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WHAT YEAR 1914
GAVE 10 III
Chronological Record of
Important Events of
Twelve Months.
Most
the
EUROPEAN WAR STANDS FIRST
Mexico'! Muddled Affairs nope PIub
and Earl Roberts Among the Il
lustrious Dead Disasters
and Sports Financial and
Industrial Happenings.
COMPILED BY E. W. PICKARD.
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EUROPEAN WAR
Juno 2S. Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
heir to the Austrian throne, and his mor
ganatic wife, the duchess of Hohnnberg,
shot and killed by n, Btudcnt In Sarajevo,
capital of Bosnia, after u. futile attempt
had been mode to blow them up with a
bomb.
July 21 Austria sent peremptory note
to Bervla demanding punishment of all
accomplices In muider of Archduke Fran
da Ferdinand and suppression of all so
cieties which had fomented rebellion In
Bosnia.
July 26. Troops mobilized by Austria,
Bervla, Russia and MontencKro. Servians
moved their capital to Nlsh.
July 28. Austria declared war ngalnst
Bervla.
July 29. Austrlans Invaded Bervla and
helled Belgrade.
July 31. Kaiser demanded Russian mob
ilization cease and czar refused. Martial
law proclaimed In Ocrmany.
Block exchanRca In nearly all cities of
the world closed.
Auir. 1. Germany doclarcd war on Rust
eta and mobilized Its army. Czar declared
martial law and France Issued decree of
mobilization. Italy doclarcd Its neutral
ity. Auk. 2. Gorman troops advanced on
France through neutnl Luxembourg.
Itussla began Invasion of East Prussia
and Posen.
Aug. I. Germans ntarted three armies
toward France, through Belgium, violat
ing the neutrality of that country.
French troops crossed German frontier
In Vosgcs mountains.
Aug. 4. Great Britain demanded that
Germany withdraw her troops from Bel
glum. Germany and England declared
war on each other and Germany declared
war on Belgium. France declared war on
Germany.
United States proclaimed Its neutrality
Aug. 6. aermans repulsed at Liege by
Belgians. r
Flold Marshal Earl Kitchener mode
British secretary of atate for war.
President Wilson offered the services of
the United States as mediator.
Aug. 6. Austria-Hungary declared war
on Russia.
British cruiser Amphlon sunk by Ger
man mine.
Aug. 7. Germans entered Liege.
Aug 8. Twenty thousand English troops
landed on French coast. French Invaded
Alsace-Lorraine and captured Altkirch
and Muehlhauscn.
Italy renfflrmed Its neutrality.
Aug 10. France broke off diplomatic
relations with Austria-Hungary.
Aug. 11. French driven out of Cernay
and Muclhauson.
Aug. 13. Germans occupied Hasselt
Tongres and St. Trond. Belgium. France
and England declared war on Austria.
Aug. IK Japan issued ultimatum to Ger
many demanding withdrawal of German
"warships from tu Orient and evacuation
of Ktauchau.
Aug. 17. Belgian seat of government
was transferred from Brussels to Ant
werp. Beginning of flvo days battle In Lor
raine, ending In repulse of French across
frontier with heavy toss. Beginning of
Ave days' battle between Servians and
Austrlans on the Jadar, ending In Aus
trian rout
Aug. lit. Brussels occupied by the Ger
mnn. the n'lles retiring to Antwerp.
Servians defeated 80,000 Austrlans at
Hhabats, forty miles west of Belgrade.
Aug 20. French recaptured Muelhausen.
Ab7nre, but wero driven back in Lorraine.
Aug. 21. Germans began bombardment
of Namur forts and levied war tax of
141.000,000 on Brussels and $10,000,000 on
Liege.
Aug. O. Germans occupied Ghent and
Bruges.
Aug. 23 Japan doclared war on Ger
many. i Lunovllle, France, occupied by the Ger
tnnns Russians drovo back the Germans from
tho eastern frontier.
Aug. 21. The allied armies along the
lino from Mons to the Moselle defeated
and driven back by the Germans.
Germans captured Namur, drove the
French out of Alsnra and advanced from
Lorraine into France.
Japanese warships began bombardment
of Tslng Tao, fortified nenport of Klnu
chau. Aug. 25. Austria dectared war on Ja
pan aermnm levied A. war tax of $00,000,000
on the Bolglnn province of Brabant.
Aug. 26. French cabinet resigned and
new cabinet formed by Premier Vlvlanl.
Russians took Martonhurg. German Is
land of Yap near Oimm seized by Japa
nese. Austrian defeated Russians on Gali
clan frontier. Louyaln sacked and burned
by Germans
Aug. 27. British cruiser Mshflyer de-
ntroyed German armf" merchant cruiser
Kaiser Wllhelm fler urosse off west coast
of Afrlc.
Aug. 28. British fleet sunk five German
warships off Helgoland,
Miles checked the march of Germans to
Paris and tnrrlfla battle was begun at
Arras and one near Nancy.
Austria declared war on Belgium.
Aug 29. British forces from New Zea
land seized Apia, chief town of German
Samoa.
Russians defeated near Tannenberg.
Aug. 30. Germans occupied Amiens.
Sept. 2, 8cat of French government
moved to Bordeaux.
Russians captured Lemberg, Austria,
nfter seven days' battle
Sept. t. Germaim captured Reims.
Kept. . British cruiser Pathfinder sunk
by torpedo In North aoa,
Sept. 7. Allies victorious In a battle
nloug the line from Nnnteull to Verdun,
the imperial guard under the German
crown prince being nearly annihilated by
the British.
Germans destroyed Dlnant and captured
Ittaubuugo.
Sept 8. Allies pushed back the entire
line of Invading Germans.
Sept. 9. British forced Germans to re
treat along tho river Marne.
Sept 11. Russians drove the Germans
from several fortlflid positions In Russian
Poland, but repulsed with heavy losses In
Bast Prussia.
