Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-12-29
Is. Heat Wave: Temperature SO in New


York; hottest Sept. 10 on record.
Sporting: Directum l. made new worlds
pacing record of 1:56 for three-quar-
ters of a mile without wind shield, al
Syracuse, N. Y
L. COntraband Trading: British prize
court condemned $15000,000 worth OF
American goods as contraband forfeit
to Great Britain.
Haiti: The United States recognized
the new Haitian government OF Pres
ldent DartgUenaVe ana concluded
treaty establishing a pre~ectorate for
ten years.
II. Arctic Exploration: Vilhjalmur Stef-
ansson, the explorer, heard from after
silence of II months lie was in
Banks Land and reported finding I'M
charted land
IL. Mexico: Pan-American conferees on
Mexican affairs postponed decision
three weeks.
e. Mexico: In an affair between United
States troops and Mexican invaders at
rProgreso, Tex, / American and II
MexicanS We're killed.
Obituary: DR.. Austin Flint, noted physi-
clan and alienist, in New York city;
aged so.
Is. Obituary: J. Keir Hardie, noted Eng
fish Socialist M P. and lecturer, in
Glasgow, Scotland.
e. Explosion: Gasoline and dynamite eX-
plosion in the business district of Ard
more, Okla, killed 55 people and in
jured over 100; property loss 100000.
Convention: 49th annual encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic open
ed in Washington
g. Convention: Farmers National con-
gress opened at Omaha.
Personal: President Wilson welcomed
the G. A. r. veterans in Camp EN-
cry, Washington
Sporting: The Philadelphia club clinch-
ed the National league pennant at
Boston by defeating Boston to O.
Wireless: Wireless phone talk was ac-
complished between Arlington, Va.
and San Francisco, 5000 miles.
Convention: Sons of Veterans annual
encampment, in Washington.
War Anniversary: Semicentennial ami
versary of the Washington grand re-
. view Of 1866 by 10000 G. A. r. veter-
ans.
Storm Disaster: Gulf hurricane struck
Louisiana coast; deaths estimated
about $50.
30. Wireless: Speech transmitted by wire
less phone from Arlington, Va, to
Honolulu, 1900 miles.
Sporting: Boston became American
league champion through the defeat
of Detroit by st. Louis. to 2, at De-
troit.
OCTOBER.
1. Personal: Capt E. r. Monfort of
Ohio elected commander in chief of
the G. A. r.
4. Convention: International Farm con-
gresS opened at Denver.
s. Submarine: Germany disavowed the
sinking of the liner Arabic and agreed
to pay indemnity for loss of American
lives when the ship was torpedoed.
g. Sporting: Harvard defeated Carlisle
in football, 20 to Z, at Cambridge
Gil Anderson won $50 mile auto race
for the Aston cup, at Sheepshead Bay.
Mexico: Pan-American conferees voted
to recommend the Carranza party in
Mexico as the de facto government.
II. Convention: National Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union met at Seat
tie, Wash.
49, Sporting: Boston Americans defeated
the Philadelphia Nationals in the fifth
and deciding game of the worlds Sc
ries, 5 to 4, at Philadelphia.
49, Mexico: The United States, Brazil
Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Bolivia
Uruguay, Colombia and Nicaragua
formally recognized Gen. CarranZa
head of the de facto government OF
Mexico.
e. Wireless: Wireless telephoning &C
complished between Arlington, Va
and Paris.
%. Sporting: Cornell defeated Harvard
10 to 0, at Cambridge, Mass Princeton
defeated Dartmouth, 80 to Z, at Prince
ton.
26. War Blockade: Steamer Hooking
sailing under United States flag, seiZ
| ed by a British cruiser off the por
of New York.
| NOVEMBER.
! l. Obituary: Herman Ridder German
American editor, in New York; aged GA
| z Shipwreck: Steamer Santa Claus, of
Oregon; Is deaths.
g. Obituary: P. A B. Widener, capital
list, in Philadelphia; aged 50.
Football: Harvard defeated Princeton
| 10 to 6.
| 7. Neutral Protest: United States not
| to Great Britain declared the British
. blockade Illegal and a curtailment o
| neutral rights.
10. japan: Emperor Yoshihito, formal.
crowned at Kioto.
| Storm: Kansas, Nebraska and SOutl
Dakota hit by tornado; many deaths
Fire: Loss of 100000 at plant of Beth
lehem Steel works.
Is. Football: Yale defeated Princeton b.
! Is to Z.
A. Obituary: Booker T. Washington
negro leader and educator, at Tusl1e
gee, Ala; aged 81.
16. Obituary: Susan E. Dickinson, jour
nalist, sister of Anna E., the "gil
orator. of civil war days, in Scran
ton, Pa; aged a.
Mine Accident: 80 miners killed by dus
explosion at Ravensdale Wash.
49, Storm: Record eastern gale of I
miles an hour on the upper Atlanti
coast.
Obituary: DR.. Solomon Schechter, note
Biblical scholar and authority, in NeN
York; aged 6S.
20. Football: Harvard defeated Yale, 4
to 0, at Cambridge, Mass.
%. Railroad Accident: Is persons kille
in circus train head-on collision nea
Columbus, Ga
Is. Tornado: IL killed and 80 injured b
violent windstorm near Hot Springs
Ark.
, rs. Mexico: At Nogales. Sonora, about
Mexicans and American SOLDIER
were killed in long range shootin
affair.
q. Football: Army beat Navy. IA to
in New York.
80. Neutral Rights: Great Britain seize
at Saint Lucia the American steame
Tennessee.
Explosion: 80 workmen killed at the D
Pont powder plant at Upper Hogle!
Del.
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