The Washington herald., 1912-12-29

indicted at indianapolis, Ind. charged
with conspiracy in dynamite out
RACES.
Start Money Trust Probe.
February 7-Congress moves to investi-
gate Money Trust.
February lj-Bank messenger in taxicab
is held up in New York in broad
daylight by two bandits and robbed
OF s25, COO
February 16-Maj. Gen. F. c. Ainsworth
rctires from the army, after being
charged with insubordination by Sec
retary Stimson.
February Goal strike begins in Eng
land.
February 27-Secretary Knox arrives at
Panama.
February 2S-First consignment OF ]. p.
Morgan's art treasures reach New
York from Europe.
March 1-One million British miners are
out on strike.
March = Ronald Amundsen announces
that he reached the south pole on
December II. 1911.
March 1.-the Allen band Of outlaws
shoot up the courthouse at Hillsville,
Va, killing five people. including
Judge Thornton L. Massie.
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King of Italy, while latter is driving
through streets of Rome.
March 15-Dr. Harvey w. Wiley resigns
as chief of the Bureau of Chemistry
in the Department OF Agriculture.
March 16-The hulk of the hattleship
Maine is buried at sea off the coast
of Cuba, with impressive ceremony.
March 25-Paris motor car bandits mur
der two bank officials at Chantilly.
Get away with $4,000
March 26-Marcus u. Smith and Henry
F. Ashurst are elected to the United
States Senate from Arizona.
March 27-Philip S. Hichborn. son OF the
late rear admiral, commits suicide in
Washington. after having been de-
serted by his wife.
April 5-Galbra!th P. Rodgers. the only
aviator to fly across the continent, is
killed at Los Angeles.
Titantic Strikes Iceberg.
April S-Frederick o. Beach, a New York
society man, is indicted by South
Carolina grand jury, charged with a
murderous attack on his wife.
April 11-Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son
of the civil war hero, dies in New
York.
April 1.-THE white Star Liner Titanic,
an iceberg in midocean on her maid
en- voyage, and sinks with over 1850
passengers. The loss of the Titanic
and its cargo of human lives constf-
tuted the greatest marine disaster in
history. There were 7O5 souls saved
and 1,519 lost. Among the latter were
William T. Stead. the English jour
nalst; Col. John Jacob Astor, Mr..
and Mrs. Isador Straus, Jacques Fu-
trelle. Mai. Archibald Butt, Henry
B. Harris, George D. Widener, and
Benjamin Guggenheim,
April 1s-Senate subcommittee summons
]. Bruce Ismay to explain the Ii
tanic disaster.
April 2S-Paris auto bandits are killed in
a dramatic battle with the police.
May +F1fteen thousand suffragettes
march in New York.
May 13-Victor L. Mason, of New Jer-
sey, is killed in fall from an aero
plane at Brooklands. England. His
companion, 2. v. Fisher, is also
killed.
May 1.-Two more Paris auto bandits
killed in a sensational fight with an
army Of policemen.
May 15-Dr. Ben Reitman, manager of
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, Is
tarred and feathered at San Diego,
May 17-Prof. Mallada and his assistant,
Marvozzi. descend 1,000 feet into the
crater of Vesuvius, to take pictures.
May 21-Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson
is electrocuted at Charlestown, Mass,
for the murder of his former sweet
heart, Avis Linnell.
May 2S-United States troops are ordered
to Cuba to restore order and put
down the revolution.
May % - One hundred and twenty-five
thousand men go out on strike at the
port Of London. tying up 200 ships.
Wilbur Wright Dies.
May 30-Wilbur Wright, the inventor OF
the first practical aeroplane, dies at
his home in Dayton, Ohio.
May 31-American marines land in Cuba.
June Phillip Parmalee, the aviator, is
killed in a fall from his aeroplane at
North Yakima, Wash.
June 5-United States Senator George S.
Nixon, of Nevada, dies in Washing
ington.
June Julius Kovacs, a member Of the
Hungarian Parliament, fires three
shots at Count Tisza, president of
the chamber, then shoots himself
June 9-Three German war ships visit
New York harbor.
NJ. kimmerling, a noted aviator, and a |
passenger named Tonnet, are killed |
while flying at Mourmelon, France.
June 11-Lieut. L. W. Hazelhurst, Of the |
United States army. and Al Welsh, a |
professional aviator, are killed at |
College Park, Md, in a fall from an
aeroplane.
June 1EPremier Asquith is assaulted by
a militant suffragette while at a re-
ception.
Tune ls-Republican National Convention
opens at Chicago, and elects Senator
Elihu Root temporary chairman.