The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-12-28

| 7. Obituary: Oliver Sumner Teal. once a
New York social sensation. at Lib
erty, N. Y: aged 81.
| 3. Mining Accident: miners killed by
| white damp" at Rocky Fork Mont
| 8. Accident: II workmen killed by explo-
] sion at McAbee's dynamite factory
Lancaster, Pa.
: 10. Sporting: Spearmint won the Grand
| PriX de Paris.
Storm: 6 people killed and many injured
in storm which swept the lower
Hudson valley.
! Obituary: Mary Putnam Jacob, noted
woman physician, in New York city;
aged GA.
| II. Panama Canal: The house voted for
lock canal, ITO to SO.
| Russia Jewish massacres at Bialystok.
| Ship Disaster: 10 killed and 40 injured
! by an explosion on the British steam
ship Haverford at Liverpool
| 10. Obituary: r. B. Roosevelt, uncle of
the president and a well known law
yer. author and politician, in New
York city; aged 76.
! Russia: Continued attacks on the Jews
\ at Bialystok.
1e. Obituary: Henry o. Houghton, the
publisher, at Cambridge, Mass; aged
"a.
| Political: Bill admitting Oklahoma to
| IS. Obituary: Gov. John M. Pattison of
Ohio, at Fremont; aged 50.
| %. Coronation: King Haakon VII. of
Norway crowned at Trondhjem.
Sporting: Go Between won the $4,000
Suburban handicap.
| %. Obituary: The Duke of Almodovar,
who presided over the Moroccan con-
ference at Algeciras, at Madrid; aged
| g.
Congress: The pure food bill passed the
house, 240 to 1T.
| Sporting: Cornell won the four mile
| eight Dared varsity race at Pough-
keepsie.
| q. Sporting: Szisz won the Grand Prix
automobile race at lie Mans, France.
| 2S. Sporting: Harvard won the varsity
cared boat race at New London.
| 20. Congress: Railway rate bill signed by
the president.
| l. Obituary: Sir Wilfrid Lawson, noted
| Liberal NJ. p. and temperance reform
| er in London; aged Il.
| Accident: q lives lost in the wreck of an
American line special train at Sails
bury, England; % Americans among
the victims.
| 4. Obituary: H. A. Ward, noted Amer
| lean scientist, killed by an automobile
in Buffalo, N. Y.
| Personal: A son born to Crown Prince
Frederick William Of Germany at
POtsdam
| 6. Storm so people killed and serious
damage done to crops by hailstorm
| in the Valencia district of Spain.
| 10. Russia: Vice Admiral Choukin, COM
| mander of the Russian Black sea fleet,
| fatally shot by sailor in league with
| revOlutionists.
| II. The Dreyfus Case: The supreme court
! of France annuled the condemnation
of Capt. Dreyfus.
| Sporting: c. NJ. Daniels, American, won
the 100 yard amateur swimming match
| for the championship of the world at
Nottingham. England.
| South America: Gen. Regaldo, COM
mander of the Salvadoran army, kill
ed in battle with Guatemalan forces.
| 13. The Dreyfus Case: Capt. Dreyfus re-
| stored to the army of France by
| special act of the legislature
! IA. South America Honduras declared
| war against Guatemala, thus becom-
ing the ally If Salvador.
Is. South America: The Salvadoran army
| won victory over the Guatemalans
at Platenar
II. Obituary: Alfred Belt the noted South
African fnancier, in London: aged 81
! IS. South America: Armistice declared be-
| tween Salvador and Honduras and
| Guatemala.
Obituary: Lady Curzon, American wife
of the eX-viceroy of India, in London.
| 20. RUSSIA radical newspapers sup
| pressed in st. Petersburg.
| Fire: In Syrian, Russia; loss S., 600 900.
| South America: Treaty OF peace be-
| tween Guatemala and the Salvador
| Honduras alliance signed by commits
sioners of the belligerent powers on
| board the United States cruiser Mar
blehead off the Guatemalan coast
| Obituary: Brig. Gen. Edmund Rice, U.
1 A a a
| aged g.
| %. Accidents: q killed and "a injured in
wreck on the Seabord Air line near
Hamlet, N. c. killed in wreck on
| the Great Northern, near Elk. Wash.
Obituary: Russell Sage. at Lawrence
Beach, N. Y; aged co. Gen. Baron
Kodama, chief of staff of the Japanese
army, at Tokyo.
| Russia: Car Nicholas dissolved the
| douna. Martial law declared in st.
| Petersburg.
| q. Russia: 1856 members Of the -douma
met at Viborg, Finland and issued
revolutionary manifesto to the Rus
sian people,
Convention: Pan American congress
| opened at Rio de Janeiro.
| Accident: Many deaths caused by the
collapse of building under construc-
ton at South birmingham, Mass.
| Philippines: $50 Filipinos (Pulajanes)
| killed IN Dattlo with American forces
near Baneun, island of Leyte.
| 26. Obituary: Prince Eugene Murat, great
| grandson of King Joachim Murat Ma
| poleon's famous cavalry leader, killed
| by his own automobile in Munich.
| 80. Obituary: John Lawrence Toole, noted
| English comedian, at Brighton, Eng
| land; aged g.
! AUGUST.
| I. Russia: Fortress at Sveaborg Fin
| land, known the Gibraltar Of the
North" seized by mutineers as part
of general conspiracy against the
| car.
2. Labor: Strike of photographers involv-
ing $4,000 worknen in the United
| States and Canada, begun.
8. Obituary: Rear Admiral Charles J.
Train, commander of the United
| States Asiatic fleet, at Chefu, China;
aged 81.
4. Shipwrecl.: 800 lives lost by the wreck
ing of the Italian steamship Srio off
the coast of Spain.
| Obituary: John James Roberts Man
| ners, seventh Duke of Rutland dis
tinguished author, traveller and cab
met minister, in London; aged 49, D.
| B. Wesson. noted revolver manufac-
turer, at Springfield, Mass; aged ST.
Russia: Strike involving nearly Io.on0
workmen begun at st. Petersburg in
the interests of revolution.
o Financial: Milwaukee State bank Of
Chicago closed it's doors, showing d