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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13

Oct. 7.-Rt. Rev. Robert Goldman. Epae.
copa1 bishop of Maine. at Bostof.
Oct 9.-Danlel NJ Houser, publisher OF
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Oct 11.-Henri Fabre, French entomol-
ogist.
Oct. 16-sir Lionel Garden. British Dip
lomat, in London.
Oct 25.-Paul Hervieu, French dramatic
author.
Oct. so.-sir Charles Upper, Canadian
statesman, at Bexley Heath, England.
Oct 31.-Blanche Walsh. actress. at
Cleveland, O.
Nov. L. w. Pretorius, publisher Of
St. Louis Times, committed suicide.
Herman Ridder, publisher New York
Stats Zetung, at New York.
Lewis Waller, noted actor, in London.
Nov. 6.-P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia,
f1nancier.
Nov. sc. S. Willard noted actor, in
London.
Nov. H-Booker T. Washington, noted
negro educator, at Tuskegee. Ala
Nov. 16.-Former Senator julius C.. Bur-
rows at Kalamazoo. Mich
Dec. 4.-August Pitou, actor and play
wright at Hobesound. Fla
Dec. 5-Gen Jesus Rabi, hero of Cuban
wars, at Santiago.
Edward Smith, president American
Shipbuilding company. at Buffalo.
Dec. 9.-Stephen Phillips, English poet
Dec. 10.-Lt. Col. c. S. Bromwell. head
Of army engineer corps in Hawaii, COM
United suicide.
Abraham Gruber, prominent New York
politician.
Dec. I2.-Former U. S. Senator F. M.
COckrell at Washington.
Earl of Glasgow at Fairlfne, Scotland
Dec. 15.-Viscount Alverstcne former
lord chief justice of Great Britain.
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MEXICO

Jan. 5.-Carranza forces under Oregon
stormed and captured Puebla, and took
Gen. Angeles prisoner.
Jan. 27.-Provisional President Cara
and his government fed from Mexico CITY
to Cuernavaca.
Jan. 2S.-Carranza forces under General
Obregon occupied Mexico City.
Feb. u.-Carranza expelled Jose Caro-,
Spanish minister, from Mexico
March 9.-Seven battleships ordered
from Guantanamo to Vera Cruz
March R.-Carranza evacuated Mexico
City and Zapata entered. John B. Nc.
Manus, American, killed by Zapatistas
while American flag fioated over his
house.
April 12-villa forces defeated nea,
Jarita, losing 500 killed.
Victoriano Huerta landed at New York
June 6.-Carranza armies led by Obre.
gon defeated Villa and took Leon after
battle lasting five days.
June 27.-Victoriano Huerta arrested in
New Mexico on charge of melting an
other Mexican revolution.
Aug. 5-Diplomats from Latin America
in Washington conferred on Mexico situa-
ton.
Aug. 8-Six Mexican bandits killed and
three Americans wounded in battle al
Norias ranch, north of Brownsville, Tex.
Aug. 16-Armed Mexicans crossed Rio
Grande near mercedes, Tex, and attacked
outpost of American cavalrymen. killine
Corporal Wilman.
Aug. 19-Villa accepted Pan-America
proposition for peace conference
Aug. 3d. Gen. Pascual Orozco. noted
Huerta leader, killed while leading raid
in Texas.
Sept. K.-Eighteen Mexicans shot in two
fights between U. S. regulars and Car
rama soldiers.
Oct. 9.-Recognition of Carranza recon-
mended by Secretary Lansing and Latin
American diplomats.
Oct. 19.-MeXican bandits robbed train
in Texas. killing three Americans; posse
killed ten Mexicans for alleged completely
in the crime.
Carranza formally recognized as presi-
dent Of Mexico by United States, and six
Latin-American governments.
Nov. 3.-Villa's army withdrew from
siege Of Aqua Prieta.
Dec. 1S-Villa gave I'D fight against
Carranza.
