Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-01-06

| big packers from business not directly
| related to meat packing
| Feb. 2S-Oklahoma ratified suffrage
| amendment.
| March Federal Judge Geiger in Mil
waukee upheld Wisconsins ~ per cent
| beer law.
New Jersey legislature passed law legal
| izing 912 per cent beverages.
United States Supreme court decided
| United States Steel corporation is not an
| illegal umbination.
Ra IDS returned to owners.
Sir auckland Geddes accepted Brit
| ish ambassador to United States
President Wilson let it be known he
would not be candidate for reelection.
March lowest Virginia assembly rat
flied suffrage amendment
United States submarine HI wrecked
near Magdalena bay. 1t. Commander J.
r. Webb and three of crew lost.
March 15-United States senate adopted
new Article X reservation to peace treaty
by vote of Sc to 26.
United States Supreme court granted
permission to state of New Jersey to in
sttute original proceedings to test va
ud1ty of prohibition amendment.
John Barton Payne retired as chair
man of shipping board and was sworn in
as secretary of interior.
March 1S-United States senate adopted
resolution by vote of 45 to SS declaring
Tor selt-determination for Ireland.
House of representatives passed army
appropriation bill providing for army of
ZSS,0OO enlisted men and 1880 officers
league covenant failed of ratification in
senate
March 2O-Truman H Newberry, Junior
United States senator from Michigan, and
10 others convicted by jury at Grand
RAPIDS, Mich, of having conspired crilhi-
nally in 1918 to violate election laws.
Newberry fined $4,000 and sentenced to
Imprisonment for two years.
March 23-Bainbridge Colby sworn in
as secretary of state.
Government control of bituminous coal
President Wilson,
April l.
March 27-Federal grand jury at Indi-
annapolis indicted 125 coal operators and
miners on charges of conspiracy in cen
tral bituminous district to limit produc-
ton and maintain excessive prices:
April 24-Director General of Railroads
Hines resigned, effective May Is.
April 26-Supreme Court declared the
Heading company and certain of its SUD-
s1dlaries an illegal combination.
May 13-Socialists nominated Eugene
Debs for president and Seymour Stedman
for vice president
May 15-senate adopted Knox peace
resolution.
May 1S-secretary of the Interior Payne
made director general of railroads.
May 2l-House ADOPTED senate peace
May 24-President Wilson asked con-
gress for authority to accept the man
date for Armenia.
investigation of presidential campaign
expenses begun by the senate.
May 27-President Wilson vetoed Knox
peace resolution.
May 2S-Water power conservation bill
June Limited States Supreme court de-
c1ded ratification of a constitutional
amendment is not subject to submission
to popular referendum.
Senate declined to give President au-
thority to accept Armenian mandate.
June 4-President Wilson vetoed budget
bill. Congress passed bill increasing pay
of postal employees.
Undersecretary of State Frank Polk
resigned.
June 5-Congress adjourned, President
Wilson letting several important meas
ures die without his signature.
June Limited States Supreme court de-
clared valid both the prohibition amend
ment and the Volstead enforcement act
June S-Republican national convention
opened in Chicago.
June 12-Republicans nominated war
rem G. Harding of Ohio for president and
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for
vice president
July 6-Democrats in San Francisco
nominated James M. Cox of Ohio for
President and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as
sistant secretary of the navy, for vice
July 8-Dr Lynn Harold Hough re-
signed as president of Northwestern Uni
versity at Evanston, Ill.
July 1+Parley P. Christensen, Salt
Lake City, nominated for president by
Farmer-Labor party in Chicago, after
bolt by committee of forty-eight and sin
July 20~George White, Marietta, Ohio,
elected chairman Democratic national
committee.
July 21-Prohibitionists opened national
convention in Lincoln, Neb., and nomi-
mated w. J. Bryan for president by ac-
clamatiOn
July 22-Bryan declining. the Prohibi-
tionists nominated Aaron S. Watkins of
Ohio for president and D. Leigh Colvin
of New York for vice president.
Senator Harding notified of nomination
July 27-GoVernor Coolidge notified of
vice presidential nomination.
July 31-Interstate commerce commits
sion authorized freight, passenger and
Pullman rate increase amounting to
about billion and half annually.
Aug. 2-Twenty Communist Labor lead
ers found guilty of seditiOn in Chicago.
Aug. 5-Fatal anti-foreign riots in West
Frankfort, Ill; state troops sent.
Street car strike riots in Denver; sew
eral persons killed.
Aug. 7-Governor Cox formally notified
of his nomination.
Aug. 18-Increase of 121A per cent in ex-
press rates authorized by interstate COM
merce commission.
Aug. IS-Tennessee, the last state neces-
sary, ratified woman suffrage amend
ment.
Aug. 26-Ratifcation of suffrage amend
ment proclaimed by Secretary of State
Colby.
Sept. 6-Big farm machinery manufac-
turers called violators of trust laws by
federal trade commission.
Sept. 13-Maine went Republican by
65, 900.
Sept. I5-Terrific explosion at Wall and
Broad streets, New York, laid to Reds;
thirty persons killed and 300 injured.
Sept. 21-Three Socialists, reelected to
New York assembly, ousted; two seated,
but resigned.
Sept. 24-W. A. Ketcham, Indianapolis
elected commander in chief Of G.. A r.
President Wilson declined to abrogate
trade treaties, as asked by congress in
the merchant marine act
Sept. 29-Col ]. W. Galbraith. Lr., Gin
cinnat, elected national commander of
the American Legion.
Walter Dill Scott elected president of
Northwestern university.
Oct. 1.-THE 1920 population of continen-
tai United States announced as los, ,6S3, l0S
Nov. 2-Warren G. Harding and Calvin
Coolidge elected President and vice pres
idenr of United States; Republican land
slide.
Nov. 25-1rish mob in New York at
tackled Union League club because Brit
ish flag was flying.
Dec. S-Secretary of State Colby started
on formal visit to South America
Dec. A. President-elect Harding re-
turned from Canal Zone.
Dec. 6-Congress began the short ses-
sion
Dec. 7--Nobel peace prize awarded to
President Wilson.
President Wilson's message to congress
urged independence for the Philippines
and a loan to Armenia.
Dec. &C. J. VOpicl1a resigned as United
States minister to the Balkan states
Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo retired.
h Dec. 13-House passed bill suspending
immigra ton for IA months
House adopted resolution repeating war
time laws
Senate adopted resolution for revival
of war finance corporation to aid the
farmers.
Dec. 14-Government crop report showed
shrinkage in values of nearly five billion
dollars compared with 1919.
Dec. 15-Senate passed bill authorizing
farmers cooperative marketing associa-
tons.
Dec. 16-Senate passed bill forbidding
strikes on railroads.
Dec. 2Q-Permanent merger of four ex-
press companies authorized by interstate
commerce commission.
INDUSTRIAL
Jan. 8-Steel strike called off by work