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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS WHAT YEAR 1914 Joseph Smith, president of the Re* Aug. 13.—Carbajal abandoned presidency March 19.—Fifty drowned when boatt ment of the German Bismarck archipelagic Dec. 14.—Servians retook Belgrade aftei organized Church of the Latter Day of Mexico. collided near Venice. and the Solomon islands. fierce battle. Saints. Aug. 20.—General Carranza entered March 31.—Sixty-four lives lost in blizzard French troops reoccupled Luneville and Dec. 16.—German cruisers bombarded Dec. 18.—Major E. A. Bigelow, U. S. A., Mexico City and assumed the office of that overtook Newfoundland sealing Soissons. Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on retired, in Chicago. provisional president. fleets. Sept. 13.—Lille evacuated by Germans the Yorkshire coast, killing about one, Dec. 20.—Eugene Zimmerman, Cincinnati Sept. 23.—Villa denounced government and occupied by allies. April 2.—Fire in St. Augustine, Fla., destroyed hundred and fifty persons and escaping. millionaire. headed by Carranza and announced five tourist hotels and the county Steamer Red Cross with American Red Dec. 17.—Great Britain proclaimed a Gen. Thbmas Sherwln at Boston. his independence: ^ouH. house losp,' $500,000. Cross nurses and surgeons 'sailed from. protectorate over. Egypt, 'Oct. 15.—Convention of Mexican constitutionalist New York. April J28.—Explosion in hiine at Eccles,. Allies, with, aid of. warships entered Os-. chiefs at Aguas Calientes' W. Va., resulted in the entombing of 172 Sept. 14. Retreating German army tend. FINANCIAL voted itself the supreme power in Mexico. men and hope of their rescue was given halted in strongly Intrenched position Russians retreated in Galicia and Poland. up. Fifty-nine men, severely burned, along the Aisne river. Amiens reoccupled Chronological Record of Most Nov. 1.—Aguas Calientes conference saved. by the French. Dec. 18—General Potiorek, commander named E. Gutierrez president of Mexico of Austrian army, defeated in Servia, removed May 4.—Fire in commercial center of Sept. 22.—Three British cruisers were Jan! 2.—J. P. Morgan & Co. announced Important Events of the for 20 days. from command. Valparaiso, Chile, burned over two and a. torpedoed and sunk by German submarine withdrawal of members of the firm from Nov. 11.—War declared between Carranza Allies made, advances at Dlxmude and half acres and cost more than fifty lives. in the North sea. directorates of many corporations. Twelve Months. Middelkerke by desperate bayonet and Villa factions in Mexico. May 29.—Canadian Pacific liner Empress Sept. 26.—British troops from India Feb. 9.—Mercantile bank of Memphis, charges. Nov. 25.—American troops under General of Ireland sunk in collision with Danish landed at Marseilles. Tenn., failed, President C. H. Raine admitting British appointed Prince Hussein Kamel, Funston evacuated Vera Cruz. collier Storstad in St. Lawrence river Sept. 29.—Germans began attack on defenses he had used its funds in cotton uncle of the ex-khedive, sultan of Egypt. Nov. 29.—Gen. Pablo Gonzales proclaimed 1,024 lost, of whom 798 were passenger 452 of Antwerp. speculation. Russians captured Lowicz. himself provisional president EUROPEAN WAR STANDS FIRST saved, of whom 246 were passengers. Laurence Oct. 2.—Germans defeated at Augustowo Feb. 12.—Standard Oil company arranged Dec. 19.—The kings of Denmark, Norway of Mexico. Irving, English actor, and his wife, and forced out of Russia. to lend China $15,000,000 in return for oil and Sweden agreed to act together In Nov. 30.—Villa entered Mexico City and Sir Henry Seton-Kerr, noted big Oct. 5.—Belgian government moved to concessions in Shan-Si province. war matters and to remain neutral. with 25,000 troops. game hunter, among the drowned- Ostend. March 13—United States Express company Two British mine sweepers sunk by Dec. 8.—President Wilson sent troops June 4.—One hundred villages in Japan Oct. 9.—Germans entered Antwerp. went out of business. Mexico's Muddled Affairs—Pope Plus mines. to protect Naco, Ariz., on Mexican border. devastated by terrible storm. Russian army occupied Lyck, East Prussia. April L—The great "Princes* Trust" of and Earl Roberts Among the IIlustrious Dec. 20.—German army in Poland reached June 19.—Mine explosion at Hillcrest, Germany collapsed with loss of $25,000,000. new Russian positions and battle for Dec. 16.