The Washington herald., 1912-12-29
REVIEW OF THE YEAR.

January III. Rider Haggard. the Eng
lish novelist, is made . baronet.
Chinese in United States raise flag OF
new Chinese republic.
Daniel Howard is inaugurated Presi-
dent of republic OF Liberia.
January ALFRED Tennyson Dickens, son
of the English novelist, dies at the
Hotel Astor, New York City.
DIR. sun Yat-Sen takes the oath as Pro-
visional President of the Chinese re-
public
January 3-Rear Admiral Robley d.
CFighting Bob Evans. dies at his
home in Washington. D. c.
January 4-Brig. Gen. Joseph NJ. CALM.
who fired the first shot at Gettys-
burg, dies at his home in St. Louis.
January 5-Julian Hawthorne indicted
for alleged fraud in connection with
the sale of worthless mining stocks.
January G-J. P. Morgan pays SS,675 for
a copy on paper of the Gutenberg
Bible and a Bible printed in 1852.
Rev Clarence V. T. Richeson confesses
to having poisoned Avis Linnell, his
former sweetheart.
New Mexico becomes the forty-seventh
State.
January PROF. Frederick P. Keppel
dean of the School of Fine Arts, Co
lumbia University. decorated with the
cross OF the Legion OF Honor by
France.
January 9-Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety Building burns in New York,
with a loss of $50. 100000 Fire Chief
Walsh is burned to death.
French Foreign Minister Justin de
Selves resigns under sensational cir
cumstances.
Theodore Roosevelt announces that he
will rim for the Presidency
January lO-F'irst aeroplane flight from
the deck of a British vessel is made
by Lieut.. Samson from the battleship
Africa.
The French Premiere NJ. Caillaux and
his cabinet resign.
January l1-Dr. John Grier Hibben is
elected president of Princeton Univer-
sity.
Bacon Leaves Diplomatic Service.
January 12-Robert Bacon resigns as
United States Ambassador to France.
Several Turkish gunboats are sunk by
italian guns in the Red Sea.
Textile mills at Lawrence, Mass, close
down on account OF riots.
Prof Herschel C. Parker starts from
his home in Brooklyn for Alaska, to
to make another attempt to scale
Mount Mckinley.
January l3-JuleS NedrlneS beats the
worlds record in flying by going
eighty-eight miles in one hour, at
Pau, France.
January 1.-THE Spanish Cabinet resigns.
The French cabinet is organized, with
Raymond Poincarn as premier, and
Delcasse as Minister of Marine.
January 15-Thirty thousand operators go
out on strike at Lawrence, Mass.
Rioutous scenes are enacted.
January 16-Cardinal Farley arrives at
New York, and is accorded a mag
nificent reception.
Henry Lebauchere, founder of London
Truth, and noted diplomat, dies at
his home in Florence, Italy.
Baron Joseph NJ. Won Rodowitz, for
merly German Ambassador to Con-
stantinople and Madrid, dies at Ber-
lin.
January IS-Charles w. Morse, the New
York financier. serving a term in the
Federal prison in Atlanta, is par
doned by President Taft, on the sup
position that he is dying.
24-Aviator Rutherford Page,
Of New York City, is killed by fall
from his biplane at Los Angeles.
The Duke and Duchesse of Connaught
and the Princess Patricia visit New
York.
January So-Anna Toppizzo killed in
strike riots at Lawrence, Mass. La
Dor Leaders ]. j. Ettor, Arturo Clio
vannitti, and Joseph Caruso arrested,
charged with constructive murder.
February 6-Ferty-five labor leaders are