Sept 12. British warships from Aus
tralia took Herbertuhoahe, seat of govern
COULD BE NO COMPARISON
Old Gentleman Evidently No Sport, or
He Would Not Have Raised
Such a Question.
Half a dozen men in the car wero
talking about a football gamo, when
an old man who had never been a
gamo sport butted in with:
"Football? Oh, yos Say, do you
fellers know bow many men were
killed at the battlo of Gettysburg!"
"No," replied ono
ment of the German Bismarck nrchlpclago
and the 8olomon Islands.
French troops rcoccuplcd Lunevllle and
Solssons,
Sept 13 Lille evacuated by Germans
and occupied by allies.
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York,
Sept. U. Retreating German army
hailed In strongly Intrenched position
along the Alsne river. Amiens reocuupled
by the French,
Sept. 22. Three British cruisers were
torpedoed nnd sunk by German submarine
In the North sea.
Sept 26. British troops from India
landed at Marseilles.
Sept. 29. Germans began attack on de
fenses of Antwerp.
Oct. 2. Ocrmans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out of Russia.
Oct. S. Belgian government moved to
Ostend.
Oct. 9. Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian nrmy occupied Lyck, East Prus
sia. Oct. 10. German army of 20,000 was re
pulsed at Quatrecht, east of Ghent.
Oct. 11. Germany Imposed war fine of
$100,000,000 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines.
Oct 12. Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 13. Belgian government moved to
Havre, Franco.
Colonel Marltz and his troops In the
northwest of Cape province, South Africa,
rebelled, Martini law proclaimed through
out Union of South Africa.
Oct. IS. Germans occupied Ostend and
Bruges.
Oct. 16. British cruiser Hawko sunk in
the North sea by Gcrmnn submarine.
Oct. 17. Japanese cruiser Tnkachlho
sunk by torpedo In Klauchau bay.
iintinn cruiser unrtiunted and four ae-
stroyers sunk four German destroyers In
North sea,
Oct. 1R. Allies recaptured Armentleres.
Oct, 19 Desperate fighting along Bel
gian coast, British wnrshlp taking part.
Oct. 28. French retook Altkirch, Alsace,
at tho point of the bayonet.
Oct 24 Ten dnys' battle before War
saw ended In German defat.
Oct Zi, Germnns crossed River Yser
and slowly pressed toward tho south.
Oct. 26. Germans bombarded Nlcuport
but wero checked by allies.
Marltz nnd his rebel forre defeated by
Union of South Africa troops.
Prlnzlp, stayer of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand nnd his wife, and 23 others
found guilty of treason.
Von Fnlkenhnyn, German minister of
war, made chief of staff to Bucceed Von
Moltke.
Oct 28. Do Wet and Beyers Joined In
South Africa revolt.
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine
Ruaslans reoccupled Lodz and Radom,
Germans retreating.
Oct. 28. Prlnzlp was Bontenced to 20
years' Imprisonment: four of his accom
plices sentenced to death and others to
various terms of Imprisonment.
Botha reported the rout of tho rebel
Boers.
German cruiser Emden torpedoed Rus
sian cruiser nnd French destroyer In Pe
nong harbor.
Oct. 29. Turkey began war on Russia,
the cruiser Brcslau bombarding Odessa,
Theodosta and othor places on the Black
sea.
Nov, 1, British cruiser Hermes sunk by
German submarine In Dover strnltB.
Flvo German warships engaged four
British warships off the coast of Chile
and sank two and disabled a third; tho
fourth escaped.
Nov. 3. British and French fleet bom
barded the Dardanelles forts, and British
vessels destroyed the barracks of Akabah,
Arabia.
Germans abandoned loft bank of the
Yser below Dlxmude.
Nov, 5. France, Great Britain and Rus
sia declared war on Turkey. Great Brlt
nln annexed Cyprus.
Nov. 6. The shclk-ul-lslnm ordered a
holy war against Russia, France and Eng
land. Nov. 7. German fortress of Talng Tao,
China, stormed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov, 9. Belgian troops penetrated to
Ostend.
Ypres set Are by German shells and de
stroyed. German cruiser Emden driven ashore
on Cocoa Islands and destroyed by Aus
tralian cruiser Sydney.
Nov. 10. Russian fleet In Black sea sank
four Turkish transports.
Nov 11. British gunboat Niger sunk by
a torpedo off Deal.
Russians occupied Johannlsburg, East
Prussia.
aermans raptured Dlxmude.
Nov IS. Germans forced from all posi
tions on left bank of the Yser.
British destroyed Turkish fort at en
trance to Red sea.
Nov. 16. Floods in West Flanders cut
off a large number of Germans.
Pope Issued encyclical urging cessation
of warfare.
Nov. 18. Russians checked by Germans
at Soldau after four days of bloody fight
ing. Nov. 22. Ypres bombarded by Germans,
town hall and market place being de
stroyed. Nov. 23 Russians won great victory
over Germans who were advancing on
Warsaw.
Nov, 24. Germans opened a terrlflo at
tack on 'tho allies from Ypres to La
Bassee.
Naval baso of Germans at Zeebrugge de
molished by Bholla from British fleet
Nov. 26. British battlechlp Bulwark de
stroyed by explosion off Sheerness,
Nov. 27. Germans ronowed fierce bom
bardment of Reims,
Two British ships sunk oft Havre by
Gcrmnn submarines, and one oft Grimsby
by a mine.
Dec. 1. Germans cut their way out of
the Russian trap In .Poland but with great
losses.
General Do Wet, Boer rebel leader, cap
tured. Deo. 2. Germans In Poland resumed the
offensive.
Belgrade, capital of Bervla, occupied by
the Austrlans
Dec. 6. Germans occupied Lodz, Rus
sian Poland, after severe bombardment
Deo 7. Germans dofented Russians
north and south of Lodz.
