Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-04
for Hearst $4,000 prize onicially b.

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 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.
21-Canadian voters reject reel.
procity bill.
25-French battleship Liberte
blown up in harbor Of Toulon. killing
three hundred.
29-Italy declares war on Turkey.
as result Of Tripoli controversy. and
rushes troops to Tripoll.
30-One hundred killed by breaking
of dam at Austin, Pa.
OCTOBER,
2-Rear Admiral Winfield 8.
Schley dies.
13--Republic Of China proclaimed
at WI Chang.
14-Associate Justice John Marshall
Harlan of the United States Supreme
Court dies.
19-Aviator Eugene Ely killed at
Macon. Ga.
2O-Rev. C. v. T. RIcheson arrested
in Boston as slayer Of Avis Linnell.
21--Rev. Frand w. Sanford. leader
Of the Holy Ghosters, arrives in Port
land, Me-, aboard the Coronet, on
which he starved the fanatical men,
bers Of the party. He Is arrested.
Chinese national assembly %convenes.
23-Winston Churchill Is made Eng.
lands first lord Of the admiralty, be-
ing succeeded as home secretary by
Reginald McKenna.
&c Philadelphia Athletics win
worlds baseball championship from
New York.
29-Joseph Pulitzer. noted publisher.
| dies.
Names of IS new cardinals.designate
announced.
NOVEMBER.
! president Taft reviews great bat.
tfeship fleet at New York.
2-Kyrle BelleY. famous actor. dies.
4-Chinese rebels capture Shanghai.
controlling mouth Of Yangtse-Kiang
river.
5-Cal P. Rodgers arrives at Pasa-
dena. CAL, concluding his epochal
flight from New York to Pacific coast.
Ambassador Guild at st. Petersburg
protests to Russia against alleged In.
suits 10 American Jews.
6-Persia refuses Russia's demand
to remove w. Morgan Shuster. young
American in charge OF Persian
finances.
New Mexico's first election as a
state results in Democratic governor.
Italian advance In Trlpoli begins.
S-United States circuit court at
New York approves tobacco trust disso-
luton plan.
16-Chinese republic appeals for rec
ognition by the world.
Russia starts troops for Persian from
tier.
19-President Caceres of Santo Do
mingo assassinated. y
24-Henry Clay Beattie executed.
25-Miss Mildred Sherman marries
Lord Camoys OF England in New
York.
3O-Public conslstory creating 10
cardinals at Rome.
DECEMBER.
1-McNamara brothers change pleas
in dynamite case to guilty"
liking George arrives in India for
the Durbar.
4-First regular session Of Sixty.
second congress c%onvenes.
81. b. Mcnamara sentenced for
life. John J. to 10 years. President
Taft sends congress message devoted
entirely to trust problems.
6--Beef trust suit begun at Chi.
cago.
S-Investigation board reports bat.
tleship Maine was destroyed by out
side explosion.
9-207 miners entomber at Brice.
Vile, Tenn. by explosion.
Constitution Of Chinese republic
framed.
12-Durbar at India held by King
George emperor of India.
Republican national committee
names Chicago, June lS. for 1912 ma
tional convention.
13-Sulzer bill abrogating passport
treaty with Russia passed by house.,
17--Alfred G. Vanderbilt weds Mrs.
Margaret McKim in London.
Ambassador Curtiss Guild at instruc.
ton OF President Taft, notifies Russia
of intention to abrogate treaty Of 1882.
19-Senate approves President Taft's
abrogation of Russian treaty. Presi.
dent sends congress- special meaaaRa