—General Bliss told commanders Alberta resulted in the death of about Dead Disasters Oct. 10.—German army of 20,000 was repulsed April 2.—Location of the twelve regional Warsaw opened. of ^Carranza and Villa forces at Naco, 200 miners. law at Quatrecht, east of Ghent. reserve banks under the new currency and Sport*—Financial and Germans evacuated Dlxmude. Mex., that he would open fire on both if June 25.—Nearly half the city of Salem, Oct. 11.—Germany imposed war fine of announced. Dec. 2L Desperate battle in front of any more shots came across the border. Industrial Happenings. Mass., destroyed by fire, loss being about $100,000,000 on Antwerp. June 6.—Chaplin, Milne, Grenfell ft Co.. Warsaw continued. Dec. 18.—San Luis Potosi surrendered to $10,000,000. Most of the historic buildings Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German London bankers, failed for $5,000,000. Carranza forces. were saved. submarines. June 15.—President Wilson nominated COMPILED BY E. W. PICKARD. Dec. 21.—Gen. Hugh Scott and General Aug. 5.—Thirty-eight persons killed Oct. 12.—Ghent occupied by the Germans. following as members of federal reserve Maytorena, Villaista leader, conferred and 25 injured In train collision near board: Charles S. Hamlin of Boston, near Naco rearding firing across boundary Joplin. Mo. Oct. 13.—Belgian government moved to Thomas D. Jones of Chicago, Paul Warburg EUROPEAN WAR line. Aug. 26.—Steamer Admiral Sampson Havre, France. of New York, W. P. G. Harding of sunk by steamer Princess Victoria 20 Colonel Maritz and his troops in the Birmingham, Ala., A. C. Miller of San Feb. 2.—City of Gonaive, Haiti, burned miles from Seattle and 11 lives lost. northwest of Cape province, South Africa, Francisco. POLITICAL during a battle between rival rebel forces. Sept. 18.-—Steamer Francis H. Leggett rebelled. Martial law proclaimed throughout June 28.—Archduke Francis Ferdinand, June 25.—The H. B. Claflin company, Feb. 4.—Guillermo Billinghurst, president sunk in a gale off Oregon coast, 70 lives Union of South Africa. leading wholesale dry goods concern of heir to the Austrian throne, and his morganatic of Peru, captured by revolutionists being lost. Oct. 15.—Germans occupied Ostend and New York, failed with liabilities of about wife, the duchess of Hohenberg. and his deportation ordered. Oct. 3.—Earthquake destroyed Isbarta Bruges. Feb. 18.—House passed Alaska railroad $44,000,000. Bhot and killed by a student in Sarajevo, Feb. 14. Chinese government issued and Burdur, Asia Minor, 2,500 Oct. 16.—British cruiser Hawke sunk in July 6.—Iowa's blue sky law providing bill. capital of Bosnia, after a futile attempt proclamation decreeing the death penalty lives being lost. the North sea by German submarine. Feb. 21.—Senate ratified general arbitration for the regulation and supervision had been made to blow them up with a for opium smokers. Oct. 17.—Earthquake in Grecian provinces Oct. 17.—Japanese cruiser Takachlho treaties between United States and of investment companies held unconstitutional bomb. March 16.—Wife of French Minister of of A^ica, Beotia and Peloponnesus sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay. Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Norway, by federal judges. July 23.—Austria sent peremptory note Finance Caillaux killed Gaston Calmette, killed many persons and wrought British cruiser Undaunted and four destroyers Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland. July 23.—Government began suit to Servia demanding punishment of all editor of Paris Figaro. great damage. sunk four German dest#oyers in March 5.—President Wilson read to congress for dissolution of New Haven railrttad accomplices in murder of Archduke Francis May 6.—House of Lords defeated woman Oct. 27.—Explosion and fire, in the North sea. message urging that the clause in monopoly. Ferdinand and suppression of all societies suffrage measure. 104 to 60. Franklin company's coal mine at Royalton. Oct. 18.—Allies recaptured Armentieres. the Panama canal act exempting American July 23.—President Wilson withdrew which had fomented rebellion in May 19.—Revolt broke out In Albania, 111., resulted in death of 59 men. Oct. 19.—Desperate fighting along Belgian coastwise vessels from payment of nomination of Thomas D. Jones as Bosnia. B.000 suporters of Essad Pasha attacking Dec. 9..—Seven-million-dollar fire in coast, British warships taking part. foils be repealed. member of the federal reserve board, July 2'.