Deo. 8. German cruisers Bcharnhorst,
Gnelsenau, Leipzig and Nuernberg, under
Admiral von Spec, sunk by British squad
ron under Vlce-Admlral Sir Frederick
Sturdee off the Falkland Islands. The
Dresden, badly damaged, escaped.
Emperor William HI In Berlin.
General Beyers, rebel Boer leader, re
ported dead.
Turkish forces at Kurna, at head of Per
sian gulf, surrendered to a British expedi
tionary forco from India. -
Dec. . Terrific lighting around Lowlcz,
Russian Poland.
Dec 10. Allies captured Routers and
Armentleres.
Austrlans In Bervla compelled to re
treat. Deo. 11. Russians checked three of tho
five Gorman columns advancing on War
saw. Allies repulsed violent attacks of Ger
mans near Ypres.
Oerman submarine uttaek on Dovor re
pulsed. Doc. It German barracks at Kiel de
stroyed bv lire
Governor Ooethols nsked that destroy
ers be bent to 1'anuma canal ut once to
enforce neutrality.
British submarine passed under mines
In Dardanelles nnd torpedoed Turkish
battleship MeBsudleh,
"Then I will tell you,
killed was 3,162. Tho
urod up about 23,000."
Tho loss In
wounded llg-
"Well?"
"Woll, football has beon going only
about n month and would you llko to
know tho loss in killed and woundod?"
"Yea "
"I think I have tho figures soino
whoro." "And what aro they, sir!"
"Why, I think tho killed number
about 4,000 1" ita and the wounded
eorno 25,000,"
Dee 14 - Servians retook Belgrade after
fierce battle
Dec 16, German cruisers bombarded
Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on
the Yorkshire coast, killing about one
hundred and fifty persons and escaping.
Dec. 17. Great Britain proclaimed a
protectorate over Egypt
Allies with aid of warships entered Os
tend. Russians retreated In Gallcla and Po
land. Dec. IS General Pollorck, commander
of Austrian army, defeated In Servla, re
moved from command.
Allies made advances at Dlxmudo and
Mlddelkerko by desperate bayonet
charges.
British nppolnted Prince Hussein Kamel,
uncle of the ex-khedlve, sultan of Egypt.
Russians enptured Lowlcz.
Dec. 19. The kings of Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden agreed to act together In
war matters nnd to remain neutral.
Two British mine sweepers sunk by
mines.
Dec. 20. German nrmy In Poland reach
ed new Russian positions and battle for
Warsaw opened.
Germans evacuated Dlxmude.
Dec. 21. Desperate battle In front of
Warsaw continued.
FOREIGN
Feb. 2. City of Gonalve, Haiti, burned
during a battle between rival rebel forces.
Feb. 4. Gulllermo Bllllnghurst, presi
dent of Peru, captured by revolutionists
and his deportation ordered.
Feb. 14. Chinese government Issued
proclamation decreeing the doath penalty
for opium smokers.
Mnrch 16.-Wlfe of French Minister of
Finance Calllaux killed Gaston Calmette,
editor of Paris Figaro.
May 6. House of Lords dofeatcd woman
suffrage measure, 104 to CO.
May 19. Revolt broke out In Albania,
6,000 suportern of Kssad Pasha attacking
King William's palace at Durazzo.
May 26. Irish home rule bill passed its
third and final reading In the house of
commons by a majority of 77.
July 5. Cnrloa Mendoza. liberal,
elected president of Panama.
July 28. Mme. Henrlctte Calllnux
found not guilty of tho murder of Gas
ton Calmette In Paris, on the ground of
temporary Insanity.
Sept. 3. Cardinal Glacomo dclla Chl
csa, archbishop of Bologna, elected
pope and assumed nnmo of Benedict
XV.
Bept 6. William of Wled, prince of
Albania, abandoned that country to the
rebels.
Sept 28. Albanian senate elected
Prince Burhan-Eddln, son of the for
mer sultan, Abdul Hamld, to be prince
of Albania.
Oct 12. Ferdinand, nephew of tho
late king of Roumanla, took the oath
as his successor.
Oct. 23. Haitlcn rebels formed a
government under presidency of Gen.
Davllmar Theodore.
MEXICO
Jan. 10. Mexican rebels under Villa cap.
tured OJInaga, many of the Federal troops
and several of tho generals taking refuge
on American Bide of tho Rio Grande.
Feb. 3. - President Wilson lifted em
bargo on exportation of arms which was
applied to Moxlco by President Tnft.
Feb. 20. Mexican sltuttlon brought to
new crisis by slaying of W. S. Benton,
rich rancher and a British subject, sup
posedly by Villa.
April 2. Villa captured Torreon after
eleven days' pf bloody fighting. Villa's
loss COO hilled and 1,500 wounded and that
of the federals much greater.
April 9. Arrest of unarmed American
bluejackets by federal authorities at Tam
p'co brought demand from Admiral Mayo
that Huerta apologize and that American
flag be saluted.
April 12. Huerta refused to render a sa
lute to the American Hag In Tnrnplco.
April 14. President Wilson ordered At
lantic nnd Pacific fleets to Mexican wnters
at once to enforce his demands on Huer
ta. Federal army routed by Villa at end of
nine days' battle at San Pedro.
April 19. Huerta refused to agree to the
demands of the United States for an un
conditional salute of the flag, and Presi
dent Wilson drafted his message to con
gress and two proclamations declaring a
"hostile" blockade of Mexico ports and
harbor.
April 20. President Wilson personally
asked congress for support In action
against Huerta.
House adopted resolution giving presi
dent free rein, nfter debate In which his
policy was assailed. Benato postponed
action for a day.
April 21. American marines captured
part of Vera Cruz after a fight In which
four Americans were killed and twenty
one wounded and about 200 Mexicans
were killed. Read Admiral Badger with
five ships arrived at Vera Cruz.
