The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-01-03
gle (John oliver Hobbes). author and

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age speed 651 miles an hour.
. Russia: General attack on the cars
police by the terrorists of Poland.
: Earthquake: IA Chilean cities affected,
Valparaiso being almost destroyed.
Estimated deaths 1000 and property
loss about $5O.O00.0O0 in Valparaiso
alone.
l. Cuban Revolution: Rising Of the Gu
ban Liberals against the Palma ad
ministration. Gen. Bandera took the
field with a band OF revolutionists.
;. 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 we're driven out
after a sharp engagement.
l. 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 49,
. Russia: In an attempt to assassinate
the Russian premier Stolypin at St
Petersburg by bomb Is people were
killed and many injured Stoypin es-
CapeO INJURY.
/ Russia: Gen. Min. an officer OF the
personal suit OF the czar, killed by
young woman, who fired shots into
him from revolver.
: Russia: BY ukase of the car 1900 900
acres Of the crown appanage lands
were transferred to the peasants. Gen.
Won 1iarliarski. military governor OF
Warsaw, assassinated.
!. Financial: The Real Estate Trust
company OF Philadelphia. whose pres
ident. Frank w. Nipple, committed
suicide on the Path closed it's doors
with liabilities placed at $4,000, 900.
l. Conventions: First Esperantist inter
national congress opened at Geneva
The American Bar association opened
It's annual convention at st. Paul.
Obituary: w. e. Marshall. noted artist.
whose engraving OF Lincoln made
him famous. In New York city; aged
II.
J. Obituary: Edward Rosewater, editor
of the Omaha Bee. suddenly in Oma-
ha: aged 65.
SEPTEMBER.
|. Sporting: Electioneer won the Flu
turity stakes, worth $4,000, at Sleeps
head Bay.
Convention: International Alliance of
Copenhagen.
l. Sporting: Joe Cans won by a foul In
the forty-second round In a contest
with Battling Nelson at Goldheld.
New
l. Obituary: Hermann Oelrichs, Ameri-
can capitalist and ship owner. sud
denly at sea on board the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse.
: Cuba: The insurgent Pine Guerra re-
fused an armistice.
/ Sporting: Cambridge defeated Har-
ward in a rowing contest on the
Thames. Dan Patch broke the world
pacing record. going tho mile in 1.55
at st. Paul
l. Cuba: American force landed from the
United States cruiser Denver but i'm
mediately returned to the vessel after
leaving a guard at the American le-
cation.
l. Obituary: Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee,
only survivor of tho 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 200 yards
to minutes AZ 20 seconds at St Louis.
/ Russia: Gen. Trepoff, 1.-The terror"
commandant of tho 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 $1,000, 900.
l. Typhoon: Hongkong visited; deaths
estimated at 10000. with property loss
of $50. 100000.
Accident: Heavy loss of life in a wreck
on the Rock Island, near Dover Okla.
l. Russia: Gen. Nicolaiff of the Russian
artillery assassinated at Warsaw
l. Accident: 10 killed and Is 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 ~.
J. Accident: Il persons killed and 30 in
jured by an explosion of dynamite at
Jellico, Tenn.
: Sporting: Martin Sheridan OF the
Irish-American Athletic club threw
the discus 1856 feet inches at Mon
treal. breaking the worlds record.
/ Race Troubles: Riots in Atlanta;
many negroes killed.
. Celebration: Centennial of the dis
covery of Pixies Peak honored with
ceremonies at Colorado Springs.
;. Obituary: DR.. Felix L. Oswald noted
author, naturalist and physician, kill
ed by accident at Syracuse. N. Y.
Bloodgood Cutter, Mark Twaln's
1.-THE farmer poet" at Prospect Hill,
n. Y.
Earthquake; Shocks in Porto Rico
Cyclone: Havoc by gulf storm at Pen
sacola and Mobile; heavy death list,
with property loss estimated at s20-
600. 900.
b. Ballooning: Is balloons sailed from
Paris on a race.
OCTOBER.
!. Miscellaneous: Lieut.. Frank P. Lahm.
Y. 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.
!. Mining Accident: deaths by explo-
sion in the Pocahontas collieries at
Bluefeld. W. Va.
Railroad Accident: killed and Is in
jured in a collision on the Boston and
Maine at Lansngburg N. Y.
Explosion: killed and 40 injured by
gas explosion in the Philadelphia sub
way.
Obituary; George Clarke. an original
member of Augustln Days theatrical
company. at South Norwalk, Conn:
aged 66
Sporting: Wagner. driving the Oar
racq car, won the Vanderbilt cup In
the auto race on Long Island
Obituary: Adelaide Ristori (the Mar
chioness del Grillo), celebrated Italian
actress in Rome: aged "a
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. M.
Ceballos & Co. of New York and Ha-
vana failed as n result of defalcations
hv thu agent In Cnha Manuel Silvlerp