New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1915, Page 10

ies of In- s, With finter Con- bm, Locked mbat. *was more than orld was ‘stag- ftent and- ferocity ssible of realiza- the year there ed that Europe ch awaiting the med that the na- greatest claims Hvilization would struggle now on eed, has set the . ushered in the not threatened— was. The ever ar with - Mexico beginning of the, his country was s and we had to roops there and war, or inter- s avoided. hno Huerta, then pt Mexico; forced o salute the flag This was a cul- this government, e of marines was | and the United p of ‘that ecity. lost their lives ere killed. The in November. WAR. tria as eneral mobi- ng that led to h war was the hduke Francis . Although the une 28, it was part of July itimatum to Ser- nation in Eu- ats hurried from what had long 1 European con- s at hand, In- the situation by last day in July, pd a general mo- ing day—the 1st carried the mes- fid declared war same ‘- day the d ordered a gen- ht nothing but a a war which than half the ving its declara- rmany Ssent’ its and addressed m, demanding a pops into France. t the objective prmy was Paris. lench. capital was ‘my of the Kaiser ng Belfium. e 5] ANTWERP. ked in dash bormbarded. one of the many terrifying war. Anti‘rp were & st ige whir- pwed by seyeral pppelin wasiover pping its deadly ed. On Aug. 27 [There ate differ- piges that led up _c city by the ains that the eu and the peo- “terror stricken. ‘was burned s ally, block- p ring day the Beptember, when nothing could German, army . A battle be- ne and east of man. right wing bwed by a gen- 12 the German isne. the war which pt attention and truction of the at Rheims. EMDEN. erman naval troyed. German cruiser n terrorizing ‘the as again heard pntered the har- P8 and torpedoed @ a French de- artfully dis- pnal funnel and er great speed clean getaway. firmden was re- noteworthy ane: war on. Rus- lon Odessa, No- in the [ November were h of Gérman na- ron of five Ger- British squad- B coast of Chile, later a German Photo No. 31 1—~Showing d President Arriaga of Portugal. Nicholas of Montenegro. man shells, Wilson. 23.—Pope Pius X. battleship Michigan for landing press of Ireland. 30.—Steamship squadron made a raid to the British coast near Yarmouth. There was great joy in the camp of the allies and corresponding gloom in Germany when it became known that on Nov. 10 the Emden was destroyed at North Keeling island, in the bay of Bengal, by the Australian cruiser Syd- ney. The following day a German sub- marine sunk the British gunboat Niger off Deal. On Nov. 19 the English house of commons voted a new army of 1,000,000 men. At this time there were more than, 1,000,000 men already unders arms, exclusive of territorials. JANUARY. United States court reports Harry K. Thaw sane. - Many noted persons die. Aside from the war the year 1914 had its quota of other big news events, Early in January—to be exact Jan. 11— a commission of the United States cowrt reported that Harry X, Thaw is copyright by American Press Association; photo No. ruction entrance to Rheims cathedral. 7.—President Poincare of France. 13.—Czar of Russia. 17.—~Emperor of Japan. 24.—Pope Benedict XV. 27.—Former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson. Monroe sunk in collision with Nantucket. at Vera Cruz. sane. Toward the end of the month there was a tragedy of the sea when the Old Dominion liner Monroe was sunk off the Virginia capes with a loss of forty-one lives. Deaths of noted men during the month were Count Yukyo Ito, noted Japanese fleet ad- miral at Tokyo, aged seventy-one yvears; General Marie Georges Picquart, noted in the famous Dreyfus case in Paris, aged sixty-six years. m . FEBRUARY. Blizzards and zero temperature in eastern states. A a A AN AN A~ B The big news event on the first day in ¥ebruary was a devastating fire that did $1,000,000 damage to cotton at Clin- ton, Tex. TUp to the twelfth day of this month the winter, in the middle and eastern states particularly, had been unsually mild. On the 12th there came a blizzard and zero temperature which caused suffering and tied up traffic in New York and many other large cities, 20 copyright by Clinedinst; 2—King Albert of Belgium. 8.—Sultan of Turkey. 14.—Ruins of Termonde, Belgium. 18 and 19.—Captain von Muller and his ship, the Emden. all others photo by American 3.— German prisoners of war. 9.—The kaiser. Two days later another blizzard, more intense than the first, swept the east- ern states, paralyzing traffic. MARCH. Thirty lose lives In Missouri Athletic clubhouse, St. Louis. Million dollar fire at Durham, N. C. [ e | In March the death roll included George W. Vanderbilt, millionaire, aged fifty-two; Edward H. Butler, pro- prietor Buffalo News, aged sixty-four; George Westinghouse, inventor railway airbrake, aged sixty-eight; Marie Jan- sen, formerly noted comic opera singer; Frederic Mistral, French Provencal poet, winner of a Nobel prize, at Maili- aine, France, aged eighty-four. On the 9th of this month in a fire disaster in the Missouri Athletic clubhouse, at St. Louis, thirty persons lost their lives. Fire in a plant at Durham, N. €., on the 24th caused a loss of §1,- 000000, tobacco 10.—Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. 15.—Hospital in Antwerp damaged by Zeppelin raid. 20.—Mrs. William G. McAdoo (nee Eleanor Wilson). 25.—Unloading caskets containing bodies of victims of Empress of Ireland disaster from steamship Lady Grey. 28.—George T. Stallings, manager Boston Braves. 31.—American sailors behind barricade of coffee bags in Vera Cruz. YEAR THAT IS GONE Press Association. 4.