Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-28


to &, at Ithaca
q. convention: LIST international aeronau-
teal congress opened in New York city
70 Sporting: Edward Payson Weston,
long distance pedestrian, started from
Portland to walk to Chicago distance
of 1,236 miles.
30. Financial Troubles: Kessler & Co.
Wall street bankers, failed owing 81, -
100000
Russia: The mutinous crews of three,
Russian destroyers vanquished in a.
hot battle with loyal ships at Vladivos-
tok.
NOVEMBER.
l. Fire: At Brocton, N. Y; loss of $3.50 600
by the burning of Ryckmans' wine eel
lars.
2. Sporting: Princeton defeated the Car
Isle Indians at football, 16 to 0. I'm.
New York.
6. Accidents: 10 killed and 80 injured by
a boiler explosion on board the Ger
man schoolship Butcher at Kiel <
killed and 3 injured by a boiler ex-
plosion at Steubenville, o.
Obituaries: Don Diego Barros Arana,
eminent Chilean historian and edu-
Gator, known as South Americas
grand old man. at Santiago; aged
n. Gen. T. E. Ross, u. S. A, retired.
who led the famous tunnel escape of
Federal prisoners from Libby prison,
Richmond, in 1864, in Washington;
aged r.
Financial Troubles: The Arnold Print
works at North Adams, Mass, placed
in a receivers hands.
Z. Miscellaneous: The British battle
ship Superb, an improved Dreadnought,
launched at Newcastle, England. 10
persons killed by powder car explo-
sion near Naco, Ariz.
3. Fire: At Superior, Wis; loss OF 81, 80.
600 by the burning of Elevator A and
other business properties.
3. Sporting: The Carlisle Indians de-
feated Harvard at football, % to IL, at
Boston.
IL. Obituary: Mrs. Augustin DAILY, widow
of the founder of Days theater, in
New York city.
Conventions: The American Federation
of Labor met in it's 9th annual session
at the jamestown exposition. Amer
lean mining congress met at Joplin,
Mo.
Personal: Emperor William of Germany
arrived in London on a friendly visit
to King Edward VII.
IL. Fires: 6 lives lost by the burning OF
the Hotel Garde at New Haven, Conn.
The Hotel Castleton, on New Brighton
HILL overlooking New York bay, de-
stroyed by fire; loss $250,OO0.
Obituary: Sir Lewis Morris, English
poet, in London; aged IA.
Miscellaneous: Isaac Dexter Marshall
New York city; aged SO. Queen Helena
of Italy gave birth to a daughter. w
F. Shiebler, a White House teleg-
rapher in 1866, who witnessed the as
sassinatior: Of Lincoln and who received
the first Atlantic cable message, died
in Brooklyn.
IA. Political: The third Russian douna
opened in st. Petersburg.
16. Obituary: Rev. DIR. Moncure D. Con-
way. noted American author, in ParisS
aged IS.
Political: President Roosevelt signed
the proclamation admitting the terri
tories of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory Jointly as one of the American
states.
Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at
football, II to 10, at New Haven; Dart
mouth scored % to Harvard's at
Cambridge.
II. Obituary: Admiral Sir Francis Nc
Clinton, noted arctic explorer, who
discovered the fate of Sir John Frank
lin, in London; aged IS.
49, Conventions: The National Municipal
league convened at Providence. The
American Civic association met in
Providence. Annual meeting of the
transmississippi commercial congress
at Muskogee, Okla.
Fire: At Peoria, ILL.,; loss of 100000 in
the business district.
q Convention: 36th international con-
America at Washington.
g. Obituary: Prof. Asaph Hall, well
known American astronomer, former
ly in the government service, at An
napolis; aged 7S.
Sporting: Yale scored IL to Harvard $ In
the annual football contest at Cam
bridge.
a. Obituary: Gen. Sir Henry Edward
CoIviIle an English officer prominent
in the Boer war, killed in an auto ac-
cident in London.
Is Obituary: Richard Castro, Mexico's
most noted musical composer, in the
City of Mexico; aged %.
Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cor
nell II to f. at football in Philadelphia
80 Obituary: DR.. George F. Shrady, noted
surgeon and medical author who at
tended Gen. Grant in his last illness,
in New York city, aged 20.
Sporting: The navy beat the army, to
o. at football in Philadelphia.
jamestown Exposition: The exposition
officially closed.
DECEMBER.
1. Pacific Fleet: FIotilla of torpedo boat
destroyers sailed from Norfolk, Va,
bound for the Pacific.
2. Fire: Loss of 100000 by the burning
of the Pullman. Car Co.'S paintshop at
Buffalo.
Political: The Goth congress opened.
Accident: 40 deaths from gas explosion
in the Naomi mine, near Pittsburg, Pa
Sporting: Tommy Burns of America
defeated Gunner Moir of England in the
tenth round of a contest for the worlds
heavyweight championship in London
3. Financial: Chelsea Savings bank at
Chelsea, Mich, closed its doors by or
der of the state banking commissioner
T. Convention: National rivers and har-
bors congress convened at Washington
g. Financial Troubles: The National
Bank Of Commerce. Kansas City, Mo-,
closed its doors.
POLITICAL: Baron Takahira named as
Japans American ambassador to sue
coed AolE
s. Mine Disaster: Explosion of black
damp in mines Nos. and of the
Paramount Coal Co. at Monongah, W.
Va, resulted IN the death Of between
800 and 100 miners.
7. Miscellaneous: Hopkinsville, KY, raid
ed and number of toba eco establish
nnents set on fire. United States troops
arrived at Goldfeld, New, to protect
the mines.
Financial Troubles: The Whitney-Ste-
phenson Co. and Whitney, Stephenson