Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-31
sas commemorated by an information. Ll exposition, and a phenomenal fine for receiving railway rebates was laid n c,n inst tha Ctnnda rd Oil ooIia1an niac

oo LicidtSu Uy uh iutSlAut kl exposition, and a phenomenal fine for receiving railway rebates was laid against the Standard Oil companies.
 The mortality list of 1907 includes many distinguished authors, artists, scientists, soldiers and celebrities in various walks of life. Among the Americans who died during the year were Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the poet; Mary J. Holmes and A. C.. Gunter, novelists; Generals Russell A. .Alger, o. B. Wilcox, M. H. Blunt and T. H. Ruger, veterans of the civil war; John T. Morgan and Edmund W. Pettus, United States senators from Alabama; Galusha A. Grow, formerly noted con- gressman; E. H. Conger, who was United States minister at Picking dur ing the Boxer war; Mrs. William Me Kinley, widow of the martyred presi- dent; Mrs. AgassiZ. widow of the great scientist, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, last of the children of Rev. Lyman Beecher. John Alexander Dowie, the Zionist leader, died during the year; also Theodore Hilton, formerly promi- nent in America, who had lived in Paris for generation.
 Richard Mansfield, the actor, and Saint Gaudens, the sculptor, Americans by adoption and long association. died during the year. Notable deaths abroad include Alexander Herschel, English astronomer; Maurice Loewy, director of the Paris observatory and called the dean of astronomers; Joachim, Hun garian violinist; Edward Grieg. Norwe- gian composer; the shah of Persia. and Princess Clementine, daughter of King Louis Philippe of France, relic of past ,glories, who attained the age of ninety; also Oscar II. of Sweden.
 JANUARY.
 2. Accident: 8 deaths in a wreck on the
 Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific at
 Eolland, Kan.
 g. Obituary: Ernest Howard Crosby, so- cial reformer, in. Baltimore; aged 50.
 Russia: Gen. Von der Launitz, prefect
 of the police at St. Petersburg, assas-
 sinated.
 g. Obituary: The shah of Persia at Te- heran; aged 9.
 9. Persia: Ali Mizra recognized as shah. Il. Fire: Moss St Co.'S tobacco warehouse burned in Lancaster, Pa; loss $1. .000. .0o0 Tidal Wave: Island of Simalu. Dutch
 East Indies, engulfed and other adja-
 cent islands devastated.
 B. Shipwreck: British ship Pengwern grounded off Cuxhaven, Germany;
 crew of A drowned. IA. Earthquake: Business part of Kings " ton, Jamaica, destroyed incomplete
 records show nearly 2,00o' deaths:
 United States naval vessels carried first relief to the stricken city; prop
 erty loss over S13,C0o,O0o. Convention: National foreign commerce convention opened In Washington. 16. Storm: 100 deaths in a typhoon, which l swept the islands of Leyte and Samar, in the Philippines.
 1T. Obituary: Margaret Young, widow or President Brigham Young, at Deseret,
 Utah; aged S4. 19. Accidents; lG deaths in train col lison on the Big Four at Fowler Ind. ! 24 dead; and 27 injured in a wreck I . caused by powder explosion on the Fig Four system at Sandford, Ind. ao Storm: Loss of S1,O0o,000 from hurri- cane at Buffalo.
 Fire: At Youngstown, O.; loss of H.-
 100000. 1. Obituary: Josiah Flynt Willard. so- ciologist. who wrote over the name
 Josiah Flynt." In Chicago: aged SS. 23. Explosion: 20 coal miners killed near
 Primero. Colo.
 Mexico: Tchuantepec National railroad, Mexican enterprise. making short cut between the oceans, inaugurated by President DiaZ.
 24 Obituary: Gen. Russell A. AlGer.
 United States senator from Michigan.
 prominent Federal veteran and former secretary of war, in Washington:
 aged q.
 o5 Obituary: Isabella Beecher Hooker.
 last of the children of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, at Hartford. Conn: aged S5. :6. Obituary: Rev. Henry Martyr Field. clergyman and author. former editor of tine New York Evangelist. at Stock bridge Mass: aged S5. Fatal Fire: deaths and property loss
 Of S500,OO0 in a factory fire at Dover. N. IT.
 2s Fire Plant of the Phelps Publishing
 Co. at Springfield. Mass; loss s1.oO0. GOO.
 ExplosIon: 1iS miners killed by firedamp
 at Johann-on-Saar. Prussia.
 % Fire: Flames in the plant of the Baldwin works at Philadelphia caused loss of S1.C00.0O0.
 Explosion: a miners killed in the Stew
 art mine. Fayctte county. W. Va. sl. snipwreck: % deaths in the wrccking of the British steamship Clavering off
 Scotland.
 FEBRUARY.
 1. Fire: business buildings burned in { Harrisburg: loss Sl,oOO,0oc. i 2 Obituary: Hugh o. Pentecost. min : ister. lawyer. lecturer and all round
 freethinEer in New York city: aged
 co. Prof Afendeleef. celebrated Rus
 sian chemist of worldwide f2rle. fin St. Petersburg; aged B. ( Mine explosion: r killed iE the
 Thomas mine at Elkins. Va. 6. Obituary: Rear Admiral Albert Kautz. T.. S E retired. veteran of the civi! WET. at Florence. Italy: aged 6S
 & Fire: Lindenhurst. the country home of Joi:a warGmaker al Jcnl.intovn.
 Pa.. destroyed: loss nearly s.6)o.009. ] Ship Accident: 2 killed by ezolnsion on the French torpedo boat Spod ct LOrient France.
 10. Obituary: Sir William Howard c'BulI Run'D Russell. famous English war correspondent. h Lordcn; aged St. F Obituary: Frank W. Higgins. eX-gov- Political: King Edward opened the British parliament.
 is. Fire: At Pine Bluff Ar,;.: s2 build iaGs burned with loss os s-E0.e0o. f. Convention: 18th annual assembly of
 the National Suffrage association met in Chicago.
 IS. shipwreck: British steamer Orlando sunk fin collision of the coast of Wales: 14 drowned
 { Obituary: Princes Clementine of Saze- Cosurg-Cotha daughter of King Louis Philippe of France in Vienna: aged @ Railway accident. 4 Filled aad over
 l00 injured il an electric express train wreck on the New York Central at New York city.