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ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1917-
HISTORY OF 1916
TOLD IN BRIEF
Most Important Events of the
Last Year Set Forth.
PROGRESS OF EUROPEAN WAR
Chief Developments In the Mighty 1
Conflict of Nations Political and
Other Happenings in the
United States.
COMPILED BY E. W. PICKARD.
EUROPEAN WAR
Jan. 1. News received of torpedoing of
P. & O. liner Persia in Mediterranean;
about 250 lost. Including R. N. McNeely,
U. S. consul atAden.
Jan. 6. British conscription pill passed
first reading and three cabinet members
resigned.
Italian steamer carrying Montenegrin
recruits from U. S. sunk by mine in the
Adriatic; 200 lost.
Jan. 7. Germany promised U. S. its sub
marines would observe rules of civilized
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Jan. 9. British battleship Edward VII
sunk by mine.
Jan. 1L Austrians captured Lovcen,
dominating Cattaro.
Jan. 13. Austrian cruiser sunk by
French submarine.
Jan. 14. Many documents connecting
Von Papen with alleged war plots in U.
S. taken from him by British, turned
over to American embassy. v
Kermanshah, Persia, occupied by Turks.
Jan. 15. Russians renewed general at
tack on Austrian front.
Austrians took Cetinje and pursued
Montenegrins toward Albania
Jan. 21. Austrian hydroplane and tor
pedo boat sunk by British submarine in
Adriatic.
Jan. 22. Austria issued ultimatum to
Montenegro to surrender or face anni
hilation. Jan. 24. Scutari occupied by Austrians.
Jan. 29. Twenty-four killed in Zeppelin
raid on Paris. '
Germans took nearly a mile of French
trenches east of Souchez.
Jan. 30. Another Zeppelin raid made on
Paris.
Jan. 31. Several Zeppelins made raid
over Midland and northeast counties of
Ensrland; 67 persons killed.
Feb. 1. British liner Appam. in charge
Df prize crew from German commerce
raider Moewe. arrived at Norfolk with
captives from seven other vessels.
Collier Franz Fischer sunk by bomb
from Zeppelin: 13 lost.
Feb. 2. Persian army defeated Russians
marching on Teheran.
Zeppelin lost in North sea andcrew
flrowned.
Feb. 8. French aviators attacked
city of Smyrna, killing 200.
President Wilson accepted Germany's
memorandum of settlement of Lusitania
case, both sides yielding ground.
Feb. 9. Germans took 800 yards of
French trenches near Vimy.
U. S. demanded from Austria apology
and reparation for attack on Petrolite.
French cruiser Amiral Charnier tor
pedoed and sunk; 374 lost.
Feb. 16. Russians under Grand Duke
Nicholas captured Erzerum.
Feb. 21. German attack on Verdun be
au.
Feb. 24. Germans captured villages
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Austria announced slnkiner of Ttnllnn
transport loaded with soldiers by bomb
from airplane.
Feb. 26. French checked somewhat
German drive on Verdun.
Russians took Kermanshah. Persia, by
Btorm.
Austrians entered Durazzo. Italians re
tiring. '
French cruiser Provence sunk in Medi
terranean: 3.130 lost.
Feb. 27. British steamer Maloja sunk
by mine: 174 lost.
Feb. 29. Italian government seized 34
Interned German steamers.
German commerce raider Greif and
British cruiser Alcantara sunk in North
sea fight; 254 lost.
March 3. Germans drove through vil
lage of Douaumont and beyond.
Russians took Bitlis, Armenia, by as
sault. U. S. senate rejected resolution warn
ing Americans off armed ships.
March 5. French checked second Ger
man infantry attack on Verdun.
Two Zeppelins raided northeast coast of
England; 13 killed.
March 6. Germans began new drive on
Verdun, capturing village of Forges.
March 7. Germans made further gains
at Verdun at tremendous cost.
TJ. S. house of representatives tabled
resolution warning Americans off armed
liners.
March 9. Germany declared war on
Portugal.
March 10. Russians advanced to within
B0 miles of Trebizond. Turks and Germans
evacuated Ispahan. Persia.
March 14. Italians started big offensive
along whole Austrian front.
March 19. Germans repulsed French at
tacks at Le Mort Homme and captured
trenches from British at Vermelles.
March 20. Squadron of French and Brit
ish airplanes bombed Zeebrugge, destroy
ing much property and killing many per
sons. March 31. Germans halted at Verdun.
Russians gained against Germans and
Austrians In Poland and Galicia; and took
Ispahan, capital of Persia
March .22. Austrians evacuated Czerno
witz and Bukowina.
March 24. French bombarded German
positions at Malancourt and Avocourt.
British channel steamer Sussex and
British steamer Englishman torpedoed
without warning: Americans on both.
Entente allies rejected Lansing's pro
posal to disarm merchantmen.
March 28. Great German attack on
Haucourt-Malancourt front repulsed.
March 29. British steamer Eagle Point,
one American aboard, torpedoed without
warning.
German aerial attack on Salonikl killed
twenty.
March 30. Germans attacked with liquid
lire near Verdun but were repulsed.
Germans torpedoed - Russian hospital
ship In Black sea; 115 lost.
March 31. Germans took village of Ma
lancourt. near Verdun, at terrific cost.
Five Zeppelins raided eastern counties
of England, killing 28; one Zeppelin de
stroyed. April 1. Sixteen killed In Zeppelin raid
on England.
April 2. Zeppelins raided England and
Scotland, killing ten.
April 3. Entente allies In note to U S.
upheld their right to search parcel post.
April 4. French repulsed fierce German
attack south of Douaumont.
British liner Zent torpedoed without
warning; 48 lost.
April 10. French lost 500 yards near
Dead Man hill at Verdun and then re
pulsed tremendous attack; .losses were
very large.
April 11. French retook trenches at
Verdun after terrific battle.
April 18. Russians captured Trebizond.
April 19 President Wilson sent ultima
tum to Germany on submarine question
and told congress in Joint session.
