January 25-Yuan was made a Marquis as a token of the throne's appreciation of his services and President Sun wired him that the republican leaders had fullest confidence in him.

Alton B. Parker in an address to the South Carolina Bar Association opposed the recall of Judges and assailed Col. Roosevelt.

A window in memorial of John Bunyan was unveiled in Westminster Abbey. 26-The tariff revision debate began, in the House, in stormy discussion.

France and Italy agreed to let the Hague Tribunal decide the law questions involved in the seizure of the French steamers, Carthage and Manouba. 27-Representatives of the textile mills of Lawrence, Mass., rejected the demands of the workers.

28 Refusing to extend the armistice, Wu Ting Fang threatened to renew hostilities at once unless abdication was accomplished.

Five unsuccessful revolutionary generals of Ecuador were lynched by a mob at Quito. 29-The House passed the Metals bill, reducing the tariff on iron and steel product 30 to 50 per cent.

The Duke of Fife died in Assouan, Egypt. Governor Foss of Massachusetts ordered additional troops of infantry and cavalry to Lawrence, Mass., where the strikers rioted.

30-General strikes in Portugal due to a

Royalist plot, caused the Government to declare martial law in Lisbon.

The imperial Chinese family decided on immediate abdication of the throne. Mayor Gaynor let off the blast that completed the aqueduct tunnel beneath the Hudson River.

31-A small man-of-war of the new Portugal republic arrived in New York. February 1-All the Lawrence, Mass., Mills opened their gates and picketing of plants ceased.

General Chang Kuai Gai, commander-inchief of the Chinese Imperial forces, telegraphed to Sun Yat Sen his decision to join the revolutionaries with his army. 2-A British submarine sunk, after a collision, with a loss of fourteen lives-four

lieutenants and ten members of the

crew.

3-President Taft signed a proclamation inviting other nations to participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the opening of the Canal.

-China's Empress Dowager issued an edict directing Premier Yuan to co-operate with the Provisional Government at Nanking in transforming the empire into a republic.

King George and Queen Mary reached England from India, fourteen hours

ahead of time.

A man, a woman and a boy were swept to death in the whirlpool rapids when the Niagara ice-bridge broke. 5-Owing to disquieting advices from Mexico the United States Government ordered 34,000 regular troops to prepare for immediate duty on the border.

Charles L. Sherman, head of the audit department of the American Steel and Wire Company, was reported missing.

Spain launched the first battleship (the Espana), of her new navy.

6-A complete armistice was arranged in China and peace negotiations began. Thirtytwo indictments were returned by the Federal Grand Jury at Indianapolis, after six weeks' investigation of the dynamite conspiracy.

United States Judge Gary granted a temporary injunction restraining the Steel Trust and its subsidiaries from destroying evidence needed by United States in its suit against the Trust.

7-Emperor William opened the new Reichstag, demanding more troops and a big

The Secretary to the American Legation at Peking, and the United States Consul at Nanking, paid an unofficial visit to the Chinese President.

Floods in Portugal and Spain destroyed much life and property; the Portuguese Chamber voted $500,000 to aid the victims. The Virginia House voted against constitutional woman suffrage, 85 to 12. 9-Viscount Haldane, British Secretary of War, was the guest at luncheon of the German Emperor and Empress, his visit being presumably in the interest of peace and smaller armaments.

Earl Spencer resigned his office of Lord Chamberlain.

Despatches confirmed the reports that

President Madero had issued a call for an extraordinary session of the Mexican Congress to consider measures for preserving the integrity of the nation. 10-With a temperature 229 below zero, Watertown, N. Y., was obliged to close several factories because of inability of coal-trains to reach the city.

11-Baron Lister, discoverer of antiseptic treatment in surgery, died in London, England.

Two Chinese women delivered the principal addresses at a Chinese Christian patriotic celebration in Chicago.

12-China became a Republic, Yuan Shi Kai being directed to install the new govern

ment.

The Senate Committee on Pension voted to support the Smoot Age-Service bill, which will add $24,000,000 annually to the pension rolls.

13-The Department of State authorized Ambassador Wilson and all consular representatives in Mexico to deny reports of intervention in Mexico; United States demanded only the respect and protection of American life and property. 14-President Taft signed the proclamation admitting Arizona as the fortyeighth State of the Union.

Americans in Mexico appealed to the State and War Departments at Washington for protection.

Premier Asquith informed Parliament that Viscount Haldane's visit to Berlin was made on Germany's invitation, and "may have more than negative results". Fortyone officers and members of labor

unions were arrested charged with violating the interstate dynamite-transportation law.

