The Springdale news., 1915-01-08

On June 1s England captured the in- ternational polo championship at Meaduwbrook N. Y. It was made pub lie on June 24 that Mrs. Morris k. Jesup had beaaeathed sS50oooo to public in stitutfans. The American Museum ef Natural History was beneficiary to the extent Of $5 00e 00o. That. also. was the day which the reconstruct ed KieI canal was opened by the Ger i man kaiser The Intsrna s!onaI !tHs la ristfe congress opened at Le1reses France July 2Z.
 On September Cardinal |. tca7to della Cniesa archbishop ct ma. elected pope ta suecs ed the 4att, FiHx x The new PentiH a@samee the tItle If Benedict Nv The government crop report. made public October <. an naHneea I record wheat HarNe st of Se2 4op 000 and a normal corn crop of 2.67f5 ead quo. The worlds championship series was won October i3 hy the Bos- ton National league baseball team 0n October IA one of the most aom- pr, hensive financial schemes on record formulated by bankers at New York 1 city involved the raising hy the banks of ! fund of S150 000 00o which was to he loaned upon warehouse receipts for cotton. on the last day of October the Paaaiaa canal was closed for traffic second time on account of an earth l slide Into Culebra cut
 On November { the Chicago stock yards were closed on account of an i epidemic of foot-and mouth disease which had already led the federal au- i thnrft1esZ establish quarantine in eight states against the shipment of cattle. Later this prohibition was ex- I tended to several other states The so- i called house of governors met in its seventh annual session at Madison. Wis November 1a-
 After q period Of suspension covering ! = ztEE 4sa4 4erI.t l.ft4 yYa i the cotton exchanges of New York and : New Orleans opened for trading on Mo- Sersaer is. The New York stock ex- cha a.s~. which was closed al the break ing Ut of hostiiities. was reopened for restricted trading November g. A red letter event in the history of American athletics was the formal opening of the l great Yale bowl seating s0,o00 persons. November 21. The annual Yale Har- yard football contest resulted in Har- ward victory. 36 10 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 t contains the names of many who had achieved dis tnctian.
 Among the famous men who died in January We're pr. s. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia. scientist and novelist Bf. Edward Spitzka a1ienist and neu- I i3i3E t@1 &3dttt l dtstf ii9s dttitiIt di O1 the Japanese feet Shelby NJ. Guiiom. 70 ye3rs United States senator from Illinois. author of the interstate com fllsres =iass. Pauf. Deroaede. French poet and political agitator the venerable James Adaams Beaver GfsH war rhere and ex-Ea8ernar. Of Pennsylvania. and simon Boliver Buekner. whose name and famt have been familiar to the Amer #te5tH fz4hffe= for na4ret than half century as a lieutenant general iH the Confederate aHfae5- governor of Kentucky candidate e5=t=I president oH the Gold Democratic ticket n 1s-6
 Fehfaarsss contribution to the list includes Alphonse Bsrttlfan. whose z=cfe4eF 4sstesl1 of measurement made him the terror of criminals Theodore # L. De S#nae4 whose artistic efforts E reYolatianIzed printing Henry \. Tel =ltr0E EHftea States senator from Colo rada far a years Secretary of the In ter3arZ under President -Arthnr@Xfs count tSiaze.Aokt.- Japanese am- bassader ta the United States. and the l earl If N1nto. former governor general i of Canada. In March Cardinal kdpp, at the head of tke Roman Catholic hieraehy of Germany. the venerable Thomas Bow man. senior bishop of the Methodist ! church. and two Protestant Episcopal ] htshops-John Scarborough of New Jersey and William Woodruff Niles of ] New Hampshire passed away. America 
 air brake is reputed to have saved more lives than were sacrificed in the Napoieonic wars April marked the passing of the dowager empress of Ja- pan the we1I-beloXed Haruko: George i Alfred Townsend known widely a war correspondent; George r Baer president of the Reading railroad, and Samuel k Crockett. who created The Stickit Minister"
 Mai Gen. Daniel F. sfek1es. hero Of the Civil war. dieA early in May. Among the other famous men and women who died during the month were Lillian Neraiea daughter of a Maine farmer, who became one of the worlds most successful opera singers. especially ia nous in Wagneffan roles; Francis Kos suth son of the great Hungarian pa triot; Charles Scadding Episcopal bishop of Oregon Sir Joseph W. swan. inventor of the ineandeseent light: Paul Mauser. inventor of the rifle bearing his name William 0 Bradley. United States senator from Kentucky and the duke of Argyll.
 Aalai F. Stevenson, vice president of the United States during the second Cleveland administration. died June 18. Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich of Meek 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
 
 blood who died in that month. Joseph Chamberlain. long eminent British statesman died early in July. Among other distinguished men who died that month were Horace II. Iurton. associ- ate justice of the United States Supreme court; Melville F. Ingalls, of the Big Four" railroad system; Augustus smith. oldest graduate of Yale university, and Paul Reclas, brilliant French scientist
 Two names among the August dead stand ont with especial prominence Ellen Louise Axson 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 Me Intyre bishop Of the Methodist church. . Father Francis Xavier Wernz. general of the Jesuits. and Margaret Newton Van Cott known everywhere as an al I{ef also