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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. rar<i in Jieriin, pro- JULY. 1,100 were lost. 3. Germans checked in a desperate at- Gen. Huerta | 3. Snowstorm and 70 on testing against sub- 3, Gen. Orozco, colleague of mile gale raged IS. British battleship Goliath torpedoed in tack on Russian lines at Bclimow, be- lTiarlning ocean and with him under bail to the United the Atlantic coast. the Dardanelles, with loss of 600 lives. fore Warsaw. JANUARY. 22. Texas liners. States, jumped his bail and escaped swept by a rain and electrical 26. British battleship Triumph torpedoed 7. Germans, by a forced march, turned 17. Yaqui Indians de- from El Paso to Mexican soli. 18. British steamer Penarth wrecked on storm; 25 dead. in the Dardanelles. the Russian flank at Johannesburg, *n the Norfolk 21 sailors drowned. 26. heat record of 91 in New clared war on the re- AUGUST. coast; April degrees 28. British battleship Majestic sunk by a East Prussia, forcing the enemy to York United States. MARCH. city. torpedo in the Dardanelles. treat back to Russian territory. 5. Conference of A. B. C. powers and the Fleet ordered to 26. United States submarine F-4 sunk off MAY. 8. Germans in Russia cut the railroad United States over Mexico, met in sail for Lower Cal- JUNE. 7. Frost, snow and rain in the central behind the retreating Russian army. Washington. Honolulu while making a submerged ifornia 17. Italian submarine Meduso torpedoed west, from Texas to Montana. to protect North of Augustowo the Russians de- Gen. Carranza resented President Wil- run. All on board drowned. by an Austrian submarine. 11. 22. Lassen peak, California, burst out in Americans. serted their positions east of the Ma- son's attempt to restore peace in APRIL. 80. British admiralty steamer Armenian, eruption. li. Harry K. Thaw surian lakes. and was notified that with Americans in her crew, torpe- Mexico officially 4. Dutch liner Maurita lost in storm off JUNE. granted a jury trial | and Przas- 22 Ameri- 24. Germans stormed captured armed intervention in Mexico by the the Atlantic coast; 49 people drowned. to test his doed off the British coast. 23. Earthquake in southern California sanity. nysz, Poland, an important Russian United States would not be approved 19.