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Show HD aemahdrCrar,blnet OF 1915 deaths, tmercans a,taks V?" nst repetition of pwiorj Ii many lay, T Died by aeroplanes -- 5.. dmn 9 English anJ crlP-- J a hill Chronology of the Year, Giving " of.Arras after six momhs of continuous fighting. Events Most Important the May 22. Russian battleship rantell-- n sunk In Black sea in All Countries. with men Kre"'-h'wo- dClarfd Austria-Hungar- PROGRESS OF THE GREAT WAR Lusitania and the Teutonic Drives Through Poland and Ser- bla, the Outstanding Features Prominent Persons Who Passed Awsy. Inking of . . COMPILED BY E. W. PICKARD. EUROPEAN WAR nfM,nrie2571.t.ll' ln' aried Austria at head 'enlce- - seizing four towns. British warship Triumph sunk by torpedo in Dardam lies. May 26. American steamer Nebraskan. Gnerpool without cargo, struck and crippled by torpedo off Irioh coast. Italy Invaded the Trentino. May 27. British battleship Majestic de- by torplio in Dardanelles British auxiliary steamship Princess, Irene blown up in Sheerntss harborr 4J0 lives lost. May SO.German reply to Wilson note received at Washington and declared evaslv May St German Zeppelins made raid on London. June mans and Austrians. recaptured by GerJune 11. Italians - took Gradlsca and other Important towns. June 15. Jan. 1 British battleship Formidable sunk by German submarine In the Eng- on Lemberg, captured Mosoiskaadvancing 878 crew. of with Allied aeroplane fleet bombarded Karlslish channel, Jan. 6. Russians annihilated Ninth ruhe. killing 27 persons. Turkish army corps and routed First and Zeppelin raided English northeast coast, Tenth corps in the Caucasus. killing IK persons. Russians forced Usaok pass In the June 16. Russians driven over Galician border. Carpathians. Jan. 10. Lille evacuated by Germans Germany called 400.000 young trained men to the colors. and occupied by British. I Jan. 17. Russians stormed southern June 21. s took Rawa Carpathian pass and entered Transyl- Ruska from Russians. vania. General De Wet found guilty of treaJan. 18. Six German Zeppelins raided son. the Norfolk coast, dropping bombs in June 23. Lemberg captured by Yarmouth, Sandringham, King's Lynn, f causFrench took .German work called the Comer, Sherringham and Beeston, life. Labyrinth, west of Lens. ing heavy damage and some loss ofBlue-cher Jan. ii German armored cruiser June 28. Italy broke diplomatic relacruisers sunk and two battle criptions with Turkey. Vice Admiral Beatty's squadron Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk pled by In running fight in North sea by Germans,, 20 Americans lost. occuforces Jan. II June 30. Russians began retreat froth Vistula river In Poland. pied Klelce, Russian Poland. Jan. 27. Austrians drove' Russians from July 7. Twenty allied aeroplanes raided Usaok pass In Carpathians. Bruges, destroying docks. Feb. L French torpedo boa sunk off 8. navy department seized German wireless plant at SayvUle, L. I., for Nteuport fleet destroyed breaches of neutrality. Feb. 8. Anglo-Frenc- h four forts in the Dardanelles. . July 5. Germany's reply to American 4. declared waters note on submarine warfare unyielding In Feb. Germany around British Isles a war sone. most Important particulars. Feb. (.Russians crossed River Rawka, July D. German forces in German penetrating German front west of War- Southwest Africa ' surrendered to General " saw. Botha.', Feb. 8. Germans violently bombarded British liner Orduna, bringing Americans home from Europe, attacked by Solssons, setting it afire. Feb. 10. Russians repulsed German submarine with torpedo and In Carpathians but were driven back shells. v tn Bukowlna. July IS. Italian cruiser Giuseppe Gari British held cargo of food ship baldi sunk by Austrian submarine. July 22. American reply to Germany, Feb. 1L United States warned Germany reaffirming former etand, sent to Berlin. Terrible massacree of Armenians by against destroying American vessels or '.lives of American cltisens in attacking Turks reported. shipping, and warned Great Britain of July 26. American steamer Leel&naw the danger to American. Interests In the sunk by German submarine; crew saved. luse of American flag by British vessels. July 27. Austrians made air raid on Germans evacuated Lodi, but drove the Verona. Russians out of East Prussia. July 80. Austrians occupied Lublin. Feb. M. Germany replied unfavorably July 31. Leyland liner Iberian sunk by AmeriGerman torpedo boat; seven- - of crew te American warning not to sink to can ships, and Great Britain refused killed. Aug. Mltau, capital of. Courland. modify Its shipping orders. blockade of England by taken by Germans. Germany began A two vessels. Great Britain flatly rejected Aug. sinking Feb.