Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1926 — Page 11

Events Os 1925 The outstanding news events of 1925 * er * : JANUARY s—Associate Justice McKenna resigns from United States Supreme Court. Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone nominated to succeed him. i>aava Nurmi, Finn runner, breaks world ’ 1 record for mile and 5,000 meters at Finnish-American A. C. games in New York. m_Secretary of State Hughes resigns, effective March 4. Frank B. Kellogg nominated to succeed him. Twenty-three killecj in wreck of Berlin-Cologne express. 15—C Bascom Slemp announces early resignation as rresidept'g secretary and selection of Rep, Everett Sanders as successor. < 18— Gerald Chapman, bandit, captured at Muncie, Indiana. I»—Leon Trotsky. Soviet War Minister,, ousted from post. ■>o—Mrs. Miriam Ferguson sworn in as first woman governor of Texas. 30—Former Director of the Veterans Bureau Charles R. Forbes found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. FEBRUARY 2—End of 5 1-- day dog race with antitoxin relief for Nome, Alaska. h -Seventeen Japanese sailors drown when small trout collides witu tug in Vancouver Harbor. T>—Two hundred ami thirty German miners killed by firc-daniy at Doi t, jnund. 15— Floyd Collins found dead after seventeen days Imprisonment in cave 20— Fifty-one miners killed by gas explosion at Sullivan, Ind. 25— senator Medili McCormick of Illinois dies in Washington. 28—President Egbert of Germany dies. Earth tremor shakes entire northeastern section of No:th America causing collapse of number of buildings in Canada and death of four persons from fright. MARCH 4—President Coolidge inaugurated. d—Brigadier General William A. Mitchell relieved as assistant chief of air service and returned'!© rank of colonel.W—lii absence of vice president Dawes tie vote in senate blocks confirmation of President's nomination of t harles Beecher Warren as Attorney General. 11— Dr. Sun Yat Sen. first President of Chinese Republic. dies. H—Walter Camp, veteran football authority. dies. IG—nate finally rejects resubmitted nomination of Warren by vote of 46 to 39. 17—Ji hn Garilialdi Sargent, of Ludlow, \ ermont, nominated Attorney Gen. ci al and unanimously confirmed by Senate. ; 15— Tornado in lowpir Ohio Valley causes death of 827 and injury to 1;.*750 and destruction of property valued at $188,000,000. 19— .Marquis Curzon, President of l*r.tish Council aud former Viceroy of India, dies. 22— Thirteen killed in passenger train < ollisioH near Franklin, La. 23— General John J. Pershing appointed President of Commission to supervise Tacna-AridU plebescitu. 21— Lincoln dark Andrews, of New York, appointed assistant secretary of the Treasury to take charge of prohibition enforcement 27— Senator Burton K. Wheeler, candidate for vice president of LaFollette ticket in last election, indicted tor conspiracy to obtain illegal use of federal oil land. APRIL 4--Gerald Chapman convicted of miir. Her of Hartford policeman and sentenced to be hanged. 10-John Singer Sargent, famous artist, dies. 17-Martial law declared in Bulgaria after death of 150 in bomb explosion. ' 26- Field Marshall Hindenburg elected President of Germany. 28— Great Britain announced return to gold standard. 30- Kiss troops attack French outposts in Morocco. MAY lo—Lt. Gen. Nelson A. Miles dies at Washington while attending circus. ■ 21—Roald Amundsen takes off from ■'pKKnbergen on polar flight. 25— John T. Scopes indicted for violation Tqne.ssee evolution law. Supreme Court upholds income tax publicity. JUNE < i Prolonged heat wave throughout ' wintry cast of Rockies breaks after cansing approximately 30U deaths.' 12— Warren S Stone, railroad labor leader, dies. / 16— i tiirty-eight killed in railroad wreck near Hackettstown, N. J. la—.iinttnsden expedition returns safely to Spitzenbergen. Senator Robert M. La Follette dies. 2b MacMillan polar expedition sails _ from Wiceassct, Me. ‘'resident Cooldge Establishes l ummer White House jit Swampt’ioft. Mass. American Army poJo team de- ' 'is British Army team and re- ' 1 118 championship. laoodless i evolution establishes ... I ""' military go'vernienL at Athens. Wyoming shaken by earthquake. •• i itteen of crew of schooner Rex perish after collision with liner luscania. Barbara, California, shatterBOATS ROLLS » made with '/'"'X »EAl fruit 1159 ! CONSTIPATION 1

