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WAR AND PEACE
gan, 2—President Wilson arrived in
Italy.
British landed troops in Riga, Libau
and Windau to combat the bolsheviki.
Edin 3—President Wilson received in
ome,
3%
June 1—-Rhine republic proclaimed in va-
rious cities, with Dr. Hans A. Dorten at
its head.
June 2—Peace terms presented to Aus-
tria’s delegates.
June 6—U. S. Semate adopted resolution
asking hearing by peace congress for
“free Ireland’ representatives.
June 16—Allies’ reply to German coun-
ter-proposals and final draft of treaty
handed to Germans and seven days al-
lowed them to sign.
June 18—President Wilson visited the
ruins of Belgium.
Russian cruisers Oleg and Slava sunk
by British warships.
June 19—Italian cabinet resigned, being
refused a vote of confidence.
June 20—German government decided to
sign peace treaty and the Scheidemann
cabinet resigned.
June 21—Gustav Bauer formed new Ger-
man cabinet. :
Surrendered German warships at Scapa
Flow nearly all sunk by their crews,
Forty-six I. W. W.’s convicted of con-
spiracy in Sacramento, Cai.
Jan. 17—Wisconsin and Minnesota rati-
fied prohibition amendment.
Jan, 21—Nevada ratified prohibition
amendment.
Jan. 29—State department proclaimed
| ratification of prohibition amendment and
Pot Jan. 16, 1920, as dante when it is effec-
ve.
Feb. 10—Suffrage amendment beaten in
: senate by one vote,
Francesco Nitti made premier of Italy.
June 22—German national assembly vot-
ed to sign treaty. Allies refused any fur-
ther modification of terms.
June 23—German government officially
agreed to sign the treaty.
June 25—Bloody rioting in Berlin and
| Hamburg.
Hoover made head of international re-
lief organization.
Poles iu full possession of Posen.
Jan, 4-—-New Serbian-Croatian-Slovene
government formed at Belgrade.
Bolsheviki captured Riga.
Jan. 6—Civil war between government
forces and the Spartacans broke out in
Berlin; the latter captured the Spandau
arsenal,
Jan. 7—President Wilson returned to
Paris,
Berlin rioters forced Gen. Harries to
haul down the American flag.
Ebert faction on top in Berlin after se-
vere street fighting.
Jan. 9—Independent socialists set up new
government in Berlin,
Jan. 10—Republic proclaimed in Luxem-
burg, but suppressed at once by the
French.
Jan. 11—Socialist republic proclaimed in
Bremen.
Count Karolyi made president of Hun-
garian republic.
June 26—Allies rejected appeal againkt
dismemberment of Turkey.
June 28—Peace treaty with Germany
signed at Versailles, only the Chinese del-
egates refusing to sign.
Warfare hetween Germans and Poles
i
ceased,
June 29—President Wilson sailed from
France.
July 8—President Wilson arrived at New
York on George Washington.
July 9—German national assembly rati-
fied peace treaty by vote of 208 to 115.
July 10—Official notification of ratifica-
tion of peace treaty by German assembly
given peace conference at Versailles.
July 11—Trade between United States
and Germany ordered resumed by state
department at Washington.
July 12—Enver Pasha, Talaat Bey and
Djemal Pasha, leaders of Turkish gov-
ernment during war, condemned to death
by Turkish court martial.
July 14—Victory parade in Paris marked
. Bastille day.
Jan. 12—Supreme council of peace con- |
gress held its first meeting in Paris.
Spartacans defeated in Berlin,
Spartacans gained control of Constance,
Baden,
Berlin.
Jan. 15—Grand Duchess Marie of Lux-
emburg abdicated and was succeeded by
her sister Charlotte.
July 19—Great victory parade in London,
July 20—Completed text of treaty with
| Austria handed to delegates from Vienna,
“Terror troops” reported in control of
: Budapest. Bela Kun ousted,
13—Many Spartacans executed in '
Jan. 16—Karl Licbknecht and Rosa Lux- |
emburg killed in Berlin.
Jan, 17—Counter-revolution broke out in
Petrograd and bolsheviki began retreat
eastward from Esthonia.
Armistice granted Germany extended
one month,
Jan. 18—Interallied peace congress for-
mally opened.
Jan. i9—Bolshevists captured Kiev.
July 21—British house of commons passed
peace treaty and Anglo-French pact.
July 29—President Wilson sent Franco-
American treaty to the senate.
July 31—Polish parliament ratified treaty
with Germany.
Aug, 1—Socialists seized control in Hun-
gary and Bela Kun and his communist
government fled.
Aug. 4—Roumanian troops entered Bu-
dapest.
Aug. 6—Austrian delegates made coun-
ter peace proposals.
Socialist government of Hungary over-
| thrown and Archduke Joseph put in
Polish coalition cabinet formed by Pa- :
derewski.
German elections resulted generally fa-
vorably to the majority socialists,
Jan, 20—White Russia proclaimed its
union with the Russian soviet republic.
Jan. 22—Allied supreme council asked
Russian factions to send %representative
to conference at the Princes’ islands, Sea
of Marmora.,
Jan, 25—American troops forced to re-
treat from Shenkursk, northern Russia.
Peace
League of Nations.
conference adopted plan for
1
Czechs captured Oderburg from the '
Poles.
Jan. 26—President Wilson visited the
Chateau Thierry and Reims regions.
Feb. 1—Plan of giving German colonies
to allied countries as mandatories of
League of Nations adopted by supreme
council.
Feb. 4—Fighting between Czechs and
Poles stopped by order of supreme council,
Americans defeated bolsheviki at Vistav-
ka, northern Russia.
German government troops bombarded
Bremen and ejected the Spartacans.
Feb. 6— German national assembly
opened in Weimar,
Feb. 8—Russian anarchists evacuated
Vilna.
Feb. 9—Polish constitutional assembly
met in Warsaw.
