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™. Strike Riot: PAGE 81X if EVENTS IN 19 Record of the Year From January to December. HISTORY DAY BY DAY. Notable Occurrences Thrvaghunt the World. A REMARKABLE DEATH ROLL. Wonders of Aviatien—Items of Mis- cellaneous Interest, Accidents, Wrecks and Wloods—A Chrono- logical Review. Value of all farm. products in the United States for 1910 was $8.020 005 000, the largest record made and an imcrease over 1909 of ©orn is king, with a production “of 3,125,713,000 bushels; value $1,523,968,- 060. Cotton crop, $900,000,000. ~ Hay beats wheat with 60,978,000 tons; beta ne, $747,769,000. Wheat crop, 695,443; 000 bushels; value, $621;443;000- The census of 1910 shows an in- crease in population over 1900 of 15.- 959,860, JANUARY. 2 Obituary: Agnes Booth, widow of Ju- nius Brutus Booth and at one time a star actress, in Brookline, Mass.; aged ~ 3. Personal: Charles W. Morse, convicted New York banker, began a fifteen year sentence in the United States: peniten- tiary at Atlanta, 4 Aviation Accident: Leon Delagrange, pioneer aeroplane experimenter, killed by the fall of a Blerlot monoplane. at Bordeaux, France. Obituary: Darius Ogden Mills, banker and capitalist, at San Francisco; aged 4. ¥. Aviation: Hubert Latham, French ayi- ator, beat the records for altitude of heavier than air machines by ascend- ing nearly 3,60 feet..at Mourmelon, France. Personal: Gifford Pinchot, chief forester, removed by President Taft. Obituary: Flora Adams Darling, found- er of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in New York gity; aged 70. & Obituary: Francesco di Paola Satalli, noted cardinal, in Rome. .Gen, New- ton Martin Curtis, “hero of Fart Fish er,” in New York city; aged 74. ™. Aviation: Aviation meet opened at Los Angeles. 22. Sporting: Fred Eames won, the three cushion billiard championship a the world from Alfredo De Oro, the Cuban champion, in New York; final score @ Ad Wolgast defeated %& Snowslide: Two villages ington. & Sporting: &. Avalanch: i. Obituary; Don Jose Daaningo de Jbal- L a a Battling. for the lightweight championship at pees Cal., in 40 rounds. Revotution: h Nacteateh at Tasma, losing 300 in‘all. Clay Clement, actor, in Kan- Financial: Searing & Co., private rs in New York, failed camp buried in the ‘of north- ern Idaho; over 50 deaths. MARCH. aia, president of the republic of Pan- ama, at Panama; aged ©. Avalanche: Upward of 100 deaths from snowslides in the: mountains of Wash- ‘Thure Johansen, Swede, set ord by. run- 1 2 hours 36 the -world’s Marethon ning (26 miles 46 yards» minutes 55% seconds. . Mining, Accident: 83 miners killed by explosion in the gold diggings on Doug: las island, Alasixa. Snowslide in once pass, BritishColumbia, caused the loss. ‘upward of 60 lives.” Strike: General walkout in Philadelphia to-aid the striking street car men. Obituary: Louis James, actor, at Hel- ena, Mont.; aged 50. Obituary: ‘Thomas Collier Piatt, for- mer, United States senator and a noted political leader, in ‘New York city; aged 77. Dr. Louis Klopsch,. editor Christian Herald «and promoter of worldwide philanthropy, in New York elty;-aged 58. . Accident: 12 killed and 17 seriously in- jJured. by an.expiosion in a starch fac- tory.at Roby, Ind. + Jake, Schaeffer, noted | bil- Nard player, at Denver. Strike: State wide strike declared in Pennsylvania in sympathy with the Philadelphia car men’s strike. 13. Shipwrecks: Over 1,000 fishermen per- 4. Fire: At Jamestown, ished in wrecks caused by a storm on the coast of Japan. N. Y., causing logs of $800,000. Obituary: ‘Phil Daly, noted gambler, at Leng Branch, N. J. 18. Venezuela: George Cannon, cousin of 2. Political: 160 to 137 3, Shipwreck on Coos bar, Oregon coast; 30 drowned. a¥. Conventio United Mine Workers’ of North America met at Indianapolis. Conferencé on ee Sayer met n Wasnington. Ray Steamer Czarina wrecked #9, Financial Cathron, Hopkins & Co. and J. M. Viske & Co., Stock Exchange brokers, failed New York as the re- sult of the collapse. of the. Hocking, pool, total liabilities about $6,000,000. cd: ‘The. organized volun- of the United States. be- anent adjunct of the reg- r army establishment. by. the opera- %. Obituary: King Menelik of Abyssinia; aged 66. a L Obituary: Robert W. Patterson, prés- “ Airship Disaster: Leroy Cannon, one of Americans exe- cuted by Zelaya, hanged at Corinto for conspiracy by order of President Madriz. Sporting: Barney Oldfield, Irish-Amer- ican autoist, broke the world’s