The Ely miner., 1914-01-02
Harvard eight-osFed crew beats


open golf championship at Brookline,
Mass. September 30. 1
America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July %.
Horse racing resumed in New York
state on May 80.
Jim Thorpe admits he Is profes-
sional athlete and resigns Olympic
trophies, January n.
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 10 accepted by New
York Yacht club.
Invention and Exploration.
Vihlijamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi-
ton June II.
Robert G. Fowler flies cross the
Panama canal April 21.
Crocker Land Exposition sails from
New York July I'd.
Dr. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum-
nit of Mt. Mckinley June 20.
Dr. Simon FIexner announces the
discovery Of the germ Of infantile
paralysis.
Arrival of DR.. Friedrich Franz
Friedmann--go government test of his
tuberculosis serum started March II.
Discovery of radium as a cure for
cancer announced doubt cast upon the
discovery by the American Associa-
finp for tho Cura of Cancer
Aviation death list in Germany for
1913 reaches 80; France 81; England
10; Italy A.; Russia s; Argentine Re-
public 4; Japan 8; Turkey 3; Aus
tria 1; Brazil 1; Switzerland /; Scot
land /; Canada /; Portugal 1; Moroc-
co /; China and United States 25.
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. 25.
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. 81
Prince Arthur of Connaught marries
the Duchess of Fife. Oct Is.
Dethroned King Manuel of Portugal
marries the Princess of HohenzolIern
at Singmaringen, Germany.
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
j. Shepard.
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
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. 10.
Rise of General Venustiano Carran-
Ia in the north of Mexico.
Capture of Juarez and Chihuahua.
Rise of General Francisco ("PaM-
cho") Villa as a leader of Carranzas
Constitutionalists in the north Of
Mexico.
Felix Diaz stabbed in Havana, Nov
9Th. liz.
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 to protect foreign
interests.
Balkan Wars.
Adrianople falls, March 26.
Scutari surrendered to Montenegro,
April %.
Peace treaty of Balkans signed in
London.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst visits the
United States, Oct. 49,
Gettysburg encampment of confed-
crate and Union veterans fifty years
after the battle Of Gettysburg, held on
July Is.
Harry X 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 Ex-
position started at San Francisco Ger
man and English governments decline
to participate.
Labor Disputes.
Indianapolis street car strike be-
gins e,;t 81
Copper strike in Michigan started