Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-29

Maine at Lansingburg. N. Y.
s. Explosion: killed and 40 injured by
gas explosion in the Philadelphia sub
way.
Obituary: George Clarke. an original
member of Augustin Days thea trical
company, at South NorwaIk Conn.
aged GO.
T. Sporting: Wagner, driving the Oar
race car, won the Vanderbilt Gun in
the auto race on Long Island
g. Obituary: Adelaide Ristori (the Mar
lhioness del Grillo) celebrated Italian
actress, in Rome; aged 81.
Storm ard FlosI: The great lakes visit
ed by the worst storm experienced
there since 1880; many lives lost.
Financial: The banking house of ] NJ.
Ceballos & Co. of New York and Ha-
vana failed as a result of defao-> tons
by the agent in Cuba, Manuel Silviera,
who absconded.
a tidal wave wrecked houses and ship
ping OH the Honduras coast, doing
damage estimated at $l,000,OOO
a. Sporting: The American team of Chi
cago WIN the worlds baseball cham
pionshi3 in Chicago.
Is Mining Accident: % miners killed in
an explosion in the Wingate colleries
England.
Obituary: Sigurd. Sweden's great hu-
morist, sometimes called the Dickens
or Twain of the Northland. at Stock
holm The Rev. Sam Jones, the evan
gelist, near Perry, Ark; aged 81.
16. Obituary: Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow
of the president of the Confederate
States of America. in New York city;
aged so.
Convention: The American Bankers as
ISOLATION met in ST. Louis.
Accident at Sea: French submarine
Lutin lost with her crew of 10 off
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. G. L. Z. met in Boston.
10. Obituary: Capt George E. Tyson, an
arctic explorer who passed 80 years of
his life in the polar regions in WASH
ington; aged r.
Fire: Several public buildings burned in
Altoona. Pa. loss 100000.
Political: The French cabinet resigned.
20. Financial Troubles: The London bank
ing house of Mac Fadyen & Co. closed
its doors owing over $6,O00O00 in Eng
land and India. p. Mac Fadyen, the
head of the firm. killed himself after
giving notice of failure.
81. Accident at Sea: Russian coasting
steamer Wariagin sunk off Vladivos-
tok by a floating mine; 200 passen-
gers and sailors drowned.
%. Accident: L killed by the collapse of
a business building in Kansas City.
Kan.
&c Convention: Annual meeting of the
National w. G. T. U. in Hartford.
Conn.
%. Railway Accident: 20 lives lost in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania electric
line at Atlantic City. N. j.
80. Shipwreck % 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
q distance of 80 miles; damage 5000.
OO0 sustained chiefly by coast resorts.
3. Lieut.. Peary: News OF the explorer S
trip to "farthest north" received in
the United States.
S. 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 $1,000
900. In Kansas City, Mo-, plant of
the Harvest King Distiling company
burned; loss 100000
8. Personal: President Roosevelt sailed
from Washington for Panama.
9. 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 S. Uncle" Nathan Moore, not
ed bear hunter, at Moscow. Me-; aged
So.
II. Obituary: Esther Damon, last widow
pensioner on the roll of the war of the
Revolution, at Rutland; aged 90.
II. Railroad Accident: Al killed and SO in
jured in head-on collision between
an immigrant train and freight on
the B. and o. at Woodville, o.
Convention: Twenty-sixth annual meet
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 H.
Is. Conventions: National Baptist con-
gress met at st. Louis.
IA. Obituary: Margaret Macdonald Bot
tom ts@s fg Ss1 y5 f t ey h EsG Daush
Personal: President Roosevelt reached
Colon. Panama. on board the United
States battleship Louisiana
Is. Bomb Explosion: Unknown person ex-
ploded a tin box filled with powder
inside ST. Peters. at Rome, at the
close of mass. No damage resulted
19. Shipwreck: AZ deaths in collision be-
tween the steamer Dix and Alaskan
liner Jeanne off Askali Point, Wash.
Obituary: Georgia Cayvan, once popu-
lar actress, In Flushing, N. Y; aged
g.
20. Convention: Transmississippi congress
opened in Kansas City.
%. Storm and Shipwreck: During a gale
on the great lakes 81 lives were lost
from five wrecked vessels The steam
er J. H. Jones went down in Georgian
&bay with IL sailors and Is passengers
"a. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at
football by score of to at New
Haven.
e. Explosion Accident: 80 workmen killed
and 2l2 injured in a roburit factory at
Dortmund, Germany.
q. Fire: At Peoria Iii, flames In the
business district caused a loss Of
$4,000 In Philadelphia lives were
lost by the burning OF a Salvation
Army hotel
q. Railway Accident: In collision on