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

/ ton there have been but few develop
ments that could positively be desig-
mated as disappearing.
The discovery of the south pole and
1 the disaster to the Sco-1 expedition
+ both occurred IN 1912, although the
( fate Of Captain Scott was not made
/ known TO the world until 1919. DR..
Friedrich Franz friedman, discover
/ er Of a cure" for tuberculosis, made
/ his appearance in 1913, but the value
of DIR Friedmann's cure" and other
/ cures" for that dread disease an
nounced at about the same time, are
very much open to doubt. Great strides
/ have undoubtedly been made in the
| treatment of cancer, but no positive
| cure has yet been discovered, although
! much has been learned about the value
/ of radium.
I Aviation is progressing rapidly.
! Much attention to aeronautics has
been paid by the various European
| governments from a military stand
| point, but no means of making aero
! planning anywhere near safe have yet
1 been discovered. France has organized
| and trained a military aviation corps
that would unQuestionably be of great
value in case Of war, and Germany
/ has devoted much time and money to
dirigible ballooning. The United
/ States has spent some $4,000 during
the year in military experiments in
aviation.
The number Ct deaths resulting from
aviation has not been especially large.
Aviators have died just as aviators
died in 1912, and Germany suffered a
number of disastrous accidents TO Yep
pelin dirigible balloons. Many OF the
accidents of aeroplanes resulted from
fancy exhibition flying and military
experiments The year 1913 saw the
first aeropla ae flight over the Panama
canal.
On the Panama Canal.
In Panama great developments have
taken place October 10 last saw the
| dynamiting of Gamboa dixie, being the
removal OF practically the last serious
obstruction in the big ditch. The ca
nal is now almost completed. so far as
a ns-CoLtinental waterway is CON
cerned, although not yet prepared for
the passage of steamers from ocean to
ocean. Work has also been begun on
the buildings and grounds for the great
Panama-Pacific International eXpCsi-
ton, to be held in San Francisco in
1915, as a celebration of the formal
opening of the Panama canal.
New York state furnished the most
sensational bit of local politics of the
year in the impeachment and removal
of Gov. William Sulzer, followed by
Suffers nomination by Progressives
and election to the state assembly.
In the world of sports the United
States still stands supreme IN addi-
ton to humbling the British polo cup
challengers, the United States further
shocked Johnny Bull when Francis
| Ouimet, the youthful golf wonder
walked away from the English experts
in the national open golf championship
at Brookline, Mass, and by the win
| ming of the international Davis tennis
cup. America s supremacy in sports
was further recognized during the year
when King Gustave of Sweden pre-
| scented the American athletes with the
medals and trophies won at the Olym
pic games in Stockholm in 1912. The
sporting world suffered a shock, how
ever, when it was learned that Jim
Thorpe, the famous Carlisle Indian
athlete really belonged in the classi
fication OF professional" He volun
tarily renowned the trophies he had
won as an amateur in the Olympic
games.
Here are the leading events Of the
year:
Disasters, Fires, Floods.
Floods in Ohio, many killed. much
suffering and great damage done.
Floods in the Mississippi valley as 8
result OF Ohio floods.
Tornado destroys part of Omaha
Neb
Zeppelin LIZ exploded October I
Twenty killed
Gas explosion near Pittsburgh kills
100 miners.
Long Beach, Cal, pier gives way
killing 80 persons.
Disastrous floods in Texas, early
part Of October.
Firedamp in Welsh mine entombs
931 Five hundred rescued alive.
Two hundred and eighty miners en-
tombed following mine explosion al
Dawson, n. NJ. Twenty-three rescued
alive.
Steamship Nevada strikes mine y
Gulf of Smyrna. One hundred and
twenty drowned.
Steamer Volturno burned at sea DC
tober 10. One hundred and thirty-siH
drown, 625 rescued
Fifty girls die in factory fire at Bing
hamton, \. Y, July %.
Storm at Nome. Ala-ka. kills II
destroys 500 houses, s1,500,000 loss.
The Death Roll.
Enver Bey, chic of staff Turkish
army. assassinated February II.
Henry y. F1agler, one of founders
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