Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-05
to English house Of commons bill abol-
ishing veto power Of house Of lords.
MARCH.

Senator Lorimer Of Illinois re-
tains his seat by senate vote with mar
gin Of six.
4-Reciprocity fails in senate. Six
ty-irst congress adjourns.
President Taft makes good on e x
ira session threat, setting special ses-
sion at April 4.
S-United States troops ordered to
Mexican frontier.
11-Trial Of the Camorrists begins at
Viterbo, Italy.
1S-Supereme court sustains consti-
tutionality of corporation tax law, In
creasing national income by $27, 000,-
900.
fire in the Asch building, New York,
resulting in 141 deaths.
APRIL.
Especial session Of Six~ty-second
congress convenes.
10-Tom l.. Johnson, former mayor
Of Cleveland, dies.
12-Canadian reciprocity bill and
farmers free list bill introduced in
house.
18-House approves direct election
Of senators by 296 to 16.
14-David Jayne Hill resigns as
ambassador to Germany.
21-House passes Canadian recipro-
city, 265 to SO.
22-McNamara brothers arrested in
Chicago and Indianapolis; rushed by
automobile on way to Los Angeles to
face dynamite charges.
29-Jay Gould marries Annie Doug
lass Graham Of Hawaii, in New York.
30-Bangor, Me, devastated by fire.
MAY.
2-Chtnese rebellion begins in Kwan-
tung province.
steel trust,
S-Battle of Juarez begins, resulting
in capture by Mexican rebels two days
later.
12-J. M. Dickinson resigns as sec
rotary of war; succeeded by Henry
L Stimson Of New York.
15-Standard OIL company ordered
dissolved by Supreme court decision.
17-Porf1rio Diaz announces he will
IoSibu p~IeSlueuCy VI "cAASo.
23-New Mexico and Arizona state
hood resolution passes in house.
25-D1az resigns presidency Of Mex
leo.
2e-Tobacco trust ordered dissolved
by Supreme court decision.
JUNE.
9-W. e. D. Stokes shot in New
York by Lillian Graham and Ethel
Conrad.
1O-Amer1can polo team beats Brit
ish in deciding game Of international
series.
19-Resolut1on for popular election
Of senators passed by senate.
18-European aviation circuit race
begins at Vincennes, France. Three
aviators-Captain ~Princeteau, M.
La Martin and M. Lendran-ktlled
when machines fall to ground.
19-President Taft celebrates his
silver wedding anniversary.
21-Arrival in New York Of Olym-
pic, largest passenger boat In world.
22-Coronation Of King George Of
England.
2s-Cornell crew wins P%oughkeep-
sic regatta.
2-Harry N. Atwood flies in b.
plane from Boston to New York.
8-Lieutenant Conneau ("Andre
Beaumont") wins 1,0O0-mile aviation
circuit race, from vincennes, over
France, Belgium, Holland and Eng
land.
12-Amer1can Harvard Yale athlet-
ic team defeated by Oxford-Cam-
bridge team at London.
14-Investiture of prince Of Wales.
1S-Henry Clay Beattie shoots his
wife.
22-Canadian reciprocity passed by
senate.
27-President Taft signs Canadian
reciprocity treaty.
AUGUST.
1O-London dock strike begins.
hillary N. Atwood starts flight
for New York from st. Louis.
19-English dock strike settled.
23-Special session Of congress ad-
journs.
22-G. A. r.. special train wrecked
near Manchester, N. Y, 81 civil war
veterans and members Of their fami-
lies being killed.
27-Atwood arrives at New York,
finishing his flight from st. Louis.
SEPTEMBER.
eCol. John Jacob Astor marries
Madeline Talmage Force.
1o-Cross-continent aeroplane flight
for Hearst $780, 900 prize officially b.
gins.
12-H. H. Hilton Of England wins
American golf championship At Apawa-
mis- links.
16-Premier Stolyptn Of Russia
shot while attending opera at Kev,
dying two days later.
President Taft starts on trip
through west.
17-Cal P. Rodgers leaves New
York on cross-continent flight. Rod
gers was the only one to complete the
trip.
31-Canadian voters reject reci-
procity bill.
2B-French battleship Ldberts
blown up In harbor Of Toulon, killing
three hundred.
2s-Italy declares war on Turkey,
as result Of Tripoli controversy, and
rushes troops to Trpoli.
3o-Ons hundred killed by breaking
Of dam al Austin, Pa.
OCTOBER.