THREE OF THE ASSISTANT HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS RECENTLY APPOINTED AT WASHINGTON. by vote of 407 to 156, passes the income-tax bill....Lieutenant Arnold, of the Belgian army, is sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment for atrocities in the Congo. March 12.-The British naval estimates show an increase of $14,116,000 over those of last year....France faces a large deficit in revenues. March 13.-The French ministers of marine and finance reach an agreement on naval appropriation measures....A general strike of telegraphers is begun in Paris. March 15.-A general strike of postal and telegraph employees in Paris is called; numbers of telephone employees and railway mail clerks vote to support the movement. March 17. The strike of the French state employees in the telegraph, telephone, and mail services spreads rapidly; the country is practically isolated; the government refuses to make concessions. March 19.-The French Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 368 to 211, sustains the government's refusal to treat with the striking telegraph and telephone employees. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. February 18-An extraordinary council of ministers is held in St. Petersburg to consider the situation in the Balkans. February 19.-The scheme of the Russian Bank to give financial aid to the Shah of Persia is vetoed by the Russian finance minister.... All the powers represented at the International Naval Conference, with the exception of America, agree on the final terms of the code.... Bulgaria again asks the powers to recognize her independence.... Two bills which prohibit Japanese from fishing in Hawaiian waters are introduced in the Hawaiian legislature.... Presi dent Roosevelt formulates a call for an international conference to consider the conservation of natural resources. February 20.-Baron Moncheur, Belgian minister to the United States, is transferred to Constantinople; he will be succeeded at Washington by Count de Buisseret Steenbecque, recently Belgian minister to Morocco. February 21.-The powers, replying to a note of protest from the Porte, say that Bulgarian independence will not be recognized until an agreement with Turkey has been reached. February 22.-The United States Government asks the delegates to the International Naval Conference to make a declaration that the prize court at The Hague be regarded as one of arbitration and not of appeal. February 23-A patent agreement between the United States and Germany is signed at Washington. February 24.-The Russian Government takes steps to prevent railway officials on the line west of Harbin from using violence toward Chinese who have refused to pay taxes. February 25.-The delegates to the International Naval Conference in London agree on a new code for naval warfare....The International Opium Commission at Shanghai finishes its labors....The declaration of policy by the new premier of Servia is peaceful.... The regency of China sends a private letter to President-elect Taft, stating China's policy with regard to the United States and other nations.... Russia expresses a desire to meet the wishes of the United States in reaching a settlement with China regarding Harbin and Manchuria. February 26.-Austria and Turkey sign a protocol settling the question of compensation for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ; the powers accept the offer of France as mediator in the Austro-Servian dispute....The delegates to the International Naval Conference in London sign and seal their findings....The North American Conservation Conference recommends joint and co-operative action by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. March 12.-The American-Panaman-Colombian treaty is reported favorably in the national assembly at Bogota.... Diplomatic intercourse between the United States and Nicaragua is broken off. March 15-Advices from St. Petersburg give details of atrocities by Persian Government troops on the frontier....It is announced in Washington that the United States and Great Britain have reached an agreement on the personnel of The Hague tribunal which is to consider the Newfoundland fisheries dispute. March 16-Conference between Chinese and Russian officials to settle the Harbin dispute begin at Peking....Senor Rojas is appointed Venezuelan minister to the United States. March 18-Great Britain, France and Russia call on Servia to enter upon peaceable negotiations with Austria-Hungary; a conference of the powers to ratify the agreement between Austria-Hungary and Turkey concerning Bosnia and Herzegovina seems likely....The Italian Government proposes to the United States a conference on Italian immigration. OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH. February 18.-Fifty villages (estimated) are wiped out by an earthquake in Persia.... The North American Conservation Conference meets at the White House, Washington. February 19-Chairman Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, announces that all cuts in prices will be met. February 21-Many persons perish in snowstorms in southwestern Russia; all traffic is blocked....Heavy earthquake shocks are felt in the district of Elche, Spain.... The American battleship fleet, returning from its voyage around the world, comes to anchor on the Southern Drill Grounds off Hampton Roads.... A mob in South Omaha, Neb., wrecks thirty houses occupied by Grecks in an effort to drive the Greeks from the city. February 22.-The American battleship fleet is reviewed by President Roosevelt in Hampton Roads.... The wage rate of the Welsh miners is reduced 5 per cent. by the South Wales Coal Conciliation Board. February 23.