auto record for 1 mile by driving a car over the course in 27.33 seconds at Daytona Beach, Fla. Railroad Accident: 44 deaths in a wreck of’ Rock Island railroad trains at Gréen Mountain, ‘Ia. Sporting: Barney Oldfield won the 20 mile auto event at Daytona Beach, Fia., covering the course in 19 minutes. Sporting: Cambridge defeated Oxford in the annual cight oared rowing race at Putney, England. Strike: State wide sympathy strike ‘to aid the Philadetphia car men declared off by the Pennsylvania labor unions. Warship Disaster: 8 sailors killed by explosion on the United States cruiser Charleston during practice in Philip- pine waters. Obituary: David Josiah Brewer, associ- ate justice United States supreme court, in Washington; aged 73. State Senator Jotham P. Allds declared guilty of bribe taking by_a vote of his colleagues, 40 to 9, ‘at Albany, x ¥ Obituary: Alexander Agassiz, natural- ist, son of the celebrated Louis Agas- siz of Harvard university, at sea; aged B ously injured in a collision at Hulheim, 7 y. APRIL. ident of the Chicago Tribune company, in. Philadelphia; aged Pommern wrecked in flight near Stet~ tin and lost with three mppegngers in the Baltic sea. . Obituary: Prof. William Graham Sum- ner, social scientist, of Yale, at En- glewood, N. J.; aged 70. Personal: Col. Duncan B. Cooper, ono of the convicted murderers of Senator E,W. Carmack, pardoned by Gover- nor Patterson of Tennessee. sident: 48 kilied and $2 in- in the wrecking of a passenger train on the Canadian Pacific at the crossing of Spanish river, Ontario. @ Obituary: Ezra Kendall, well known comedian at Martinsville, Ind.; aged 49. Personal: John K. Walsh, convicted Chi- cago banker, began serving a five year term in the federal prison at Leaven- worth, Kan %. Paris Flood: ‘The river Seine exceeded high water mark in Paris, endanger- ing the city and paralyzing traffic. @. Panama Libel Case: Indictment of the New York Worid in the Panama libel se quashed in the United States cir- purt in New York city. Flood: Rising of the Seine 9 square miles inundated; loss estima over $200,000,000. %1. Explosion: 79 miners killed -by .explo- sion in the Colorado Fuel and Iron company’s mine at Primero, Colo. FEBRUARY. A Mining Accident: 33 killed by explosion in the Browder mine near Drakesboro, Ky. Mining Accident: 88 killed at Las Es- peranzas, Mexico... Financial: Fisk & Robinson, bankers 2 14. Earthquake: Costa Rica shaken; loss ‘$1,000,000. Chinese Riot: Natives attacked foreign- ere anid burned missions at Changebau, Hunan, China. Political: Premier Asquith’s resolutions limiting the veto power of the house of lords carried in the house of com- mons by 163 majority. Labor: The steel trust increased the wages of about 225,000 employees over 5 per cent. 35. Convention: National Suffrage associ- 16. Obituary: Ignacio Marsical, W. Airship Disaster: ation met in Washington. Mexico's chief diplomat, at Mexico City. German balloon Deutseh struck by lightning during an ascension near Hisenach and wrecked, killing four passengers. 48 Convention: .Amnual congress Daugh- ters of the American Revolution . met in Washington. Labor: Philadelphia car men's strike ended, with some advantage to the strikers. Obituary: Samuel Langhorne Clem- ens (Mark Twain), the author, at Red- ding, Conn.; aged 75. 2% Fire: Lake St. Charlies, La., 20 blocks and brokers in New York, Boston, Chicago and Worcester, fatied with $6.847,%8 liabilities. The Mexican Na- tional Packing Co., incorporated in New Jersey and operating in Mexico, failed with liabilities placed at $37,- 000,000. 4 Boycott Decision; The Connecticut hatters’ boycott case decided, in favor of the plaintiff with award of damages against the individuals who instituted the boycott amounting to $222,000. @ Shipwreck: The United States naval Nina lost on the voyage from pton Roads to Beston with a crew on board. Shipwreck: The French liner General Chanzy wrecked in a gale near the isiand of Minorca; . 