El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-01

August Twenty-Five killed in cloud
burst at Erie, Pa.
August 6-Pan-American nations urge
| peace plan upon Mexican leaders.
I August 11-Plattsburg business mems
training camp begins.
/ August 16-Leo n Frank was taken
out from Georgia prison by mob
August S1-Dr. C Franklin Mohr.
I Providence. r. l., society physician.
murdered in his automobile and wO-
] man companion mutilated Three
negroes confess later and implicate
wife.
| August 31.-Pascual Orozco and party
killed in Eagle mountains. west
Texas, by American posse.
! September 12-U. S. Naval Advisory
board of civilians announced.
! September 13-Seven- Americans killed
in border clash with Mexicans.
! September 22-Seven killed when sub
way street covering collapses in New
| september Fifty killed and $50
injured by gasoline explosion in
| Ardmore, Okla. Harry F. Grant,
driver, fatally injured (burned) while
I practising at Sheepshead Bay for
Astor Cup Race
/ September 29-Three hundred dead in
Gulf of Mexico storm
| October president Wilson announces
he will marry Mrs. Norman Gait
Also announces he will vote for wo-
man suffrage in New Jersey.
october S-Announce L. s and Latin
American Republics will recognize
CarranZa as head OF Mexico
! October 15-secretary Of War Garrison
makes public his plan for L. s. Army
Of 1000, 600 regulars. continentaIs
and militia
October 19-Women suffrage defeated
by $1,000 in New Jersey, despite
Presidents support
October 25-POrter Charlton found
guilty OF numbering his wife in
Como, Italy; sentenced TO 5 years and
months in prison
October 2S-Twenty-one little girls die
in school fire in Peabody Mass.
November ELECTIONS in seven states;
Suffrage loses in New York. Pennsyl-
vania, and Massachusetts: prohibition
loses in Ohio; Kentucky. Maryland
and Mississippi elect Democratic
governors. Massachusetts elects Re
publican governor; New York and
New Jersey elect Republican As
semblies: Philadelphia elects Thomas
: 3. Smith. Organization Republican
Mayor; Schenectady REFLECTS Mayor
George r. Lunn. socialist
November President Wilson in
speech at the Manhattan Club asks
citizen army OF 40O. 900
November 6-Twelve burned to death
in factory in williamsburg. \. Y
November 10-Yoshihito crowned En-
peror OF Japan in KiOtO.
November 21-Porter Charlton freed by
Italian authorities after actually
serving % days in cell, following
conviction Of murder of his wife.
December Chinese rebels seize
cruiser Chao-ho at Shanghai, but are
quickly put down.
December 6-Pope names six new Car
dinals at Consistory- Governor
Whitman removes Edward E Mccall
as chairman of New York City Public
Service Committee for Illegally own
office Congress meets President,
in annual message demands big army
and navy and repression of hostile
hyphenated citizens
December 10-Army General Staff. in !
report. demands well trained regular
and continental aCmy OF 100000 as I
minimum necessary for safety
December 11-Yuan-shi-kai, president ;
Of China. accepts the imperial crown /
offered him in accordance with the ]
result of the elections
December 12-Secretary Of the Navy I
Daniels makes public five year $780, /
600, 900 navy building plan
December 14-Republicans set conven- !
ton date for Chicago. June Z next
December 1S-President Wilson WedS .
Mrs. Edith Calf
December 20-Villista chiefs surrender J
at FL Paso to Carrancissas-
December 22-Villista soldiers, unpaid, 4
riot in Juarez for money
DEATHS OF NOTED PEOPLE
January 10-Marshall P Wilder, hu-
morist, dies in St Paul. Mimi
January Thames Mcdonald. Stand
ard Oil man, died in New York
January 1S-JOhn T. Parsons, noted
LAWYER, dies in New York City
January Il = Lamon B Hardness.
Standard oil man, dies near Hollis
January igI: AS fs%George B, rockingham.
January SO-Bishop Thomas NJ a.
Burke. Roman Catholic, of Albany
JaHuarx o21SS&Professor A. ]. Phillips.
of Yale University. mathematician
isebruary Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
a. "a DO
Febr ,9.ti'S' 71TheophiIe POilpOt. French
painter. dies i'm Paris
Februarv S--James c Fargo. express
Londonderry, dies in London.
February 9-Norman B Ream. capital
list dies in New York City
Fanny Crosby. hymn
writer, dies in Bridgeport. Conn
James Creelman, writer. dies in Ber-
lin.
Jesse James, outlaw, dies in Excel
sior Springs, Mo-
February 24-Dr. Jas. F. Donnelly.
American physician. kills himself
while insane from hardship IN IiSht-
ing Servian typhus.
Serbian typhus.
March 4-George Honey Boy Evans,
minstrel dies. .
Ia rcb sEES-senator Thomas A Bard.
dies at Hueneme, California
Iarch 12-Mrs John d. Rockefeller.
wife Of the world ricneSl man, ules
at Potantico Hills. n. y.
farch 15-Captain Henry King, editor, :
dies I'm St Louis.
Iarch 19-William D. sloane, rug man.
dies in Askin, s. c. Charles Francis {
Adams, historian. dies in Washing
ton. ID. C. Cardinal Agliardi, Catho-
lie church chancellor. dies in Rome
Iarch 24-Morgan Robertson. story
writer. dies. Mrs Mary Anna Jack
son. writer. widow Of Stonew8u
Jackson. dies.
Iarch 31-Baron Nathan Meyer Roths- l
child, banker, dies in London
pril Ed Hopkinson Smith, author.
dies in New York City
pril professor Thomas r. Louns- 1
bury. English scholar. dies in New
pril 1O-CharIes F. Bitter. sculptor.
dies in New York.
pril 12-Eben Plympton. actor. hies
in New York.
pril 1S-Wm. r Nelson. editor. hies ]
in Kansas City, Mo.
pril 16-Ex-U. S. senator Nelson W. ]