United States

Administration.-December 12.-President Taft nominated Associate Justice Edward Douglass White, a Democrat, of Louisiana, as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. It was immediately confirmed by the Senate, which also confirmed the nomination of Frederick W. Lehmann, to be solicitor-general. The President nominated Judge Willis Van Devanter, of Wyoming, and Judge Joseph R. Lamar, of Georgia, to fill vacancies in the Supreme Court. lowing were appointed by the President: Martin A. Knapp, as Chief Justice of the new Commerce Court, for a term of five years; Robert W. Archbald, for four years; William H. Hunt, for three years; John Emmet Carland, for two

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years, and Julian W. Mack, for one year. Two vacancies in the Interstate Commerce Commission were filled by appointment of B. H. Meyer and C. C. McChord, President of the National Association of Railroad Commissioners.

January 7.- Oscar S. Straus resigned as ambassador at Constantinople.

Aviation. December 26.- Arch Hoxsey broke the world's record for altitude by soaring more than two miles up, his barograph registering 11,474 feet.

December 28.- René Simon, French aviator, broke the world's record for monoplanes when he circled the mile track, in a twenty-mile wind, in fifty-seven seconds flat.

- December 31.- Arch Hoxsey and John B. Moisant, natives of Illinois, each of whom had made records in flights, killed while flying, the former at Los Angeles, the latter at New Orleans.

Bucket Shop.- December 15.- Federal officers raided the headquarters and six branches of the Capital Investment Co., in Chicago, the last big bucket-shop combine in the country. Twenty-two persons arrested.

Casualties.- December 19.- Eleven persons killed and one hundred injured in an explosion in a power-house at the New York Central terminal in New York city.

- December 21. Fire in Philadelphia caused the death of thirteen firemen and one policeman, and injured forty other persons. Fire

in Cincinnati destroyed a block in the manufacturing district and caused a property loss of over $2,000,000. Three men lost their lives.

Census Bureau.- December 10. The bureau aunounced the total population of continental United States to be 91,972,226, and including Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, 93,402,151.

December 21.- The bureau reported that 28,500,000 of the population of the country reside in 228 cities exceeding 25,000 in population. Congress.- December 19.- By a vote of thirtyseven to seventeen the Senate refused to accept a ruling looking to the establishment of cloture.

December 19.- Senator Frazier, of Tennessee, announced that he did not sign subcommittee report exonerating the election of Senator Lorimer from charges of corruption, but that he sent a statement to the committee of his views and conclusions in the case.

December 20.- Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, refused to sign the subcommittee's report in regard to Mr. Lorimer.

December 21.- Ten members of the committee on the Lorimer ese presented report to the Senate vindicating the senator.

- January 9. Senator Beveridge introduced in United States Senate a minority report, asking that Senator Lorimer's seat be vacated because of corruption in election. Senator Robert L. Owen offered resolution declaring Lorimer's seat

vacant.

January 10.- Senator Coe I. Crawford addressed the Senate, opposing the retention of seat by Lorimer.

Court of Commerce.- December 12.- See under "Administration."

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Deaths.- December Landon Eli Perkins" lecturer, aged seventy-one.

- December 18.- Anil al Cruz, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Chile to the United States, aged forty-five.

December 26.- Clara A. Swain, the first woman physician sent by a missionary society to the Orient, aged seventy-six.

December 28.- Benn Pitman, lecturer and writer on phonography, and inventor of the electro-process of relief engraving, aged eighty-six.

January 4-Stephen B. Elkins, United States Senator from West Virginia, aged seventy. January 7.- William H. Sherwood, musician and pianist, aged fifty-six.

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Education.- December 13.- George Vincent, Dean of the Faculties of Arts, Literature and Science, at the University of Chicago, clected president of the University of Minnesota.

December 20.- John D. Rockefeller made a final gift to the University of Chicago of $10,000,000, making a total of $34,426,049 that he has donated to that institution.

Explosion.- January 5.- The grand jury returned twenty-two indictments charging murder in connection with the explosion at the plant of the Los Angeles Times.

January 8.- The grand jury reported re

sults of investigation of the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times plant, on October 1. It declared theory of gas explosion untenable, and that nitroglycerin had been used; that some of the perpetrators have been members of labor unions, and officers and organizers therein; but that no testimony was given to show that any labor organization, as such, participated in the commission of the crime.