156..ersons._per- ished. %% Financial; The Central Foundry Co., a steel corporation operating foundries in several states, failed with abilities placed at over $4,000,000: Volcanic Disaster: Eruption of -voleano Poasa, Costa Rica, destroyed 80 lives, Shipwreck: 88 lives lost onthe Pacific Navigation Co.’s steamer Lima, strand- ed in the strait of 44. Raflroad Accident: 12 killed and 20 in- jured in a head-on collision near Ma- con, Ga., on the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad. %. Personal: Herbert Gladstone,.whose. father, W. E. Gladstone, “the great commoner,” twice, declined a seat in: the house of lords, elevated to the peerage. China: Anti-foreign riot in Canton; 600 mutinous soldiers killed. "$6 Obituary: George Holland, the actor; in Philadelphia; aged 64 Gen. St. Clair Mulholland, noted veteran of the civil war, in Philadelphi + aged Ti. 3%. Obituary: Neil Burgess, arin actor, in New York city; aged 64 Strike:. Philadelphia street car men went out after long deliberation. @. Obituary: Count von Stollberg-Werni- gerode, president of the German netche- tag, in Berlin; aged 70. people killed and 100 in- Obituary: burned; loss about $3,000,000. Storm: Violent snow and wind storm, with freezing temperature, caused de- struction of budding fruits in the cen- tral lake region, extending south to Tennessee. Personal: Governor Charies ©. Hughes of New York appointed justice of the United States. supreme eourt to suc- ceed the late Justice Brewer. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, fa- mous Norwegian novelist, poet, play: wright and patriot, in Paris; aged 78. %. Political: Dedication of the Hall of actual %% Political: The British house of lords Obituary: Gen. E..P, Alexander, noted Convention: Annual meeting of the Unit- L Obituary: Gen. J. P. S. Gobin, civil 2 loss of life over 2,500. & 6 * Fire: Loss of $1,250,000 hy. the burning of American Republics in Washington. Aviation: Louis Paulhan, French avi- ator, won the London Daily Mail %0,- 000 prize by flying from London to Manchester, 18 miles, in %2 minutes time. — the notorious Liberal budget bill. Confederate veteran and writer on the civil war, at Savannah, Ga.; aged 7. ed Confederate Veterans at Ala, Mobile, MAY. war veteran and national guard com- mander, at Lebanon, Pa; aged 72. Nord Alexis, deposed president of Haiti, at Kingston, Jamaica; aged about 90. Rear Admiral Philip Hich- born, U. 8. N., retired, noted naval constructor, at Washington; aged 71. Convention: Joint conference of farm- ers at St. Louis. a glass factory at Ford, Pa. Earthquake in Costa. Ri province of Cartago nearly destroyed; estimated Accident: Explosion at Palos, Ala.,.entombed 180 miners. sar Edward seo of Engiand, at +. aged _69..Rear_ Bap en McG. McCalla, U. 8. N., re- eran of the civil war, Span- and Boxer wars, +, San i rhara, Cal.; aged 66; . : New England [coer amar neha eggs a 10g ee sulting from the Conn. @ mining |. Railroad Accident: 2 killed and 50 geri-' 2. Aviatior 28. Sporting: ‘90. Sportin: ef the packet City of Saltillo ‘on the ippi river near Glen Park, Mo.’ ing <Acciden' Explosion ‘the ington mine at Whitehaven, caused the death of 135 miners, 2 ¢ Several shocks fa Sar Francisco. ib. Ra National gathering. ot So. Earthquake: Shocks at Los Anectes: Cal.; and vicinity. oe ee. at Buenos Aires, Argentina. vention: National Manufacturers met in New York, Explosion: 7 boilers of the (Ameri¢an Tin an company at Cantoh, O., explod- killing 20'men an@ es upward casrees: Pauline Viardot-Garcia, sis- ter of the late Manuel Garcia and like him a noted opera singer, in Paris. . ley’s Comet: The earth pz ough ‘the\ tail of Halley's comet at p. m., New York time. ‘ Explosion: Dynamite exploded at the barracks of the guard at Pinar del Rio, Cuba, destroying 100 lives. Conventions: The United Typothetae of America, otherwise the employing printers, met initheir 24th annua} con- vention at Washington. National com- mandery of¢the “Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War met at New, York city. The Mohonk Laké conference on international ar- bitration met at Mohonk Lake, N. Y. Obituary: John A. Kasson, former Unit- ed States minister to Austria, in Wash- ington; aged 88. 18. Convention: World’s Sunday School association met at Washington. Earthquake: Violent shock at Salt Lake City. Shipwreck: 18 deaths by the sinking of the steamer Frank H. Goodyear near Port Aux Barquais, Lake Huron, Fire: The Hotel Champlain, a iarge summer resort on Bluff Point, totally destroyed; loss about $300,000. Submarine Disaster: Thé Frénch sub- marine Pluvoise rammed by a ferry- boat in Dover strait and sunk with her crew of 27. Railroad Accident: 10 killed and 40 in- jured in a wreck on the Lehigh Val- ley near Wiikesbarre, Pa. % Obituary: Dr. Robert Koch, eminent bacteriologist, discoverer of a con- sumption cure, at Baden-Baden’; aged Aviation: Glenn H. Curtiss flew from Albany to New, York, following the course of the Hudson river, winning the New York World's