Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1914-12-31


were closed down on account az tie fall
IRE 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
176,o00 men, went on strike to support
their demand for a minimum wage. June
| u 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 Juiy II the federal board
OF mediation and Cancellation again proved
| its ability as d peacemalxer. The engineers
and firemen OF nEety-eight Western rail-
roads accepted the mediation Of the board.
Casualties on Land and Sea.
Early in January the second phenon-
| email storm Of the season added largely 20
the destruction or property along the
| ocean front OF New Jersey and Long Is
| land. On January H. 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 a moving picture
/ theater at surabaya, Java rs women and
/ children were burned to death. The
/ steamer Monroe. from Norfolk to New
| York city, was rarnmed by the Nantucket
| during night fog Off Cape Charles, JAN
unry 90, and Az persons were lost. On
| March IA more than a thousand persons
lost their lives during storm which
| flooded several towns in Southern Russia,
and about the same time many persons
were killed by an earthquake st Akita.
| Japan, $50
On March I'll the sealing steamer
Newfoundland stranded on an ice foe
In the Strait of Belle Isle and n of
| her crew were frozen to death. The
1 a al
and her crew disappeared. On April
2s an explosion in @ mine shaft at
| EccIes. w Va, caused the death OF 1870
| miners, Early In May Sicily was Wis
| tied by a series of shocks which did
great damage along the eastern coast.
The steamship Empress of Ireland was
struck by the Norwegian collier Etor-
stad in the st. Lawrence river, May 90,
and sank almost Immediately, more
than thousand passengers losing their
| lives May 30. 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 mHrooned on Wrangel Island On
September Z. eight members of this crew
were 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 I'm va
rioas Chinese cities reported that foods In
southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 1000 600 persons homeless On
September IS the Francis H. Leggett
| colhded with an unknown vessel or
the Oregon coast and 70 OF her passen-
gers and crew were lost In October
M xRth ali Tn n
more than 5000 persons in a few min
utes.
Edison's great electrical plant at
Orange, N, J.. was destroyed by fire on
December g.
Notable Events.
Early in January the firm of J. p.
Morgan G. Co. announced the with
drawal of It's members from director
ships In 81 large corporations, thus
complying with the governments new
regulation eondemning interloeking di-
rectorates. On January 3 Harvard uni
versfty and the Massachusetts, Institute
Of Technology arranged to combine
their engineering departments, On
February 10 Andrew Carnegie gave
$4,000 600 toward the propa gaSitazt ear
rfed on by the Church Peace union. On
April 10 the International Surgical
congress met at New York city. Water
was let into the new canal across Cane
Cod on April 81. This canal shortens the
distance by water between Boston and
New York by seventy miles and cuts out
the danger Of rounding the cape I'm stormy
weather. The canal was formally opened
July o.
President Wilson's youngest daugh-
ter, Eleanor Randolph Wilson was
married, May Z, at the White House, to
William Gibbs McIAdoo, secretary OF che
Treasury. The Norwegians celebrated
thN al ~ a
Norway from Denmark on May 10. On
May rs the Panama canal was open sd
for barge traffic. The English Derby
was won by Durbar III, horse BE-
longing to an American. Herman II.
Duryea. on May ~. The monument
erected by the Daughters OF the Con-
federacy in the national cemetery at
Arlington was unveiled June 4.
On June 10 England captured the in
ternattonaf polo championship at
Meadowbrook, n, Y. II was made pub
lie on June "a that Mrs. Morris K. Jesup
had beaueathed $500, 900 TO public in
stitutions. The American Museum of
Natural History was q beneficiary to
the extent OF 81, 0e0, 600. That, also,
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed KEEL canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser af
On September & Cardinal Giacomo
della Chiesa, archbishop OF Bologna,
WaS ~AeSteI pope TO succeed the late
Piux X. The new pontiff assumed the
title OF Benedict XIV. The government
crop report, made public October s. an
nounced record wheat harvest OF
sa2.e0o,oe0 and normal corn crop of
s1,696.0oo. GOO. The worlds championship
series was won October IL 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 $500 900 which ives TO
DE loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day OF October the |
Panama canal was closed for trafflo a |
second time on account OF an earth |
slide into Culebra cut.
On November 6 the Chicago stock
yards were closed on account OF an
epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease
which had already led the federal au-
thorities to establish quarantine In
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 fts
seventh annual session at Madison.
Wis, November 10.
After a period OF suspension covering
rs weeks. brought about by the war.
the cotton exchanges OF New York ana