Feb. 11-Friederich Ebert elected presi-
dent of German republic and Philipp
Scheidemann made premier.
Feb. 12—Republican revolt in Roumania;
King Ferdinand slightly wounded.
Feb. 13—Draft of League of Nations
plan completed and adopted by commis-
sion.
Gen. Denikine’s anti-bolshevik arm)
reached the Caspian after beating big
soviet army and taking 31,000 prisoners.
Feb. 15—President Wilson sailed for
home,
Feb. 16—Germans accepted new terms
for renewal of armistice, under protest.
Feb. 19—Premier Clemenceau shot in
shoulder by an anarchist.
Governments of Siberia, Archangel and
Southern Russia formally rejected the
proposal for conference at Princes’ islands
Feb. 21—Premier Kurt Eisner and sev-
eral other members of the Bavarian gov-
ernment assassinated.
Feb. 24—President Wilson landed in Bos
ton and spoke in behalf of League of Na
tions plan,
March 5—President Wilson sailed for
Paris.
March 9—Many Spartacans summarily
executed in Berlin after bloody battles.
March 12—President Wilson landed in
France,
March 19—Ukrainians captured Lemberg
from Poles,
March 22—Count Karolyi, head of pro-
visional government of Hunga , Te-
signed, and new government proclaimed
power as governor, supported by entente.
Aug. 10—S8ix bolshevik battalions de-
stroyed at battle on the Dvina.
Aug. 17—Four bolshevist vessels sunk
by British fleet in Gulf of Finland.
wa Theviki driven out of Odessa by Deni-
ne.
Aug. 22—Archduke Joseph resigned as
head of Hungarian government.
Aug. 2%5—Two U. S. regiments ordered
from U. 8. to Silesia.
Sept. 1—General Pershing sailed for
home.
Martial law in Munich.
Sept. 2—Final peace terms handed to
Austria.
Sept. 3—Supreme council ordered Rou-
manians to quit Hungary and restore loot.
Sept. 6—Austrian national assembly vot-
ed to sign peace treaty, under protest.
Supreme council awarded Spitzbergen
to Norway.
Sept. 10—Dr. Karl Renner signed the
peace treaty for Austria.
Peace treaty reported to U. S. senate
mm suggested amendments and reserva-
tions.
Sept. 12—Bolsheviki announced capture
of Kolchak’s southern army, 45,000 men,
D’Annunzio at head of Italian troops
seized Fiume; other troops, ordered to
disarm his men, mutinied.
Sept. 15—China decreed separate peace
with Germany.
Sept. 19—Peace treaty handed to Bulga-
rian delegates.
Sept. 22—Italians ousted from Trau by
American marines, who turned town over
to Jugo-Slavs.
Sept. 27—Peace conference ordered ulti-
matum to Germany on evacuation of
Lithuania by Von der Goltz’ troops.
Oct. 1-Italians and Serbs fought in Spa-
lato; 200 killed.
Russian northwestern army began of-
tensive against bolsheviki.
Oct. 2—Fall amendments to peace treaty
rejected by the senate.
French chamber of deputies ratified
peace treaty and treaties with America
and Great Britain,
Oct. 6—Bolsheviki
after great defeat.
Peace treaties ratified by Italy by royal
decree.
act 8—Germans and Russians attacked
ga.
Oct. 10—King George signed British rat-
ification of German treaty,
Oct. 11—Part of Riga taken by Russo-
German force and Letts landed at Libau
for counter-attack.
France ratified the German treaty.
Oct. 13—League of Nations officially
brought into being.
Oct. 16—General Denikine announced cap-
ture of Orel and other victories over bol-
sheviki.
Oct. 16—Russian northwest army took
evacuated Dvinsk
, Pskov and Tsarskoe Selo.
solidarity and armed alliance with the
Russian soviet government.
March 25—British Secretary of War
Churchill announced Egypt was in a vir-
tual state of insurrection,
March 31—General strikes and fatal riots .
in Berlin and other German cities.
April 1—Several hundreds killed in
strike riots in Frankfort.
April 4—Soviet government established
In Munich \
ntanas Smetonas elected president of
Lithuanian republic, p
April 7—Ukrainian soviet troops captured
Odessa.
General strike in Magdeburg, followed
by riots.
April 9—Government troops regained
possession of Magdeburg and Essen,
April 10--Geneva, Switzerland, chosen as
seni ot age of Nations.
merican engineers reached Murmansk.
April 15—Gen. Haller’s Polish divisions
lo ropes Jo, oan
pr au seized by German troops
and Lettish provisional government ons
thrown.
April 17—-First bolshevik army, on the
Pripet, surrendered to Ukrainians.
April 18—Soldiers’ council took contro!
of Vienna,
April 19—Reds put to rout in Vienna,
April 20--Evacuation of Sebastopol by
allie i gnounced.
pr! ~—Victory loan campaign 1
im U.S. Paign opere
Ukrainians took Kiev from bolsheviki.
April 24—President Wilson declared Italy
could not have Fiume, and the Italian
delegates abandoned the peace confer-
ence.
Mexico declared it would not rec
the Monroe doctrine, and ognize
minister to France.
April 28—League of Nations covenan!
unanimously adopted by peace confer:
ence
April 2—German peace envoys reached
Versailles "
pri eace council decide p
over Kiau-Chau in Japan's ind Sispate
May 2—Most of Munich taken by gov-
ernment troops. 0
ay 4—Wilson, Lloyd George an -
menceau invited Italy to Tete 2 Qe
conference, promising to give her Fiume
after two years.
Surrender of Hungarian soviet govern
ment announced.
May 6~Complete
by allied delegates,
Great Britain recognized independen:.
of Finland.
Chinese cabinet instructed Chinese dele
gates not to sign peace treaty.
May 7—Peace treaty handed to Germa:
delegates,
U. 8. recognized government of Finland
May l4—Austrian peace delegates ar-
rived at St. Germain.
