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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH EVENTS OF 1925 SEEN IN REVIEW Noteworthy Happenings of the Past Year in the United States and Elsewhere. LOCARNO PACT SIGNED Power of Western Europe Make That Promise Security and Peace Revolt of Islam Is Growing Prosperity and Tax Reduction for Americans Storm Over Air Service. Treaties Gy EDWARD W. PICKARD Standing far above all other events of the year 1925 Is the signing of the Locarno treuties. Though they do not menu the Imniediate coming of the millennium, they do mean that the European powers have decided that war does not pay, and they give to western Europe at least a measurable assurance of security and peace. This holds good so long as the signatory powers keep the promises made In the pacts, and should any of them fall to do so, the League of Nations Is ready to step in. Germany has resumed-heplaee in the family of nations, and as the year drew to a close there was great hope that soviet Russia wou'd abandon- her voluntary Ihui and consent to closer association with (lie capitalistic powers that she has so long contemned. Locarno was a magnificent triumph for Austen ('huniberlaln, Aristide I'riand, Ir. Hails Luther ami Herr Stresoiimnn, the statesmen mainly responsible for the treaties, and for the legislators and people in their retpective countries who gave them hearty support. Another important development of the year was the growing revolt of Islam against the rule of Christian imwers. This mhnlfestod itself especially In the war in the Riff maintained against lruiice and Spain throughout the year by Abd-e- l Kriip, ami in the rebellion against the French regime in Syria. The latter was primarily carried on by the 1 'ruses, noninoslein tribesmen, but the Mohammedan Arabs took at times nn netho part in It. Turkey took warlike measures because she was convinced the League of Nations would decide the Mosul dispute In favor of final Britain; and In Egypt there wns mirest i hut occasionally broke out into violence. Twelve more months of almost Incessant civil warfare, complicated by p.oKlievik (dotting and threatened against foreigners, wns the iceord of China. Nevertheless the central government was maintained and (lie international conference lit I'e! ing held out some promise of .settling the affairs of t lie distracted country. The United Slates wns blessed with general prosperity and progress during The year, mid this was relloctcd in the hill Introduced in (lie Sixty-ninll- i congress providing for reduction of taxes which would reduce the natiou-n- l revenue by Enforce78(5.000. ment of Hie prohibition law Continued to le a serious problem, hut toward the end of the year t he government mlnpted a new policy that promised to go far toward keeping illicit liquor out of t he country. Luring many months a storm raged around the uir services of the army and navy, due largely to the. sensational charges made by Col. William Mitchell, for which he was tried by and suspended for five years.' His plan of on independent department of aviation ' wifs turned down by a board of inquiry appointed by the Fresldent. The controversy was accentuated by the tragic destruction of the dirigible Shenandoah In a storm and by the failure of an attempted nonstop airplane flight to Hawaii. - court-martia- l, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Prompted by Great Britain, the German government suggested the international conference that finally resulted in tlie I.ocnrno treuties, but there were months of conversations, exchanges of notes and secret talks liefore the greut fact was accomwns forced to mqve plished. cautiously because of political complications, and Luther and Stresemann always had tiie Irreconcilable German Nationalists to contend with. It was on October 5 that the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Great Britain. Belgium, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia, came together In the little Swiss town of Loearno. Eleven days later they had completed their task, and on December 1 the momentous treaties were formally signed In London. The main treaty, known ns the seen city paet, binds France and Germany and Belgium to respect the boundaries between those countries ns fired by the Treaty of Versailles; etn-promises not to attack either of the others; and Great P.ritnin and Italy guarantee the Inviolability of Provision Is made for (lie frontiers. referring disputes to a conciliation commission, the permanent