- - 2E German blockaders sank American contentions against blockade. A American steamer Carlb, Norwegian shli Warsaw occupied by the GerAug. 'Regin, damaged British collier and three mans. s. British merchant steamers. Aug A Ivsngorod taken by Reims bombarded by Germans, 10 civil lane killed. Aug. 8. British cruiser India and deFeb. 26. Allied fleets reduced Turkish stroyer Lynx sunk. forts at entrance of Dardanelles. Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-DFeb. 28. Dacia seised by French cruiser sunk by submarine in Darda-nelle- a and taken to Brest Germans occupied Prsgs. March I Great Britain laid embargo against shipment of all commodities Into Zeppelins raided English east coast, Germany. f killing 15; one Zeppelin destroyed. Hambfirg-Americofficials Indicted in Aug. 18.' U. 8. rejected New York by federal'grand Jury for conviews on shipment of war suppllea entered spiracy to defraud the United State Aug. 1L British submarines March (.Austrians evacuated Cserno-w- lt Black sea and torpedoed the Breslau and Bukowlna. Goeben. March (.Zeppelin airship L--l deAug. 11 British troopship Royal Ed 17 crew of near and Tlriemont ward sunk by submarine In Aegean sea; stroyed killed. 800 lost. March 10. American ship William P. Aug. IT. Germans took fortress of Kov- Frye sunk by German cruiser Prins Eltel no. Friedrich. Prins Eltel at Newport News Greek cabinet resigned and Venlselos with captain and crew of Frye. was invited to form new ministry. U-March 1L German submarine ll sunk U. 8. accepted German offar of compensation in Frys case. by British torpedo boat Ariel. British took Neuve Chapelle. Zeppelins raided British east coast PoGermans ehanboned Augustowo, killing ten civilians. land. Aug. 18. Whits Star liner Arabic. LivMarch IS. British order in council shut erpool for Boston, torpedoed and sunk by off all trade With Germany, ordering techGerman submarine off Irish coast; 46 lost. Austro-German- s. Austro-German- Abstro-German- s. Austro-Hungari- , - Austro-Ger-ma- -- t Austro-German- ln nical blockade. German cruiser Dresden sunk off Falkland islands by British warships Glasgow and Kent and Japanese converts cruiser , Oram March M. American sanitary commission organised for work In Serbia. British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk by mines in the Dardanelles. March 22. Austrian fortress of Prsem-y- l Including two Americans. Aug. 20. German fleet engaged Russian fleet In Gulf of Riga, each side losing several vessels. Germans took Russian fortress of Aug 2L Italy declared war on Turkey, German cruiser sunk by British submarine In Baltic se British seaplane sank loaded Turkish troopship in Son of Marmora. Germans captured Blelsk, Russia. Aug. 23. Germanr occupied Russian fortress of Ossowet Aug. 26. Germans took Blalystok and Novo-georgtev- surrendered to Russians Turks massacred thousands of Christians at Urumiah, Persia. March 22. Germans in Ghent executed 17 Belgians as spies. Germans ' drove Russians out of East Aug. 2A Germans captured Russian Prussia. fortress - Oltta. Allies landed force on Gallipoli pen'n-sul- a. Germany declared the sinking of the Arabic. If dons by German submarine, March 27. Russians forced way through was decidedly condemned by the German government and full reparation would be Carpathians Into Hungary. March 22. Twenty-da- y battle in Champagne country won by French, Germans Aug. IL Adolphs Pegoud. noted French losing 80.000. aviator, killed tn action. took Russian fortress of German submarine sank British steamGermans ers Aguilar and Falaba. about 140 lives futile. Germany offered to submit Lubeing lost. Sept April A Russians cleared Beskld range sitania and Arabic compensation claims of Austrians. to Tbs Hague tribunal. Turkish cruiser Mejldleh sunk by RusRussians evacuated Grodno. Dumbs and Bernstorff sian mine. Papers involving from J. F. J. Archibald April (.Germany agreed to pay for taken by British sinking American ship William P. Frya Sept 4. Allan liner Hesperian torpedoed lost. April M. Steamer Harpalyce, first re- off Fastset: relief ship York to Belgium, sunk BepL 8. President Wilson demanded in North sea by torpedo or mine. call of Austria a Ambassador Dumbno inStates replied to GerGermany declared It would pay April man government's criticism of Its for- demnity for Arabic deaths. 