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FOREIGN

Jan. 1.-Revolutionists in Paraguay
seized President Sherer
Feb. 11.-Father vladimir Ledochowsli
Il Russian Pole, was elected general Of
the Society Of Jesus
Feb. 23.-President Davilmar of Haiti
Hed the country.
March 23.-China acknowledged Japa-
@ese control over Southern Manchuria
April 23.-Japan sent ultimatum to
China.
Danish diet granted suffrage to women
May 8.-China yielded to Japan's de-
mands.
May N.-Manuel de Arriaga, president
Of Portugal, resigned.
June 5.-Danish parliament adopted new
constitution giving franchise to women.
July 27.-Revolutionists in Haiti killed
President Guillaume, and proclaimed DR..
Rossalvo Bobro president
July B-United States marines and blue
jackets landed at Port Au Prince, Haiti
and took charge.
Aug. 12.-Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli
in eruption.
Gen. Dartinguenave elected president of
Haiti by national assembly.
Sept: H-Word received from Vilhjal-
mar Stefansson, arctic explorer, who had
been missing for year and a half.
Oct. 25.-Porter Charlton convicted at
Como, Italy, Of wife murder and given
light sentence.
Nov. D.-Emperor Yoshihito formally
mounted the throne Of Japan.
Pee. 3-Epidemic Of typhus in Mexico
City reported.
Dec. 5.-Chinese rebels seized cruiser
Chao-Ho at Shanghai and fought two
other warships.
Dec. 6.-Pope held consistory and ap-
pointed seven cardinals
Revolt at Shanghai suppressed
Dec. n.-Yan Shi-Kai accepted the
throne Of China.
Belgian munitions plant at Havre blew
up: thousand killed and hurt
Dec. 16.-Cam1lle de Coppet elected pres
ldent Of Swiss republic.
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DISASTERS

Jan. 13.-Thirty eight thousand persons
killed, $4,000 injured and many towns de-
stroyed by earthquake in central Italy.
Feb. N.-Manua islands in American
Samoa devastated by hurricane
March 2.-Explosion of gas, followed by
fire, in Laland mines Of New River &
Pocahontas Coal Co. Of Hinton, w. Va,
entombed about ITO men.
March 25.-American submarine Fla
wrecked near Honolulu. q men lost.
April 4.-Great storm on Atlantic coast,
Is lives lost in wrecks.
April 13.-Coal mine accident in japan
fatal to 1885,
April 3O.-Fire destroyed more than half
of Colon, Panama; loss $3,5oo0o0.
May 22-One hundred sixty-four persons
killed and scores injured in railway wreck
in England.
June Carbohydrates in Imperial VAL
ley, California, killed a number Of per
sons and seriously damaged many towns.
July A.-Steamer Eastland upset in
Chicago river, S12 persons losing their
lives.
July 29.-Typhoon at Shanghai killed 500
and loss was $5.000.000.
Aug 3-Erie, Pa, inundated by cloud
burst. q lives lost and vast property
damage.
Aug. 16-Hurricane swept lower part of
Texas. 25o dead and $4,000 900 property
loss.
Sept. H.-Explosion Of car of gasoline
wrecked Ardmore, Okla, killing So
Sept. 29.-Destructive gulf storm hit
New Orleans and vicinity: 300 or more
lives lost.
Oct. 2S-Twenty-one children burned to
death In parochial school in Peabody.
Mass.
Nov 2.-Steamer Santa Clara lost near
Astoria, Ore; fifteen lost
Nov. M.-Gun plant of Bethlehem Steel
company burned; loss $3.00O,00O.
Nov. 11.-Million dollar fire in war mate
rial plant of Roebling Sons company at
Trenton, N. ].
Nov. 29-Fire destroyed much Of Ava
Ion, Catalina island
Explosion at Du Pont Powder company
plant at Wilmington, Del, killed 81.
Dec. 9-Hopewel. Va, Du Pont DOW
der town, burned
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FINANCIAL

Jan. 16.-President Wilson ordered fed
eral inquiry into high price of wheat.