15-Dr. Sun Yat Sen resigned the Chinese Presidency in favor of Yuan Shi Kai. 16-Yuan Shi Kai was unanimously elected President of the Chinese Republic by the National Assembly at Nanking after Dr. Sun's resignation had been accepted. Three were killed and seventyfive injured when a flyer on the Pennsylvania Rail

It was reported that Lieutenant Field, who accidentally invaded Mexico with some infantry, would be courtmartialled. Two of the Camorrists on trial for murder in Viterbo, Italy, were discharged by the court.,

17-The Governor of South Carolina signed the so-called Anti-Racing bill which prohibits betting at a race-track.

The Pennsylvania Limited crashed into a work train at Larwill, Indiana, killing four persons and injuring eleven. 18-Minister Ospina notified Secretary Knox that the latter's proposed visit to Colombia would be "inopportune" because of the failure of United States to arbitrate the Panama controversy.

It was reported that many Americans and other foreigners were fleeing from Mexico to United States or to Central American States.

19-China issued a proclamation inaugurating throughout the Republic the western system of reckoning time.

20-The British Government intervened in an effort to prevent the threatened strike of 800,000 coal miners.

A freight-train was wrecked in the Hoosac tunnel, two trainmen being killed. The Pennsylvania "eighteen-hour flyer" crashed into a string of freight cars at Middletown, Pa.

21-The great Jungfrau Tunnel, Switzerland,

27,900 feet long, was completed, at an altitude of 13,000 feet above sea level. 22-Colombia recalled Minister Ospina because of his "inopportune" letter. British Cabinet conferences separately with coal-mine owners and workers failed to bring about an agreement.

A Federal Grand Jury in Cincinnati returned thirty indictments against the officials of the National Cash Register Company for criminal restraint of trade and one indictment against the Adams Express Company for charging above the published rate.

23-Colombia virtually repudiated Minister Ospina by cordially inviting Secretary Knox to visit that country.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies voted to annex Tripoli.

24-Italian warships bombarded the Turkish city of Beirut.

25-Colonel Roosevelt announced himself a candidate for President. 26-Attorney-General Wickersham ordered

the United States District-Attorney at Boston to investigate the Lawrence strike. 27-Secretary of State Knox was warmly welcomed in Panama, where he began his tour of the Latin-American republics. Mexican rebels captured Juarez, Maderists ceasing resistance for fear of complications with United States.

Dr. Karl Steiniger was elected the first

ALLEN, IRA W.-In Chicago, February 9, at the age of eightytwo years. A widelyknown educator, he founded the Union Christian College in Indiana, and at one time was head of Lake Forest University. For eighteen years he conducted the Allen Academy in Chicago, which closed when he retired in 1892. Hamilton College was his alma mater.

BRIE, EMILE H.-In Brooklyn, N. Y., January 26. He was born in Germany, eightyeight years ago. Coming to United States, he served his adopted country through the Mexican and the Civil Wars. For a time he was Secretary to General Butler.

BUCKRIDGE, JOHN N.-In Westbrook, Conn., January 24. He was born in New

York City in 1833. For seven years he served in the United States Navy, and was in the Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. He was connected with the Government Lighthouse Service for a quarter of a century, and for the last nineteen years was keeper of the Saybrook Light. CLOVER, LEWIS P.-In New York City, February 11. He was born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1865, and was a grand-nephew of Abraham Lincoln. He was for twenty years a well-known newspaper man in New York and was State Court reporter for the Evening Sun.

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CHARLES FINNEY-In Yonkers, N. Y., January 24, aged sixtysix years. He was born in New York, and was educated in the College of the City of New York and at Oberlin College, Ohio. He became accountant to the Canadian Southern Railroad in 1870 and later was President of various railroad lines, treasurer of the New York Central, and a founder of the New York Zoological Society. He was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, and was a delegate to Oxford, England, at the Darwinian Centenary. He belonged to various philanthropic and scientific societies.

CROMWELL, ELLIS-He was Collector of Internal Revenue at Manila and died while returning to that city from a trip to the provinces. He was a native of Mississippi and had gone to the Philippines as Captain of volunteers.

DELAUNAY-BELLEVILLE, LOUIS - In Cannes, France, February 10. He was a noted engineer, and was Director General of one of the departments of the exposition of 1900. He was once Honorary President of the Chamber of Commerce, Paris. DEXTER, WILLIAM H.-In Worcester, Massachusetts, January 20. He was born. in Charleton, in 1823, and was the originator of the first fire insurance company in this country. Well known locally as а. philanthropist, he had given away $500,000 to churches, to Worcester Academy and to Charleton.