—Troops mobilized by Austria, King William's palace al Durazzo. plant of Edison company at West Orange, Oct. 28.—French retook Altkirch, Alsace, March 10. Senate approved Alaska Aug. 4.—Frederick A. Delano selected Servia, Russia and Montenegro. Servians May 26.—Irish home rule bill passed its N. J. at the point of the bayonet. railroad bill. for federal reserve board. moved their capital to Nish. third and final reading in the house of Oct. 24.—Ten days' battle before Warsaw March 31.—House passed bill to repeal Aug. 11.—Directors of the New Haven July 28.—Austria declared war against commons by a majority of 77. ended In Gersnan defat. canal tolls exemption clause by majority NECROLOGY road agreed to the attorney general's Servia. July 5.—Carlos Mendoza, liberal, Oct. 25.—Germans crossed River Tser Of 86. terms for a peaceful dissolution of the July 29.—Austrians invaded Servm and elected president of Panama. and slowly pressed toward the south. June 5.—House passed the three Wilson system. shelled Belgrade. July 28.—Mme. Henriette Caillaux Oct. 26.—Germans bombarded Nieuport antitrust bills by huge majorities. Aug. 12.—Dissolution of the International July 31.—Kaiser demanded Russian mobilization found not guilty of the murder of Gaston but were checked by allies. June 11.—Bill to repeal exemption clause Jan. 4.—Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, noted author Harvester company as a monopoly cease and czar refused. Martial Calmette in Paris, on the ground of Maritz and his rebe,l force defeated by of the Panama canal tolls act passed by and physician, in Philadelphia. in restraint of trade ordered by the law proclaimed in Germany. temporary insanity. Union of South Africa troops. senate. Jan. 8.—Gen. Simon B. Buckner, veteran United States district court at St. Stock exchanges in nearly all cities of Sept. 3.—Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa, Prinzip, slayer of Archduke Francis July.l.—George T. Henry, Jr.. of San of Mexican and Civil wars. Paul,. Minn the world closed. archbishop of Bologna, elected Ferdinand and his wife, and 23 others Francisco and Washington nominated Jan. 13.—Dr. Edgar C. Spitzka, famous Sept. 4.—President Wilson presented Aug. 1.—Germany declared war on Russia pope and assumed name of Benedict found guilty of treason. for ambassador to Russia. alienist, in New York. to congress an appeal for an emergency and mobilized its army. Czar declared XV. Von Falkenhayn, German minister of July 6.—Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago Jan 14.—Count Yukyo Ito, fleet admiral internal revenue measure to martial law and France Issued decree of Sept. 5.—William of Wied, prince of war, made chief of staff to succeed Von appointed minister to Sweden. of the Japanese navy, in Toklo. mobilization. Italy declared Its neutrality. raise $100,000,000 to make up for the Albania, abandoned that country to the Moltke. Aug. 19.—President Wilson appointed Jan. 19.—Gen. Marie-George Plcquart, loss in customs receipts. rebels. Oct. 28.—De Wet and Beyers Joined in James C. McReynolds to the Supreme defender of Dreyfus, at Amiens, France. Sept. 25.—War tax bill passed by the Aug 2.—German troops advanced on Sept. -28.—Albanian senate elected South Africa revolt. court and T. W. Gregory to succeed Jan. 20.—Lord Strathcona and Mount France through neutral Luxembourg. house. Prince Burhan-Eddin, son of the former British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by McReynolds as attorney-general. Royal, high commissioner for Canada, in Russia began invasion of East Prussia Oct. 17.—Senate passed war tax bill. sultan, Abdul Hamid, to be prince mine. Sept. 15.—Secretary of State Bryan London. Nov. 16.—United States federal reserve and Posen. of Albania. Russians reoccupled Lodz and Radom, and the envoys of Great Britain, Jan. 21.—Edwin Ginn, Boston publisher, banks opened. Aug. 3.—Germans started three armies Oct. 12.—Ferdinand, nephew of the Germans retreating. France, Spain and China signed the leaving $1,000,000 to the "world peace foundation" toward France, through Belgium, violat Dec. 18.—Interstate commerce commission late king of Roumania, took the oath Oct. 28.—Prinzip was sentenced. to 20 Bryan peace treaties. which he established in 1909. Ing the neutrality of that country. granted in part the 5 per cent freight as his successor. years' imprisonment four of his accomplices Sept. 24.—Frederic Jesup Stimson ap Jan. 28.