17. General J. C. Black, noted lawyer ana civil war veteran, in Chicago; aged 76. 28. John D. Long, former secretary of MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, t navy, at Hingham. Mass.; aged 77. | Paul Armstrong, playwright, In New 4*+++*+ii^.-^++5hH-rH.-4-^ Review of York; aged 46. ®j World War JANUARY. I | Chronological SEPTEMBER. 19151 1. Campaigns 9. Albert O. baseball veteran panama-Cai;for*iia exposition opened Spalding, at San and manufacturer, at Diego. sporting goods 4. London Point Lama, Cal.; aged 05. Stock Exchange reopened. 5. United Classified Chief 14. Gen. E*. II. Ripley, who led the Fed- States supreme court ruled that And the Various Minor Danbury hatters must Events by Subjects eral advance into Richmond in 1S65, pay $_5.’,000 for a set in 11* | | boycott up >2. j at Rutland, Vt.; aged 70. Jnp 18. Fire in 81. Anthony Comstock, New York's moral lioebltng's wire plant at Tren- 5 the World Over, ton caused a loss of on Affairs Conventions, Sporting, | censor, at Summit, N. J.; aged 71. $1,500,000. Movements Land Battle Front In Poland, and 22. Dr. Austin Flint, noted physician and FEBRUARY. With Obituary Fires, Weather, Va= alienist, in New York city; aged 80. 18. Frank James, last of James brothers and Sea With New Aus= 26. Social- noted France, Belgium, | | J. Keir Hardie, noted English in the civil war and later as Accident Record garies and MisceF ist, M. P. and lecturer, in Glasgow, desperate men. died near Excelsior Nations In Ser= Scotland. Springs, Mo.; aged 74. tria, Gallipoli, of the Year. laneous Events. $ OCTOBER. 20. Panama-Pacific International exposi- Line. via and 30. Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian states- tion at San Francisco formally opened. Egypt. man, former premier, in England: MARCH. aged 94. 3. Anarchists caught in an to I attempt 81. Blanche Walsh, actress, in Cleveland, Haitian government of President Dar- explode bombs in St. iVlrick's cathe- O.; aged 42. New York. 5. Greece protested against the landing tiguenave and concluded a treaty, es- dra!, NOVEMBER. 8. of troops at Saloniki to defend Servia. tablishing a protectorate for ten Harry Kendall Thaw placed on trial AFFAIRS. 1. Herman Kid- 7. Austro-German forces under General MEXICAN j years. in New York for conspiracy to escape on the water. von Mackensen invaded Servia. Bul- V 28. President der, German- the asylum at Matteawan. Wilson welcomed the G. A. | to Servia. American edi- Thaw garia sent 24 hour ultimatum R. veterans In Camp Emery, Wash- 13. and foui* alleged conspirators Lwar 8. Germans recaptured Belgrade, capital ington. tor, in New acquitted on charge of conspiracy. JANUARY. C4. JANUARY. of Servia. OCTOBER. York; aged 14. Lincoln Beachey, the American avi- forces defeated Villa's 1. British Formidable sunk In war on Servia. Carranza’s 4. Booker T. ator, killed in battleship 11. Bulgaria declared 1. E. R. Monfort of flight at the Panama- troons at Pueblo; Villa lost 7U0 killed. Captain Ohio elect- the English channel by German sub- 28. A general attack by Italians at Goritz ed Washington, Pacific exposition, in San Francisco. Gonzales Garza chosen commander in chief of the G. A. R. or a 17 Gen. Roque negro leader marine mine; over 600 drowned. failed after an all day struggle. 1' APRIL. of Mexico the NOVEMBER. 24. In a naval on provisional president by and educator, German attack the Eng- NOVEMBER. at Mexico City. 7. United States declared the British 13. Bethlehem Steel jumped to 155 in the lish coast the German cruiser Bluecher convention at Tuskcegee, 6. Nish, great rail- Garza and his blockade of neutral ports illegal. New York Stock where was Bulgarians captured w provisional President Ala.; aged 67. Exchange, 37,- sunk, with about 700 of her crew. *' way center in Servia. Mexico as a 10. Yoshihlto crowned emperor of Japan. 300 shares were dealt in. British cruiser Lion disabled. cabinet abandoned City G. Susan K. Dick- Mi- 28. Public library of St. Paul 24. Germans and Austrians captured DECEMBER. inson, destroyed by FEBRUARY. capital. journal- loss trovitza and Pristina, Servia. Chief Carranza reoccu- fire; $375,000. International peace Mexican First 2. United States declared that German ist, at Scran- 4. German declared a war 28 congress met at The Hague. Name of admiralty DECEMBER. pied Mexico City. attaches at Washington, Boy-Ed and ton, Pa.; aged zone in the English channel after Feb. Culebra cut, in the Panama canal, 1. British defeated by Turks near Bag- » Gen. Garza renounced the office of Von Papen, were objectionable. 