FORD, ELIAS A.-At Pasadena, California, January 20. He was born in 1840, in Burton, Ohio. In 1861 he became ticket agent of the Union Depot, Cleveland, and rising from position to position as General Passenger Agent on various railroads, he

became in 1887 General Traffic Manager and Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Lines.

GARGIULO, ALEXANDER A.-In Constantinople, January 20. He was born in Italy, and in 1867 entered the service of the American Legation in Constantinople. He was appointed interpreter in 1873, and in 1892 became First Dragoman to the American Embassy there. His extensive knowledge and judgment in political affairs, and his great tact, coupled with his linguistic attainments, made him of great service to the American Ministers and Ambassadors to Turkey.

GILL, PROF. BENJAMIN-In Baltimore, Md., February 11, at the age of seventynine years. He was born in Massachusetts, and at the time of his death was Professor of Greek and Latin, and Chaplain of Pennsylvania State College, Bellefont, Md. GRACEY, REV. DR. JOHN T.-At Clifton Springs, N. Y., January 5, in his eightyfirst year. He was born in Philadelphia, where he was educated, and entered the Methodist ministry. In 1861 he went to India as a missionary. Returning after seven years, he became a missionary writer, and for several years was an editor of The Missionary Review of the World. He organized the International Missionary Union more than twentyfive years ago and was its president. He served pastorates in several New York cities.

HITCHCOCK, JOHN M.-In Chicago, February 11, in his seventyfirst year. He was educated at Oberlin, Ohio, and became a co-worker with Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist. For more than forty years he had been a leader in the Moody Church (Chicago), and was a Director of the National Christian Association. HOLMES, RT. REV. GEORGE, LORD BISHOP OF ATHABASCA-In London, February 3. He was a Canadian by birth and was educated at St. John's College, Winnipeg, where he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Ordained in 1887, he became a missionary for the Church Missionary Society. Until 1905 his field of work was in what was formerly the Northwest Territory. In 1901 he was made Archdeacon of Athabasca, and Bishop of Moosonee in 1905.

KIRKMAN, ALEXANDER S.-In Brooklyn, February 10, aged sixtyeight years. He was born in Manhattan and became one of the best-known soap-manufacturers in the country. He was a trustee and generous contributor to Unity (Unitarian) Church.

their famous debates. He was Superintendent of the old Southern Central lines. LIPPINCOTT, REV. DR. B. E., SR.-At Ocean Grove, N. J., January 20. He was one of the oldest Methodist clergymen in New Jersey and was one of the pioneers of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He entered the ministry at Baltimore in 1854, in which year he became President of the Cumberland Valley Institute. LOYSON, ABBE CHARLES (PERE HYACINTHE)-In Paris, France, February 9, in his eightyfifth year. Born in Orleans, the brilliant boy was educated by his father and at the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris. Eight years a professor of theology, he then entered, as "Brother Hyacinthe", the order of Barefooted Carmelite Friars at Broussey. His eloquence and magnetism won him fame and envy. He was excommunicated for apostasy, became a Protestant, and married an American of high intellectual and spiritual gifts, Mrs. E. J. Butterfield Merriam. MCDONOGH, CAPT. JAMES J.-In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 27, aged seventy years. He was an Englishman, a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and had served with distinction in the Royal Artillery, both in Egypt and in South Africa. Coming to America, he became one of the best known cricketers in the country, representing United States against Canada and also against the Bermudans.

MCLAUGHLIN, CAPT. DANIEL-In the National Soldiers' Home, Sawtelle, California, February 9, in his eighty fourth year. He served wth Admiral Dewey in the Civil War, and commanded the first Government boat designed for use as a submarine, the Rancocas. He was the last survivor to raise the American flag at Monterey, California.

PHILPOT, MRS. ELLEN-In Roselle, N. J., January 4, at the age of sixtysix years. She went with her husband, the late Rev. Herman Philpot, to Africa, in missionary work, and was for six years a captive among the Abyssinians. She was rescued by an expedition sent out from England under Lord Napier, and was summoned to tell her story to Queen Victoria. TITCOMB, MRS. VIRGINIA CHANLER -In Rockville Centre, L. I., February 16, aged seventy four years. She was a native Long Islander, and became an artist of considerable repute. She was well known for her courageous and self-sacrificing espousal of the cause of the late Theodore R. Timby in his fight for recognition as the inventor of the revolving turret. One of her fine paintings was a full-length portrait of Henry Ward Beecher standing in