The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-01-07

cry man Ii Sing Sing
26-J John q. Rockefeller. Jr.. says his
fether has given away q quarter Of =
leb werner Horn. German reserv-
lst dynamites International bridge g
Feb. 2-Frederick Mors ccnfesses he
put eight old persons 70 death In Ger
man odd Fellows home at Yonkers.
6--J n Morgan sells his fathers por-
Loco. 600.
20-President Wilson presses button In
WI White House opening Panama Pc z,
Morgan sells the Fragonard paint
ings from his fathers collection
26--Navy bill. providing for two battle
81 Federal grand jury at New York
starts probe OF line war activities.
March 2-New York police trap anar-s
chists as they set OF bomb in SC. Pat
Sixty third congress ends.
14--LincOln Beachey falls 1900 feet to
his death before great Frisco fair
1s-Heien Angle acquitted Of murder
ing Waldo =. Baliou In Stamford,
22-U. s. submarine Ed sinks to BOT
tom at Pearl sharbor. Hawaii. and all
on board are lost.
April 5--JesS Willard knocks out Jack
Johnson and becomes world heavy
WIN. III. Thompson elected mayor OF
Chicago In Republican landslide~
4l-Iwo men killed IN Newark IN. -
17-Premler Chagas Of Portugal shot
and severely wounded by political IA
June S-Wiliiam Jennings BRYAN re-
signs as secretary OF state.
Robert Lansing appointed secretary
Of state. s1.5o0.O00 loss in southern
California earthquake.
4 TSxfS
July p Bomb set by Eric Muenter dam
ages capitol at Washington
Eric Muenter.
5-Dynamite bomb damages New york
police headquarters.
lSz-IIarry e. Thaw found sane by New
2s-Two killed in strike battle in Bay
90 Fourteen hundred killed when
July 2s-American marines land in
Haiti
so-Charles Becker, former police lieu
tenant of New York executed at Sing
sing for murder OF Herman Rosen-
Aug s-Twenty-five killed In cloud
burst at Erie Pa.
6--Pan- American nations urge peace
plan upon Mexican leaders.
ll-Plattsburg business mems training
16--Leo Nj. Frank taken from Georgia
prison by mob and hanged.
s1-Dr; G. Franklin Mohr, Providence
lR. - society physician. murdered
in his automobile and woman COM
panion mutilated. Three negroes con-
ss fsss later 5atsF and limp implicate wife
civilians announced.
13--Seven Americans killed In border
clash with Mexicans.
22mSe ev; killed when subway street
covering eollapses in New York
27--Tifty killed and $50 injured by gas-
cline explosion IN Ardmore. Okla
lured (burned1 while practicing at
Sheepshead bay for Astor. cup race.
psf hree hundred dead In Gulf OF Mex
Oct president Wilson announces he
Will marry Mrs Norman Gait Also
announces he will vote for woman
9--Announce IL. s. and Latin American
head of Mexico.
lo-.Secretary sof War Garrison makes
public his plan for VI. 8 army OF
100000 regulars. continentals and
1s-Woman suffrage defeated by $1,000
IN New Jersey. despite presidents
Porter Charlton found guilty 81
numbering his wife in Como. Italy;
sentenced e five years and five
2s--Twenty zone little girls die in school
fire In Peabody, Mass.
Nov. Elections in seven states: suf-
frage loses in New York, PennsyIva-
MIA and Massachusetts,: r:Sfbiffon
loses in Ohio; Kentucky lryIand
and Mississippi elect Democratic gov
ernors; Massachusetts, elects Republi
can governor: New York and New
Jersey elect Republican assemblies:
Philadelphia elects Thomas B. Smith
organization Republican. mayor.
schenectady re-elects George r
4President Wilson in speech at the
Manhattan club asks citizen army OF
400. 900.
10y oshihito crowned emperor Of ia
s1-Porter Charlton freed by italian
authorities after actually servine
80 days in cell following conviction
OF murder OF his wife.
Dec. 5--Chinese rebels seize cruiser
Chao-ho at Shanghai. but are quick
ly put down.
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 annual message
demands big army and navy and re-
preston OF hostile hyphenated citi-
zens.
i0-Army general staff. in report, de-
nands well-trained regular and con
tinental army OF 100000 as mimi
mum necessary for safety.
1--Yuan-Shi- Kai. president of China
accepts the imperial crown offered
him in accordance with the result OF
IL Secretary Of the Navy Daniels
makes public fve-year $500. 900 900
navy-building plan.
14-Republicans set convention date
for Chicago. June next.
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