88 and Zeppelins raided London, killing eign policies, denying allegations and rejecting suggestions that exportation of injuring 88. on arms be prohibited. Sept. Ml Germany defended attack submaApril 21 French cruiser Leon Gambet-i- a Orduna, saying tt tried to escape sunk by Austrian torpedo, 862 lives rine. financial commission arAnglo-Frenc-h lost to arrange for loan of America in rived 28. raiders dropped German air April incendiary bombs on five English east 500,008,000 to allies. Hln coast towns. SepL 16. Russians checked Von northeast denburg's drive toward Riga and drove Russians occupied Lbubni Austrians further back In Galicia. of Ussok pass. 8epL 1. Vltna evacuated by Russians. April X. -- British announced destruction ef eight German submarines within week Sept . 18. British transport Ramazan sunk by submarine in Aegean aea; huny mines and net traps, May L British torpedo boat destroyer dreds lost. 100 and two German torpedo' boats sunk la Sept. 22- - French aviators dropped and bombs on royal palace at Stuttgart fight in North sea Isewhere In Wurtemberg. American tank steamer Gulflight torGermans captured Ostrow. but bulk of pedoed by Germans off Sdlly islands, capRussian army in Vilna salient escaped. tain and two seamen lost. promised American Sept 21 Germany May 1 Austro-Gsrma- n forces occupisd contraband conditional carrying Tarnow. ships and submarines, sunk by be not would 7. May Cunard liner Lusitania torpedoed nd sunk by Germans off coast of Ireland mads other concessions. 118 with toss af L29 Uvea, including Sept 26. Allies on western front began tremendous general attack on Germans. Americans: among the latter A. Q. half Sept XL American loan to allies, Elbert Hubbard. Cha Frohma a bllhos dollars at per cent announced. . Klein and Charles Plamondo Italian battleship Benedetto244Brin deMay A British destroyer Maori sunk lost T mine. stroyed by Interior explosion ; Ambassador AMtria-HuaXarecalled Russian naval baas of Llban Brest-Lltovs- k. C- t ZL-U- . Bsr-baros- sa Austro-Hungari- an Van-Aerbl- lt. W Dumba. Globe-Democra- t. oitty-rrin- e, attacked Wil8 Great battle tn west without ed I.p Goliath tor- lost. llson ,,ot i Ger1 Oct. 7. Rt. Rev. Robert Codman, Eple- copat bishop of Maine, at Boston. Oct. it Daniel M. Houser, publisher Of the St. I.ouis Oct It Henri Fabre, French entomol- - July 3 J. P. Morgan shot twice by S72, and confirmed trade commission apFrank Holt, who placed bomb In capitol pointees except George Ruhlee. result Robert W Woolley nominated as diat Washington. tXt 5 Venlzelos. Greek premier, - rector of ndnt e 6 Tw WilcvFandl.UtLlnbeeau-- e the July king opposed his pro4 -S- ixty-ltitrd congress ad March Jureti in Ir.h cn,1enoo dav celebrations gram of aiding the allies. von July 6. Frank Holt, who shot J. P. jouined. 15 -Gennanv, through Ambassador Samuel - Rogers of North March Bernstorff, disavowed the act of the sub- Morgan committed suicide in cell Carolina succeeded William J. Harris as World marine commander In sinking the Arabic GhrtM.an Emleuvor convention director of census n.i offered Indemnity for tab American opened 'ti Chicago. April 6. William llule Thompson. Reh'es lost. President Wilson accepted ofJuly lo Robbers held aip t. A N. train fer. in Albania and toff nearlv (TkX'.OOO publican, elected mayor of Chicago. Mayor Roberts of Torre Haute lnd . Get 7. Four hundred thousand Austro-GermaJuly 12 -- Thomas A Edison made head of board of civd.an inv tutors to advise and 26 others found guilty of conspiracy began Invasion of SeVbia, crossin election. ing the Drtna, Danube and Save rivers at navy d p.trtment June 8 Secretary of State' Rryan. dismany points July it -- Harry K. Thaw declared sane New Greek cabinet headed by Alexan- by Jury approving the note to Germany, resigned annulled 21. der Zalmls' appointed court June Aug. 7. Joe Cooper and Morris Keller Supreme Get. 8. Serbia declared war on ulgaria. killed in atdo race at I'es Moines grandfather clause" aimed at negro sufSlide tn Culebra cut blocked Panama frage InGreek cabinet derided on policy of canal. June 22 -- One hundred twentv-elgh- t men's armv training dianapolis city officials and politicians. benevolent Aug. v" toward allies. Gel. 8 Fieri e battle between Serbians camp at Plattsburg. N. Y opened Thomas Taggart, Indicted for elecs and Aug IS. l.eo Prank taken fioin Geor- tion fraud conspiracy. along Drina river June 23. Robert Lansing made secretary prison, farm by mob nnd hanged. gia Belgrade captured by the Germans. Aug.79 -- Powder mills In Delaware and, of state Oct,,. 