Fraud. December 16.- Nineteen arrests made in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the government's crusade against persons accused of using the mails to defraud.

-January 10.- Restitution of $1,300,000 and the surrender of warrants aggregating $200,000, upon which payment had been stopped, were made in the Dauphin County Court, of Pennsylvania, by men convicted or implicated by the state in the Harrisburg capitol frauds. In consideration, the commonwealth agreed to drop all further criminal action against the defendants indicted.

Graft.- January 5.- Up to date 1,500 persons have been indicted in Adams County, Ohio, for vote-selling. Fines collected so far total $9,200, and one-fifth of the entire electorate of the county will be disfranchised.

Labor.- December 15.- In a riot connected with the striking garment workers, in Chicago, was killed and policemen and others

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were injured.

December 24. The mediation of United States Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill succeeded in averting the threatened strike of locomotive engineers, by the acceptance of a settlement basis of an increase of ten and onethird per cent in the wages of the men. It will add a total of $4,000,000 a year to the pay-roll for engineers on sixty-one western railroads.

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Peace. December 14.- Andrew Carnegie gave to twenty-seven trustees control over a fund of $11,500,000, to be used in furtherance of the cause of universal peace.

Panama Canal Libel Suit.- January 3.- The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court that the federal government had no jurisdiction over the alleged offense of the Press Publishing Co., of New York, because the case might have been brought in a state court.

Philanthropy. December 23.- An unnamed donor pledged $1,300,000 for the perfection of an affiliation between the Presbyterian Hospital, in New York city, and the medical school of the university. Edward S. Harkness, of New York and Cleveland, added $300,000 for the erection of a surgical pavilion containing 150 beds, and, conveniently accessible, a complete laboratory for advanced research work.

Recall Election. January 6.- Judge Hanford, in the United States Circuit Court,

Revolt. December 11. An encounter between the federal forces under General Navarro and the revolutionists occurred at Cerro Prieto, near Guerrero. Seventy rebels killed and fourteen of the federal troops. The rebels were routed.

December 14. A battle between federal troops and revolutionists at Guerrero, in which the rebels were routed.

December 15.- Heavy fighting at San Andres between insurrectos and regulars.

December 16.- Federal troops defeated in a battle at La Junta.

December 18.- General Navarro and his troops defeated the revolutionists at Padernales.

December 20.- Official report stated the federal troops had twenty-one killed, ten missing and forty-two wounded in the attack by the revolutionists in a mountain trap at Mal Paso, near Padernales. General Guzman, the officer in command, was himself wounded.

December 21.- Revolution broke out in the State of Puebla. Government troops defeated the rebels and captured fifteen.

- December 23. The track on the El Paso & Northwestern Railroad torn up at Guzman, so that the south-bound train carrying 150 passenThe gers was compelled to return to El Paso. grand jury investigating the burning at the stake of Antonio Rodriguez reported that it had not been able to establish the identity of the men forming the mob.

December 27. A battle in progress at Mal Paso. An insurrection broke out in Tabasco. A force of one hundred rebels attacked several towns.

December 28.- The uprising at Tabasco reported serious. It is directly connected with the revolutionary Madero movement.

December 29.- Antonio Rodriguez, the Mexican supposed to have been burned, appeared in Guadalajara. Mal Paso, said to have been the stronghold of the revolutionists in the State of Chihuahua, captured by the federal fcrces.

Brazil

Mutiny. December 11.-The government troops again in control of the garrison on Cobra Island, near Rio Janeiro; 200 of the 600 men of the marine corps who mutinied were either killed or wounded. Twenty citizens were also

killed or wounded while watching the bombardment, and many government buildings were damaged. December 12.- Amnesty refused the rebel marines. To prevent further revolt the Chamber of Deputies voted to hold the city of Rio Janeiro in a state of siege for thirty days.

December 15.- The sailors who took part in the recent mutinies were sent to remote states, to be employed in the building of railroads and highways.

- January 6.- Jean Candido, leader of recent mutiny, and forty-four other mutineers, reported to have met sudden deaths, in regard to which details can not be obtained. .Nic

theroy, the capital of the State of Rio Janeiro, and situated across the harbor from the federal capital, under martial law.