April 20. Big forces of Russians landed
In France
April 27. British battleship Russell sunk
by mine in Mediterranean; 124 lost.
April 29i General Townshend and 10,000
British surrendered to Turks at Kut-el-Amara.
May 1. British steamer HendonhalZ, la
den with wheat for Belgian relief, sunk
by German submarine.
May 2. Five German airships raided
coasts of England and Scotland.
Belgian relief ship Fridland sunk by
German submarine.
May 5. Germany's reply, received In
Washington, promised compliance with
laws of warfare in submarine operations,
with covert threat to resume former meth
ods unless Amer'ca persuades England to
lift starvation blockade.
Mav 8. President--Wilson told Germany
our relations with Britain could not enter
I, r.rrni'rv Hfb Berlin.
Paris reported great German attacks at
Verdun checked.
Liner Cymric, carrying munitions, tor
pedoed and sunk; 5 lost.
May 10. Berlin admitted Sussex was tor
pedoed by German submarine.
May 17. Dutch steamer Batavier V
blown up; one American killed.
May 20 German seaplanes raided Eng
lish east coast.
Austrians made decided gains against
Italians, crossing the border near Vi
cenza. May 25. British steaftiship Washington
sunk by submarine.
May 31. Austrians reported capture of
Asiago and Arsiero.
Great naval battle in North sea. British
losing 14 vessels and Germans IS.
June 5. Earl Kitchener and staff lost
when cruiser Hampshire was blown up In
North sea.
June 7. Germans took Fort Vaux by
storm.
Austrians in Tyrol repulsed by Italians
with heavy losses.
Russians recaptured t,utsk fortress.'
June 17. Russians captured Czernowitz.
capital of Bukowina.
June "20. Russians split Austrian Buko
wina army and occupied Zadova, Strog
nietz and Gliboka.
June 25. Two Austrian transports, load
ed with troops, sunk in Durazzo harbor by
Italian warships.
June 27. Italians recaptured Posina and
Arsiero. ,
June 28. U. S. note to Austria demand
ing apology for attack on Petrolite pub
lished. June 30. Russians routed Austrians in
east Galicia and took Kolomea.
July 1. Allies began great offensive on
west front, making big gains on both
sides of River Somme.
July 3. French captured a number of
towns in drive toward Peronne.
British took- La Boisselle.
July 5. French carried by storm German
second line near Peronne.
Turks announced recapture of Kerman
shah from Russians.
July 6. Russians again routed Austrians
in Galicia.
David Lloyd-George made British sec
retary of war.
July 9. French took Biache, close to
Peronne.
German submarine Deutschland arrived
at Baltimore.
July 13. Germans opened seventh great
assault on Verdun.
July 15. Italians captured Vanzl. In Po
sina valley.
Russians captured Baiburt, Armenia, by
3.SS2Lljlt
Germans took La Maisonnette and Bi
aches, in Somme sector.
July 18. Germans opened fierce counter
attack on British, with gas shells, win
ning at Longueval and Delville wood.
British blacklisted large number of
American individuals and firms for deal
ing with the Germans.
July 23. British renewed terrific drive
in Somme region, -entering Pozieres.
July 26. Russians captured Erzingan,
Armenia.
July 28. Russians captured Brody, Gali
cian railroad center; smashed Teuton first
line west of Lutsk, and drove back Von
Linsingen in Volhynla.
Aug. 8. Russians smashed through Teu
ton lines on 15-mile front in Galicia.
Turks captured Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. 9. Italians captured Goritz.
Zeppelins raided English and Scotch
coast.
Aug. 13. Russians took 84,000 men in
Galicia.
Turks beat British east of Suez canal
and in Mesopotamia.
Aug. 15. Russians captured Jablonitza,
in the Carpathians, and pierced new Teu
ton lines on Lemberg front.
Aug. 19. Two British cruisers, one Ger
man battleship and one German subma
riife lost in North sea action.
British swept Germans back on 11-mile
front in Somme sector.
Aug. 24. British advanced south of
Thiepval, and French took Maurepas.
Russians recaptured Mush, Armenia, and
reported big victory near Rachta.
. Zeppelins raided east coast of England;
killing eight.
Aug. 27. Italy declared war on Ger
many. Roumania declared war on Austria-Hungary.
Aug. 28. Germany declared war on Rou
mania. .
Aug. 29. Hindenburg made German chief
of staff In place of Falkenhayn.
Aug. 30. Roumanians took Kronstadt
and other Transylvanian towns.
Aug. 31. Roumanians seized Rustchuk,
Bulgaria, and more Hungarian towns.
Sept. 2. Zeppelins raided England, one
being destroyed.
Sept. 4. Dar-es-Salaam, chief town of
German East Africa, taken by British.
Sept. 7. Teutons took Roumanian for
tress of Turtukai.
Sept. 8. -Teutons and Bulgars took Do
bric, Jloiimania.
Sept. 10. Germans and Bulgarians cap
tured Roumanian fortress of Silistria,
Sept. 11. Allies began new offensive in
Balkans, crossing the Struma.
Sept. 15. Allies smashed German third
line in Somme sector, advanced five miles
and took three towns. British used terri
ble new armored cars.
Serbs drove Bulgars back ten miles and
British and French advanced in Balkans.
Sept. 16. Roumanians and Russians
crushed in the Dobrudja.
Sept. 17. British took "Danube trench,"
Mouquet fortified farm and 1,000 yards of
German trenches north of Courcelette.
Germans sank French transport filled
with troops.
Sept. 18. French captured Deniecourt.
Allies routed Bulgars in Macedonia and
captured Fiorina.
Sept. 19. Teutons drove Russians back .
over Stokhod river. .
Sept. 23. Zeppelins raided England,
killing 30; one Zeppelin destroyed and one
captured.
Sept. 25. Zeppelins again raided, Eng
land, killing 36.
Sept. 26. Anglo-French forces took Com
bles and Thiepval after terrific fighting.
Sept. 28. Venizelos and Admiral Coun
douriotis issued proclamation of provision
al government for Greece.