court of international Justice or the council of tiie league. Arbitration treaties were signed between Germany and Poland hikI Germany and Czechoslovakia, and In subsidiary pacts France guaranteed tiie carrying out of these. The allies ms lie immediate plans for speeding .nj. !he evacuation of the Cologne area Bri-and and the reduction of their forces In the Rhineland. As soon as th .security pact be: came a certainty. President Coolldge let It be known that lie would like to call an international conference on land disarmament in Washington. The reaction to this in Europe, especially in France, wns not favorable because the League of Nations wns planning the same thing. Early in December the longues disarmament council announced that a special commission would be created to prepare for sucli a conference, and the United States and Soviet Russia were invited to appoint representatives on that commission. The League of Nations, which held Its annual meeting in Geneva In September with Senator Raoul Dandu-ran- d of Canada ns president, received Great Britain's protest against violation of tiie Mosul fTOTiTTCr by Turkey and referred the dispute over that rich oil region to the World court. Tiie court ruled that the league's council was competent to decide the mutter, and In December tiie council uwarded all of tiie vilayet except a worthless strip to Irak, at the same time extending the British mandate over Irak to twenty-fivyears. Turkey protested angrily, but was somewhat mollified by Britain's offer to negotiate a permanent peace on tiie Irak frontier, with hints of compensation- for tiie oil lands. Tiie council of the league was called on to prevent one war, and did so. Greece and Bulgaria were ready to fight over some trouble on the Macedonian frontier, and tiie Greeks went so far as to Invade Bulgarian territory and occupy several towns. Tiie league council ordered that hostilities cease at once, saw to it that the order was obeyed, and sent a mission to settle the dispute. Greece was found ut fuult and was ordered to pay damages to Bulgaria. Abd-e- l Klims attempt to drive the French from the Riff iind establish an independent government in Unit part of Sioroeco was not successful, hut caused tiie two European powers much trouble and expense. They joined forces against tiie Riff leader, and after Hie Spanish effected a landing In Alhueemas bay In September Krlm wns viriuully surrounded and was driven into tiie mountains. A group of Amerienn aviators formed an escadrille and helped in the fight against tiie Moroccan chieftain. Strikes In tiie Shanghai cotton mills, fostered by Russian Bolshevist agents who sought to stir up civil war In Chinn,, resulted in fatal rioting in threats made Slay and the necessary Hie landing of American and European bluejackets and tire arming of n force of foreign volunteers. This only enraged the Chinese the more and tiie government at Peking was utterly,unal)le .to straighten out the tangle. On August 5 the Washington treat ins relating to Chinese customs and Hie open door went Into' effect, and in October tiie International conference lo carry them out began its sessions in Peking, China demanded autonomy in tiie matter of the tariff, and tiie conferees agreed to give it this not later than January 1, 1929. provided that III Hie meantime China should abolish the likiu. Great progress was made In the settlement of international debts. In August Great Britain granted exceedingly liberal terms to France, but with tiie provision Hint if France obtained less favorable terms from tiie United Status British would insist on tiie same terms that tiie United States ejpicted. The French mission spent some 111116 in Washington but was unable to satisfy the demands 'of tiie American debt commission and went, home with a temporary plan which was' "rejected by Hie French in December, when parliament. r Brland became premier again M. ' was appointed ambassador to Washington for the purpose of reopening negotiations. Tiie American debts of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Italy ami Huinanla were arranged satisfactorily to those countries.. President Coolldge, to wtioui tiie long stnnding dispute between Peru and Chile over Taena and Ariea provinces laid been referred, sent General Pershing down there to arrange and conduct a plebiscite of tiie Inhabitants of tiie region. Tiie Chileans protested when lie deferred the date of tiie plebiscite untiL April 13, 192(5, and appeuled jo President Coolldge. warfare in Morocco and Syria, wers