Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-27

naught, launched at Brooklyn navy
yard.
! ]. P. Morgan, the banker. shot at
Glen Cove, y. Y. by Frank Holt.
German college professor.
a. Harry X. Thaw declared sane by an
advisory jury in New York city.
4 The state department notified Great
Britain, through Ambassador ". H
Page that this country would not
recognize British orders in council as
valid.
4. Southold y. Y, began the 211oth an.
niversary Of its settlement $500.
8. Haitian revolutions invaded the
French legation. ragged out the de-
posed president. GuillauIne and shot
him to death.
Q. Haitian Shippers killed United States
marines w!!o were in Port au Prince
protecting foreigners.
20. Former Tclice Lieutenant Charles
Becker executed at Sing Sing for
completely n the murder OF Hermann
Rosenthai
AUGUST.
o. United States battleships Louisiana
and New Hampshire sailed for Vera
Cruz. Mexico, to Quell anti-foreign
demonstrations.
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including sl9.ooo,oo0 in gold. arrived at
New York.
8, Riot In Boston; italian reservists as.
saultcd policemen who protected Ger.
mans from the mob.
6. National Educational association met
at Oakland. Cal.
Leo Frank, Georgia life convict, forc!bly
aiken from prison at Milledgcville and
hanged near Marietta. home of his al
legged victim. Mary Phagan.
4. Great Britain declared cotton CONTRA
band.
a. Conference OF governors met in Bos-
ton.
%. Spanish American War Veterans met
at Scranton, Pa.
4. United States Fl, which sank off
Honolulu March, Is. was raised.
SEPTEMBER
T. s2,G0o,Qo0 fire on the grain pier sin New
port News, Va.
Z. sec COO in British gold reached New
York via the American Express.
Semicentennial anniversary of the Wash
ington grand review Of 1865 by 10000
G. A. r. veterans.
Sons of Veterans annual encampment
In Washington
l. Vilhjalmur Stefansson. the explorer,
heard from after silence Of II
months He was in Banks Land.
g. In an action near Cape Haitien, Haiti,
10 Americans were wounded and 40
Haitian rebels killed.
q Gasoline and dynamite explosion in
the business district Of Ardmore, Okla.
killed So people and injured over 100:
property loss $500, 900
10th annual encampment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic opened in Wash
ington.
Omaha.
g. Wireless phone talk was accomplished
between Arlington. Va, and San Fran
cisco. 5000 miles.
o. Speech transmitted by wireless phone
from Arlington, Va, to Honolulu, 1900
miles
T. International farm congress opened at
Denver.
!. National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union met at Seattle, Wash.
!. Wireless telephoning accomplished be-
tween Arlington, Va, and Paris.
g. Steamer Hooking sailing under United
States flag seized by British cruiser
off the port of New York
NOVEMBER.
D. Great Britain seized at Saint Lucia the
United States steamer Tennessee.
I. Worlds Fair: Panama-Pacif1c exposi-
ton closed; attendance over 1900 coo;
profits 1000, 600.
Fords peace mission set out from New
York.
g. Sixty-fourth congress convened.
8 Austria asked to disavow the act Of
sinking the ocean liner Ancona.
l. Immigration statistics for 1915 showed
falling off Of arrivals Of nearly Co.,
600 up to Dec. l against the arrivals
of 1914
1. Convention: National American Wo-
man Suffrage association meets in
Washington.
7. Conventions: American Society Of In
ternational Law and Pan-American
Scientific congress meet in Washing
ton.
Convention: American Historical asso-
citation meets in Washington.