April 22. Senate passed resolution Justi
fying the president In using the armed
forces of the nation to enforce his de
mands on Huerta.
Taking of Vera Cruz completed by ma
rines and bluejackets, supported by the
guns of tho warships, twelve Americans
being killed and fifty wounded.
April 23. President Wilson ordered the
Fifth brigade. General Funston In com
mand, to embark for Vera Cruz at Oal
veston. The embargo on shipment of arms to
Mexico was restored.
April 24. Fifth brlgniio sailed from Gal
veston for Vera Cruz.
Congress passed tho volunteer army bill
April 25. Presldont Wilson accepted the
offer of Brazil, Chile and Argentina,
through their plenipotentiaries, to medinte
tho Mexican trouble, stipulating that
Huerta must resign.
April 2S.-Flfth brigade arrived at Veru
Cruz nnd General Funston nssumed the
supremo command thero. Robert J. Kerr
of Chicago appointed civil governor of tho
cltv, A thousand refugees landed at Gal
veston. May 1. Secretary Gnrrlson ordered Gen
eral Funston to establish completo mili
tary government In Vera Cruz, displacing
the civil government
May 10. American naval forces seized
Lobos Island as n baso for operations.
May 11. Funeral services for marines
nnd sailors killed at Vera Crux held at
Brooklyn navy yard, President Wilson de
ltverlng tho address.
May 13. Constitutionalists captured
Tamplco,
May 20. Mediators met at Niagara
Falls, Ont, and outlined program Includ
ing elimination of Huerta, Carranza und
Zapata and the holding of a free election
under tho nuBptces of a provisional gov
ernment. Juno 5. Huerta accepted the Niagara
Falls peace program.
Juno 23. Zacotacas taken by Villa's
nrmy.
July 2. Tho A. II. C. mediators left
Niagara KallB after Issuing a Btntcment
that "all that remains to be dono Is
to organize nnd establish a provisional
government Tor Moxloo."
July f. Huerta rocelvod tho major
ity of votes cast In tho Mexican presi
dential election nnd Blanquet wus cho
sen vice-president)
July 15. Huerta reslKiied ns presi
dent of Moxloo nnd left the city. Fran
elico Carbajal was sworn In as presi
dent July 20. Huerta sailed on tho Ger
man cruiser Dresden for Jamaica.
"Oh, no."
"Yes, air yes, sir I" exclaimed tho
excited old man. "Yes, sir, nnd what
aro you going to do about It?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing, and tho Iosbcb exceed
Gettysburg!"
"nut why shouldn't thoy exceed
Gettysburg, clr? Why shouldn't they''
Why shouldn't tho loss bo ton times ns
great? Tho battle of Gettysburg vub
fought for fun, sir, and football Is a
serious business a vory serious bust
ticBs. ves, sir. Why not, sir?
Aug. 13 Carbajal abandoned presi
dency of Mexico,
Aug. 20. General Carranza entered
Mexico City and nssumed the offlce of
provisional president.
Sept 23. Villa denounced govern
ment headed by Carranza and an
nounced his Independence.
Oct. 16. Convention of Mexican con
stitutionalist chiefs at Aguas Callentes
voted itself the supremo power In Mex
ico. Nov. 1. Aguas Callentes conference
named E. Gutierrez president of Mexico
for 20 days.
Nov. 11. War declared between Car
ranza and Villa factions in Mexleo.
Nov. 25. American troops under Gen
eral Funston evacuated Vera Cruz.
Nov. 29. Gen. Pablo Gonzales pro
claimed himself provisional president
of Mexico.
Nov. 30. Villa entered Mexico City
with 25,000 troops.
Dec. 8. President Wilson sent troops
to protect Naco, Ariz., on Mexican bor
der. Dec. 16. General Bliss told commanders
of Carranza and Villa forces at Naco,
Mex., that ho would open fire on both if
any more shots came across tho border.
Dec. 18. San Luis Potosl surrendered to
Carranza forces.
Dec. 21. Geji. Hugh Scott and General
Maytorena, Vlllalsta leader, conferred
near Naco roardlng firing ncross boun
dary line.
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POLITXCAL
Feb. 18. House passed Alaska railroad
bill.
Feb. 21. Scnnto ratified general arbitra
tion trcntles between United States and
Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Nor
way, Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland.
Mnrch 6. President Wilson read to con
gress message urging that the clause In
the Pnnama canal act exempting Amerl
enn coastwise vessels from payment of
tolls be repealed
March 10. Senato approved Alaska
railroad bill.
March 31. House passed bill to repeal
canal tolls exemption clause by majority
of S6.
Juno 5. Houso passed the three Wilson
antitrust bills by huge majorities.
June 11. Bill to repeal exemption clause
of tho Panama canal tolls act passed by
senate.
July 1. George T. Henry, Jr., of San
Francisco and Washington nominated
for nmbassador to Russia.
July 6. Ira Nelson Morris of Chi
cago appointed minister to Sweden.
Aug, 19. President Wilson appointed
James C. McReynolds to tho Supreme
court and T. W. Gregory to succeed
McReynolds as attorney-general.
Sept 16. Secretary of State Bryan
and the envoys of Great Britain.
France, Spain and China signed the
Bryan peace treaties.
Sept. 24. Frederic Jesup Stlmson np
polnted nmbassador to Argentine.
Sept. 29. The house passed the riv
ers and harbors bill as reduced to $20,
000,000 by tho senate.
Oct. 24. Congress adjourned after
a session of 667 days.
Nov. 3. In general elections Repub
lican party gained over tho vote of 1912
but failed to control congress. Pro
gressive party fell to third place. Wash
ington, Colorado, Oregon and Arizona
went dry. .
Dec. 7. Sixty-third congress was
called to order for Its final session.