March 9.-Goulds lost control of Mis-
souri, Pacifc-Iron Mountain system.
March 13.-Dayton Cash Register case.
Lower court reversed and remanded for
new trial by U. s. circuit court of ap-
reals at Cincinnati
March 16-Trade commission organized
at Washington, Joseph r. Davies. Wis
consin, chairman.
March 16.-Charles c. McChord elected
sion vice James s. Harlan.
April 3.-International Mercantile Ma
r1ne company put in receivers hands.
April 3D. B. Greenhut company, New
York department store, failed for $12,-
100000.
April 21.-Receivers appointed for Rock
Island railroad company
May l5.-lnterstate commerce commits
sion decided railroads owning and oper-
atlng steamship lines on great lakes must
give them up.
May A.-Pan American financial confer
ence opened in Washington.
Aug: n.-Interstate commerce commits
sion denied most of requests of western
roads for increased freight rates.
Aug. l2.-1nterstate commerce commits
sion ordered big reductions in freight
rates on anthracite COAL
Aug. I.-1nterstate commerce commits
sion found Moore Reid syndicate guilty of
plunderlng Rock Island road and throw
ing it into a receivership for it's own pur-
pose.
Aug. N.-Eastman Kodak company de-
CARED a monopoly in restraint of trade
by federal court at Buffalo, N. Y.
Oct. 1.-U. s. court at Philadelphia or
dered moving picture trust to dissolve.
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DOMESTIC

Jan. 1.-San Diego exposition opened.
Jan. 14.-Alabama legislature passed bill
making the state dry after June 30.
Jan. 25.-President Wilson inaugurated
first transcontinental telephone system
by speaking directly to President Moore
of the Panama-Pacif1c exposition in San
Francisco.
Feb. 20.-Panama-Pacif1c fair opened at
San Francisco.
March 5.-North Dakota legislature
passed measure abolishing capital pun
shment.
March 11.-Rear Admirals Fletcher.
Howard and Cowles appointed admirals
under new law.
March hillary K. Thaw found not
guilty Of conspiracy.
April 3.-Census bureau announced pop-
ulation passed 100000 900 mark.
April 19.-Barnes-Roo libel case
opened at Syracuse, N. Y.
U. 8. Supreme court refused final ap-
peal Of Leo M. Frank, convicted of MUIR
der of Mary Phagan at Atlanta, Ga.
May 22.-Roosevelt given verdict In
Barnes libel suit.
June Ex-Governor slaton Of Georgia
commuted Leo Franks sentence to life
imprisonment and martial law was pro-
claimed around governors home to pro-
tect him.
July 2.-Bomb explosion wrecked re-
cepeion room on east side Of capitol in
Washington.
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t. July 3.-J. p. Morgan shot twice by
Frank Holt, who placed bomb in capitol
at Washington.
July 5.-Twenty-ni nine killed and LILO in
jured in independence day celebrations.
July 6.-Frank Holt, who shot ]. P.
Morgan. committed suicide in cell.
Worlds Christian Endeavor convention
opened in Chicago.
July 10.-Robbers held up l.. &. N. train
in ALBANIA and got nearly $50O,OOO
July 12.-Thomas A. Edison made head
of board of civilian inventors to advise
navy department.
July Hillary X. Thaw declared sane
by jury.
Aug. Joe Cooper and Morris Keller
killed In auto race at Des Moines.
Slide In Culebra cut blocked Panama
canal.
Aug. N.-Business mems army training
camp at Plattsburg, N. Y, opened,
Aug. 16.-Leo Frank taken from Geor-
gia prison farm by mob and hanged.
Aug. 29.-Powder mills in Delaware and
Massachusetts mysteriously blown up.
Sept. 20.-Citizens training camp at Fort
Sheridan, Illinois. opened
Sept. 27.-G. A. r. national encampment
opened in Washington.
Sept 3O.-Wireless phone message sent
from Washington to Hawaii.
