The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-12-31

basis OF payment to supersede the one
already in use. On the following day the
York shire coal miners, TO the number OF
10 900 men. went on strike to support
their demand for a minimum wage. June
T. a strike among the West Virginia coal
miners. which had been on since the pre-
vious September, was declared off. the
miners waving recognition of the union
in order to obtain other important con-
cessions On July Il the federal boa rd
of mediation and conciliation again proved
its ability as a peaCemaker. The engineers
and flremeu 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. Japanese vol
cano on Saltura Island burst suddenly in
to activity and destroyed three towns and
killed more than n Thousand persons. Dur
ing a performance at moving picture
theater at SurabaYa Java. 20 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 of Cape Charles. Jan
uary so. and Al persons were lost. On
March II more than a thousand persons
! lost their lives during n storm which
| flooded several towns in southern Russia.
and about the same time many persons
! were killed by an earthquake at AlNta.
, Japan.
On March 81 the sealing steamer
Newfoundland stranded on an ice foe
| in the Strait Of Belle Isle and Il 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 al
! Eccles. w. Va. caused the death of lSt
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 80
| and sank almost Immediately more
! than a thousand passengers losing theil
| lives. May 20. Capt. Robert y. Bartlett OF
| tho StefansSon arctic expedition returned
| TO ST Michael Alaska, with the news that
the Karuk sank. January II, after having
! been crushed 10y ice. and that her crew
| was marooned on Wrangcl Island. Or
| September Z. eight members OF this crew
were found by n rcscuing party. or
| June 10 more than two hundred minors
! were lost by an explosion in a coal mine
near Alberta. Canada. \ 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 nnods ii
| southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 1900 600 persons homeless or
| September is the Francis ii. Leggeu
| Collided with an unknown vessel of
the Oregon coast and - of her passcn.
gers ana crow were lost. In October
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 5000 persons in d few min.
uteS
Edison's great electrical plant n
! Orange. y. j was destroyed by fire OF
| December 9.
Notable Events.
| Early in January the firm of J. =
Morgan co. announced the with
d1awal OF its members from director.
ships in 27 large corporations, thus
complying with the governments new
regulation condemping interlockinE di.
rectorates. on January 9 Harvard uni.
versity and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology arranged to combine
their engineering departments. or
February 10 Andrew Carnegie gay,
So. 900 900 toward the propaganda car
rfed on by the Church Peace union On
April 13 the international Surgica
congress met at New York city. Wate
was let into the. new canal across Cap.
Cod on April q. This canal shortens tn
New York by seventy miles and cuts ou
the danger Of rounding the cape in storm,
weather The canal was formally opene,
July 80
President Wilson's youngest dauRh
ter, Eleanor Randolph Wilson. wai
married. May 7, at the White House, Il
William Gibbs McAdoo secretary OF tn,
Treasury The NorwtGians celebrate,
the centennial OF the separation o
Norway from Denmark on May 10 or
| May 18 the Panama canal was opened
for barge traffic. The English Derb,
was won by Durhar III Il horse be
longing to an American. Herman Il
Duryea. on MAY -. The monumon
erected by the Daughters OF the Con
federacy in the national cemetery "a
| Arlington WAS unveiled June d.
On June &c England captured the in
ternational polo championship a
MeadowbroOk ~ y. II was made pub.
lie on June "A that Mrs. Morris *. JesuI
had bequeathed $500. 900 to public in
stitutions. The American Museum e;
Natural History was beneficiary ts
the extent of $4,000 600. That. also
was the day on which the reconstruct.
ed Kiel canal was opened by the Ger.
man kaiser.
On September 3 Cardinal Giacom,
della Chiesa, archbishop OF Bologna
was elected pope to succeed the late
Piux Y. The new pontif assumed the
title Of Benedict XIV. The government
crop report. made public October s. an.
nounced record wheat harvest OF
SS2 900. 600 and a normal corn crop OF
2.676. .000, 600. The worlds cha rnpionshiI
series was won October 13 by the Bos.
ton National league baseball team.
| On October IA one of the most com
prchensive financial schemes on recoro
formulated by bankers at New York
city involved the raising by the banks
Of fund OF sl50000 900 which was tc
be loaned upon warehouse receipts foI
cotton. On the last day of October tk'
Panama canal was closed for ira fic 2
second time on account of an earti
slide into Culebra cut.
On November 6 the Chicago stock
yards were closed on account of ar
epidemic OF foot a nd mouth disea -
which had already led the federal al
thorities to esta blish quarantine iT
eight states against the shipment OF
cattle. Later this prohibition was ex-
tended to several other states. The SO:
called house Of governors" met in its
seventh annual session at Madison
wis. November 10.
After period Of suspension covering
Is weeks, brought about by the war
| the cotton exchanges OF New York nj
New Orleans opened for trading on No
Verlber 1G. The New York stock ex.
change, which was closed al the break.
| ing ont Of loStilitiec rennapa1 60,