II
DOMESTIC
Jan. .27. President Wilson ordered per
manent government of Canal Zone Into
operation April '1 and appointed Col.
Gcorgo W. Goethals the first governor.
Feb. 24. Court of appeals reversed death
verdict In case of Charles Becker, former
police lieutenant In New York.
April 1. Col. George W. Goethals as
sumed his duties as governor of Canal
Zone.
April 5. Secretary Daniels issued order
prohibiting use of alcoholic liquors for
drinking purposes on vessels and In yards
of tho navy.
April 12. Four gunmen electrocuted in
New York for murder of Rosenthal.
May 7. Eleanor Randolph Wilson,
youngest daughter of the president, mar
ried to Secretary of the Treasury W G.
McAdoo in the White House.
May 19. Colonel Roosevelt returned
South America.
May 22. Charles Becker, former police
lieutenant, found guilty a second time of
murdor In the first degree for Rosenthal
slaying In New York.
June 11. Kermlt Roosevelt and Belle
Wlllnrd married In Madrid.
July 4. Twelve persons wero killed
and more than 900 injured in Indepen
dence day celebrations.
Aug. IE. Panama canal formally
opened to commercial traffic.
Sept 4. David J. Palmer of Wash
ington, la., elected commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of tho Republic.
Sept 10. James Gordon Bennett
owner of New York Herald, married
Baroness George do Reuter in Paris.
Oct. 17. Robert Tnft son of the for
mer president, married Miss Martha
Bowers.
Nov. 2. Twenty-one directors or for
mer directors of tho New Haven rail
road Indicted by federal Jury in New
York for criminal conspiracy to violate
tho Sherman antitrust law.
Nov. 4. Chicago stockyards ordered
closed ten dnys to check epidemic of
tho foot-and-mouth disease In the
middle West.
Dec. 16. U. S. senate ratified tho Inter
national convention for safety at sea.
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DISASTERS
Jan. 6. Oil tank steamer Oklahoma
sank off Sandy Hook, 25 of tho crew per
ishing. Jan 10. Great storm on the Baltic
caused submersion of several villages and
drowning of many persons.
Floods In Belgium did millions of dol
lars' worth of damage.
Jan. 11. Terrific storm hit northwest
Russia and 150 peasants lost tholr lives in
snow.
Many thousands of persons perished in
southern Japan when volcano of Sakura
Jlma burst into activity, following re
peated oarthquako shocks. Large city of
Kagoshlma partly destroyed and sevcrul
villages blotted out
Jan. 16. British submarine A-7 with
crew of eleven, lost during maneuvers oft
Plymouth.
Steam whaler Karluk, flagship of Cana
dian government's nrctlc exploring expe
dition under Vllljulmur Stefansson.
crushed in the ice and sunk northeast of
Siberia.
Jan. 17. Loss of the German steamer
Acllla with passengers and crew of 98 of
tho coast of Terra del Fuego confirmed,
Jan. 19. Thteo hundred Japanese refu
gees from the volcanic eruptions on Sn
l.ura burled under falling cliff and killed.
Jan S0.Old Dominion liner Monroe
sunk In collision with the steamer Nan
tucket off the Virginia ooast and 41 per
sons drowned
March 8 St IxjuI Athletic club de
stroyed by lire; 40 perished.
March 15. Quake and volcano killed
many on Hondo Island, Japan.
Mnrch 10 Many perished in hurricane
nnd Hood In Province of Stavropol, Rus
i la.
But tho old man did not answer. He
gave that crowd ono cold glaro and
loft tho car.
Who's Looney Now?
In this Htraugo union of rolatlons ho
(Tolstoy) stands alono; from no othor
groat projector of tho human Image
and the human idea Is so much truth
to bo extracted undor nn equal leakage
of Its value All the proportions In
him nro so much tho largest that the
drop of attention to our nearer caseB
might by its violence ave little of
Mnrch I") Fifty drowned when boats
collided near Venice.
March 31.-Slxty-four lives lost In bliz
zard that overtook Newfoundland seal
ing fleets.
April 2. Fire In St. Augustine, Flo., de
stroyed five tourist hotels and the county
court house: loss, $WO,000.
April 23. Explosion In mine at Ecctcs,
W. Vn , resulted In the entombing of 172
men and hope of their rescue was given
up. Fifty-nine men, scveroly burned,
saved.
May 4. Fire In commercial center of
Valparaiso, Chile, hurned over two and a
half acres and cost more than fifty lives.
Mny 29. Canadian Pacific liner Empress
of Ireland sunk In collision with Danish
collier Storstnd In St. Lawrence river;
1,024 lost of whom 798 were pnsscnger; 452
saved, of whom fi6 were passengers, Lau
rence Irving, English actor, nnd his wife,
nnd Sir Henry Setnn-Kcrr, noted big
game hunter, nmong tho drowned.
June 4. One hundred villages In Japan
devastated by terrible storm,
June 19. Mine explosion at Hlllcrest
Alberta; resulted In the death of about
200 miners.
June 25. Nearly half the city of Snlem,
Mass.. destroyed by fire, loss being nbout
$10,000,000. Most of tho historic buildings
were snved.
Aug. 6. Thirty-eight persons killed
and 25 Injured in train collision near
Joplln. Mo.
Aug. 2G. Steamer Admiral Sampson
sunk by steamer Princess Victoria 20
miles from Seattle and 11 llv.es lost
Sept. 18. Steamer Francis II. Leggett
flunk In a gale oft Oregon coast, 70 lives
being lost.
Oct. 3. Earthquake destroyed Is
barta nnd Burdur, Asia Minor, 2,500
lives being lost.
Oct. 17. Earthquake In Grecian prov
inces of Attica, Beotla and Peloponne
sus killed many persons and wrought
great damage.
Oct. 27. Explosion nnd fire In the
Franklin company's coal mine at Roy
alton. 111., resulted In death of 59 men.
