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Show I i , - ..,! . . . ' ... ... v. ' ' " r . . ' ' ' ' ' ' - - - , , , , . . , f , I : f i t ft ' -r.t rhyslc'-i and evr-ecrs cf t!e rci'.ni determinel that an c.fra-V''a c.fra-V''a Nvas neccsiary to eave him from i" ath cf an ailment clnHtW re-n.t;:r ? ; Tendlcliis. On tv-.e 10th i I'lf-I'Tk H reves t t-rformed l.ve operation, an 1 for i my i ajs the Kiny Lovered fcetwen 1 's ar.l dtath. fclowly, however, the Kin? beg-an to improve, and on August 9th the ceremony took place. On July llth Lord Salisbury resigned the Premiership of Great Britain and was succeeded the following day by his nephew, Arthur James Balfour. Cuba Libre. ' , The Cuban natal day may Justly be considered May 20, 1902. for on that date President Palma was formally inaugurated, inaugu-rated, the Cuban flag took the place of the Stars and Stripes on the Presidential Presiden-tial palace and historic old Morro castle and Gen. Leonard Wood", the retiring Governor-General, surrendered to the Cuban Government the freed and rejuvenated reju-venated island. I St. Pierre Disaster. . The crowning calamity of the year was the destruction of St. Pierre by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Pelee on the Island ,of Martinique, in the French West Indies, on May 8th, when ths supposedly sup-posedly extinct volcano,, after thre days emission of ashes and dust burst forth In violent eruption, deluging tha ' town with fire and volcanic mud. The I city, the suburbs and more than 40,000 persons met an awful death. On the following fol-lowing day an eruption of the volcano of La Soufrlere, on the British Island of St Vincent, killed fully 600 Inhabitants of King town, the seat of government, and on the 20th a second eruption of Pelee created terror, though It did not greatly harm the few survivors of the first disaster. , Acts of Congress. The first session of the Fifty-Beventh Congress closed on July ,1st. after prolonged pro-longed discussions upon some of the most important problems the National! Legislature has struggled with in recent re-cent Jysars. Among the laws It enacted were: , A law establishing civil government in the Philippines. A law authorizing the construction of an Isthmian canal and appropriating $18,000.000 for its construction. The re-enactment of the Chlneseex-cluslon Chlneseex-cluslon law. The establishment of a permanent Cr :s turt u. a lirci re duction cf the war taxes, l.ersl appropriations for lr-r! lr-r! -itlr.T f-rlJ lands, the extension of the r tic- il tar.v charters and other legislation legis-lation far-re.-lng In its elects. The Coal Ctrika. The story of the strike in the anthracite anthra-cite coal fields of Pennsylvania must be familiar to every reader. It beran on May 12th, and for over five months the battle waged, not always without "violence, "vio-lence, but in the mid?t of It all the miners frenerally , were peaceful end obeyed their leader. President John Mitchell of the United Mine-Workers of America. The miners demanded more pay and fairer treatment, insisting that the difTerence between the warring factions. fac-tions. be left to an Impartial arbitration. Conference followed conference to ad-Just ad-Just the matter until finally the operators opera-tors were compelled to submit to an arbitration. ar-bitration. This came about as the re-I re-I suit of a, conference between President 1 Roosevelt and J. Plerpont Morgan on October 13, 1902, and the Board of Commissioners Com-missioners was appointed to investigate. That commission is still considering the question. Work has been resumed, and the militia has been withdrawn from the fields, Other Events. I The general elections of November 4th resulted In the selection of the Fifty- eighth Congress as follows: Republicans, Republi-cans, 20S; Democrats. 17s. Santos-Dumont startled Monte Carlo !'aa he had startled Parts when tie successfully suc-cessfully skirted the edge of Monaco . bay In his airship, on June 2Sth. and made a spectacular demonstration. A year ago we thought we had the Danish Islands, Denmark had consented con-sented to sell; we had arranged to pay the price, but Internal politics across the Atlantic put e majority of the national legislative colony against it, or rather ' the vote being a tie could not carry. It is expected, .however, that at some early date the islands .will be regularly trans- ' f erred. Xast December Marconi succeeded in sending his first message across the Atlantic. At-lantic. Since tlien the young Inventor has been most devotedly laboring In improvements, im-provements, and the developments of the next few years may-put wireless telegraphy teleg-raphy Into the list of really practical concerns. His achievements of the last few days certainly put Marcosd's name high In the list of modern Inventors. -. . -k j . . .... IwVllC i 1 .i, " 1:1 Dii:f Ir.rr.