—Shelby M. Cullom, former United French troops crossed German frontier rate advance asked by railroads east of Oct. 23.—Haitien rebels formed a sentenced to death and othtrs to pointed ambassador to Argentine. States senator from Illinois. the Mississippi and north of the Ohio. In Vosges mountains. government under presidency of Gen. various terms of imprisonment. Sept. 29.—The house passed the rivers Feb. 5.—Congressman Robert G. Bremer Aug. 4.—Great Britain demanded that Davilmar Theodore. Botha reported the rout of the rebel and harbors bill as reduced to $20,000,000 of New Jersey. Germany withdraw her troops from Belgium. Boers. INDUSTRIAL Germany and England declared by the senate. Feb. 13.—Alphonse Bertillon, creator of German cruiser Emden torpedoed Russian Oct. 24.—Congress adjourned after the famous system of criminal identification. war on each other and Germany declared MEXICO cruiser and French destroyer to Penang a session of 567 days. war on Belgium. France declared war on harbor. Nov. 3.—In general elections Republican Feb. 14.—Senator Augustus O. Bacon of Germany. Jan. 5.—Ford Automobile company set Oct. 29.—Turkey began war on Russia, party gained over the vote of 1912 United States proclaimed its neutrality. Georgia. aside $10,000,000 of Its profits to distribute the cruiser Breslau bombarding Odessa, but failed to control congress. Progressive Feb. 19.—Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, Aug. 5.—Germans repulsed at Liege by Jan. 10.—Mexican rebels under Villa captured among Its employees, mostly in the form Theodosia and other places on the Black party fell to third place. Washington, widow of the famous novelist. Belgians. Ojinaga, many of the Federal troops of increased wages. sea. Colorado, Oregon and Arizona Field Marshal Earl Kitchener made Feb. 22.—Samuel W. Allerton, pioneer and several of the generals taking refuge Jan. 6.—United States circuit court of Nov. 1.—British cruiser Hermes sunk by went dry. Chicago packer. British secretary of state for war. on American side of the Rio Grande. appeals confirmed the conviction of 24 German submarine in Dover straits. Dec. 7.—Sixty-third congress was Joseph Fels, millionaire philanthropist President Wilson offered the services of Feb. 3. President Wilson lifted embargo members of the International Association called to order for its final session. the United States as mediator. Five German warships engaged four and single tax advocate, of Philadelphia. on exportation of arms which was of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers on British warships off the coast of Chile Feb. 23.—Former United States Senator Aug. 6.—Austria-Hungary declared war applied to Mexico by President Taft. the charge of dynamite conspiracy, and and sank two and disabled a third the Teller of Colorado. on Russia. Feb. 20.—Mexican situation brought to granted new trials to six others. British cruiser Amphion sunk by German fourth escaped. DOMESTIC March 6.—George W. Vanderbilt, owner new crisis by slaying of W. S. Benton, April 20.—Striking coal miners and member's of Biltmore. mine. Nov. 3.—British and French fleet bombarded rich rancher and a British subject, supposedly of Colorado National Guard fought Aug. 7.—Germans entered Liege. the Dardanelles forts, and British March 8.—Frederick Townsend Martin. by Villa. an -all day battle at Ludlow, a number of Aug 8. —Twenty thousand English troops vessels destroyed the barracks of Akabah, March 12. George Westinghouse, famous April 2.—Villa captured Torreon. after men being ki'led. Jan. 27.—President Wilson ordered' permanent lander] on Vronch coast. French invaded Arabia. inventor. eleven days' of bloody: fighting. Villa's April 22.—Entire National Guard of Colorado government of Canal Zone into Alsace-Lorraine and captured Altkirch Germans abandoned left bank of the March 27. Dr. Josiah L. Pickard, loss 500 killed snd 1,500 wounded and that called out and ordered to Trinidad Yser below Dixmufle. operation April 1 and appointed- Col. former president of the Iowa State university and Muehlhausen. of the federals much greater. strike zone, where several more men were George W. Goethals the first governor, Italy reaffirmed its neutrality.Am? Nov. 5.—Franca, Great Britain and Russia and before that superintendent of April 9.—Arrest of unarmed Americanbiucjackets killed in the continued fighting. 10.—France broke off diplomatic declared war on Turkey. Great Britain .. Feb. 24.—Court of appeals reversed death, schools of Chicago. by federal authorities at Tam: April 28.