Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-31

year, as compiled by the Newark
Evening Star, were as follows:
January.
January William Rockefeller
wanted as material witness in the
congressional money investigation
in hiding on Jelxy1 Island. Cipriano
Castro. ex-President of Venezuela,
announces his intention to return to
Europe from United States. Eiffel
tower operator sends wireless New
Years greetings 1000 miles from Par
is to Arlington, Va. Local-William
o. Mcdowell, of POI Grafton avenue.
nominated for the Nobel peace prize
by Congressman William Sulzer, of
New York. approximately 400 men
and women, remainder of 5000 strik-
Ing garment workers, return to work.
January Parcel post declared a
success in Newark.
January 3-Noted stock plunger and
millionaire, James r. Keene, dead in
New York home after lingering ILL
uess. Body of Whitelaw Reid, am
bassador to Great Britain, brought to
United States. Senator Jeff Davis, of
Arkansas. dies of heart failure
January 4-Twenty-two drown as
steamships collide in Chesapeake Bay.
Local-Richard Ward, sr., of 146 Pc
shine avenue, committed suicide by
gas
January 6-"Jiin" Patten, wheat
king, and others must stand trial for
eornering cotton market. Women gar
ment worker strikers battle with
Newark police.
January Public Service Corpora
ton gives New Jersey fiat ninety-cent
gas rate. United States Consul Paul
Nash dies at Budapest. Captain Will
lam Spain, aged printer and Civil
War veteran, dies at Soldiers Home
IN Kearny. Carl Heintze, clerk Board
ofsWorks, dies on this, his birthday
January 9-New postoffice promised
Newark by inspecting committee. Os-
car Keep, former county prosecutor,
dies at home, rs Clinton avenue.
January 10-Herbert w. TAYLOR of
Eighth ward. elected leader of Essex
county G. o. P.
January 11-Novelty Leather Com
pany factory in Frankfort street de-
stroyed by fire
January 13-First gun fired in State
wide suffrage war. Judge Robert w.
Archibald. of Commerce Court, i'm
peached by United States Senate.
January 14-George A. Sipp, police
graft witness, struggled from Hotel
Navarro. Jack Johnson, pugilist, held
OF Battle Creek, Mich, fleeing coun-
try.
January 16-Ground broken for Pay
ton Theatre
January 17-Premier Poincare is
elected President of France.
January 1S-Rev. r. w. e. Merring-
condition in New York hotel, a
suicide.
January 21-Monsignor John A.
Stafford dies at home in Jersey City.
January 22-Helen Gould married to
Finley j. Shepard at brides country
home. AMI Dodd, ex-head of Nut
ual Benefit Life Insurance Company,
dies at his home. 50 Broad street.
January 23-Plans for new Public
Service terminal submitted to city.
llvington Trade Board give big ban
quet
January 24-Frank BoIand, New
Jersey aviator, killed at Port of
Spain, Trinidad.
January 25-General sickles, Civil
War leader ordered arrested in New
York for debt
January 2s-George e. Halsey quits
State Tax Board.
January 29-Kirch & Co.. big stor-
age warehouse, suffers $150,000 loss by
fire.
February.
February 5-Dr. Samuel A. Muta
resigned as mayor of West Orange.
Salvatore Loponio identified as slayer
of Patrolman John j. McGovern.
February 6-Police Captain Thomas
w. Walsh, of New York, confesses to
graft charges.
February frederick o. Beach,
wealthy New Yorker, found not guilty
of assaulting wife by Aiken, S. c.,
jury
February 10-Captain Robert II.
Scott Antarctic explorer, and party
perish on South Polar expedition.
Thomas J. Preston weds widow of ex-
President Grover Cleveland
February 11-Thomas A. Edison, in
ventor, celebrated sixty-siXth birth
Gay.
February 12-Suffrage army, led by
General Rosalie Jones, left Newark
for Washington.
February 13-"Seven sisters" bill
passed by New Jersey Senate.
February Ex-senator James f..
Fielder enters gubernatoria contest.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt's engagement is
announced.
February 15-President Madero of
E Mexico declared he had no intention
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Jones street, committed suicide in
New York hotel.
February III. Pierpont Morgan,
noted financier, reported dying in
London officials of National Cash
Register Company sentenced to prison
for violation of Sherman antitrust
law.
February 1S-Joaquin Miller, Poet
of the Sierras." dead in California.
February 19--W. c. Sutton declared
winner of the Evening Star proverb
contest. First exodus Of big
League" ball teams South for spring
training.
February 22-PreSident Madero OF
Mexico slain.
February 24-Ohiclai PROBE INTO
Madero's death begun
February 25--Wittpenn supporters
switch to Fielder for Governor. Cold
weather stops strike in Paterson SILK
mills
February 26-Hailstones kill Luther
Quinn. of 159 Valley street, South Or
snge, when he swallows them DUR
ing storm. Bribery charges enter IN
to efforts of Mrs. Thaw to free her
son Harry from Mattewan. Newark
and Brooklyn teams arrive at Hot
Springs, Ark.
February 27-United States refuses
to recognize Huerta regime in Mexico:
February 28.-Twenty-five trapped
bv locked doors in West Orange
school fire. woodrow Wilson has
narrow escape from train wreck. Po-
lice Commissioner c. V. Baumann
dead at his home.
March.
March 1--James +. Fielder becomes
acting Governor.
March 3-Mexican soldiers fire on
United States troops at Douglas, Ariz.
March 4-Woodrow Wilson inaugu-
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