The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-01

%. Cuba: Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez pro-
claimed president of the republic.
Political: Secretary of State Elihu Root
elected United States senator by the
New York legislature.
q. Accident: Explosion, followed by fire.
In temporary crib OF a tunnel under
Lake Michigan Off Chicago; about 20
workmen lost their lives.
q Fire: At Galveston flames On the
wharfs caused loss of 100000.
o. Shipwreck: Off Nantucket White Star
liner Republic rammed and sunk by
Italian liner Florida: deaths and re-
markable rescue of over 1000 imperiled
passengers.
Earthquake: 60 villages destroyed and
5000 to 60O0 lives lost in the province
of Luristan, Persia.
q. Obituary: Benoit-Constant Coquelin,
noted French actor. in Paris; aged CT.
Is. Cuba: The reins of government turned
over to President Gomez by the Amer
lean governor general, Magoon.
%. Fire: st. Paul, loss of 100000 by fire
in a department store.
Personal: President Elect Taft arrived
at Colon, Panama
30. Earthquake: Severe shocks in Spain.
81. Obituary: Miss Martha Finley, author
of the Elsie Books" at Elkton, Md:
aged 81.
FEBRUARY.
/. Personal: President Elect William h
Taft formally opened the Pacific end
of the Panama canal.
Shipwreck: British steamer Clan Ranald
lost off the coast of Australia; the
captain and 46 sailors drowned.
z Obituary: John Gilmer Speed, journal
list and author, at Mendham, N. j.:
aged Sc.
6. The Cruising Fleet: The battleships
sailed from Gibraltar, homeward
bound.
g. Obituary: Catullus Mendes, noted
French poet. in Paris.
Personal: King Edward VII. received in
Berlin. the first visit of a British king
to the German capital in 1856 years.
Political: France and Germany signed a
Morocco pact.
II. Lincoln Centenary: The Tooth ami
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin celebrated. -
Is. Fire Disaster: Between 200 and 300 per-
sons burned to death and scores in
Jured in a fire which destroyed the
Flores theater in Acapulco. Mexico.
II. Obituary: Geronimo. noted Apache
chief and raider. died a prisoner of
war at Fort Sill.
19. Obituary: Grand Duke Vladimir. uncle
of the car of Russia. in st. Peters
burg; aged 81. Rear Admiral Charles
S. Cotton. u. S. N. retired. at Nice.
France; aged S..
Convention: National congress of moth
ers opened in New Orleans.
%. Disaster at Sea: The Hamburg-So
America liner Presidente Roca burned
off Peninsula Valdes: loss Owners re-
port) % lives. press report. 266 of the
passengers and crew.
q. Obituary: Carroll D. Wright soldier
statistiGSan and educator, at Worces-
ter, Mass. aged 50.
q. The Cruising Fleet: The battleships
reached Hampton Roads.
q. Storm: 13 killed and many injured by
a tornado which swept over eastern
Arkansas.
Is Obituary: Rev. Theodore Cuyler, noted
minister and author, in Brooklyn:
aged 81.
q. Sporting: American bowling congress
opened in Pittsburg.
MARCH.
1. Obituary: E. J. ('Lucky'') Baldwin
well known turfman. at Arcadia. Cal.
aged 81.
z Sporting: Ora Morningstar won the
championship of the world at 1872 balk
line billiards. defeating George F. Slos-
son, the ISL champion, in New York
city; final score. 500 to ga.
l. Political: Inauguration of William
Howard Taft as 9th president of the
United States. The Goth congress ended
Storm: Fierce windstorm and rain in
the Atlantic states.
Panama Scandal: The publishers and
one editor of the New York World in
dicted by the federal grand jury in
New York city.
s. Political: President Taft nominated
his cabinet as follows: Philander c.
Knox, secretary of state; Franklin
MacVeagh, the treasury; Jacob M
Dickinson, war; George Won L. Meyer,
navy; Richard A. Ballinger. interior;
James Wilson, agriculture: Charles
Nagel, commerce and labor; Frank H
Hitchcock. postmaster general; George
w. Wickersham. attorney general
Obituary: John H. Starin, pioneer in
river and harbor transportation, in
New York city; aged 81.
.. Storm Disaster: 20 killed and "a in
jured in tornado at Brinkley, Ark.
10. Obituary: Maj E. L. G. Zalinski, U
s. A, retired, noted inventor and en-
gineer, in New York city; aged 90.
Standard Oh: Railway rebate case de
cided in favor of Standard OH in
Chicago.
Storm: 100 houses wrecked by a cyclone
at Cuthbert. Ga; deaths.
L. Black Hand: Lieutenant Petrosini,
noted Italian detective in New York
city, assassinated at Palermo Italy.
Is. Political: Special session of the 61st
congress opened. Joseph G. Cannon
elected speaker of the house.
Weston's Walk: Edward Payson Yves
ton started from New York on walk
to San Francisco.
1s. Obituary: Elinor Mac Cartney Lane.
author of Nancy Stair" and other
novels, at Lynchburg, Va.
II. Tariff: Bill framed by the Republican
members of the ways and means com
mittee introduced in the house by Sc
reno E. Payne, chairman of the com
mittee.
20. The Cooper Trial: Col. Duncan B.
Cooper and his son Robin found guilty
Of the murder of ex-senator Carmack
in Nashville and sentenced to 20 years
d Aeronautics: Count Zeppelin's dirigi-
BILE airship created a worlds record
by carrying q persons $50 miles.
q. Personal: Theodore Roosevelt, ex-
nreSidPnf V0rlr
Naples on the Hamburg American
liner Hamburg.
Obituary: Col. William Lamb, soldier
editor and lawyer. hero of the Confed-
crate defense of Fort Fisher in 1865. at
Norfolk, Va: aged 70.
"a. Personal: Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford of the British navy retired after
90 years service
9. Convention: Southern child labor con
gress met in New Orleans
Political: Agreement reached between
Austria and Servia. effecting peace in
the Balkans.