cd by earthquake which caused several deaths. JULY I—Night air mall service begins between New York and Chicago. 4—Forty-three killed in dance iiall collapse in Boston. Holiday mishaps resulted In deaths of 250 and injuries to 400, the majority from automobile accidents and drownings. 13—British medical journal. Lancet, announces discovery by Dr. W E. Gye and J. E. Barnard of the virus that causes cancer. 21 —John T. Scopes found guilty violating Tennessee anti-evolution law. 26 — William Jennings Bryan dies of apoplexy at Dayton. Tenn. 31 —Last of French troops leave Ruhr. AUGUST IS —Belgian debt funded. Thirty-two killed and many others fatally injured in boiler explosion on excursion steamer Mackinac near Newport, R. I. 19—MacMillan expedition abandons polar flights. 24 —For third successive year. Helen Wills wins women's tennis championship. 27— Union officials order anthracite strike. 29 —Babe Ruth fined $5,000 and sus-

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pended for breaking training rules. 31—Anthracite strike begins. Two naval seaplanes leave Sun* Francisco for Hawaii. SEPTEMBER 3Shi nandoah destroyed in storm causing deaths of 14. s—Pol William Mitchell denounce* air administration of W’ar and Navy departments, ■ ►' 7— Rene Vivani, French statesman, dies. Sixth League of Nations assembly convenes. 8— Maj. Gen. Hines, chief of staff, orders investigation of Mitchell statement, 10 —Missing naval seaplane, after being adrift nine days, picked up wit li Com. John Rogers and crew of five alive. 12—Defeating France in challenge round, United States wins Davis Cup for fifth successive year, 18—Lt. Alford J. Williams flies 302.3 miles per hour. 21 —Col. Mitchell relieved »f duties "to preserve discipline." 25—Submarine S-51 rammed and sunk by steamer City of Rome with loss of 33 men, 29—Robert M. Im Follette elected by Wisconsin to succeed his father as United States Senator.

OCTOBER7—Christy Mathewson, famous pitcher, dies, 10 —Episcopal Church removes word "obey’’ from marriage service. 13—Assistant Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis appointed Secretary of War, 15— Pittsburgh Pirates win world’s baseball championship. 16— Locarho Pact Initialled. 23 —Frontier fighting between Greece and Bulgaria becomes serious, league of Nations Council called to cope with emergency. 26— League of Nations Council orders '■Greece and Bulgaria to withdraw behind frontiers within sixty houfs. 27— Greece and Bulgaria nfitify League of Nations Council its order lias been complied with. Eighteen killed in railroad wreck near Victoria, Miss. 28 — Three generals retired from Mitchell court martial on challenges aud allegations of bias. NOVEMBER 3—James J. Walker, detuocrat, elected mayor of New York. 12—Sixty-eight metl lost iu British submarine M-l. Italian debt commission agrees to funding U S. debt by payment

$2,407,000,000 in 62 years. Ten killed in rear end collision near Plainsboro, JsJ, J. 13 —D. C. Stephenson, former Grand Dragon of Indiana Ku Klux Klan, found guilty of second degree murder in connection with death of Madge Oberholtzer. 20 — Alexandria, dowager queen of England, dies at age of 81. 29— Miners accept Governor Pinchot’a proposal to end anthracite strike. 30 — Operators refuse Plnchot proposal. DECEMBER 1— Locarno Pact signed at London. 2— President’s aviation board reports U. S. aircraft in good condition and well handled and fails to accept Col. Mitchell’s recommendations. 7— Congress convenes. Nicholas Longworth elected Speaker of House. 8— league of Nations Council invites U. S and Russia to join in preparations for world disarmament conference. 15 —League Council awards mosul to Iraq under extension British mandate. Turkey declines to recognize reward. 17 —Col Mitchell found guilty by court martial of insubordination. 21 — British House of Commons formally accepts League Mpsul award.

Mussolini announces through the United Press his plans for a “Roman Empire” which he regards “as a state of mind.** — Opening Dunce at K. of C. Hall, Thursday night. 3t3

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