Tom Watson's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 3, May 1905Various
History
Tom Watson's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 3, May 1905
Various
United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
March 25.—Under a tentative arrangement made with President Morales of
Santo Domingo, the revenues of that country will be collected by an agent
named by President Roosevelt.
March 26.—Baron von Molken, chief of the Warsaw police, is severely
wounded by a bomb which destroyed his carriage.
Internal disturbances are again on the increase throughout
Russia.
It is announced that King Alfonso of Spain is to marry the
Princess Patricia of England.
March 27.—Warehouses and shops at Yalta, Russia, are pillaged and burned
by rioting mujiks.
March 29.—The Swiss Bundesrath rejects the commercial treaty with the
United States owing to amendments made to that instrument by the United
States Senate.
March 30.—President Castro of Venezuela turns on his accusers and states
that he has documentary evidence that both the French Cable Company and
the American Asphalt Company are in league with the revolutionists.
Emperor William of Germany sails for Morocco.
Several prominent “terrorists” are arrested in St. Petersburg,
among them being two women.
Peasant outbreaks continue in Russia and the Kharkoff district
is laid waste.
Another meeting of the Zemstvo representatives is called at St.
Petersburg for the end of April.
The Italian Ambassador states that Italy would have taken
drastic measures to collect her debt from Santo Domingo, had
President Roosevelt not taken the matter in hand.
March 31.—Emperor William at Tangier gives assurance that Germany will
protect the integrity of Morocco and maintain the “open door.”
President Arnal, of the highest court of Venezuela, declares
that the French Cable Company has forfeited its contract.
The agrarian risings in Russia reach such proportions as to
overshadow the war. They render further mobilization of troops
impossible.
An important group of the Russian clergy declares for the
separation of church and state.
April 1.—The Federal District Court of Venezuela charges General Francis
V. Greene, an official of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company,
with having given $130,000 to the rebels in the Matos revolution against
President Castro.
Camille Flammarion, the celebrated French astronomer, predicts
a hot summer because of the sun spots.
The _Victorian_, the first turbine steamer to cross the
Atlantic, makes the trip in a little less than eight days.
The Police Commissioner of Lodz, Russian Poland, is severely
wounded by a bomb explosion.
April 2.—Four persons are killed and forty injured in renewed riots at
Warsaw.
April 4.—Severe earthquakes in Northern India cause much loss of life and
damage to cities.
H. B. Irving, son of Sir Henry Irving, wins a triumph in London
in his first appearance, playing Hamlet.
April 5.—A Russian medical congress at Moscow adopts peace resolution and
favors a constitution and other radical demands.
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