El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-30


22-Coronation of king George OF
England
2S.-Cornen crew wins POughkeepsie
regatta.
Harry n Atwood flies in biplane /
from Boston to New York
S-Lieut Conneau ("Andre tBeau- J
mont") wins 1000 mile aviation circuit
race from Vincenness over France bel-
GUM, Holland and England
12-American HarTard-Iale athietlc
team defeated by Oxford Camorldge
team at London
1S.@Henry Clay Beattie shoots his
2S.-canadian reciprocity passed by
27.&President TAFT signs Canadian
reciprocity treaty.
August
1O.=London dock strike begins.
15.-Ha-ry n. Atwood starts flight
for New York from St Louis.
19.-English dock strike settled
Especial session OF congress al
&c. A. R. special train wrecked
near Manchester, n. Y, 81 civil war
veterans and members OF their families
27-Atwood arrives at New York,
finishing his flight from St. Louis
September.
Sol John Jacob Aston marries
Madeline Talmage Force.
1O-Cross continent aeroplane flight
for Hearst $4,000 prize officially be-
12.-H H. Hilton Of England wins
worlds golf championship at ApaWamis
I5.-Premier stolypin Of Russia shot
while attending opera at kieY dying
two days later. President Taft stapcs
on trip through west
17.=CaL P. Rodgers leaves New York.
: on cross continent flight. Rodgers was
. the only one to complete the trip.
21.-Canadian voters reject reciprocity
25.-French battleship Liberte blown
up IN harbor Of Toulon. killing 300.
2s.-Ita1y declares war on Turkey,
7 as result Of Tripon controversy, and
/ rushes troops to Tripol.
3O-One hundred killed by breaking
! Of dam at Austin, Pa
October.
Rear Admiral Winfield s schley
is.-Republic Of China proclaimed at
I4-Associate justice John Marshall
! Harlan, OF the q 5 supreme court ales-
19.-Aviator Eugene Ely killed al
/ 2OZRev. c. V. T. Richeson arrested
} in Boston as slayer of Avis LinneI-
21-Rev Frank ". Sanford, leader
Of the Holy GhOsters. arrives in Port
/ land. Ne. aboard the CorOnet, on which
he starved the fanatical members Of
/ the party. He is arrested chinese
national assembly conTenes-
2S=Winston Churchill Is made Eng
lands first lord Of admiralty, being
succeeded as home secretary by Regl-
! maid McKenna.
26-Philadelphia Athletics win the
worlds baseball championship from
New York Giants.
29-Joseph Pulitzer. noted publisher,
} dies; names Of IS new cardinals-desig-
nate announced.
November.
President Taft reviews great bat
/ tleship fleet at New York
2-Kyrle Bellew. famous actor dies
Chinese rebels capture Shanghai,
controlling mouth Of 1angtse-kiang
5.-cal P Rodgers arrives at Pasa-
dena, Cal, concluding mis- epochal flight
from New York to Pacific coast
Ambassador Guild, at st. Petersburg,
I protests TO Russia against insults 10
American Jews
6=Persia refuses Russia's demands
I TO remove W Morgan Shuster, young
American IN charge of Persian finances.
New MexicO's first election as O
state results IN Democratic governor
Italian advance in Tripo1 begins.
So. S. circuit court at New York
approves Tobacco trust dissolution
plan.
1s.-Chinese. republic appeals for rec
troops for Persian frontier
1s.-President Caceres Of Santo Do
mingo assassinated-
24-Henry Clay Beattie executed.
25-AIiss Mildred Sherman maTries
lord Cam0ys OF England, in New York
sO.=Public consistory creating IS
cardinals at Rome.
December.
1-MeNamara brothers change pleas
in dynamite case TO guilty
king George arrives in India for
the Durbar.
first regular session Of SD con-
gress convenes.
81. B. Mcnamara sentenced for life.
John J. to Is years. President Tan
sends congress message devoted entire
~ to trust problems.
6.-Beef trust suit begins at Chicago.
S.=Investigation board reports bat
tleship Maine was destroyed by outside
explosion
s.-Two hundred and z miners en-
tombed at BricevilIe, Tenn, by explo-
sion. Constitution Of ChSaese republic
framed
12-Durbar at India GROWING king
/ George emperor OF India. Republican
national committee names Chicago
June IS. for 1912 national convention
13.=Sulzer bill abrogating passport
treaty with Russia. passed by house.
/ 17.-Aifred g. Vanderbilt weds Ms.
Margaret McKim in London. Ambassa-
dor Curtiss Guild, at instruction Of
[ president Taft, notifies Russia OF in
/ tention to abrogate treaty Of 1882.
19.-Senate approves president Iaft's
/ abrogation OF RussiaE treaty President
sends congress special message on
wool tariff JohG Bigelow, Americas
/ grand old man. dies.
21@Russian forces open hostilities
with Persia, bombarding the governors
palace at Tabriz-