The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
10 English house Of commons bin abol
ishing veto power Of house OF lords.
MARCH.

tains his seat by senate vote with mar
gin Of six.
4-Reciprocity fails In senate. Six
ty-lrst congress adjourns.
President Taft makes good on ex-
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-
tutiorality of corporation tax law, in
creasing national income by S27, 000,-
900.
25-Triangle Shirt Waist company
fire in the Asch building, New York.
resulting in 141 deaths.
APRIL.
Especial session Of Sixty-second
congress %convenes.
10-Tom L. Johnson, former mayor
Of Cleveland, dies.
12-Canadian reciprocity bill and
farmers free list bill introduced in
house.
13-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-Chinese rebellion begins IN Kwan-
tung province.
3-House orders investigation Of
steel trust.
S-Battle of Juarez begins, resulting
in capture by Mexican rebels two days
later.
12-J. NJ. 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-Porfirio Diaz %nnounce he will
resign presidency OF Mexico.
23-New Mexico and Arizona state
hood resolution passes in house.
25-Diaz resigns presidency Of Mex
leo.
29-Tobacco trust ordered dissolved
by Supreme court decision.
JUNE.
S-W. E. d. Stokes shot in New
York by Lillian Graham and Ethel
Conrad.
10-American polo team beats Brit
ish in deciding game of international
series.
13-Resolution for popular election
Of senators passed by senate.
1S-European aviation circuit race
begins at Vincennes, France. Three
aviators-Captain Princeteau, NJ.
La Martin and NJ. Lendran-killed
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.
E-SOIOlldNlOh VI DlDk SSOl go Va
England.
2s-Cornell crew wins Poughkeep-
sic regatta.
JULY.
Harry N. Atwood flies in BIZ
plane from Boston to New York.
S-Lieutenant Conneau ("Andre
Beaumont") wins 1,000-mile aviation
circuit C from Vincennes, over
France, Belgium, Holland and Eng
land.
12-American Harvard-Yale athlet-
&c 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.
10-London dock strike begins.
15-Harry N. Atwood starts night
for New York from st. Louis.
19-English dock strike settled.
Especial 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.
S-Col. John Jacob Astor marries
Madeline Talmage Force.
10-Cross-continent aeroplane fight
for Hearst $4,000 prize officially be-
gins.
12-H. H. Hilton OF England wins
American golf championship at Apawa-
mis- links.
15-Premier Stolypin Of Russia
shot while attending opera at Kiev.
dying two days later.
President Taft starts or trip
through west.
17-Cal P. Rodgers leaves New
York on cross-continent flight. Rod
gers was the only m to complete the
trim.