—King Peter of Servia. APRIL. United States marines landed in Vera Cruz. Twenty-six killed riot in Colorado. B~ A~ A AaAaans A A~ A~A~8 It was in the month of April that the situation between this country and Mexico reached its acutest stage. On the 19th provisional President Vic- toriano Huerta, whom this country never had recognized, refused to sa- lute the United States flag and the fol- lowing day President Wilson delivered a warlike message on the Mexican sit- uation and received authority from congress to use force against Huerta. Americans were warned to leave Mexi- co. On the same day in a riot at Lud- low mining colony, Colorado, twenty- six persons were killed. day American warships captured Vera Cruz, losing seventeen killed and fifty- seven wounded. The Mexican loss was 126 killed and 195 wounded. On the in mining 423d United States troops were ordered | 5—Wrecked interior of Rheims cathedral. 11.—King George of England. 16.—Private residences in Antwerp wrecked by Ger- 21.—William G. McAdoo. 29.—Collier Storstadt, The following | I [ - 12—King 22—Mrs. 26.—Marines leaving which sank Em- to Vera Cruz and the head of the United States embassy left the Mexican capital. Two days later Argentina, Brazil and Chile offered to mediate be- tween the United States and Mexico Mexico accepted mediation, although United States troops. [ i ey ). | MAY. Eleanor Wilson, president’s daughter, and William G. Mc- Adoo married. Empress of Ireland sunk, 1,024 drowned. Early in May—on the 7th—Eleanor | Wilson, daughter of the president, was married in the White House to William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of the treas- ury. Four days later President Wilson took a leading part in memorial exer- |cises in the Brooklyn navy yard to United States sailors killed at Vera | Cruz. On the 18th of this month regu- | rific Vera Cruz continued to be occupied by | Mexican Sit came Acute ted States Mari Landed In Vera Cruz. Year’s Death Toll In- cluded Pope Pius X. and Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son, Wife of President,, the Panama canal. Two daye later the Mexican mediation conference met in Niagara Falis. On the 26th of this month, by a majority vote of seveniy- seven, the Irish home rule bill passed the British parllament. Near the end of the month—the 28th—the steamship Empress of Ireland was rammed and., sunk by the collier Storstad off Far- ther point, gulf of St. Lawrence. Out of 1,476, 452 were saved, 1,024 drowned. T e s | JUNE, Terrific thunderstorm in Parie. A A A A A A A June 8 the 4,000 ton steamghip passed through the Gatun locks of the Panama canal on a test. Fiye days later Adlai E. Stevenson, former vice president of the United States, died in Chicago at the age of(y seventy-nine years, On the 16th a ter- thunderstorm in Paris caused & loss of life and great damage to proper- ty; sewers and subways were flooded and chasms opened in the streets. P S e e e - JULY. Huerta quits Mexico. New York Stock Exchange closes because of war. On Allianca On the first day of July the use of liquor on shipboard In the United States navy was prohibited by the sec- retary of the navy. On July 15 Gen- e eral Victoriano Huerta resigned his office as provisional president of Mexi~ co and two days later sailed from Puer- ta, Mexico, on the German cruiser Dresden. On the last day of this month, owing to the war events in Eu- . rope, the New York Stock Exchange closed for the first time since 1873 (Black Friday). B~ e ) AUGUST. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of president, dies. Pope Pius X. Romt. & dies in Vatican, Thirty-eight were killed nnd many injured in a wreck on the Kansas City« Southern at Tipton Ford, Mo. The fol- lowing day the nation was plunged in mourning over the death of Mrs. Wood- row Wilson, wife of the president. On Aug. 15 the Panama canal was for- mally opened to commerce, the steamer Ancon passing from ocean to ocean in ten hours. Aug. 19 wae the hottest day of the season in New York city. The following day Pope Pius X. died in th Vatican, Rome, at the age of sevent nine years. SEPTEMBER. Cardinal Della Chiesa crowned Pope Benedict XV. Irish home rule bill becom: law. B A A A A A A A On the second day of September Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected supreme pontiff to succeed Pius X., and two days later he was crowned at Rome Benedict XV. On the 15th twenty-seven were killed and eighteen injured in a St. Louis and San Francis- co rallroad wreck, caused by a cloud- buret near Lebanon, Mo. Two days later thirty were killed and many in- jured in a collision on the Illinois Cen- tral at Binghamton, Ill. The following day the Irish home rule bill became a law in Great Britain. [ e 2 i e | OCTOBER. Churches unite in prayer for peace in Europ: Boston Braves championshijp. win world's On the fourth day of October, in re- sponge to a request from President Wilson, all the churches in the country united in a prayer for peace among the warring nations of Europe. Thig month saw the downfall of Connie Mack's vaunted Athletics They were hu-" miliated by losing four straight games in the world's baseball series to the Boston Braves. It was one of the most remarkable sport reversals, all dope be- ing upset, NOVEMBER. Epidemic of foot and meuth disease in cattle. Federal reserve banks opened. In the early part of November there was an outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in American cattle and several states were quarantined. On the 16th of this month federal reserve banks were opened, releasing $400,000,000 for [loans. s a e s e as | DECEMBER. President Wilson reads mes- sage to congress. Thomas A. Edison’s plant swept by fire. Wilson on Dec. 8 read a ? message to the Sixty-third congress. Discussing the defenses of the nation, the preeident said, among other things “We never shall have a large standing army.” On the 9th Thomas A. Edison’s manu- facturing and experimental plant at West Orange, N. J.,, was more than half destroyed by fire. On the 12th the New Tork Stock Exchange reopened, On the 16th four German cruisers bom- barded Scarborouih uud Hartlepool President lar barge service was inaugurated in| England o