84. 18. changed to Gaillard cut. dad, Mesopotamia. president of Mexico. 6. Sixty-fourth congress met. 9. Dr. Solomon 18. German war zone decree went into ef- provisional 30. Colon. Panama, swept by loss 2. Germans and Austrians Mon- 6. The United States demanded of Aus- Schechter, not- fire; fect. captured FEBRUARY. $3,500,000 in the business a disavowal of on district, where astir, Servia. himself tria the sinking of the ed authority MARCH. 4 Gen. Villa proclaimed presi- Photo by American 4G5 buildings were destroyed. 10. Balkans: Allied troops in Greece fell Italian liner Ancona Nov. 7. the Hebrew 18. British Irresistible and Press Association. battleships on Saloniki. dent. 10. and Von re- in MAT. back head of the Constitutional- Captains Boy-Ed Papen Scriptures, Ocean and French battleship Bouvet 10 Carrarfza, called the German 11. Naval fleet arrived at New by governments. New York; York. sunk a naval attack in the ist in Mexico, expelled the Herman Kidder. during party 11. The council of state in China de- aged 68. 16. New government proclaimed by revo- minister. Dardanelles. Spanish clared that the republic at a recent lutionists in Portugal. The new pre- APRIL. 28. German submarine U-28 torpedoed had mier. Joao shot a election voted to change the form Chagas, by senator. British ships Falaba and Aguilla in forces defeated at Jrapuato by of to a The 18. President Wilson to Ger- RUSSIAN FRONTIER. 9 Villa's government monarchy. protested St. George’s channel; 68 passengers J f •> Gen. Obregon’s army. crown was tendered to President Yuan many in the Lusitania case. Naval and 70 sailors lost. Villa's army defeated by Obregon's Shih Kal. NATURE FREAKS. parade at New York. 18 APRIL. forces at Celaya. 18. Wedding of President Wilson and Mrs. JUNE. JANUARY. 26. French tor- JUNE. Edith Bolling Galt. steamer Leon Gambetta 1. United Confederate veterans met at forces were south of the Car- pedoed by an Austrian submarine in 6. Russian Wilson warned the Mexi- 19. Election of deputies in Greece. JANUARY. Richmond. 2, President the strait of Otranto; BOO seamen pathian mountains invading Hungary. to make peace. 26. Admiral Dewey’s 78th birthday. 6. commission can revolutionists 13. Earthquake in Italy; many cities and Georgia prison reported drowned. 28. A large Russian army was advancing occupied Mexico City. sentence of Koe- 25. Carranza troops towns destroyed. Avezzano being the against commuting Frank, MAY. on the Russian border against Former President Huerta arrested at death list alleged murderer. a German fortified city in 2?] principal sufferer; 29,978; 7. The Lusitania was torpedoed and nigsberg, N.' M., by United States shock recorded in 10. Second United States note to Ger- East Prussia. Newman, by seismograph sunk oft Ivinsale, Munster coast, Ire- marshals’ on charge of conspiracy. Washington. many sent to Ambassador J. W. Ge- % SHIPWRECKS. land. Out of 2,104 persons on board FEBRUARY. APRIL. rartriple alliance, of diplomat, ^ Beseler’s German army. 55. Molla Bjurstedt 4. $2,000,000 fire on the in New- of and 20,000 un- which she was a member, with Ger- in Boston; aged grain pier capture guns reported and ar- ai x iniaucij'iiia. Va. German front bro- SEPTEMBER. many and Austria. 7. F. Hopklnson Smith, author port News, wounded prisoners. Score, 4—6, 6—2, 6—0. 7. in British reached New 6 miles in at La Bas- 4. Germans captured Grodno and ad- 7. delivered an ultimatum to Chi- in New York city; aged 76. $66,000,000 gold ken length Loos, Japan tist, 18. Jerome D. noted amateur, editor Kansas Travers, Yonk via the American Express. see and Souchez, and 25 miles in the vanced on Riga. na demanding concessions. 13. W. R. Nelson, City ^ won title of open golf championship Semicentennial of the Wash- 8. China accepted Japan’s demands with- Star, in that city; aged 74. anniversary Champagne. NOVEMBER. of the United States, defeating Mc- of 1865 western drive. out qualifications. 16. Ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury of Vermont, ington grand review by 20,000 28. Allies continued 8. Germans abandoned Important posi- Namara, at Baltusrol, N. J. G. A. R. veterans. President Wilson reviewed the fleet on at Burlington; aged 77. NOVEMBER. tions in front of Riga. 25 Yale defeated Harvard in the varsity Sons of Veterans’ annual encampment Hudson river. 