Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07

Yale, June 20.
Francis Ouimet wins the national
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.
Vihliiamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi-
ton June II.
Robert G. Fowler flies cross 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 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. %.
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. 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
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. 10.
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-
chou Villa as a 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 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.
Misceilt ncous.
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 on
July Is.
| 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.
| est steamer in the world, launched in
England, April 2,
Colonel Roosevelt starts on South
| American hunting trip, visits Rio
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 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
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