River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-12-24
THE RECORD Of
IN DIARY FORM
Shipwrecks, Accidents,
Storms and Fires. Sporting
Events and Conventions
OF the World

United States flag
~ Mexico. President Wilson delivered
Warlike message on the Mexican sit
uation and received authority to use
force against Huerta Americans
warned to leave Mexico
Labor Troubles In riot al Ludlow
mining colony. Colorado. 26 persons
were killed.
Convention: Daughters of the American
Revolution met In Washington
n Mexico: American Warships captured
Vera Cruz, losing II killed and 81
wounded, Mexican loss. 126 killed 1876
wounded.
g Mexico. United States troops ordered
to Vera Cruz Head Of the United
States legation left the Mexican cap
itaL
IS. Mexico. Argentina. Brazil and Chile
offered to mediate between the United
States and Mexico.
70 Fire: Fire in Baltimore caused a loss
of $1.35O0OO
Il Mexico: Mexico accepted mediation
g. Mining Disaster Mine explosion and
fire entombed 2O8 miners at EccIes.
w Va
8 Obituary: Gen Daniel Sickles. noted
Federal corps commander and Get
tysburg hero in New York city: aged
S.
Convention United Confederate Vet
Grams met at Jacksonville. Fla
l. Personal. Eleanor Wilson. daughter
OF the president. married in the White
House to William Gibbs McAdoo
10 Obituary: Nine. Lillian Nordica. not
ed singer at Batavia, island of Java:
aged So
II War Victims Memorial exercises to
United States sailors killed at Vera
Cruz at the Brooklyn navy yard,
President Wilson took a leading part
l3 Mexico. Rebels captured Tampico.
Is Explosion: ia men killed by explosion
OF chemicals at Detroit, Mich
I8 Panama Canal: Regular barge serv-
ice began in the Panama canal
20 Mexico: Mexican federal army evac-
uated Saltillo: rebels occupied the
city
Mexico: Mexican mediation congress
met at Niagara Falls
8 Convention: American Library aSso-
citation met in Washington.
Obituary: Francis Kossuth. son Of the
great Hungarian patriot, Louis Kos
suth in Budapest, Hungary; aged 73
Political: BY a majority vote of II the
Irish home rule bill passed the Brit
ish parliament
&c Obituary, Jacob A Riis. author and
reformer. at Barre, Mass
Sporting Buskin won the Metropolitan
handicap at Belmont park
% Sporting: Durbar H.. an American
owned horse won the British Derby
at EPSON downs.
Is Sporting: Francis Ouimet American
open golf champion, won the amateur
championship of France at Versailles.
Disaster al Sea: Steamship Empress Of
Ireland rammed and sunk by the col
lier Storstad off Father Point gulf
#
board. 452 were saved, 1.0A drowned.
JUNE.
T. Obituary Theodore Watts Dunton,
poet. novelist and critic, close friend
of the late Algernon Charles Swim
burne. in London; aged g..
s. Panama Canal: The 1900 ton steam
ship Alliance passed through the Ga
tun locks of the Panama canal on
test
Storm: Hail and snow. the latter 272
inches deep, fell in Paris.
TO- Convention: Biennial convention OF
the General Federation of Womens
Clubs opened in Chicago
II. Sporting: Mary Browne and Mrs Rob-
ert Williams won the women's dou-
bles tennis championship at Philadel-
phia: score, So, 6-2
L. Obituary: Adlai Ewing Stevenson.
vice president Of the United States,
1887, in Chicago: aged 70.
IA Volcano: Lassen peak California,
supposed extinct volcano suddenly
awoke and sent up clouds OF rock.
smoke, fire and ashes
L. Conventions National Society OF
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton met at Minneapolis.
Storm: Terrific thunderstorm in Paris
caused a loss of life and great dam
age to property: sewers and subway
were flooded and chasms opened in
the streets
Political: Panama tolls exemption re-
peal bill became a law.
Is. Sporting: English polo team won the
prize cup defeating the American
team TO "a at Meadowbrook. N Y
lS Obituary: Frank Hiscock. former
United States senator and political
colleague of the late Thomas c. Platt
in his heyday. in Syracuse. NJ T.;
aged 70
10 Sporting Yale won the varsity eight
defeating Harvard 1-5 second, at New
London, Conn
20. Aviation Disaster: 8 military air men
killed in a mimic attack OF an aero
plane ora q dirigible ship at Vienna
Austria
II Obituary: Baroness Bertha Won SUIT,
ner Austrian writer on peace and
winner of the Nobel peace prize In
1906 in Vienna. aged IL
20 Storm: Tornado at Watertown. S, D
killed 9 persons and injured 40 others
Sporting. Buckhorn defeated Buskin IL
the Brooklyn handicap on the AQue
duct course New York
"a Kiel Canal The reconstructed Kiei
canal opened by the German emperor
William IL
3 Mexico: A c. mediators signed
peace protocol at Niagara Falls The
d,nR icin al
government in Mexico and its recog
milton by the Cnited States and the
mediating powers. Argentina. Brazil
and Chile.
Financial Troubles: Fl. q. Claflin &
Co., great wholesale dry goods con
Germ, also holding company for nu-'
merous retail stores. placed in hands
of receivers with liabilities of S34.
10000.
vs. Fire: In Salem. Mass, caused a loss
Of about $4,000. 600: 10000 people made
homeless.
Sporting: Columbia crew won the var
sity race at Poughkeepsie leaving
Pennsylvania second and Cornell
third: time, 10 minutes 81 AS seconds.
IS Sporting: Sardanople won the Grand
Prix de Paris. the turf classic of
France. at Paris. With purse of