16. Nelson W. Aldrich, former senator 18. Allies held war council In Paris. races at New Haven, winning all var- in joint 5. President Wilson proclaimed United from Rhode Island, in New York city; Washington. sity, freshman and second varsity 17. the explorer, States in the war between aged 73. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, neutrality events. of 17 son of Secre- heard from after a silence Italy and Austria-Hungary. 25. Frederick W. Seward, at 28. Cornell won the varsity race months. He was in Banks Land. and car- W. H. Seward and who MINOR WAR EVENTS. Japan China signed treaties to tary of State Leland Poughkeepsie, with Stanford 26. In an action near Cape Haitien. Haiti, ry out demands. was wounded in defending his father WAR ZONE. Japan’s 20:36 also race, SOUTHERN | J second: time, 3-5; junior 10 Americans were wounded and 40 when attacked at Mon- JUNE. April 14, 1866, in with second. | 10:001-5, Pennsylvania Haitian rebels killed. | I trose, N. Y.; aged S3. .British Field Marshal Kitchener dec- Syracuse won the freshman race in 27. Gasoline and dynamite explosion in JANUARY. orated with the Garter. Gilbert Par- MAY. 9:29 3-5, with Cornell second. the business district of Ardmore, Okla.. FEBRUARY. 26. The German government ordered the author and over iter, me novelist, 2. Olive Harper, translator, JULY. killed 55 people and injured 100; 3. Turks estimated at 12,000 attacked seizure of private stores of corn, a baron. in aged 73. loss $500,000. and flour. created Philadelphia; 16. Norman S. Taber of Boston made a property British guards along Suez canal south wheat 3. General Bennett 31. John W. Alexander, portrait artist, 49th annual encampment of the Grand new world's one mile run record at of Ismailia, Egypt. FEBRUARY. H. re-elect- former of the National Army of the opened in Wash- Young president Cambridge; time 4 minutes 12 3-5 sec- Republic 24. Allied fleet bombarded Turkish forts 16. York Germany informed the United States ed commander in Academy of Design, in New ington. sea entrance to Constan- onds. guarding the that she would insist on maintaining chief United Con- city; aged 59. 28. Farmers* National Congress opened at SEPTEMBER. tinople. the war zone in the English channel. federate Veter- JUNE. Omaha. APRIL. 4. Amateur golf championship of the MARCH. ans. L. noted civil war to Wireless phone talk was accomplished 10. Gen. E. Molineux, won Robert A. Gard- landed on the shore of United States by and San Fran- 25. Allied troops 1. announced United States peti- in New York city; aged 82. between Arlington, Va., from the England her intention to officer, ner of Chicago, who defeated John G. the Dardanelles under fire to dissolve S. noted cisco, 5,000 miles. stop all ships to and from the sea- tion 13. Col. C. E. Woodruff, U. A., of Mount N. 5 Turkish Anderson Vernon, Y., 80. Speech transmitted by wireless phone guns. of the United States surgeon and anthropologist, in New ports Germany. up and 4 to plav, at Detroit. Honolulu. 4.600 MAY. Steel 65. from Arlington, Va., to 14. The German cruiser Dresden, which corporation Rochelle, N. Y.; aged 'William M. Johnston won the national forma) of 7. miles. 22. Italy made proclamation survived the of denied by court 25. Rafael celebrated in battle Falkland is- Josefty, pianist, tennis singles championship at Forest OCTOBER. war. of appeals. York 62. lands, sunk in battle with a British New city; aged Hills, N. Y., defeating Maurice E. Mc- 25. Austrian navy and airships attacked 8. William Jennings historical 4. International farm congress opened at fleet near San Juan Fernandez island, by 27. Ellen Hardin Walworth, Loughlin with a score of 1—6, 6—0, 7—5, Italy’s coast. Italian troops seized American Bryan resigned R. In Denver. off Chili. ^088 writer, prominent in the D. A. 10-8. Austrian territory. Association. the of 11. National Woman’s Christian Temper- 16. Great Britain issued a sweeping order portfolio Washington; aged 84. 11. Women’s won golf championship by ance Wash. JUNE. in off all Robert state in Wilson’s O’Dono- union met at Seattle, council cutting outside trade Lansing. 29. O'Donovan Rossa (Jeremiah Mrs. C. H. Vanderbeck of Philadel- be- cabinet. in New 21. Wireless telephoning accomplished 7. Italian troops, led with Germany and refused to modify van), Irish patriot leader, phia at Chicago, 3 up and 2 to play; IJoto‘uucri or tween Arlington, Va., and Paris. General Cador- the war zone blockade. Lansing secretary 84. by appointed York city; aged Mrs. W. A. Gavin runner up. 8tate ad Interim. 