New Britain herald., 1916-01-01
MISCELLANY EOUS.

son in White House. Jan. 5.-United States supreme court ruled that the Danbury (Conn.) matters must pay $252,000 fine for boycott set | up in 1902.
 Jan. 13-Earthquake in Italy. Many cities and towns destroyed. Avezzano being the principal sufferer Jan. 18.-British steamer Peuarth wrecked off Norfolk. twenty-one sail ors drowned. l Jan 2S-President Wilson vetoed the | immigration bill
 Feb. 20. Panama Pacific Interna- | tional exposition at San Francisco | formally opened. | March 2-Mine explosion at Hinton. w Va, killed 100 miners. | March 8.-Harry Thaw placed on | trial for conspiracy to escape from Matteawan and was acquitted several days later.
 March 1.-The sixty-third congress- closed.
 March 14 Lincoln Beachey, the American aviator, killed in flight at San Francisco.
 March 25.-United States submarine F-4 sank off Honolulu while making submerged run. All on board drowned | April 4.-Dutch liner Maurita lost in storm off the Atlantic coast; forty nine people drowned.
 April 2S.-Public library at St. Paul, Minn., destroyed by fire, loss $375.OOo April 2S.-Name of Culebra cut, in Panama canal, changed to Gaillard cut . April 30.-Colon, Panama, swept by fire; loss $3,500,000; 465 buildings de- stroyed.
 May 7.-Japan delivered an ultima tum to China demanding concessions. | China apcanf16 .Ianan'S Q6- mands without qualifications.
 May 16.-New government proclaim ed by revolutionists in Portugal The new premier. Joao Chagas. shot by senator.
 May 17.-President Wilson reviewed the warship fleet on Hudson river.
 May 22.-Lassen peak, California, burst out In eruption.
 May 22.-Roosevelt won his defense suit against charge of libel made by William Barnes.
 June 3.-United States petition to dissolve United States Steel corpora tion denied by court of appeals.
 June 8.-William Jennings Bryan re- signed the portfolio of state in Will sons cabinet.
 June s.-Robert Lansing appointed secretary of state.
 June 12-Thirteen persons killed and fifty hurt in a storm which swept over Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
 June 18-Harry K. Thaw granted jury trial to test his sanity.
 June 23.-Earthquake in southern California caused loss of $1,000,O0O-
 June 30.--Genevieye Clark. daugh- ter of Speaker Champ Clark, married at Bowling Green, Mo, to James M. Thomson, New Orleans journalist
 July 3.-J. P. Morgan, the banker, shot at Glen Cove, N. Y, by Frank Holt, German college professor.
 July 7.-Tornado wrought havoc in middle west. About forty deaths were reported. ...
 July Hilary K. Thaw declared sane by an advisory jury in New York city.
 July 15.-Flood in Ohio caused loss of s2,OOO, ,00O; five drowned.
 July 24-Lake excursion steamer Eastland went down at her dock in Chicago. Out of 2,40S passengers and 80 crew 981 were drowned or missing.
 July 27-Uprising in Haiti began which was followed two days later by \ the death of two American marineS6 who had been landed to prevent dis orders.
 July 30. Charles Becker, former New York police lieutenant, executed at Sing Sing for instigating the mnr- der of Herman Rosenthal, gambler.
 Aug. B. Cloudburst at Erie, Pa- caused a loss of S6,o00.o00; seventy five deaths.
 Aug. 12-Vesuvius, Stromboli and Etna, the Italian volcanoes. became active. E
 Aug. 16-Hurricane flooded Calves ton with waters of the gulf; othe2 ! points on the coast invaded. Loss ef timated at $3O,00O,0 ,000 and deaths SOO
 Aug. 16.-Leo Frank, Georgia convict, forcibly taken from prison Miledgeville and hanged near M etta. home of his alleged victim. Phagan
 Aug. 24.-Conference of gover met in Boston
 Aug. 31.-United States subma F-4, which sank in Honolulu hai on March 25, was raised.
 Sept. 4-Loss of $2,000,000 by fan on the grain pier in Newport NeS Va
 Sept. 7.-s66, 100000 in British gold received in New York to pay for war orders.
 Sept 15-Directum l. made new worlds pacing record of 1: 56 Tor three quarters of a mile without wlno shield at Syracuse, N. r.
 Sept 17-Vilhjalmu Stefansson. the t explorer, heard from after silence oa seventeen months. He was in Banks l Land and reported finding uncharter- ed land.
 0 Sept 27.-Gasoline and dynamite sR- plosion in the business district of Ardmore, Okla, killed ffty-five people r and injured over 100; property loss | s50o.00O
 | Sept 3O.-Speecn transmitted byI < wireless phone from Arlington, Va, to' ' Honolulu, 4,600 miles. Nov 10.-Emperor Yoshihito Of Japan