Mexico Missouri message., 1914-12-31


Arlington was unveiled June 4.
on June 16 England captured the In
ternational polo championship at
Meadowbrook. n. Y. 1t was made pub
lie on June "a that Mrs. Morris X. Jesup
had beaueathed SS.50o,oOo to public In
stltutions. The American Museum OF
Natural History was beneficiary &C
the extent of $4,000 That, also
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed KEEL canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser. The International Eucha-
ristic congress opened at Lourdes'
France. July 90
on September 3 Cardinal Giacomo
della Chiesa, archbishop of Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
Piux " The new pontin assumed the
title OF Benedict XIV. The government
crop report made public October y. an
nounced a record wheat harvest OF
S92. 900 900 and normal corn crop OF
2,s76. 600 600. The worlds championship
series was won October 10 by the Bos-
ton National league baseball team.
on october IA one OF the most COM
prehensive financial schemes on record
formulated by bankers at New York
city involved the raising by the banks
of fund of $4,000. 900 which was to
he loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. on the last day OF october the
| Panama canal was closed for traffic n
| second time on account OF an earth
| slide into Culebra cut.
| On November 6 the Chicago stock
| yards were closed on account of an
epidemic OF foot-and-mouth disease
which had already led the federal au-
| thorities to establish quarantine In
| eight states against the shipment OF
| cattle. Later this prohibition was ex-
| tended to several other states. The so
| called "house of governors met In its
seventh annual session at Madison,
| Wis, November 10.
| ri "a nf
10 weeks. brought about by the war,
| the cotton exchanges of New York and
| New orleans opened for trading on No
| vember 16. The Now York stock ex-
change. which was closed at the break
ing out of hostilities, was reopened for
restricted trading November %. A red
letter event In the history OF American
athletics was the formal opening OF the
great Yale bowl, seating 10000 persons
November 81. The annual Yalc-Har-
ward football contest resulted i'm Haf-
ward victory. &c to o.
Among the Eminent Dead.
The record of those who have passed
out of the worlds activities during the
year is of unusual length. and 1t contains
the names of many who had achieved dis
tinction.
Among the famous men who died in
January were DR.. S. Weir Mitchell OF
Philadelphia, scientist and novelist;
I DR.. Edward Spitzka, alienist and neu-
| rologist; Count Yuko Ito, admiral OF
the Japanese fleet; Shelby NJ. Cullom.
= 80 years United States senator from
Illinois, author of the interstate COM
: mcrce law; Paul Deroulede, French poet
and political agitator: the venerable
( James Adams Beaver Civil war hero
r and ex-governor of Pennsylvania, and
e Simon Boliver Buekner. whose name
e and fame have been familiar to the Amer
D lean public for more than half a century
| a., fnf1., 10
h army. governor OF Kentucky, candidate
= for vice-presdent on the Gold Democratic
n ticket in 1896
I February's contribution TO the list
= includes Alphonse Bertillon, whose
clever system of measurement made
! him the terror of criminals; Theodore
s L. De Winnie. whose artistic efforts
s revoiutionlzed printing; Henry NJ. Tel
Ter, United States senator from Colo
RADIO for 80 years, Secretary OF the In
terror under President Arthur; Wis
l. count SiuZo Aoki. first Japanese am
q bassador to the United States, and the
70 earl of Mimic, former governor-general
3 | of Canada. In March Cardinal Kopp. nj
l. the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
l. of Germany; the venerable Thomas Bow
,d | man. senior bishop of the Methodist
r church. and two Protestant Episcopa
re- bishops-John Scarborough OF New
M | Jersey, and William Woodruff Niles oil
he New Hampshire passed away. America
w also lost George Westinghouse. whose
et | air brake is reputed to have saved
n more lives than were sacrificed in thu
In Napoleonic wars. April marked thu
a. passing of the dowager empress of ia
IN pan. the well-beloved Haruko; Georg'
a. Alfred Townsend, known widely as
ns war correspondent; George f. Baer
n president of the Reading railroad. AM
Samuel r. Crockett. who created 9Th
or Stlckit Minister"
ne Maj. Gen. Daniel Il. Sickles hero o
Of the Civil war, died early in May. AmonI
ho the other famous men and women VIII
es | died during the month were LILA
ri | Nordica daughter of Maine farmer
10 | who became one of the worlds mos
"a successful opera singers, especially fa
- nous in Wagnerian roles; Francis KOS
IA suth son of the great Hungarian pa
st triot; Charles Scadding, Episcope
&c bishop of Oregon; Sir Joseph w. SwaI
~. inventor of the incandescent lghl
90 Paul Mauser inventor of the riff
,ro bearing his name; William o. Bradle'
atr United States senator from Kentuck
of and the duke of Argyll
,oa Adlai L. Stevenson, vice-president {
,at the United States during the secon
mo Cleveland administration, died June l
az, Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich of Meci
o. lenburg- Strelitz. George ii. grand dui
zoo, of Sake Meiningen, and Archdui
On Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne
ors Austria Hungary, the victim OF an
49,, sassin. are some of the men OF roy
-, blood who died in that month JOSEF
IT, Chamberlain long eminent as Britt
80 statesman. died early in July. Amor
other distinguished men who died til
va uo"Nh :. -, Ir,,ai s,atos c,nra,
- court; Melville Il. ingalls, of the "E
V p Four" railroad system; Augustus Smi
~ Oldest graduate of Yale university, a
20 Paul Reclus, brilliant French scienti
en- '. 80 o,,,',,tai aro1inencs
~ Ellen Louise Arson Wilson, wife Of I
~ president of the United States, a
nm Pope Plus X, head of the Roman Cath
lie church. John Philip Holland.
~. ventor of the submgriue Gen. Pow
oh Clayton. ex-governor, ex-senator a
for half n century the most promin'
Republican of Arkansas: Robert n
Intyre, bishop of the Methodist chur'