Premier Harriot mainly financial. held on until April 10, when the government's finance bill was . defeated In parliament. Paul Painleve thereupon became premier, and he gave the finance portfolio to Joseph who was convicted during the war of treason. Aristide Briand took the post of foreign minister. Calllaux was no more successful than his predecessors and the cabinet resigned x, e r nnti-foreig- more-importa- Norse-America- I.er-nnge- FOREIGN AFFAIRS Politics in Great Britain were not especially eventful. The Liberal party recovered somewhat from its crushing defeat in the elections of 1921, and Herbert Asquith, who was raised to tiie peerage as the earl of Oxford, was continued us Its leader. Lloyd George pledged to him Ids unqualified The Lubor party did all loyalty. In its power to combat tiie Baldwin government but. was Itself badly split between radicals and conservatives. All these parties and elements except tiie radical I.aliorites were kept busy fighting the schemes of Hie Communists. The government refused U admit foreign Communists to the iie conference of country to attend-Tthe British Communist party In Glasgow, and later canceled the permits of many Communists to live In Great Britain. ' What was called one of tiie most hisimportant events in the post-wa- r tory of tiie British empire occurred on April 28, when Great Britain returned to the gold standard. Australia and New Zealand took tills step at tiie same time and the Union of South Africa followed suit on July 1. 'Canada was already back on a gold basis, so that at the mid year the currency of the entire empire was virtually on a pre-wa- r footing. Frances troubles, aside from the Nejd and leader of the Wahabis. Ibn captured Mecca, but wrT defeated by All at Jeddah. Captain Amundsen made a spectacular attempt to fly over the North pole, hopping off from Spltzbergen with two Cail-lauplanes on May 21. The expedition succeeded in getting within 150 miles of the pole but was forced to descend and lost one of tiie planes. After great hardships the Intrepid explorers returned to Spltzbergen on June IS. October 27. Painleve formed a new Latin America had a comparativeministry, but this went on the rocks ly uneventful year, which means there in November. Briand was made were fewer revolutions than usual. premier again and Louis Loucheur, On 23 tiie navy junta governone of the wealthiest of Frenchmen, mentJanuary of Chile was overthrown by army became minister of finance. His plans officers and a few days later the army were rejected and he gave place to and navy reached a peaceful agreePaul Doumer. ment and recalled President Alessan-dr- i The revolt of tiie Druses In Syria, from Ids voluntary exile in Euheld by France under a mandate, be- rope. In October Alessandri recame serious in July and tiie tribes- signed and was succeeded by Einillano men defeated the French forces sev- Figueroa. Solarzano was Inaugurated eral times. They filtered into DamasPresident of Nicaragua In January, cus and started an uprising there In and Barahona of Honduras. On Autiie suppression of which tiie French gust 3 the American marines were shelled the Moslem quarters of the withdrawn from Nicaragua after ancient city and battered it to pieces. keeping the peace there for 12 years. Reinforcements were poured into In Bolivia Jose Villaneuva was elected Syria but Hie tribesmen kept up a President but would not promise harassing warfare which guerrilla to the party of President wns extended into Lebanon. Saavedra, so af the Instance of the Germanys new reichstag convened latter the congress declared the elecJanuary 5 and Dr. Harrs Luther be- tion void. On September 3 Saavedra came chancellor, pledging himself to turned over the office of chief execumaintain tiie republic and the Dawes tive to the president of the senate and new elections were ordered. plan. The Monarchists and Nationalists were strong in ills cabinet. March 29 Hie first popular elections for PresiDOMESTIC AFFAIRS dent were held and resulted in no Presidential electors of the states candidate receivjng a majority. The Nationalists and several other groups met January 12 and went through the then made Field Marshal von llinden-bur- g formality of voting for President and their nominee, and at the sec- vice president of the United States. ond elections, held April 2(5, he was Galvin Coolidge and Charles Gates elected. It was freely predicted that Dawes were declared elected, and on Hits meant tiie early restoration of the March 4 they were duly Inaugurated. German