Oct. 1. British took 3,000 yards of Ger
man trenches close to Bapaume.
Zeppelins raided England; one destroyed.
Serbians routed Bulgars in Macedonia.
Oct. 2. Roumanians crossed the Danube
Into Bulgaria.
Oct. 4. Allies made great advances on
entire line in Macedonia.
Invading "Roumanians forced out of Bul
garia. .
Allied transport Gallia torpedoed: 638
lost.
Oct. 8. German submarine U-53 sank
five vessels off U. S. coast.
Germans recaptured Kronstadt, Transyl
vania. Oct. Serbians forced crossing of Cerna
river in Macedonia.
Oct, 10. Italians resumed advance on
Trieste, taking 5,000 Austrians.
Oct. 11. Greek' fleet turned aver to allies
on their demand and largely dismantled.
Teutons began Invasion of Roumania.
Oct. 15. French eaptured Sallly-Saillisel.
north of the Somme-
Oct. 19. Cunard liner Alaunla sunk by
mine in English channel; part, of crew
lost. -
Oct, 20. Roumanians won on Transyl
vania frontier but lost in Dobrudja.
Russian battleship Imperatritza Maria
destroyed by interior explosion; 200 lost.
Oct, 23. Teutons captured Constanza,
Roumanian Black sea port,
Oct. 24. French smashed German line
at Verdun, taking Douaumont fort and
Oct. 25. Teutons occupied Czernavoda
and the Vulcan pass, Roumania,
Oct. 28. Teutons took Campulung, north
ern key to Bucharest.
Greek steamer torpedoed ; 200 lost, '
Steamer Marina torpedoed without warn
ing; a number of Americans lost.
Nov. 2. Germans evacuated Fort
Vaux. Verdun front.
Nov. 5. Germany and Austria proclaim
ed autonomy of Poland.
No. 6. Von Mackensen forced back In
the Dobrudja.
P. & O. liner Arabia sunk by subma
rine in Mediterranean.
Nov. 8. American steamer Columbian
sunk by submarine.
Nov. 13. Battle of the Ancre opened,
British capturing five miles of positions
and three strong towns.
Nov. 19. Allies captured Monastir.
Nov. 20. Allies , ordered diplomats of
central powers to leave Greece.
Nov. 21. Teutons took Craiova. Rou
manian rail and military center.
Nov. 22. Ministers of central powers left
Greece.
Liner Britannic, hospital ship, sunk by
mine in the Aegean; 24 lost.
Nov. 24. Teutons occupied Orsova and
Turnu Severin.
Nov. 25. Provisional government of
Greece declared war on Bulgaria.
Entente allies demanded Greece deliver
its arms and munitions.
Roumanian armies in Wallachia routed. 1
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in Roumania.
German airships raided England; two
Zeppelins destroyed. - - -
Nov. 28. American steamer Chemung
sunk by German submarine; crew saved.
Nov. 29. Sir John R. Jelllcoe was made
first sea lord of the admiralty and Sir
David Beatty, commander of the grand
fleet.
Falkenhayn captured Pitechti, Rouman
ian railway center, and Kampulung.
Italian steamer Palermo torpedoed off
Spain; 25 Americans aboard.
Nov. 30. Teutons opened battle for Bu
charest Greece refused demands of Admiral du
Fournet and allies prepared to seize
Athens, landing troops at Piraeus.
Dec. 1. Allies marched on Athens;
French sailors and Greek reservists
fought.
Dec. 2. rGermans pressed closer on Bu
charest, while Russians attacked desper
ately in the wooded Carpathians and also
seized Czernavoda bridge.
Greece and allies reached compromise. .
German reichstag passed "man power"
bill.
Announcement made in duma that al
lies had agreed to give Constantinople to
Russia if entente wins war.
Dec. 4. Teutons began shelling of Bu
charest. !
German submarines shelled Funchal,
capital of the Madeira Islands..
Dec. 5. Premier Asquith of England re
signed. Dec. 6. Bucharest and Ploesci taken by
the Teutons.
Lloyd-George appointed premier of
Great Britain.
Allies protested to civilized world
against deportation of Belgians.
Dec. 8. TJ. S. protested to Germany
against deportation of Belgians.
Dec. 10. Lloyd-George announced his
cabinet.
Russians and Roumanians had successes
In Trotus valley and east of Ploechti.
Dec. 11. Germans levied huge taxes on
captured Roumanian cities.
Dec. 12. Germany offered to discuss
peace terms with the entente allies.
General Nivelle made commander in
chief of the French armies of the north
and northeast.
King of Greece ordered a general mobi
lization. Germany answered American note by
defending deportation of Belgians.
Dec. 13. Greek regulars took Katerina
from the French.
Archduke Carl Stephen of Austria se
lected as regent of Poland.
Germany in reply to U. S. Justified
sinking of American steamer Lanao.
Dec. 14. Great Britain called 1,000,000
more men to arms.
France decided to prohibit alcoholic
drinks except wine and beer.
British horse transport sunk by sub
marine In Mediterranean; 17 Amjericans
lost.
Dec. 15. French captured wide stretch
cf German trenches near Verdun.
Russian duma rejected German peace
proffer.
Greece accepted ultimatum of the en
tente. Dec. 17. French drove Germans from
Chambrettes farm, Verdun front.
Roumanian army safe behind Russian
lines.
Dec. 19. Premier Lloyd-George replied
to Germany's peace proposals, virtually
refusing to consider them.
Dec. 20. Violent bombardment of Eng
lish positions in France.
Dec. 22. Russians attacked Turkish po
sitions in Armenia.
FOREIGN
Feb. 1. Yussuf Izzeddin, crown prince of
Turkey, committed suicide.
March 22. Official mandate announced
abandonment of Chinese monarchy and
resumption of republic, and rejection of
emperorship by Yuan Shi Kai who re
sumed presidency.
April 18. Sir Roger Casement captured
and German ship sunk while landing arms
in Ireland for uprising.