May 16—-Greek troops occupied Smyrna
after felting.
May 16—New anti-communist govern
ment of Hungary set up at Arnad.
May 18—British ships dereated bolshevik
fleet in Gulf of Finland.
May 21—German delegates given exten-
sion of time to May 29 to reply to terms.
May 30—Germany’s reply to peace terms
submitted.
May 31-British warships defeated bol-
shevik feet {n the Baltic.
peace treaty adoptec
Oct, 17—-Kronstadt taken by British fleet.
Oct. 23—Bolsheviki recaptured Tsarskoe
Selo and Krasnoe Selo from White army.
Oct. 2%5—Reverses for Denikine and Kol-
" chak reported.
Oct. 26—White army resumed advance on
Petrograd.
Nov, 3—Bolsheviki recaptured Gatchina
i from Yudenitch.
Nov. 7—Lodge preamble to treaty ratifi-
cation adopted by senate, 48 to 40.
Supreme council ordered Roumanian
troops out of Hungary at once.
Nov. 13—Senate adopted reservation to
Article X of league covenant.
Nov. 14—D’Annunzio seized Zara, Dal-
matia,
Nov. 15—Ten drastic reservations to
treaty adopted by senate,
General Yudenitch retreated to Estho-
nian border and resigned command of
Russian Northwest army.
Bolshevists captured Omsk.
Nov. 19—Senate rejected ratification of
treaty with and without reservations,
Nov. 21—Lettish troops captured Mitau
from German-Russ army.
Nov. 27—Treaty of peace with Bulgaria
signed.
Dec. 7—Russian bolsheviki offered terms
of peace to Esthonia.
Dec. 8—Supreme council warned Ger-
many that allies would denounce armis-
tice if protocol were not signed.
Dec. 12—Bolsheviki captured Kharkov,
Denikine’s base in southern Russia.
Dec, 14—Agreement reached by England,
France and Italy that Italy shall have
Fiume; D’Annunzio to hand city over to
regulars.
Dec. 17—Bolsheviki announced capture
of Kieff and Kupiansk,
Dec. 18—German delegates declared Ger-
many could not deliver the 400,000 tons of
harbor and dock material demanded in
reparation for sinking of interned war-
ships at Scapa Flow.
Objections by D'Annunzio’s troops
blocked the turning over of Fiume to the
Italian regulars.
David Lloyd George announced the al-
lies would make peace with Turkey with-
out waiting longer for America.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 2—Michigan legislature ratified pro-
.ibition constitutional amendment.
Jan, T—Legislatures of Ohio, Oklahoma
and Colorado ratified the prohibition
amendment.
Supreme court declared constitutional
the act forbidding shipment of liquor into
ary territory.
an, 8—Berger, Kruse, Germer, Engdahl
and Tucker, Socialists, convicted in Chi-
cago of sedition and disloyalty.
‘ennessee, Idaho and Malne legislatures
ratified prohibition amendment.
Jan. 9—West Virginia ratified prohibi-
tion amendment.
Attorney General Gregory resigned, ef-
fective March 4.
Jan, 14—Prohibition amendment ratified
bY Illinois, Alabama, Arkansas, Califor-
nia, Indiana, Kansas and North Carolina.
Jan. 16—Iowa, Utah, Colerado, Oregon
and New Hampshire ratified dry amend-
ment.
Jan. 16—Nebraska ratified prohibition
amendment, making the three-fourths
majority necessary, and Missouri and
Wyoming followed.
Feb. 183—Berger, Kruse, Germer, Eng-
dahl and Tucker, socialists, sentenced to
20 years’ imprisonment for violating es-
plonage act.
Feb. 2%—New revenue law, signed by
president, went into effect.
Feb. 27—H. Wallace, Tacoma, ap-
pointed ambassador to France.
a3 Mitchell Palmer made attorney gen-
eral, .
March 1—Norman Hapgood made minis-
ter to Denmark.
March 3—Victory loan bill passed by
senate.
March 4—Congress adjourned sine die.
April 7—-Thomas Nelson Page, ambassa-
dor to Italy, resigned.
April 16—Hugh Gibson appointed first
U. S. Minister to Poland.
April 29—Postmaster General Burleson
y June 3—Toronto strike called off.
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June 5—Commercial telegraphers’ union
' members in southeast struck.
directed return of cable companies to pri-
vate ownership May 2.
April 30—Plot to kill many prominent
Americans with mailed bombs uncovered.
May 1—May day riots in many cities.
May 7—President called extra session of
congress for May 19.
May 19—Special session of congress
opened; Gillett elected speaker.
June 8—Detroit carmen struck.
June 10—General strike of telegraph op-
erators started.
June 22—Gompers re-elected president
of A. F. of L.
June 23—A. F. of L. declared for 44-hour
week for all crafts and U. S. employees.
July 18—Building Employers’ association
of Chicago locked out 200,000 employees
because of carpenters’ strike.
Boston street car men on strike.
July 28—Strike of Atlantic coast ship
workers ended.
July 29—Chicago surface and elevated
car men struck,
July 31—Police of London and English
provinces called on strike, but few re-
sponded.
Aug. 1—Chicago street car strike ended
by compromise.
Railroad shop workers of U. 8. struck.
Aug. 6—Brooklyn Rapid Transit work-
ers struck.
Fourteen railroad unions demanded in-
creased wages.
Aug. T—Actors on strike in New York.
Aug. 12—Actors’ strike spread to Chi-
cago,
Aug. 14—Railway shopmen voted to re-
turn to work
Aug. 24—Pacific coast raliways tied up
: by strike.
Frederick Gillett elected speaker of next
house.
May 20—President Wilson’s cabled mes-
sage read to congress.
May 21—House adopted woman suffrage
constitutional amendment resolution.
May 21—Dr. Lynn Harold Hough elected
president of Northwestern university.
