The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-12-29


Meadowbrook, n. Y. Tt was made pub
lie on June "a that Mrs Morris X Jesup
had bequeathed $780, 600 to public in
situations. The American Museum of
Natural History was a beneficiary to
the extent of $4,000, 000 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 8 Cardinal Giacomo
della Chiesa, archbishop of Bologna,
was elected pope to succeed the late
P1ux x. The new pontiff assumed the
title of Benedict XIV. The government
crop report made public October s. an
nounced a record wheat harvest of
S92.000000 and a normal corn crop of
2,676o00. 600. The worlds championship
series was won October IS 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 $4,000 600 which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day of October the
Panama canal was closed for traffic a
second time on account of an earth
slide into Cu1ebra 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 it's
seventh annual session at Madison,
Wis, November 10.
After a 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
Vember 16. The New York stock ex-
change, which was closed at the break
ing out of hosti1ities was reopened for
restricted trading November 49, A red
letter event in the history of American
athletics was the formal opening of the
great Yale bowl, seating 10000 persons,
November FL The annual Yale-Har-
ward football contest resulted in a Har-
ward victory. Sc 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 it contains
the names of many who had achieved dis
tinction.
Among the famous men who died in
January were DR.. S. Weir Mitchell of
DR.. Edward Spitzka. alienist and neu-
rologist; Count Yuko Ito. admiral of
the Japanese fleet; Shelby M. Cullom
80 years United States senator from
Illinois. author of the interstate COM
merce law; Paul Deroulede, French poet
and political agitator; the venerable
James Adams Beaver, Civil war hero
and ex-governor of Pennsylvania, and
Simon Boliver Buekner, whose name
foY 70 Tor 70
lean public for more than half a century
as lieutenant general in the Confederate
army, governor of Kentucky, candidate
for vice-president on the Gold Democratic
ticket in 1896.
February's contribution to the list
includes Alphonse Bertillon, whose
clever system of measurement made
him the terror of criminals; Theodore
L. De Winnie, whose artistic efforts
revolutionized printing; Henry M. Tel
Ter, United States senator from Colo
RADIO for 80 years, Secretary of the In
terror under President Arthur; Wis
count Siuzo Aoki, first Japanese am
bassador to the United States. and the
earl of Mimic. former encouragement
of Canada. In March Cardinal Kopp, at
the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
of Germany; the venerable Thomas Bow
man, senior bishop of the Methodist
church, and two Protestant Episcopal
bishops-John Scarborough of New
Jersey, and William Woodruff Niles of
New Hampshire passed away. America
also lost George Westinghouse, whose
air brake is reputed to have saved
more lives than were sacrificed in the
Napoleonic wars. April marked the
passing of the dowager empress of ia
pan, the well-beloved Haruko; George
Alfred Townsend, known widely as
war correspondent; George f. Baer.
president of the Reading railroad, and
Samuel r. Crockett. who created 1.-THE
Stickit Minister"
Maj. Gen. Daniel e. Sickles, hero of
the Civil war. died early in May. Among
the other famous men and women who
died during the month were Lillian
Nordica. daughter of a Maine farmer.
who became one of the worlds most
successful opera singers, especially ia
nous in Wagnerian roles: Francis Kos
suth, son of the great Hungarian pa
triot; Charles Scadding, Episcopal
bishop of Oregon; Sir Joseph w. Swan.
inventor of the incandescent light;
Paul Mauser, inventor of the rifle
bearing his name; William o. Bradley,
United States senator from Kentucky,
and the duke of Argyll.
Adlai E. Stevenson, vice-president of
the United States during the second
Cleveland administration, died June 10.
lenburg- Strel1tz. George II, grand duke
of Saxe-Meiningen, and Archduke
Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of
Austria Hungary, the victim of an as
sassin. are some of the men of royal
blood who died in that month. Joseph
Chamberlain, long eminent as a British
statesman died early in July. Among
other distinguished men who died that
month were Horace III. Lurton. associ-
fn off he Tnit tot a
court; Melville E. ingalls, of the Big
Four" railroad system; Augustus Smith,
Oldest graduate of Yale university, and
Paul Reclus, brilliant French scientist.
Two names among the August dead
stand out with especial prominence
Ellen Louise Arson Wilson wife of the
president of the United States, and
Pope Plus X, head of the Roman Catho-
lie church. John Philip Holland. in
ventor of the submarine; Gen. Powell
Clayton, ex-governor, ex-senator and
for half century the most prominent
Republican of Arkansas; Robert Nc
Intyre, bishop of the Methodist church;
Father Francis Xavier Wernz, general
of the Jesuits. and Margaret Newton
Van Colt, known everywhere as an
evangelist, were also among the ia
nous dead of August
The September list includes the names
of Edward ]. Hall, the father of the
Iong-distance telephone Mrs. Frank
Leslie Baroness Bazus), who revived the
practically defunct publishing business
left by her husband and bequeathed 81
O0O, 900 to the woman suffrage movement,
and Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow, Uni
ted States navy, retired. On October 10,
the aged king of Roumania, Charles 1,
who maintained the neutrality of his
kingdom to the very last in spite of pow
erful opposition, died at his capital The
Right Rev. Charles William Smith, Meth
odist Episcopal bishop of st. Louis, died
on the last day of the month.
Among the eminent dead of Novem-