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

=. Cuba: Revolutionists led by Gen. Pine
Guerra, an ex-congressman. captured
the town of San Luis, province of
Pinar del Rio.
%. Cuba: Gen. Guerra's revolutionists
captured San Juan de Martinez, in
Pinar del Rio, but were driven out
after a sharp engagement.
"a. Financial Troubles: Frank ]. Nipple,
president of the insolvent Real Estate
Trust company of Philadelphia, took
his own life at Bryn Mawr.
Obituary: Alfred Stevens, celebrated
painter of Belgian genre, in Paris;
aged rs.
.. Russia: In an attempt to assassinate
the Russian premier Stolypin at St.
Petersburg by a bomb % 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 a revolver.
q. Russia: By ukase of the car $500. 900
acres of the crown appanage lands
were transferred to the peasants. Gen.
Won Liarliarski. military governor Of
Warsaw. assassinated.
2S. Financial: The Real Estate Trust
company of Philadelphia. whose pres
ident. Frank w Nipple. committed
suicide on the oath, closed it's doors
with liabilities placed at S1O,0O0,OOO
%. Conventions: First Esperantist inter-
ndIlOD1l congress opened at Geneva
The American Bar association opened
its annual convention a st. Paul.
Obituary: w. E. Marshall, noted artist,
whose engraving of Lincoln made
him famous, in New York city; aged
Il.
30. Obituary: Edward Rosewater. editor
of the Omaha Bee. suddenly in Oma-
ha; aged IS.
SEPTEMBER.
turity stakes, worth $4,000. at Sleeps
head Bay.
Convention: International Alliance Of
Woman Suffrage Associations met in
Copenhagen.
3. Sporting: Joe Cans won by a foul in
the forty-second round in a contest
with Battling Nelson at Goldfeld,
New.
4. Obituary: Hermann Oelrichs. Ameri-
can capitalist ana ship owner. sud-
denly at sea on board the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse
z. Cuba: The insurgent Pine Guerra re-
fused an armistice.
8. Sporting: Cambridge defeated Har-
ward in a rowing contest on the
Thames. Dan Patch broke the worlds
pacing record, going the mile in 1:j5
at St. Paul.
Is. Cuba: American force landed from the
United States cruiser Denver, but i'm
nlediately returned to the vessel after
leaving a guard at the American le-
cation.
IA. Obituary: Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee,
only survivor of the famous Blair
family of Missouri. at Silver Spring.
Nd.
Cuba: President Roosevelt urged Gu
bans to cease hostiilties and ordered
Secretary Taft to proceed to Havana.
Sporting: c. NJ. Daniels lowered the
worlds swimming record for 200 yards
to minutes ~ 2-5 seconds at St Louis.
10. Russia: Gen. Trepof. 'the terror"
commandment Of the imperial palace
and formerly head of the police, died
at Pelerhof.
Convention: Fifteenth universal peace
congress inaugurated at Milan.
Storm: In Iowa and Nebraska; damages
estimated at $2.OO0.O00
Is. Typhoon: Hongkong visited; deaths
estimated at 10000, with property loss
of $20,OO0OOO.
Accident: Heavy loss of life in a wreck
on the Rock Island. near Dover, Okla.
%. Russia: Gen. Nicolaiff Of the Russian
artillery assassinated at Warsaw.
%. Accident: 10 killed and 16 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 -.
I. Accident: u persons killed and so in
ju-ed by an explosion of dynamite at
Jellco Tenn.
2. Sporting: Martin Sheridan of the
Irish-American Athletic club threw
the discus 135 feet 5 inches at Mon
treal. breaking the worlds record.
3. Race Troubles: Riots in Atlanta;
many negroes killed.
a. Celebration: Centennial of the dis |
covery of Pixies Peak hOnored with |
ceremonies at Colorado Springs.
z. Obituary: DR.. Felix L. Oswald. noted |
author, naturalist and physician. kill |
ed by accident at Syracuse, y. Y. |
Bloodgood Cutter, Mark Twain's |
'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 $50
100000.
O. Ballooning: 16 balloons sailed from
Paris on race.