26. Steamer Hocking sailing under United na, forced the im- 4 JULY. JULY. 15. Directum I. made new world's pacing States flag seized by a British cruiser portant river I JULY. record of for a mile without a 8. Germany replied to note of the United 2. Gen. Porflrio Diaz, former president 1:5614 off the port of New York. Isonzo in advance fl Political revolt President wind shield at N. Y. States (June 10), promising to safe- against of Mexico, after Syracuse, NOVEMBER. toward Trieste, & Americans under their own Guillaume of Haiti to avenge the exe- several terms 29. The Philadelphia club clinched the Na- guard flag. cution 30. Great Britain seized at Saint Lucia the Austria. M of 160 political prisoners. Guil- and by tional league pennant at Boston by AUGUST. deposed United States steamer Tennessee. 9. Italians captured aurne took in the French le- Boston 5 to 0. | refuge Madero, In Par- defeating Monfalcone, an M 4. Great Britain sent notes to the United gation. 30. Boston became American cham- DECEMBER. is; aged 85. league important strate- M States upholding her blockade. through the defeat of Detroit by 4. World’s Fair: Panama-Pacific exposi- AUGUST. 16. St. Clair McKel- pion Kic town north- a 24. Berlin informed Washington that the St. Louis, 8 to at Detroit. tion closed: attendance over 17,000,000; Germany refused to consider the W. way, editor of 2, west of Trieste. killing of Americans on the Arabic Frye profits $2,000,000. was not intentional. damage case a matter for the Brooklyn OCTOBER. AUGUST. Ferd’s peace mission set out from New negotiations with the United States, Eagle, in Brook- 9. Gil Anderson won 350 mile auto race SEPTEMBER. reat York. 1 Italy sent an ul- a Britain insisted upon her pol- lyn, N. Y.; aged for the Aster Cup at Sheepshead Bay. L German ambassador announced of 6. Sixty-fourth congress convened. timatum to Tur- ^ that restricting neutral trade with 70. 13. Boston Americans defeated the Phila- 8. Austria asked to disavow the act of key. liners would not be sunk by subma- Germany. (1. Dr. W. A. Crof- Nationals in the fifth and de- delphia sinking the ocean liner Ancona. b. Austrians launcn- photo by American rines without warning unless they re- United States forces took forcible of the world’s 5 to pos- fut. Journalist, ciding game series, H. Immigration statistics for 1915 showed ed counterattacks Press Association. sisted or attempted to escape. cssion of Port au resisting and au- at Prince; traveler 4, Philadelphia. a falling off of arrivals of nearly 600.- 8, German airships raided London, in- Haitians fired upon. in Wash- 23. Cornell defeated Harvard 10 to 0 at thor, 000 up to Dec. 1 against the arrivals juring S4 persons and killing 20. nited States declined to an em- 80. Mass. put ington; aged Cambridge, of 1914. SEPTEMBER. OCTOBER. on the sale of munitions to AtJOOST. Princeton defeated Dartmouth 30 to 7 at Convention: National American Wo- allied vjjjy°c 14. It. Turkish artillery drove the 6. Germany disavowed the sinking of the ligerents and agreed to accept pay Princeton. meets in 6. Maarten Maar- man Suffrage association troops from their works on the Parda- Arabic and to IPnrflrlo f r»azU NOVEMBER. j agreed pay indemnity. Germany *or the sinking of the nov- tens, Dutch Washington. nelles. 13. Fifty-five killed and 114 injured la ship Frye. 67. 6. Harvard defeated Princeton 10 to C at Conventions: American Society of In- aid ellst, in Zeist, Holland; aged 27. C. Bulgaria mobilized her army. London by Zeppelin attack. elected Dartiguenave F. lawyer and sol- football. ternational Law and Pan-American president. 6. General B. Tracy, OCTOBER. in New 13. Yale defeated Princeton 13 to 7. Scientific meet in Washing- DECEMBER. X. SEPTEMBER. dier, former secretary of navy, congress 8. Russia sent an ultimatum to Bulgaria York 85. 20. Harvard beat Yale 41 to 0 at football. ton. tl. London recruiting offices crow’ded with advisory board appointed, with city; aged German offi- In 14 to 0 at foot- Convention r American Historical asso- demanding dismissal of volunteers under the Lord Derby plan, Edison chairman. ||l John W. Harper, noted publisher. tl. Army vanquished Nary |8. T e 84. ball. ciation meets in Washington. cers, etc. which w«is to end Dec. 11. Un,ted States recognised the new New York; aged