—Heavy fighting took place in annexed Cyprus. Verdict in case of Charles Becker, former April lv—"Rube" Waddell, famous ball relations wil'i AUPtria-TTungary. p'co brought demand from Admiral Mayo,, the Colorado mine strike war and President player. Aus. 11.—French driven out of Cernay Nov. 6.—The sheik-ul-Islarrj ordered a police lieutenant in New York. that Huerta apologize and that Americari Wilson ordered federal troops there and Muelhausen. holy war against Russia, France and England. April •"4.—Col. George W. Goethals assumed April 4.—Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Minnesota flag be saluted. to restore order. Aug. 13.—Germans occupied Hasselt, his duties as governor of Carnal lumber magnate. April 12.—Hurrta refused to render a salute April 29—Colorado mine strikers attacked Zone. Tongr^s and St. Trond. Belgium. France Nov. 7.—German fortress of Tsing Tao, April 6.—3£r^. Lillian M. W. Stevens, to the American flag in Tampico. the Forbes camp of the Rocky anci England declared war on Austria. China, stormed by Japanese and British April 5.—Secretary Daniels issued order head of the W. C. T. U. April 14.—President Wilson ordered Atlantic Mountain Fuel company, killing seven and captured. prohibiting use of alcoholic liquors for April 9.—Haruko, dowager empress of Ant? in—Japan issued ultimatum to Gerrranv and Pacific fleets to Mexican waters mine guards and burning most of the drinking purposes on vessels and in yards Japan. demanding withdrawal of German Nov. 9.—Belgian troops penetrated to at once to enforce his demands or Huerta. buildings. Federal troops from Fort D. Ostend. of the navy. Ex-Governor E. S. Draper of Massachusetts. warships from the Orient and evacuation A. Russell arrived in the strike zone. April 12.—Four gunmen electrocuted in Ypres set fire by German shells and destroyed. of Kiauchan. Federal army routed by Villa at end of May 1.—Fourteen more troops of federal New York for murder of Rosenthal. April 15.—George Alfred Townsend, Aug. 17.—Belgian seat of government nine days' battle at San Pedro. cavalry ordered to Colorado strike zone. May 7.—Eleanor Randolph Wilson, journalist who won fame writing over was transferred from Brussels to Antwerp German cruiser Emden driven ashore April 19.—Huerta refused to agree to the May 11.—United States Supreme court youngest daughter of the president, married the name "Gath." on Cocos islands and destroyed by Australian demands of the United States for an unconditional set aside contempt sentences of Gompers to Secretary of the Treasury W. G. April 17.—McKee Rankin, veteran actor. Beginning of five days' battle in Lorraine, cruiser Sydney. salute of the flag, and President and other labor leaders. McAdoo in the White House. April 26.—George F. Baer, president of ending in repulse of French across Wilson drafted his message to congress Nov. 10.—Russian fleet in Black sea sank May 16.—United States circuit court of the Reading railway. May 19.—Colonel Roosevelt returned frontier with heavy loss. Beginning of four Turkish transports. and two proclamations declaring a appeals remanded 24 union labor men, S%uth America. April 23.—S. S. Beman, famous architect. five days' battle between Servians and "hostile" blockade of Mexico ports and Nov. 11.—British gunboat Niger sunk by convicted of conspiracy to transport dynamite, May 22.—Charles Becker, former police May 2.—Duke of Argyll, son-in-law of Austrians on the Jadar, ending in Austrian a torpedo off Deal. harbor. to federal penitentiary within three the late Queen Victoria. lieutenant, found guilty a second time of rout. April 20.—President Wilson personally Russians occupied Johannlsburg, East weeks. murder in the first degree for Rosenthal May 3.—Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, last of A#g. 19.—Brussels occupied by the Germans. Prussia. asked congress for support In action June 23. One man killed and two slaying in New York. the great Civil war commanders. the allies retiring to Antwerp. Germans captured Di*mude. against Huerta. wounded fighting between factions of miners' June 11.—Kermit Roosevelt and Belle May 9.—Charles W. Post, millionaire Servians defeated 80,000 Austrians at House adopted resolution giving president union at Butte, Mont. Nov. 15.—Germans forced from all positions breakfast food manufacturer of Battle Shabats, forty miles west of Belgrade. Willard married in Madrid. fr.ee rein, after debate in which his Aug. 3.