The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-12-31

fedoracy in the nationEf cemetery at
Arlington was unveiled June a.
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 bcqueathed sS.500,OO0 to public in
stitutions The American Museum OF
Natural History was a beneficiary to
the extent of $4,000. 600. That also,
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed Kiel canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser. The International Eucha-
ristic congress opened at Lourdes,
France. July %.
on September Cardinal Giacomo
della Chiesa, archbishop OF Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
Piux y, The new pontiT assumed the
title Of Benedict XIV, The government
crop report, made public October 3. an
nounCed a record wheat harvest OF
S92. 100000 and a normal corn crop OF
2,67G, 900 900 The worlds championship
series was won October 3 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 a fund OF $l500OO000 which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. on the LIS day of October the
Panama canal was closed for traffic a
second time on account of an earth
slide into Culebra cut.
on November 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 TN
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.
After II period of suspension covering
Is weeks, brought about by the war
the cotton exchanges of New York and
New orleans opened for trading on No
vembcr l6. The New York stock ex-
change. which was closed at the break
ing out of hostilities, was reopened for
restricted trading November IS red
letter event in the history OF American
athletics was the formal opening Of the
great Yale bowl seating 60 600 persons
November p. The annual Nale-IIar-
ward football contest resulted in Har-
ward victory. SO to 0.
Among the Eminent Dead.
The record of those who have passed
out OF the worlds activities during the
year is OF unusual length, and II contains
tiuctiOn.
Among the famous men who died in
January were DR.. s, Weir Mitchell OF
Philadelphia, scientist and novelist,
Dr. Edward Spitzka. alienist and neu-
rologist, Count Yuko Ito, admiral OF
the Japanese fleet, shelby NJ. Cullom,
30 years United States senator from
Illinois, author of the interstate com
mrrye law; Paul Derouledc. French poet
and political agtator: the venerable
James Adams Beaver Civil war hero
and ex-governor OF Pennsylvania, and
Simon Boivcr Buckner. whose name
ana fame have been familiar to the Amer
lean public for more than half n century
as a lieutenant general I'm the Confederate
army, governor Of Kentucky, candidate
for vice president ON the Gold Democratic
ticket I'm 1896
Fchruarys contribution to the list
includes Alphonse Rcrtillon whose
clever system of measurement made
him the terror OF criminals; Theodore
l.. DE Winnie, whose artistic efforts
rovolutionzcd printing; Henry NJ, Tel
Ter United States senator from Colo
RADIO for 80 years, Secretary OF the In
terror under President Arthur; Wis
count Siuzu Aoki, first japanese am
bassadOr 20 the United states, and the
earl Of Mimic former governor general
of Canada. In March Cardinal kopp, at
the head Of the Roman catholic hierarchy
of Germany. the venerable ThuuRs Bow.
man. senior bishop of the Methodist
church and two Protestant Episcopal
hishops-John Scarborough OF New
Jersey, and William Woodruff Niles OF
New Hampshire passed away. America
also lost George Westinghouse. whose
air brake is rcputed To have saved
more lives than were sacrificed in the
Napolcontc wars April marked the
passing Of the dowaEer empress of ia
pan the wcll-helovcd liaruko; George