- Y f:r TI c Tel:- .1 1, the world found on its n c"r.sl,!eraLle accumulation of :3 lur.Incss that the preceding ' 1 Tift cleaned up.. The Chinese ..i.na had teen settled, but Inter. ; -1 t!!r''0!r,acy had not finished " '1 tV.e question. , and Boer were still fighting out f ile cf fouth Africa, the customary "st irevailc'l in South. America. among the conditions that af-1 af-1 t-1 the United States, it may be "Honed that Miss Stone was still in ' e custody of her Bulgarian captors; it. though tha Schky Court of In. '. :iry had reported the appeal to the J 'resident, it had not then been an-i-worrd; thai Uncle Sam, as is usual. I n J Consrregs on his hands and that up- that Cougress tJie Supreme court had 'i y Its decision of December 2, 1S01, that tie Philippines were not foreign terrl-toij, terrl-toij, thrum the nect-slty of formulating n civil irovemment for these islands. Nor thould it. te forgotten that Cuba luj not then taken on herself the worries of a national existence. Chinese .AC&ir Settled. The gradual reduction of the allied U0P513 marks the clse of the very one-f!Ji--d Chinese war. True, there has been a fright hitch In the payment of lndem-1 lndem-1 .U. s. China claiming the right to set-f.? set-f.? on a silver basis, the alljes demanding demand-ing a gold standard. Aside from this nothing of international Interest has oc-lum-d in China In the past year. The ret.' Ulon In the southern provinces was entirely a Chinese affair. ::La Stone's Helease. AVhen Miss Ellen M. Stone, the Amer-.: Amer-.: an missionary, was captured by brl-ians, brl-ians, on the frontier between Turkey ar.l Liulgaria, September 3, 1901. her rurtors demanded $102,000 for her re-1. re-1. a :o before October 8th, or their victim, vic-tim, with her companion, lime. Tsilka. would be put to death. . Four times the brigands extended the time for payment, pay-ment, and finally agreed to accept $61,-(:o. $61,-(:o. all that could be raised by popular subscription, and on February ti, 1902, Miss Stone and her companion were re-Wred. Eerpcnse to Schley. After dragging a weary length the Court of Inquiry gave its decision in the t'.iinous Schley ca.se December 13, 190L XI: e details of the decision American i eaters have not yet forgotten, and nrol not be reviewed here. In spite of the fact that Admiral Dewey sustained Mm the finding was a disappointment to Admiral Schley, who aeked President Presi-dent KoosJevelt to review the trial. To this appeal the President replied, on February 19th, sustaining the court and t'.ec lining to revise Its findings. Cabinet Changes., When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency of the late William McUin'ey he announced his Intention of pursuing the policies of his predecessor, hut it was anticipated that the personnel person-nel of the Cabinet would undergo a ( onslderable change. The anticipation has not been realized to the extent that v.as expected, but new faces have appeared ap-peared in his council of advisers. Lyman Ly-man J. Gage of Illinois tendered his resignation on December 31. 1901, and upon February t of this year ex-Gov. U :e M. Shaw took the oath of office as his successor as Secretary of the Treasury. Early In the year Henry C. Fa yr.e succeeded Charles E. Smith as l-it master-General, and on May 1st Wi'.Ilam II. Moody, the Congressman fro-n Massachusetts, replaced John D. Lo , 7 as head of the Navy department. Trince Henry' Visit Ftbruary 23rd, Prince Henry of Prui-fix. Prui-fix. brother of Kaiser William of Germany, Ger-many, landed In New York, and as the Nation's guest was accorded a grander wt li'ome than ever given a foreign visitor. visit-or. He came to represent his brother at the launching of bis yacht, the Meteor, built by an American firm and christened christ-ened by Miss Alice Roosevelt at Shooter's Shoot-er's island. New fork, February 25th. After touring the country, he sailed for hn'iie on March llth, leaving a pleasant pleas-ant Impresolon of himself behind and i farlr.-: with him a favorable Idea of Air.frlca. P.- ' s ia Couth Africa. :: j event of the last year, not even i -vesting the coronation, was hailed In Fr - .and with more sincere Joy than the U tin, Cashed from the Lord Mayor's rcfUence. the Mansion House, on the evtr.ing of May 31st. announcing the ni cf the conflict la South Africa. That !rvr le. besun In October, 1899, had, ir,.: e.l. wiped out two little republics nr.l painted the British colors on a I.Tf ? area of South Africa, but the ri;'.?on blood of thousands of British soldiers supplied the pigment. It Is a lemarkable fact that Cecil Rhodes, who, ir.pre than any one else, precipitated the ?:., t. died scarcely more than a nior.t'J before the peace was concluded, rivari's Coronation V.'r at was expected to have been the : !,-: -.t gorgeous spectacle of modern i :. was the coronation of King Ed-vn: Ed-vn: I VII. of England at Westminster Al '. . y on June loth. The King came ti London in very 111 health. On !i.e run of June he took to his bed. and rrj t.'.c following day a coterie of the |