The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-02
HISTORICAL EVENTS. 1910

elects Theodore Roosevelt instead
2S.-The international arbitration
court at The Hague begins its hear
ings in the Orinoco Steamship COM
pany case in the dispute between Ven
ezuela and the United States.
2s.-Seventy-three persons are SER
iously injured in conflicts between
! strikers and the Berlin police
! 30--A comparatively slight disa-
greement between the British Fedora
ton of Master Cotton Spinners and
its employees results in the closing of
the mills. affecting 10000 workers.
30.-Oficial figures give the total
number of deaths from cholera to
date in Russia at $3.50.
| OCTOBER.
1.-The plant of the Los Angeles
Times is destroyed by bomb. twenty
two persons losing their lives in the
ensuing fire.
| 3.-The new Chinese senate is open
ed in Picking by the regent. Prince
Chun.
"A successful revolution is effect
ed in Portugal by the Republican par
ay with the assistance of the army
and navy. King Manuel and the
queen mother escape.
5.-The Portuguese revolutionists
chose Theophile Braga as provisional
president of the republic.
6.-Charles E. Hughes retires as
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Horace White becoming governor
10.-ExGov. Hughes of New York
is sworn in as an associate justice of
the United States supreme court.
1.-THE French railroad strike is
called off by the workmen's commit
tee, without explanation.
21.-The senate of the New York
university makes it's quinquennial Sc
lection for inclusion in the hall of
fame. including Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Edgar Allan Poe.
23.-The voters of Switzerland re-
ject the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for proportion
al representation in elections for the
national council.
25.-The international court of ar
decision in the Orinoco Steamship
case.
2S.-The strike of express helpers
in Jersey City spreads to New York
29.-Mrs. E. II. Hartman makes
formal presentation of deed for TO-,
900 acres of land and $1,000, 900 for the
creation of park in New York and
New Jersey.
NOVEMBER.
1.-The car approves a measure
extending the zone of residence OF
Jews in Russia.
Am imperial decree announces
that the first Chinese parliament will
be convoked in 1913.
, SELECTIONS to the Sixty-second
congress result as follows: Republi
cans, 1855; Democrats 1926; Socialist
. 10.-The express strike in New
, York and Jersey City is declared off
. 11.-Diplomatic representatives OF
the United States. Germany, Russia
Sweden and Norway officially recog
nize the republican government in
Portugal.
15.-Marshal Hermes da Fonseca is
inaugurated as president of Brazil.
1s.-More than one hundred suffra
gettes are arrested in London during
demonstration outside parliament
building.
22.-Sailors of the Brazilian navy
mutiny.
2s.-The British parliament is dis
solved
2S.-The federal government files a
I petition asking for the dissolution oil
} the corporations composing the sugar
trust.
DECEMBER.
1.-Gen. Porfirio Diaz is inaugur
ated as president of Mexico for his
eighth term.
5.-Opening of the Anal session OIL
the Sixty-first congress.
12.-President Taft dominates Jus
tice Edward D. White to be Chief Jus
tice of the United States supreme
court.
14.-Andrew Carnegie gives $11,5 500,
900 to aid in establishing a lasting
world peace.
15.-Marc Emile Ruchet is elected
. president of the Swiss republic
19.-The British parliamentary cleo
: tons close giving the government 9
coalition majority of 1876.
2O.-John D. Rockefeller announces
final gift of s10,O0O.O00 to the uni
versity of Chicago.
22-Chief Koran and twenty-foul
frement are killed in a fire at the
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