HOUSE WILL FIGHT.
LOWER BRANCH , TIRED OF SEN
ATE DOMINATION.
Will Imbibe tbe Spirit oC Speaker
Ciniion , Taxriicy and Hepburn ,
J-cnder * AVLo Are Old in Member
ship but New in Influence.
Washington correspondence :
( HIS isvto be a
T fighting Congress ,
. . > - , according to those
who are watching
conditions closely
iu Washington.
The strong men
of both Senate and
House will have
their hands full.
Lin the House of
' II c p r escntatives
the new men of
:
the Cannon rc-
I gime are coming
I forward more con
spicuously than
ever nnd will have
an important part iu the fighting. They
will divide honors with the older lead
ers , who , because of their long tenure
in high places , are sometimes disre
spectfully called the "dowagers" of
the House. In this ela < = s jre such
men as Grosvenor , Payne. Bingham.
Dalzell , Hitt and several others. They
will be leading spirits ir. the present
House , but not so much the whole
ehow as in several previous sessions.
"Col. Pete" Hepiinrii.
Most prominent of the men whom
Speaker Cannon brings forward is W.
P. Hepburn , of Iowa , usually called
"Col. Pete. " He has ; hul : an interest-
Ing career , for lie is not a young man
nor even a new man in Congress , be
ing new only in commanding influ
ence. On two subjects Hepburn is
the strongest anti in the ITou < e. lie
Is against civil service and against
river and harbor appropriations. Per
haps his views on tho former are
based on observation made during his
service as solicitor of the treasury , in
the Harrison administration. His con-
S1TAKEK f'ANXON.
deimuition of river and harbor appro
priations does not hurt him in the esti
mation of his constituents , because
there is no navigation in his district.
Hepburn was born at Wellsville ,
Ohio , in 1833 , and was taken to Iowa ,
then a territory , in 184.1. He was edu
cated in the public schools of the ter
ritory and in a printing office. Then
he studied law. He was admitted to
practice in 1S54. JHe served as cap
tain , major and lieutenant colonel in
the Second Iowa Cavalry during the
Civil War. He is 72 years old , and
this is the tenth Congress of which he
lias been a member. For two or three
years he did not speak to Mr. Cannon ,
and it is perhaps true that there is still
no love lost between them. In spite
of this , each respects tho ability and
position of the other. There is not an
other such fighter in either house of
the Congress as Colonel Pete. He has
jx command of irony and sarcasm and
can use it so bitterly and effectively
joined with ridicule that many a bravo
floor fighter quails before him. Mr.
Cannon deliberated when he became
speaker of the House. For months he
.nnd Colonel Ilepburn had not been
friends. He made up his mind that it
was better to have such a man with
him than against him. nnd so he ron-
-sented to a reconciliation , which was
was eagerly arranged by mutual
friends. Hepburn is chairman of the
Committee on Interstate Commerce ,
nnd in that position will have charge
-of the administration railroad rate reg
ulation legislation. He will mix up m
-every other fight of importance. This
Is inevitable partly because he is nat
urally a fighter and partly because he
A JIJ.ACKSMITH STATKSMAX.
had so wide and broad legislative
-experience , and has such backing of
jjood judgment and common sense that
he will be drafted whenever thenis
-to be anything of importance doing.
A BlneU.iiMlth Statesman.
"The Blacksmith Statesman" would
not be an inappropriate title for
.James A. Tawney , of Minnesota , who
ds to be a conspicuous House leader.
; He s chairman of the Committee on
JH > propriaticus. which is the position
formerly held by Speaker Cannon and
also by W. 8. Holman , of Indiana , and
tho holder of which is generally called
"the watchdog of the treasury. " Ho is
intimately acquainted with all the
members of the House , for he has been
for years the party "whip" and has
also had charge of the speakers in
Congressional campaigns. He is a
Pennsylvanian by birth , 00 years old ,
and served a long apprenticeship in
his father's blacksmith shop. Later he
followed the machinist's trade for1
many years , going to Winona , Minn. ,
when he was 22 and following his oc- |
cupation there of blacksmiih and ma
chinist. Seeing in the new country op
portunities for lawyers he studied
Blackstone after pounding all day on
Iron and steel and at the age of 27
was admitted to the bar. He took a
course later in the law school of Wls-
1
cousin University. In 1890 he was
elected State Senator in Minnesota ,
two years later was sent to Congress
and has been there ever since.