prize of $10.00. Nicaregua: Government forces repulsed in an attack upon Estrada’s revolu- tionists at Bluefields. South Africa: Union of South African states proclaimed JUNE. Obituary: Edward Jenkins, English editor and writer, author of the sen- sational* political pamphlet “Ginx’s Baby,” in London; aged 72. Sir Fran- cis‘ Seymour Haden, noted English art- ist, in London; aged 92. Dr, Elizabeth Blackwell, pioneer woman physician in England and the United States, in London; aged 39. Sporting: Lemberg won the English Der- by. Polar Research: Captain Scott's antarc- tic expedition sailed from London. « & Obituary: William Sydney Porter, nov- elist “known as “O. Henry,” in osere York city; aged 43. 6 Cloudburst: Several villages in east Hungary wiped ‘out; 300 deaths.. 1. Barthqnake: Southerh Italy shaken; upward of 100 deaths. Obituary: Prof. Goldwin Smith, Anglo- American author and educator, at Toronto; aged 87: . Obituary: Sir George Newnes, noted British publisher, in London; aged 59. . Fire: 20 acres. of. warehouses and dwellings burned in Seattle; loss near- Ay $8,000,000. Obituary: Herman Vezin, American actor distinguished on the London stage; aged 1. Storm Disaster: Cloudburst in the Abr valley, Prussia, destroyed 150 lives. 18. Aviation: C. K. Hamilton drove a Cur- tiss bipiane from New York to Phil- sdeivhie and return, prize;! time, New York to Philadel- phia, 86 miles, 1 hour 61 minutes; Phil- adelphia to New York, 1 hour 36 min- utes. Walter S. Brookins established new world’s altitude record by as- cending 4,384 feet in a Wright aero- plane at Indianapolis. Fire Disaster: Flames followed collapse of roof of the Montreal Herald build- ing and caused loss of 40 lives. Convention: World’s missionary con- gress opened in Edinburgh. Obituary: John Austin Stevens, found- er of the Sons of the Revolution, at Newport, R. 1; aged 83. Aviation: Walter S. Brookins made new. world’s altitude record by ascend- ing 4,800 feet at Indianapolis. . Storm Disaster: 18 deaths in New York city by: electric rainstorm. Railroad Accident: 19 killed and nearly 100 injured in a collision near Ver- sailles, France. Personal: Ex-President Theodore Roose- velt welcomed in New York on his re-~ turn from his African and European trip. Political: The railroad bill, creating a court of commerce and amending the interstate commerce act of 1887, be- came a law. 19. Obituary: Henry Neville, noted actor and dramatist, in London. Convention: World's Sunday school con- vention met in Washington. Count Zeppelin’s dirigibie Deutschiand sailed from Friederichs- haven to Dusseldorf, 300 miles, carry- ing 11 passengers. 2. German airship Deutschland made an excursion trip carrying 32 passengers. 2. Political: Congress adjourned. Sporting: Cornell won the varsity eight, four oared race and freshman’s eight at Poughkeepsie. Nuage, owned by Mme. Cheremeteff, won the French Grand Prix, beating W. K. Vanderbitt’s Rein- hart by a neck. Political: Gen. Porfiro Diaz president of Mexico. a. re-elected %. Obituary: United States Senator Sam- uel Douglas McEnery of Louisiana, in New Orleans; aged 74. Dr. John Hen- ry Haynes, noted archaeological ex- plorer, at North Adams, Mass, Fire: Paterson, N. J., suffered $500.000 loss by flames-in the business district. 29. Obituary: United States Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, at Lynchburg: aged 63. Harvard won the ‘varsity Yale at New London. JULY. 2% Obituary: Dr. Frederick James Furni- vall, peice English scholar ané@ critic, in 5 aged 68." Ove Gude, Nor- wegian minister to-the United States; at White Sulphur Springs, Va. Aeronautics: Clifford B. Harmon. broke the American amateur record (his own). by remaining in the air 2 hours ai% minutes,at Mineola. % Aviation: Second international avia- tion meet at Rheims, France. Aviator Wechter — by the fall of his ma- ‘chine. ‘ 4. Conventio: ‘Society of Descendants of | the Signers of the Declaration met in Philadelphia. Obituary: Chief Justice Meiville Weston Frater ‘of, thei\United’ States supreme races ov winning $10,000' 16. Convention: 16. Obituary: President Montt of Chile, in 7. Convention: Annual convention of the 18. Nicaragua: 2%. Nicaragua: Managua, the capital, oc- a. Fire: 13 tives lost and property valued %. Sporting: Harvester lowered the world’s %. Sporting: William A. Larned, national 31. Sporting: Novelty won the Futurity 4 Obituary: Julian Edwards, composer 7. Couvention: Nationa! conservation con- followed the news of the ring