Casualties.-September 19.-Twelve persons killed and seventeen injured by a wreck on the Great Northern Railway, at Grantham. Deaths.-September 17.-Rear Admiral Edward Chichester, who commanded the British squadron at Manila during the Spanish-American war. France Balloon Ascent.-September 30.-In the first competition for the Gordon-Bennett cup for international aeronauts, sixteen balloons representing seven countries, sailed from the Tuileries gardens, Paris. -October 1.-The international aerial race won by the American balloon manned by Lieutenant Lahm, U. S. A. None of the balloons approached the record heretofore made. Lahm traveled 415 miles, landing fifty miles from Hull, in Eng. land. Church and State.-September 22.-The Archbishop of Bordeaux, leader of the Catholic Church, outlined a policy of passive resistance to be adopted toward the separation law. -September 24.-The League of French Catholics formed for the establishment of a Gallican church conforming to the separation law, held its first meeting in Paris. Sunday observance.-September 22.-The railroads, although exempt from the provisions of the Sunday law, announced their intention of giving fifty-two days of rest in the year to their employees. Spain Vatican. September 23.- An agreement reached between the government and the Vatican on the proposed associations law, on a basis similar to that of the concordat signed in 1851. German Empire Politics.-September 23.-The annual congress of the Social-Democratic party opened in Mannheim with nearly 400 delegates in attendance. Previously a woman's conference was held. Italy Deaths. October 9.- Adelaide Ristori, Marchesa del Grillo, famous actress, aged 83. Switzerland Absinthe Prohibition.-September 24.-A plebiscite taken at Lausanne resulted in the prohi bition of the sale of absinthe in the canton of Vaud. Alpine Tunnel.-September 24.-The junction of the two ends of the Weissenstein tunnel effected. The tunnel when completed will save a long detour and loss of time via Soncebos and Bieme for trains from Paris and Calais. Russians Excluded.-September 27.-Notices posted at most of the hotels in Zurich, Lucerne and other cities refusing accommodations to Russians, because of the discovery of a Russian bomb depot in Switzerland and the recent assassination at Interlaken of a Frenchman mistaken for M. Durnovo, ex-Russian minister of the interior. Assassinations.-October 2.-During the trial of troops who mutinied last June at Askabad, a man entered the courtroom and killed the judge-advocate, General Rinkevitch, and attempted to shoot the president of the court, General Ushakoffsky. M. Hager, Swedish viceconsul at Batum, shot and killed. -October 9.-John Gadomski, editor of the Gazetta Polska at Warsaw, mortally wounded by bandits. Deaths.- September found dead in his room. 15.- General Trepoff Finland.-September 18.-After nine months' session as a constituent assembly to elaborate a new form of government for the grand duchy, the four-chambered diet, dating June 1772, passed out of existence, to be succeeded by a unicameral parliament elected by universal male and female suffrage. Political Parties.-September 20.-The Congress of the Constitutional Democrats, forbidden by the premier, is now by permission to be held outside of St. Petersburg. It will be held in Finland October 6. -September 30.-The ban upon the meetings of the Constitutional-Democrats in St. Petersburg and Moscow removed. -October 1.-The central committee of the Constitutional-Democrats elected Professor Milyoukov to the presidency of the assembly. October 7.-The Constitutional-Democratic Congress opened at Helsingfors, Finland. It GETTING "NXT" Rehse, in the Pioneer Press, St. Paul formally approved the Viborg Manifesto. Prince Dolgoroukof presided: 171 delegates represented forty-three provinces and four territories. Repression.-September 18.-Vazet, considered the most dangerous of terrorist leaders, arrested at Mitau. -September 23.-At an extraordinary meeting of the marshals of the nobility of Kursk it was decided by a vote of 98 to 3 to expel from the ranks of the nobility three members of the late douma, and Prince Peter Dolgoroukoff, vicepresident of the lower house, who signed the Viborg manifesto. -September 24.-By order of the governor of Tver, Ivan and Michael Petrunkevitch and Dmitri Y. Medviedeff, three prominent Constitutional Democrats, members of the late douma, the last-named being secretary of the Agrarian Commission, were denied their prerogatives in the provincial zemstvos because under indictment for signing the Viborg manifesto. -September 28.-Armed terrorists arrested within the walls of Alexandria Palace at Peterhof. Several others arrested in connection with this conspiracy. Nineteen terrorists executed in Poland within three days, after drumhead courtsmartial. -September 30.- The court-martial on those who participated in the mutiny at Cronstadt last August sentenced M. Onipko, a leader of the peasant party in the late douma, to deportation and loss of all civil rights. Nineteen sailors were condemned to death by shooting, twelve to life servitude, 120 to terms of servitude varying from four to twenty years, and 429 other sailors to discipline in various forms. -October 1.