10 Six German naval officers inblown up mv Massachusetts terned at Norfolk. Va., disappeared. stortously Aug 28. Frank - Polk maue Counselor Sept. 20 Citizens' training rump at Fort of 11. S state department. Oct. 12. Bulgaria began lnvaaton of Si pt 14. South Carolina adopted itate-Sheridan. Illinois, opened Serbia. Ide prohibition. Sept. 27. G A. R national encampment Fortress Oct. 19. -- Woman suffrage defeated in opened in Washington Germans. SO sent Wireless phone message New Jersey. Sept. Germans executed Edith Cavell, British from Washington to Hawaii. Nov. 3. Suffrage defeated tn New York. nurse. In Brussels. -1 and Six midshipmen dismissed Oct. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; RepubOct. . 13 Zeppelins bombarded London, for hazing. others punished st .Vnnapolis licans carried Massachusetts, electing 8 killing 55 pc tso ns. Capt. E It Mot, fort, Cincinnati, elected V, McCall governor; new constitution. reBulgaria dedured war on Serbia. A R. G in of commander chief Oct. 15. Great llrltian declared war on by New Yolk; prohibition defeated jected Oct. 4 -- Mayor Thompson of Chicago or- In Ohio; A. O. Stanley, - Dein., sleeted Bulgaria. dered Sunday liquor selling slopped. governor of Kentucky, and K. C. HarringFrance declared war on Bulgaria Get. 6 - President Wilson announced hi ton, IVin., of Maryland, Oct. 19. Italy declared war on Bulgaria engagement to Mrs. Norman Galt of Dec 6 xty-fourth congress assemHulgaans-eu- t railroad at Washington. house bled; Clark apcakecoif Vranva. Panama-Pacific 4 Dec. exposition IVc. 7. DemiHTattc national committee Oct. 22. German drive on Riga was closed of June convention selected St. l.quls for halted. 14, 1916. Dec. 6 -- Bishop Mundelein of Brooklyn Germans defeated In bloody fight on appointed archbishop of Chicago. Republicans won generally In MassaTahure hill. France. Dec. 18 President Wilson married Mrs chusetts town elections n Dec. H Reiibllean. national convention Oct. 23 Germany officially upheld exeNorman Gnlt Deo. .'8 - American Civic association met ret for Juno 7 In Chicago. cution of Edith Cavell P. Fletcher nominated Deo. British submarine sank German cruiser In Washington Convention of American Association for ambassador to Mexico. Prlnz Adalbert near Labau. Labor Legislation opened In Washington. Oct. 24. British submarine sank Turkish transport Carmen In Sea of Marmori German drove back Russians north- fVpt definite sue r',rlUent " 17 5houlJ rehultiiii uffVn-- ?u,sh I'ardanelle.-.- , V r maK oi&tm. th t. 16 -- Sir Lionel Carden, British diplomat. In Londoh. Oct. 25 Ia ul llervleu, French dramatic author.,30. Cleveland, O Nov. L E.' W. Pretorlus. publisher of St Louis Times, committed suicide. Herman Rldder, publisher New York York. New at Staats Zeltung, I Waller, noted actor. In lomdon, Nov. 6. P. A. B W'tdener. Philadelphia financier. , Nov. 9. E. S. Willard, noted actor, tn London. Nov. 14 Booker T. Washington, noted negro educator, at Tuskegee, Ala. Austro-German- Nov.-16- I- -Si- kl west of Dvlnsk. Oct. 26. Teutons and Bulgarians joined forces and moved south in Serbia. British transport Marquette torpedoed In Aegean; 90 lost. Oct. 28 French cabinet resigned and Brland became premier. Nov. 4. Zalmls cabinet defeated In Greek chamber of deputies and resigned. Nov. 6. Bulgarians defeated French near Frllip but were beaten at Babuna 4 pass. German cruiser Undine sunk by British submarine. Nov. 6. Bulgarians captured Nish, opening through rail route tor Teutons to Turkey. King of Greece called M. Skouloudla to form new neutrality cabinet. Nov. 9. Italian liner Ancona sunk by i Austrian submarine In Mediterranean; 200 Jan. 1 -- Revolutionists In Paraguay seized President Sharer. Feb. 11 Father Wladlmlr l,edochowskl. a Russian Pole, was elected general of the Society of Jeius. Feb. 23. President Davtlmar of Haiti fled the country. Mari h 23. China acknowledged Japanese control over Southern Manchuria. April 23 Japan sent ultimatum to China. Danish diet granted .suffrage to women. May 8. China yielded to Japan's de' mandsMay 27. Manuel de Arriaga, president I of Portugal, resigned. June 5. Danish parliament adopted new constitution giving franohleto women. July 27. Revolutionists liy Hsltl killed President Guillaume, and proclaimed Dr. Uossalvo Robro president. 