empire, but the old soldier iJefore that event congress had put took tiie pledge of loyalty to tiie re- through the usual grist ol appropriapublic and thereafter gave not the tion bills and had passed a measure slightest indication "that he desired increasing postal rates and the pay of a return to monarchism. ' It also raised the postal employees. In December Hie cabinet resigned salaries of Its own members to $10,000 so that a new ministry fully In favor and of the cabinet members to $15,000. Associate Justice McKenna of the of the Locarno treuties might be Supreme court resigned January 4 and formed. tiie President appointed Attorney GenBenito Mussolini continued to rule eral Harlan F. Stone to the vacancy. Italy with a firm hand, and the posi- A tion of tiie Fascist! was strengUiened 15. few days later 4ie nominated Charles Warren of Michigan to be attorney in the autumn by a split in tiie opWhen the senate met In spegeneral. Socialists cial position, the Maximalist session after the inauguration one other their collection tiie with severing of its first acts was to tiie Wargroups forming the Aventine bloc. The ren nomination because reject his former of dictator began the year by taking business connections. Tiie President steps to suppress the opposition or- sent in the name and again it again, bea'nd and ganizations newspapers, was rejected. Mr. Coolidge thereupon fore the twelftll month was ended nominated John G. Sargent for the tiie parliament had at his holiest and he was accepted. place Secretary passed a number of laws, electoral of State Hughes retired from the caband otherwise, that made Faselsino inet on March 4, nnd was succeeded by supreme and Mussolinis dictatorship Frank B. Kellogg, then ambassador to In November tiie police Great complete. Britain. Secretary of War uncovered a plot to assassinate the Weeks, who bad been ill for many premier and overthrow the govern- months, resigned on October 13, and ment, and one result of this was a F. Davis, assistant secretary, Dwight renewal of measures to suppress the wns Mr. Davis given tiie portfolio. Freemasons. position was filled by the appointment Plimo de Rivera, dictator of Spain, of Col. Hanford MacNlder, former nacaused some surprise In December tional commander of the American Leb.v announcing 'that the time to end William M. Jardiue of Kansas gion. Hie military dictatorship bad come, was made secretary of agriculture on' lie formed a civilian cabinet, retain- February 14. A change in tiie White ing the position of premier. On the House Itself. that was of especial Inwhole the rule of the directory seemed terest to politicians was the resignato have bt'etrTieTieficial to the coun- tion of C. Ilascom Slentp as secretary small to the President and tiie appointment try. In Portugal-cyMno- t military revolts and Communist up- of Everett Sanders of Indiana. risings were rather frequent. Belgium President Coolidge spent the sumexperienced several changes of min- mer vacation ut Swampscott, Mass., istries, and so did Poland, whore and during the year he made several Skrynskl came into power In Novemtrips for the purpose of delivering adber. dresses. The of these n General Pnngalos led a successful were to St. Paul, Minn., for the to ceutennial and naval detat celebration; coup military In Greece in June and the governOmaha for Hie meeting of the Amerment was upset without bloodshed. ican Legion, and to Chicago for, .the Pnngalos thereupon became premier. convention of the American Farm BuIn September lie dissolved the nation- reau federation. Vice President Dawes al assembly and ordered new elec- was exceedingly active In carrying on his campaign for revision of the rules tions. Soviet Russia did not gain the con- of the senate, making speeches on that fidence of the other powers to any topic in many parts of the country. Sixty-nint- h congress opened great extent, for the diplomatic ef- When the on December 7 he was its sessions forts of her rulers in that line were offset by the continuance of bolshe-vis- t ready to go on with his fight, but without glittering prospects of success. propaganda abroad. Having failed The Republicans were in full conlo entice the proletariat of western Europe, they turned their nttentlon trol of the new congress, but tiie old At Insurgent bloc In tiie party was there especially to Japan and China. home their chief concern was the again undaunted by disciplinary measstate of mind of the Russian peasant- ures by which Its members were decomry, which was so dissatisfied