The Ordway new era., 1915-01-01

were closed down on account OF the fall
urc to unite on an agreement us to a
basis of payment to superscde the one
already In use. On the following day the
Yorkshire coal miners. to the number Nof
10000 men, went on strike to support
their demand for n minimum wage. June
IL strike among the West Virginia coal
miners which had been on since the pre-
vious September. was declared OF, the
miners waving recognition of the union
in order to obtain other important con-
cessions. On July II the federal board
of mediation md conciliation again proved
its ability as n peaccmaker. The engineers
and flremen of ninety-eight Western rail-
roads accepted the mediation OF the board,
Casualties on Land and Sea.
Early in January the second phenom-
email storm of the season added largely to
the destruction of property along tho
ocean front of New Jersey and Long Is
land. On january II. Japanese vol
rRno on Sakura Island burst suddenly in
to activity and destroyed three towns and
killed more than a thousand persons Dur
ing performance at moving picture
theater at Surabaya, Java, IS women and
children were burned to death. Tho
steamer Monroe. from Norfolk to New
York city. was rammed by the Nantucket
during II night fog OF Cape Charles. JAN
unry 30. and II persons were lost. On
March Il more than u thousand persons
lost their lives during n storm which
flooded several towns In Southern Russia.
| and about the same time many persons
were killed by an earthquake at Akita
Japan.
On March 81 the scaling steamer
Newfoundland stranded on an Ice foe
| 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
rs an explosion in mine shaft mt
| Eccles. w. Va. caused the death Of 1S0
miners.>, Early In May Sicily was vis-
| itrd by n series of shocks which did
great damage along the eastern coast.
| The stea mship Empress of Ireland was
| struck by the Norwegian collier Stor-
| stnd in the st. Lawrence river, May 80.
and sank almost Immediately, more
| than n thousand passengers losing their
| lives. May 80. Capt. Robert A. Bartlett OF
| the Stefansson arctic expedition returned
| TO st. Michael. Alaska. with the news that
| the Karluk sank. January II. nft"r having
been crushed by Ice. and that her crew
| was marooned on Wrangcl Island. On
September Z. eight members of this crew
were found by r"scuing party. On
| June 10 more than two hundred miners
were lost by nm explosion In n coal mine
| near Alberta, Canada. hre 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 2,CO 600 persons homeless. On
| September IS the Francis II. Leggett
| collidcd with an unknown vessel on
the Oregon coast and ~ of her passen-
| gers and crew were lost. In October
an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
| more than 5000 persons in a 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 K Co. announced the with
drawaI of its members from DIRECTOR
ships In 81 large corporations, thus
| complying with the governments new
| regulation condemnins intcrlccking d.
| rectorates. On January Harvard uni
versity and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology arranged to combine
their engineering departments. On
February 10 Andrew Carnegie gave
$2.0OO.000 toward the propaganda car
ried on by the Church Peace union. On
April IS the International Surgical
congress met MT New York city winter
was let into the new canal across Cape
Cod on April 81. 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 daugh-
ter. Eleanor Randolph Wilson. was
married. May 7. at the White House. to
William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of the
| Treasury The Norwcgians celebrate
the centennial of the separation of
Norway from Denmark on May i5. On
May IS the Panama canal was opened
for barge traffic. The English Derby
was won by Durbar III. n horse be-
| longing to an American. Herman b.
Duryoa, on May 27. Tho monument
erected by the Daughters of the Con-
federacy in the national cemetery at
| Arlington was unveiled June 4.
On June 16 England captured the in
ternational polo championship at
| Mradowbroole. n. Y. II was made pub
lie on June "a that Mrs Morris X. Jcsup
had bequeathcd sS.5OO.0O0 to public in
stitutions. The American Museum of
| Natural History wis beneficiary to
the extent of 5000, 900. That. also.
| was the day on which the reconstruct
ed Kiel canal was opened by the Ger
| man kaiser.
On September ? Cardinal Gincomo
| della Chiesa, archbishop OF Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed tho late
| Piux X. The new pOntin assumed the
title of Benedict XIV. The government
crop report. made public October 3. an
nounced record wheat harvest of
S92.OO0.000 and n normal corn crop OF
1876. 100000. The worlds championship
series was won October IS by the Bos-
| ton National league baseball team.
On October II one of the most com
prchensive financial schemes on record
| formulated by bankers at New York
| city involved the raising by the banks
OF fund of si5O.0OO. 900 which wHs to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day of October the
| Panama canal was closed for traiHc
| second time on account of an earth
| slide into Culchra cut.
| On November the Chicago stock
| yards were closed on account of
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 eN-
| tended to several other states. The So
| called "housc of governors" met In its
| seventh annual session at Madison.
| Wis, November 10.