River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-01-08

open golf championship at Brookline,
Mass, September 90.
| America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July %.
Horse racing resumed in New York
state on May 80.
Jim Thorpe admits he is a profes-
sional athlete and resigns Olympic
trophies. January q.
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
New York Giants in the worlds cham
| pionship baseball series, October IL.
Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge foI
the Americas cup is accepted by New
| York Yacht club.
Invention and Exploration.
Vihlijamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi
ton June IL.
Robert G. Fowler flies cross the
Panama canal April q.
Croker Land Exposition sails from
| New York July. I'd.
DIR. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum
nit of Mt. Mckinley June 90
DR.. Simon Flexner announces the
| discovery of the germ of infantilt
! paralysis.
Arrival of DR.. Friedrich Franz
Friedmann-gove 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
ton for the Cure of Cancer.
Aviation death list in Germany fol-
1913 reaches 80; France 81; England
10; Italy A.; Russia s.; Argentine Re
public 4; Japan 3; Turkey 3; Aus
land L; Canada /; Portugal / Moroc
! co /; China ] and United States Is.
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. 25.
/ Engagement of Vincent Aston tC
Miss Helen Huntington announced.
Duke of Croy marries Miss Leish
mann, daughter of the American am
| bassador to Germany, Oct. q.
Prince Arthur of Connaught marries
the Duchess of Fife, Oct. IS.
Dethroned King Manuel of Portugal
nlarries the Princess of Hohenzollern
at Singmaringen, Germany.
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
J. Shepard.
Mexico.
General Felix Diaz released from
penitentiary in Mexico City and at
tackled the National Palace, Feb. 6.
President Francisco Madero forced
to resign and is imprisoned at the Ma
tional Palace, Mexico City.
Gustavo Madero, President Ma
deros 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 Vice1Presi
dent Pine Suarez are shot down while
trying to escape"
General Victoriano Huerta proclaim
ed provisional president Of Mexico
Feb 10.
Rise Of General Venustiano Carran
"a in the north of Mexico.
Capture of Juarez and Chihuahua.
Rise OF General Francisco ("Pan
cho'') Villa as a leader Of Carranza's
| Constitutionalists in the north OF
Mexico.
Felix Diaz stabbed in Havana, Nov
9Th
President Woodrow Wilson declines
to recognize Huerta as Constitutions
president of Mexico.
Mexican rebels fail in attack ar
Tampico, but resume assault.
United States battleship feet and
international squadron gather at Vera
Cruz and Tampico to protect foreign
interests.
Balkan Wars.
Adrianople falls, March &c.
Scutari surrendered to Montenegro
April %.
Peace treaty of Balkans signed II
London.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst visits thu
| United States, Oct. IS.
| Gettysburg encampment of cOnfed
crate and Union veterans fifty years
after the battle of Gettysburg, held OF
July is.
Harry K. Thaw, slayer Of Stanford
White, escaped from Matteawan In
sane asylum and fees to Canada. HI
is elected from Canada and seeks ref
uge in New Hampshire, where th'
case is still pending in the U. S
courts.
Steamship Aquitania to be the larg
est steamer in the world, launched il
England, April 2.
| Colonel Roosevelt starts on Soutl
American hunting trip, visits Ri'
Janeiro, Brazil; Sac Paulo, Brill
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic
and Valparaiso, Chile.
Mendel Bells tried and acquitted
OF ritual murder at the "Holy City
of Kiev, Russia.
Gamboa dixie last obstruction in tn,
Panama Canal blown up with dyna
mite on Oct. 10th.
Buildings of the Panama-Pacific Elk
position started at San Francisco. Ger
man and English governments DECLINE
to participate.
Labor Disputes.
Indianapolis street car strike be
gins Oct. 81.
Copper strike in Michigan started
July %.
Prisoners in the Indianapolis dyna