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were closed down on account Of the faaI-
urt to unite on A agreement ~ to Q
basis Of payment to supersede the one
already In use. On the following day the
Yorkshire coal miners. to the number of
10000 men. went on strike to support
their damand for Q minimum wage June
u q strike amoaG the West virginia coal
miners. which had been on since the pre
vous September. was declared on, the
miners waiving recognition Of the union
in order TO obtain other important con-
cessions. On July II the federal board
its ability ~ peacemaker. The engineer,
and flremen Of ninety-Aght Western rail-
roads accepted the mediation Of the board
Casualties ~ laNd and ooa.
Early In January the second phenom.
enal storm OF the season added LARGELY to
the destruction Of property along the
ocean front Of New jersey and Long Is
land. On January II. Q japanese VOL
cano on 6Akura Island burst suddenly in
to activity and Destroyed three towns and
killed more than q thousand persons. Dur
Ing q performance 1t . moving picture
theater at surAbeya, Java, Is women and
children we're burned to death. The
steamer NonFpe, frsa Norfolk to New
York city. was ramnisa W the Nantucket
uary %. and q pefaons were lost. On
March II more thas . 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 at Akita,
japan
Newfoundland stranded on an ice noe
in the Strait OF Belle Isle and II of
her crew were frozen to death. The
same day the steamer Southern Cross
and her crew disappeared. On April
2s an explosion in mine shaft at
Eccles. w. Va. caused the death Of 1870
miners. Early In May Sicily was Wis
tied by series Of shocks which did
The teamship Empress Of ireland was
struck by the Norwegian collier etor-
stad in the 81. Lawrence river. May 20,
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 marooned on Wrangel Island. On
September :. eight members of this crew
were found by rescuing party. On
June ID more than two hundred miners
were lost by an explosion in q 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 in va
rious Chinese cities reported that floods In
southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 100000 persons homeless. On
September 18 the Francis II. Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel of
the Oregon coast and 70 Of her passen-
tn
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 5000 persons in few min.
utes.
: Edison's great electrical plant at
Orange. n: J.. was destroyed by fire on
Notable Events.
EARLY in January the firm Of J. P.
Morgan q Co. announced the with
drawal Of its members from director
ships in ~ large corporations. thus
complying with the governments new
regulation condemning interlocking al
rectorates. On January Harvard uni
versity and the Massachusetts, Institute
Of Technology arranged to combine
their engineering departments. On
February 10 Andrew Carnegie gave
$2.ooo.o0o toward the propaganda car
ried on by the Church Peace union On
April IL the International Surgical
congress met at New York city. Water
was let Into the new canal across Cane
Cod on April q. This canal shortens the
distance by water between Boston and
New York by seventy miles and cuts out
the danger of rounding the cape in stormy
weather. The canal was formally opened
July %.
President Wilson's youngest daush.
ter, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, was
married, May Z. at the White House, to
William Gibbs McAdoo. secretary Of ths
treasury. The Norwegtans celebrated
the centennial of the separation of
Norway from Denmark on May Is. On
May IS the Panama canal was opened
for barge traffic. The English Derby
was won by Durbar III, horse be-
longing to an American, Herman B.
Duryea, on May 81. The monument
erected by the Daughters OF the Con-
tederacy in the national cemetery at
Arlington was unveiled June Z.
On June 1e England captured the In
ternational polo Championship at
Meadowbrook, N. 7. It was made pub
lie on June ~ that Mrs Norris K. Jesup
had bequeathed $S.50o,000 to public in
stitutions. The American Museum of
Natural History was q beneficiary to
the extent >of 35.0oo.o0o. That, also.
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed kiel canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser. -
On September 8 Cardinal aiacomo
oeila Chiesa. archbishop Of Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
f!ux x The new pontiff assumed the
title OF Benedict XIV. The government
crop report, made public October 8. an
nounced a record wheat harvest of
Ssx.ooo. . 600 and normal corn crop of
Z.67 ono ThA n. -