April 24. Sinn Fein rebels seized parts
of Dublin and serious fighting followed.
April 30. Main body of Irish rebels sur
rendered. May 2. President Jiminez of Dominican
republic impeached.
May 3. Pearse, Clark and MacDonagh,
leaders of Irish revolt, executed.
May 5. Fighting broke out in Santo Do
mingo; American marines landed.
May 12. James Connolly and John Mc
Dermott, Irish rebels, executed.
June 6. Yuan Li Hung became presi
dent of China.
June 29. Casement convicted of treason
and sentenced to death.
July 1. U. S. marines routed 250 Santo
Domingo rebels, killing 27 and losing one
man.
Sept. 20. China appealed for aid for
million people driven out by great floods.
Sept. 30. Emperor Lidj Jeassu of Abys
sinia deposed; Ouizero-Zeoditu proclaimed
empress of Ethiopia.
Oct. 4. Gen. Count Terauchi made pre
mier of Japan.'
Oct. 21. Count Carl Stuergkh, Austrian
premier, assassinated by Vienna editor.
Oct. 24. Two American officers killed by
Dominican rebels.
Nov. 22. Karl Franz proclaimed emperor
of Austria-Hungary.'
Nov. 29. Capt. H. F. Knapp, U. S. N
commander in Santo Domingo, proclaimed
a military government of that country.
Dec. 4. Pope created ten new cardinals.
Dec. 14. Denmark voted to sell Danish
West Indies to United States.
Edmund Schulthess elected president of
Swiss confederation.
MEXICO
, Jan. 10. Nineteen foreigners, nearly all
Americans, were murdered by Mexican
bandits near Chihuahua, ;
Jan. 12. Lansing demanded that Car
ranza punish slayers of Americans.
March 9. Nine American civilians and
eight soldiers killed and several wounded
when Villa bandits raided Columbus, N.
M. Many raiders slain on both sides of
border by soldiers. President Wilson or
dered General Funston to pursue and pun
ish Villa.
March 10. President Wilson ordered 5,
000 troops into Mexico to get Villa.
Villa's men raided big Arizona ranch,
March 12. First troops entered Mexico
in pursuit of Villa.
March 14. U. S. army raised to war
strength of 119,000 men for campaign
against Villa. Half million cartridges for
Carranza army seized at Douglas, Ariz.
March 16. First clash between Villa out
posts and American expedition. Seven
troopers wounded. '
March 17. Carranza forbade American
troops pursuing Villa to enter Mexican
U. S. senate passed resolution declaring
the United States did not intend to In
tervene in Mexico.
March 27. Capture of Torreon by VUlis
tas reported.
March 28. Congress appropriated $8,600,
000 for Mexican expedition.
March 29. Carranza granted use of
Mexican Northwestern railroad to U. S.
for shipment of supplies.
Dodd's cavalry defeated Villa forces
at Guerrero, killing 60: one U. S. soldier
mortally wounded. Villa seriously wound
ed. April 1. U. S. cavalry defeated Villista
detachment north of Guerrero, killing 30.
April 12. U. S. troops attacked by Car
ranza troops and citizens of Parral; two
Americans and 40 Mexicans killed.
April 13. Carranza demanded withdraw
al of U. S. troops from Mexico.
April 18. Pursuit of Villa at standstill
because of hostility of Carranzistas.
April 29. Generals Scott, Funston and
Obregon conferred on Mexican situation..
May 5. Villa, bandits raided Glenn
Springs, Tex., Wiling three U S. soldiers
and a boy.
Major Howze with six troops of cavalry
routed Villista band at Ojos Azules, killing
55
May 9. President Wilson ordered mili
tia of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona
and 4,500 more regulars to Mexican bor
der. May 11. American-Mexican border con
ference ended futilely.
Curtis Bayles, American farmer, killed
by Mexican raiders near Mercedes, Tex.
May 25. Poole ranch in Big Bend coun
try, Texas, again raided by Mexicans.
Candelario (jprvantes, Villista leader,
killed by American troops.
May 31. Carranza demanded withdrawal
of American troops from Mexico on peril
of "recourse tb arms."
June 17. General Parker- rushed rein
forcements to American troops in Mexico
below Matamoros.
June 18. War department ordered all
state militia mobilized.
Fourth punitive expedition withdrawn
from Mexico.
Carranza soldiers at Mazatlan fired on
American landing party.
June 20. General Funston called for at
least 50,000 troops for border service.
U. S. sharply refused to withdraw troops
from Mexico.
June 21. Detachment of American cav
alry attacked by Carranza troops at Car
rlzal, 12 being killed. Mexican losses in
cluded Gen. Felix Gomez.
June 23. House granted use of state
militia as federal soldiers.
Secretary Baker ordered all militia to
border as quickly as possible.
June 25. President Wilson demanded
that Mexico release captured troopers.
June 26. Administration rejected plan
for mediation with Mexico.
Senate passed bill for drafting militia
into federal service.
June 29. Twenty-three troopers taken at
Carrizal released by Mexico.
Pershing's column began retiring north
wards. July 6. War department called out reg
ular army reserves to fill new regiments.
July 13. President Wilson raised em
bargo on food for Mexico.
July 28. U. S. accepted Carranza's plan
for joint commission.
Aug. 12. War department ordered 32,000
more state troops to border.
Aug. 22. Secretary Lane, Judge George
Gray and Dr. J.. R. Mott named as Mexi
can settlement commission.
Aug. 30. President ordered 21,000 troops
back from Mexican border.
Sept. 6. American and Mexican commis
sioners began sessions at New London,
Conn.
Nov. 24. American-Mexican commission
signed protocol for withdrawal of Ameri
can troops and patrol of border.
Nov. 28. Villa captured Chihuahua City.
Dec. 2. Villa driven from Chihuahua
City by Carr.nza forces.
Dec. 6. Parml recaptured by Carranza
forces.
Dec. 12. Carranza troop train blown up
by VUlistas; 200 killed or injured.