The fights which the House will car- ,
ry on against the Senate will be more
bitter and will undoubtedly win more
of victory than has been the case in _
the past. This is due to the attitude of
WAS A PHINTnit S DEVIL.
Speaker Cannon. He won out against
the Senate last session in the matter
of Statehood legislation. He also won
out in a number of other particulars
which , because of the graceful acquies-
cence of the Senate , did not attract
the same amount of attention. Mr.
Cannon is the sworn enemy of thej
Senate. He has made that clear. Just
before he was elected Speaker of the
House he took the floor one day and
delivered a denunciation of the Senate
methods and the manner in which the
House had repeatedly given up to the'
Seunie that attracted national and
even international attention. He plain
ly threw down the gauntlet. He said
iu effect that the House had always
given down to Senate pressure and
that he was tired of the method that
prevailed of the House being the body
that always had to yield. For one he
was up in arms against the system and
hoped to see it end. So outspoken and
plain was Mr. Cannon that members
of the Senate , including Hale , Spoouer
nnd Allison , felt called upon to reply
to what Mr. Cannon said.
It is a popular and well-founded be
lief that the Senate really shapes out
and finishes and completes the legisla
tion of the Congress and makes it tight
and so it will hold water and resist
the strain put upon it by the courts.
BACKED BY MILLIOS.
TJu Ijobliy Asraln.vt Arizona. Stntc-
liootl Is Very Powerful.
Lobbies are thick in the corridors of
the big. white national state house these
day ? . There is the railroad lobby , well
and persistently maintained. But the
most strenuous and dangerous , as well a.s
the most picturesque lobby of all , is the
mine owners' lobby from Arizona , fight
ing statehood for that territory. It is
picturesque because of the bold methods
it * employs , and because it has at least
two United States Senators among its
backers. It is dangerous because of the
possibility that grave scandals may re
sult from its operations. It is a lobby
with hundreds of millions of dollars back
of it. The agents and manipulators of
its schemes .are too smart to offer out
right bribes. But thej : have mining stock
for sale stock which is sure to earn a
big profit stock that will "pay big to all
who get in on the ground floor. And
just now we are letting a little of it out
to our friends. * '
It seems rather strange that the rich
mine owners of Arizona should be fight
ing statehood , either single or joint , but
the reason for it is not far to seek. They
own the territory now. They run it.
They are lords of the estate. Naturally
they do not want to run any risks by a
change to statehood. These mining cor
porations have had things their own way
all along the line , but in no particular
so emphatically as in the assessed valua
tion of their property upon which they
are called to pay taxes.
These powerful corporations do not
want statehood. They can operate more
independently and profitably under a ter
ritorial form of government , and they
stand ready to devote a big share of their
millions to the work of preventing the
passage of a bill giving Arizona either
single statehood or joint statehood with
New Mexico.
WILL SEE MORE OF THE WORLD.
Jtooaevelt "Will Continue Her
Travel * After Marriage.
It is understood to be the intention of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt to invite
to the wedding of their daughter to Rep
resentative Longworth only a limited
number of family and personal friends ,
probably a few hundred In all. The
party will include the members of tlie
cabinet nnd their wives and perhaps a
limited number from the diplomatic
corps. Mr. and Mrs. Longworth lire
for a few mouth * in the house BOTV oc
cupied by the former , which stands only
two blocks from the White House. In
May or June Mr. and Mra. Longirorth
plan to take n trip to Europe , where it
is expected the daughter of the Ameri
can President will he presented at the
English court Mid where it i * certain
many honors will fyo heaped upon her ,
not only in London , but in Paris , where
Mr. Lougworth has family connections.
Mrs. Loujrivorth that is to bo. has in
herited her father's fondness for travel
nnd entertainment. With the contem
plated European trip the .President's
daughter will hare been pretty nearly
around the world and received the hom
age of every nation and degree of man
kind , from the savageR of Zamhoango to
the courtier * of Buckingham PaUct.
E FLOWI
Terrific Battles Are Fought ia
Moscow.
CIVIL WAR IS FEARED
Revolutionists Mowed Down by
Drunken Cossacks.
Combat Between "Red" Army and
Czar's Forces Ragre.i for Three
Days Rebel Troops are Gather
ing : and Leaders Assert Army
"Will Soon March on Soldiers and
End Czardom Disturbances in
Other Parts of Empire.
After three days of riot and slaugh
ter in the streets of Moscow the
spirit of revolution is blazing out in
other parts of Russia. At Odessa ,
Kiefl ? and elsewhere the strike is on ,
and a call for an armed rebellion has
gone out.
