More than 30 reported killed in
disastrous forest fires In northern Ontario
and Quebec. Several towns destroyed. :
Oct. 21—Fifteen burned to death In New
York tenement fire.
Oct. 81—Webb City, Mo., wrecked by
tornado.
Nov. 6—Eighty men killed by gas explo
sion In coal mine near Spangler, Pa.
Nov. 10—Earthquake and tidal waves In
Chile killed hundreds and did vast dam
age.
Nov. 19—Eighty lives lost when Mexi
can steamer sank at La Bomba.
Nov. 22—Eighty-four men killed by dust
explosion in mine near Birmingham, Ala.
Dec. 8—Business district and many
homes of Astoria, Ore., burned; loss
$16,000,000.
NECROLOGY
Jan. 2—Rennold Wolf, playwright and
critic. In New York.
Jan. 6—Sir Ernest Shackleton, British
explorer, in Antarctic.
Jan. 7—Prince Kalanlanaoie, Hawaiian
delegate to congress.
Jail. 8— Joseph Oliver, grand sire of
Sovereign Lodge of Odd Fellows of Unit
ed States, Canada and Australia, at To
ronto.
Jan. 10—Marquis Okuma. famous Jap
anese statesman.
Clarence B. Miller. secretary of
Republican national committee.
Jan. 13—Former United States Senator
Joseph H. Millard of Nebraskal
Jan. 16—John T. Kelly, veteran comedl-
an.
Jan. 17—George B. Selden, Inventor of
first gasoline-driven vehicle, tn Roches
ter, N. Y.
Jan. 19-Archblshop Charles H. Gau
thier or the metropolitan provinces of Ot
tawa.
Jan. 22—Pope Benedict XV.
John Kendrick Bangs, American hu
morist and editor.
Viscount James Bryce.
.Tan. 23—Arthur Nlklsch, famous orches
tral conductor.
Jan. 25—Miss Genevieve Reynolds, vet
eran American actress.
Jan. 26— Mrs. Imogens Hyama, creator
of little Eva In “Uncle Tom's Cabin.''
Jan. 27—Mrs. Elizabeth C. Seaman (Nel
lie Bly), newspaper woman, in New York.
Jan. 28—Richard Westacott, United
States vice consul In London.
Feb. 1—Field Marshal Prince Yamaga-
ta, elder statesman of Japan.
Feb. 2—E. H. Shaughnessy, second as
sistant postmaster general, victim of
Washington theater disaster.
Feb. 3—Gen. Christian De Wet. com
mander in chief of Boer army In war
of 1899.
Fob. 4—Maurice FitzGerald, duke of
Leinster, premier peer of Ireland.
Feb. 5—G. W. Jnckson, noted engineeer-
tng contractor, In Chicago.
Feb. 16—John S. Miller, eminent attor
ney, in Chicago.
Feb. 20—J. F. Shafroth. former United
States senator and governor of Colorado.
Fob. 21—Col, R. G. Cholmeley-Jones.
former chlof of war risk Insurance.
Fob. 23—Viscount Harcourt, British
statesman.
March 1—Dr. J. C. Brainier, president
omerltue of Stanford university.
March 2—Henry Batallle, French dram-
Maroh 6- -Col. John Lambert, millionaire
steel magnate, at Pasadena, Cal.
March 26—Charles Pope, former “glu
cose king," In cnlcago.
March 3ft—Sir John Eaton, Canadian
merchant prince.
April 1—Charles, ex-*mp*ror of Aus
tria, at Funchal, Madeira. ,
April 3—Dr. Cyrus Northrup. president
emeritus of University of Minnesota.
Frederick Vllllers, famous war artist
and correspondent, In England.
April 4—John W Mldgely, noted rail
way expert. In Chicago
April 9—Gen. Erich von Falkenhayn,
former chief of staff of Gtrman army.
April 10—E. J. Murphy, veteran warden
of Illinois state penitentiary.
April 12—Henry M. Shrady, sculptor, tn
New York.
April 13— Sir Ross Smith, famous Aus
tralian aviator, killed by rail of piano.
April 14—Adrian C. Anson, famous vet
eran of baseball, In Chicago.
April 17—Henry V. Esmond. ' English
playwright.
John Foord, editor Asia Magazine, In
Washington.
April 23—Eduardo 8. Mujtca, Chilean
statesman.
Lord Leopold Mountbatten, cousin of
King George of England.