that re- prived of most of their important In the lower volt was in the uir. As usual, there mittee assignments. were crop failures in various districts house they refused to support tiie Reand famine conditions were predicted, publican candidate for speaker, NichoLongworth of Ohio, who neverthedespite which Hie government ex- las was elected. Tiie Republicans less for wheat political purposes. ported also amended the rule concerning dis"To foster industries nnd attract charge of committees so that a maforeign capital tiie Soviet government of the house must sign a petitook steps during the year which led jorityto take tion legislation out of a it farther and farther away from its hands and place it before the Communist ideals. Industrial plants house. In the lower house sat three were returned to their former owners women members Mrs. of Rogers under lease and private capitalists Massachusetts and Mrs. Kalin Caliof were permitted to enter trade. Graft fornia on the Republican side and Mrs. in government circles was sternly Norton of New Jersey on the Demosuppressed, on one occasion 12 off- cratic side. With a vast number of icials being sentenced to death for bills Introduced at the beginning of the this crime. session, Hie house put at the top ot Egypt got Into trouble with Great the list the tax reduction measure that Britain when a group of radicals mur- had been prepared by" the ways and dered Sir Lee Stack, tiie sirdar. The means committee during the fall, and British exacted tiie death penalty for at once went to work on it. Tills bill the assassins and compelled the proposed a cut in income and other Egyptian government to yield certain taxes that would reduce the national concessions that tightened the British revenues by more Uian $325,000,000. grip on the disputed Sudan territory. It was virtually a nonpartisan measAhinad Mlrza, the young shah of ure and seemed assured of passage. Persia, enjoyed life so much In Paris Aside from Vice President Dawes ef that he refused to return to Ills couu-try- , fort to reform the senate procedure, .inso on October 81 the parliament terest in tiie upper house at first cendeposed him and put an end to his tered on the attitude of Senator Robdynasty. Iliza Khan, Hie premier who ert 41. LaFolIette, Jr., of Wisconsin, once was a common soldier, assumed who bad been elected to succeed his the throne as King Pahlavi. A. C. late father, the leader of the InsurMillspaugh, American, Is still admin- gents. The young man gave every inistrator general of the finances of dication that he would follow closely Persia, having made an excellent rec- in the footsteps of ids sire. Another ord for tiie year. of the radical senators had passed Conditions in Arabia werq unsettled away Senator Ladd of North Dakota and Governor Sorlle had appointed daring the year, owing to tiie intermittent warfare between All, king of Gerald P. Nye, an avowed follower of the Hedjac, and Ibn Saud, king of LaFolIette, to succeed him. Some of 's -- the senators opposed the seating of Mr. Nye on the ground that the governor had no right, under the state constitution, to fill a senatorial vacancy. Senator Ralston of Indiana, a Democratic wheelliorse, . died October 14 and A. R. Robinson, Republican, was appointed to fill the vacancy. Senator Spencer of Missouri also passed away and his place was filled by George JJL Williams. One of the most spectacular political battles of recent times was that waged for the mayoralty of New York. It began with a hot contest for the Democratic nomination between Gov. A1 Smith and Tammany, whose choice was State Senator Jimmy" Walker and the Ilearst following, which urged the renomination of Mayor Ilylan. Tammany won out, and in the election Walker was easily the victor over F. D. Waterman, the Republican nominee. Col. William Mitchell, by his determined fight to improve the air service of the army and ntlvy, made his name a household word. Early in the year his outspoken criticisms of his superiors resulted In his removal from Hie office of assistant chief of the army air service, but he kept on talking and writing until the War departl. ment had to order his trial by Meanwhile the President had appointed a special board to inquire Into the condition of tiie air service, and this board, after lengthy hearings, made a report upholding Mitchell in many of Ills criticisms. It condemned, however, his pet scheme for making tiie air service an independent departcourt-martia- ment Having no warfare, no really serious business or economic