The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Petersburg, but the plan miscarried
and the minister escaped, although
twenty-five others were destroyed. The
most astounding manifestion of all was
the explosion of a bomb inside the
basilica of ST. Peters at Rome. No one
was injured, but the affair created tho
most intense excitement throughout
the Christian world.
y
The neurological record of the year
contains a host of brilliant, and well
known names. January marked the
passing of General Joe Wheeler, for
mer lieutenant general of the Confed~
crate states of America and lateP
prominent in public life; Marshall
Field of Chicago. the richest merchant
in the world; Christian TX. of Den
mark, father of Queen Alexandra Of
England and related by blood or mar
riage to most of the royal houses OF
Europe; General Francis Fessenden,
noted veteran of the civil war, and Will
liam Rainey Harper president of the
University of Chicago
Among those who died in February
were David B. Henderson of Iowa,
former speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives; Paul Laurence Dunbar. the
negro poet, and Professor Samuel P.
Langley, scientist of worldwide repu-
reers of Lieutenant General John M.
Schofield, famous American soldier;
Susan Brownell Anthony, pioneer wo-
man suffragist; Mrs. A. d. T. Whit
ney, best known by her stories for
young people, and DR.. Robert Odgen
Doremus, the famous chemist. Gem
eral Blanco, last captain general of
Cuba; Professor Curie. one of the dis
coverers of radium and Daniel Hunt
IN rfn t0d ID
in April. -t
Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot, died
in May, as did also, Carl Schurz. Ger
man-American scholar and publicist,
and Henrik Ibsen, Norway's greatest
poet and dramatist. Senator Arthur
Pue German, Governor John M. Patti
son of Ohio and Mary Putnam Jacob,
a talented woman physician of New
York, were among the June dead. The
July list included such notabilities as
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the English states
man and reformer; Lady Curzon, wife
| of the ex-viceroy of India. formerly
Mary Letter of Chicago; Russell Sage.
and Baron Kodama, chief of staff of
the Japanese army.
/ Mrs. Craigie John- Oliver Hobbes)
| died in August, and Robert Hit, for
mer congressman from Illinois and Ian
associate of Abraham Lincoln, in Sep
TENDER. October's most noted victims
were Adelaide Ristori, the famous Ital-
ian tragic actress, and Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, widow of the president of the
Confederacy. Major General William
r. Shafter. who led the attack on SAM,
tiago in 1898. died in November. as did
F.lso Esther Damon; the last widow
pensioner of the war of the American
Revolution. The pope's physician and
warm personal friend, DR.. TLapponi. is
one of the most Industrious of the De-
cember dead.
The political events of 1906 are not
especially thrilling although they fur
nish abundant food for reflection. In
January NJ. FaIlieres was elected by
the national assembly president of the
French republic. On the last day of
the same month Frederick VIII, eldest
son of the deceased king of Denmark.
was proclaimed his successor. On
March z the French ministry resigned
after a defeat on the church question.
In this month also Charles S. Francis
was appointed to succeed Bellamy
Storer at the court of Austria Hum.
gary. In April China signed the Anglo
Tibetan treaty. which, recognized the
| Chinese right to protect Tibet. May
| Is the railroad rate bill passed the sem
ate.
|
has become even more hostile. Stirnu-
| lated by press exposures and by ma
tional and state legislative fnvestiga-
| ton and fortified by the presidents CO.
operation, the courts have succeeded in
| imposing penalties on several of the
most fragrant offenders. and the end is
not yet. Secretary Bonaparte, the new
attorney general, is reputed not only
to be willing. but to be exceedingly
TO he -f@,v
against the lawless corporations.
| y - er
The supreme court of France an
nulled the condemnation of Captain
Dreyfus July II, and the next day he
was restored to his former position in
the army by a special act of the corps
1egislatif. This brought to a happy
conclusion one of the most remarkable
and involved episodes of modern times.
The quarrel between the religious and
civil powers in France is still in prog
ress. and it is evident that the difti-
culties in the way of coming to an I'M
derstanding will require the most deli
cate adjustment. s
An appreciate advance has been
made in the problem of air navigation.
Many remarkable ascents have been
made in all parts of the world. The
combination of the old gas bag form
of balloon with the gasoline motor has
proved to be practicable, and several
new steering methods have been de-
vised. Won Zeppelin has constructed
an airship which he has sailed around
| the Swiss Bodensee, making descenta
at whatever points he wished. The in
| defatigable Santos-D umont has done
/ even better. With a device of his own
| invention. which was fitted with a mo-
tor and flying and steering apparatus.
but was minus the usual gas bag. he
| succeeded in moving q certain distance
| through the air. 1t is one of the most