Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-12

a2-Henry Ford tells industrial rela-
lions commission he can reform sv-
cry man In Sing Sing.
2s-John D. Rockefeller. Jr., says his
father has given away a quarter OF
Feb. a-werner Horn. German reserv-
list, dynamites international bridge At
Vanceboro, Me.
Feb. 2-Frederick Mors confesses no
put eight old persons to death in Ger
man Odd Fellows home at Yonkers,
81. P. Morgan sells his fathers por-
celain to a syndicate for more than
100000.
2o-President Wilson presses button in
cifc International exposition. j. P.
Morgan sells the Fragonard paint
ings from his fathers collection.
26-Navy bill, providing for two battle
ships. passes the senate.
27-Federal grand jury at New York
starts probe Of line war activities.
March New York police trap anar-
chiStS as they set off bomb In st. Pat
rick's cathedral.
4-Sixty-third congress ends.
14-Lincoln Beachey falls 1000 feet to
his death before great Frisco fair
1s-Heien Angle acquitted of murder
ing Waldo R. Ballou in Stamford,
22-U. S. submarine F-4 sinlrs to bot
tom at Pearl harbor. Hawaii. and all
on board are lost.
ApriN5-Jess Willard knocks out Jack
Johnson and becomes world heavy
weight champion. In Havana, Cuba.
7-Wm. H. Thompson elected mayor OF
Chicago in Republican landslide.
1.-TWO men killed in Newark IN. ID
strike battle.
17-Premier Chagas of Portugal shot
and severely wounded by political IA
June 8-William Jennings Bryan re-
signs secretary of state
23.Robert Lansing appointed secretary
of state. $1.500.000 loss in southern
California earthquake.
27-U. S. imprisons General Huerta at
Ell Paso.
July Bomb set by Eric Muenter dam
ages capitol at Washington
81. p. Morgan shot in his home by
Eric Muenter.
5-Dynamite bomb damages New York
police headquarters.
1S-Harry K. Thaw found sane by New
22-Two Killed in strike battle in Bay
23-Fourteen hundred killed when
steamship Eastland overturns In Chi
cago river.
July 2s-American marines land in
Sc-Charles Becker former police lieu
tenant of New York, executed at Sing
Sing for murder of Herman Rosen-
Aug. 3-Twenty-fve killed in cloud
burst at Erie, Pa.
6-Pan-American nations urge peace
11-Plattsburg business mems training
camp begins.
16-Leo M Frank taken from Georgia
prison by a mob and hanged.
S1-Dr. G. Franklin Mohr, Providence,
Or. - society physician, murdered
in his automobile and woman COM
panion mutilated. Three negroes con-
fess later and implicate wife.
Sept 12-U. S. naval advisory board of
civilians announced.
13-Seven Americans killed in border
with MeXic9nS
22-Seven killed when subway street
covering collapses in New York
27-Fifty killed and $50 injured by gas
oline explosion in Ardmore, Okla.
Harry f. Grant, driver, fatally in
5ured (burned) while practicing at
Sheepshead bay for Aston cup race.
29-Three hundred dead in Gulf of Mex
leo storm
Oct president Wilson announces he
will marry Mrs. Norman Gait. Also
announces he will vote for woman
suffrage in New Jersey.
s--Announce U. S. and Latin American
republics Will recognize Carranza as
15-Secretary of War Garrison makes
public his plan for U. S. army of
100000 regulars continentals and
1s-Woman suffrage defeated by $1,000
in New Jersey despite presidents
25-Porter Charlton found guilty Of
numbering his wife in Como, Italy:
sentenced to five years and five
months in prison.
2S-Twenty-o little girls die in school
fire in Peabody, Mass.
Nov. 2-Elections in seven states; suf-
frage loses in New York, Pennsylva-
MIA and Massachusetts,; prohibition
loses in Ohio Kentucky, Maryland
and Mississippi elect Democratic gov
ernors; Massachusetts elects Republi-
Jersey elect Republican assemblies:
Philadelphia elects Thomas B. Smith,
organization Republican, mayor.
schenectady, re-elects George R..
president Wilson IN speech at the
Manhattan club asks citizen army of
100000.
10-Yoshihfto crowned emperor of ia
pan in Kyoto.
21-Porter Charlton freed by Italian
authorities after actually serving
20 days in cell. following conviction
Dec. 5-Chinese rebels se1ze cruiser
Chao- no at Shanghai. but are quick
6-Pope names six new cardinals at
consistory. Governor Whitman re-
moves Edward e. Mccall as chairman
of New York city public service COM
mittee for illegally owning electric
light stock while in office Congress
meets. President, in annU~l message,
demands big army and n Wy and re-
preston of hostile hyphenated citi-
ZenS.
10-Army general staff in report. de-
mands well-trained regular and con-
tinental army of 1000 900 as mini
mum necessary for safety.
11-Yuan-Shi-Kai, president of China,
accepts the imperial crown offered
him in accordance with the result of
the elections.
12-Secretary of the Navy Daniels
makes public five-year $780, 600, 900
vy-building plan.
14-Republicans set convention date
for Chicago, June Z next.
FINANCIAL.