Itt. Rev. Troy Beatty, Episcopal bishop
coadjutor ol Tennessee.
April 26—Frederick VanRensselaer Bey,
writer of tile Nick Carter detective sto
ries. committed suicide In New York.
April 23 Paul Deschanol, ex-pre#idcht
of France.
April 29—Richard Croker. former head
of Tammanv Hall. In Ireland.
S. R. Kaufman, well known hotel man
of Chicago.
April 30— Commander J. D. J. Kelley.
U. S. N.. retired. In New York.
May 1—John Vance Cheney, poet and
essayist, In Sati Diego. Cal.
May 2—Ada Jones, noted musical com
edy actress.
May 4—A. J. Gronna, former United
Stutes senator from North Dakota.
May 6—Henry P. Davison, New York
banker.
May 7—J. H. Patterson, head of Nation
al Casn RegiKter Co.
United States District Judge Beverly
EvaiiB at Savannah, Ga.
May 12—C. B. Adams, noted penologist,
at St. Charles, 111.
May 13—Dr. ltafael Zaldlvar, former
minister from Salvador, in Chicago.
May 30—A. C. Bartlett, prominent la
Chicago business and civic life.
June 2—Former United States Senator
W. P, pollock of South Carolina.
June 3—Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhun*
(Marlon Harland), author, in New York.
June 5—W. T. Abbott, Chicago finan
cier.
June 6—Lillian Russell—Mr*. Alexander
P. Moore—famous stage beauty, In Pitta-
burgh. Pa.
June 7—Richard A. Ballinger, former
secretary of the Interior, at Seattle.
George Carmack, discoverer of tho
Klondike gold fields, at Vancouver.
Juno 8—Henry T. Oxnard, leader la
sugar Industry, In New York.
June 13—Horace E. Hooper, publisher
of Encyclopedia Brttennlca.
G. W. Aldredge, collector of the port
of New York.
June 19—Frederic C. Penfleld, former
ambassador to Austria. In New York.
June 21—Take Joneecu, Rumanian
statesman.
June 23—Wu Ting Fang, Chinese states
man.
June 24—William T. Rockefeller, capital
ist.
June 27—A. Stuart Baldwin, vice presi
dent Illinois Central railway.
Edwin U. Judd, last survivor of founder*
of Republican party, at Anacortes, Wash.
Juno 29—Mrs. Charles Henrotln, Chica
go, leader In society and social work.
June 30—Samuel G. Goss, inventor and
manufacturer of printing presses, at
Glencoe, III.
July 6—Congressman M. P. KInkald of
O'Neill, Neb., in Washington.
July 9—E. W. Barrett, editor and pro
prietor of Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Her
ald.
July 16—Dr. E. J. Wheeler, editor of
Current Opinion
July 19-Rev. IJr. J. F. Goucher, founder
of Gouchcr college, Baltimore.
July 22— Alice Miriam, grand opera star.
In New York.
July 24—Col. R. W. Guthrie, noted oil
man of Pittsburgh, Pa.
July 27—Richard M. Birdsall, famoue In
ventor, In Chicago.
July 31—Miss Mary N. Murfreo
(“Charles Egbert Craddock"), Amsrloan
author.
Aug. 1—Former United States Senator
Frank S. White of Alabama
Aug. 2—Alexander Graham Bell, In
ventor of the telephone.
United States Senator William E. Crew
of Pennsylvania.
Lemuel P. Padgett, former congress
man from Tennessee.
Aug. 3— Benjamin S. Donnelley, former
famous football star, In New York.
Aug. 4.-Enver Pasha, ex-war minister
of Turkey, killed In battle.
Aug. 6—Rear Admiral Uriel Sabres, U.
8. N., retired.
Aug. 12—Arthur Griffith, president of
Dali Elreann, In Dublin.
Aug. 13—John G. Woolley, former pro
hibition candidate for President, la
Spain.
Aug. 14—Lord Northcllfte, noted British
Journalist and publisher.
Levy Mayer, prominent Chicago law
yer and capitalist.
Aug. 18.—Rolltn D. Salisbury, geologist,
University of Chicago.
Aug. 18—Genevieve Ward, notad Ameri
can tragedienne. In London.
Aug. 22—Rev. Dr. Henry Couden, blind
chaplain of the house of representatives
for 26 years, In Washington.
Aug. 23—Albert J. Hopkins, former
United States senator from Illinois.