-The aerodome Silver Dart covers half a mile at a height of thirty feet at Baddeck, N. S....The United States Supreme Court affirms the verdict of the Circuit Court imposing a fine of $108,000 on the New York Central Railroad Company for granting sugar rebates. February 26-A national interdenominational brotherhood of Protestant laymen, representing organizations with a membership of over 1,000,ooo, is formed at Pittsburg....The trustees of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., decide to discontinue the coeducational system. February 27-Important reductions in trans**inental freight rates are announced in Chi March 2-The steamship Mauretania estab lished an eastbound record of 4 days, 20 hours, and 2 minutes, her average speed being 25.28 knots. March 3-Heavy snow hampers traffic in the streets of Berlin, Germany. March 4-Severe weather conditions cut off telegraphic communication with Washington, D. C., and delay many trains carrying passengers to the inauguration of President Taft. March 6. Ten persons are reported killed by avalanches in Austria. March 8-The aerodome Silver Dart covers eight miles in 11 minutes and 15 seconds at Baddeck, N. S. March 9.-The Supreme Court of Missouri affirms the decree ousting the Standard Oil ing in the case of the Waters-Pierce Company. Company from the State, but suspends the rul Chicago returns a verdict of not guilty in the March 10-A jury in the federal court at Government's prosecution of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana for accepting rebates from the Chicago & Alton Railroad. March 11.-The anthracite coal operators, at a conference in Philadelphia, refuse all the demands of the mine workers and make a counter proposition that the present agreement be continued for another three years.... The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia affirms with modifications the decree of the lower court enjoining the American Federation of Labor from interfering with the business of the Bucks Stove & Range Company. March 13.-Detective Petrosino, of the New York City police force, is murdered at Palermo, Sicily, by agents of the Black Hand. March 14-The German ship Margretha is sunk in a collision with the Norwegian steamer Mascot, twenty men of the former vessel are drowned. March 17-A $300,000 Naval Young Men's Christian Association building, the gift of John D. Rockefeller, is dedicated at Norfolk, Va. OBITUARY. February 18-Sir Frederick Will, organizer of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland, 70.... Dr. Thomas Lancaster, of Philadelphia, a specialist in climatology, 76. February 19.-Rear-Admiral Charles S. Cotton, U. S. N., retired, 66....The Countess de Chabrillan, a well-known French author and actress, 85. February 20.-Carroll D. Wright, president of Clark College, Worcester, Mass., 69....Dr. Frederick Irving Knight, for many years an instructor and clinical professor in Harvard University, 68. February 22.-Dr. William Tillinghast Bull, the well-known surgeon, of New York City, 60. February 24.-Rear-Admiral Franklin, U. S. N., retired, 84. Samuel R. February 25.-Sir John Watts Reid, K.C.B., 86....Cardinal Sanchez y Hervas, Archbishop of Toledo, 71.... John Boyd Thacher, twice Mayor of Albany, N. Y., 61....John H. Put terill, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of London, England, 55. February 26.-Emmanuel Poire, known as Caran d'Ache, the famous French cartoonist, 51 (see page 496).... Portus Baxter Weare, one of the first exploiters of the Klondike, 67.... Edwin Goodall, former president of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, 65.... Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., 87. February 27.-J. O. Carter, for many years a prominent figure in the business and political life of Hawaii, 73....Dr. Robert A. Murray, president of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence, 57. February 28.-William M. McKelvy, the Pittsburg oil man and president of the Portland Cement Company, 70.... Prof. James W. Moore, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 65.... Albert Midlane, a noted authority on hymnology, 84. March 1-Judge John Kelvey Richards, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 53. .... Dr. Daniel R. Brower, of the Rush Medical College, Chicago, 70....Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin, the California pioneer and racing man, 81. March 2-Baron Guenzberg, representative of the Jews before the Russian Government, 76.... Wesley Hunt Tilford, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company, 59. March 3-Rev. William Wilberforce Rand, D.D., of the American Tract Society, 93. March 4-Judge Hosea Townsend, former Member of Congress from Colorado, 69.... Prof. Joseph W. Carr, of the University of Maine, 38. Alexandre Charpentier, the French sculptor. March 5.-Col. Elijah E. Myers, architect and designer of public buildings, 77....Dr. Martin H. Boye, a chemist of note, 97. March 6.-Joseph W. Blythe, general solicitor of the Burlington railroad system, 59. March 7.-Mrs. Sara King Wiley Drummond, poet and descriptive writer, 37.... Rev. James William Richard, D.D., of the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Gettysburg College, 65. March 8-Brig.-Gen. William Adams Olmstead, a veteran of the Civil War, 75....ExCongressman Washington F. Willcox, of Connecticut, 75. March 9.-Hinton Rowan Helper, author of The Impending Crisis in the South," 80.... A. D. Remington, pioneer in the wood-pulp industry of northern New York, 82.... John Butterfield, a pioneer of transcontinental transportation, 82. March 10.-Major Edmond Louis Gray Zalinski, U. S. A., retired, inventor of the dynamite gun, 60.... Prof. Mark Vernon Slingerland, of Cornell University, 45.... Patrick H. Lawlor, a well-known arboriculturist, 70.... Col. Charles H. Weygant, a veteran of the Civil War, 70. March 11.-Dr. Thaddeus A. Reamey, of Cincinnati, an authority on gynecology, 80. merly British Secretary of State for War, 54.... Gen. Henry B. Osgood, U. S. A., retired, 65. March 13.-Gen. William J. Palmer, of Colorado Springs, railroad builder and philanthropist, 72. March 14-Archbishop Yznik Abahoony, head of the Armenian church in North America, 66. March 15.-Mrs. Elinor MacCartney Lane, the novelist, 45....Augustus Toedteberg, a wellknown bibliophile, 85. as "the friend of dumb animals," 86. March 17.-William Wirt Howell, of New Orleans, lawyer and author, 76.... Ex-President William W. Birdsall, of Swarthmore College, 65....Dr. John William Jones, known as the historian of the Confederacy, 73. March 18.-Rear-Admiral Edward Trask March 19.-Bishop George De N. Gillespie, of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of western March 12.-Hugh Oakley Arnold-Forster, for- Michigan, 90. -༠༢ཞི-བཞིན |