event at Reno. t & Fire: At Annprior, Ont., flames in a lumber yard caused. a loss of over q. Obituary: Dr. William’ James Rolfe, noted Shakespearean scholar, in Tis- bury, Mass.; aged 33: @ Aviation: Walter R. Brookins flew 6275'feet upiin the atf at Atlantic City. Ovityary: George Berger, ino French ao ttf noted ji. Obituary: John, Gol ric Lae | astronomer, at Pot Satire a 12 Aviation Accident: Capt. e Pa Rolls, English aviator, Killed in a Wright aeroplane at Bournemouth. Obituary: Hehry Dexter, founder of the American News company, in New York city; aged 9. Kate Tannatt Woods, author, in Boston; aged 70. Firé: Campbelitown, N. B., stroyed; toss $2,500,000. nearly de 18. Obituary: Daniel Foiger Bigelow, noted American artist and art jeader, in Chi- cago; aged 97. 34 Aloys Wirsching, inventor of the stock ticker and New York's fire alarm eys- tem, in Brooklyn; aged 78, Obituary: Z. B. Knight, who is said to have named the Republican party in 1854, in Omaha; aged 89. “1. Army Accident: Premature explosion of a gun during mimic war at Fort Monroe caused the Geath of 13 soldiers: Nicaragua: Estrada’s revolutionists defeated the government forces at Acoypa. Storm Disaster: 60 persons killed and hundreds injured by a tornado near Milan, Italy. 2%. Obituary: Prof. Samuel! Ross Winans, dean of Princeton university, at Prince- ton; aged 6. Obituary: Sir Henry Tichborne, infant defendant in the notorious Arthur Or- ton claim to the Tichborne title and estates in 1871 and a noted big game hunter, in London; aged 44. |. Obituary: John G. Carlisle, Kentucky statesman and a member of Grover Cleveland’s cabinet, in New York cit; aged 7%. Rear Admiral Thomas H. Looker, U. 8. N., retired, veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, in Wash- ington; aged 81. AUGUST. Convention: The international peace congress met in Stockholm. 3. Obituary: E. L, Sambourne, noted car- toonist of London Punch, in London; aged ©. 4 Obituary: Louis Schriber, long known asa great cornetist, in Los Angeles; aged $3. 6 Obituary: Rear Admiral Schofield, U. S.N., retired, at Stamford, Conn; aged 71. 7. Obituary: J. B. Studley, once noted actor, in New York city. Coi Harvey W. Scott, editor of the Portland Ore- gonian, in Baifimore; aged 72. $8. Assault.on Mayor Gaynor: Mayor Wi- Mam J. Gaynor shot.on board the ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse by James J. Gallagher, a discharged city employee. Railroad Accident: 14 killed and # in- jured in a head-on collision on the Northern Pacific near Ignacio, Cal. Pire:'In Boston’s: lumber Gistrict; loss $1,000,000. ok we. Convention: Apple growers’ congress opened in’ St. Louis. Special conven- tion of the United Mine Workers of America met in Indianapolis. i. Obituary: Judith Ellen Foster, noted woman lawyer, in Washington; aged n. 12. Flood Disaster: 3,000 houses and shops destroyed and over a thousand lives lost in Tokyo. Sporting: Uhlan set a new trotting rec- ord by going a mile in 1:58% at Cleve- land. 13% Obituary: Fiorence Nightingale, fa- mous nurse in the Crimean war, in London; aged 9. Edmund D. Lewis, noted artist and art collector, in Phii- adelphia; aged 73. Aviation: Radley, an English aviator, broke the world’s speed record by fiy- ing a mile in 472-5 seconds at Black- pool. 14. Fire: The “White City” of the world’s fair at Brussels destroyed; loss esti- mated at $20,000,000. Railroad Accident: 32 killed, and 100 in- jured“in a. collision at Saujon, France. Aviation: C. F. Willard carried three passengers on a quarter mile biplane trip at Garden City, beating the world’s record on the number of pas- sengers. The international Espe- ranto congress met in Washington. Obituary: Rev. E. P. Hammond, once famous traveling evangelist, at Hart- ford, Conn. r Bremen. Shipwreck: 32 passengers and 7 sailors drowned by the foundering of the Spanish steamer Tarifa in the strait of Gibraltar. National Firemen’s association met at Rochester, N. Y. Estrada’s revolutionists defeated the Madriz forces in front of Managua. Fire: In Jersey City loss of $1,000,000 by the burning of a business block. cupied by the victorious revolutionists sie Estrada. Madriz, the president, fii at $1,000,000 destroyed at Wallace, Ida., by flames started by forest fires in the vicinity of the city. record for stallions by trotting a mile in 2X3 at the Empire City track, Yon- kers. lawn tennis champion, defended his title at Newport, defeating Thomas C. Bundy of California. and a purse of $2,360 at Saratoga, with Bashti second. Aviation: “Glenn H! Curtiss made an over water record by flying 6 miles over Lake Erie in 1 hour 18 minutes, an Average of 46.1 miles an hour. SEPTEMBER. of comic operas, at Yonkers, N. z aged £4. gress met at St. Paul. 4. Ovituary: Rear Admiral John J. Read, Obituary: William Holman-Hunt, dis- tinguished artist, in London; aged 83. 