Dec. 9. Seven-mllllon-dollar fire In
plant of Edison company at West Or
ange, N. J.
NECROLOGY
Jan. 4. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, noted au
thor and physician, in Philadelphia.
Jan. 8. Gen. Simon B. Bucknor, veteran
of Mexican nnd Civil wars.
Jan. 13. Dr. Edgar C. Spltzka, famous
alienist, In New York.
Jan 14. Count Yukyo Ito, fleet admiral
of the Japanese navy, In Toklo.
Jan. 19. Gen. Mane-George PIcquart,
defender of Dreyfus, at Amiens. France.
Jan. 20. Lord Strnthcona and Mount
Royal, high commissioner for Canada, In
London.
Jan. 21. Edwin Glnn, Boston publisher,
leaving $1,000,000 to the "world peace foun
dation" which he established In 1909.
Jan. 28. Shelby M. Cullom, former Uni
ted States senator from Illinois.
Feb. 5. Congressman Robert G. Bremer
of New Jersey.
Feb 13. Alphonse Bertlllon, creator of
the famous system of criminal Identifica
tion. Feb. 14. Senator Augustus O. Bacon of
Georgia.
Fob. 19. Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson,
widow of the famous novelist
Feb. 22. Samuel W. Allerton, pioneer
Chicago packer.
Joseph Fels, millionaire philanthropist
nnd single tax advocate, of Philadelphia.
Feb. 23. Former United States Senator
Teller of Colorado.
March 6. George W. Vanderbllt, owner
of Blltmorc.
Mnrch 8. Frederick Townsend Martin.
March 12. George Westlnghouse. fa
mous Inventor.
March 27. Dr. Jostah L. Plckard,
former president of the Iowa State uni
versity and before that superintendent of
schopls of Chicago.
April 1. "Rube" Waddoll, famous ball
player.
April 4. Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Min
nesota lumber magnate.
April 6. Mrs. Lillian M. W Stevens,
head of the W. C. T. U
April 9. Ilaruko, dowager empress of
Japan.
Ex-Governor E. S. Draper of Massachu
setts. April 15. George Alfred Townsend,
Journalist who won fame writing over
the name "Oath."
April 17. McKee Rankin, veteran actor.
April 26. George F. Baer, president of
the Reading railway.
April 23. S. S. Beman, famous architect
May 2. Duke of Argyll, eon-ln-law of
tho late Queen victoria.
May 3. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, last of
the great Civil war commanders.
May 9. Charles W. Post, millionaire
breakfast food manufacturer of Battle
Creek, Mich., committed suicide at Santa
Barbara, Cal.
May 10. Lillian Nordlca, grand opera
star. In Batavla, Java.
May 23. William O. Bradley, U. S. sena
tor from Kentucky.
May 26. Jacob Rlls, noted author and
sociologist
Juno 3. W. M. French, director of the
Chicago Art institute.
June 14. Adlat E. Stevenson, former
vice-president of the United States.
June IS. Former United States Senator
Frank M. Hlscock of New York.
June 21. Baroness Bertha von Suttner,
Austrian peace advocate and winner of
tho Nobel prize.
July 3. Joseph Chamberlain, veteran
British statesman.
July 12. Horace H. Lurton, associ
ate Justice of tho Supreme court of the
United Stutes.
Aug. 6. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife
of the president.
Jules Lemnltre, famous French litter
ateur. Aug. 12. Pol Plancon, famous grand
opera singer.
Auff. 19. Pope Plus X.
Aug. 20. Father Francis Xavler
Wernz, head of tho Society of Jesus.
Aug. 23. Darius Miller, president of
tho Burlington railroad.
Sept. 8. Sir J. Hennlker Heaton. fa
ther of penny postage between Eng
land nnd America.
Sept 8. Baron O'Brlan, lord chief
Justice of Ireland.
Sept 16. James E. Sullivan, secretary-treasurer
of tho Amateur Athletio
union.
Sept. 18. Mrs. Frank Leslie.
Sept. 25. Rear Admiral Herbert
Wlnslow, U. S. N retired.
Sir Jnmes P. Whitney, premier of On
tario. Oct. 10. King Charles of Roumanla.
Cardinal Ferrnta, papal secretary of
state.
Oct. 16. Marquis dl San Glullano,
Italian foreign minister.
Oct 25. Sir Charles II. Douglas,
chief of the British imperial staff.
Nov 1. Lieut Gen. Adna R. Chaffee
retired.
Nov 4. John Kenn, former U. S. sen
ator from Now Jersey.
F. Augustus Helnze, copper magnate.
Nov. 14. Flold Marshal Earl Roberts.
Nov. 19. Dr. Robert J. Burdettc, hu
morist, writer nnd pastor.
Nov. 20. Mrs. Vlnnle Ream Hoxle,
noted sculptor.
Nov. 24. Cardinal Cavallerl, patri
arch of Venice.
Deo. 1. Rear Admiral Alfred T. Ma
han. U. S. N.. retired.
Duo. 4. Slg. Peruglnl, noted singer
nnd nctor.
Dec. 8. W. W. Rookhill. noted Amer
luan diplomat.
Dec. 10. Congressman Sereno E.
Payne of New York.
that princlplo alive: which fact need
not disguise from us, nono tho less,
that as Mr. H. G. Wolls aud Mr. Arn
old Bonnott, to return to them briefly
again, derive, by multiplied If diluted
transmissions, from tho groat Russian
(from whoso all but equal companion,
Turgenloff, we recognize no deriva
tives at all), so, observing tho dis
tances, wo may profitably detect an
unexhausted Influence In our minor,
our considerably less rounded vessels.
From Henry James' "Notes and Nov
ell "
Joseph Smith, president
organized Church of the I-auer Day
Saints.
Dec 18.-MnJor E. A. Blgelow, U. S. A
rctlrod, In Chicago.
