Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-01

situations. The American AFpuoIic in
Natural History was a benasotluIn Of
the extent OF $4,000, 600. Tbst TO
was the day on which the reeons.n siso'
81 lA,el cahai was oiened by the c.
man KAISER. Inc international Fuosa
ristic congress opened ~ Eucha'
France. July o. Aourdes.
On September 8 Cardinal c,a..
della Chiesa, archbishop Of paaeoIho
was elected pope to succeed a. Sua
Plux x The new pontiff ass,,nnos ate ate
title of Benedict XIV. The gover rvu the
crop report made public October s'''ne
hounced record wheat harves+ an
oSz,Vov.ooo and normal corn eron ~
2,676.000, 900. The worlds chapn;ogp ot
series was won October IL hv ip'ol =
ton National league baseball team, 'os-
On October IA one of the mos
prehensive financial schemes on rao1l,
formulated by bankers at New ~
city involved the raising nv nc hil
of fund of $4,000. 600 which NJ 10
be loaned upon warehouse receints 20
cotton. On the last day of October tn
Panama canal was closed for tra "a s'e
second time on account of an go
slide into Culebra cut. III
On November the Chicago stool,
yards were closed on account ne -.
epidemic OF foot-and-mouth disao..-
which had already led the federal a.,
thorlties to establish Quarantine =,
eight states against the shipment 30
cattle. Later this prohibition was CIV
tended to several other states Tba -
called house of governors" met in g.
seventh annual session at Madison
Wis. November TO-
After period of suspension cover,,o
10 weeks. brought about by the Nc
the cotton exchanges of New YORK; ena
New orleans opened for trading on No
vember 16. The New York stoclr ev
change, which was closed at the break
ing out OF hostilities, was reopened for
restricted trading November %. rod
letter event in the history of Americas
athletics was the formal opening OF the
great Yale bowl seating GO 600 persons
November 81. The annual YaIe-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 DR.. S. Weir Mitchell NJ
Philadelphia. scientist and novelist.
DR.. Edward Spitzka, alienist and neu-
rologist; Count Yuko Ito, admiral OF
the Japanese fleet; Shelby M. Cullom
30 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
as a lieutenant general IN the Confederate
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
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 a
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 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 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 r. Stevenson, vice. president OF
the United States during the second
Cleveland administration died June IL.
Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich of Neck
lenburg- Strelitz, George II, grand duke
of Saxe-Meiningen. and Archduke
franz Ferulnanu, hefr TO the throne VI
Austria-H Hungary. the victim of an as
sassin. are some of the men of royal
blood who died in that month. Joseph
Chamberlain, long eminent as British
statesman died early in July. Amons
other distinguished men who died that
month were Horace Fl. Lurton, assocl-
ate justice of the United States supreme
court; Melville e. ingalls, of the big
Four" railroad system; Augustus Smith
oldest graduate of Yale university ana
Paul Reclus, brilliant French scientist
Two names among the August deau
stand out with especial prominence
Ellen Louise Arson Wilson, wife of the
president of the United States. ana
Pope Plus X. head of the Roman Catho-
lie church. John Philip Holland IN
ventor of the submarine; Gen. Power!
Clayton, ex-governor. ex-senator anu
for half century the most prominent
Republican of Arkansas; Robert Nc
Intyre. bishop of the Methodist church,
Father Francis Xavier Wernz, genera
of the Jesuits, and Margaret Newton
Van Colt. known everywhere as an