Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-31

and heavy loss OF life I'm Cuba and
on the Florida coast.
Convention: Triennial worlds congress
Of the w. c. T. L. met in Boston.
10. Obituary: Capt. George L. Tyson. an
arctic explorer who passed 80 years Of
his life in the polar regions. in Wash
ington; aged AZ.
Fire: Several public buildings burned in
Altoona, Pa; loss 10000.
Political: The French cabinet resigned.
20. Financial Troubles: The London bank
ing house Of Mac Fadyen 81 Co. closed
its doors owing over 100000 in Eng
land and India. +. Mac Fadyen, the
head Of the firm. killed himself after
giving notice OF failure.
q. Accident at Sea: Russian coasting
steamer Wariagln sunk off Vladivos-
tok by n floating mine: 200 passen-
gers and sailors drowned.
.. Accident: l. killed by the collapse OF
a business building in Kansas City,
Kan.
26. Conventions: Annual meeting Of the
National w. c. T. L. in Hartford.
Conn.
%. Railway Accident: 20 :ives lost in
wreck on the Pennsylvania electric
line at Atlantic City, y. j.
80. Shipwreck: % drowned by the sinking
of the German steamship Hermann in
the English channel.
81. Obituary: Judge JoseEh Z. Gary Of
the Cook county superior court. pre-
SIZING Justice IN the famous andr-
chist" trials, in Chicago; aged IS.
NOVEMBER.
l. Storm: The French coast devastated
a distance OF 80 miles; damage $780,
600. sustained chiefly LY coast resorts
3. Lieut. Peary: News Of the explorers
trip to "farthest north" received lie
the United States.
s. Obituary: Fritz Thaulow. noted Nor
weGian landscape painter, at Volen-
dam. Holland.
Z. Fires: At Hamilton, o., burning of
dry goods block caused loss Of 81 .OO0..
COO. In Kansas City. Mo. plant OF
the Harvest King Distilling company
burned: loss 100000.
8. Personal: President Roosevelt sailed
from Washington for Panama.
9. Building Accident: Collapse of new
concrete structure at Long Beach.
Cal, caused the death of - worlkmcn.
Obituary: Samuel j. Kitson, noted
American sculptor. in New York city;
aged So. "Uncle" Nathan Moore. not
ed bear hunter. at Moscow, Ne; aged
IS.
II. Obituary: Esther Damon. last widow
pcnsioner On the roll G.: the war of the
Revolution, at Rutland: aged %.
II. Railroad accident: 81 killed and % in
jured in g. head-on collision between
IN immigrant train and a freight on
the b. anG o. at Woodville. o.
Convention: Twenty-siXth annual meet
ing Of t!7e American Federation OF
Labor at minneapolis.
Obituary: 1gajOr Gen. William Rufus
Shafter, L. S. A. retired. commander
of the military expedition which cap
tured Santiago in 1898, near Bakers
field, Cal; aged Il.
g. Convention: National Baptist con-
fress met at St. Louis.
"A. Obituary: Margaret Macdonald Bot
tome. founder of tho Kings paugh-
tiers, in Nav York city: agzd 20
Personal. Tppn=R-aft
Colon. Panama. on boarl the United
States bafrleship Louisiana.
8. Bomb EXPLOSION: Unknown person cT-
ploded n 1in box filled with powder
inside ST. Peters, at Rome. at the
close Of mass. No damAGc resulted.
Q. ShipwrcclS, - deaths in a collision be-
tween the steamer Dix and Alaskan
liner Jeanne off Askali Point, Wash.
Obituary: Georgia Cavvan, once popu-
lar actress. in Flushing. y. y; aged
%. Convention: Transmississippi congress |
opened i'm Kansas City.
%. Storm and ShipwreCk: During n gale |
on the great lakes G. lives were lost |
from five wrecked vessels. The steam |
er J. II. Jones went down in Georgian |
bay with Il sailors and IS passengers.
4. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at |
football by n score Of G to at New /
Haven.
z. Explosion Accident: 30 workmen killed |
and 242 injured in a roburit factory at |
Dortmund Germany.
g. Fire: At Peoria, IL. flames in the |
business district caused a loss OF |
$4,000. IN Philadelphia lives were
sost by the burning Of a Salvation
Army hotel
Q. Railway Accident: In n collision on
the Southern railway near Lynchburg.
Va, passengers were killed and s
seriously injured. Samuel Spencer.
president Of the railway company, and
Gen. Philip Schuyler among the killed.
DECEMBER.
l. Sporting: Annapolis defeated West
Point 10 to o. in the annual army and