Oct. 1.-Six midshipmen dismissed and
others punished at Annapolis for hazing
Capt. E. r. Monfort, Cincinnati, elected
commander in chief of G. A. r.
Oct 4.-Mayor Thompson of Chicago or
dered Sunday liquor selling stopped
Oct. &>-President Wilson announced his
engagement to Mrs. Norman Gait Of
Washington.
Dec. 4. - Panama-Pacif1c exposition
closed:
Dec. 6.-Bishop Mundelein of Brooklyn
appointed archbishop Of Chicago
Norman Gait
Dec. 28.-American Civic association met
in Washington.
Convention Of American Association for
Labor Legislation opened in Washington
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S72 and confirmed trade commission ap-
po1ntees except George Rublee.
Robert w. Woolley nominated as d.
rector of mint.
March 4.-Sixty~third congress ad-
| journed.
March 15.-samuel L. Rogers of North
Carolina succeeded William ], Harris as
| director of census.
April 6-William Hale Thompson, Re-
publican. elected mayor of Chicago.
| Mayor Roberts of Terre Haute. Ind,
| and 26 others found guilty of conspiracy
| in election.
June 8.-Secretary of State Bryan, dis
approving the note to Germany, resigned.
June 21.-Supreme court annulled
grandfather clause" aimed at negro suf-
frage.
June 22.-One hundred twenty EIGHT In
dianapolis city officials and politicians, in
Guiding Thomas Taggart, indicted for cleo
| ton fraud conspiracy.
June 23.-Robert Lansing made secretary
| Of state.
Aug 28-Frank l.. Polk made counselor
Of U. S. state department.
Sept. H.-South Carolina adopted state
wide prohibition.
Oct. 19.-Woman suffrage defeated in
New Jersey.
Nov. 2.-Suffrage defeated in New York.
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; Repub-
leans carried Massachusetts,, electing S.
w. Mccall governor; new constitution re-
1ected by New York; prohibition defeated
IN Ohio; A. O. Stanley, DEM, elected
governor of Kentucky, and E. C. Harring
ton. Dem. of Maryland
Dec. 6.-Sixty-fourth congress assem-
pled; Clark reelected speaker of house.
Dec. 7.-Democratic national committee
selected st. Louis for convention of June
Republicans won generally in Massa-
chusetts town elections.
Dec. H-Reublican national convention
set for June in Chicago.
Dec. I7.-Henry P. Fletcher nominated
ambassador to Mexico,
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SPORTING

Jan. 5.-Federal league filed suit
against National and American leagues,
charging violation Of Sherman antitrust
act.
Jan. 28.-American association was
made major baseball league.
April 5.-Jess Willard won heavyweight
championship by knocking out Jack
johnson in 26th round at Havana Cuba.
May 31.-Ralph De Palma won e00-mile
auto race at Indianapolis, breaking all
records.
July 5.-Wisconsin university won con-
ference athletic meet.
June 19.-Jerome Travers won national
amateur golf championship.
June 25.-Yale beat Harvard in regatta
at New London
June 26.-Dario Resta. driving Peugeot
car, won 5C0-mile race at Chicago, averag-
ing 97.6 miles an hour.
June &.-Cornell won intercollegiate re-
gatta at Poughkeepsie
July H-Olympic cup won by Chicago
golf team at Cleveland.
July A.-Charles Evans. Jr.. of Chica 60
won western amateur golf championship.
Aug 19.-Tonn Mcnamara, Boston, won
western open golf championship at Chi
cago.
Aug. @.-Louis B. Clarke won Grand
American trapshooting handicap at Chi
cago.
Gil Anderson in a Stutz won Elgin road
race. breaking all records.
Sept. 4.-Robert Gardner of Chicago won
American amateur golf championship.
Sept. wv. M. Johnston Of California
won national tennis championship.
Sept 11.-Packy Mcfarland defeated
Mike Gibbons in ten round bout at New
York.
Mrs. c. H. Vanderbeck of PHILADELPHIA
won women's national amateur golf cham
pfcnship at Chicago.
