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naught, launched at Brooklyn navy
yard.
3 ]. P. Morgan. the banker. shot at
Glen Cove. \. Y. by Frank Holt, a
German college professor
IA. Harry K. Thaw declared sane by an
advisory jury in New York city
IL. The state department notified Great
Britain. through Ambassador w H
Page, that this country would not
recognize British orders in council as
valid.
q. Southold n. Y, began the 275th an,
niversary of it's settlement Q640)
q. Haitian revolutions invaded the
French legation, dragged out the de-
posed president. Guillaume, and shot
him to death.
20. Haitian snipers killed United States
marines who We're in Port au Prince
protecting foreigners
80. Former Police eieutenant Charles
Becker executed at Sing Sing for
completely in the murder Of Hermann
Rosenthal.
AUGUST.
10. United States battleships Louisiana
and New Hampshire sailed for Vera
Cruz, Mexico, to quell anti-foreign
demonstrations,
IL. Heavy shipment of British treasure
including S19000,000 in gold, arrived al
New York
saulted policemen who protected Ger
mans from the mob.
10. National Educational association met
at Oakland, Cal.
Leo Frank, Georgia life convict, forcibly
taken from prison al Milledgeville and
hanged near Marietta home of his al
legged victim. Mary Phagan
u. Great Britain declared cotton contra
band
"a Conference of governors met in Bos-
ton.
80. Spanish American War Veterans met
at Scranton. Pa
II. United States F-4 which sank of
Honolulu March Is, was raised.
SEPTEMBER
L. $20O0.000 fire on the grain pier in New
port News, Va.
T. $3.50 100000 in British gold reached New
York via the American Express.
Semicentennial anniversary of the Wash
ington grand review of 1866 by 10000
G.. A r. veterans
Sons of Veterans annual encampment
in Washington.
IT. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the explorer,
heard from after a silence of II
months. He was in Banks Land
26. In an action near Cape Haitien, Haiti.
10 Americans We're wounded and 40
Haitian rebels killed
z. Gasoline and dynamite explosion in
the business district of Ardmore, okla,
killed 80 people and injured over 100:
property loss $500, 900
49th annual encampment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic opened in Wash
ington.
IS. Farmers National Congress opened al
Omaha.
%. Wireless phone talk was accomplished
between Arlington, Va, and San Fran
cisco, 1900 miles.
30. Speech transmitted by wireless phone
from Arlington, Va, to Honolulu, 4,60C
miles.
OCTOBER
T. International farm congress opened al
Denver
IL. National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union met at Seattle, Wash
q. Wireless telephoning accomplished be
tween Arlington. Va, and Paris.
70 Steamer Hooking sailing under United
States flag seized by British cruiser
off the port of New York.
NOVEMBER
30. Great Britain seized at Saint Lucia the
United States steamer Tennessee.
DECEMBER
T. Worlds Fair: Panama. acific EXPOSE
ton closed: attendance over 1000, 900
profits SO, 900. 600
Fords peace mission set out from New
York.
8. Sixty-fourth congress convened
8. Austria asked to disavow the act o.
sinking the ocean liner Ancona
IL. immigration statistics for 1915 showed
a falling off of arrivals of nearly Co.,
coo up to Dec. against the arrivals
of 1914
II. Convention: National American wo
man Suffrage association meets IL
Washington.
=. Conventions: American Society of In
! ternationaI Law and Pan-Americal
Scientific congress meet in Washing
ton.
q. Convention: American Historical asso
citation meets in Washington