El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-04
SINKING Of THE TITANIC GREATEST
OF MANY DISASTERS IN YEAR 1872

age 1. this section.)
! saulted by militant suffraget while
at a reception.
The Republican Convention.
June 1S-Repubican national con-
vention opens at Chicago and elects
senator Elihu Root temporary chair
man.
June 22-President Taft, is renomi-
mated Dy the Republican convention at
Chicago. Col. Roosevelt and his fol-
lowers. hold meeting in Chicago and
launch Pr SresSi-e party
June 25-DemOcratic national con-
vention opens at Baltimore and elects
Alton 3. Parker temporary chairman.
June 30-Storm sweeps over Sas-
katchewan, Canada, causing death Of
200 people and $1,000, 600 property loss.
July Miss Harriet Quimby is
killed by a fan from an aerOplane into
Dorchester Bay. Mass.
Wilson Nominated.
July 2-WoOdrOw Wilson is nomi-
mated for president by the Democratic
convention at Baltimore. Melvin Vani-
man and four of his companions are
killed when his airship explOdes near
Atlantic City. Those who perish with
him are George Bourellon, Calvin Nalii-
man, Fred Elmer and Walter Guest.
July tom Moore, a professional
balloOnist, is killed in a fail at Hill
side Park. y. J. Forty-One people are
killed and 80 injured when a Lacka-
wanna express train crashes into a
freight train near Corning, n Y.
July 5-Twenty-on people are killed
and 80 injured when a passenger train
on the Ligonier Valley railroad is run
into from behind by a freight train at
Wilpen, Pa.
July Olympic games open at
Stockholm. Sweden.
July S-C2mOrrist leaders are sen
fenced to 80 years imprisonment
July 11-Pietro Mascogni, the com
poser, elOpes with a chorus girl.
July 13-The United States Gusts
h ALiam LOrimer. of Illinois.
July Thirteen persons are killed
and 20 injured when an Omaha mail
train crashes into the rear end of a
Denver Overland limited, Is miles west
OF Chicago. *. X. Macarthur, of South
Africa, wins the Marathon at Stock
helm.
RosenthaI Murdered.
July 16-Herman Rosenthal. a New
York gambler, who has accused pc
lice lieutenant Charles A Becker Of
being his partner, is shot dead. The
American team is first in the Olympic
games. William T. McCOmbs is elected
chairman of the national Democratic
committee.
July 2O-Meat Packers trust dis
July 2e-Thirteen Detroit aldermen
caught accepting brides.
July 2S-POlice lieutenant Charles A
Becker is arrested at New York,
craleed with hiring -four assassins TO
shoot Herman ROscuthal. the gambler.
MutsChito, emperor of Japan, dies.
August 1-dsebels renew war in
Mexico.
August 5-Progressive party opens
National convention al Chicago. Ameri-
can marines land at Nicaragua.
August Theodore Roosevelt nomi-
mated for president by the Progressive
party at Chicago.
August Sen. Cincinnatus Leconte.
president of Haiti is killed by bomb
explosion in the National palace at
Prince.
August 1O-Earthquake in Turkey
wipes out several small villages, kill
ing hundreds Of people.
August 1.-THE greatest war man
euvers in the history Of the United
States army begin in Connectie9t
August 20-Gcn William Booth
founder of the Salvation army, dies
at his home in London.
August 29-Marquis Emperiali, iE-
ventOr OF new explosive calleo I'M
perialite. is blown to pieces at Milan
experimenting with his new chemlcaI-
September 5-Lieut Gen. Arthur Nc
Arthur. of the United states army, dies
at Milwaukee. while N the course OF |
an address.
September 11-Paul Peck. an aviator, |
is fatally hurt in a fall from an aero
plane at Chicago
September 1S-Gen Count Meresuke |
Nagi. head Of the Japanese army. anu 1
his wife commit suicide in accordance !
with the ancient Japanese custom, as
a tribute to their departed emperor
MUtsuhitO.
September 14-HOward Gill. the /
aviator. is killed at Chicago by a col
lision in mid air
September 21-Three aviators, n. l. |
D. Ashley, of England, and Lieuts- Ber-
gen and Juanghaus. of Germany, are
Killed. The first at Belfast' ana the
other two nesr Freihur@
September %. - GuiglimO Marconi
inventor. Of the wireless Ieiegraphy, Is
hurt in an accident in Italy and loses
an eye.
English aviator. is killed at Hampstead
Plains. Long Island. Lieut.. L. G. Rock
well. and Cor Frank Scott, OF the army
avfatfon school. are killed while flying I
at College Park. Nd
october - Bulgaria, Servia and
Greco begin to mobilize their armies !
preDa ratorv to fighting turkey. Bruce
vauIyee in an auto race trial Lieut. I
IT. i, Wilder are killed by an explosion
on the torpedo boat destroyer Wake.
near Newport
Young. of the United States navy. dies
at the Waldorf Astoria, New York city.
Balkan war Starts.
October 3-Nine persons are kille1
and over 20 injured when the Boston
express train is wrecked at WestpOrt.
Conn. Charles f. Walsh, an aviator, IS