7 ' lost. Including some Americans. Nov. 10. German cruiser Frauenlob torpedoed by Brttlshaubmarine In Baltic. Nov. 12. Churchill resigned from ' BritStates marines and blueJuly ish cabinet to Join the army In France. jackets landed at Port Au Prince, Haiti, 13. Nov. Bulgarians and Germane drove and took charge, Serbians out of Morava valley. Aug. 12. Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboll Nov. 24. Austrian aeroplanes raided Ve- In eruption. rona. killing thirty. Gen. Dortinguenave elected president Of Nov. 16. U. S. called on Austria-Hungar- y Haiti by national assembly. to explain sinking of the Ancona. . Sept. 17. Word received from Vtlhjal-ma- r Nov. 17. Bulgarians outflanked Serbians Stefansson, arctic explorer, who had. In Babuna pass and French along Cerna been missing for year and a half. river. Oct. 25. Porter Charlton convicted at British hospital ship Anglia sunk by Como, Italy, of wife murder and given 86 lost. mine in English channel; light sentence. Nov. 10. Emperor Yoshlhlto formally Austria formally denied blame for toes In Ancona. of life mounted the throne of Japan. sinking of the Dec. .3. Epidemic of typhus In Mexico Gorlts, under terrlflc bombardment, in Cltv reported. flames in many places. Dec. 5. Chinese rebels selxed cruiser Nov. 20. Germans occupied Novlbasar. Chao-H- o at Shanghai and fought two German guardshlp sunk by Russian de- other warships. ISO lost. near Libau: stroyers Dec. 6. Pope held consistory and apNov. 26. Germans captured thousands pointed seven cardinals. more Serbians and drove the northern Revolt at Shanghai suppressed. Dec. t 11. Yen Bht-Kaccepted the army toward the frontier. throne of Chine. British advance on Bagdad repulsed by at munitions Havre blew Belgian plant Turks thousand hilled and hurt. Nov. 27. Serbian government and the up: Dec. 18. Camille de Coppet elected pres Ident of Swiss republic. diplometio corps arrived at Scutari. Canadian government seised all high Wilin elevators from Fort grade wheat liam to Atlantic coast. Dec. L Teutons and Bulgarians pursued Serbs Into Albania. Dee. (.More Italians landed at Avlona Monastlr occupied by Austrians. Jen. II. Thirty-eigthousand persons Managing Director Buens- and three oth- killed, 60,006 Injured and many towns deart can Uns stroyed by earthquake In central Italy. er officials of HamburgIn New York convicted of conspiracy to Feb. 10. Menus Islands In American deceive and defraud U. 8. Samoa devastated by hurricane. 8. President Wilson asked GerDeo. March Explosion of gas, followed bv naval at- fire, In Laland mines of New River A many to recall Captain Boy-Evon Pape military Pocahontas Coal 'Co. of Hinton, W. Va., tache, and Captain attache of German embassy at Washing- entombed about 17 men. ' ton. March 26.Amertcan submarine F-- 6 Foreign Minister Sonnino declared Italy wrecked near Honolulu, 21 men lost would fight tha war to the finish. April 4. Great storm on Atlantic coaat, Dec. A Unnamed American ahlp in IS lives lost In wreck Mediterranean sent wireless call saying it April II. Coal mine accident In Japan was attacked by submarine. fatal to 236. ' commandeered all foreign Roumania April (0. Fire destroyed more than half Of Colon, Panama; lose $3,600,000. shipping in Its harbors. Henry Ford's peace crusaders sailed May 22. One hundred sixty-fopersons from New York. killed and scores injured In railway wreck Buens. Koetter and Hochmstster, In England. line officials, sentenced to June 22 Earthquakes tn ImtSerial Valmonths' imprisonment; Popplnghause ley. California, killed a number of perto one year. sons end seriously damaged many towns, Benedict issued appeal Dec. July 44. Steamer Eastland upset . in and lasting peace. for Just (.Pope Chicago river, 812 persons losing their deBritish submarine sank Turkish lives. of Sea in vessels five other and stroyer July 21. Typhoon at Shanghai killed 600 Marmora. Roumania closed Danube to navigation. end loss wan (6.000.0C& Dec. (. U. S. asked, Austria to disavow Aug. (.Erie, Pa., Inundated by cloud-bure- t, 27 Uvea toet and vast property