—Western railroad managers on left bank of the Yser. July 4.—Twelve persons were killed Creek, Mich., committed suicide at Santa Aug 20.—French recaptured Muelhausen, British destroyed Turkish fort at entrance policy was assailed. Senate postponed agreed to mediate trouble with enginemen. and more than 900 injured in Independence Barbara, Cal. Alsace, but were driven back in Lorraine. to Red sea. action for a day. day celebrations. May 10.—Lillian Nordica, grand opera Aug 21.—Germans began bombardment April 21.—American marines captured Dec. 8.—The Colorado coal strike. In Nov. 16.—Floods in West Flanders cut Aug. 15.—Panama canal formally star, in Batavia, Java. of Namui forts apd levied .war tax of off a large number of Germans. part of Vera Cruz after a fight In which force since April, 1910, was called off opened to commercial traffic. May 23.—William O. Bradley, U. S. senator M0.000,000 on Brussels and $10,000,000 on four Americans were killed and twentyone by the miners. Pope issued encyclical urging cessation Sept. 4.—David J. Palmer of Washington, from Kentucky. Liege. of warfare. wounded and about 200 Mexicans la., elected commander-in-chief May 26.—Jacob Riis, noted author and Aug 12.—Germans occupied Ghent and Nov. 18.—Russians checked by Germans were killed. Read Admiral Radger with of the Grand Army of the Republic. sociologist. Brufrr? five ships arrived at Vera Cruz. SPORTING Soldau after four days of bloody fighting. at Sept. 10.—James Gordon Bennett, June 3.—W. M. French, director of the \ug. 23—Japan declared war on Germany April 22.—Senate passed resolution justifying owner of New York Herald, married Chicago Art institute. Nov. 22 —Ypres bombarded by Germans, the president in using the armed June 14.—Adlai E. Stevenson, former Baroness George de Reuter in Paris. Luneville. France, occupied by the Germans town hall and market place being destroyed. forces of the nation to enforce his demands Oct. 17.—Robert Taft. son of the former vice-president of the United States. Feb. 26.—Ralph De Palma won Vanderbilt on Huerta. June 18.-»-Former United States Senator president, married Miss Martha cup at Los Angeles, making average Russians drove back the Germans from Nov. 23—Russians won great victory Taking of Vera Cruz completed by marines Frank M. Hiscock of New York. Bowers. the eastern frontier. speed of 75.5 miles an hour. over Germans who were advancing on and bluejackets, supported by the Nov. 2.—Twenty-one directors or former June 21.—Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Aug. ?4.—Tbe allied armies along the Feb. 28.—Edwin Pullen won fifth International W arsaw. guns of the warships, twelve Americans Austrian peace advocate and winner of directors of the New Haven railroad Grand Prix automobile race at line from Mons to the Moselle defeated Nov. 24.—ttermans opened a terrific attack being killed and fifty wounded. the Nobel prize. indicted by federal jury in New Santa Monica, Cal. and driven back by the Germans. April 23.—President Wilson ordered the on the allies from Ypres to La July 3.—Joseph Chamberlain, veteran York for criminal conspiracy to violate Germans captured Namur, drove the May 23.—Lawrence Jenkins of Scotland Bassee. Fifth brigade, General Funston in command, British statesman. the Sherman antitrust law. won British amateur golf championship. French out of Alsace and advanced from Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugge demolished to embark for Vera Cruz at Galveston. July 12.—Horace H. Lurton, associate Nov. 4.—Chicago stoekyards ordered Lorraine into France. May 28.—Francis Ouimet of Boston won by shells from British fleet. justice of the Supreme court of the Japanese warshins began bombardment closed ten days to check epidemic of amateur golf championship of France. Nov. 21—British battleship Bulwark destroyed The embargo on shipment of arms to United States. the foot-and-mouth disease in the May 30.—Rene Thomas, driving a Delage of Tsing Tao. fortified seaport of Kiauchau. by explosion off Sheerness. Mexico was restored. Aug. 6.—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife middle West. car for France, won 500-mile race at Indianapolis Nov. 27.—Germans renewed fierce bombardment April 24.—Fifth brigade sailed from Galveston of the president. Aug. 25.—Austria declared war on Japan. Dec. 16.—U. S. senate ratified the international in 6:03:45.99, an average of of Reims. for Vera Cruz. Jules Lemaitre, famous French litterateur. 