Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-31

AlN|A1AvA A1A1AV OAe VVVs t1 tf Obituar2: VI. :, ...a. s.iali. naecd artist, whose engraving of Lincoln made him famous, in New York city; aged n. 70. Obituary Edward Rosewater. editor of the Omaha Bee, suddenly in oma- ha; aged &.
 SEPTEMBER. 1. Sporting: Electloneer won the Flu head Bay.
 Convention: International Alliance of Woman Suffrage Associations met in Copenhagen. 3. Sporting: Joe Cans won by foul in the forty-second round in a contest with Battling Nelson at Goldneld. Nev.
 1. Obituary: Hermann Oelrichs. Ameri- can capitalist and ship owner. sud- denly at sea on board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. z. Cuba: Tho insurgent Pino Guerra re- fused an armistice. 8. Sporting: Cambridge defeated Har- yard in a rowing contest on the Thames. Dan Patch broke the worlds pacing record, going the mile in 1:65 at St. Paul.
 l3. Cuba: American force landed from the United States cruiser Denver. but im- mediately returned to the vessel after leaving a guard at the American le- gation.
 A. Obituary: Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. only survivor of the famous Blair family of Missouri, at Silver Spring. Md.
 Cuba President Roosevelt urged Gu to orIo Secretary Taft to proceed to Havana. Sporting: c. M. Daniels lowered the worlds swimming record for zoo yards to 2 minutes 42 2-5 seconds at St. Louis l5 Russia: Gen Trepoff, 'the terror" commandant of the imperial palace and formerly head of the police. died at Peterhof.
 Convention: Fifteenth universal peace congress inaugurated at Milan. Storm: In Iowa and Nebraska; damages estimated at s2.000,O00. tS Typhoon: Hongkong visited deaths estimated at 10000. with property loss of seo.o0O,oo0.
 Accident: Heavy loss of life in wreck on the Rock Island. near Dover Okla. i9 Russia Gen. Nicolaiff of the Russian artillery assass.nated at Warsaw. O. Accident: 10 killed and Is injured in a wreck on the Scotch express on the Great Northern railway. Obituary: Robert Hit, former congress man. who was associated with Abra- ham Lincoln. at Narragansett Pier: aged 72.
 n. Accident: F persons killed and 50 in- jured by an explosion of dynamite at Jellico. Tenn.
 g. Sporting: Martin Sheridan of the Irish-American Athletic club threw the discus 135 feet inches at Mon treal. breaking the worlds record. g. Race Troubles: Riots in Atlanta; many negroes killed. a. Celebration: Centennial of the dis covery of Pike's Peak honored with ceremonies at Colorado Springs. q. Obituary: Dr. Felix L. Oswald. noted author, naturalist and physician. kill ed by accident at Syracuse. N. Y. Bloodgood Cutter, Mark Twain's ''poet lariat,' otherwise known as ''the farmer poet" at Prospect Hill. NY.
 Earthouake: Shocks in Porto Rico. Cyclone: Havoc by gulf storm at Pen sacola and Mobile; heavy death list. with property loss estimated at $2,- 000,000.
 0. Ballooning: 1s balloons sailed from Paris on a race.
  { Miscellaneous: Lieut.. Frank P. Lahm. U. s. A., wsn in the balloon race across the English channel. The mo- torious Al Adams. policy king and ex- convict took his own life in New York city.
 .. Mining Accident: 8 deaths by explo- sion in the Pocahontas collleries at Bluefield. W. Va.
 | Railroad Accident: 5 killed and g in- jured in a collision on the Boston and Maine at Lansngburg. N. Y. s. Explosion: killed and 40 injured by gas explosion in the Philadelphia sub way.
 Obituary: George Clarke, an original member of Augustin Daly's theatrical company, at South Norwalk, Conn; aged e6
 '. Sporting: Wagner driving the Dar- racq car, won the Vanderbilt cup in the auto race on Long Island. .. Obituary: Adelaide Ristori (the Mar chioness del Grillo). celebrated Italian actress, in Rome: aged s4. Storm and Flood: The great lakes visit ed by the worst storm experienced there since 1880; many lives lost. Financial: The banking house of J. M. Ceballos & O. of New York and Ha- vana failed as a result of defalcations by the agent in Cuba. Manuel Silviera. who absconded. ia. Cyclone. hurricane accompanied by a tidal wave wrecked houses and ship ping on the Honduras coast. doing damage estimated at $l,o0o.ooo. M. Sporting: The American team of Chi-i cago won the worlds baseball cham pionship In Chicago. B. Mining Accident: 25 miners killed in an explosion in the Wingate colleries, England.
 Obituary: Sigurd. Sweden's great hue .morist, sometimes called the Dickens holm. The Rev. Sam Jones. the evan eeiist. near Perry. Ark: aged e7. te. Obituary: Mrs. Jefferson Davis. widow of the president of the Confederate States of America, in New York city; aged 60.
 Convention: The American Bankers' as- sociation met in St. Louis. Accident at Sea: French submarine Lutin lost with her crew of IS on Bisertu. Tunis. IS. Storm Disaster: A West India hurri- cane accompanied by a tidal wave caused great destruction of property and heavy loss of life in Cuba and on the Florida coast.
 Convention: Triennial worlds congress of the w. C. T. U. met in Boston Q. Obituary: Capt George E. Tyson. an nrctic explorer who passed % years of his life in the polar regions. In Wash ington: aged H.
 Fire: Several public buildings burned In Altoona, Pa; loss S0o0O. Political: The French cabinet resigned. Ea -f.f h. fl hl n k-