attack on the Ancona, punish the submarine commander and pay for deaths of damage. Americana. Hurricane lower part of Aug. Dec. (.Allies driven from 8erbia into Texas, It260 dead and swept $18,000,000 property Greece. and loss. Dec. M. Kaiser recalled Boy-E- d 7. Sept Explosion of car of gasoline Von Papen. wrecked Ardmore, Okia., killing 60. Dec. 14. U. 8. demanded France 29. American six Germane taken from Destructive gulf storm hit Bept New Orleans and vicinity; (00 or more Dec. 16. Gen. Sir Douglas Haig suc- Uves loet ceeded Field Marshal French ea British Oct. 23. Twenty-on- e children banted to commander in Franca end Flanders. Austria made unsatisfactory reply to death in ' parochial school In Peabody, Masa note on Ancona. Nov. Steamer Santa Clara lost near Dec. 17. Four Germane arrested in New York and Jersey City on charge of plot- Astoria, Ore.; fifteen loet. ' Welland blow canal. to up Nov. 10. Gun plant of Bethlehem Steel ting Deo. 20. U. 8. reply to Austrian note company burned; loea (2.000.000. delivered at Vienna. Nov. H. Million dollar fire in war mateDec. 22. Artillery duel on western front. Dec. 21 Indecisive action tn Gallipoli. rial plant of Roebilng Sons company at Dec. 26. Allied aviators raided German Trenton, N. J. Nov. 21. Fire destroyed much of Avaposts in Franca. lon, Catalina island. Explosion at Du Pont Powder company plant at Wilmington, Del., killed 11. Dec. (.Hopewell, Va., Du Pont powder town, burned. DISASTERS ht a t d. ur 1 -- t Jan. L San Diego exposition opened. Jan. 14. Alabama legislature passed bill POLITICAL making tbe state dry after June 10. Jan. 26. President Wilson inaugurated first transcontinental telephone system Jan. 1 Senates passed Immigration bill by epeaklng directly to President Moore of tbe Panama-Paclf- lo exposition tn San with literacy test . Jan. 1 President Wilson declined for Francisco. fair opened at sixth lime to support federal constituFeb. 20. Panama-Pacifi-c tional amendment for woman suffrage. San Francisco. Jan. 12. House of representatives by March A North Dakota legislature passed measure abolishing capital pun- vote of 204 to 174 rejected Mondcll resolution proposing enfranchisement of womishment. March IL Rear Admirals Fletcher, en. Howard and Cowles appointed admiral Eighty Terre 17001 men pleaded guilty te indictments charging conspiracy to under rew taw. 12. hot found Thaw K. March Harry corrupt the election of November 2. 1914 Jan. 28. President Wilson vetoed the guilty of conspiracy. April t. Census bureau announced pop- immigration bill because of tbe literacy test clause. ulation passed M0.000.000 mark. libel case Feb. (.House passed naval appropriaApril 19 Barnes-Roosevtion bin with provision for two battleopened at Syracuse. N. Y. V. 8.. Supreme court refused final apships. Feb. 22. President Wilson nominated as peal of Leo M. Frank, convicted of murmembers of interstate trade commission der of Mary Phagan at Atlanta, Go. May 22. Roosevelt given verdict la Joseph E. Dacies of Wisconsin, Edward N. Hurley of Illinois, William J. Harris Barnes libel suit. - June 2L Governor Slaton of Georgia of Georgia, William H. Parry of Wash-- 1 life sentence to Leo Franks commuted ington. and George Rubles of Mew HampImprisonment and martial law was pro- shire. claimed around governor's boms te pro4e$srte passed army approFeb, tect htffi. priation bill ot (101,660,000 knd house apJuly 2. Bomb explosion wrecked in- propriated (6,000.000 for fortifications. March I. Senate passed general defiception room on east side ef capitol la ciency appropriation bill carrying $8.01- Washington elt tt Bur' C. March 8. Chicago building contracture locked out 9oO union lathers. April 15. Great building strike declared In Chicago. April 30 Federal board of arbitration awarded slight wage Increase to engine-me- n of 98 western, railroads. Bridge nnd stiuctural iron workers of Chicago struck. June IS. Great street car strike In Chi- cago. June 18. Chicago street car strike ended by arbitration agreement June 25 Shut down of Chicago's build- 000,000. at Former Senator Julius INDUSTRIAL Jan. 16 President Wilson ordered federal Inquiry Into high price of wheat, Mnrrh 9 Goulds lost rontrol of MisMountain system. souri Paclflc-Iro- n March 13 Duyton Cush Register case. Lower court reversed, nd remanded for new trial by U. 8. circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati. March 