NECROLOGY
Jan, 2. Associate Justice J. R, Lamar,
U. S. Supreme court, at Washington.
Jan. 3. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Civil war
hero and railroad builder, at Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
Col. R. T. Van Horn, founder of the
Kansas City Journal at Kansas City.
Jan. 6. Matthew W. Pinkerton, at Chi
cajpo. Charles W. Knapp, veteran newspaper
man, at New York.
Jan. 8. Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell, Cath
olic bishop of Omaha,
Ada Rehan, actress, at New York.
Jan. 13. Victoriano Huerta, former pro
visional president of Mexico, at El Paso.
Jan. 17. Hon. Arnold Morley, former
British postmaster general.
Jeannette I Gilder, author and editor,
at New York.
Jan. 25. Samuel S. Chamberlain, pub
lisher of Boston American.
Jan. 30. Sir Clements R- Markham, fa
mous explorer .at London.
Feb. 7. Col. W. P. Hepburn, former con
gressman, at Clarinda, la.
Feb. 12. J. T. Trowbridge, author, at
Arlington, Mass.
Feb. 20. Dr. Henry B. Favill, of Chi
cago, prominent physician and publicist.
Feb. 24. Admiral von Pohl, at Berlin.
Feb. 28. Henry James, author, in Lon
don. March 2. Queen Mother Elizabeth of
Roumania (Carmen Sylva).
Mounet-Sully, famous actor, at Paris.
March 4. Brig. Gen. W. Sooy Smith, at
Medford, Ore.
March 7. Rear Admiral Asa Walker, U.
S. N., retired, at Annapolis.
March 10. Henry Gasaway Davis, for
mer U. S. senator from West Virginia, at
Washington.
March 14. U. S. Senator Benjamin F.
Shively of Indiana, at Washington.
March 19. Cardinal Gotti. prefect of the
Propaganda at the Vatican, in Rome.
March 25. C. J. Mulligan, sculptor, at
Chicago.
March 27. Thomas Pence, secretary
Democratic national committee, at Wash
ington. April 1. Naphtali Luccock, M. E. bishop
of Montana and Dakota, at La Crosse,
Wis.
Dr. J. B. Angell, president emeritus of
University of Michigan.
April 4. George W. Smalle'y, veteran
journalist, in London.
April 7. George W. Colton, former gov
ernor of Porto Rico, at Washington.
April 11. Richard Harding Davis, novel
ist, at Mt. Kisco. N. Y.
April 14. T. J. Burrill, famous bacterio
logist and educator, at Urbana, 111.
April 16. George W. Peck, former gov
ernor of Wisconsin, at Milwaukee.
April 19. Baron von der Goltz, German
commandant at Constantinople.
April 30. Earl St. Aldwyn, noted Eng
lish statesman, better known as Sir Mi
chael Hicks-Beach.
May 11. W. A. Gardner, president Chi
cago & Northwestern railway.
May 13. Bryan Lathrop, philanthropist,
at Chicago.
Clara Louise Kellogg, opera star, at Elp
stone. Conn.
Mav 16. Dr. E. N. Corthell, president
American Society of Civil Engineers, at
Albany, N. Y.
May 26. Rev. Dr. Thimothy Dwight, for
mer president of Yale, at New Haven,
Conn.
May 27. General Gallleni, at Paris.
May 29. Janjes J. Hill, at St. Paul.
May 30. Col. John ; S. Mosby, famous
confederate raider, in Washington.
June 1- Charles Sooy Smith, famous civ
il engineer, at New York.
June 6. Yuan Shi Kai, president of
China.
June 9. John R. McLean, owner of
Washington Post andfCincinnati Enquirer.
June 16. U. S. SenaVjr E. C. Burleigh of
Maine.
June 20. Edward S. Ellis, noted writer
of boys' stories, at Cliff Island,- Me.
July 3. Mrs. Hetty Green at New York.
July 15. Prof. - Elie Metchnikoff. famous
bacteriologist, in Paris.
July 18. James H. Moore, noted finan
cier, at Lake Geneva, Wis.
: July 22. James Whitcomb Riley, at In
dianapolis. July 23. Former U. S. Senator T. M.
Patterson at Denver.
Sir William Ramsay, famous chemist,
in England. '
Aug. 7. Vice Admiral Kamimura of Ja
pan. Aug. 9. J. M. Thurston, former senator
from Nebraska,
A, B. Stickney, founder of Chicago Great
Western railway.
Robert Grau, theatrical manager.
Aug. 1L Dr. John B. Murphy, famous
Chicago surgeon. "
Aug. 14. Gen. Charles J. Paine, Civil
war veteran and yachtsman, at Boston.
Aug. 25. Archbishop John L. Spalding,
&t IorlL 111
Aug. 31. John P. St. John, noted Pro
hibitionist, at Olathe, Kan.
Sept. 2. S. W. Pennypacker, ex-governor
of Pennsylvania,
Sept. 4. R. C. Kerens, former ambassa
dor to Austria,
Sept. 12. T. L.. James, former postmas
ter general, in New York.
Sept. 13. Dr. George K. Herman, lead
er in middle West athletics, at Chicago.
Sept. 16. Horace White, famous journal
ist, at New York.
Sept. 17. Seth Low, In New York.
Sept. 18. MaJ. Gen. Albert L. Mills, U.
S. A., at-Washington.
Sept. 19. William J. Calhoun, noted law
yer and diplomat, at Chicago.
Sept. 27. Rear Admiral C. E. Vreeland,
U. S. N., retired.
Oct. 1. U. S. Senator James P. Clarke
of Arkansas, at Little Rock.
Oct. 2. E. S. Lacey, former comptroller
of the currency, at Chicago.
Mrs. Havelock Ellis, noted lecturer on
eugenics, in London.
Oct. 12. Otto, insane former king of
Oct. 15. Rev. Francis Brown, president
Union Theological seminary, at New York.
Oct. 18. Eben Eugene Rexford, poet and
author.
Normal Duncan, author, at Fredonia,
N Y.
Oct! 25. William M. Chase, noted paint
er, in New York.
