Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1916 — DOMESTIC [ARTICLE]

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Jan. I—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 spealtlng directly to President Moore of the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. Feb. 20 —Panama-Pacific fair opened at San Francisco. March 6.—North Dakota legislature passed measure abolishing , capital punishment. March ll.—Rear Admirals Fletcher, Howard and Cowles appointed admirals under flow law. March 12 —Harry K. Thaw found not guilty of conspiracy. ' \ April B.—Census bureau announced population passed 100,000.000 mark. April 19.—Barnes-Roosevelt libel cake opened iat Syracuse. N. Y. ,U. 8. Supreme court refused final appeal of Leo M. Frank, convicted of mur--,der of Mary Phagan at Atlanta. Ga. , . glvenverdtcr-hr Barnes libel suit. June 21.—Governor Slaton of Georgia commuted Leo Frank’s sentence to life imprisonment and martial law was proclaimed around governor's home to protect him. v„ July 2.—Bomb explosion wrecked reception room on east side of capitol in Washington. • Vr

July I.—J. P. Morgan shot twice by Frank Holt, who placed bomb In capltol Washington. July s.—Twenty-nine killed and 1.110 Injured In Independence day celebrations. July *6.—Frank Holt, who shot J. P.' Morgan, committed suicide in cell. World’s- Christian Endeavor conventtsftv opened In Chicago. July 10—Robbers held up L. &. N. train jfljjfc’-' Albama and got nearly 960M00. ~Tulyl2—Thomas. A. Edison made head of board of civilian Inventors to advise navy departfifcni, 1 • July 14.—Harry K. Thaw declared sane by Jury. Aug. 7.-r Joe Cooper and Morris Keller killed in auto race at Des Moines. Slide in Culebra cut blocked Panama canal. Auk. 10.—Business men’s army training casnp at Plattsburg, N. Y., Opened. Aug. 16. —Leo Frank taken from Georgia 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 ih Washington. , Sept. 36.—Wireless phdne message sept from Washington to Hawaii. Oct. I.—Six midshipmen dismissed and* others punished at’ Anhapolis for hazing. Gapt. E. R. Monfort, Cincinnati, elected commander In chief of G. A. R. Oct. 4.—Mayor Thompson of Chicago ordered Sunday liquor selling stopped. ----- Oct. 6.—President Wilson announced his engagement to Mrs. Norman Galt of Washington. Dgc. 4. Panama-Pacific exposition closed. i Dec. 6 Bishop Mundelein of Brooklyn appointed archbishop of Chicago. Dec. Jg—President Wilson married Mrs. Norman Galt: '” Dec. 28.—American Civic association met in Washington. Convention of American Association for Labor Legislation opened in Washington.