Oct. 9.-Gil Anderson in Stutz won AS
tor cup race at Sheepshead Bay speed
way, averaging 1926 miles an hour for,
$50 miles.
Oct 13.-Boston American league team
won world championship from Philadei-:
ph:a National league team.
Dec. B.-Baseball war ended. Federal,
1eRxue quitting,
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POLITICAL

Jan: 2-senates passed immigration bill
with literacy test.
Jan. 6.-President Wilson declined for
sixth time to support federal constitu-
tional amendment for woman suffrage.
Jan. R.-House of representatives by
vote Of 2O4 to 174 rejected Mondell reso-
luton proposing enfranchisement of wom-
en-.
Eighty Terre Haute men pleaded guilty.
to indictments charging conspiracy to
corrupt the election Of November 3. 1914
Jan. 28-President Wilson vetoed the
immigration bill because Of the literacy
test clause.
Feb. 5.-House passed naval approprta-
ton bill with provision for two battle
ships
Feb. 22.-President Wilson nominated AS
members Of interstate trade commission
Joseph e. Dacies of Wisconsin, Edward
N. Hurley of Illinois, William j. Harris
of Georgia, William H. Parry of Wash
ington. and George Rublee of New Hamp-
shire.
Feb 23.-senate passed army appro-
priation bill Of $l03.0o0,o0O and house ap-
propriated $6,0o0,000 for Notifications.
March 3.-Senate passed general def
cheney appropriation bill carrying $780,
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NEUROLOGY

Jan. 2.-Karl Goldmark, famous com
poser, in Vienna.
Jan. 5.-Mme. Jeanne Gerville-Reache,
opera star, at New York
Jan. 1O-Marshall P. Wilder, author
and humorist, at st. Paul.
Feb Airs. M. E. Braddon, English
novelist.
Feb. 5.-Edward Tilden Chicago packer.
Feb. 12.-James Creelman, war CORE
spondent, in Berlin
Fanny Crosby, famous blind hymn writ
er, in Bridgeport. Conn.
Feb. 16.-Emil Charles waldteufel,
French composer, at Paris.
Feb. 18.-Frank James, once notorious
bandit, at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
March R.-Mrs. John D. Rockefeller,
ST., at Pocantico Hills, N. Y.
Count Sergus Julovich witte, in Petro-
grad.
March 14.-Aviator Lincoln Beachey
dropped 5000 feet to death at San Fran
cisco.
March 15.-Walter. Crane, artist, lee
turer, writer, in London, aged seventy.
Capt: Henry King, editor st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
March 20.-Charles Francis Adams, pub
hclst and historian. in Washington.
March A-Morgan Robertson, author,
at Atlantic City.
March 31.-Baron Nathan MAYER Roths-
child, in London.
April 6.-Lyman B. Glover. theatrical
manager, at Chicago.
Curtis Guild, Jr., former governor Of
Massachusetts, at Boston.
April IF. Hopkinson Smith, engineer.
artist and author, in New York
April 1S-William r. Nelson, editor
Kansas City Star. at Kansas city
April 16.-Former United States Senator
Nelson w. Aldrich of Rhode Island
April 1S.-Baron Herbert de Reuter-,
managing director of Reuters Telegram
company, committed suicide in England
May 2.-Ex-Congresman Charles E. Lit
tlef1eld of Maine in New York.
June 29.-O'Donovan Rosa, Irish pa.
triot in New York
July 2.-Gen. Porf1rio Diaz, former presi-
dent of Mexico, In Paris.
July 1O.-Archbishop James E. Quigley
Of Chicago, at Buffalo.
July I-Col. A. J. Blethen, publisher
Seattle Times.
federal bureau Of mines, at Denver.
July 16.-St. Clair McKelway, editor of
the Brooklyn Eagle
July H-Sarah Cowell LIE Moyne. noted
actress.
July 26.-sir James Augustus Henry
Murray, editor Of Oxford English diction-
ary
aus. MddTCcnS. novelist. IN
Zeist, Holland.