troubles, and not much in the way of politics, tiie people of the United States devoted a great deal of attention to prohibition, Its enforcement and its violation- ;- It could not be denied that the dry law was not being thoroughly enforced, so in June General Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, was put in full clrarge of the Job. He made a sweeping reorganization of the federal enforcement machinery, depriving Prohibition Commissioner Haynes of most of liis powers and dividing the country Into 24 districts with administrators responsible to him. There is little need to remind readers of the Scopes trial In Dayton, Tenn., In which the school teacher was convicted of violating the state law forbidding the teaching of any theory of the origin of mankind contrary to that found In the Bible. With William Jennings Bryan leading tiie prosecution nnd Clarence Harrow, Chicago atheist, as chief counsel for tiie defense, the contest was between fundamentalism and liberalism, and the people of the country learned more about Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution than they would otherwise in a lifetime. However, there could be no decision in this contest. Mr. Scopes wns found guilty on his own admission Hint he had violated the law. Only a few days after tiie close of the trial, on July 20, Mr. Bryan was foupd dead tornadoes In southern Illinois, Indiana, and Alabama Missouri, Tennessee killed about 800. In May: Mississippi river steamer capsized, 22 drowning) destructive earthquake on Japans west coast; explosion in North Carolina coal mine killed 52. In June: Seventeen killed by mine explosion at Sturgis, Ky., 45 killed in train wreck in --New Jersey ; earthquake wrecked Santa Barbara, Cal., killing 11 and destroying $25,000,000 In property. In .. July: Fifty killed by collapse of dance hall in Boston. In August: Fifty killed by boiler explosion on excursion steamer near Newport, R. L; Italian submarine lost with crew of 49. In September: Mine explosion In Corea killed 150. In October: Eighteen killed in train wreck near MemBritish In November: phis, Tenn. submarine lost with crew of 8; three million dollar fire on New Orleans docks; west coast of Florida ravaged by storms. In December: Fifty-thre- e miners killed by gas explosion near " Birmingham, Alai NECROLOGY Outstanding among the names of those claimed by death during the' year are these: In January: ArchMoeller of Cincinnati; bishop Henry - Guernsey Moore and George Bellows, American artists; Dr. Norman Bridge, Chicago physician and philanthropist; Harry Furniss, English cartoonist and author; D. G. Reid, tin plate king; John C. Eastman, publisher of Chicago Journal; Field Marshal Baron Grenfell, British soldier; George W. Cable, American author. In February: John Lane, English publisher; Julius Fleischmann, Cincinnati millionaire; Thomas W. Lawson, Boston financier; Mrs. Clio Bracken, American sculptress; Fred W. Upharn, Republican leader of Chicago; M. U. DeYoung, publisher of San Francisco Chronicle; President Marion Burton of University of Michigan; James Lane Allen, American author; Hjal- mar "Branting, former premier of Sweden ; Medill McCormick, U. S. senator from Illinois; Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany. In March: william A. Clark, copper magnate; Bishop W. A. Quayle of first PresiKansas; Dr. Sun Yat-Sedent of Chinese republic; Marquis Curzon of Kedleston ; Lord Rawlin-socommander of British forces in n, India. In ApTH: Jean de Reszke, famous tenor; Archbishop Christie of Oregon; Elwood Haynes, inventor of first au- tomobile; John S. Sargent, American painter; Ralph D. Paine, American nutlior; G. S. Sanderson, secretary of United States' senate. In May: Viscount Levcrhul me, English soap king; Maj. Gen.'. H. A. Bandholtz, U. S. A.; Herbert. Quick, American author; W. F. Massey, premier of New Zealand; Miss Amy Lowell, poet and critic; Gen. Charles Mangin, defender of Verdun; Viscount Milner, English statesman; Sir nenry Rider Haggard, English author; Lient. Gen. Nelson A. Miles; S. P. Spencer, U. S. senator from Missouri; Field INDUSTRIAL AND Marshal French, earl of Ypres; Dr. Ernest D. W. Burton, president of LABOR University of Chicago; Louis Falk, one the strike marred Only great noled organist. years record in tiie United States. In June: Former Tce President The anthracite miners had been demanding an increase in wages and the Thomas R. Marshall; Camille French astronomer ; Pierra system by adoption of the check-of- f the operators, and after long