Oct. 23. Prof. Cleveland Abbe, "father
of weather bureau," at Washington.
Oct. 31. "Pastor" Russell, noted inde
pendent preacher.
Nicholas E.' Young, former president Na
tional Baseball league, at Washington.
Nov. 5. Cardinal Delia Volpe at Rome.
Nov. 12. Dr. Perclval Lowell, famous
astronomer, at Flagstaff, Ariz.
Nov. 14. Brig. Gen. D. C. Kingman, U.
S. A.
Nov. 15. Rt. Rev. Charles Edward Che
ney, senior bishop of Reformed Episcopal
church, at Chicago.
Molly Elliott Seawell. author, at Wash
ington. Henryk Sienkiewicz,, Polish novelist.
Nov. 18 F. M. Lyman, president of the
quorum of apostles of Mormon church.
Nov. 21. Franz Josef, emperor of Aus
tria-Hungary.
Dr. Eugene Louis Doyen, noted French
surgeon, at Paris.
Nov. 22. Jack London, author, at Santa
Rosa, Cal.
Nov. 24. Sir Hiram Maxim, noted inven
tor, In London.
Nov. 26. Mrs. Inez Milholland Bolsse
vain, noted suffragist, at Los Angeles.
Nov. 27. Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet.
Dec. 3.- Sir Francesco Tosti, composer.
Dec. 5. John D. Archbold, president of
Standard Oil Co., at Tarrytown, N. Y.
George C. Boldt, leading hotel man. In
New York.
Herbert D. Peirce, former minister to
Norway, at Portland, Me.
Dec. Gk Hans Richter. noted Wagnerian
conductor.
Dec. 10. Field Marshal Prince Iwao
Oyama at Tokyo.
Dec. 13. J.. W. Comyns Carr, English
critic and dramatist.
Dec. 15. W. C. Nixon, president St.
Iouis and San Francisco railroad.
Dec. 16. Hugo Munsterberg, professor
of psychology at Harvard.
Dec. 17. Clara Ward, Princess Chimay.
in Padua, Italy.
DISASTERS
Jan. 3. Explosion on oil tanker Aztec
at New York killed ten.-
Jan. 5. Steamer Kanawha sank in Ohio
river; 40 lost.
Jan. 9. Du Pont powder mills at Car
ney's Point. N. J., blown up; six killed.
Jan. 15. U. S. submarine E-2 blown up
at New York navy yard; four killed. 15
hurt.
Jan. 16. Fire did $10,000,000 damage in
Bergen, Norway, and $1,500,000 damage in
Lisbon.
Jan. 17. Fire destroyed most of Wirt,
Okla.
Jan. 21. Fire at Molde, Norway, did
$500,000 damage.
Jan. 22. Great Northern train wrecked
by avalanche near Corea, Wash.; six
dead.
Jan. 28. Otay valley dam near San
Diego, Cal., broke; 50 dead.
Feb. 2. Japanese liner Daljln sunk in
collision; 160 lives lost.
Feb. 3. Canadian parliament building at
Ottawa destroyed by flre; seven lives lost.
Feb. 16 Three British steamships, many
lighters and a pier burned at Brooklyn;
loss $4,000,000.
Feb. 16. Holland suffered from great
storm and floods.
Feb. ZL Ten killed in wreck on New
Haven road.
Feb. 29. Fifteen men killed by explo
sion in mine at Kempton, W. Va.
March 5. Spanish, steamer Principe de
Asturias hit rock and sank off Brazil; 500
lost.
March 22. Fifteen million dollar Are at
Nashville, Tenn., and $5,000,000 fire at Au
gusta, Ga.
March 29. Twenty-six killed and many
Injured in collision on New York Central
lines near Cleveland.
April 17. Six killed, 40 injured in wreck
on New Haven road at Bradford, R. I.
April 19. Tornadoes In Kansas and Mis
souri killed 17.
April 22. More than 1,000 lost in collision
between Chinese cruiser and transport.
i May 8 Steamer Kirby sank in Lake Su
perior; 20 lost.
May 15. Explosion in Du Pont powder
plant at Gibbstown, N. J., killed 13.
June 2. Thirteen killed in train wreck at
Packard, la.
June 4. Waterfront fire at San Francis
co did $800,000 damage.
June 5. Tornadoes killed 57 in Arkansas
and 49 in other middle Western states.
June 13. Four killed In two-million-dollar
fire at Baltimore.
July 4. Eleven killed, 376 hurt in Fourth
of July celebrations.
July 14. U. S. navy collier Hector sunk
In storm off Charleston, S. C.
July 20. Hundreds of fishermen lost in
monsoon off Ceylon coast.
July 22. Six killed and 40 hurt by bomb
during San Francisco preparedness pa
rade. July 24. Twenty-two men killed by gas
explosion in a Cleveland water tunnel.
Aug. 9. Cloudburst in West Virginia re
sulted in nearly 100 deaths.
Aug. 12. Trolley wreck at Johnstown,
Pa., killed 25.
Aug. 29. U. S. armored cruiser Mem
phis wrecked in Santo Domingo harbor; 41
dead.
Sept. 12. Central span of great bridge
over St. Lawrence at Quebec fell; 27
killed.
Sept. 18. Great dam near Hannwald,
Bohemia, burst; 300 dead.
Oct. 26. Nineteen killed In burning of
hospital at Farnham, Quebec.
Nov. 3. Steamers Connemara and Re
triever sunk by collision in Irish sea; 92
lost.
Nov. 7. Fifty lives lost when Boston L
car plunged off bridge.
Nov. 21. Explosion at Bakarltza, Rus
sia, killed 341. " -
Dec. 1.--Sixty-six persons killed in
train collision in Austria.
Dec. 9. Thousand killed by explosion in
Russian ammunition factory.
Dec. 11. Million dollar fire destroyed
Quaker Oats plant at Peterboro, Ont.
Dec. 13. Canadian torpedo boat Grilse
foundered; 45 lost.
