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

the RUSSIAN premier Stolypin at st.
Petersburg by a bomb 25 people were
killed and many injured. Stolypin es-
capped injury.
26. Russia: Gen. Min, an officer Of the
personal suit of the car killed by a
young woman, who fired shots into
him from revolver.
u. Russia: BY ukase of the car 45OO, 600
acres of the crown appanage lands
We're transferred to the peasants. Gen.
Won Liarliarski, military governor Of
Warsaw, assassinated.
28. Financial: The Real Estate Trust
company of Philadelphia, whose pres
1dent. Frank w. Nipple committed
suicide on the oath closed it's doors
with liabilities placed at $4,000, 900.
20. Conventions: First Esperantist inter-
national congress opened at Geneva
The American Bar association opened
its annual convention at ST. Paul.
Obituary: w. E. Marshall, noted artist,
whose engraving of Lincoln made
him famous, in New York city; aged
IL
80. Obituary: Edward Rosewater, editor
of the Omaha Bee, suddenly in Oma-
ha; aged Go.
SEPTEMBER.
1. Sporting: Electioneer won the Fu-
turity stakes, worth $43, O00 at Sleeps
head Bay.
Convention: International Alliance of
Woman Suffrage Associations met in
Copenhagen.
8. Sporting: Joe Cans won by a foul in
: the forty-second round in a contest
with Battling Nelson at Goldfield,
New.
4. Obituary: Hermann Oelrichs, Ameri-
can capitalist ana ship owner, sud-
denly at on board the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse.
z. Cuba: The insurgent Pine Guerra re-
fused an armistice.
g. Sporting: Cambridge defeated Har-
ward in rowing contest on the
Thames. Dan Patch broke the world 9
pacing record, going the mile in 1:55
at st. Paul.
IL. Cuba: American force landed from the
United States cruiser Denver but i'm
mediately returned to the vessel after
leaving guard at the American le-
cation.
IA. Obituary: Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee,
only survivor of the famous Blair
family of Missouri, at Silver Spring,
Md.
Cuba: President Roosevelt urged Gu
bans to cease hostilities and ordered
Secretary Taft to proceed to Havana
Sporting: c.. NJ. Daniels lowered the
worlds swimming record for zoo yards
to minutes AZ 2-5 seconds al ST. Louis
Is. Russia: Gen. Trepoff, 1.-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 100000.
IS. Typhoon: Hongkong visited; deaths
estimated at 10000, with property loss
of $20.000 900.
on the Rock Island, near Dover Okla
10. Russia: Gen. Nicolaiff of the Russian
artillery assassinated at Warsaw.
20. Accident: 10 killed and 16 injured in Il
: 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 Y.
p. Accident: - persons killed and go in
jured by an explosion Of dynamite at
Jellico, Tenn.
%. Sporting: Martin Sheridan of the
Irish-Anlerican Athletic club threw
the discus 1875 feet 5 inches at Mon
treal, breaking the worlds record.
%. Race Troubles: Riots in Atlanta;
many negroes killed.
"a. Celebration: Centennial Of the dis
covery of Pixies 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 Twains
poet lariat," otherwise known as
1.-The farmer poet" at Prospect Hill,
NY
Earthquake: Shocks in Porto Rico.
Cyclone: Havoc by gulf storm at PEN
sacola and Mobile; heavy death list,
with property loss estimated at $20-
00O00.
Paris on a race.
OCTOBER.
2. Miscellaneous: Lieut.. Frank p Lahm,
U. S. A, won in the balloon race
across the English channel. The no
torious al Adams, policy king and ex-
convict, took his own life in New
York city.
3. Mining Accident: s deaths by explo-
sion in the Pocahontas collieries a.
Bluefield, W. Va.
4. Railroad Accident: killed and Is in
jured in collision on the Boston and
Maine at Lansingburg, N. Y
5. Explosion: killed and 40 injured by
gas explosion in the Philadelphia SUBJ
way.
Obituary: George Clarke, an original
member of Augustin Days theatrical
company, at South Norwalk, Conn
aged &C.
:. Sporting: Wagner, driving the OAR
racq car, won the Vanderbilt cup in
the auto race on Long Island.
9. Obituary: Adelaide Ristori (the Mar
chioness del Grillo), celebrated Italian
actress, in Rome; aged 81.
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. NJ
Ceballos G. Co. of New York and Ha-
vana failed as a result of defalcations
by the agent in Cuba, Manuel Silviera
who absconded.
r. Cyclone: A hurricane accompanied by
Il tidal wave wrecked houses and ship
ping on the Honduras coast, doing
damage estimated at 81, 900 900.
H. Sporting: The American team of Chi
cago won the worlds baseball cham
pionship in Chicago.
Il. 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
geist, near Perry, Ark: aged 81.
D.. Obituary: Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow
of the president of the Confederate
States of America, in New York city;
aged So
Conventions: The American Bankers as
ISOLATION met in ST. Louis
Accident at Sea: French submarine
Lutin lost with her crew of 10 off