The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-01-03

Syracuse wins the intercollegiate
regatta, June 81
Harvard eight-oared crew beats
Yale. June 20.
Francis Ouimet wins the national
open golf championship Mt Brookl!ne.
Mass. September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup.
July Is
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
New York Giants In the worlds cham
pionship baseball series. October H.
Sir Thomas Lpton's challenge for
the Americas cup il accepted by New
York Yacht club.
Invention and Exploration.
vihlijamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expsdi-
tion June II.
Robert @. Fowler niss cross the
Panama canal April 81
Crocker 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 tnfantile
paralysis.
Marriages and Ensa0smsnts.
Wedding Of Princes Victoria Louise
only daughter of the Kaiser and
Prince Ernst Of Cumberland May ~.
Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson. sec
ond daughter of the president. mar
ries Francis Bowes sayre At the
White House Nov. rs.
Engagement OF Vincent Astor to
Miss Helen Huntington announced.
Duke OF Croy marries Miss Lsish-
mann. daughter Of the American am
bassador to Germany. Oct. 27.
Prince Arthur of Connausht marries
the Duchess OF Fife. Oct. 10.
Dethroned King Manuel OF Portugal
marries the Princess Of Hohenzollesn
at Singmartngen. Germany.
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
j Shepard.
Mexico.
General Felix Diax 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. -.
President Madero and vice-Presi-
dent Ptno Suarez are shot down while
irving 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 ("Pan.
cho") villa as a leader Of Carranxa's .
Constitutionalists in the north Of
Mexico.
Felix D!az 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.
Miseeli~ neous.
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 X. Thaw. slayer OF Stanford
White. escaped from Matteawan In.
sane asylum and fees to Canada He
Is elected from Canada and seeks ref.
uEe 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. Brizil i;