Jan. 1. Prohibition in effect In Iowa,
Colorado, - Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Arkansas and South Carolina.
Jan. 9. Six New Haven road former
directors acquitted of violating Sherman
law; jury disagreed as to five.
Feb. 9. Most Rev. George W. Munde
lein Installed archbishop of Chicago.
May 13. Immense ' preparedness parade
In New York.
May 27. Forty thousand In Boston pre
paredness parade.
May 31. Mrs. J.- E. . Cowles, California,
elected president General Federation of
Woman's clubs.
June 3. Immense preparedness parade
in Chicago.
June 4. -Rockefeller education board
gave $789,980 to colleges.
Sept. 27. New York-Chicago express on
Michigan Central held up and robbed near
Detroit.
Nov. 10. Rockefeller boards appropriat
ed $2,000,000 for great medical and surgi
cal institution in Chicago.
Nov. 15. Wireless service between U. S.
and Japan opened.
Nov. 19. Ruth Law broke American non
stop airplane record. Chicago to Hornell.
N. Y.
Dec. 7. Freight embargo put on ship
ments from middle west to Atlantic sea
board. Dec. 26. American Association for the
Advancement of Science met in New
York.
POLITICAL
Jan. 4. Congress reassembled.
Jan. 1L Progressive national committee
called convention for June 7 in Chicago.
Jan. 23. National Prohibition convention
called for July 19 in St. Paul.
Jan. 25. President Wilson nominated
Louis D. Brandeis for Supreme court
justice.
Feb. 2. House passed antichild labor
bill.
Feb. 4. Senate passed bill for Indepen
dence of Philippines in 2 to 4 years.
Feb. 9. Senate passed house resolution
making available $600,000 for re-equipping
Mare Island and New York navy yards
and house bill increasing by 300 the en
trance class at naval academy.
Feb. 10. Secretary of War Garrison and
Assistant Secretary Breckinridge re
signed. Feb. 15. G. T. Marye, ambassador to
Russia, resigned.
Feb. 18. Senate ratified Nicaraguan
canal route treaty.
Feb. 28. Haitian treaty ratified by sen
ate. March 3. J. H. Shea of Seymour, Ind.,
nominated ambassador to Chile.
March 6. Newton D. Baker of Cleve
land appointed . secretary of war.
March 22. House passed Hay army re
organization bill.
March 30. House passed immigration
bill with literacy test clause.
April 11. House passed $39,000,000 rivers
and harbors bill.
April 18. Senate passed army reorgani
zation bill. '
April 21. Japanese ambassador protested
to President Wilson against oriental ex
clusion clause of immigration bill.
April 22. Senate passed house bill re
pealing free sugar law.
April 25. Henry Morgenthau resigned as
ambassador to Turkey.
April 30. Socialist Labor party nomi
nated Arthur- E Reiner of Boston for
president and Caleb Harrison of Chicago
for vice president,"
DOMESTIC
May L House rejected bill pledging
withdrawal from Philippines within defi
nite time.
May 15. Senate rejected nomination of
G. Rublee of N. H. as member federal
trade commission.
May. 17. Senate passed army bill.
House passed $51,000,000 flood control MIL.
May 20. House passed $50,000,000 ship
purchase bill.
House passed army bill.
May 29. Senate passed rivers and har
bors bill.
June 1. Louis D. Brandeis confirmed as
associate Justice of Supreme court.
, June 2. House passed naval appropria
tion bill.
June 7. Republican and Progressive na
tional conventions opened In Chicago.
June 10. Charles Evans Hughes nomi
nated for president by Republican con
vention. -
June 10. Theodore Roosevelt nominated
by Progressives.
June 14. Democratic convention opened
at St. Louis.
June 15. Wilson and Marshall renomi
nated by Democrats.
June 26. Roosevelt declined Progressive
nomination and Progressive national com
mute indorsed candidacy of Hughes.
June 27. Senate passed sundry civil, good
roads and pension bills, carrying total of
$360,000,000.
June 27. W. R. Willcox made chairman
of Republican national committee.
June 28. House voted $27,000,000 for im
mediate use of army, and passed good
roads bill.
July 10. House passed emergency rev
enue bill.
July, 12. Senate passed agricultural bill,
carrying $24000,000.
July 13. Judge J. H. Clarke of Ohio
nominated for associate justice U. S Su
preme court.
July 15. Congressman Hay of Virginia
nominated associate justice U. S. court of
claims.
July 18. Abram Elkus nominated as am
bassador to Turkey.
July 19. Prohibition national convention
opened in St. Paul. Minn.
July 21. Senate pased navy bill pro
viding for 157 vessels.
Prohibitionists nominated J. Frank Han
ly for president and Ira D. Landrith for
vice president.
July 27. Senate passed army bill car
rying $313,970,447.
Aug. 8. Child labor bill passed by sen
ate. Aug. 15. House passed big navy bill.
Aug. 16. Senate passed bill promising In
dependence to Philippines when Filipinos
are fit for self-government.
Aug. 18. President Wilson vetoed army
bill.
Senate passed shipping purchase bill.
Aug. 19. Federal workmen's compensa
tion act passed by senate.
Aug. 25. House accepted senate amend
ments to army bill.
Sept. 5. Senate passed emergency rev
enue bill with reprisal provisions against
British blacklist.
Sept. 7. Senate ratified treaty for pur
chase of Danish West Indies.
Sept. 8. Congress adjourned.
Sept. 12. Republicans won in Maine
election.
Nov. 7. Wilson and Marshall re-elected
president and vice president of U. S.
Nov. 10. Count Tarnowsky named Aus
trian ambassador to U. S.
Dec. 4. Congress began short session.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, American ambas
sador to the Netherlands: T. A. Thomp
son, minister to Colombia, and W. H.
Hornibrook, minister to Siam. resigned.
Dec. 5. President Wilson read his mes
sage to congress.
Dec. 14. Senate passed immigration bill
with literacy test clause.
INDUSTRIAL
Jan. 7. Rioting strikers looted and burn
ed East Youngstown, O.