8 Convention: International Socialist con- gress met.in Copenhagen. Obituary: Dr. Emily Blackwell, noted wonian’ physician, ‘at York Cliffs, Me. 9. Obituary: Lioyd W. Bowers, solicitor general of the United States, in Bos- ton; aged 51. Boat Accident: 30 drowned in the sink- ing ofvear ferry: No. 18, Pere Marquette railroad, during a storm on Lake Mich- %. Aviation: Ralph Johnstone broke the 26. Fire: In Victoria, B. 18%. Aviation: Weymanz, and George Chavez, a Peruvian, at- tempted ‘to fiy over the Alps. Both failed, and Chavez was mortalty hurt im landing. , Convention: 44th national encampment if wanteat- Atlante’ City.” “Personai: Emperor William of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria met at Vienna. a pre! Disaster: Collision on the Wa- Traction line near Kingsland, Tod eaused the death of 46 passen- gers. ¥ 2% Sporting: Harvester lowere. the trot- ting recoré for stallions to 2:01 at Co- jumbus. %. Convention: National irrigation con- gress opened in Pueblo, Colo. 2%. Convention: The United Irish league met at Buffalo. %% Convention: National good roads con- gress met in St Louis. @%. Obituary: Winslow Homer, famous’ American geen, at. Scarboro, .Me.; aged irs. becea Handi a the ‘author, at the home at i s<4 Richard Wardhig' Davis,’ Mount Kisco, N..¥.; aged 79. Aviation: Waiter S, Brookins broke the cross country distance record by flying from Chicégo to Springfield, 186 miles, winning a $16,000 prize: OCTOBER. 1 Sporting: The Vanderbilt cup auto race won by Harry F. Grant; time, 4 hours 16 minutes 58 Seconds. Ship Disaster: 23 of the crew of the bat- tleship New Hampshire drowned by the swamping of a launch in the Hud- son river at New York. Explosion: A mysterious explosion, fol lowed by fire, destroyed the Los An- geles Times building and caused tc death of 21 employees of the paper. Aviation: Aviator’ Wynmalen made a world’s record for height by ascending 9,186 feet at, Mourmelon, France. Shipwreck: The Pacific Navigation com- pany’s steamer Chiriqui wrecked off Panama by the explosion of her boil~ ers; 50 lives lost. Obituary: Ex-Governor Napoleon Bona- parte Broward of Fiorida, a former Cuban filibuster, at Jacksonville; aged 83. 2% Convention: International prison con- gress opened in Washington. Obituary: Former Governor and United States Senator David Bennett Hill, at Albany; aged 67. Joseph Abner Har- per, member of the old firm of Harper & Bros., the New York publishers,’ at Newburg, N. ¥.; aged 77. Fire: In New York city logs of $1,500,000 by flames’ in the lumber and factory district on the TWudson river front. 3% Convention: Dry farming congress opened at Spokane. 4 Collision: Two electric cars collided at Springfield, Iil., causing the death of 37 peopte, chiefly passengers. Personal; Justice W. “i. Moody of the United States supreme court resigned. & Portugal: Republican uprising in Lis- bon. King Manuel captured. The army and navy sided with the revolution- ists, who proclaimed a republic. & Mine Disaster: 50 miners trapped by an explosion in’ the Colorace Fuel and Iron’ company’s mine at Starkville, Colo. W. Personal: &x-Governor Charles E. Hughes took the oath of office as jus- tice of the United States. supreme court at Washington. 12. Storm: A fierce storm swept over Eu- rope, causing heavy loss of life on the Penryn coast and on the ‘Baltic, ° 14 Shipwreck: The French. steamship te de Rochefort was ramm4 by tho British steamer Peyeril in the bay of Bigseay an@ sank with % of ber crew.’ Financial: The Charing Crosa bank’ of London, with 40 country ‘ranches, went into the hands of a receiver, ow- ing depositors $5,000,000. 16 Obituary: Larkin G. Mead, noted Amer- ican sculptor, in Florence, Italy; aged 1. United States Senator Jonathan P. Doliiver of lowa, at Wort Dodge; aged §2° Aviation: Weliman’s balloon America started on its oversea flight at Atlan- tie City. 16. Fire: At Alabaster, Mich., joss of $400,- 00 by fiames in the plant of the Unit- ed States Gypsum company. The 20th anniversary of the settiement of Bergen county, N. J., by the Dutch was celebrated, 17. Ayiation: 10 balloons representing the United States, France, Germany and Switzeriand started from St. Louis in the international race for the Bennett cup. and $,750.in prizes. ‘The dirigible, balloon Clement-Bayard sailed from Paris to London in 6 bours, carrying 7 péople, Ob#uary: Julia Ward Flowe, author of “fhe Battle Hymna of the Republic,” at Middietown, R. 1.; aged 91. 