Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-31

ternational polo championship at
AIeadowbrook, y. Y. 1t was made pub
lie on June p that Mrs. Morris K. Jesup
had bequeathed $500. O0O to public in
stitutions. The American Museum of
Natural History was a beneficiary to
the extent of $4,000, 900. That. also,
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed -Kiel canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser. The International Eucha-
ristic congress opened at Lourdes
France. July %
On September Cardinal Giaeomo
della Chiesa- archbishop of Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
Piux y. The new pontiT assumed the
title Of Benedict XIV. The government
crop report, made public October s. an
nounced a record wheat harvest of
S92. 100000 and a normal corn crop of
2,676.000. 000.- The worlds championship
series was won October 10 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
of a fund Of s150000.0O0 which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton On the last day of October the
Panama canal was closed for traffic a
/ second time on account of an earth
slide into Culebra cut.
On November the Chicago stock
7 y Il
| 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 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 and
New Orleans opened for trading on No
vember Is. The New York stock ex-
change. which was closed at the break
ing out of hostiHties. was reopened for
restricted trading November %. A red
letter event in the history of American
athletics was the formal opening of the
great Yale bowl, seating 60, 900 persons,
November q. The annual Yale-Har-
ward football contest resulted in Har-
ward victory. Sc to 0.
Among the Eminent Dead.
The record of those who have passed
out of the worlds activities during the
| year is of unusual length, and it contains
the names of many who had achieved dis
tinction.
Among the famous men who died in
January We're DR.. S. Weir Mitchell of
Philadelphia, scientist and novelist;
DR.. Edward SpitzI1a, a1ienist and neu-
rologist; Count Yuko Ito. admiral of
| the Japanese fleet; Shelby NJ. Cullom,
| 80 years United States senator from
| Illinois, author of the interstate COM
| merce law; Paul Deroulede, French poet
and political agitator; the venerable
| James Adams Beaver, Civil war hero
and ex-governor of Pennsylvania, and
| Simon Boliver Buekner, whose name
and fame have been familiar to the Amer
| lean public for more than half a century
|
army, governor of Kentucky, candidate
| for vice-president on the Gold Democratic
| ticket in 1896.
February's contribution to the list
| includes Alphonse Bertillon, whose
| clever system of measurement made
him the terror of criminals; Theodore
L. De Winnie, whose artistic efforts
revolutionized printing; Henry NJ. Tel
Ter, United States senator from Colo
RADIO for 80 years, Secretary of the In
| terror under President Arthur; Wis.,
count Siuzo Aoki, first Japanese am
| bassador to the United States, and the
earl of Mimic, former governor general
! of Canada. In March Cardinal Kopp, at
| the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
| of Germany; the venerable Thomas Bow
| man, senior bishop Of the Methodist
| church, and two Protestant Episcopal
| bishops-John Scarborough of New
| Jersey, and William Woodruff Niles of
|
| also lost George Westinghouse, whose
| air brake is reputed to have saved
| more lives than were sacrificed in the
! Napoleonic wars. April marked the
| passing of the dowager empress of ia
pan, the well-belOved HarukO; George
| Alfred Townsend, known widely as
| war correspondent; George F. Baer,
| president of the Reading railroad, and
| Samuel R. Crockett. who created THE
| Stickit Minister"
| Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sfckles, hero of
| the Civil war, died early in May. Among
| the other famous men and women who
| died during the month were Lillian
| Nordica, daughter of a Maine farmer.
| who became one of the worlds most
successful opera singers, especially ia
nous in Wagnerian roles; Francis Kos
| suth, son of the great Hungarian pa
| triot; Charles Scadding, Episcopal
| bishop of Oregon; Sir Joseph w. Swan.
| inventor of the fncandescent light;
| Paul Mauser, inventor of the rifle
| bearing his name; William o. Bradley,
| United States senator from Kentucky,
| and the duke of Argyll.
Adlai E Stevenson, vfce-president of
| the United States during the second
| Cleveland administration, died June 10.
| Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich Of Neck
| lenburg-Strelitz, George II. grand duke
| of Saxe-Meiningen, and Archduke
| Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of
| Austria Hungary the victim of an as
| sassir, are some Of the men Of royal
| blood who died in that month. Joseph
| Chamberlain, long eminent as British
! statesman, died early in July. Among
| other distinguished men who died that
! month were Horace H. Lurton, associ-
ate justice of the United States Supreme
! court; Melville E. Ingalls, of the big
| Four" railroad system; Augustus Smith,
| Oldest graduate of Yale university, and
| Paul RecIus, brilliant French scientist.
| Two names among the August dead
! stand out with especial prominence
| Ellen Louise Arson Wilson, wife of the
| president of the United States, and
Pope Plus x, head of the Roman Catho-
| lie church. John Philip Holland in
| ventor of the submarine; Gen. Powell
Clayton, ex-governor, ex-senator and
| for half a century the most prominent
| Republican of Arkansas; Robert Nc
| Intyre bishop of the Methodist church;
! Father Francis Xavier Wernz general
| of the Jesuits, and Margaret Newton
| Van Colt, known everywhere as an
| evangelist, were also among the IA
nous dead of August.
| The September list includes the names
of Edward ]. Hall, the father of the
Iong-distance telephone" Mrs. Frank
Leslie Baroness BaZus), who, revived the
practically defunct publishing business
left by her husband and bequeathed ST.
| COO, 600 to the woman Suffrage movement
and Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow, Uni
| ted States navy, retired. On October TO-
| the aged king of Roumania, Charles T.
who maintained the neutrality of his
kingdom to the very last in spite of pow
erful opposition, died az his capital. The
Right Rev. Charles William Smith, Meth
odist Episcopal bishop Of st. Louis, died
on the last day of the month.
Among the eminent dead of Noveu-
Der are Lieut.. Gen Adna r. Chaffee,
who was chief Of staff of the United
States army from 1904 to 1906; John
Kean, former senator from New Jer-
sey; Caroline NJ. Severance, the
mother of women's clubs" Field Mar
shall Earl Frederick S. Roberts, most
famous of British soldiers, and Robert
]. Burdette. American lecturer, humor-
list and preacher. December marked
the passing of Americas most eminent
naval expert and writer. Rear Admiral
I Alfred II Mahan