Jan. 19. One man killed and five shot
In strike riot at East Chicago, Ind.
Feb. 5. General strike of switchmen on
Wabash railroad.
March 6. Wage increases of $8,000,000
annually granted In soft-coal fields.
April 24. Striking employees of West
inghouse Co. rioted in East Pittsburgh,
led by masked woman.
May 2. Fatal strike riots at Carnegie
Steel Works in Braddock, Pa,
May 9. Chicago Garment Workers start
ed, big strike.,
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We are headquarters for these goods,
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We carry Needles, Shuttles, Bobbins and Belts for
all Sewing Machines
We have Mail Boxes, the kind approved by the
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T. SEAVEB
The HARDWARE MAN
Barton, - Vermont
VERMONT FARMS and REAL ESTATE
OF AILIL KIWDS
NO 1119. A farm of 234 acree, well located, enough softwood timber to
taa'f pay for farm, pood buildings, 24 head of stock, and a sugar orchard of
1400 pusar tree, 1000 rigged, sugar house 20x20, good evaporator, sugaring-
ff rig, plenty storage. This farm is pleasantly situated, 9 miles to large
railroad town of Barton, Vt, nd two miles to nearest village with Ptorep,
v-chool and churches, one-half mile to nearest school. On main road. Spring:
water at house and well t ham. 50 apple trees. 50 to 60 acres tillage, good
io -.ra, part level and part rolling, few large boulders, all machine work, will
iir. hay and fodder to winter 30 head and pasture for 35-40 head, watered by
springs and brooks, rail and wire fences in good condition. 1 story house
3kx24, ell 36x24, 6 rooTP, hall and pantry on first floor, finished in natural
wood and hardwood floors in kitchen, sitting room. 4 rooms, hall and closets
or. 6econd floor, good repair. Stock barn 40x50, stable for 16 head and room
fcr more, siio 75 tons capacity, basement for manure and atock, good repair
Horse barn in stock barn, 4 stalls and one box, basement. With this term
iner are 14 cows, 1 two-vear-old heifer, 2 yearling heifers, 1 yearling bull,.
6 heifer calves, 3 horses, 4 hogs and about 100 hers. All hay, grain and fod
der, and a fine set of funning tools, wagons, sleighs and harnesses. A good
farm trade. . " ' .
Price $7500
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EXCHANGE BLOCK
May" 16. Chicago express drivers went
on strike
July 26. Train service brotherhoods
voted overwhelmingly for a strike.
Aug. 5. Strike stopped all surface car
traffic in boroughs of Manhattan, the
Bronx and Richmond. New York.
Aug. 7. New York street car . strike
ended. Aug. 12. Federal board's mediation In
threatened railway strike failed.
Aug. 14. President Wilson conferred
with rail heads and union men.
Aug. 29. Failing to avert rail strike.
President Wilson asked congress to pass
three bills to meet situation.
Sept. 1. House . passed eight hour rail
road bill, to avert strike.
Sept. 2. Senate passed eight hour bill.
Sept. 6. Strike of subway, elevated xnd
surface railway men In New York.
Sept. 22. General sympathy strike of'
union labor called in New York.
Sept 28. General strike In New York
fizzled.
Nov. 5. I. W. W. men from Seattle
fought sheriff's posse at Everett, Wash.:'
7 killed.
Nov. 2L United States Steel corpora
tion announced 10 per cent raise of wages.
Nov. 22. Adamson 8-hour law held un
constitutional by federal judge in Kansas
City.
Nov. 23. New England cotton mills
raised wages of employees.
Nov. 29. International Harvester com
pany and many other concerns announced
large wage increases.
Nov. 30. Chicago Wholesalers' associa
tion raised wages
Dec. 13. New York garment workers oi
strike.
SPORTING
Jan. 5. C. Hj Weeghman and partners
bought Chicago National league club.
Feb. 25. Charles Ellis won three-cushion
billiard championship from De Oro.
March 25. Jess Willard defeated Frank
Moran at New York.
April 12. Baseball season opened.
May 30. Dario Resta in Peugeot car wo
Indianapolis 300 mile race.
June 17. Syracuse crews won regatt
at Poughkeepsie.
June 23. Harvard beat Yale In New
London reeatta.
June 30. Charles Evans, Jr., Chicago,
won open national golf championship.
Aug. 15. George M. Church retained!
Western tennis championship.
Aug. 18. Walter Hagen of Rochester,
N. Y., won Western open golf champion
ship, e
Aug. 25. Mrs. F. C. Letts, Cincinnati,
won women's Western golf championship.
Sept, 4, Freddie Welsh defeated Charley
White in 20 rounds.
Sept. 9. Charles Evans, Jr.. Chicago,,
won national amateur golf championship.
Sept. 30. Johnny Aitken In a Peugeot
won Astor cup, breaking world's record.
Oct. 1. Boston won American league
championship.
Oct. 3. Brooklyn won National league
championship.
Oct. 7. Alexa Stirling, Atlanta, won
women's national golf championship.
Oct. 12. Boston Red Sox won world's
championship.
Oct. 14. Resta won Grand American 250
mile automobile race at Chicago.
Nov. 16. Dario Resta won Vanderbllt
cup at Santa Monica, Cal.
Nov. 18. Grand Prix race at Santa Mon
ica, Cal., won by Aitken; Driver Lewis
Jackson and three spectators killed.
Nov. 25. Ohio State university won
western conference football championship!
FINANCIAL
Jan. 24. U. S. Supreme court declared
income tax constitutional.
May 23. Richard H. Aishton elected
president Northwestern railway.
June 24. Corn Products trust ordered
dissolved by federal judge in New York.
June 28. Western Pacific railroad sold
at auction for $18,000,000.
Oct. 2. American loan of $60,000,000 made
to China to build railways.
Nov. 13. Starch trust ordered dissolved
by federal court in New York.
Nov. 16. Chicago bank made loan of
$5,000,000 to China.
Dec. 1. Great Britain and France can
celed proposed $500,000,000 loan from U. S.
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