and fu- Louys, French author; Vance Thomptile negotiations tiie men were called son, American author; Warren S. Stone, president of Brotherhood of out of the mines on September 1. Because the stock of coal was large and Locomotive Engineers; Julius Krutt-schn-it- t, railway magnate; Edmund J. owing to the use of oil and other subAmerican educator; R. M. Janies, consumer not did the suffer stitutes, greatly, but the effects of the strike LaFftllflte, United States senator on the miners and operators and the from Wisconsin ; E. F. Ladd, United "business men of the mining towns States senator from North Dakota. In July: D. W. Tryon, American were serious. President Coolidge refused to interfere but asked congress painter; Rear Admiral G. W. Wilto give the Chief Executive and the liams; Cardinal Begin, archbishop ol secretaries of commerce and labor the Quebec; Dr. A. J. 'Ochsner, famous American surgeon; William Jennings authority to Intervene In such crises. Tiie American Federation of Labor Bryan ; Mrs. Helen H. Gardner, author held its annual meeting In Atlantic and educator; Edgar A. Bancroft, City in October, turned down all propo- American ambassador to Japan. In August : George Gray, former with the Russitions for sian trade unions and recognition of senator from Delaware' John Temple Graves of Georgia; Victor F. Lawson, the Soviet government, and President Green and all other officers. publisher of Chicago News ; Sir George The Supreme Court of the United Goldie, founder of Nigeria. In September: E. R. Stettinius, New States on April 13 held unconstitutional that part of the Kansas indus- York banker; Reginald C. Vanderbflt; trial court net providing for com- Rene Vlviani, French statesman; Paul pulsory arbitration of labor disputes. Bartlett, American sculptor; A. C. Standard Oil magnate; In October it ruled against the Arizona Bedford, minimum wage law for women. A spe- James Deering, Chicago capitalist; cial federal court of equity exonerated Ada Lewis, American actress; Leon the International Harvester company Bourgeois, French statesman. In October: Christy Mathewson, faof trust charges, and Secretary of Agriculture Jardine dismissed the federal mous baseball pitcher; James B. charges against the merger of the Ar- Duke, tobacco magnate and philanmour and Morris packing concerns. Vio- thropist ; S. M. Ralston, United Stater lent fluctuations of prices on the Chi- senator from Indiana ; Eugene Sandow, cago Board of Trade aroused the ire of famous strong man; Gen. Isaac Sherfarmers and of Secretary Jardine, and wood of Ohio; Bishop Frederick at his insistence tiie board in October Burgess of Long Island ; Bishop E. M. adopted stringent rules to prevent Parker of New Hampshire; Dr. II. J. Waters, agricultural expert and edprice manipulation. itor; Job Ilarriman, Socialist leader; M. E. Ailes, Washington banker; Gen DISASTERS Felix Agnus, publisher of Baitimors Nature was not kind to the human American. race during the year, for earthquakes, In November; P. A. Lannon of Sail tornadoes and floods took heavy toll Lake City; Khai Dinh, emperor ol of lives nnd property. In the United Annam ; Eldridge G. Snow, New York States the spectacular disaster was financier; Doniicio Da Gama, Brazilthe destruction of the great navy diri- ian statesman; A. J. Earling, forme: gible Shenandoah in a storm over president of C. M. & St P. railway; Ohio on September 3 as the airship Alexandra, queen dowager of Engwas on her way to some state fairs land; Clara Morris, actress; Rama In the Middle West. Commander VI, king of Slam; Andrew Fletcher, Zachary Lansdowne and 13 men president American Locomotive comof his crew were killed. Another mis- pany. fortune befell the navy bn September In December: Dr. A. F. Nightingale 1 24 - when the submarine was and Dr. F. A. Parker, veteran edurammed by a steamship off the Rhode cators; Ladlslas Reymont, Polish Island coast and went down with 33 author ; Ed. II. Moore, Democratic men. Among other disasters were leader of Ohio; P. S. Hill, president these: In February: Mine explosion of American Tobacco company; Rev, in Dortmund, Germany, killed 138; William Wilkinson, bishop of Wall Kansas City live stock pavilion and Street; John P. Booth, Canadian motor show burned, the loss being lumber magnate; MsQ. Gen. Harry I $2,500,000; mine explosion at Sullivan, Rogers, retired; F. C. Hicks, alien Ind., killed 51. In March : Thousands property custodian. died In earthquake in central China; Qi 1934, Wectmra Newspaper Cotom.) Flam-mario- n, ' - " . . |
