Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-26

ted OF conspiracy In Chicago. Mrs.
Dora Mcdonald shoots and kills Webster
S. Guerin in Chicago.
22-Pe1nsylvania railroads 1S-hour
flyer wrecked near Johnstown, Pa.
Legislature adjourned by small
pox scare.
MARCH.
tFifty-ninth Congress adjourns sine
die. Three changes in Presidents cab
met take effect.
1-Strother brothers in Culpepper, Va,
acquitted of murder under "unwritten
law"
9-Death of John Alexander Dowie.
viii ]. Davis freed of responsibility for
Iroquois theater disaster by Judge Kim
brough of Danville, Ill.
12-Death of NJ Casimir Perier. for
mer president of France. :. Magazines on
French battleship Jena explode at Toulon,
killing SO and injuring 500 persons.
14-Death of Maurice Grau, impress
sario.
16-Burning of Helicon Hall, Upton
SiRcIair's colony, near Englewood, y. j.
1S-Greater Louisville exposition open
ed.
19-Death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
22-Many persons killed in riots IN
Moldavia.
25-Death of Alexander Beaubien, first
white male born in Chicago.
31-Death of Galusha A. Grow, former
Congressman from Pennsylvania.
APRIL.
2-Chicago elects Fred A. Busse,
Republican. Mayor and approves new
traction ordinance by majority of 80. 126.
4-Hotel fire in San Francisco kills II
persons &. . Lunacy commission declares
Harry *. Thaw sane.
9-Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold convicted of murder of Mrs. Mar
garet Leslie in Chicago.
11-Lord Cromer, British ruler in
Egypt, resigns.
13-Standard Oil Company convicted
in Illinois court of rebating.
14-Death of James H. Eckels of Chi
cago. :. Earthquakes at Chilapa and
Chilpancingo. Mexico.
15-Great Northern's Oriental Limited
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett, \. ID.
16-19-Volcanic eruptions in Chile.
2O-Great fire in native quarter of
Manila
26-Opening of Jamestown (Va.) Elk
position.
30-Hurricane in Caroline Islands kills
200 people.
Great loss of life from explosion in
Canton, China.
3-Sir Alexander Swettenham retires
as Governor of Jamaica
6-Dr. John Watson Clan Maclaren)
dies in Mt. Pleasant. Iowa. Tornado
wipes out towns of Birthright and Ridge
way, Texas.
1O-Son born to King Alfonso of
Spain.
11-Mystic Shriner special wrecked at
Honda, Cal and 81 lives lost.
12-Mine fire at Velardena, Mexico,
kills 90 men. Earthquake in China
kills 1000 persons.
17-Isaac Stephenson elected United
States Senator from Wisconsin.
25-Death of Theodore Tilton in Paris
26-Death of Mrs. William Mckinley.
JUNE.
Oscar III. resumes reign as King of
Sweden.
6-Sudden death of Mrs. Helen NJ
Cougar.
Fatal and destructive tornado in
Kentucky and southern Illinois and In
diana.
9-Death of Julia Magruder, novelist
10-Great strike against government in
wine growing regions of France. :. 500
lives lost in burning of Chinese theater
in Hongkong.
11-Death of Senator John T. Morgan
of Alabama.
POO lives lost in hurricane on Caro-
line Islands.
13-Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
convicted of extortion.
14-Olympic Theater burns in Chicago.
16-Czar dissolves the Duma.
1S-Death of Prof. Alexander s. Her
schel, English astronomer.
2O-Mayor Mcclellan of New York
breaks first sod for construction of great
Catskill aqueduct.
26-Fire destroys block of buildings ad-
Joining jamestown exposition.
30-Death of Francis Murphy, temper
ance evangelist.
JULY.
3-Fatal windstorm sweeps western
Wisconsin.
6-John D. Rockefeller appears as wit
ness in court in Chicago.
Tornado damages Long Pine, Neb.
S-Death of James McGranahan, Cos
pei song writer.
ASSASSINATION of President Fal-
Heres attempted in Paris.
1I-pow6ar aynloSiop hattlpShi
Georgia kills seamen and Injuries Is.
1S-Emperor of Korea abdicates.
300 killed in Pere Marquette wreck
near Salem, Mich.
21-Steamer and freight boat collide
off California coast and 100 lives are lost
23-Death of Col. Will S. Hays, ballad
writer.
27-Death of Senator E. ". Pettus Of
Alabama.
2S-Jury in Boise, Idaho, acquits VIII
liam D. Haywood of murder of Gov.
Steunenburg. :. Big fire at Coney Island,
n Y.
AUGUST.
standard Oil Co. fined S29,0OO,OOO
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
*. NJ. Lands of Chicago.
o-beSlu VI .SicSEdpHeTS general
strike.
12-Death OF Robert A. Pinkerton.
15-Joseph Joachim, violinist, dies in
Berlin.
19-Prince Wilhelm of Sweden at
jamestown exposition.
26-Great fire in Hakodate, Japan.
27-Nelson Morris, Chicago packer,
dies.
29-Great bridge over ST. Lawrence
river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying 81
workmen to death.
30-Death of Richard Mansfield.
SEPTEMBER.
death of Edward Grieg, Norwegian
composer.
7-Anti-Japanese outbreak in Vancou-
yer, B. c.
9-Japanese battleship Kashima blows
ur at Kure with loss of 40 lives.
15-25 lives lost in wreck of excursion
train near Canaan, n. H.
17-First election in Oklahoma. Chi
cago defeats new charter.
21-Frank ]. Constantine convicted of
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