In Moscow the lighting continued
without interruption. The strikers
were driven from thoir iiitrenchnrents
by the Cossacks and dragoons , only to
fall back on new barricades , scattering
into new thoroughfares and extending
the zone of battle. Five thousand
persons were killed and 14,000 wound
ed in fights in Moscow between revolu
tionists and Cossacks. Leaders of the
Ilussian revolutionists assert armed
forces are being assembled to fight
the soldiers and that civil war between
organized bodies of troops will begin
soon.
Frightful execution was done with
the machine guns. They were trained
on the crowds , and innocent women
and children who were fleeing for their
lives fell beneath the hail of bullets.
Thousands are reported killed or
wounded. In one instance the machine
pieces stationed at the Monastery of
Passion were trained on persons who
were seeking escape from the pursuing
Cossacks. Hundreds are reported to
' .have fallen , and the hospitals are filled
with the dying and injured.
Tlie strikers in Moscow appear to
have become disorganized , and their
attacks were often turned into unruly
routs. Thousands were driven outside
the walls and the fighting caused ter
ror in the suburbs. Once a mob of
revolutionaries swirling around a
street corner surrounded a small squad
of Cossacks. The soldiers used their
1 knouts and knives , but were dragged
I
from their horses and trampled under
.foot . Twenty Cossacks were kilied.
The revolutionary leaders are still
untamed , although on the whole tho
skirmishes went against them. The
constitutionalists assert that the strik
ers have lost the day , while the gov
ernment officials point to the fact that
although the strikers have sought to
, capture the railroads , trains are still
'running between St. Petersburg , Mos
cow and Eydtkuhuen , and tho tram- j
ways and electric lights are still in
j operation. . j
In Moscow the military seems to'
i have triumphed , but out in the prov-
'inces ' the danger is said to begrave
and outbreaks are looked for at Odessa
and other points that will be ; even
more sanguinary than the bloody street
conflicts in Moscow.
ITHE WHITE"HOUSE CHRISTMAS , ; i
j
the President and His Family ,
Spent the Holiday. j
The custom of distributing turkeys
among tho clerical force of the White
1 House , which was inaugurated by the i
' McICinlcy.s has been followed by the
.Roosevelt ? . Eighty-seven line , fat birds
'were this year required to go around ,
.each one bearing a card on winch is in
scribed the words , ' 'A Merry Christmas
I'from the President. " Though , as a rule ,
|
they do not have a tree , the Roosevelts
inherit from their Dutch ancestors a
i veneration for the spirit and sentiment
of Christmas and the day is given up
i
entirely to festivities The four younger
children hang up their stockings , as a
matter of course. On the morning of
Christmas day. after breakfast , Mr. ,
\
Roosevelt leads the way tothe library-
which he calls the " 'study , " where the
gifts are laid out on tables. He and
his wife distribute them and a general
romp usually follows. In the afternoon
the children go to two or thro * * tree par-1 j
ties , one of which is ar the house of ; ;
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge , the Presi
dent's lifelong chum , while another is at
the residence < ? Mr. Roosevelt's elder
sister , Mi's. Cowles.
Every Christmas thousands of gifts
from lotnl strangers reach the White
House. They nre not wanted and people
wonM di much better not to send them.
When of considerable value they arc re
turned to the donors , otherwise they
ar * accepted polHelywith a note of
acknoTrlpilsnie.nl. Not one out of a hun
dred of them i * Keen by the President
and in former administrations thcr were
commonly con in' d to the attic , where
at the time of tlir recent reconstruction
of the mansion , an immense quantity of
old jnuk thus accumulated was found.
Sparks from the Wire * .
Reclaniatioi : projccls proposed and un
der way by HIP government provide for
the rcdainiiiiR of 1.JJ03.GOO acres of arid
tend at a cost ot § U7.U2.S,571.
The wholesale jrrocery house of the
C. W. Adams & Sons Company in
Louisville was destroyed by fire. Losi
$110,000. insurance about $90,000.
Dr. Maurice Fishberg of New York ,
n special immigration inspector , declares
that immigrants arc ' 'doctored up" tem
porarily in Europe , in order to enable
them to enter America.
Labor Oppressed Yeiir.s
All the writers on the early labor
movement agree that the working peo
ple in the early history of the nation
had a hard row to hoe. Here is what
one writer says :
"The length of a working day in
1825 varied from twelve to fifteen
hours. The New England mills gener
ally ran thirteen hours a day the year
round. The regulations of the factories
were cruel and oppressive to a degree.