Dec. 20. Eugene Zimmerman, Cincinnati
millionaire.
Gen. Thomas Sherwln at Boston.
J FINANCIAL
Jan. 2. J, P. Morgan 8c Co. announced
withdrawal of members of tho firm from
directorates of many corporations.
Feb. 9. Mercantile bnnk of Memphis
Tenn., failed, President C. H. Raine ad
mlttlng ho had used Its funds in cottor
speculation.
Feb. 12. Standard Oil company arranged
to lend China $15,000,000 In return for oil
concessions In Shan-SI province.
March 13 United States Express com
pany went out of business.
April 1. Tho great "Princes' Trust" of
Germany collapsed with loss of $25,000,000.
April 2. Location of tho twelve regional
reserve banks under the new currency law
announced.
June 6.-Chnplin, Milne. Grenfell A Co..
London bankers, failed for $5,000,000.
June 15. President Wilson nominated
following as members of federal reserve
board: Charles S. Hamlin of Boston,
Thomas D JoneB of Chicago, Paul War
burg of New York, W. P. G. Harding of
Birmingham, Ala., A. C. Miller of San
Francisco.
June 25. The H. B. Claflln company,
leading wholesale dry goods concern of
New York, failed with liabilities of about
$44,000,000.
July 6. Iowa's blue sky law provid
ing for tho regulation and supervision
of Investment companies held unconsti
tutional by federal Judges.
July 23. Government began suit
for dissolution of New Haven railroad
monopoly.
July 23. President Wilson withdrew
nomination of Thomas D. Jones as
member of the federal reserve board.
Aug. 4. Frederick A. Delano Beteoted
for federal reserve board.
Aug. 11. Directors of the New Haven
road agreed to the attorney general's
terms for a peaceful dissolution of the
system.
Aug. 12. Dissolution of the Interna
tional Harvester company as a monop
oly In restraint of trade ordered by the
United States district court at St.
Paul, Minn.
Sept. 4. President Wilson presented
to congress an appeal for an emer
gency Internal revenue measure to
raise $100,000,000 to make up for the
loss In customs receipts.
Sept 26. War tax bill passed by the
houso.
Oct. 17. Senate passed war tax bill.
Nov. 16. United States federal re
serve banks opened.
Dec. 18. Interstate commerce commis
sion granted In part .'he 6 per cent freight
rate advance nsked by railroads east of
the Mississippi and north of the Ohio.
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INDUSTRIAL
Jan. B. Ford Automobile company set
aside $10,000,000 of Its profits to distribute
among Its employees, mostly in tho form
of increased wages.
Jan. 6. United States circuit court of
appeals confirmed the conviction of 24
members of tho International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers on
tho charge of dynamite conspiracy, and
granted new trials to six others.
April 20. Striking coal miners and mem
bers of Colorado National Guard fought
an nil day battle at Ludlow, a number of
men being kl'led.
April 22. Entire National Guard of Colo
rado called out and ordered to Trinidad
strike zone, where several more men were
killed In tho continued fighting.
April 28. Heavy fighting took place in
tho Colorado mine strike war and Presi
dent Wilson ordered federal troops there
to restore order.
April 29 Colorado mine strikers at
tacked the Forbes camp of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel company, killing seven
mine guards and burning most of the
buildings Federal troops from Fort D.
A. Russell arrived In the strike zone.
May 1. Fourteen more troop3 of federal
cavalry ordered to Colorado strike zone.
May 11. United States Supreme court
set aside contempt sentences of Gompers
and other labor leaders.
May 16. United States circuit court of
appeals remanded 24 union labor men,
convicted of conspiracy to transport dyna
mite, to federal penitentiary within three
weeks.
June 23. One man killed and two
wounded fighting betweon factions of min
ers' union at Butte, Mont.
Aug. 3. Western railroad managers
ajrreed to mediate trouble with engine
men. Dec, 8. The Colorado coal strike, in
force since April, 1910, was called oft
by the miners.
SPORTING
Feb. 26. Ralph De Paima won Vnnder
bllt cup at Los Angeles, making average
speed of 75.6 miles an hour.
Feb. 28. Edwin Pullen won fifth Inter
national Grand Prix automobile race at
Santa Monica, Cal.
May 23. Lawrence Jenkins of Scotland
won British' nmnteur golf championship.
May 28. Francis Oulmet of Boston won
amateur golf championship of France.
Mav 30. Rene Thomas, driving a Dclage
car ioi France, won COO-mlle race at In
dianapolis In 6:03:45.99, nn average of
82.47 miles an hour, breaking the record of
the speedway.
June 13. British team won first of the
International polo matches at Meadow
brook. Juno 16. British polo team won second
match nnd International cup.
June 19. Yale defeated Harvard by four
feet In annual boat race.
Harry Vardon won British open golf
championship for sixth time.
June 26. Columbia University won inter
collegiate regatta at Poughkeepsle.
June 27. Jack Johnson retained heavy
weight championship by defeating Frank
Moran In twenty-round fight In Paris.
July 4. Harvard crew won the Hen
ley regatta.
July 7. Freddie Welsh of Wales won
the lightweight championship by de
feating Willie Ritchie of America in
London.
July 16. Georges Carpentler of
France, receiving the decision over
"Gunboat" Smith of America on a foul,
in London, won the white heavyweight
championship.
Aug. 1. Charles Evans, Jr., of Chi
cago won the western amateur golf
championship.
Aug. 21. Walter C. Hagen, profes
sional, of the Country club of Roches
ter, N. V.. won the open golf champion
ship of the United States,
Aug. 26. J. M. Bnrnes of Philadel
phia won the national tennis champion
ship. Sept. 6. Francis Oulmet won the
Amcrlcnn amateur golf championship.
Sept. 19. Mrs. H. Arnold. Jncknon of
Boston won the national woman's golf
championship.
