Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-01-02

Opon BoiI championship NJ brOOklinc,
Mass. September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July 2s
Horse racing resumed in New York
state on May 30.
Jim Thorpe admits he is a profes.
sional athlete and resigns Olympic
trophies. January q.
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.
Vihlijamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi-
ton June H.
Robert q. Fowler nies cross the
Panama canal April "a.
Croker Land Exposition sails from
New York July I'd.
DR.. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum.
init of Mt. Mckinley June 20.
DR.. Simon F1exner announces the
discovery OF the germ Of infantile
paralysis.
Arrival Of DR.. Friedrich Franz
Friedmann-governme test Of his
tuberculosis serum started March IL.
Discovery OF radium as a cure for
cancer announced, doubt cast upon the
discovery by the American Associa.
ton for the Cure OF Cancer.
Aviation death list in Germany for
1913 reaches 80; France 81; England
10; Italy 4; Russia s; Argentine Re
public 4; Japan 3; Turkey 8; Aus.
tria 1; Brazil 4; Switzerland /; Scot.
land 1; Canada 1; Portugal 1; Moroc.
CO 1; China 1 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. 20.
Engagement of Vincent Aston to
Miss Helen Huntington announced.
Duke of Croy marries Miss Leish-
bassador to Germany. Oct. o.
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
J. 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.
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
"a In the north OF Mexico.
Capture Of Juarez and Chihuahua.
Rise of General Francisco CPan.
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 to protect foreign
interests.
Balkan Wars.
Adrlanople falls, March 26.
Scutari surrendered to Montenegro,
April 90.
Peace treaty of Balkans signed in
London.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst visits the
United States, Oct. 10.
Gettysburg encampment OF confed.
crate and Union veterans fifty years
after the battle of Gettysburg held on
July 1-5.
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. 8.
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"