The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-01-01

H. Convention; Trleklial convention or
the Worlds W c. +. L. met in Brook
lyn.
Sporting: Dartmouth college football
team defeated Princeton university. 6
to 0, ut Princeton. Carlisle Indians
tied with Pennsylvania in football at
Philadelphia; score to !,
Mexico: Mexican rebels constitutional
ists) captured Monterey after a days
battle
n. Personal: katherine Elkins, once be-
trothed to the Duke OF the Abruzzl. the
explorer, married to w I. r. HIT
Is. Mexico Gen. Felix Diaz. political rival
of Gen. Huerta, given refuge on a
United States warship at Vera Cruz.
NOVEMBER.
/. Sporting: Cornell defeated at football
by Harvard. q to 8. at Cambridge.
Mass.
I. Obituary: DR.. Charles McBurney, noted
specialist in appendicitis, at Brookiine
Mass.
EARTHQUAKES Shocks in Peru wrecked the
city of Abancay. killing 800 persons.
4 Political Ludwig Ill. took the oath
as king of Bavaria
Sporting: Yale defeated Brown at foot
ball, II to o. at New Haven. Dart
mouth won over Pennsylvania at foot
ball "a to q, at Philadelphia. Harvard
beat Princeton In the annual football
game to 0. at Princeton.
Storm: Fierce blizzard swept the mid
die west and lake region; vessels
wrecked and property destroyed; over
200 lives lost; snow Il inches deep In
Cleveland.
TO- Convention: American Federation of
Labor met at Seattle, Wash National
Association of Good Roads met In St
Louis.
Ii. Mexico. The premier OF Great Britain
announced that his government would
uphold the Mexican policy of the Unit
ed States.
Conventions Daughters of the Confed-
eracy met at New Orleans.
IL Political Chinese parliament suspend
ed.
Railroad Accident: II killed and over 100
injured in "a wreck on the Central OF
Georgia railroad near Eufala, Ala.
H. Financial Troubles; II. b. Honins Il
Co, noted banking house OF New York,
failed with liabilities estimated as high
as 100000; assets $4,000.
is. Mexico: Mexican rebels Constitution
alists) captured Juarez from the fed
erals.
Sporting: Carlisle Indians defeated Dart
mouth by IS to 10 at football In New
York. Michigan defeated Pennsylva-
MIA at football. Is to 0. at Ann Arbor,
Mich. Chicago won a l3 to 7 victory
over Minneapolis at football in Min
neapolis Yale Princeton annual foot
ball game a tie at New Haven; score
8 to 8.
49, Mexico Aldape, Mexican minister of
the interior. resigned.
II. Panama Canal: Steam tug Louise. with
official party on board, passed through
the canal from ocean to ocean.
IIor rd n n foot
ball victory over Brown at Cambridge
Mass
Mexico Rebels captured Victoria, cap
ital of Tamaulipas.
Convention: Atlantic Deeper Waterways
association opened at Jacksonville Fla.
National conservation congress met In
Washington.
o. Sporting: Chicago defeated Wisconsin
at Chicago, capturing the conference
football championship; score 10 to o.
Harvard defeated Yale, is to 8, at Cam
bridge
Is Personal: Jessie Woodrow Wilson, sec
ond daughter of the president, married
to Francis Bowes Sayre In the White
House at Washington.
Mexico Mexican rebels defeated the fed
erals at TERRA Blanca, near Juarez;
losses estimated at 1900 federals and
800 rebels,
26 Aviation: Glenn L. Martin made new
American record by carrying passen-
Angeles Cal.
Naval: England launched the super
Dreadnought Warspte, greatest bat
tleshlp In the world.
r. Mexico: Rebels captured Mazatlan, on
the west coast.
Sporting. Cornell defeated Pennsylvania
at football, p to 0. In Philadelphia
g. Financial: New York Real Estate Sc
curities company failed with liabilities
amounting to sl6000,000.
o. Sporting: Army defeated Navy In the
annual football game in New York;
score 20 to 9.
30 Conventions National Woman Suffrage
association met In Washington.
DECEMBER.
T. Political: President Wilson's annual
message to congress advocated direct
election OF president and a waiting pol
icy In Mexican affairs. The Barthou
ministry in France resigned after de-
feat by a majority of rs votes.
Floods. Rising waters in southern Texas
began work of destruction which
caused a loss of over 100 lives and
damage amounting to $6,0000 900.
g. Fire: % deaths in the burning of the
Arcadia hotel Boston
Political: The house of representatives
passed a bill authorizing 242,000 volun-
teers subject to the order of the presi'
dent
s. Storm: Snow fell In central Colorado
to the depth of %5 inches, blocking
railroad traffic.
Shipwreck: Swedish steamer Malmber-
get foundered OFF Bodo. Norway; Il
lives lost.
Obituary: Lieut.. Col David du Bose
Gaillard, u. 8. A, an engineer conspic-
uous on the Culebra cut OF the Panama
canal, In Baltimore: aged "a
g. Panama Canal: Gatun dam completed
after six years labor.
Political: National senate passed the
Hetch Hetchy valley bill converting
the domain into reservoir.
Obituary: Phoebe w. Couzins, author
and lecturer, In St. Louis. aged 70.
g. Anniversary: Centenary of Hollands
revolt against Napoleon Bonaparte eel
ebrated by historical pageantry.
Sporting: Georges Carpenter, French
champion boxer, defeat ed Bombardler
Wells OF England in the LIST round in
London.
O. Mexico: Mexican congress annulled the
October elections and named Huerts
provisional president pending new cleo
ton In June. 1914.
10. Personal: Nobel peace prize for 1917
valued at $4,000 awarded to Senator
Elihu Root OF New York.
Financial: New York. New Haven and
Hartford railroad suspended dividend
payment.
Mexico Federal congress authorized loan
of $50oO0.0O0 and voted extraordinary
powers to Huerta, 1900 rebels attacked
Tampico,
II. Mexico: Fighting continued at Tam
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under guns OF United States warships
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