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had bequeathed $500. 900 H. t
stitutions. The American MuD0
Natural History was beneficiary
the extent Of $4,000 900. That AZ
was vhe 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 Giacomo
della Chiesa. archbishop of Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
Pipx X The new pontiff assumed the
title OF Benedict XIV. The government
crop report made public october 8. am
nounced record wheat harvest OF
ss2.0o0.000 and a normal corn crop OF
2.s76.000,000 The worlds championship
series was won October - by the Bos-
ton National league baseball team.
On October ~ one of the most COM
prehensive financial schemes on record
formulated by bankers at New York
city involved tho raising by the banks
OF fund OF Sl50.00o.0o0 which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day of October the
Panama canal was closed for tranc .
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 its
seventh annual session at Madison.
Wis. November 10. 500
After a period of suspension covering
Is weeks. brought about by the war.
the cotton exchanges of New York and
New Orleans opened for trading on Mo-
.I.Ar Nc. us4 -
change. which was closed at the break
ing out of hostilities, was reopened for
restricted trading November Is. A red
letter event In the history OF American
athletics was the formal opening Of tho
great Yale bowl. seating 10000 persons
November 81. The annual Yale-Har-
ward football contest resulted In a Har-
ward victory. SO 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 were DIR. 8. Weir Mitchell of
Philadelphia. scientist and novelist:
DR.. Edward Spitzka. alienist and neu-
rologist; Count Yuko Ito. admiral of
the Japanese fleet: Shelby M. 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 century
as a lieutenant general In the Confederate
army. governor OF Kentucky, candidate
for vice-president on the Gold Democratic
ticket in 1896
Februarys 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 M. Tel
Ter. United States senator from Colo
RADIO for 30 years. Secretary OF the In
terror under President Arthur: Wis.,
count Siuzo Aolxi. first Japanese am
bassador to the United States. and the
earl Of Mimic. former 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
New Hampshire passed away. America
also lost George Westinghouse. whose
air brake Is reputed to have saved
| more lives than were sacrificed in the
Napoleonlc wars. April marked the
passing OF the dowager empress of Ja-
pan, the well-beloved Haruho: George
Alfred Townsend. known widely as
war correspondent: George +. Baer.
president of the Reading railroad. and
Samuel r. Crockett. who created The
Stickit Minister"
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. hero Of
the Civil war. died early in May. Among
"a I'M
died during the month were Lillian
Nordica. daughter of 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 incandescent light:
Paul Mauser. inventor of the rife
| bearing his name: William o. Bradley.
| United States senator from Kentucky.
and the duke Of Argyll.
| Adlai E. Stevenson. vice-president OF
| the United States during the second
Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich OF Neck
lenburg -Strelitz. George II. grand duke
| OF xe-Meiningen. and Archduke
/ Franz Ferdinand. heir to the throne OF
Austria Hungary. the victim of an as
sassin. are some of the men of royal
| blood VINO died IN that mOntn. Joseph
| Chamberlain. long eminent as British
| stat esman. died early in July. Among
| other distinguished men who died that
month were Horace II. 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 Reclus. brilliant French scientist.
Two names among the August dead
| stand out with especial prominenee--
| 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. TN
ventor of the submarine: Gen. Powell
Clayton. ex-governor. ex-senator and
for half a century the most prominent
Republican of Arkansas: Robert Mo-
Intyre. bishop OF the Methodist church;
Father Francis Xavier Wernz. general
/ OF the Jesuits. and Margaret Newton
Van Colt, known everywhere A. an
evangelist. were also among the Ia
nous dead Of August
| The September list includes the nafnte
OF Edward J. Hall. the father OF the
long distance telephone" Mrs.. Frank
/ Leslie (Baroness Basus), who revived the
practically defunct publishing business
left by her husband and bedueathsd a.
100000 to the woman suffrago movement.
ana Rear Admiral Herbert Wislow. DID
ted statss navy. retired On octossr =