Oct. 13. Boston National team won
world's championship from Philadelphia
American league team.
Nov. 21. Harvard won eastern foot
ball championship by beating Ynle. and
Illinois won the Western Conference
title when it defeated Wisconsin.
Sincere Compliment.
"What a wonderful complexion that
woman has!"
"Truly wonderful," replied Miss
Cayenne. "I think it Is tho most be
coming of any I have ever seen her
wear."
Electricity In Millinery.
Artificial flowors for millinery nro
being made to Inclose tiny incan
descent lamps, which can bo supplied
with current from storage batterlot
hidden lnsldo their wearers' hats.
WINS INJUGH GOURT
LEO M. FRANK, FACTORY QIRLf
8LAYER, IS GRANTED
AN APPEAL-
DECISION WILL ACT AS STAY,
Justice Lamar Reverses Ruling on
Habeas Corpus Writ Rendered by.
Federal Tribunal of Georgia En-j
tire Supreme Body to Pats on Case.
Wm Nmptpw Union Newi smta
Washington, D. C Justice Lamar,
of tho supremo court, has granted an
appeal from tho refusal of the fedoral
district court for northern Georgia
to ruleaso on habeas corpus proceed
ings Loo M. Frank, undor death sen
tence for tho murder of Mary Phagan,
a 15-year-old factory girl of Atlanta,
Q a. i
Frank is sentenced to die on Janu
ary 22, but Justice Lamar's action of
foots an Indefinite stay of execution.
Thirty days are given for filing tho
record of tho proceedings In the lower
court. Immediately after that haB
boon dono the state of Georgia may
ask that tho caso bo advanced for
hearing and such suggestions are gen
erally granted, although In the rogular
course tho case would not como up for
a year and a half.
Tho entire court will pass on
Frank's right to seek release from
custody on a writ of habeas corpus
on tho grounds that the trial court
In Fulton county, Georgia, lost Juris
diction over him by Its falluro to havo
him present when tho jury returned
its verdict of guilty. Should tho court
decide ho was entitled to a stay for
the writ, thus rovorslng Judge New
man, of the lower court, the case may
be remanded to the district court for
taking of evidence In support of tho
petition. Should It eventually be held
that Frank must be released from cus-'
tody, It Is said, a mooted question
may arise as to tho power of tho state
to Indict and try him a second time.
COMPLAINT LODGED BY U. 8,
British Naval Policy Is Held to Be
Objectionable.
Washington, D. C. The United
States government this week dis
patched a long note to Great Dritaln
Insisting on an early Improvement In
tho treatment of American commerce
by the British fleet. It gave warning
that much feeling had been aroused
In this country, and that public crit
icism was general over unwarranted
Interference with the legitimate for
eign trade of the United States.
The document, constituting tho
strongest representation on this sub
ject made by the United States to
any of tho belligerents since the out
break of the war, was cabled to Am
bassador Pago to be formally present
ed to Sir Edward Grey, British for
eign secretary. Its preparation was
begun a month ago by Solicitor Cone
Johnson, Counsel Robert Lansing and
Secretary Dryan, and finally had tho
personal attention of President Wil
son, who revised its phraseology with
minuto care.
Shots Not Meant tc Kill.
Buffalo, N. Y. Walter Smith and
Charles Dorsch, American hunters,
wore shot by Canadian soldiers on
the Niagara river near Fort Erie.
Smith was killed, but Dorsch will re
cover. The shooting was unintention
al, according to information gathered
by the military and forwarded to Ot
tawa. The soldiers were aiding a pro
vincial officer to arrest tho men for
alleged violation of the game laws.
Several volleys were flrod over tnolr
heads to force them to come ashoro
with their rowboat. A flnnl shot, said
to havo been fired for the same pur
pose, stuck Smith between tho oyer
and Dorsch In the arm. -
Made a Mutual Cpncern. "
Now York. Mutuallzatlon of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company
was Indorsed by the policyholders at
a meeting, by a vote of G5.000 to l.CpO.
Mutuallzatlon already had '.been ,ap
proved by tho stockholders ftnd 'direc
tors. If tho state commissioner or
Insurance approves the plan control
of tho company will pass to tho policyjft,
holders, who will elect -'a board oin
directors. Tho Prudontlaivinsurace'
company recently authorized a (Thaln'
from a stock company 't.o,a mutual
organization. - "'" . '
President Wilson, Is Fifty-Eight., .
Washington, D. C Prosident Wil
son, celebrated his, C8f!h blrthiay
Monday by.Tcelvlng congratulatijrjrv
messages' fr'f&S. all parts of, the. United
States andJ?6Bi foreign countries. -
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New York. Every sailor jilissInaT
through tho Panama canal tvHI 'bo
given a Bible, It was announced by
James Wood, prosident of Jkbe'.l.raer!"
can Dlblo society. Col. George "W-
Goethals, governor oi mo canai zone,
haB solected a placo at Jlalboa, en Iho r, J'
nnntflp for the establishment of & r J
Bible dlatribuUhg 'station. ,Mr. Wod. ,
said. 'X. '
Homo, Ha)y;vQudn Helena, of Ita
ly, gave birth a daughter Decem
ber 2G. Both mother and child aro
doing well.
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Receive Appeal From Mexico.
Washington, D. C.-Condltlons jof
fBtnlne and suffering In Mextco, Bald
by some observers to rival "the dis
tress in tho European theater of war,
are described in reports to tho Amer
ican Bed Cross", lih appeals fv hip
Border Trouhl at Enc t
Nacoi A"riz--Gov. Job .Jlarl-j 'iy-
torena, of Soitorn, lifted the Uev of
Naco, Sonora, opposite hen ud re-
. l u ll.o cniltllWCit wit 1 i, tTlfl.lrf
He destroyed his ,works brraod his '
camps ana ruuiuTCM u m- i inner
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