Operatives were taxed by the company
for the support of religion. Habitual
absence from church was punished
by the Lowell Manufacturing Com
pany with dismissal from employment
and in other respects the life of the
employes outside the factories was
regulated as well as their life within' '
them. Windows Avere nailed down and
the operatives deprived of fresh air.
A case of rebellion on the part of 1,000
women on account of tyrannical and
oppressive treatment is recorded.
"Women and children Avere scourged
by'the use of a cowhide , and an in
stance is recorded of
an 11-year-old
boy Avhose leg was broken by a billet
of Avood. In Mendon a boy of 12
drowned himself in a pond to escape
factory labor. Wages in the mills
Avere small , adults earning between 05
cents and 71 cents a day.
"John Mitchell in his Organized La
bor says : 'Prom 1825 to 1820 the earn
ings of the American workiugmen were
higher than ever before in the Ameri
can history. The unskilled workmen ,
such as sawyers and hodcarriers , re
ceived about 75 cents a day for twelve
hours' work Avhere they previously re
ceived 50 cents from sunup to sun
down. During the winter , however ,
Avages were much lower. Men AVUO
could earn in summer from G21cents
to SO cents a day were glad to receive
a smaller sum in winter/
"According to J. B. McMaster , the
remuneration of Avomen Avas. as it is
to-day , lower than that of men and
their opportunities for employment in
comparably less. Women might bind
shoes , sew rags , fold and stitch books ,
become spoolers or make coarse shirts
and duck pantaloons at S or 10 cents
apiece. The making .of shirts was
sought after because these garments
could be made in the lodgings of the
seamstress , who was commonly the
mother of a little family and often a
widow. Yet the most expert could not
finish more than nine shirts a Aveek ,
for Avhich she might receive 72 or 90
cents. Fifty cents a week seems & >
have been about the average earnings
at shirtmaking.
"It was about 1825 , when the condi
tions of the American workman had
already begun to improve , that consid
erable unrest appeared among the la
boring classes , and from this time to
the outbreak of the civil Avar there Avas
a gradual evolution toward a higher
standard of life and labor. "
Industrial jYote.s.
According to a report issued by the
American Federation of Labor , the per-
centage of workmen unemployed in the
month of October is smaller than it has
ever been since records were kept. Of
1.885 unions , with an aggregate mem
bership of 154,118 , making returns , there
were nine-tenths of one per cent without
employment.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has de
cided that a labor union has no right to
control the acts of its members when
performing public duties. The case was
that of the Plumbers' Union , which had
ordered its members on the board to
vote for a certain candidate for inspcc-
tor. The men refused and were expelled
from the union , and the court now or
ders them reinstated.
The Industrial Workers of the World
have about 50 members in Chicago , ac
cording to J. J. Kepplcr. business agent
of the Machinists' Union , but he says
"they make enough noise for 5,000. ' '
The organization was formed last July ,
and attempts to unite all the workers i
under one union. It operates in direct I
opposition to the American Federation
of Labor , and officials of that organiza
tion say that the new idea is imprac
tical and will not succeed.
Beginning on Monday. .Fan. 1 , oO.OOO
hands employed by theAmerican Wool-
en Company of Hoston had their wages
advanced 10 per cent. The increase be
comes effective in the JJO plants of the
corporation , which arc located in several
States , and several woolen mills in the
East not owned by the company have
granted a similar advance. It is esti
mated that the advance will give the
American Woolen Company's hands an
aggregate of about $1,000.000 more each
year than they have been receiving.
As its final word to the public in an
ticipation of the coming struggle with
the book and job printing houses , the In
ternational Typographical U.iion heads a
circular thus : "We propose to sell to
the employer eight hours out of twenty-
four , and we will d as we plea. o with
the remaining sixteen. " A peculiar fea
ture of the .strike at New York will be
the tyintc up of the National Civic Fed
eration Review , organ of the Civic Fed
eration , which is printed iu one of the
houses pledged to oppose the eight-hour
day with nine hours"pay. .
During tho lust two years Argentina.
South America , has had more t.han her
fell are of labor , troublo. Strike has suc
ceed wi strike , and to snch a pass has the
labor question arrived that Congress
sanctioned a residential law by wnicb
tho government was authorized to expel
from the country all foreigners who wore
considered dnnzorous individuals. Over
200 persoiK have boon bent out of the"
country under this law. The average
workinjzman has pained in one way con
siderably from the strikes , as the eight-
hour workinp day i general throughout
the country ami wages are much higher i
t
| REPUBLIC'S CHIEF ROUTED.
