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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1915
Page
4
European War stands first as 1914 shapes mankind with turmoil and catastrophe. Mexico's muddled affairs unfold as Pope Pius and Karl Roberts are listed among the illustrious dead in early months of the conflict.
A chronology tracing the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo and the rapid slide into global war. It records mobilizations, declarations of war, key battles, and shifts in alliances across Europe, Africa, and Asia from June through December.
A timeline of upheavals across nations: Gonalve Haiti burned in street fighting. Peru’s Guillermo Billinghurst seized by revolutionists. China imposes death penalty for opium smoking. France faces ministerial murder scandal. Albanian revolts shift power in Durazzo andDurazzo palace attack. Ireland’s home rule bill advances. Panama elects Carlos Mendoza. Caillaux acquittal in Paris. Benedict XV elected pope. Albania reorganizes under new leadership. Roumanian succession oath. Haitian rebels form government under Gen Davilmar Theodore.
A compact timeline detailing Villa Huerta Carranza Zinita and U.S. actions across 1913 1914 including Vera Cruz Tampico Veracruz Naco and Ciudad de Mexico with captures resignations invasions mediations and border deployments by U S forces and treaty talks involving Wilson Taft and allied mediators.
A detailed political year lists key acts and appointments from February to December. Major events include passing Alaska railroad bills, repealing canal toll exemptions, antitrust measures, railroad policy shifts, nervous Senate and House votes, and several deadly disasters from shipwrecks to fires and mine explosions.
A chronicle lists key events including President Wilson initiating permanent Canal Zone government under Governor George W. Goethals on April 1, court of appeals overturning Charles Becker death verdict in February, naval liquor prohibition on April 5, four gunmen electrocuted in New York on April 12, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo marriage on May 7, Roosevelt returns from South America on May 19, Becker found guilty again on May 22, Kermit Roosevelt and Belle Willard wed on June 11, Independence Day tragedy on July 4, Panama Canal opening to commerce on August 15, Grand Army of the Republic commander David J. Palmer elected September 4, James Gordon Bennett’s Paris marriage on September 10, Robert Taft’s marriage on October 17, New Haven directors indicted November 2, Chicago stockyards shutdown for foot-and-mouth fears November 4, and Senate ratification of the Safety at Sea treaty December 16.
A list of disasters from Jan to March detailing ship sinkings and drownings. Notable items include the oil tank steamer Oklahoma sinking near Sandy Hook with 25 crew dead, Baltic floods drowning many, and a Sakura Jima eruption killing hundreds. Other events mention fires, earthquakes, volcanoes, and maritime losses across Russia, Japan, the Baltic region, and the Virginia coast.
A compiled necrology lists prominent figures from January to December including Dr. S Weir Mitchell Gen Simon Buckner Dr Edgar Spitzka Count Yukyo Ito Gen Marie George Picquart Edwin Ginn Shelby Cullom Robert Bremer Alphonse Bertillon Augustus Bacon Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson George Westinghouse Josiah Pickard Lillian Nordica Adlai Stevenson Sickles Charles Post Jacob Riis Adlai Stevenson Sr Baroness Bertha von Suttner Horace Lurton Mrs Woodrow Wilson Jules Lemaitre Plancon Pope Pius X D X Wernz Darius Miller James Sullivan Mrs Leslie Rear Admiral Winslow Cardinal Ferrata Marquis di San Giuliano Sir Charles Douglas Adna Chaffee John Kean F Heinze Earl Roberts Dr Burdette Vinnie Ream Hoxie Cardinal Cavalieri Rear Admiral Mahan Sig Perugini W W Rockhill Sereno Payne and others noted in this year’s obituaries.
Joseph Smith president of the reorganized church is noted along with retirement of Master E A Bigelow in Chicago on December 20 and Eugene Zimmerman the Cincinnati millionaire with Gen Thomas Sherwin visiting Boston.
A year’s recap of banking failures and corporate upheavals from Jan to Dec. J P Morgan withdrew directors from firms. Mercantile Bank of Memphis failed with Raine admitting misuse of funds in cotton speculation. Standard Oil agreed to lend China 15 million. United States Express went out of business. The Princes Trust of Germany collapsed. U S Reserve Bank locations announced. London bankers Chaplin Milne Grenfell faced failure. Wilson nominated fed board members. later Jones’s nomination withdrawn. New Haven dissolution pursued. Harvester monoply dissolution ordered. War tax measures advanced. federal reserve banks opened. interstate commerce rate adjustments granted.
A Jan 5 note reports Ford Motor Company set aside 10 million dollars of profits to distribute to employees mainly as higher wages. The timeline also covers union prosecutions, Colorado mine conflicts, and federal intervention through 1910 1911 actions. Specific dates outline court rulings, strikes, and troop deployments.
A list of major 1920s sport results including Ralph De Palma’s Vanderbuilt Cup win in Los Angeles with 75.5 mph, Edwin Pulien’s Grand Prix at Santa Monica, Lawrence Jenkins and Francis Ouimet amateur titles, Rene Thomas’s 500 mile Indianapolis record, Yale over Harvard in boat race, Vardon’s sixth British Open, and other key wins from golf, polo, boxing, tennis, and football.
Rappert and Huston purchase the New York Yankees after a month of bargaining, paying close to £500,000 to take control of the club.
New York January 1 The New York Yankees were sold after a day of bickering. Colonel Jacob Ruppert Jr and Captain T L Huston of New York are the new owners. The price is private but estimated at $500000. Wild Bill Donovan, ex Detroit pitcher, to manage the club.
Byron Ban Croft Johnson consolidates control of the American league by orchestrating the sale of the New York club to Colonel Jacob Ruppert Jr. and Captain T. L. Huston in a move seen as a freeze out of Frank Farrell and Big Bill Devery. Wild Bill Donovan to become manager and pick a spring training site, with a Florida town favored.
Pittsburg crowds toast 1915 with two featherweight fights at Duquesne Gardens. Champion Johnny Kilbane defends against Patsy Brannigan in a x rounds bout while Joe Harang faces Harry Palmer at the Highland club in Pittsburg.
Ten persons were killed and fifty injured, several fatally, in a rear end collision between a London bound express and a local train on the Great Eastern railway at Ilford. Victims were crushed in the rear car of the stationary local train as the express crashed into it.
Herman Germany Schaefer, former Washington club infielder, may become manager of the Peoria Three league team. F Bernie Smith secretary of the club is in New York to confer with Schaefer about offers.
New York January 1 Charlie White Freddie Welsh ten round bout delayed to January 26 to allow White to reach peak condition. Matchmaker Jimmy Johnson also seeks a replacement match for January 13 pitting Young Shugrue against either Al Wolcott or Leach Cross.
Jack McAllister former Cleveland Naps scout and ex player in New York and Connecticut state leagues agreed to manage the Columbus American Association club and was expected to sign a contract later today in Columbus Ohio.
In Columbus Ohio K O Mars of Cincinnati and Patsy Cline of New York lightweight weighed in before noon for their twelve round bout this afternoon. The report notes the city police motor squad plan to buy more motorcycles in the spring.
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