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

2S Railway Accident: 20 lives lost in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania electric
line at Atlantic City, N. j.
80. Shipwreck: 20 drowned by the sinking
of the German steamship Hermann in
the English channel.
81. Obituary: Judge Joseph E. Gary of
the Cook county superior court. pre-
siding justice in the famous "anar-
chist' trials, in Chicago; aged IS.
NOVEMBER.
1. Storm: The French coast devastated
a distance of 80 miles; damage 5000
600. sustained chiefly by coast resorts.
3. Lieut. Peary: News of, the explorer $
trip to ''farthest north received in
the United States.
= 8. Obituary: Fritz Thaulow, noted Nor
wegian landscape painter. at Volen-
dam, Holland.
Z. Fires: At Hamilton, O., burning of a
dry goods block caused loss of 81 ,OOO,-
GOO. In Kansas City, Mo-, plant of
the Harvest King Distilling company
burned loss 100000.
8. Personal: President Roosevelt sailed
from Washington for Panama
o. Building Accident: Collapse of a new
concrete structure at Long Beach,
Cal, caused the death of Is workmen.
Obituary: Samuel j. Kitson, noted
American sculptor, in New York city;
aged So. "Uncle" Nathan Moore, not
ed bear hunter, at Moscow, Me-: aged
CO.
II. Obituary: Esther Damon, last widow
pensioner on the roll of the war of the
Revolution, at Rutland; aged 80.
L. Railroad Accident: AZ killed and SO in
5ured in q head-on collision between
an immigrant train and a freight on
the B. and o. at Woodville O.
COnVAntiO TyueOty-ciytJ animal ,,,aat
ing of the American Federation of
Labor at Minneapolis.
Obituary: Major Gen. William Rufus
Shafter, u. S. A, retired, commander
of the military expedition which cap
tured Santiago in 1898, near Bakers.
field, Cal; aged II.
49, Convention: National Baptist con-
gresS met at ST. Louis.
A. Obituary. Margaret Macdonald Bot
tome, founder of the Kings Daugh-
tiers, in New York city; aged 70.
PERSONAL: President Roosevelt reached
Colon, Panama on board the United
States battleship Louisiana.
IL. Bomb Explosion: Unknown person ex.
pioded tin box filled with powder
inside st. Peters, at Rome, at the
close Of mass. No damage resulted.
IL. Shipwreck: 40 deaths in a collision be-
tween the steamer Dix and Alaskan
II.
Obituary: Georgia Cayvan once popu.
lar actress, in Flushing, N. Y; aged
49,
20. Convention Transmississippi congress
opened in Kansas City.
Y. Storm and ShipWreck: During q gallo
on the great lakes CO lives were lost
from five wrecked vessels. The stear1-
er j. II. Jones went down in Georgian
bay with II sailors and IS passengers.
"a. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at
football by a score of to at New
Haven.
q. Explosion Accident: so workmen killed
and $40 injured in a roburit factory at
Dortmund. Germany.
q. Fire: At Peoria, H., flames in the
business district caused n loss Of
$4,000. In Philadelphia lives were
lost by the burning of a Salvation
Army hotel
%. Railway Accident: In a collision on
the Southern railway near Lynchburg
Va, 8 passengers were killed and s
seriously injured Samuel Spencer
president CT the railway company, and
Gen. Philip Schuyler among the killed
DECEMBER.
l. Sporting: Annapolis defeated West
Point. 10 to 0, in the annual army and
navy f2ctbal contest In Philadelphia.
z. ODltu2rN: BiacK Patu ttIOra Bat
SOM, colored concert singer, in Phila-
delphia; aged So.
3. Political: Last session of the Fifty
ninth congress opened in Washington.
President Roosevelt sent the senate
the following nominations: Secretary
of the treasury, George p. Cortelyou:
attorney general Charles J. Bona
parte; postmaster general, George l..
Won Meyer; secretary of the navy, Vic
tor II. Metcalf secretary of the in
terror, James r. Garfield; secretary of
commerce and labor. Oscar S. Straus;
associate justice of supreme court.
William II. Moody.
Flood Disaster: At Clifton, Ariz., a flood
from a bursting dam caused 60 deaths
and a property loss of $250,00O
Obituary: Prof Ferdinand +. Lee Boyle.
eminent artist, who painted Dickens,
Edwin Forrest. Charlotte Cushman
and other celebrities in New York
city: aged 81.
4. Political: New Liberal ministry took
the reins of government in Spain;
Ger. Weyler "cgain rn.nis'ccr of war