/"resident Morale * of Santo Domlnjro
Put to Flight I > y Ilehcl.s.
President Morales has fled from
Santo Domingo'b capital. The cabinet
sent troops after him. These forces ,
pursuing Morales ,
encountered ii i m
with sixty men
near San Cristobal
and e x c h a u ged'
shots. There are
rumors that Mo
rales was wound
ed. Many believe
that Morales will
cross over the
PRES. MORALES.
mountain p a S 8 OS
and join Rodriguez at Monte Cristi.
When news reached Washington
that a revolution had broken out in
Santo Domingo , that President Mor
ales had fled his capital ; that two
factions Avere fighting and that no
one had any idea that any sort of
government existed on the island ,
there was a manifest disposition of
' the administration here to wash its
hands of the whole matter. It is ad
mitted that if Morales is driven out
and if the island is to be disturbed
by a long revolution , the schemes of
President Roosevelt to continue the
modus Vivendi and collect the cus
toms must fall.
This government apparently has
abandoned Morales to his fate. The
intention of the President seems to
be only to take such steps as will pro
tect the lives of the American receiv
ers , clerks , collectors and others Avho
have been loaned to Morales and com
missioned by him.
President Carlos F. Morales , of San
to Domingo , who fled from his capital
and is a fugitive from the Avrath of
the revolutionists , is a product of one
of the many revolutions peculiar to
Latin America. He is not yet 40 , was
born at Porto Plata , in the island , was
educated for a priest , and for eight
years followed that calling. He then
turned his attention to the politics of
his disturbed little country , served un
der Jiminez and Wos y Gil , and on
two occasions was exiled for plotting
against the government. He had par
ticipated in six unsuccessful revolu
tions , Avhen , in October , lOOIJ , he led
an attack on the then President Wos
y Gil , and being successful , declared
himself dictator and later president.
He claims to be friendly to the United
States , but has always resented the
interference of this country in the af
fairs of the islands.
A DISASTROUS SEASON.
Many Vessels ! Lo.st on the Great
Iiakes During the Past Year.
Navigation for the year on the Great
Lakes has been one of unequaled hard
ship and disaster to all concerned. The
total value of vessels lost is placed at
$4,625,000 , and of cargoes at $750,000 ,
which is greater than ever before
reached.
Seventy-nine vessels were destroyed by
storm and lire. There were 740 casual
ties of all kinds. Last year there were
only 430 , in 1903 there were 522 and
in 1902 502. Lake Erie led all the
lakes , with 158 disasters ; Lake Superior
was next with 129 : Lake Huron had 108 ;
Detroit and St. Clair rivers , 114 ; Soo
Passage G5 and Lake Ontario 48.
Lake Superior led all the lakes in the
number of lives lost and property de
stroyed. The storm of Nov. 28 of this
year was one of the most destructive
ever known. The property loss by it is
now estimated at $1,750,000 , and this
will be greatly increased if some of the
big vessels now ashore arc not released
before winter sets in.
Marine underwriters have been hard
hit. Some of the big companies will be
called upon to pay § 2 for every dollar
received in premiums. The losses which
they will have to pay aggregate $1,516-
000 on hulls and $430,000 on cargoes ,
which does not take into account a long
list of partial losses.
The great losses of the past season
occurred during the three big storms of
the fall. During the early months of
the season the underwriters were re
markably fortunate , few of the boats
lost being insured. Owing solely to the
fact that the steel trust does not carry
marine insurance , some of the companies
probably escaped bankruptcy. "Up to the
present year the steel trust has made
money by not insuring. The premiums
on its fleet would amount to about $750-
000 a year. A comfortable surplus was
accumulated during 3903 and 1904 , but
it is said that the November storm wiped
this out.
Rhodes .scholars at Oxford university
l.ave come to be known as "Rhodesters. "
Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Barry , who
was with the Russian army in Manchu
ria , will be made president of tie army
Avar college.
Henry F. Shaw of Boston , well known
iu railway circles for his devotion to tho
problem of balancing the reciprocating
parts of locomotive ? , has presented t
Purdue university a model locomotiv *
embodying his latest design.
Sigawnd Neumann , a 19-year-old
school boy. not yet graduated from the
gymnasium , is the author of a play call
ed "Storms.which ivas recently suc
cessfully produced in the leading thea
ter at Fruukfort on the 31aln.
Anthony do Rothschild , youngest son
of Leopold de Rothscnild. is head boy
at Harrow school , England. This is the
first time this distinction has fallen to
a Jewish lad who has not conformed to
the ordinary religious exercises of the
school.
