Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

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death of John Alexander Dewie. :.
Will j. Davis freed of responsibility for
Iroquois theater disaster by Jsdge Kim
brough of Danyille, 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.
Sinclairs colony, near Englewood, n. 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.
Chicago elects Fred A. Busse,
Republican. Mayor and approves new
traction ordinance by majority of 33, 126.
4-Hotel fire in San Francisco kills II
persons. .Lunacy commission declares
Harry X. 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 Ncrthern's Oriental Limited
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett, n. D.
16-19-yolcanic eruptions in Chile
20-Great fire in native quarter of
Manila
26-Opening of jamestown (va) Ex-
position.
30-Hurricane in Caroline Islands kills
200 people.
Great loss of life from explosion in
Canton, China.
as Governor of Jamaica.
Cdr. Jehn 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 80 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.
Oscar II. 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.
12-200 lives los. in hurricane on Caro-
| line Islands.
1 II
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-
J joining jamestown exposition.
30-Death of Francis Murphy, temper
ance evangelist.
| 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, gos-
pei song writer.
14-Assassination of President Fall
Heres attempted in Paris.
| 15-Powder explosion OF battleship
Georgia kills s seamen and Injuries 13.
| 1S-Emperor of Korea abdicates.
300 killed in Pere Marquette wreck
near Salem, Mich.
| 21-Steamer and freight boat collide
off California coast and 80 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 SIS, 100000
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
X. NJ. Lands of Chicago.
S-Beginnlng of telegraphers' general
strike.
12-Death of Robert A. Pinkerton.
| 15-Joseph Joachim, vioIinist, dies in
Berlin.
19-Prince Wilhelm of Sweden ut
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 "a
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 Kashire7 blows
ur at Kure with loss of 40 lives.
| 1875 lives lost in wreck of excursion
train near Canaan, n. II.
| 17-First election in Oklahoma. Chi
cago defeats new charter
| 21-Frank ]. Constantine convicted Of
murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago
-. .Grandstand blown down in Higgins,
Pa, and so people hurt.
25-Flood in Japan browns 600 per-
sons.
| 2S-Eight lives lost in B. & o. wreck
at Bellaire, Ohio.
30-McKinley mausoleum dedicated in
| Canton, Ohio.
| OCTOBER.