Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-01-06
THE EVENTS OF 1914.
Chief Events Of Interest of the Past
Year.

Jan. Naval observatory Mt
Washington sends wireless to Eiffel
Tower, Paris, France.
Jan. 2.-J. P. Morgan & Co. with
draw from twenty-seven corpora
tions-first important move toward
ending interlocking directorates.
Jan. 3.-Henry Ford, Detroit au-
tomobile manufacturer. sets aside
$40, 900 for distribution among
his employees. A part of his plaa
for social Justice,
Feb. 4.-President Wilson lifts
embargo on arms applied to Mexico
by President Taft.
Feb. 14.-AlphOnse Bertillion, in
ventor of Bertillion system of identi-
flying criminals, dies in France, aged
|61.
March Ed Pullen wins fifth in
ternational grand prize at Santa
Monica, Calf, 403 miles-77.2 miles
an hour.
March 9.-Fire destroys Missouri
Athletic club, St. Louis, Mo. Forty
five dead.
March 1O.-Senate passes Alaska
railroad bill authorizing expenditure
Of $40,000,00O on railroads in Alas
ka.
March 13.-United States Express
company announces retirement from
business, due to competition of par
eel post, throwing $4,000 employees
out of work.
March 16.-Mme. Callaux, wife Of
French minister of finance, murders
CASTOR Calmette. editor of Figaro.
April 2.-Sixty-nine men lost in
sea storm when "sealer" is lost off
Newfoundland coast.
April 2.-Government name 12
reserve banks-New Yorg, Chicago,
st. Louis, San Francisco. Richmond,
Boston. Kansas City, Minneapolis.
Cleveland, Dallas, Philadelphia and
Atlanta.
April 5.-Secretary of War Dan
iels bans use of liquor in navy. Or
ders to take effect July /.
April 19.-Unarmed American
sailors arrested at Tampico by Mex
ican military authorities precipitates
the salute the flag" episode of the
Mexican war.
April 17.-Attempt on life of
Mayor Mitchell of New York by
Michael p. Mahoney.
April 2O.-Conflict between strik-
ing coal miners and state militia at
Ludlow, Colo. Fourteen lives lost.
April 22-Vera Cruz taken by
|EiAr Ais,if fati' = II. FlS,S..s s.. &C at
landeY~o OF American fleet.
q May 7.--Eleanor Wilson, daugh1
ter of President Wilson, and Will
liam G.. McAdoo, secretary of treas
ury, married In White house.
May 20-South American or A. B.
c. mediatOrs meet at Niagara Falls
to discuss peace in Mexico. Sign
three peace protocols and adjourn
June 26.
May 26.-House Of commons pas,
ses home rule bill.
June 25.-Salem, Mass, visited by
$2O,O00,00O fire.
June 26.-H. B. Chaflin company,
New York, wholesale dry goods firm,
fail for $44,O00,O0O. Biggest single
financial collapse of the country.
June 28.-Archduke Francis Fer
dinand and his consort assassinated
at Sarayevo, capital of Bosnia.
July 16.-Huerta abdicates as
provisional president Of Mexico.
July 23.-Austria sends ultima
tum to Servia in regard to assassina-
tiOn of Archduke Ferdinand and
precipitates European war.
Aug. German empire declares
war on Russia; Aug 4, England de-
clares war On Germany.
Aug. 4.-Congress appropriates
$25O,000 for relief of Americans in
war zone of Europe.
Aug. 5.-Germans commence siege
of Liege, Belgium; German casual
ties. $4,000; Belgium loss. 1000.
Germans take possession Aug 8.
Aug. 6.-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
dies at White house.
Aug. 15.-Panama canal officially
opens.
Aug. 16.--Japan sends ultimatum
to Germany, demanding evacuation
of Kia-Chow. Oct. Is, German en-
perOr orders Tsing-Tau in Kiau-
Chow to surrender to Japan.
Aug. 23.-Pope Plus dies at
fCOntfnund on last Dapa1