The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30
MEMORABLE EVENTS OF 1906

l9-Supreme court gave important de-
cision on subject of common car
rlers dealing in commodities.
2l-Senate passed pure food bill.
insurance investigating
committee reported to New York
legislature.
23-House passed Tillman- Gillespie res
olutlon for investigating relation
OF railroads to coal and oil bust
ness
24-Three students met death in fire at
Kenyon college.
27-Emperor and empress of Germany
celebrated silver wedding ami
versary.
6-American troops killed 600 hostile
Moros near Jolo. =
7-t'rench ministry resigned.
9-Senate passed statehood bill.
lO-More than 1000 lives lost in mine
explosion at Courrieres, France.
l2-New cabinet formed in France by
M. Sarrien.
10 Strike Of 10000 French miners.
Many killed and injured in train
wreck on Denver and Rio Grande
near Florence, Colo.
l9-President Palma of Cuba reelected.
2l-Judge Humphrey of United States
district court at. Chicago, handed
down decision declaring meat pack
ers immune.
2S-Avalanche buried twenty-six per-
sons in the Austrian Tyrol.
29-Joint conference of miners and
operators at Indianapolis adjourned
without agreement.
3l-General strike declared in Penn
sylvania anthracite region.
April.
4-More than 100 killed by collapse,
Of new hotel at Nagold, Germany.
5-Violent eruption of volcano Of
Vesuvius.
Morocco convention signed = at
Algeciras.
killed by gun explosion on
United States Steamship Kear-
l4-President Roosevelt delivered his
man with the muck rake'
16-House passed bill removing in
ternal revenue tax on denatured
alcohol. 2. ,,.-
1s-San Francisco nearly DESTROYED bv
earthquake and fire, 452 lives lost.
21-Treaty signed at Washington pro-
,ylding for determination Of Alaska
boundary. 49,.
22-Twenty two killed in mine ex-
; plosion near Trinidad, Col.
of John Paul Jones deposited
at Annapolis. a..
27-Benjamin Franklin statue unveiled
in Paris.
28-Ellen Terry celebrated her stage
jubilee. Heresy trial of DR.. Alger-
non S. Crapsey concluded.
29-international exhibition opened at
May.
ECommissioner Garfield reported on
relations of Standard Oil company
to the railroads..
5-Anthracite miners decided not to
strike. :s'.:.
douma opened in st. Pet
ersburg.
ll-Paper trust cases decided in favor
OF the government.
lS-Senate passed Hepburn railroad
~ rate bill. -
court affirmed conviction
OF Senator Burton Of Kansas.
23-Senate passed the immi gration bill.
of he Cumberland Presby-
terrain church and Presbyterian
church in the United States of
America completed.
28-Eight lives lost in Louisville &
Nashville wreck at Louisville, Ky.
3O-TWenty-twO lives lost in wreck Of
British ship Lismore on: Chilean
coast. =. 4. ~
3l-Attempted assassination of king
and queen of Spain on their we'd
ding day. - :.
4-President Roosevelt sent to con-
gress his famous message on con-
dltion of meat-packing houses of
Chicago. s...". = .--,tz. :
9-Senate passed bill prohibiting cam
palgn contributions by corpora
14-Massacre Of Jews at Bialystok,
l5-Ihlrteen Nebraska cattlemen in
dicted for alleged land frauds.
l6-President signed bill admitting Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory to
statehood. =
lS-Fiftieth anniversary of republican
party celebrated at Philadelphia.
22-Klng Haakon VII and Queen Maud
Of Norway crowned.
23-House passed pure food bill.
27--Earthquake shocks in South Wales.
...... July.
More than score Of Americans
=. killed in railroad wreck at Sails
bury, England.
3-Secretary Root departed on his
trip to South America.
l0-Voyage of drydock Dewey from
Baltimore to the Philippines ended.
l2-Captain Alfred Dreyfus restored
to the French army.
14-Honduras declared war on Guate-
mala.
2O-Central American republics signed
peace treaty on board United States
cruiser Marblehead r
21-Czar dissolved the douma
22-American Federation of Labor an
nounced political program.
}23-Pan-A American congress opened at
Rio Janeiro.
25-Pedro Monte chosen president Of
Chile.
30-British house of commons passed
the education bill 5l'.s
81 Russi:n troops near Helsingfors
H 10 atinieG.