Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-01-01

NeadoWbrOOk. n. Y. It wes made pub
lie on June "a that Mrs. Eosris X. :1oBup
had bequeathed ss,50e.ooo to public In
stitutions. The American N aseuo1 OF
2'atural History was beneficiary to
the extent of $5.00G,000. That. also.
was the day on which the reconstruct
cd Kiel canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser. The International Eucha-
ristic congress opened at Lourdes
France. July e..
On September Cardinal Giacornc
della Chicsa, archbishop of Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
1iux y. Tire new pontiff assumed the
title Of Benedict XIV. The government
crop report, made public October s. an
nounced record wheat harvest Of
S92.000.0Do and normal corn crop OF
,G76.000,000. The worlds championship
series was won October l3 by the Bos-
ton National league baseball team.
On October II one of the most COM
prehensive financial schemes on record
formula ted by bankers at New York
city involved the raising by the banks
Of a fund of $150.000.000 which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day Of October the
Panama canal was closed for traffic q
second time on account of an earth
slide into Cu1ebra cut.
On November 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 it's
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 hostilities, was reopened for
restricted trading November Is. A rec.
letter event in the history of American
athletics was the formal opening Of thu
great Yale bowl, seating 10000 persons,
November Fl. The annual Yale-Har-
ward football contest resulted in Har-
ward victory. So to 0.
Among the Eminent Dead.
The record of those who have passed
out of the worlds "tivities during tho
year is of unusual J. 18th, and it contains
the names Of many who had achieved dis
tnction
Among the famous men who died in
January were DR.. S. Weir Mitchell OF
Philadelphia. scientist and novelist:
DR.. Edward Spitzka, alienist and neu-
rologist; Count Yuko Ito, admiral OF
the Japanese fleet; Shelby NJ. Cul1om.
80 years United States senator from
Illinois, author of the interstate COM
merce law; Paul Deroulede, French poet
and political agitator; the venerabae
James Adams Beaver, Civil war heSo
and ex-governor Of Pennsylvania ana
Simon Boliver Buekner, whose naID0
and fame have been familiar to the Amer
lean public for more than half a century
nj a~olS In <f3a %o1A -
army, governor of Kentucky, candidate
for vice-president on the Gold Democratic
ticket in 1895.
February's contribution to the hsk
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 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 encouragement
| 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
| Napoleonic wars. April marked the
passing Of the dowager empress Of ia
| pan, the well-beloved Haruko; George
! Alfred Townsend, known widely as g.
! war correspondent; George F. Baer.
! president Of the Reading railroad. and
| Samuel r. Crockett. who created The
! Stickit Minister"
Maj. Gen. Daniel e. Sickles. hero CT
| the Civil war, died early in May. Among
| the other famous men and women wEo
| 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 rifle
| bearing his name; William O. Bradley.
! United States senator from Kentucky.
and the duke of Argyll.
Adlaf +. Stevenson, vice-president OF
the United States during the second
! Cleveland administration, died June IL.
! Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich Of Neck
lenburg-Strelitz. George H. grand duke
| Of Saxe-Meiningen, and Archduke
! Franz Ferdinand. heir to the throne OF
| Austria Hungary, the victim of an as
| ssssin, 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 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 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
! fer half century the most prominent
Republican of Arkansas; Robert Nc
/ Intyre, bishop Of the Methodist church:
! Father Francis Xavier Wernz. general
| CT the Jesuits. and Margaret Newton
/ Van Colt, known everywhere an
| evangelist. were also among the fa-
nous dead of August
The September list includes the MAJ mes
| of Edward J. Hall, the father of the