The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-03

open golf championship at Brookline,
Mass, September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July %.
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
New York Giants In the worlds cham
pionship baseball series, October IL.
Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for
the Americas cup is accepted by New
York Yacht club.
Invention and Exploration.
Vihlijamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi-
tion June II.
Robert G. Fowler flies cross the
Panama canal April 81.
Crocker Land Exposition sails from
New York July I'd.
DR.. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum-
nit of Mt. Mckinley June 90
DR.. Simon Flexner announces the
discovery of the germ of infantile
paralysis.
Marriages and engagements.
Wedding of Princes Victoria-Louise
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 Bowes Sayre at the
White House Nov 25.
Engagement of Vincent Astor to
Miss Helen Huntington announced
Duke of Croy marries Miss Leish-
mann, daughter of the American am
bassador to Germany, Oct. 27.
Prince Arthur of Connaught marries
the Duchess of Fife, Oct. 10.
Dethroned King Manuel of Portugal
marries the Princess of Hohenzollern
at Singmaringen, Germany.
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
]. Shepard.
General Felix Diaz released from
penitentiary in Mexico City and at
tackled the National Palace. Feb. g.
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 49,
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 49,
Rise of General Venustiano Carran
"a in the north of Mexico.
Capture of Juarez and Chihuahua
Rise of General Francisco ("Pan
cho'O Villa as a leader of Carranzas
Constitutionalists in the north of
Mexico.
Felix Diaz stabbed in Havana, Nov
9Th
President Woodrow Wilson declines
to recognize Huerta as Constitutional
president of Mexico.
Mexican rebels fail in attack on
Tampico, but resume assault
United States battleship fleet and
international squadron gather at Vera
Cruz and Tampico to protect foreign
interests.
Balkan Wars.
Adrianople falls, March 26.
Scutari surrendered to Montenegro,
April %.
Peace treaty of Balkans signed in
London.
MlsceIIc neous.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst visits the
United States, Oct. 1S.
Gettysburg encampment of confed-
crate and Union veterans fifty years
after the battle of Gettysburg, held on
July 1-5.
Harry X 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 U. s.
courts.
Steamship Aquitania to be the larg.
est steamer in the world, launched in
England. April 2.
Colonel Roosevelt starts on South
Janeiro, Brazil; Sac Paulo, Brill;
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic
and Valparaiso. Chile.
Mendel Bells tried and acquitted
of ritual murder at the Holy City"
of Kiev Russia.
Gamboa dixie last obstruction in the
Panama Canal blown up with dypa
mite on Oct. 10th.
Buildings of the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position started at San Francisco. Ger
man and English governments decline
to participate.
Labor Disputes.
Indianapolis street car strike be.
gins Oct. 81.
Copper strike in Michigan started
July %.
Prisoners in the indianapolis dyna-
mite conspiracy spend the first day in
FIT. Leavenworth penitentiary Jan. l.
Firemen, engineers and trainmen of
G railrlada daxaarad