June 2—Anarchist plot to destroy homes
of law enforcement officials in eight east-
ern cities attempted. Two persons killed.
June 4—Senate adopted woman suffrage
constitutional amendment resolution.
June b5—Postmaster General Burleson
surrendered operation of telegraph and
telephone systems to the companies.
June 10—Legislatures of Illinois, Wis-
consin and Michigan ratified woman suf-
frage amendment.
July 1—Wartime emergency prohibition
law went into effect.
July 11—Federal trade commission re-
ported to President that packers planned
complete control of all foodstuffs.
July 12—President Wilson vetoed agri-
cultural bill because of its provision re-
pealing daylight saving law.
July 13—President A. C. Townley and
Joseph Gilbert of Nonpartisan ieague of
North Dakota found guilty by jury at
Jackson, Minn., of conspiracy to teach
disloyalty.
July 21—Race riots in Washington, four
persons killed.
July 27—Race riots in Chicago;
killed, many hurt.
July 28—Chicago race war spread; 36 in
all were killed and hundreds hurt.
July 30—State troops in action to quell
Chicago race riots.
July 31—Government relinquished con-
$rol of the telegraph and telephone sys-
ems,
two
Aug. 1—Congress repealed daylight-sav- !
ing law.
Aug. 6—President Wilson ordered civil
and criminal proceedings against the “Big
Five’ packers.
Aug. 8—President Wilson addressed con-
gress on high cost of living.
Aug. 14—Henry Ford won libel suit
against Chicago Tribune, with nominal
damages.
Aug. 15—President Wilson vetoed the
daylight-saving repeal act.
Aug. 20—Daylight-saving bill
passed over president's veto.
A. Mitchell Palmer confirmed by senate
as U. S, attorney general,
Sept. 2—Bill to make Pershing general
for life passed by congress.
Sept. President Wilson started on
speaking tour of country.
Sept. 4—Pershing nominated general and
confirmed by senate. :
Sept. 5—Secretary of Commerce Redfield
resigned, effective Oct. 31.
Prohibition enforcement bill passed by
senate.
Sept. 6—Charles M. Galloway resigned
as federal civil service commissioner, and
attacked Postmaster General Burleson.
Sept. 7—Great fake stock swindle plot
bared by arrests in Chicago.
Five hundred convicts at Pontiac, Ill.
revolted and killed a guard,
Sept. 8—General Pershing landed at
New York and was given great reception
and commissioned general for life.
Sept. 9—Cardinal Mercier of Belgium
landed at New York.
Sept. 12—Col. J. D. Bell, Brooklyn, elect-
ed commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.
Sept. 18—Thanks of congress given to
General Pershing.
Sept. 26—President Wilson's trip ended
by his illness.
Sept. 28—Great mob in Omaha lynched
negro prisoner, fought police, set fire to
Loufhonse and almost killed Mayor E. P,
mith,
Sept. 30—Brand Whitlock made ambas-
sador to Belgium.
Oct. 1—-Five white men and eleven ne-
groes killed in race war at Elaine, Ark.
Oct. 2—King and queen of the Belgians
landed in New York.
Oct. 20—International trade conference
opened in Atlantic City.
Oct. 27—President Wilson vetoed prohi-
bition enforcement bili and house re-
passed it.
Oct. 28—Senate passed prohibition en-
forcement bill over president’s veto and
it became law.
Farmer's national congress opened in
Hagerstown, Md.
Oct. 31—Secretary of Commerce Redfield
retired from the cabinet.
Nov, 4—Republicans won election in
Massachusetts, New York and Kentucky
and Democrats won in New Jersey,
Morviana and Mississippi. Wets won in
0.
Nov. 7—Hundreds of Reds arrested by
federal agents all over country,
Nov. 11-1. W. W. members fired into
American legion parade at Centralia,
Wash., killing four ex-soldiers; one of
murderers lynched.
Prince of Wales arrived in Washington,
President Wilson left his bed for first
time in six weeks.
Nov. 12—Franklin D’Olier elected na-
tional commander of American legion,
Nov. 15—Secretary of the Treasury Car-
ter Glass appointed U. 8. senator from
Virginia,
Nov. 18—House adjourned.
Nov. 19—Senate adjourned,
Nov. 29—U. 8S. Senator Newberry of
Michigan and 134 others indicted for
election frauds.
repeal
Dec. 1—Regular session of congress
opened.
Dec. 2—President Wilson’s message
read to congress.
Congressman J. W. Alexander of Mis-
souri made secretary of commerce.
Dec. 10—Republican national committee
set the convention for June 8 in Chicago.
Dec. 11-Dr. H. A. Garfield resigned as
fuel administrator.
Dec. 13—Senator Johnson, California,
announced his candidacy for presidency.
Dec, 15—U. S. Supreme court upheld con-
stitutionality of war-time prohibition act.
Dec. 16—Senator Harding, Ohio, an-
nounced his candidacy for Republican
nomination for presidency.
Dec, 17—-Big packers agree to discon-
tinue all their side lines.
Dec. 19—Victor Berger, convicted Social
ist, re-elected to congress from Fifth Wis-
consin district.
INDUSTRIAL
Jan. 9—Great strike of marine workers
of New York begun.
Blooay battles between strikers and
troops in Buenos Aires,
Jan, 12—-New York strike ended pending
arbitration by war labor board.
Jan. eneral strike in Lima and
Callao, Pe
ru,
Jan, 81—Great strike in England, Scot-
land and Ireland.
Feb. 4—Building Trades Employers’ as-
sociation declared a lockout in New York.
Feb, 6—General strike in Seattle to sup- .
port striking shipbuilders.
Feb, 10—Seattle general strike called
off.
March 4é—Marine workers at New York
struck again.
April 15—~New England telephone work.
ers struck,
ApH) 2—-New England phone strike
ttled. :
Ne 14—Chicago milk drivers struck.