82.47 miles an hour, breaking the record of Two British ships sunk off Havre by Congress passed the volunteer army bill. convention for safety at sea. the speedway. Germans levied a war tax of $90,000,000 German submarines, and one off Grimsby April 25.—President Wilson accepted the Aug. 12.—Pol Plancon, famous grand June 13.—British team won first of the on the Belgian province of Brabant. by a mine. offer of Brazil, Chile arid Argentina, opera singer. Aug. 26.—French cabinet resigned and Dec. 1.—Germans cut their way out of International polo matches at Meadowbrook. through their plenipotentiaries, to mediate Aug. 19.—Pope Pius X. new cabinet formed by Premier Viviani. the Russian trap in Poland but with great the Mexican trouble, stipulating that Aug. 20.—Father Francis Xavier Russians took Marienburg. German island June 16.—British polo team won second losses. Huerta must resign. Wernz, head of the Society of Jesus. match and international cup. of Yap near Guam seized by Japanese. General De Wet, Boer rebel leader, captured. April 28.—Fifth brigade arrived at Vera Jan. 5.—Oil tank steamer Oklahoma Aug. 23.—Darius Miller, president of Austrian defeated Russians on Gallcian June 19.—Yale defeated Harvard by four Cruz and General Funston assumed the sank off Sandy Hook, 25 of the crew perishing. the Burlington railroad. frontier. Louvain sacked and burned feet in annual boat race. Dec. 2.—Germans In Poland resumed the supreme command there. Robert J. Kerr Sept. 8.—Sir J. Henniker Heaton, father by Germans. offensive. Harry Vardon won British open golf cf Chicago appointed civil governor of the of penny postage between England Jan. 10. Great storm on the Baltic championship for sixth time. Aug. 27.—British cruiser Highflyer destroyed Belgrade, capital of Servia, occupied by city. A thousand refugees landed at Galveston. caused submersion of several villages and and America. German armed merchant cruiser June 26.—Columbia University won intercollegiate the Austrians Sept. 8.—Baron O'Brian, lord chief Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off west coast drowning of many persons. regatta at Poughkeepsie. Dec. 6.—Germans occupied Lodz, Russian May 1.—Secretary Garrison ordered General justice of Ireland. Floods in Belgium did millions of dollars' of Africa. Poland, after severe bombardment. June 27.—Jack Johnson retained heavyweight Funston to establish complete military Sept. 16.—James E. Sullivan, secretary-treasurer Aug. 28.—British fleet sunk five German worth of damage. championship by defeating Frank Dec 7.—Germans defeated Russians government In Vera Cruz, displacing of the Amateur Athletic Jan. 11.—Terrific storm hit northwest warships off Helgoland. north and south of Lodz. the civil government. Moran in twenty-round fight in Paris. Russia and 150 peasants lost their lives in union. Allies checked the march of Germans to July 4.—Harvard crew won the Henley Dec. 8.—German cruisers Scharnhorst, 10.—American naval forces seized MPV Sept. 18.—Mrs. Frank Leslie. Paris and terrific battle was begun at snow. regatta. Gneisenau, Leipzig and' Nuernberg, under Lobe island as a base for operations. Sept. 25.—Rear Admiral Herbert Many thousands of persons perished in Arras-and one near Nancy. Admiral von Spee, sunk by British squadron July 7.--Freddie Welsh of Wales won May 11.—Funeral services for marines Winslow, U. S. N., retired. southern Japan when volcano of SakuraJima Austria declared war on Belgium. under Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick the lightweight eh-' pionship by defeating and sailors killed at Vera Cruz held at Sir James P. Whitney, premier of Ontario. Aug. 29.—British forces from New Zealand burst into activity, following repeated Willie Ritchie of America in Sturdee off the Falkland islands. The Brooklyn navy yard, President Wilson delivering earthquake shocks. Large city of London. seized Apia, chief town of German Dresden, badly damaged, escaped. the address. Kagoshima partly destroyed and several Oct. 10.—King Charles of Roumania. Samoa. Emperor William ill in Berlin. July 16.—Georges Carpentier of May 13. Constitutionalists captured Cardinal Ferrata, papal secretary of Russians defeated near Tannenberg. General Beyers, rebel Boer leader, reported villages blotted out. France, receiving the decision over Tampico. Aug. 30.—Germans occupied Amiens. Jan. 16.—British submarine A-7 with state. dead. "Gunboat" Smith of America on a foul, May 20.—Mediators met at Niagara Sept. 2.