18 Aviation: Weliman abandoned his air- ship 360 miles off Hatteras after sall- ing about 760 miles in 72 hours; far- thest point north was 140 miles north- east of Nantucket, Storm: A West India hurricane struck the Florida and South Carolina coasts. 19. Aviation: Balloon America I1., Post and Hawley aeronauts, landed in the province of Quebec, 1,355 miles from St. Louis, the starting point, winning the. Bennett cup for distance. %. Obituary: Gen, Thomas T. Eckert, manager of the Federal military tele- graph in the civil war and later pres- ident of the Western Union. at Long Branch, N. J.; aged 5. Shipwreck: The steamship Regulus, ply- ing between New York and Newfound- land ports, wrecked by a storm on Shoal bay; 19 sailors drowned. Personat. Edgar Allan Poe elected te the American Hali of Fame by a vote of 69; necessary to choice, 51. 2% Criminal: Dr. Hawley H. Crippen found guilty of murdering his wife. Belle Elmore, in the Old Bailey court, London. Shipwreck: British wrecked off Brazil; sailors drowned. Aviation: International meet dpened at Belmont park, New York. steamship Wally 60 passengers and %. Sporting: The Athletics of Phitadel- phia beat the Nationais of Chicago for, the ‘world’s baseball championship, 7 to 2, at Chicago. Obituary: Chulalongkorn, king of Siam, at Bangkok, after reigning 40 years; aged 57. Personal: Crown Prince Chowfa Maha Vajireavudh, who visited this country in 192, proclaimed king-of Siam. Storm: Ischia, an island in the Mediter- ranean, and Naples swept by a hurri- cane; 200 dead in Ischia. , retired, a civil war veteran, at Mount Hoily, N. J.; aged 68. American record for flight by. ascend- ing ‘7,303 feet at Belmont park. Shipwree! The Haitian gunboat La Liberte was wrecked. by an explosion off Port aux Paix and sank with 70 persons, including 10 generals. flames in the business district caused a loss of $2,- 000,000. nautic federation met in Paris. Aviation: Ralph Johnstone ascended 9,000, feét at Belmont park, intent on Lomeee the wores record a8 9,186. “esate, gto of Marshal Mas- | Lagat) and himself a noted of, the -Y.-M. A fe ot Norte America! ” Glande srahame-White won ee: race at Belmont park; time for 62.1 miles 1 minutes 14 seconds. in 34 minutes 34.84 seconds. @ Aviation: ‘NOVEMBER. i Personal: John. Morley (Viscount of Biackburn), best known as a man of lewers, remyned his place in the Brit- ish cabinet as secretary of state for India. & Fire: In Philadelphia loss of over $600,- @)\in the businéss district. 4 Obituary: William 8t. noted artist and illustrator, York; aged 58. §& Mexico: Anti-American demonstrations Ls the City of Mexico and elsewhere. , 6 Mi ine Disaster: 12 miners killed by ex- plogion in the Lawson mine at Black Diamond, Wash. & Elections: Democratic landslide in sev- era? state elections and a Democratic house of representatives returned to congress. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York ‘an® Now Jersey elected tic, governors to succeed Re- governors, and Ohio re-elect- Democratic governor. Colorado, entombed 49 miners, cruisér Ten! anvofficial visit te the republic of Pan- ang the canal zone. ton, 5, to 3% at, Princeton. at Franklin field; score 0 to 0. Janta; aged 57, M4, Personal: France, of Belgium at Moncalieri, Italy. home in an-enfeebled condition. ist, in Providence, R. 1; aged 67. Aviation: Bugene B. Ely in the Curtiss biplane Hudsun Plier flew from the deck of the United States scout cruiser Birmingham in Hampton Roads to Willoughby peach, 7 miles distant. Personal: Presideut Taft reached Pan- ama and had a conference with Col. Goethals and other members of the canal commission. 16. Political; President Taft addressed the Panamans at a state banquet and de- clared that there would be no annexa- tion of the républic of Panama to the United States. at Derrver; aged 30. score game. Russia; aged 82 22, Personal: Monroe on his return from Panama. deiphia. phia, 3 to 0. ’ua. 28. Political solved by royal proclamation. ® Political: combination in restraint of trade.” Frankfort, Ky. %. Obituary: DECEMBER. 