Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08

regatta, June 81
Harvard eight-oared crew beats
Yale. June 20.
Francis Ouimet wins the national
open golf championship at Brookline,
Mass, September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July IS
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
New York Giants in the worlds cham
pionslip baseball series, October II.
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-
ton June H.
Robert G. Fowler flies croes the
Panama canal April q.
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 mfantil
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 %.
Engagement OF Vincent Aston to
Miss Helen Huntington announced.
Duke of Croy marries Miss Leish-
mann, daughter of the American am
bassador to Germany, Oct. q.
Prince Arthur of Connaught marries
the Duchess of Fife, Oct. Is.
Dethroned King Manuel of Portugal
marries the Princess of Hohenzollern
at Singmaringen, Germany.
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
]. 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
deros 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. 10.
President Madero and Vice-Presi-
dent Pine Suarez are shot down while
trying to escape"
General Fictoriano 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 c'Pan
cho'') Villa as leader of Carranza' S
! 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 feet and
international squadron gather at Vera
Cruz and Tampico tc protect foreign
| interests.
Balkan Wars
| Adrianople falls, March &c.
Scutari surrendered to Montenegro
| April %.
Peace treaty Of Balkans signed II
London.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst visits the
United States, Oct. IS.
| Gettysburg encampment of confed
| crate and Union veterans fifty years
after the battle of Gettysburg. held or
! July 1-5.
| 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 U. S
courts
Steamship Aquitania to be the larg
J est Sj6d uISI III TIC NOtlu lduuCHeu IL
| England, April ?.
Colonel Roosevelt starts on South
American hunting trip. visits Rio
| Janeiro, Brazil; Sac Pau1o, Brill;
| Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic
and Valparaiso, Chile.
Mendel Bells tried and acquitted
| Of ritual murder at the Holy City
| OF Kiey. Russia,
| Gamboa dixie last obstruction in the
| Panama Canal blown up with dyna
mite on Oct. 10th.
Buildings of the Panama-Pacific Elk
| 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
Fl. Leavenworth penitentiary Jan. 1
Firemen, engineers and trainmen OF
I Eastern railroads demand increase
and better hours. Matter adjusted By
arbitration.
Hotel walters strike in New York
| city Jan 1st
One hundred thousand lady garment
| workers strike in New York Jan. 10.
Paterson, \. J., silk strike
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| Removal of the TonsiIs
The Boston Medical and Surgical