The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-03
MEMORABLE EVENTS OF
1906 6.

Woolen HILL operatives IN New Eng
land.
Jan. 4.-Twenty-three killed and
many injured in mine explosion at
Bluefields, w. Va.
Jan. president Morales of Santo
Domingo impeached by congress.
Jan. S.-British parliament dissolved.
Jan. 10.-Ten persons killed in burn
ing of West Hotel, Minneapolis.
Jan. 12.-Liberals victorious in first
elections to new British Parliament.
Jan. 16.-Philippine tariff bill passed
the house; Morocco conference began
at Algeciras.
Jan. I'm. Fallieres elected presi-
dent of France.
Jan. 19.-Luke E. Wright named first
American ambassador to Japan.
Jan 20.-General Alfaro proclaimed
president of Ecuador.
Jan. 21.-Brazilian warship Destroy
ed by explosion; PIP persisted; twenty
negroes trampled to death in church
panic in Philadelphia.
Jan. 23.-Steamship Valencia wreck
ed on Vancouver Island with 1875 lives
lost; government opened its case
against the beef packers at Chicago.
Jan. 25.-First passenger train pass
ed through Simplon tunnel; house
passed joint statehood bill.
Jan. S0.-Senate passed Consular
Reform bill.
Feb. 2.-Italian ministry resigned.
Feb. devastating tidal wave on
island of Tahiti.
Feb. S.-House passed Hepburn Rail-
road Rate bill.
Feb. 12.-Many lives and much prop
erty lost in earthquake in Ecuador.
Feb. 14.-House passed Ship Subsidy
bill.
Feb. 17.-Miss Alice Roosevelt and
Representative Nicholas Longworth
married.
Feb. 19.-Supreme court gave i'm
portant decision on subject of COM
mon carriers dealing in commodities.
Feb. 21.-Senate passed Pure Food
bill.
Feb. 22.-Armstrong insurance in
vestigation committee reported to New
York Legislature.
Feb. 23.-House passed Tillman-Gil-
lespie resolution for investigating re-
lations of railroads to coal and oil
business.
Feb. 24.-Three students met death
in fire at Kenyon college.
Feb. 27.-Emperor and empress of
Germany celebrated silver wedding
anniversary.
March 6.-American troops killed
600 hostile Moro troops near Jolo.
March French ministry resigned.
March 9.-Senate passed Statehood
bill
March 10.-More than 1000 lives lost
in mine explosion at Courrieres,
France.
March 12.-New cabinet formed in
France by NJ. Sarrien.
March 16.-Strike of 10000 French;
many killed and injured in train wreck
on Denver & Rio Grande near Flor
ence, Colorado.
March 19.-President Palma of Cuba
reelected.
March 21.-Judge Humphrey or
United States district court at Chicago
handed down decision declaring meat
packers immune.
March 2S.-Avalanche buried &c per-
sons in the Austrian Tyrol.
March 29.-Joint conference of min
ers and operators at Minneapolis adj
journed without agreement.
March 31.-General strike declared
in Pennsylvania anthracite region.
April 4.-More than 100 killed by
collapse of new hotel at Nagold, Ger
many.
April 5.-Violent eruption of volcano
OF Vesuvius.
April Morocco convention signed
at Algeciras.
April 13.-Seven killed by gun ex-
plosion on United States Steamer
Kearsage.
April 14.-President Roosevelt de-
livered his Man with the Muck Rake"
speech.
April 16.-House passed bill remov-
ing internal revenue tax on denatured
alcohol.
April 1S.-San Francisco nearly des-
troyed by earthquake and fire; 452
lives lost.
April 21.-Treaty signed at Wash
ington providing for determination of
Alaska boundary.
April 22.-Twetny-two killed in mine
explosion near Trinidad, Colorado.
April 24.-Body of John Paul Jones
deposited at Annapolis.
April 27.-Benjamin Franklin statue
unveiled at Paris.
April 2S.-Ellen TERRY celebrated
her stage Jubilee; heresy trial of DR..
Algernon S. Crapsey concluded.
April 29.-lnternational exhibition
opened at Milan.
May 4.-Commissioner Garfield re-
ported on relations of Standard Oil
to the railroads.
May 5.-Anthracite miners decided
not to strike.
May 1O.-Russian douma opened in
st. Petersburg.
May 11.-Paper trust cases decided
in favor of the government.
May 1S.-Senate passed Hepburn
Railroad Rate bill.
May 21.-Supreme court affirmed
conviction of Senator Burton of Kan
sas.
May 23.-Senate passed the Imml-
grafton bill.
May 24.-Reunion of the Cumberland
church and Presbyterian
church in the United States of America