Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-01-07

Harvard eightoared crew beats
! Yale. June 20.
: Francis ouimet wins the national
open golf championship at Brookiine.
Mass. September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July rs.
Horse racing resumed in New York
state on May 80
1 Jim Thorpe admits ne is a profess
sional athlete and resigns Olympic
trophies. January %
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
| New York Giants in the worlds cham
pionship baseball series. October II.
Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for
the Americas cup is accepted by New
| York Yacht club.
invention and Exploration.
VihIiiamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi-
ton June II.
Robert G. Fowler flies cross the
Panama canal April 81.
4 Croker Land Exposition sails from
New York July I'd
DR. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum
NIT of Mt. Mckinley June 20.
DR.. Simon Flexner. announces the
discovery of the germ of infantile
paralysis.
ArISsaI o. DR. Friedrich Franz
Friedn ann government test of his
tuberculosis serum started March H.
Discovery of radium as q cure for
cancer announced. doubt cast upon the
1 80
tion for the Cure Of Cancer.
Aviation death list in Germany for
1918 reaches 80: France 81; England
10; Italy 4: Russia s.; Argentine Re
public 4: Japan 3; Turkey 3; Aus.
tria l; Brazil / Switzerland /; Scot
land 4; Canada Z; Portugal l. Moroc-
co L; China l and United States 25.
Marriages ard Engagements.
Wedding of Princes VictoriaIoulse.
only daughter of the Kaiser and
Prince Ernst Of Cumberland May "a.
Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, sec
ond daughter of the president, mar
ries Francis Doves Sayre at the
White House Nov Is.
Engagement Of Vincent Aston to
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Duke of Troy marries Miss Leish-
mann, daughter of the American am.
bassador to Germany, Oct 81
Prince Arthur OF Connaught marries
the Duchess of Fife. Oct Is.
Dethfoned King Manuel Of Portugal
marries tie Princess Of Hohenzollern
at Singmaringen, Germany.
Mice I-nlan E.,,T1 ,,,rrsod
]. Shepard
Mexico.
General Felix Diaz released from
penitentiary in Mexico City and at
tackled the National Palace, Feb 6,
President Francisco Madero forced
to resign and is imprisoned at the Ma
tional Palace, Mexico City.
Gustavo Madero, President Ma
dero's brother, is arrested by General
Huerta and imprisoned in the Ma
tional Palace, February 10.
Gustavo Madero is executed by the
order of General Felix Diaz Feb. 1e.
President Madero and Vice-Presi
dent Pine Suarez are shot down while
trying to escape"
General Victoriano Huerta proclaim
ed provisional president of Mexico
Feb. 10.
/ Rise of General Venustiano Carran
"a in the north Of Mexico.
Capture of Juarez and chihuahua.
Rise of General Francisco ("Pan
cho") Villa as leader of Carranza's
CoEstitutionalists in the north OF
Mexico.
Felix Diaz stabbed In Havana, Nov
9th
President Woodrow Wilson declines
to recognize Huerta as Constitutional
prehiden OF Mexico.
Mexican rebels fail In attack on
Tanipico. but resume assault.
United States battleshlp feet and
international squadron gather at Vera
Cruz and Tampico to protect foreign
interests.
Balkan Wars.
hdrianople falls. March 2s
scutari surrendered to Montenegro
April 90.
Peace treaty of Balkans signed in
LonSon.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurat visits the
United States, Oct. 1S
Gettysburg encamRment of confed'
crate and Union veterans fifty years
after ,he battle of Gettysburg held on
July 10.
Harry K Thaw. slayer of Stanford
White. escaped from Matteawan In
sane asylum and fees to Canada. He
is elected from Canada and seeks ref
uge in New Hampshire, where the
case is still pending in the L. s.
courts.
Steamship Aquitanla to be the larg'
est steamer in the world launched In
England, April 2.
Colonel Roosevelt starts on South
American hunting trip. visits Rio
Janeiro, Erazil; Sac Paulo. Brill;
Buenos A.res. Argentine Republic
and Valparaiso, Chile.
Mendel BELLS tried and acquitted
of ritual Murder at the Holy City"
OF Kiev, Russia.
Gamboa d, Ike last obstruction In the
Panama Caral blown up with dyna.
mite on Oct 10th
Buildings OF the Panama-Pacific Elk.
position STARTED at San Francisco. Ger.