Show V Events of Year v vIn I S In United States January Januar Bernard 4 4 Bernard 4 W W. Lewis son of wealthy wealth Pittsburg coal operator commits suicide by shooting himself I in a in Atlantic City wh e detectives had been sent to arrest him on on charges of having murdered M Mazle azle zie Agnes Colbert a mode model r mysteriously killed In Philadelphia r January 8 United 8 United States court renders opinion piat hat Webb I Kenyon law prohibiting prohibiting- shipments of I liquor from wet to dry states is constitutional 1 January 9 Harry I-Harry Harry K Thaw charged with enticing a 19 boy from California to New York and beating him with a whip in a hotel room Is indicted by bythe the New York grand Jury Senate passes resolution making the thee District of Columbia dry after fter November 1 1917 5 V January Januar 11 Harry 11 Harry K Thaw wanted for tor or a California boy and beating him in a New v York hotel at- at tempts suicide in Philadelphia He HeIs HeIs Heh Is h placed under inder arrest in St. St Marys Mary's h hospital spital V V Ammunition plant of the Canadian Car and Foundry li company near King N. N J. J blows s. s up P. P Loss S V January V 12 Ammunition 12 Ammunition 2 plant of the E. E I. I Dupont tie Dupont-tie tie de Nemours Powder company blows up at Haskell N. N J. J Six dead twenty hurt I January 13 United 13 United Stat States s cruiser Milwaukee runs ashore in a fog near I Eureka Cal The crew Is rescued by breeches buoys I February 10 The 10 The ammunition plant of the Union Switch and Signal company company com corn pany near near Pittsburg Pa is destroyed II I I by hy fire with a loss of nearly February 23 Thirteen 23 Thirteen persons are killed many hundreds injured injure and large property damage done donI by a series V of tornadoes sweeping over part of Alabama Georgia and l sippi sipp S March 11 A ll-A A tornado sweeping over Indiana kills two twenty-two injures hundreds hundreds hun hun- s and does large property dam dam- hun I age Three persons are killed by tornado which wrecks a small portion of I Cincinnati I March 13 Big 13 Blur Four railroad I brotherhoods issue leslie orders for a a. nationwide na na- na- na strike of f railway men n I President threatens to seize railroads March 17 17 1 Mrs Elsie Lee Hilair of Brool Brooklyn lyn Is found strangled to death in a room at the Hotel Martinique Now New York V VV March 18 18 Railroads of ol U United t. t V |