May 15—-Great general strike in Winni-
eg. :
P BE 16—Chicago milk wagon drivers
won their strike,
May 26—General strike called in Calgary
and Edmonton, Canada.
May 29--General strike in Toronto.
4 son’s offer of 14
Aug. 2%—President Wilson granted 4-
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
and issued explanatory statement to pub-
lic, calling for industrial truce.
Aug. 2%—Raillway shopmen’s committee
rejected President Wilson's offer and or-
dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug. 29—Pacific coast railway men
voted to call off strike.
Sept. 6—Actors won their strike,
Sept. 9—Three strikers killed in riots
in Hammond, Ind.
Unionized police of Boston struck.
Sept. 10—State troops called to Boston;
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers’ committee called strike
for September 22 against United States
Steel corporation.
Sept. 19—Carpenters’ strike in Chicago
district ended by victory for union.
Sept. 22—Great strike of steel workers
begun. Two killed and several hurt in
riots in Pittsburgh region.
Sept. 27—British railway men struck.
Sept. 20—Strike begun in Bethlehem steel
works,
Oct. 1—Lockout and strike in printing
trade in New York; many publications
suspended.
Oct, 5—Serious strike riots in Gary, Ind.
British rail workers’ strike ended by
compromise.
Oct, 6—Federal troops sent to Gary and
martial law proclaimed in Gary, East
Chicago and Indiana Harbor.
Industrial conference opened in Wash-
ington.
Oct. 10—-New York harbor tied up by
strikes.
Oct. 14—Nation-wide strike of soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. 1.
Oct. 15—New York harbor workers’
strike calied off.
Oct. 22—Labor bloc withdrew from in-
dustrial: conference because its resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct. 24—Industrial conference dissolved.
Miners rejected all offers of compro-
mise
Oct. 28—International congress of work-
ng women opened in Washington.
nternational labor conference opened
in Washington.
Oct. 31—-Government obtained injunction
against the coal strike.
Nov. 1—Strike of soft coal miners be-
gan,
Nov. 8—Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call off strike by Nov. 11,
Nov. 11—-Miners’ union officials canceled
the strike order.
Nov. 23—New York printers voted to
abandon strike.
Nov. 27—Government’s efforts to end
coal strike by negotiation failed, miners
rejecting offer of 14 per cent increase in
wages.
Dec. 1-War time coal order renewed by
Fuel Administrator Garfield.
New industrial conference opened in
‘Washington.
Dec. 2—General strike in Rome, Milan
and Florence, Italy.
Dec. 8—Fuel Director Garfield issued
drastic orders for conservation of coal.
Dec. 9—Compromise offer from Presi-
gent Wilson presented to miners’ offi-
cials.
Dec. 10—Miners accepted President Wil-
er cent wage increase
and commission to determine scale and
conditions for future, and called off their
strike.
Dec. 13—London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck.
FOREIGN
Jan. 20—Royalist revolution broke out
in Portugal.
Jan. 21—-The Irish parliament met in
Dublin and proclaimed the independence
of Ireland.
Jan. 25—Portuguese royalists defeated
in several battles,
Feb. 17—Portuguese government
nounced royalist rebellion was ended.
March 19—Wireless telephony estab-
lished between Canada and Ireland.
I ADH] 13—Open rebellion in the Punab,
ndia.
June 13—Serious anarchist riots in Zu-
rich, Switzerland.
July 1—Great food riots in Forli, Italy.
July 8—King Emmanuel of Italy issued
decree that profiteers will be fined $3,000
and imprisoned and goods confiscated.
July 11—Resignation of Viscount Ishii
as Japanese ambassador to United States
announced by government at Tokyo.
July 28—Doctor Pessoa inaugurated pres-
ident of Brazil,
Aug. 6—Antonio Almeida elected presi-
dent of Portugal.
Aug 8—About 80 killed in food riots in
Chemnitz, Germany.
Aug. 12—Shah of Persia fled his country.
President Tinoco of Costa Rica fled. Ba-
tista Quiroz took the office.
Aug. 13—Viscount Grey made British
ambassador to America.
Aug. 16—Suppression of Sinn Feiners in
County Clare, Ireland, caused much fight-
g.
Sept. 8—Honduras revolutionists forced
President Bertrand to flee the country.
Kinjuro Shidehara appointed Japanese
ambassador to United States.
Sept. 28—Luxemburg voted to retain
Grand Duchess Charlotte as ruler,
Oct. T—-Norway adopted prohibition, ex-
cepting wines and beer, by plebiscite.
Nov. 6—Grand Duchess Charlotte of
Luxemburg married to Prince Felix of
Bourbon-Parma.
Nov. 15—Lady Astor elected member of
British parliament,
an-
Nov. 16—Radicals routed in French elec-
tions,
Nov. 26—British government proclaimed
goporession of Sinn Fein and like organ-
jzations throughout Ireland.
Dec. 19—Assassins attempted to kill Vis-
count French, lord lieutenant of Ireland.
MEXICO
April 16—~General Blanquet, revolutionist
leader, killed in fight.
May 29—Villistas proclaimed revolution-
ary government with Gen. Felipe An-
geles as provisional president.
June 14—Villa forces began an attack on
Juarez.
June 15—Several Americans in El Paso
having been killed or wounded by shots
from Villistas, American troops crossed
to Juarez and attacked the Villa forces.
June 16—American troops routed Villis-
tas at Juarez and returned to El Paso.
July 6—Armed Mexicans attacked and
robbed boatload of American sailors near
Tampico,
Aug. 16—British charge ordered from
Mexico by Carranza.
Aug. 17-Two American army aviators
held for ransom by Mexican bandits,
Aug, 19--U. S. troops entered Mexico in
pursuit of bandits.