18. Trade commission organized at Washington. Joseph R. Davs, Wisconsin, chairman. March 16. Charles C. Mc?hord elected chairman Interstate commerce commission- vice James 8. Harlan April 3. International Mercantile Marine company put In receivers hands. April 9. J. B. Greenhut company. New York department store, failed for (12, lted . rows at Kalamasoo, Mich. l)ec. 4. August Pltou. actor and playwright, at Hubesound. Fla. Det 6 Gen Jesus Raid, hero of Cubaa wars, at Santiago. Edward Smith, president America company, it Buffalo Shipbuilding Deo. 9 -- Stephen Phillip. F.ngllah poet. 10. Lt .Cot. C. 8 Hrotnwell. head Dec. of army engineer corps In Hawaii, committed suicide. Ahrahani Gruber, prominent New York politician leo. 12. Former V 8. Senator F. M. Cockrell at Washington. Karl of Glasgow at Fairtlne, Scotland. 15 L'ov Ylseount Alveratone. former lord chief Justice of Great Rrltaln. w Nlsli-Saloni- ' Sir Charles Tupper. Canadlaa statesman, at Bexley Heath, England. Walsh. actress, at Oct. Oct. April 21. Receivers appointed for Rock Island railroad company. May 15. Interstate commerce commission decided railroads owning and operating steamship lines pn great lakes must give them up. May 24. Pan American financial conference opened in Washington. Aug. 11. Interstate commerce commission dented most of requests of western roads for Increased freight rates. Aug. 12. Interstate commerce commission ordered big reductions In freight rates on anthracite coal. Aug. 17. Interstate commerce commission found Moore-Rel- d syndicate guilty ef plundering Rock Island road and throw Ing it into a receivership for Its own pur- industry ordered because ing construction of strike. 10. Chicagos building trade strike July and lockout settled. July 16. Employees of Chicago surface lines won big victory in arbitration award. July 20 Strike and riUj?ff at Bayonne plant of Standard Oil Co. July 27. Standard Oil strike at Bayonne, N. J., ended. hoiisand Chicago Sopt. 27. Twenty-fiv- e garment makers called out on atrtke. Dec. 8. Fifty-fou- r Chicago lubor leaders Indicted for conspiracy, extortion and malicious mischief. J MEXICO Jan. 6. Carransa forces under Obregon stormed and raptured Puebl and took Gen. Angeles prisoner. Jan. 27. Provisional President Garsa and his government fled from' Mexico City to Cuernavaca. ' Jan. 28. Carransa forces under General Obregon occupied MsXtco City, Car' Feb. 11. Carransa expelled Jole pose. Spanish minister, from Mexico, de24. Eastman Kodak company Aug. March (.Seven battleships ordered clared 'a monopoly In restraint of trade from Guentanamo to Vera Crus. Y. N. by federal court at Buffalo, Match 12. Carransa evacuated Mexico Oct. 1. U. 8. court at Philadelphia or- City and Zapata entered. John B. Mcdered moving picture trust to dissolve. Manus, American, killed by Zapatista while American flag floated over hla house. NECROLOGY Jan. 1 Karl Goldmark, famous com poser, tn Vienna. Jan. (. Mme, Jeanne Gervllle-Reachopera star, at New York. P. Wilder, author Jan. 10. Marshall and humorist, at St. Paul. M. E. Braddon, English Feb. 1 Mr novelist Feb. A Edward Tliden, Chicago packer. Feb. 11 James Creelman, war correspondent, in Berlin, Fannv Crosby, famous blind hymn writ; er, in Bridgeport. Conn. 18, Feb. Emil Charles Waldteufel. n French composer, at Parts. Feb. 11 Frank James, once notorious Bandit, at Excelsior Springs, Mo. March 11 Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 8r at Pocantlco Hills, N. Y. Count Sergius Julovlch Witte, in Petro-grae, d. March dropped cisco. March 14. 2,000 Aviator Lincoln Beachey feet to death at San Fran- 15 Walter Crane, nrtlst. lecturer, writer, in London, aged aeventy. Capt. Henry King, editor St. Loula Globe-Democr- March 20. Charles Francis Adams, publicist snd historian, in Washington. March 24. Morgan Robertson, author, at Atlantic City. March (1. Baron Nathan Maysr Roths- child, in London. B. Glover, theatrical April (.Lyman manager, at Chicago. Curtis Guild. Jr., former governor of Massachusetts, at Boston. April 7. F. Hopklnson Smith, engineer, artist and author. In New York.. R. Nelson, editor April Kansas City Star, at Kansas City. April 18. Former United States Senator Neleefc W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. April 18. Baron Herbert de Reuter, ( ' April 11 Villa forces defsated near Jarlt losing tW killed. Vlctoriano Huerta landed at