Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-12-27
SEPTEM Der.


Sheepshead Bay.
SEPTEMBER.
8. Obituary: General" Pleasant Porter,
chief Of the Creek Indian nation. at
Vnita, l. r.; aged e.
Railroad Accident: killed and 20 in
jured in a wreck on the Canadian Pa
cifc near Caledon. Ont.
L. Obituary: Or. Edward Grieg, famous
Norwegian musical composer, al Ber-
gen. Norway.
s. Financial Troubles Watson & Co..
stock exchange brokers in New York
and Chicago. failed for $3cOO0o0.
g. Obituary; w. II. Merrill well known
journalist, at bingham, Mass. aged g..
Railroad Accident; II killed and many
injured in a collision on the Rock Is
land and Pacific at Norris la.
T. Fire: The famous Cliff House on the
beach at San Francisco. totally de-
stroyed by fire.
Sportng The United States rife team
won the Palma trophy at Ottawa over
Canada, Australia and Great Britain;
record breaking score 1.712 out of a
possible / 800.
o. Conventions: The 10th international
peace congress opened at Munich. Ba-
varia. Ist annual national encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. opened at Sara
toga.
Russia: Anti-Jewish outbreak at Kishe-
new.
II. Personal: Charles G. Burton of Mis-
souri, elected commander in chief OF
the G.. A. r.
is. Obituary: Rear Admiral John Grimes
Walker, U. S. N. retired. at High
Pasture. N. H.. aged 70.
Railroad Accident: % killed and as
many injured in a head-on collision on
the Boston and Maine at West Ca
naan. N. II.
II. Sea Disaster: Explosion on the Japa-
nese battleship Kashima caused the
death Of 80 of the crew.
90. Railroad Accident: 80 persons killed
and rs many injured in collision on
the Mexican Central at Encarnacion.
22 Obituary: Samuel Sloan. financier and
railroad builder. at Garrison. N. Y.
aged 49,
q. Morocco: French terms of peace ac-
cepted by the Moors at Casablanca.
%. Railroad Accident: killed and 20 in
jured in wreck on the Baltimore and
Ohio at Bellaire. o.
30. Personal: Monument to the late Presi-
dent William Mckinley dedicated at
Canton, o.
OCTOBER.
& Convention: 18th triennial general
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church opened at Richmond, Va.
jof. accompanying the Welman polar
exposition, lost of the coast OF Ice
land; the captain and Is sailors
drowned.
6. Obituary: Mary ]. Holmes. popular
American novelist of the romantic
school, in Brockport, n. Y; aged 70.
7. Obituary: Prof. David Mason. noted
Scotch scholar and historian. at Edin-
burgh: aged IS.
10. Sporting Trampfast won the world s
racing record for a two-year-old by
trotting a mile in 2:121a at Lexington.
Ky.
IL. Shipwreck: % lives lost by the sink
ing of the steamship Cyprus during a
gale on Lake Superior.
IL. Sporting: Miss Margaret Curtis won
the national golf championship with a
score of up and to play at Chicago.
Brookdale Nymph lowered the world s
record for 6la furlongs around a turn
by running the distance in LII lis at
Belmont park. The Chicago National
league baseball team won the world 3
championship, defeating the Detroit
American league by the score OF 2 to O.,
at Detroit.
IL Cloudburst: so houses destroyed and
16 people drowned at San Jose. Del
Cabo. Lower California.
Naval: The armored cruisers Tennessee
and Washington sailed from Hampton
Roads for the Pacific around the coast
OF South America.
Is. Maurice Loewy. director of the Paris
observatory and the dean OF astrono-
mers. In Paris; aged a.
Railroad Accident: 10 persons killed
and 80 injured by the derailment OF a
passenger train on the London and
Northwestern at Shrewsbury. England.
Explosion; 3s persons killed and over
500 injured by a series OF explosions
IN the Du Pont blasting powder mills
at Fontanet. Ind.
iA Political: The first national Philip
pine assembly opened at Manila by
Secretary Taft.
Sporting: Sweet Marie made a new
worlds record for half mile track.
trotting in pos at Allentown Pa