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

Political: The Payne tariff bill passed
the house OF representatives by vote
of III to 61-
IL. Fire Disaster: 8 deaths in fire N
Lenox, Mass; loss nearly 100000.
Financial Troubles: Ennis & Stopan1
brokers in New York and Chicago
failed for s.. 500. O00
Is. Turkey: Turkish garrison in Constan-
tinople mutinied and expelled the
Young Turks ministry.
a. Fire: At Rochester. N. Y, 8 churches.
40 dwellings and a business block de-
stroyed; loss nearly 100000
Obituary: Ex-United States Senator N
c. Butler of South Carolina at Column
bia, s. c.: aged 73.
lS Political: Ultimatum of Young Turks
to parliament.
10. Convention: National Society Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution met
in Washington.
q. Storm Disaster: persons killed and
property valued at 100000 ruined by
a windstorm at Cleveland
g. Obituary: Ex-United States Senator
William M Stewart of Nevada, in
Washington tagged 50.
"a. Turkey: Young Turks gained controI
in Constantinople making Sultan Alb
dull Hamid prisoner In his palace.
q. Obituary: Charles Warren Stoddard
author and educator. in Monterey.
CAL; aged IS.
&c. Convention: 5th congress of the Inter
national Woman's Suffrage alliance
opened in London.
q. Abdul Hamid II. of Turkey formally
deposed by the Constitutional party
(Young Turks and his brother, Mo-
manned Rescued. chosen successor.
Obituary: Heinrich Conried, inpresario,
former director of the Metropolitan
Opera House. New York, IN Neral.
Austria; aged 81.
g. Obituary: Ex-Governor Frederick Hol-
brook of Vermont, at Brattleboro:
aged 90. Olive Logan. former actress.
author and lecturer near Sutton, Sur
rey. England; aged 70.
g. Convention: Annual meeting of the
National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution opened in Balti-
Turkey: $50 leaders of the mutiny OF
April 13 in Constantinople executed for
conspiracy.
Fire: In Chicago 81, 100000 loss by the
burning of Elevator of the Illinois
Central
80. Personal: Daughter born to Queen
Wilhelmina of Holland.
Storm Disaster: Over 200 dead and mill
lions in property destroyed by lorna
does which swept the south, including
Tennessee, Alabama. Mississippi and
Georgia.
MAY.
2. Convention: National peace congress
opened in Chicago.
8. Judicial: The commodity clause of
the Hepburn act declared constitution
al by the United States supreme court.
.. Sporting: ST. Yves won the interna-
tional derby in New York, covering 2f
miles and 1856 yards in hours. A min
uteS and seconds
.. Obituary: Augusta Evans Wilson. au-
thor of ''Beulah," "St. Elmo" wash
tn and other popular novels of south
ern life. at Mobile. Ala; aged "a.
10. Political: Mohammed ". Of Turkey
invested with the sword OF sovereignty
at Constantinople.
H. Boat Disaster: q deaths by the sink
ing of ferry launch on the Ohio river
near Pittsburg.
mite exploded at South Bethlehem.
near Albany, N. z. causing the loss
of % lives.
u. Sporting: King James won the Metro
politan handicap at Belmont park.
New York.
II. Personal: Gen. Stoessel and Admiral
Nebogatoff. Russian officers. who were
serving sentences for neglect of duty
in the late war, pardoned by the czar.
Is. Financial: Tracy & Co.. New York
brokers and bankers, went into bank
ruptcy owing $1,O00.o00.
Obituary: George Meredith, the English
novelist, in London; aged 81.
Personal: DR.. Charles William Eliot re-
tired from the presidency of Harvard
after 40 years in that office.
Fire: Loss of $1,500.000 by the destruc-
ton of a manufacturing block at Ak
ron o.
Convention: National good roads con-
gress met in Baltimore.
-. Obituary: Henry H. Rogers, dnancier
and director of the Standard Oil COM
pany, in New York; aged SO.
Personal: Abbott Lawrence Lowell as
stunned the presidency of Harvard uni
versity.
rs. Maj. Israel C. Greene, captor of John
Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859, at
Mitchell. S. D.; aged s5
Sporting: King Edwards Minoru won
the English Derby.
%. Storm Disasters: % persons killed and
40 injured in Oklahoma by tornadoes.
Many lives lost in cyclone which
swept over western Minnesota and
North Dakota.
30. Tornado: over 30 persons killed and
upward of 100 injured in a windstorm
at Zephyr. Tex.
81. Fire: At Porta Costa, Cal, loss of ST.
100000 by the burning Of the Nevada
grain docks.
JUNE.
/. Worlds Fair: The Alaska Yulzon-Pa-
cific exposition opened at Seattle.
2. Obituary: Theodore Barth, noted Ger
man editor, publicist and authority on
American affairs. at Baden-Baden;
aged CO.
g. Sporting: King James won the Brook
Ign handicap at Gravesend.
8. Balloon race start at Indianapolis for
distance and endurance contests.
g. Obituary: Col. Alexander Kelly Nc
nent in Pennsylvania politics. in Phil
adelphia: aged 81
! g. Conventions: United Confederate Vet
Grams met at Memphis. Meeting of
| the American Medical. association at
Atlantic City.
.. Convention: National conference Of
charities and correction met at Buff
falo.
| 10. Obituary: Rev. DR.. Edward Everett
Hale. distinguished clergyman, author
and journalist, chaplain of the United
| States senate, in Roxbury, Mass
aged 81
| Storm Disaster: II persons killed arc
scores injured in a series OF tornadoes
/ which swept over Texas.
! II. Earthquake Disaster: Towns of st.
| Cannat and Rognes. in France, ruined
| 100 deaths.