Aug. 21-—-Carranza demanded withdrawal
of U. 8. troops and President Wilson re-
zed, Punitive expedition killed four ban-
S
Aug. 24—Pursuit of Mexican bandits by
U. 8. troops abandoned.
Aug. 23—Complete victory of Carranza
in elections announced,
Sept. 1--President Carranza in address
to congress defended Mexico against ac-
cusations, denounced League of Nations
and defled Monroe Doctrine.
Sept. 2--U. 8S. army aviator shot by Mex-
icans near Laredo, Tex
Sept. 9—Mexican government protested
against U. 8. aviators flying over Mexico.
Mexican rebel organizations appealed to
United States to restore order in Mexico.
Nov. 2--Zapatistas surrendered to gov-
ernment forces.
Nov. 16--General Angeles, Villa's chief
afd. captured.
Nov. 19--U. 8. requested immediate re-
le: se of Consular Agent Jenkins, arrested
at Puebla on charge of complicity with
bandits who kidnaped him.
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Nov. 28—Mexico rejected the U. S. re.
quest for the release of Jenkins.
Gen. Felipe Angeles executed.
Nov. 30—Secretary Lansing sent re-
Joinder to Mexico’s defiant note, repeat-
ing request for Jenkins’ release.
Der, Consular Agent Jenkins released
on bail,
Dec. 8—President Wilson asked senate
to leave Mexican matter to him.
Dec. 16—Mexico replied to U. S. that
Jenkins case was closed by his release,
and refused to drop the proceedings
against him.
AERONAUTICS
April 19—Capt. E. F. White made first
nonstop flight from Chicago to New York.
May 15—Air mail service between Chi-
cago and Cleveland established.
May 16—Three American naval planes
started transatlantic flight from New-
foundland,
May 17—American naval plane NC4
reached the Azores; NC3 landed on water,
crew rescued; NC1 landed on water, ‘‘tax-
ied” 205 miles and reached Ponta Delgada,
Azores,
May 18—Hawker and Grieve started air-
plane flight from Newfoundland to Ire-
land; landed on water 1,100 miles out and
were picked up by steamer.
May 24—Lieutenant Roget made nonstop
flight from Paris to Kenitra, Morocco,
1,138 miles. :
May 27—U.S. navy plane NC4 flew from
the Azores to Lisbon, thus completing
the first transatlantic flight.
Air mail service between Paris and
Switzerland started.
May 28—Adjutant Casale, French avia-
tor, ascended 31,000 feet, world record for
altitude.
May 30—NC4 left Lisbon, stopped twice
2nd arrived at Plymouth, England, next
ay.
June 14-15—Capt. John Alcock and Lieut.
Arthur W. Brown of England made first
nonstop flight across Atlantic, from New
Foundland to Ireland in Vickers-Vimy
plane in 16 hours 12 minutes.
July 2—British dirigible R34 started
from Scotland for the United States.
July 6—R34 reached Mineola, L. I., com-
pleting trip in 100 hours.
July 9—British dirigible R34 sailed from
Mineola, L. I., on return trip to Scotland.
July 13—British dirigible R34 arrived at
Pulham, England, from Mineola, L. I,
having made homeward voyage in 74
hours 56 minutes.
Sept. 18—Roland Rohlfs made world’s
altitude record, 36,610 feet, from Mineola.
Oct, 8—Coast-to-coast race started from
Mineola and San Francisco. Two aviators
killed at Salt Lake City and one at De-
posit, N. Y.
Oct. 9—Fourth aviator killed in coast-to-
coast race. i
Oct. 10—Fifth aviator killed.
Oct. 11—Lijeut. B, W. Maynard won east
to west part of airplane race.
Oct. 15—Two more contestants in trans-
continental race killed in Utah.
Oct. 23—Lieut. Alexander Pearson de-
clared winner of transcontinental race.
Dec. 10—Capt. Ross Smith completed
airplane flight from England to Port Dar-
win, Australia, winning prize of $50,000.
Dec. 19—Capt. Sir John Alcock, first
transatlantic nonstop flyer, killed by acci-
dent in France.
SPORTS
Jan, 8—Kieckhefer defended three-cush-
fon title, defeating Maupome.
Feb. 15—De Oro won three-cushion title
from Kieckhefer.
May 3—Cannefax won three-cushion
title from De Oro.
May 31—Indianapolis 500-mile auto race
i > Wilcox in a Peugeot. Three men
ed.
June 7—Michigan won Western Intercol-
legiate conference athletic meet.
June 12—Walter Hagen won national
open golf championship.
July 4—Dempsey knocked out Willard
in third round, winning heavyweight
championship.
July im Barnes retained Western
open golf ghamp]onsuip.
July 30—Canadian open golf champion-
ship won by Douglas Edgar of Atlanta,
Ga., with 278 strokes, new competitive rec-
ord for 72 holes.
Aug, 13—F. S. Wright of Buffalo, N. Y.,
won amateur championship at single tar-
gets and Nick Arie of Menard, Tex., the
title at doubles.
Aug. 16—G. W. Lorimer, Troy, O., won
grand American handicap at' Chicago.
Aug. 23—Davidson Herron, Pittsburgh,
won national amateur golf championship.
Aug. 30—Mrs. Perry Fisk, De Kalb, Ill.
won womens’ western golf championship.
Sept. 4—Willlam M. Johnston, San Fran-
cisco, won national tennis championship.
Sept. 16—Cincinnati Reds won National
league pennant,
Sept. 24—Chicago White Sox won Ameri-
can league pennant.
©ct. 9—Cincinnati
championship.
Oct. 25—Willlam Hoppe retained 18-2 balk
line championship.
Nov. 19—R. L. Cannefax won three-cush-
ion championship.
Nov. 22—University of Illinois won foot-
ball championship of western conference.
Dec. ack Sharkey defeated Jimmy
Wilde of England in Milwaukee.
Dec. 12—Ralph Greenleaf won pocket
billiard championship of United States,
Dec. 17—Harvard’s executive committee
of the board of control approved new
football committee from which Walter
Camp was omitted.
