Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-01-08

| regatta, June 1A.,
Harvard eightoared crew beats
Yale, June 20.
Francis 0uimet wins the national
open golf championship at Brookline.
Mass, September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup.
July 2S.
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
New York Giants in the worlds cham
pionship baseball series, October II.
Sir Thomas Liptons challenge for
the Americas cup is accepted by New
York Yacht club.
invention and Exploration.
Vihlijamar Stefansson sails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedl-
ton June II.
Robert G. Fowler flies cross the
Panama canal April q.
Crocker Land Exposition sails from
New York July I'd.
DR.. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum-
NIT Of Mt. Mckinley June 20.
DR.. Simon Flexner announces the
discovery CT the germ Of infantile
paralysis.
Marriages and Engagements.
Wedding OF Princes Victorla.Louice.
only daughter Of the Kaiser end
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. rs.
Engagement OF Vincent Astor to
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
marries the Princess Of Hohen2ollern
at Singmaringen. Germany.
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
]. Shepard.
Mexico.
General Felix Diaz released from
penitentiary in Mexico City ind at.
tackled the National Palace, Fob. 6.
President Francisco Madero forced
to resign and is imprisoned at the Ma
tional Palace. Mexico City.
Gustavo Madero, President Ma
dero's 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 Dfaz Feb 10.
President Madero and Vice-Presi-
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 c'Pan.
cho') Villa as q leader of-Carranza's
Constitutionalists in the north CT
Mexico.
Felix Diaz stabbed in Havana, Nov.
9Th.
President Woodrow Wilson declines
to recognize Huerta as Constitutional
president Of Mexico.
Mexican rebels fail in attack on
Tampico, but resume assault.
United States battleship fleet and
international squadron gather at Vera
CRUZ and Tampico to protect foreign
interests.
Balkan Wars.
Adrianople falls, March rs.
Scutari surrendered to Montenegro.
April %.
Peace treaty Of Balkans signed in
London.
MlscellS neous.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst visits the
United States, Oct. Is.
Gettysburg encampment Of confed-
crate and Union veterans fifty years
after the battle of Gettysburg, held on
July is.
Harry K. Thaw. slayer of Stanford
White. escaped from Matteawan In
sane asylum and fees to Canada. He
is elected from Canada and seeks ref.
uge in New Hampshire, where the
case is still pending in the U. s.
courts.
Steamship Aquitania to be the larg.
est steamer in the world, launched in
England, April 2.
Colonel Roosevelt starts on South
American hunting trip, visits Rio
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 the
Panama Canal blown up with dyna-
mite on Oct. 10th.
Buildings OF the Panama-Pacifc Ex-
position started at San Francisco. Ger
man and English governments decline
to participate.
Labor Disputes.
street car strike be-
gins Oct. 81.
Copper strike in Michigan started
July 20.
Prisoners in the Indianapolis dyna-
mite conspiracy spend the first day in
#. Leayenworth penitentiary Jan. I.