The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-01-02

were closed down on account of tho fall
ure to unite on an agreement as to q
basis OF payment to supersede tho one
already ia use. On the following day the
Yorkshire coal miners. to tho number Of
1900 men. went on strike to support
their demand for n minimum whge June
IL n 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-
cessons. on July II the federal board
of mediation and conciliatlon again proved
its ability as peacemaker. The engineers
and hremen of ninety-elght 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 the
ocean front of New Jersey and Long Is
| land. On January IL. n Japanese vol
| cano 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, 75 women and
| children were burned TO death. The
| steamer Monroe. from Norfolk to New
| York city, was rammed by the Nantucket
during n night fog OFT Cape Charles, Jan
uary 30, and al persons were lost. On
| March II more than n 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 sealing 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
| 2S an explosion in n mine shaft at
-. ~
| miners. Early in May Sicily was Wis
| tied by series of shocks which did
| great damage along the eastern coast
The steamship Empress of Ireland was
struck by the Norwegian collier Stor-
stad in the st. Lawrence river. May 10.
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 Barluk sank. January II. after having
been crushed by ice, and that her crew
was marooned on wrangel Island. On
September Z, eight members OF this crew
were found by n rescuing party. On
June 10 more than two hundred miners
were lost by an explosion In n coal mine
near Alberta, Canada. A fire Mt Salem.
Mass. June Is, destroyed half of the city.
including several thousand homes and
many large Industrial establishments. In
rious Chinese cities reported that floods in
southern China had destroyed the crops
and made 100000 persons homeless. On
September Is the Francis II. Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel OF
. 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
utcs
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 a. Co. announced the with
drawal of Its members from director
!, ships in 27 large corporations. thus
u complying with the governments new
regulation condemning interlocking di.
rectorates. On January Harvard uni.
versity and the Massachusetts Institut,
( of Technology arranged to combin,
n their engineering departments. Or
i February 10 Andrew Carnegie CAV,
:. s2.O00.000 toward the propaganda car
d ried on by the Church Peace union. Or
y April 13 the International Surgica
i congress met at New York city. Water
was let into the new canal across Cap.
II Cod on April H- This canal shortens tn,
q distance by water between Boston anC
:. New York by seventy miles md cuts ou
IT the danger OF rounding tho cape In stormy
n July 20.
u President Wilson's youngest daugh'
II ter. Eleanor Randolph Wilson. wa,
% married. May Z. at the White House. e
t william Gibbs McAdoo. secretary of tn,
n Treasury. The Norwegians celebrated
J. the centennial OF the separation o.
o Norway from Denmark on May Is. Or
o May Is the Panama canal was openeC
i for barge traffic. The English Derby
s was won by Durbar III. horse be
longing to an American. Herman II
r Duryea, on May 27. The monument
d erected by the Daughters of the Con
= federacy in the national cemetery a
n Arlington was unveiled June T.
d On June 16 England captured the I'm
o ternational polo championship nj
= Meadowbrook. N. Y. 1t was made pub
: lie on June "a that Mrs. Morris X JesuI
a had bequeathed 3s.500.000 to public In.
h stitutions The American Museum oi
: Natural History was a beneficiary tC
l. the extent OF $5.O00,000. That, also
was the day on which the reconstruct.
,, ed Kiel canal was opened by the Ger
r man kaiser.
e On September 3 Cardinal GlacomC
q della Chiesa, archbishop of Bologna
II was elected pope TO succeed the late
y Piux X. The new pontin assumed th'
= title of Benedict XIV. The government
3 crop report, made public October 8, an
X S92. 900 900 and n normal corn crop o
q 2.676, 900. 900. The worlds championship
g series was won October 13 by the Bos
k ton National league baseball team.
On October IA one of the most com
prehensive financial schemes on recor,
formulated by bankers at New Yorl
% city involved the raising by the banks
. of fund OF $l50.000.0 900 which was I,
, be loaned upon warehouse receipts fo
, cotton. On the last day of October tn,