Free breakfasts are to be furnished to
poor children of the Milwaukee public
schools. A fund has been raised and the
Woman's School Alliance has the work
in charge. Children whose parents have
to go to work without being able to pro
vide breakfast for them are the ones to
whom the practice will apply.
THE WEEKLY
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'i ii i\
1133 Stephen crowned King o Eng
land.
1492 Columbus cast anchor in the Hay
of St. Thomas.
1319 Death of Margaret , Queen of
j Navarre.
1032 Charles V. raised siege of Mclz.
15GO First Cleneral Assembly of the
Scottish dinrch opened.
Io62 Battle of Dreux. Comic taken
prisoner.
1003 Mahomet IIL , Sultan of Turkey ,
died o the plague.
1020 The Mayflower landed at Ply
mouth Hock.
1G21 The English Commons claimed
freedom oL discussion.
| 1G32 John Cotton , first minister of Bos
ton , died.
1GG7 Many Scotch Covenanters were1
executed. * *
1GSS King James IF. of England fled
to France. Throne declared ab
dicated.
1719 First issue of Boston Gazette pub
lished by William Brooker.
1745 City of Milan entered by Spanish
invaders.
1747 Colonial House and records la
Boston destroyed by fire.
1773 British Parliament ordered confis
cation of. all American vessels.
177G Washington crossed the Delaware.
1777 Gen. Washington moved his.
troop to Valley Forge.
37S2 United States frigate Charleston
captured by British.
17S-J Gen. Washington delivered hi *
commission to Congress at Annap
olis.
1791 Bank of United States commenc
ed discounting in Philadelphia.
1795 Henry Clinton died.
H79G French surrender Fort JCehl on
the Ithine to the Austrians.
1SOC Louisiana taken possession , of by
United States.
1SO-L Benjamin Disraeli , Earl of Bea-
consfield , born . Election of
Thomas Jefferson as President
of the United States.
3805 Joseph Smith , founder o Mor-
monism. born at Sharon , Ya.
1509 Joseph Johnson , publisher of
Cowper's poems died.
181 1 Many persons perished in the
burning of a theater : it llich-
mond , Ya.
1510 Fort Niagara captured by the
British.
1S1G Bible societies prohibited in. Huu-
gary.
1829 Wife of Gen. Andrew Jackson
died.
1830 Prince of Polignac sentenced for
life for treason _ Independence
of Belgium recognized by the al
lied powers.
1831 Stephen Girard. Philadelphia phi
lanthropist , died.
1832 Termination of civil war in Mex-
Sco.
>
1530 Independence of Texas pro- *
claimed. ,
1841 Assassination of Sir W. Mac- ' '
Naughton at Cabul.
] S42 Texas troops invade Mexico.
1845 Steamer Bcllozano sunk in the
Mississippi river.
1848 Asiatic cholera broke out among
United States troops in. Texas
. . . .Louis Napoleon made Presi- I
dent of French republic. f
1531 Dismissal o Lord Pahucrston j
from office. . . .Lagos , Africa , de- (
stroycd by the British. I
1852 Annexation of Pegu to British. j1
India.
1S54 Armed collisions in eastern Kan.- j
sas over slavery question. j
18GO South Carolina seceded from the \
Union. 1
ISOt Principality of Itoumania created '
by union of Moldavia and Walla- '
chia.
J8i4 ( Savannah occupied by Gea. Sher- j
man. j
1870 Tours surrendered to the Ger- i ,
mans. I
1874-1-IIoo5ac Tunnel turned over to
Massachusetts by the builders.
1884 Mackay-Brnnett cable opened to j
the public. >
1S91 Jorge Montt inaugurated Presi- i
dent of Chili. , '
1894 War between China and Japan j
declared ended - Capt. Dreyfus I
found guilty and sentenced to f
Devil's Island. J
JSOS French Chamber of Deputies by j !
vote again sustained government jj
in Dreyfus case.
an Junta in , the United States
dissolved .D wight L. Moody ,
noted evangelist , died. . . . Duke of
Westminster , richest man in.
England , died - Buehlel College ,
Akron Ohio , burned.
11)00 Treaty between Mexico and Chiusi 1 j
signed at Washington , D. C.
Gen. Wood assumed office as Gov- ! \ \
ornor General of Cuba.
J901 William Kllery Channing died.
1902 First wireless telegraphic mes
sage transmitted atross the At
lantic.