1. Political: eighth timo. 2 Obituary: Gen. BE. A. Carr, U. in Boston; aged 9. can wars, at Natural aged 74, congress opened. northern and eastern states. America in 1862, in Paris; aged 70. Fire: At Evansville, Ind.; 000. society met in Washington ama canal, cels post. painter, in Berlin; aged 81. billiards in New York. 9%. Aviation: Legagneux, French aviator, altitude at Pau by soaring 10,498 feet. ®. Brazil: Mutiny of Brazilian causing 400 casualties. Sporting: Root and Moran, laps. 266; including all possessions, 101,100, 008; gain since 1900, 15,959,260. Aviation: Capt. Bellanger, French army made a new world’s speed record by flying 100 miles, from Vin- in 7 minutes, The previous record of about 61 miles an aviator, cennes to Mourmelon, an average of 86 miles an hour. hour was held by Grahame-White. iL Obituary: Dr. Emil Reich, author and lecturer, noted for his criticisms on American women, in London; aged 56. Shipwreck: bid azen ah on the Spanish coast; 24 lives 12 Personai: Associate Justice Edward Douglass White of the United States supreme court appointed chief justice as successor to the late M. W. Fuller. Judge Willis Van Devanter of Wyo- ming and Judge J. R. Lamar of Geor- gia nominated associate justices. M4. Personal: Andrew Carnegie gave $10,- 000,000 to the cause of peace. 4%. Convention: Conference on interna- tional disputes met in Washington. %& Obituary: Melville D. Landon, humor- ous writer and lecturer, known as Eli Perkins, at Yonkers, N. Y.; aged 71. %. Convention: The, International Aero- | 19. Explosion: Explosion in a power house at Grand Centra! station, New York, caused extensive damage in the vicin- ity and the loss of many lives. %. Aviation: Meet at Los Angeles. »|,8% Conventfons: American Histuvical as- sociation at Indianapolis. Association For the Advancement of \Viation: J. B. Moisant won the race Belmont park to the statue of and return, covering 34 miles Ralph Johnstone ascended 9,714 feet at Belmont park, the world’s of the Grand Army of the Republic hem record. John Harper, in New a Disaster: Explosion in mine No. 3 of.the Vietor American Fuel company, ™% Political: President Taft sailed on the from Charleston on ts Sgortng: arvara beat Dartmouth, 18 to'6, “in the annual football game at Cambridge. Yale ‘defeated Prince- Michigan and Pennsylvania played a tie game 18%. Obituary: United States Senator Alex- ander Stephens Clay of Georgia, at At~ Prince Victor Napoleon Bonaparte, pretender to the throne of married Princess Clementine Count Tolstoy, who mysteriously disap- peared in October, discovered in a rafi- way station about 80 miles from his Obituary: John La Farge, distinguished mural painter and stained glass art- NM. Aviation: Ralph Johnstone, the avi- ator, killed »y the fall of his biplane 19. Sporting! Yale and Harvard's football match at New Haven resulted in a no 2%. Obituary: Count Leo Tolstoy, the fa- mous Russian novelist, at Astapova, President Taft reached Fort 2 Aviation: J. Armstrong Drexel ascend- ed''9,897 feet in a monoplane at Phila- %. Sporting: The Navy defeated the Army at football on Franklin field, Philadel- Fatal Fire: 23 operatives killed and 2% injured at a factory fire in Newark, N, J. %. Mexico: Government troops defeated 400 revolutionists in battle at Chihua- ‘The British parliament dis- ‘The government asked the dissolution of the sugar trust “as a The conference of governors met at Jem Mace, noted English prizefighter in the sixties, in England; aged 79. Gen. Porfirio Diaz was in- avgurated president of Mexico for the 8. A. retired, distinguished in border trou- bles before the civil war as well as in that conflict, died in Washington; aged 80 % Obituary: Mary Baker Glover Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, Gen.- Wesley Merritt, U. S. A., retired, noted in the eivil and Spanish-Ameri- Bridge, Va.; 6 Politica: ‘The jast session of the Gist & Storm: Heavy snow or rain in the Obituary: The Duke of Chartres, one of the Orleans princes who served in loss of $750,- Convention: The American Red Cross Political: President Taft’s message rec- ommended the fortifying of the Pan- a. ship subsidy, a halt in legislating on corporations and a par- 1. Obituary: Ludwig Knaus, famous genre Sporting: George Moore made a world's record run of 15 at 3 cushion carem established a. new world’s record for marines at Rio de Janciro resulted in a battle the Irish American team, won the 6 day bicycle race in New York; score 2,545 miles 3 33th Census: Official figures published; population, exclusive of Alaska, 91,972,- German steamer Palermo