The Benson signal., 1916-01-08

22-Henry Ford tells industrial refa-
tions, commission he can reform ev-
cry man in Sing Sing.
26--John d. Rockefeller, Jr., says his
father has given away quarter of
Feb. 2-Werner Horn, German reserv-
l3t. dynamites international bridge at
VanceborO, Me.
Feb 2-Frederick Mors confesses he
put eight old persons to death in Ger
/man Odd Fellows home at Yonkers.
N Y.
81 P. Morgan sells his fathers por-
celain to a syndicate for more than
$4,000. 900.
2O-President Wilson presses button in
White House, opening Panama-Pa-
cine international exposition. j. F.
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
rickS cathedral
4-Sixty-thir congress ends.
14-Lincoln Beachey fans 1000 feet to
MS death before great Frisco fair
crowd
1s-Helen Angle acquitted of murder
ing Waldo r. Ballou in Stamford.
22-U. S. submarine F-4 sinks to bot
tom at Pearl harbor. Hawaii. and all
on board are lost
Johnson and becomes world heavy
weight. champion, in Havana, Cuba.
1-Wm H. Thompson elected mayor of
Chicago in Republican landslide.
1.-Two men killed in Newark (N J)
strike battle.
17-Premier Chagas of Portugal shot
ana severely wounded by political IA
June S-William Jennings Bryan re-
% signs Is, as secretary of state,
zo-Robert Lansing appointed secretary
state, x 500 600
California earthquake
2I-U: 5. imprisons General Huerta at
July Bomb set by Eric Muenter dam
ages capitol at Washington.
81 p Morgan shot in his home by
Eric Muenter.
5-Dynamite bomb DANA ges New York
police headquarters
lS-7Harry K. Thaw found sane by New
22-Two killed in strike battle in Bay
Onne, N. j.
23-Fourteen hundred killed when
steamship Eastland overturns in Chi
cago river.
July 2S-American marines land in
Haiti
3o-Charles Becker former police lieu
tenant of New York executed at Sing
Sing for murder of Herman Rosen-
thai.
Aug. 3-Twenty five killed in cloud
burst at Erie, Pa.
6--Pan- American nations urge peace
plan upon Mexican leaders,
1l-Plattsburg business mems training
camp begins
16-Leo M. Frank taken from Georgia
prison by a mob and hanged
| .31---Dr. G. Franklin Mohr. Providence
| (R ID society physician, murdered
in his automobile and woman com
panion mutilated. Three negroes con-
TESS later and implicate wife.
sept. I2-U. 5. naval advisory board of
civilians announced
| 13-SeVen Americans killed in border,
clash with MeXicans.
22-Seven killed when subway street
covering collapses in New York
27-Fifty killed and 25O injured by gas
CLINE explosion in Ardmore Okla.
lured (burned) while practicing at
| Sheepshead bay for Astor cup race.
| 29-Three hundred dead in Gulf of Mex
leo storm.
Oct. 6-President Wilson announces he
will marry Mrs. Norman Gait Also
announces he will vote for woman
suffrage in New Jersey
| 9-AnnOunce U. S. and Latin American
republics will recognize Carranza as
| head of Mexico.
| 15-Secretary of War Garrison makes
| public his plan for u. S. army of
100000 regulars continentals and
militia.
19-Woman suffrage defeated by 81 900
in New Jersey despite presidents
25-Porter Charlton found guilty of
numbering his wife in Como, Italy;
|
| months in prison.
2S-Twenty- one 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-
| can governor; New York and New
Jersey elect Republican assemblies;
| Philadelphia elects Thomas B. Smith
/ n 20 nnI1h1
| Schenectady re-elects George r.
| Lunn Socialist.
r4-Presdent Wilson in speech at the
Manhattan club asks citizen army of
| 10-Yoshihito crowned emperor of ia
| pan in Kyoto.
21-Porter Charlton freed by Italian
20 days in cell. following conviction
| of murder of his wife.
| Dec. 5-Chnese 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.
| 1O-Army general staff, in report. de-
| mands well-trained regular and con-
tinental army of 100000 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 $500 600. 900
14-Republicans set convention date
for Chicago, June z next.