DISASTERS
Jan. 1-270 British sailors drowned when
boat was wrecked near Stornoway.
U. S. army transport Northern Pacific
aground off Fire island.
Jan. 12-21 killed in New York Central
wreck at South Byron, N. Y.
Jan. 16—French steamer Chaproi sunk
by mine in Straits of Messina; 500 lost,
April 8—Hundred persons killed by tor-
nadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas.
April 28—Large section of Yokohama de-
stroyed by fire.
Earthquake in San Salvador caused
great loss of life and property.
May 20—Kalut volcano, Java, in erup-
tion; 15,000 persons killed.
May 22 Stromboli volcano, Sicily, in
eruption; many lives lost.
June 5—Mine explosion at Wilkesbarre
killed 83.
June 22—More than 50 persons killed by
tornado at Fergus Falls, Minn,
June 29—Vicchio, Italy, ruined by earth-
Reds won world’s
quake; 120 killed.
July 1-U. 8. Navy dirigible exploded
near Baltimore, injuring 75.
July 9—Allan line steamship Grampian
struck iceberg off Cape Race; two killed,
two injured.
July 21—Dirigible balloon caught fire
over Chicago and fell through roof of
bank; 13 persons killed, 25 injured.
Aug. 15—Italian cruiser Basilicata blown
up near Tewfik, blocking Suez canal.
Japanese transport foundered; 110 lost.
Sept. 10—Hurricane did immense dam-
age in southern Florida and Cuba,
Sept. 14—Hundreds killed and immense
damage by hurricane on Texas Gulf coast.
Oct. 28—21 lives lost in steamship wreck
at Muskegon, Mich.
Dec. 17—Forty-three killed in ammuni-
tion plant explosion at Wilhelmshaven,
Germany. .
Picatny arsenal, near Dover, N. J.,
blew up, loss $1,000,000.
NECROLOGY
Jan, 1—David Lubin, patron of agricul-
ture, in Rome.
Jan. 2—=John E, Williams, noted indus-
trial arbitrator, at Streator, Ill.
Jan. &—Col. Theodore Roosevelt, at Oy-
ster Bay, N. Y.
Jan. 8—Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, U.
S. A, in New York.
Jan. 9—Rev. Dr. 8. J. McPherson, cler-
gyman and educator,’ at Lawrenceville,
yd 10--Roswell M. Field, author, at
Morristown, N. J.
Jan. 12—Sir Charles Wyndham, British
a ,
Sonn Mason, American actor.
W. J. Onahan, prominent Catholic lag-
man, in Chicago.
Jan. 13—Dr. Horace Fletcher, dietetics
expert, in Copenhagen,
Alves. president-
an. 16—Rodriguez
elect of Brazil
Jan, 18—-Prince John, youngest son of
king of England.
Jan, 22--Former U. S. Senator George
T. Oliver at Pittsburgh.
Jan. 2%--Congressman Edward Robbins
of Greensburg, Pa.
Jan. 2--Rear Admiral F. E. Chadwick,
. 8. N., retired
Jan. 31—Nat C. Goodwin, actor,
John T. Milliken, oil and mine magnate,
at St. Louis.
Feb 2—Xavier Leroux, French operati.
composer.
Feb. 3—Prof. E. C. Pickering, director of
Harvard observatory.
Feb. 5—Rudolf Aronson, light opera com-
poser and producer, in New York,
ake. 9—Bessie Abbott, operatic prima
onna,
Feb. 17—Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former pre-
mier of Canada.
Feb. 18—Gen. Baron Y. Fukushima,
noted Japanese soldier.
Feb. 21—Dr. Mary Walker, pioneer suf-
fragist, in Washington.
W. P. Borland, congressman from Mis-
souri, in France.
Feb. 24—Julian Story, American artist.
Feb. 27—Former U, S. Senator G. F. Ed-
munds of Vermont.
Robert Harris, Canadian artist.
March 2—Charles E. Van Loan, author.
R. Burt, lumber magnate, at Sagi-
naw, Mich.
March 3—James Witheycombe, governor
of Oregon.
March 6—Hilary A. Herbert, former sec.
retary of the navy.
March 11—Amelia E. Barr, author, in
New York.
March 14—Roger A. Pryor, in New York.
March 17—Kenyon Cox, noted artist, in
New York.
March 23—Henry M. Blossoin, musical
comedy writer, in New York,
March 25—Fred H. Hall, veteran jour-
nalist, in Chicago.
George Fort, assistant treasurer of the
April 8—F. W. Woolworth, originator of
five and ten cent stores.
Lew Shaw, famous billiard player.
April 9—Sidney Drew, American come-
an.
April 13—Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, in San
Francisco.
April 16—Former Ambassador Robert S.
McCormick of Chicago.
Henry Morse Stephens,
author, in San Francisco,
Miss Jane Delano, Red Cross Nursing
director, in France.
April 17—Dr. J. Cleveland Cady,
architect, in New York.
April 18—Harlow N. Higinbotham of
Chicago.
April 21—Jules Vedrines, famous [French
aviator.
Verner Z. Reed, western oll magnate.
April 27—Imre Kiralry, pageant and
spectacle producer, at Brighton, England.
April 28—Albert Estopinal, congressman
from Louisiana, in New Orleans.
Mey 1—Joseph W. Jefferson, American
actor. .
Asher Hinds, parliamentarian, in Wash-
ington.
Ma Il-Rear Admiral Chauncey Thom-
as, U. 8S. N.
May 14—H. J. Heinz of Pittsburgh,
Helen Hyde, American artist,
May 16—Will J. Davis, veteran theatri-
cal manager, in Chicago.
May 17—General Zelaya, ex-president of
Nicaragua, in New York.
May 19—David H. Greer,
Episcopal bishop of New York.
George P. Upton, noted writer on mu-
sic, in Chicago.
May 20—Congressman C. C. Van Dyke
of St. Paul, Minn.,, commander in chief
of United Spanish War Veterans.
