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Natural History Was . bsaeAciary to
the exteat OF es.sss.ees. That. also.
was the day ON which the Psconstruct-
ed Kiel canal vas opened By the Ger
naan kaiser. The Intsrnatioaal ESchs-
t,ss,s r,sn.s oGnrre:: Gn,1 :: opened at L0'rs'''
On september Cardinal oisesos
della Chiesa. archbishop OF Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
Piux X. The new pontiH assumed the
title OF Benedict XIV. The government
crop report. made public October .. an
nounced . record wheat harvest Of
ssi.O0o.eoe and . normal corn croD Of
2.s76. 6.8eO.0 .0ee. The worlds championship
series was won October IL by the Bos-
ton National league baseball team
On October IL one OF the most COM
prehensive financial schemes ON record
city involved the raising by the banks
of a fund of sl5e.000.o0e which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day Of October the
Panama canal was closed for traMc .
second time on account Of an earth
slide into Culebra cut.
On November the Chicago stock
epidemic of fo0t-and-mouth disease
which had already led the federal au-
thorities to establish quarantine in
eight states against the shipment OF
cattle. Later this prohibition was eX-
tended to several other states. The So
called "house Of governors" met in its
seventh annual session at Madison.
Wis. November 10.
After period of suspension covering
- weeks. brought about by the war.
the cotton exchanges Of New York and
New Orleans opened for trading on No
vember ls. The New York stock ex-
change. which was closed at the break
ing out Of hostilities. was reopened for
restricted trading November g. red
letter event in the history Of American
athletics was the formal opening Of the
great Yale bowl seating 81. 900 persons,
November 81. The annual Yale-Har.
ward football contest resulted in Har-
ward victory. 36 to o.
Among the Eminent Dead.
The record OF those who have passed
out OF the worlds activities during the
year Is Of unusual length. and 1t contains
the names OF many who had achieved dis
tinction
Among the famous men who died U
January were DR.. 8. Weir Mitchell Of
Philadelphia. scientist and novelist:
DR.. Edward Spitzka, alienist and neu-
the Japanese fleet: Shelby N. Cullom.
80 years United States senator from
Illinois. author of the interstate COM
merce law; Paul Deroulede. French poet
and political agitator: the venerable
James Addams Beaver. Civil war hero.
and ex-governor of Pennsylvania, and
Simon Boliver Buekner. whose name
ana fame have been familiar to the Amer
lean public for more than half q century,
as q lieutenant general in the Confederate
army. governor of Kentucky. candidate
for vice-president on the Gold Democratic
ticket in 1896
February's contribution to the list
includes Alphonse Bertillon. whose
clever system of measurement made
him the terror of criminals; Theodore
l. De Winnie. whose artistic efforts
revolutionixed printing: Henry NJ Tel
ler. United States senator from Colo
RADIO for 50 years. Secretary of the In
terior under President Arthur: Wis
count siuxo Aoki, first japanese am
bassador to the United States and the
earl OF Minto. former governor general
Of Canada. In March Cardinal Kopp, at
the head Of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
OF Germany; the venerable Thomas Bow
man, senior bishop Of the Methodist
church. and two Protestant Episcopal
bishops-John Scarborough of New
Jersey. and William Woodruff Niles Of
New Hampshire passed away. America
also lost George Westinghouse, whose
air brake is reputed to have saved
more lives than were sacrificed in the
Napoleonic wars. April marked the
passing of the dowager empress of Ja- ,
pan. the well-beloved Haruko; George
Alfred Townsend known widely as .
war correspondent; George F. Baer,
president of the Reading railroad. and
Samuel r. Crockett, who created The
Stickit Minister"
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. hero Of
the Civil war. died early in May Among
the other famous men and women who
died during the month were Lillian
Nordica. daughter of Maine farmer,
who became one of the worlds most
successful opera singers, especially ia
nous in Wagnerian roles: Francis Kos
suth. son of the great Hungarian pa
triot;l Charles Scadding, Episcopal
bishop Of Oregon; Sir Joseph W. Swan.
inventor of the incandescent light;
Paul Mauser inventor of the rife
bearing his name; William o. Bradley.
United States senator from Kentucky,
and the duke of Argyll.
Adlai E. Stevenson. vice-president of
the United States during the second
Cleveland administration. died June Ii.
Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich of Neck
lenburg-Strelitz George II. grand duke
OF Saxe-Meiningen. and Archduke
Franz Ferdinand. heir to the throne OF
Austria Hungary. the victim of an as
sassin. are some of the men of royal
blood who died in that month. Joseph
Chamberlain. long eminent as British
statesman. died early in July. Among
other distinguished men who died that
month were Horace II. Lurton. associ-
ate justice of the United States Supreme
court; Melville f. ingalls, of the Big
Four railroad system; Augustus Smith,
oldest graduate of Yale university. and
Paul Reclus. brilliant French scientist.
Two names among the August dead
stand out with especial prominence
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson wife of the
president of the United States, and
Pope Plus X. head of the Roman Catho-
lie church. John Philip Holland. in
ventor of the submarine: Gen. Powell
Clayton. ex-governor, ex-senator and
for half a century the most prominent
Republican of Arkansas; Robert Nc
1ntyre. bishop Of the Methodist church;
Father Francis Xavier Wernz. general
of the Jesuits, and Margaret Newton
Van Cott known everywhere as an