Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-01-08
Harvard eight-oared crew beats

Francis Ouimet wins the national
open golf championship at Brookline.
Mass, September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July 2S.
Horse racing resumed In New York
state on May so.
Jim Thorpe admits he is a profess
sional athlete and resigns Olympic
trophies, January 81.
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
New York Giants in the worlds cham
pionship baseball series, October H.
Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for
the Amorica's cup is accepted by New
York Yacht club.
Invention and Exploration.
Nihlijamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi-
ton June II.
Robert c. Fowler flies cross the
Panama canal April 81
Crocter Land Exposition sails from
New York July I'd.
DR. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum-
nit of Nit Mckinley June 20.
DR. Simon Flexner announces the
discovery of the germ of infantile
paralysis.
Arrival o. Dr. Friedrich Franz
government test OF his
tuberculosis serum started March IL
Discovery OF radium as cure for
cancer announced. doubt cast upon the
discovery by the American Associa.
tion for the Cure of Cancer.
Aviation death list in Germany for
1913 reaches so; France 81: England
10; Italy a. Russia s; Argentine Re
public 4; Japan 3; Turkey 3; Aus
tria i; Brazil l; Switzerland /; Scot
land /: Canada l; Portugal 1: Moroc-
co l; China l 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 %.
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 Hohenzollern
Mt Singmaringen. Germany
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
j. Shepard
Mexico.
General Felix Diaz released from
tior
tackled the National Palace Feb 8.
President Francisco Madero forced
10 resign and is imprisoned at the Ma
tional Palace. Mexico City
Gustnvo 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 Pino Suarez are shot down while
trying to escape"
General Nictoriano Huerta proclaim
ed provisional president of Mexico
Feb. 10.
Rise OF General Venushano Carran
"a in the north of Mexico.
Capture of Juarez and Chihuahua
Rise of General Francisco CPan
cho'0 Villa as a leader OF Carranza' e
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 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.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst visits the
| United States. Oct. 1S
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. s
courts
Steamship Aquitania to be the larg
est steamer in the world. launched in
England. April ..
Colonel Roosevelt starts on South
American hunting trip. visits Rio
Janeiro. Brazil; Sac Paulo. Brill:
Buenos Ayres. Argentine Republic
and Valparaiso Chile
Mendel Beilis tried and acnuittsd