June 6—Frederick Thompson, noted the-
atrical manager, in New York.
June 10—Former U. S. Senator John C.
Spooner of Wisconsin.
June 12—Former Congressman James A.
Tawney of Minnesota.
June 14—Weedon Grossmith, Britis» ac-
tor and artist.
Ernest Lister, governor of Washington.
July 2—Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, veteran
suffragist, at Moylan, Pa.
Ex-Congressman Lemuel Ely Quigs, in
New York.
July 8—John Fox, Jr., novelist, at Big
Stone Gap, Va.
July 12—Dr. W. Max Muller, orientalist,
Professor of Egyptology at University of
ennsylvania.
Charles Rock, English actor.
Albert Vickers, England’s greatest man-
ufacturer of steel products and airplanes,
at Eastbourne.
July 23—Sir Edward H, Holden, noted
British financier.
George H. Primrose, famous minstrel.
July 24—La Verne W. Noyes, Chicago
manufacturer, inventor and philanthropist.
July 2%—Elias Greenebaum, noted Chica-
go banker, aged 97.
July 26—Sir Edward J. Poynter, presi-
dent of Royal academy.
July 29—George A. Storey, famous paint-
er, in London.
Aug. 1-Oscar Hammerstein, opera im-
presario, in New York.
Hole 7—Will N. Harben, American au-
or.
J. E. (“Gas”) Addicks, Delaware finan-
er,
ug. 8—Ralph Blakelock, American ar-
tist.
Aug. 9—Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer,
at Rome. 1
Prof. Ernst Haeckel, at Jena.
educator and
noted
Protestant
ci
MOE: 11—-Andrew Carnegie, at Lenox,
ass.
g Aug. 16—Frederick Layton, veteran
packer, at Milwaukee.
Baron Inverclyde, at Glasgow.
Aug. 28—Gen. Louis Botha, premier of
South Africa.
Sept. 3—Budd Doble, famous driver of
harness horses, at Los Angeles.
Sept. 6—Admiral Baron Beresford of
England,
James W. Osborne, noted criminal law-
yer, in New York. \
Sept. 8—Duncan C. Ross, famous swords-
man and wrestler, in Baltimore.
Sept. 9—Jochn Mitchell, former president
United Mine Workers.
Eloi Sylva, noted Belgian operatic
singer.
Sept. 12—Leonid Andreef, Russian au-
or.
Sept. 13—Arthur M. Beaupre, former
U. S. minister to Colombia, in Chicago.
Sept. 18—Congressman J. B. Thompson,
Oklahoma.
Sept. 21—T. P. Shonts, New York trac-
tion magnate.
Sept. oan Charles L. Freer, capitalist and
art connoisseur, of Detroit.
John 8S. Washburn of Minneapolis, big
flour miller.
Sept. 27—Adelina Patti, at Penycae,
Wales
Sept. 28—Chief Justice H. W. Bond of
Missouri supreme court,
Sept. 20—Rev. E. J. Vattman, noted
» Catholic priest and army chaplain, at Chi-
cago.
Sept. 30—Gen. Patrick Egan, pioneer
Noe ruler and former U. 8S. minister to
Chile, in New York.
Sept. 29--Dr. Nathaniel I. Rubinkam,
noted lecturer, in Chicago.
Oct. harles W. (‘Buffalo’) Jones,
famous plainsman and hunter, at Topeka,
an,
Oct, 3—Rt. Rev. J. C. Sage, Episcopal
bishop of Salina, Kan.
Dr. Daniel B. Towner, noted evangelist,
Longwood, Mo. :
Oct. 4—Philip H. McMillan, owner De-
troit Free Press.
Oct. 7—Henry Mills Alden, editor Har-
per’s Ma, ine.
Don Ricardo Palma, noted Peruvian
author,
Alfred Deakin, former premier of Aus-
tralia. ;
Oct. 8—Dr. Cyril Hopkins of University
of Illinois, at Gibraltar.
Oct. 14—Rodman Law, noted aviator, at
Greenville, 8S. C,
Bishop P. Io Garrigan of Catholic dlo-
cese of Sloux vy. Iowa,
Oct. 15—Rear Admiral Richardson Clo-
ver, U. 8. N,, retired.
Oct. 18—Viscount Astor, in London.
Oct. 20—Count V. Macchi di Celere, Ital
jan ambassador to U. S.
Oct. 2a £ Ringling, circus owner,
at Dover, N. J. y
Oct. 25—Sir Ernest Waterlow, noted Brit-
ish painter.
Oct. 30—Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet and
author.
Nov. 1--Col. J. D. Bell, commander in
chief of G. A. R.
Nov. 3—Evan Lewis, former champion
heavyweight wrestler.
Edgar Stanton Maclay, American naval
historian.
Nov. 7—Huga Haase, head of German
independent socialists.
ov. 9— E. Weyl, noted statistician,
in New York.
Nov. 11—Cardinal von Hartmann, arch-
bishop of Cologne. ,
Nov. 12—=Thomas 8. Martin, U. 8. sena-
tor from Virginia.
Nov. aj. Henry L. Higginson,
founder of Boston Symphony orchestra.
Nov. 19—Florencio Constantino, noted
Spanish dramatic tenor.
Nov. 2%—Countess Primo Magri (Mrs.
Tom Thumb), at Middleboro, Mass.
Dec. 2—~Henry C. Frick, steel magnate,
In New York.
Dec. 8—-Julian Alden Weir,
artist, in New York.
Dec. 16—Sir John Jackson, famous Brit
ish civil engineer.
Dec. 17—-Dr. William H. Hopkins, ve!
eran educator, in Chicago.
Luigi Illica, Italy’s foremost grand ope
librettist, in Rome.
Dec. 18—Horatlio W. Parker, Ameri
composer. ‘
Dec. 19—Cleofonte Campanin), directc
American
Chicago Opera company.
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