The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-01-06
High Spots of
the Old Year

January president Wilson oppos-
es treaty reservations.
January 10 President Wilson au-
| thorlzes the withdrawal of American
troops from Siberia.
January 17-Paul Deschanel elected
president of France.
| February 2-E. T. Meredith appoint
ed secretary of agriculture to succeed
David F. Houston, resigned.
February IA Germany reopens EN-
bassy Office in London, first since war.
February 20-Rear Admiral Robert
E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole,
dies, aged SO.
February % "Rum Rebellion" in
Torn county, Michigan.
February cambridge Colby ap-
pointed secretary of state.
February 27-M Major R. W. Schroeder
breaks altitude record at Dayton, o.,
height, 36,02O feet.
March Railways returned to pri-
vate owners.
/ March United States supreme
court decides U. s. Steel Corporation
not trust.
| March Is Seven I. W. WIS found
guilty or murder at Centralia, Wash.
March 1e-Senate refuses to ratify
peace treaty.
March Ex-senator Truman H. New
berry (Mich.) found guilty of election
fraud and sentenced to serve two
years in prison.
March 28-Tornado in middle west
and south kills 1e6; $15,ooO,oo dam
agee.
April Five Socialist members ex-
PEELED by New York assembly.
April THE "outlaw" switehmen's
strike becomes Of national Importance.
$4,000 men out.
/ April 13-President Wilson appoints
labor board Of nine to deal with rail
way labor disputes.
April 14-President Wilson presides
over first cabinet meeting since Sep
,tember 2, 1919.
April 19-Sir Auckland Geddes, the
British ambassador to the United
States, arrives in New York.
April 25-Indemnity to be paid by
Germany fixed at about 1000, 600, 900.
May 3-Tornado in Oklahoma kills
81 persons.
May 13-Eugene v. Debs nominated
by Socialist party as candidate for
president.
May 21-Carranza, fugitive presi-
| dent of Mexico, assassinated at Tlax-
calamkongo.
May 24~Adolfo de la Huerta named
provisional president of Mexico,
June Ex-senator Warren G. Hard
ing of Ohio nominated for president
by Republican convention; Governor
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, NOM
mated for vice-president.
June 1S-George w. Perkins, fnan-
cier, dies at Stamford, Conn.
June 18-Samuel Gompers elected
president of American Federation of
Labor for 99th time.
July Gov. James NJ. Cox of Ohio
nominated for president by Demo
Gratis; Franklin D, Roosevelt nominal
ed for vice-president.
July 13-Farmer-Labor party form
ed.
July 15-Four army airplanes start
on 9000-mile trip to Nome, Alaska,
from Mineola, L. l., arriving at Nome,
August oath.
August 18-Tennessee house ratifes
amendment to federal constitution
giving suffrage to women, being the
| Seth state to ratify.
| August 26-Secretary of State Colby
signs proclamation promulgating the
woman suffrage resolution as the 10Th
amendment to the constitution.
September 5-Gen. Aware Obregon
elected president of Mexico.
| September 11-First transcontinen-
tai airmail reaches San Francisco.
September 16-President Deschanel
of France resigns.
September 16 - Explosion believed
caused by bomb skaters Wall street,
New York; 80 killed.
September 23-Alexandre Millerand
elected president of France.
September 25-Jacob H. schiff, New
York banker, dies.
September 29-Frederick w. Gal
/
braith, Jr., of Cincinnati, elected ma
tional commander of the American
Legion; Claudius G. PendilI of Keno
sha, Wis, vice-commander.
October 16-Strike of British coal
miners begins with walkout of million
men.
October 25-King Alexander of
Greece dies from monkey bite.
October 25 - Terrence MacSwiney,
lord mayor Of Cork, dies in Brixton
prison, London, after hunger strike of
"a days.
November 2-Warren G. Harding
and Calvin Coolidge, Republican nom
inees for president and vice-president
of the U. S., are elected.
November Assembly of League
of Nations holds first session at Cen
eva. Paul Hymans of Belgium elected
president.
December 1-Gen, Alvaro 0bregon
sworn in as president of Mexico.
December 18-Assembly of League
of Nations ends first session at Gene
va with 48 countries members.
December 10 - Constantine returns
to Greece as king, chosen by people.
December 20-United States govern
ment sues John D. Rockefeller for in
come tax.
December 27-Fiume Legion sur
renders which broke d'Annunzio's