Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-01-01

ternational polo championship at
Meadowbrool<, N. Y. 1t was made pub
lie on June "a that Mrs. Morris K Jesup
had bequeathed $S.50O.000 to public in
stitutions. The American Museum of
Natural History was a beneficiary to
the extent of $4,000, 900. That, also,
was the day on which the reconstruct
ed Kfel canal was opened by the Ger
man kaiser. The International Eucha-
risttc congress opened at LourdeT,
France, July 22
On September Cardinal Giacomo
della Chiesa, archbishop of Bologna.
was elected pope to succeed the late
Piux X. The new pontif assumed the
title of Benedict XIV. T ie government
crop report, made public October 8. an
nounced a record wheat harvest of
S92,000,000 and a normal corn crop Of
2,676, 000,0 600. The worlds championship
series was won October l3 by the Bos-
ton National league baseball team.
On October IA one of the most com
prehensive financial schemes on record
formulated by bankers al New York
city involved the raising by the banks
of a fund of $150,000.0O which was to
be loaned upon warehouse receipts for
cotton. On the last day of October the
Panama canal was closed for traffic
second time on account of an earth
slide into Culebra 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 16. The New York stock ex-
change. which was closed at the break
ing out of hostiIities, was reopened for
restricted trading November 2S red
letter event in the history of American
athletics was the formal opening of the
great Yale bowl, seating 60, 900 persons,
November 81. The annual Yale-Har-
ward football contest resulted in a Har-
ward victory. Sc 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 of
Philadelphia, scientist and novelist; !;
DR.. Edward SpitzlSa, alienist and neu-
rologist; Count Yuko Ito, admiral of
the Japanese fleet; Shelby M. Cullom,
80 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 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 M. Tel
Ter, United States senator from Colo
rado 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
|
| 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 Ja-
pan, the well-beloved Haruko; George
Alfred Townsend. known widely as q
| 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 Lilliar
Nordica, daughter of a Maine farmer
| who became one of the worlds mos
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
1 United States senator from Kentucky
and the duke of Argyll.
| Adlai e. Stevenson, vice-president OF
| the United States during the secont
| Cleveland administration, died June 1S
| Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich of Neck
lenburg-Strelitz George II. grand duke
| of Saxe-Meiningen, and Archduk'
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne o.
| Austria-Hungary, the victim of an as
sassin, are some of the men of roya
| blood who died in that month. JOSEPH
Chamberlain, long eminent as British
statesman. died early in July. Among
other distinguished men who died tina
month were Horace H. Lurton. associ
ate justice of the United States Suprem
court; Melville E. ingalls, of the Biz
Four" railroad system; Augustus Smith
Oldest graduate of Yale university, ant
Paul Reclus, brilliant French scientist
Two names among the August dea'
stand out with especial prominence
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, wife of th
president of the United States, an
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 an
for half century the most prominen
Republican of Arkansas; Robert Nc
Intyre. bishop of the Methodist church
Father Francis Xavier Wernz, genera
of the Jesuits, and Margaret Newtol
Van Cott, known everywhere as a.
evangelist, were also among the ia
nous dead of August
The September list includes the name
of Edward ]. Hall, the father of tn
long-distance telephone" Mrs. Fran
Leslie (Baroness Bazus), who revived tn
. practically defunct publishing bushes
left by her husband and bequeathed 81,
coo to the woman suffrage movement
and Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow, Uni
ted States navy, retired. On October II
the aged king of Roumania, Charles
who maintained the neutrality of hi
kingdom to the very last in spite of pow
erful opposition, died at his capital TIL
Right Rev. Charles William Smith, Meth
odist Episcopal bishop of st. Louis. die
on the last day of the month.
Among the eminent dead of Novem
ber are Lieut.. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee
who was chief of staff of the Unite
States army from 1904 to 1906; Johl
Kean, former senator from New Jer
| sey; Caroline NJ. Severance, 9TH
mother of women's clubs;" Field Mar
shall Earl Frederick S. Roberts, mos
| famous of British soldiers, and Rober
j. Burdette, American lecturer, humor
: list and preacher. December marke
the passing of Americas most eminen
t naval expert and writer. Rear Admira
: Alfred 7. Mahan.