Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-01-08

already In use. On the following day the
Yorkshire coal miners. TO the numper OF
10000 men, went on strike 10 support
their demand for a minimum wage, June
II a strike among the West virginia coal
miners which had been on since the pre-
yious September. was declared on, the
miners swaiving recognition OF the union
in order to obtain other important con-
cessions. On July II the federal board
Of mediation and Cancellation again proved
its ability as a peacemaker. The engineers
and firer,en 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 the
ocean front of New Jersey and Long Is
land. On January II, Japanese vol
cano on Sakura Island burst suddenly In
to activity and destroyed three towns ana
killed more than a thousand persons. Dur
ing a performance at moving picture
theater at Surabaya, Java, 70 women and |
children were burned to death. The |
steamer Monroe, from Norfolk to New |
York city, was rammed by the Nantucket
during a night fog off Cape Charles. jan
uary 30, and Al persons were lost ON
March Il more than a thousand persons
lost their lives during 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 ~ or
| her crew were frozen to death. The
same day the. steamer Southern Cross
| and her crew disappeared. on April
| % an explosion in a mine SHAFT at
Eccles, W. Va. caused the death OF $50
1 t.. II. oil q O.
tied by a 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 ~
| and sank almost Immediately. more
than a 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 IL. 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 a rescung party. On
June 10 more than two hundred miners
} were lost by an explosion in a coal mine
near Alberta, Canada. A fre at Salem.
Mass, June 25, destroyed half OF the city,
including several thousand homes and
many large industrial establishments. In
. this month also, American consuls In va
i. rious Chinese cities reported that floods In
{ southern China had destroyed the crops
8 and made 100000 persons homeless. on
, September IS the Francis H. Leggett
collided with an unknown vessel on
the Oregon coast and 70 of her passen-
d gers and crew were lost. In october
e an earthquake in Turkey destroyed
more than 5000 persons in a few min
utes.
: Fdison's great electrical plant al
J, Orange. N. j.. was destroyed by fire or
+ Notable Events.
: Early in January the firm of J. p
a Morgan & Co. announced the with
d drawal of its members from director
d ships in 81 large corporations. thu:
II complying with the governments new
s regulation condemning interlocking di
rectorates. On January Harvard uni
versity and the Massachusetts Institute
It of Technology arranged to combine
n their engineering departments. Oh
E Esp1 the AnsFsS
i congress met at New York city. waite
was let into the new canal across Cap
sr cod ON April q. This canal shortens IN
10 distance by water between Boston an
e. New York by seventy miles ana cuts GU
DR. the danger of rounding the cape In storm
s. weather The canal was formally opene
q July %. .-,.
al for Eleanor Randolph Wilson. wa
ce married, May z. at the White House, I
u william Gibbs McAdoo, secretary OF tn
an Treasury The Norwegians celebrate
r. the centennial of the separation
he Norway from Denmark on May To-
% Nav 1S the Panama canal was opene
n for barge traffic The Ensisn De ~
as was won by Durbar III. horse ot
Longing to an American. Herman
or Duryea. on May 81. The monumer
I'd erected by the Daughters OF the Coz
- federacy in the national cemetery
a Arlington was unveiled June 4.
cd On June 16 England captured the II
he ternational polo championship
,g- Meadowbrook, N. Y. IL was naoe pu
H. lie on June "a that Mrs. Morris X jest
I'd had bequeathed $S,500.0oo to public II
~ situations. The American Museum
a. Natural History was a beneficiary
VI the extent of 100000. That aif
was the day on which the reconstruc
10 ed Kiel canal was opened by the Ge
Ter man kaiser.
The On September Cardinal Giacor
700 della Chiesa, archbishop of Bologr
n ,,', Was elected pope to succeed the la
orc Piux X. The new pontiff assumed I
.a title of Benedict XIV. The governme
h., crop report. made public October .,
an nounced a record wheat harvest
,o,r S92. 5000 and a normal corn crop
a. 2676. 900 900. The worlds championsf
IL series was won October 13 by the Bt
ooI, ton National league baseball team.
On October IA one of the most co
prehensive financial schemes on rect
formulated by bankers at New fo
5h- city involved the raising by the bar
ing OF a fund of $3.50, 000,0 900 which was
rid be loaned upon warehouse receipts
nm cotton On the last day of october
III Panama canal was closed Tor tratn'
oi second time on account OF an ca
anu slide into Culebra cut.
inst On November the Chicago sto
set wards were closed on account OF
eral endemic of foot-and-mouth disc
which had already led the federal
'een thorities to establish quarantine
9 in eight states against the shipment
gan cattle. Later this prohibition was
'auo tended to several other states me
on called "house of governors" met IN
lous seventh annual session at Madis
alu Wis, November 10.
KING After a period of suspension cover
near Is weeks brought about by the v
sons the cotton exchanges of New York
hre New Orleans opened for trading on
ered yember 16. The New York stock
NOT change, which was closed at the pre
ana ing out of hostilities was reopened
VII restricted trading November q. A
DIS letter event in the history of Amer
the athletics was the formal opening OF
lmed great Yale bowl seating $4,000 pers
Seth November FL. The annual Yale-f
ar ward football contest resulted in a L
ohio ward victory. SO to 0.