The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-01-11

existing laws. On June f6 the repeal
Of the Panama canal tolls bill became
a law on Oct. - the war tax bill
designed 20 meet the emergency aus
ed hy the European al became ef
fective on Nov. Is the federal re
serve banks were opened In compu
ance with the new currency law AMI
released S4GDeoaOso for loans. Prior
TO this. however. on Nov. ?. the gen
eral elections were held and the Dem
ocratic majority in the lower house re
dueed to nineteen and that in the SEN
ATE 10 ten
Other important events We're.
Jan. sod Dominion liner Monroe INA
by collision OF the Virginia capes with
a loss o. forTy-one lives
Feb Sire destroyed Sie0ea0 worth Of
cotton at Clinton. Tex
Feb 4-Peruvian rev0iutioniSts deposed
President Guillermo BiilinghursL In an
attack on the palace Prime Minister Va
rela was killed
March SIN a FIRE whieh destroyed tie
Missouri Athletic club house 81 Louis
thirty persons persisted
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burning q the Columbia docks At Port
land. ore
March Ia-Fifty persons drowned at
Venice. Italy. by the sinking OF a passeu-
ger steamer in collision with a torpedo
boat
March 2a-Loss Of E-eaooe rs the burn
ing OF a tobacco plant at Durham y c
April I'm ST. Augustine. Fla. court
house and several hotels and residences
destroyed By are: loss Seae0 10 x59eo
April Treaty between United States
ard Colombia signed at Bogota-
April 13-Adlai Ewing Stevenson. vice
president q the United States. Esz. died
in Chicago. aged seveaty-nine
April o-State troops and striking min
ers clashed az Trinidad Colo twenty
FIVE. including eleven women and two
children. killed or burned % death
April S-Firs in Salem Mass caused
a loss Of about 100000. 1ee people
made homeless
MAY Eleanor Wilson. daughter of
the president. married I'm the Waite Houss
10 William Gibbs McAdoo.
MAY u-MemoriaI exercises ~ Tinted
States sailors killed ar Vera Cruz At he
Brooklyn navy ysUf. President Wilson
took a leading part
May Z-By a majority vote of = the
Irish home rule bill passed the British
parliament.
May &-SteamshIp Empress ~ ireland
rammed and sunk by the collier St0rstad
on Father Point. Eulf OF St lawrence
Out OF If75 on board. ~ were saved fet
drowned
July The use OF liquor on ~shipboard
IN the United States navy was pr5hIbfted
By order OF the secretary OF war.
July Right Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain. noted figure In British politics and
Industries. died in London aged seventy
eight
July G-Alrs. Woodrow Wilson CEIla
Louise Axs0nl. wife o. President Wilson.
died at the White House. aged ftty-one
july 15-Panama canal formally opened
TO Steamer AncOn PASSED from
ocean 10 ocean In ten hours.
July L--ClSteT var clash IN the streets
Of Dublin between Nationalist volunteers
and British troops in the Ulster var
against home rule.
Aug fa-United States senate ratified
peace treaties with Norway. Netherlands.
Portugal. Switzerland. Denmark. Italy.
Salvador. Guatemala. Honduras. Nicara-
qua. Bolivia. Persia. Costa Rica. ysne-
zuela. Uruguay. Argentina. Brazil and
Chile.
Sept. B-Peace treaties between ths
United States ami Great Britain. France.
Spain and china signed at Washington.
Sept n-Pope Plus X Giuseppe SaFtoD
died N the vatican Rome. aged seventy
nine
Oct. 2-Carcinal Giacomo Della Chiesa
elected supreme pouti1 10 succeed Plus Y
| Oct. 5-Newiy elected pope crowned At
| Rome as Benedict Nv
| Oct 13-Boston Nationals defeated Phil
sdelphia Americans in fourth and deciding
game Of the worlds series Score. } TO l.
Dec. Fire on board the steamship
| Mississippi destroyed art objects I'm tran
sit from Europe valued at st.saaa0
Dec. 9-Neariy the whole Of Thomas A
| Edison's plant in West Orange. y =. de-
stroyed by FIRE: loss $4,000
Dee. 10-SsrenO r Payne. noted con-
| gresham. author OF the P~ayne-AIdrich
tariff bill. died In Washington. aged sev-
| enty-one
Dec. New York Stock Exchange.
which closed at the beginning q the Eu-
| ropean war. reopened.