New Yorlut June (.Carransa armies Isd by Obregon defeated Villa and took Leon after battle lasting five days. June 27. Vlctoriano Huerta arrested in New Mexico on charge of inciting another Mexican revolution. Aug. S. Diplomats from Latin America In Washington conferred on Mexico situation. Aug. (.Six Mexican bandits killed and three Americans wounded in battle at Nortas ranch, north of Brownsville, Te Aug. 11 Armed Mexicans crossed Rio Grande near Mercedes, Tex., and attackad outpost of American cavalrymen, killing Corporal Wilma Aug. 11 Villa accepted proposition for peace conference. Oen. Paacual Orosco, noted Aug. (0. Huerta leader, killed while leading raid in Texas. Bept. 17. Eighteen Mexicans shot In two fights between U, S. regulars and Carranza soldiers. Oct. (.Recognition of Carransa recommended by Secretary Lansing and ' Pan-Ameri- Latin-Americ- an diplomat Mexican bandits robbed a train killing three Americans; posse killed ten Mexicans for alleged complicity In the crime, t Carransa formally recognised as president of Mexico by United States, and six governments. Nov. I. Villa's army withdrew from of Prist alege Agua 11 Villa gave up fight against De Oct. 19. In Texa Latln-Amertc- Carrsns SPORTING Ja t (.Federal league filed National and American league violation of Sherman antitrust managing director of Reuter's Telegram charging company, committed suicide in England. act American association was Ja Charles E. Lit- made May 1 a major baseball leagu tlefield of Maine tn New Tork. ' April (. Jew Willard won heavyweight June 29. ODonovan Rossa, Irish pachampionship by knocking out Jack triot, in New York. Johnson in Nth round at Havan Cuba. July I Gen. Porflrio Dias, formsr presiMay (L Ralph De Palma won dent of Mexico, In Paris. auto race at Indlanapoli breaking all July 10. Archbishop James E. Quigley records. Of Chicago, at Buffalo. I. Wisconsin July university won conA. J. Blsthen, publisher July ference athletic meet Seattle Time June 19 Jerome Travers won national July 13 Dr. J. A. Holmes, director of amateur golf championship. federal bureau of mines, at Denver. 26. Yale beat Harvard in regatta July 16. SL Clair McKelway, editor, of atJune New Londorn , the Brooklyn Eagle. June 26. July 17. Sarah Cowell Le Moyne, noted car, won Dario Rest at driving Peugeot Chicago, averagact res James Augustus Henry ing (7.( 21miles an hour. July 21-- 8lr June Cornell won- intercolleglats reMurray, editor of Oxford English dictiongatta at Poughkeepsi ary. 17. Olympic cup won by Chicago July Aug. 4. Maarten Maartena, novelist. In golf team at Cleveland. Zelst, Holland. XL Charles Evan Jr., of Chicago-woJuly Aug. A Gen. B. F. Tracy, former secwestern amateur golf championship. retary of navy, at New York. Aug. I.1Tom McNatnar Boston, won Aug. (.George Fitch, editor and humorwestern open golf championship at Chiist, at Berkeley, CaL Aug. 17. Brig. Gen. John C. Black, Civil cago. 20. Loula B. Clarke won Grand Aug. war veteran, former congressman at large from Illinois and former president of U. American trapshooting handicap at Chicago. 8. eRxl service commission, at Chicago. Gil Anderson In a Stuts won Elgin road xug. 19. Cardinal Seraflno VannutelU, race, breaking all record dean of the sacred college, at Rom SepL 4. Robert qardner of Chicago won Aug. 20. Dr. Paul Erlich, discoverer of American amateur golf championship. saivaraan, at Bad Horn burg. SepL 7. W. M. Johnston of California Dr. C. J. Finlay, who discovered yellow won national tennis championship. fever was transmitted by moequltoes, at BepL IL Packy McFarland defeated' Havana, Cub Mike Gibbons In tea round bout at New Aug. 2. John D. Long, former secre- York. tary of the navy, at Hingham, Mas Mrs. C. H. Vsnderbeck of Philadelphia BepL (.Albert G. Spalding la won womens national amateur golf chamDiego Cai at pionship IL Sir William C. Van Horn ep - OcL (.GilChicago. Anderson tn a Stuts won As-tformer president Canadian Pactflo railcup race at Sheepahead Bay speedroad. averaging loz.( miles an hour for William Spragu war governor of way, (58 mile Rhode Island and former senator. OcL IE Boston American league team SepL 2L Anthony Comstock, vtoe cruwon world champ. nh1p from Philadelsader, at Summit, N. J. National leaf team. Sept 2A-- A. Kelr HarAU British labor phia De IE Baseball iwar snde Rdora1 leader, at Glasgow. league quitting. d 600-ml- ie 12,-- le r;e n or ' ' |
