Cheyenne record., 1914-12-31


basis Of payment to supersede the one
already in use On the following day the
Yorkshire coal miners, to the numper OF
10000 men, went on strike 10 support
their demand for q minimum wage. June
II strike among the west virginia coaI
miners, which had been on since the pre-
yious September, was declared on, the
miners waving recognition of the union
In order to obtain other important con-
cessons. On July II the federal board
of mediation and conciliation 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 property 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 thousand persons. Dur
ing a performance at moving picture
theater at Surabaya. Java. rs women and
children were burned to death. The
steamer Monroe. from Norfolk to New
York city, was rammed by the Nantucket
during a night fog of Cape Charles, jan
uary 30. and Al persons were lost. On
March IA 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 21 the sealing steamer
Newfoundland stranded on an Ice foe
in the Strait Of Belle Isle and IT Of
her crew were frozen to death. The
same day the steamer Southern Cross
and her crew disappeared. On April
% an explosion in a mine shaft at
Eccles. w. Va. caused the death of $50
miners. Early in May Sicily was Wis
bod Hxyo io0 Nf CHI hioh
great damage along the eastern coast.
The stea mship Empress of Ireland was
struck by the Norwegian collier Stor-
stad in the st. Lawrence river, May 20.
and sank almost Immediately. more
than thousand passengers losing their
lives. May 3O Capt. Robert A. Bartlett Of
the Stefansson arctic expedition returned
to st. Michael Alaska, with the news that
the Karluk sank. January II, after having
been crushed by ice, and that her crew
was marooned on Wrangel Island. On
September 7. eight members of this crew
We're found by a rescuing party. On
June 10 more than two hundred miners
were lost by an explosion in a coal mine
near Alberta, Canada. A fire at Salem,
Mass. June Is. destroyed half of the city,
including several thousand homes and
many large industrial establishments. In
this month. also. American consuls in va
rious Chinese cities reported that floods in
southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 100000 persons homeless On
September IS the Francis H. Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel of
the Oregon coast and 70 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 at
Orange. N; j.. was destroyed by fire on
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm of ]. p.
Morgan & Co. announced the with
drawal OF its members from director
ships in 81 large corporations. thus
complying with the governments new
regulation condemning interlocking d.
rectorates. On January Harvard uni
versity and the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology arranged to combine
their engineering departments. On
February 10 Andrew Carnegie gave
100000 toward the propaganda car.
ried on by the Church Peace union. On
April 13 the International Surgical
congress met at New York city. Water
was let into the new canal across Cape
Cod on April 21 This canal shortens the
distance by water between Boston and
New York by seventy miles and cuts out
the danger of rounding the cape in stormy
weather. The canal was formally opened
July 90.
President Wilson's youngest daugh-
married. May 7. at the White House, to
William Gibbs McAdoo. secretary Of the
Treasury. The Norwegians celebrated
the centennial of the separation OF
Norway from Denmark on May Is. On
May IS the Panama canal was opened
for barge traffic. The English Derby
was won by DurGar III, a horse be-
longing to an American, Herman B.
Duryea. on May 27. The monument
erected by the Daughters of the Con-
federacy in the national cemetery at
Arlington was unveiled June 4.
On June 16 England captured the in
ternational polo championship at
Meadowbrook, N. Y. 1t was made pub
lie on June "a that Mrs. Morris X. Jesup
had bequeathed sS.5O0.00O to public in
stitutions. The American Museum of
Natural History was a beneficiary to
the extent of $5.O00OO0. That. also,
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed kiel canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser.
On September Cardinal Giacomo
was elected pope to succeed the late
PiuX X. The new pontiff assumed the
title of Benedict XIV. The government
crop report. made public October g. all
nounced a record wheat harvest of
S92,OOo.OOO and a normal corn crop Of
2.676. 900. The worlds championship
series was won October 13 by the Bos-
ton National league baseball team.
On october IA one of the most COM
prehensiVe financial schemes on record
formulated by bankers at New York
city involved the raising by the banks
or fund of $150.OOO.OOO which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day of October the
Panama canal was closed for traffic a