Graham guardian., 1914-01-23
APRIL.

APRIL.
L Personal: Ex- President W. n. Taft
took up his duties as professor AT Yale
university.
g. Convention: International congress of
historical studies convened In London.
Suffragettes; Emmeline Pankhurst SEN
fenced to years Imprisonment In
London for suffragette outrages
g. Political: President Wilson read mes.
sage before congress in Joint session,
reviving custom abandoned In 1901
10 Sporting: Major baseball leagues open
ed the season OF 1913
IL Obituary: John q Henderson former
United States senator and author of
the 18th amendment TO the constitution
In Washington; aged Sc,
i2 Railroad Accident; killed In a COLL.
sion on the Vermont Central near ST
Lambert, Canada
II Strike: 100000 Belgian workmen went
on strike for equal suffrage
Personal: Illness of Pope Plus changed
for the worse
Obituary: Carl Hagenbeck, noted animal
collector aud Snowman, near Hamburg.
Germany: aged 60
Convention: Congress of the Daughters
of the American Revolution opened In
Washington.
i6 Personal: Funeral Of John Pierpont
Morgan held in New York city,
Convention; National Council of Women
met in Washington
II. Aviation Disaster; The French mill
tary balloon Zodiac burst at a height
OF $50 feet at Noisy-le-Grand. France;
officers and pilot Killed
Personal: Crisis In the illness or Pope
Plus; death seemed imminent
IS Personal: Mrs, William Cumming Sto-
ry elected president general Of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
n Balkan War: The Turkish fortress OF
Scutari captured by Montenegrins
e. Mining Disaster: l20 coal miners killed
by explosion In the Cincinnati mine al
Courtney. Pa.
Dickens Reminder: Mrs Mary Ann Coop
er. original OF Dickens Little Dor
rit." died in London In her Tooth year
2. Strike: The Industrial strike in Bel.
gium for equal suffrage ended ,oss
caused by the strike estimated at $50.
100000
Shipwreck: The steamer Concordia col.
lided with q bridge pier at the mouth
Of Tensas river. La. drowning Is peo
pie
China: President Wilson recognized the
Chinese republic
Sporting: Willie Kolehmainen won the
professional Is mile race In New YORK,
time hour 20 minutes IA seconds
s. Fire; Loss OF 81 200 900 In the plant OF
the American Fertilizer company at
Buffalo
Convention: Congress OF American sur
geons and physicians In Washington
T. Convention: Congress OF the salvation
Army met In Philadelphia
q n
the Study and Prevention Of Tubercu.
losis met In Washington
Political: The Underwood tarir bill pass.
ed tho house OF representatives by
vote Of 28i to l39
IL Storm; IA killed and 80 injured by a
tornado at Omaha
Obituary: Billy Arlington, the old
time negro minstrel. died at Los An.
geles aged I8
n Mining Disaster; Firedamp explosion
killed Is miners at Belle Valley o
Aviation. Domingo Rusillo. Cuban avi-
ator, flew from Key West to Havana.
winning a $4,000 prize
Is Panama Canal; The waters Of the Pa
cifc ocean were admitted to the canal
by explosion In a retaining dixie near
Mirahores
IL Political. Governor Hiram johnson
20. Obituary: II NJ Flagler. capitalist and
railway magnate. at West Palm Beach
Fla: aged SO
Cuba; Gen Mario O. Menocal was In.
augurated president of the Cuban re.
public.
Il Centenary: The Tooth anniversary OF
the birth Of Richard Wagner, the mas.
ter composer, celebrated throughout
Germany
"a Accident: "a people killed and many
injured by the collapse OF pier at
Long Beach. Cal
Sporting: jerome D. Travers won the
metropolitan amateur golf champion
ship In New York, defeating A y
Hammer
Personal Princess Victoria Luise OF
Prussia and Prince Earnest Augustus
OF Cumberland married In Berlin
% Ship Disasters 10 persons killed by the
destruction OF the steamer Nevada by
Turkish mines In the gulf Of Smyrna
Obituary: Gen James Heaton Baker
civil war soldier, editor and historian
at Mankato MINI. aged A
q. Conventions; United Confederate Vet.
Grams met at Chattanooga
IS Personal: Bennett IL Young elected
commander In chief OF the United Con.
federate Veterans.
Obituary; Lord Avebury (Slr John Lub.
boek). distinguished British scholar and
author. in London; aged 70
90 Balkan War: Treaty OF peace between
Turkey and the Balkan allies signed
at London.
To the Maine Heroes: National monu-
ment to commemorate tho maTtyrdom
Of the crew OF the battleship Maine
unveiled In New York
81 Sporting: Whsk Broom II. won the
Metropolitan at Belmont Park, N r..
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