-Sixty-three peasants sentenced to imprisonment on charges of having devastated the estate of M. Krivoshein, minister of railroads, in spite of revelations as to the atrocities of the Cossacks on the occasion, who confessedly killed twenty-three innocent persons and mutilated 135 others. -October 5.-The trial commenced in St. Petersburg of fifty-one members of the Council of Workmen. They had been in prison ten months, charged with high treason in preparing armed uprisings against the government. A military patrol in Warsaw conducting two revolutionists to jail when attacked by a rescue party, killed the prisoners. -October 8.-The Union of the Russian People, an organization backed by the army, police and civic officials, openly announced its purpose to suppress votes at douma elections of the opposers of the government. -October 9.-M. Dubrovin, president of the Union of Russian People, in a speech at Odessa, urged death to all rebels and Jews. The three hundred armed members rushed through the streets, repeating his words. All the shops were closed at once. Measures taken by the Prefect quieted the disturbance. . The commission ap pointed by the Czar to investigate the causes of the mutinies at Sveaborg and Cronstadt found that the negligence and inefficiency of the officers were largely to blame. -October 10.-A strike at Lodz, Russian Poland, of school teachers, newspaper and other employees and tradesmen, as a protest against the drumhead courts-martial. Five terrorists hung by sentence of court-martial. An immense crowd exhumed the bodies, collected offerings for coffins and forced a priest to give his blessing. Cossacks charged the crowd, using whips freely, and compelled the reburial of the bodies. Thirty persons arrested, and many injured. Stoessel.-September 28.-Lieutenant-General Stoessel, who commanded the Russian forces at Port Arthur, submitted his resignation from the army. -September 29.-The trial of LieutenantGeneral Stoessel for surrendering Port Arthur to the Japanese, began. Persia National Council.-September 17.- An ordinance published announcing that the new National Council is to have 156 members. A general election to be held every two years. Chinese Empire Casualty.- September 30.-The emigrant steamer Charterhouse founded off Kainan Head. Captain Clifton and sixty passengers lost. Opium.-September 21.-The Chinese government issues an edict abolishing the use of opium at the end of ten years. Typhoon.-September 18.-From 5,000 to 10,000 persons killed and property damaged to the extent of $1,000,000 by typhoon at Hong Kong. Many foreign vessels seriously injured. No Americans killed. Only six white persons killed; the rest native boatmen and their families. The Bishop of Victoria, Dr. J. C. Hoare, drowned. Japan War Heroes.-September 27.-Marquis Ito and Field Marshal Yamagata and Oyama created princes and Vice-Admiral Togo made a marquis. THE SPIRIT OF THE MONTH QUESTIONING 1907 After the New York Elections-- Japan Smiles and Smiles- What Does She Want? The President Visits Panama-- The Women of England Demand the Will They Get It? The Railroads Affect to Fear the New Law- Will They Obey It? Congress Meets- Will It Do Anything Worth The last photograph made of the widow of the President of the Confederacy, who died October 16, 1906, and whose funeral took place at Richmond, Virginia, October 19 The World Go-Day VOLUME XI. DECEMBER, 1906 NUMBER 6 F Our Commercialized Christmas ROM Thanksgiving until Christmas most of us live in an atmosphere of deepening gloom. We begin that pre-season shopping by which we hope to save money, time, nerve and the health of the shop-girls, but even the bargain sales afford but a dreary time. We are in terror of forgetting to give a present to somebody who will give us one. The only star of hope in our horizon is the certainty that some of these people whom we shall forget will send us presents so far in advance of Christmas that we can square our account without their suspecting our neglect. * Once Christmas was quite another affair. Christmas Eve we hung our stockings on the mantelpiece in full confidence that Santa Claus could find his way through a six-inch stove pipe. We tried hard to keep awake long enough to see him come, but we never caught him. Christmas morning found the stockings bulbous with gifts and with a barley sugar candy cat in the toe, which, as a concession to the day, we were allowed to eat before breakfast. But the Saint had escaped unseen. And then there was the Christmas tree, with a grandfather to distribute the gifts and a strong force of uncles and aunts to maintain peace among the cousins. And there was skating in the afternoon with the choicest sort of mêlée to give the finishing touch to a day to be remembered until it was forgotten in the more specialized joys of a birthday. How far away those days seem! It is not merely that we were boys and girls then and are men and women now, although that probably makes some difference. It is not even that to our unending surprise we find ourselves in the place of our fathers and mothers. (Copyright, 1906, by THE WORLD TO-DAY COMPANY.) |