Aug. 26—DtAavan Smith, publisher of
Indianapolis Nows.
Aug 26—Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of
American Public Health association.
Aug. 87—Francis 8. Peabody, mllllonatro
coal magnate of Chicago.
Aug. 28—Arthur Dawson, American art
ist and critic.
Aug. 3ft—Mrs. Nellie Grant Jones, only
daughter of Gen. U. S. Grant, In Chicago.
wT H. Hudson, noted British naturalist
and author.
Bept. 2*-Col. D. E. McCarthy chief
quartermaster of A. E. F. t in Chicago.
The duchess of Albany.
H. H. Lawson, Australian novelist and
poet.
F. W. Dickinson, chlof editor of Reu
ter's.
Sept. 4—Theodore A. Bell, prominent
lawyer and politician of San Francisco.
Sept. 6—Bishop Samuel A. Fallows,
head of Reformed Episcopal church. In
Chicago.
Sept. 8—J. T. Clark, president Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis i Omaha railway.
Leon Bonnat, eminent French artist.
Sept. 18—Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pitts
burgh.
Sept. 18—Garland Stahl, Chicago bank
president and former baseball star.
Sept. 21—Enos Mills, American natural
ist and author.
Sept 26—Thomas Watson, United States
senator from Georgia.
Oct. 1—Rear Admiral Charles B. Clark,
U. 8. N„ retired.
Oct. 6—Walker Hill, well known banker
of St. Louis, Mo.
Oct. 7—Marie Lloyd, British comedi
enne.
Oct 8—Jorge Montt, former president of
Chile.
Oct. lft—Isaac Guggenheim, American
copper magnate, In England.
Oct. 13—Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champnay,
American author.
Oct. 22—Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of
Outlook and famous preacher and writer,
Oct. 31—Father Bernard Vaughan, fa
mous Jesuit preacher, in London.
Nov. 1—Thomas Nelson Page, author
and former ambassador to Italy.
Alfred Capus, leading French journal
ist.
Nov. 2—T. DeWitt Cuyler, prominent
railroad man, In Phlladelphla-
Nov. 7—Jacob Glmbel, prominent mer
chant or Philadelphia, New York and
Milwaukee.
Nov. 8—Antonio Lopez Gutierrez, minis
ter from Honduras, in Washington.
Nov. 9—Mrs. Mary Smith Lockwood,
founder of Daughters of American Rev
olution.
Nov. 12—Bellamy Storer, former Amer
ican diplomat, In Paris.
Nov. 14—Richard K. Fox. editor and
publisher of the Police Gazette, In New
York.
Nov. 15—E. L. Burlingame, former edi
tor of Scrlbner’B Magazine, In New York.
Nov. 17—Gen. Luke E. Wright, former
secretary of war and governor general of
the Philippines, In Memphis.
W. G. Sharp, former ambassador to
France, at Elyria, O.
Nov. 19—Frank Bacon, American actor,
In Chicago.
Nov. 30—George Bronson Howard, au
thor and playwright, at Los Angeles.
Nov. 23— Boron Sidney Sonnlno, Italian
statesman.
Henry N. Cary, well known newspaper
man, In Chicago.
Nov. 24—John H. Gllmour, American ac
tor and muBlctan, at Yonkers, N. Y.
Nov. 26—Frederick G. Nedrtnghaus, for
mer congressman and Republican nation
al committeeman from Missouri.
Nov. 26—Kate Ryan, veteran American
actress, at Boston.
Nov. 27—G. H. Scidmore, United States
consul general at Tokyo.
Nov. 30—James R. Mann of Chicago
voteran congressman.
William G. Rockefeller, nephew of Jobs
D. Rockefeller.
Deo. 2— Rear Admiral John R. Edwards
U. S. N., retired, at Bristol. R. t
Dec. 7—Dr. W. E. Quine, noted Chicago
physician.
Dec. 8—Dr. 0. A. Fischer, astronomer
of Trinity college, Hartford, Conn.
Dec. 9—Cardinal Iglesiaa of Spain.
L. B. Prince, former governor at New
Mexico.
Dec, 12—John Wanamaker, famous mer
chant, In Philadelphia.
Dec. 15—Alexander Robertson, banker of
Chicago.
Dec. 16—Jfisse M. Overton, capital let, of
Nashville. Tenn.
Lord Marcus Beresford, noted End lab
horseman. j
Dec. i7--~Col. A. E. Bradley, former chief
gurgoon of the A. E. F.