Aug. s.-.Gen. B. F. Tracy, former Sec
rotary of navy, at New York
Aug. 9.-George Fitch, editor and hu1nor-
list, at Berkeley. Cal.
Aug. T.-Brig. Gen. John c. Black, Civil
war veteran, former congressman at large
from Illinois and former president of U.
S. civil service commission, at Chicago.
Aug. 19.-Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli
dean Of the sacred college, at Rome.
Aug. D.-Dr. Paul Erich, discoverer of
salvarsan, at Bad Homburg.
DR.. c. J. Finlay, who discovered yellow
fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. at
Havana, Cuba.
Aug. 2s.-John D. Long. former secre-
tary Of the navy, at bingham, Mass.
Sept. 9.-Albert G. Spalding in San
Diego, CAL
Sept. 11.-sir William c. Van Horne.
former president Canadian Pacific rail-
road.
William Sprague, war governor of
Rhode Island and former senator
Sept. H.-Anthony Comstock, vice cru
sader, at Summit. N. J.
Sept. Isl. Keir Hardie, British labor
leader. at Glasgow.
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INDUSTRIAL

March S.-Chicago building contractors
locked out 900 union fathers.
April 15.-Great building strike declared
in Chicago.
April 30.-Federal board of arbitration
awarded slight wage increase to engine
men of SO western railroads.
Bridge and structural iron workers Of
Chicago struck.
June 13-Great street car strike in Chi
cago.
June 16.-Chicago street car strike end
ed by arbitration agreement.
June 25.-Shut down Of Chicago's build
ing construction industry ordered because
Of strike.
July 1o.-Chicago's building trade strike
and lockout settled
July 16.-Employees of Chicago surface
lines won big victory in arbitration award
July D.-Strike and rioting at Bayonne
plant of Standard Oil Co.
July 27.-Standard Oil strike at Bayonne.
N. j., ended.
Sept. H.-Twenty-five thousand Chicago
garment makers called out on strike
Dec. 3.-Fifty-four Chicago labor leaders
indicted for conspiracy, extortion and ma
licious mischief
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you are absolutely in my power to do
with as 1 wish. ] may kill you or I may
free you; and should I elect to kill you,
none would be the wiser.
SHOULD you go free in Hellum for year,
in accordance with the conditions of your
reprieve there is little fear that the people
would ever insist upon the execution of
the sentence imposed upon you.
You may go free within two minutes
upon one condition. Tardos Mors will never
return to Helum. Neither will Mors Ka-
jak nor Dejah Thoris. Hellum must select
new jeddak within the year.
"Zat Arras would be Jeddak of Helium.
Say that you will espouse my cause. This
is the price of your freedom. / am done"
For moment was perplexed, but for
a moment only. The proud daughter of
thousand jeddaks would choose death to
dishonorable alliance such as this nor could
John Carter do less for Helium than his
princess would do.
Then turned to Eat Arras.
There can be no alliance" / said, DE
tween q traitor to Helium and n prince of
the House of Tardos Mors. 1 do not be-
lieve, Eat Arras, that the great Jeddak Is
dead"
Eat Arras shrugged his shoulders.
ut will not be long, John Carter" he
said, that your opinions will be of inter-
est even to yourself, so make the best of
them while you can. Eat Arras will per-
NIT you due time to reflect upon the mag
unanimous offer he has made you.
Into the silence and darkness of the
pits you will enter upon your reflection
this night. with the knowledge that should
you fail within reasonable time to agree
to the alternative which has been offered
you, meyer shall you emerge from the dark
ness and the silence again.
Nor shall you know at what minute the
hand will reach out through the darkness
n silenca with n tbaf
shall rob you of your last chance to win
again the warmth and the freedom and
joyousness of the outer world"
Eat Arras, clapped his hands as he ceased
speaking. The guards returned.
He waved his hand in my direction.
ITO the pits" he said.
That was all. Four men accompanied
me from the chamber, and, with radium