—Seat of French government crew of eleven, lost during taaneuvers oft Oct. 16.-—Marquis di San Giuliano, Turkish forces at Kurna, at head of Persian in London, won the white heavyweight Falls, Ont., and outlined program including Italian foreign minister. moved to Bordeaux. gulf, surrendered to a British expeditionary Plymouth. championship. elimination of Huerta, Carranza and Oct. 25.—Sir Charles H. Douglas, Russians captured Lemberg, Austria, force from India. Steam whaler Karluk, flagship of Canadian Aug. 1.—Charles Evans, Jr., of Chicago Zapata and the holding of a free election after seven days' battle. government's arctic exploring expedition chief of the British imperial staff. Dec. 9.—Terrific fighting around Lowlcz. won the western amateur golf under the auspices of a provisional government. Nov. 1.—Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee Sept. 5.—Germans captured Reims. Russian Poland. under Villjalmur Stefansson, championship. retired. Sept. 6.—British cruiser Pathfinder sunk crushed in the Ice and sunk northeast of Dec. 10.—Allies captured Routers and Aug. 21.-T-Walter C. Hagen, professional, June 5.—Huerta accepted the Niagara by torpedo in North sea. Nov. 4.—John Kean, former U. S. senator Armentieres. Siberia. of the Country club of Rochester, Falls peace program. from New Jersey. Sept. 7.—Allies victorious in a battle Austrians in Servia compelled to retreat. Jan. 17.—Loss of the German steamer N. Y., won the open golf championship June 23.—Zacatacas taken by Villa's along the line from Nanteuil to Verdun, Acilia with passengers and crew of 98 of F. Augustus Heinze, copper magnate. of the United States. army. the Imperial guard under the German Nov. 14.—Field Marshal Earl Roberts. Dec. 11.—Russians checked three of the the coast of Terra del Fuego confirmed. Aug. 26.—J. M. Barnes of Philadelphia July 2.—The A. B. C. mediators left crown prince being nearly annihilated by five German columns advancing on War- J&n. 19.—Three hundred Japanese refugees Nov. 19.—Dr. Robert J. Burdette, humorist, won the national tennis championship. Niagara Falls after issuing a statement writer and pastor. the British. from the volcanic eruptions on Sakura that "all that remains to be done is Germans destroyed Dlnant and captured Nov. 20.—Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxlet Allies repulsed violent attacks of Germans buried under falling cliff and killed. Sept. 5.—Francis Ouimet won the to organize and establish a provisional noted sculptor. Maubeuge. near Ypres. Jan. 30.—Old Dominion liner Monroe government for Mexico." American amateur golf championship. Sept. 8.—Allies pushed back the entire Nov. 24.—Cardinal Cavallerl, patriarch German submarine attack on Dover repulsed. sunk in collision with the steamer Nantucket Sept. 19.—Mrs. H. Arnold Jackson of July 6.—Huerta received the major* of Venice. line of Invading Germans. off the Virginia coast and 41 persons Boston won the national woman's srolf lty of votes cast In the Mexican presidential Sept. 9.—British forced Germans to retreat Dec. 12.—German barracks at Kiel destroyed Dec. 1.—Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan, championship. drowned. election and Blanquet was chosen along the river Marne. by fire. U. S. N., retired. March 8.—St. Louis Athletic club destroyed Oct. 13.—Boston National team won vice-president. Sept. 11.—Russians drove the Germans Dec. 4.—Slg. Peruglnl, noted singer Governor Goethals asked that destroyers by fire 40 perished. worli's championship from Philadelphia July 15.—Huerta resigned as president and actor. from several fortified positions in Russian be sent to Panama canal at once to March 15.—Quake and volcano killed league team. American of Mexico and left the olty. Franclsco Poland, but repulsed with heavy losses In enforce neutrality. Dec. 8.—W. W. Rockhlll, noted American many on Hondo Island, Japan. Nov. 21.—Harvard won eastern football Carbajal was sworn in as presl* East Prussia. diplomat. British submarine passed under mines March 16.—Many perished in hurrlcant championship by beating Yale, and dent Austoll* Sept 12.—British warships from Dec. 10.—Congressman- Sereno in Dardahelles and torpedoed Turkish and flood In Province of Stavropol, Ru» Illinois won the Western Conference July 20.—Huerta -sailed on the Qer* took Herbertshoehe. neLQi SQX9n* Payne of New York, tattLeshlp Messudleh. man cruiser Dresden for Jamaica. title when It defeated Wisconsin.