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were closed down on account of the fall
ure to unite on an agreement as to a
basis of payment TO supersede the one
already In use. On the following day the
Yorkshire coal miners, to the number of
10000 men. went on strike to support
their demand for a minimum wage June
IL a strike among the West Virginia coal
miners. which had been on since the pre-
vious September, was declared of, the
miners waving recognition of the union
in order to obtain other important con-
cessions. On July II the federal board
of mediation and Cancellation again proved
its ability as a peacemaker. The engineers
and firemen of ninety-eight. Western rail-
roads accepted the mediation of the board.
Casualties on Land and Sea.
Early in January the second phenom-
email storm of the season added largely to
the destruction of roperty along the
ocean front of New Jersey and Long Is
land. On January II. a Japanese vol
cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly in
to activity and destroyed three towns and
killed more than a thousand persons. Dur
Ing a performance at a moving picture
theater at Surabaya, Java. IS women and
children We're burned 10 death. The
steamer Monroe, from Norfolk TO New
York city. was rammed by the Nantucket
during a night fog off Cape Charles. jan
uary 80, and Al persons were lost. On
March IL more than a thousand persons
lost their lives during a storm which
flooded several towns in Southern Russia.
and about the same time many persons
were killed by an earthquake at Akita,
Japan.
On March 81 the sealing steamer
Newfoundland stranded on an ice foe
in the Strait of Belle Isle and II OF
her crew were frozen to death. The
same day the steamer southern Gross
and her crew disappeared. On April
2S an explosion in a mine shaft at
Eccles, w. Va. caused the death of 1st
miners. Early in May Sicily was Wis.
tied by a series of shocks which die
great damage along the eastern coast
The steamship Empress Of ireland was
struck by the Norwegian collier Stor-
stad In the st. Lawrence river, May 20
and sank almost Immediately, more
than a thousand passengers losing then
lives. May 80, Capt. Robert A. Bartlett OF
the Stefansson arctic expedition returned
to ST. Michael. Alaska, with the news that
the Karluk sank. January IL. after having
been crushed by ice, and that her crew
was marooned on Wrangel Island. Or
| September Z. eight members of this crew
| were found by a rescuing party. Or
June 10 more this u two hundred miners
were lost by an explosion in a coal mine
near Alberta, Canada. a fire at Salem
Mass. June %, destroyed halt OF the city
including several thousand homes anc
many large Industrial establishments. II
this month, also, American consuls In va.
rious Chinese cities reported that floods In
southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 1900. 600 persons homeless. Or
September Is the Francis H.. Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel on
the Oregon coast and ~ of her passen-
gers and crew were lost. In october
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 5000 persons in "A few min.
utes.
Edison's great electrical plant a
Orange, ". j., was destroyed by fire or
December g.. .
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm of j. p
| Morgan & Co. announced the with,
drawal of its from director.
ships in 81 large corporations, thu,
complying with the governments new
regulation condemning interlocking di
rectorates. On January 3 Harvard uni
versity and the Massachusetts Institut'
of Technology arranged to combin'
their engineering departments. on
February 10 Andrew Carnegie CAV
50, 000, 900 toward the propaganda car
ried on by the Church Peace union. o.
April l3 the international Surgica
congress met at New York city. Waite
! was let INTO the new Canal across Cap
Cod on April q. This canal shortens tn
distance by water between Boston an
New York by seventy miles and cuts on
the danger OF rounding the cape in storm,
weather. The canal was formally opene,
July 20.
President Wilson's youngest daugh
ter. Eleanor Randolph Wilson. wa
married, May Z, at the White House. {
william Gibbs McAdoo. secretary Of IN
| uN~..nr.r yrhA Nnrx,rauXa, NC m. -, 90
the centennial of the separation O
Norway from Denmark Or May IS. Or
May IS the Panama canal. was opene,
for barge traffic. The English Derb,
was won by Durbar III. a horse be
Tor ging to an American. Herman II
Duryea. on May 81. The u
erected by the Daughters Of the Con
federacy in the national cemetery a
Arlington was unveiled June 4.
On June l6 England captured the in
t%ernational polo championship a
Meadowbrook. y. Y. 1T was made M
lie on une "a that Mrs. Morris X. Jesul
had bequeathed IS. 500, 900 to public in
stitutions. The American. Museum q
Natural History was "A beneficiary Z,
the extent of IS, 900. 600. That. also
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed Kiel canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser.
IN September 3 Cardinal Giacom,
della Chiesa, archbishop OF Bologna
was elected pope TO succeed the lat,
Piux " The new pontif assumed tn,
title Of Benedict XIV. The government
crop report. made public October s. an,
nounccd a record wheat harvest o.
49,, 600, 900 and a normal corn crop o.
2.676, 900. 900. The worlds championship
series was won October 10 by the Bos'
ton National league baseball team.
On October IA one OF the most com
p~rehensive financial schemes on record
formulated by bankers at New YorI
city involved the raising by the bank.
of a fund Of $3.50, 000, 900 which was I,
be oaned upon warehouse receipts fol
cotton. On the last day of October TIA,
Panama canal was closed for traffic &
second time IN account of an eartl
slide into Culebra cut.
On November 6 the Chicago stock
yards were closed on account of az
epidemic OF foot-and-mouth diseas,
which had already led the federal an.
thorities to establish quarantine II
eight states against the shipment o.
cattle. Later this prohibition was ex.
tended to several other states. The so.
called house of governors met in IL,
seventh annual session at Madison
Wis, November 10.
After a period of suspension covering
Is weeks. brought about by the war
the cotton exchanges of New York ant
New Orleans opened for trading on No.
vember Is. Tho New York stock ex.
change, which was closed at the break
ing out of hostilities. was reopened 70,
restricted trading November 2S. A red
letter event In the history of American