The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
YEAR 1907 LEAVESA
RECORD OF DISASTER
Natural Phenomena and Direful
Accident Furnish Long Lists
of Dead.
EPITOME OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
Recent Financial Disturbancc-Ok1a-
homa State-Fine and Gift
of Millions.

VI 1JOi lHdl He lilly write u IL Illus
himself confronted by an exhibit of
destruction and disaster that he had
not fully appreciated before. Since the
opening day of the year the great ca
tastrophes that have been accompan-
| led by large loss of life have numbered
26, an average of slightly more than
two for each month. Several of these
have been great commissions of nature.
There was the earthquake that destroy
ed Kingston, Jamaica, out of which
came the disagreeable Swettenham in
cident: subsequently occurred other
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in
Mexico, Chile and China. An earth
quake and mountain slide that de-
stroyed the town of Karatagh, Russian
Turkestan. snuffed out $4,000 lives, and
frightful typhoon at Hongkong.
China. killed unknown hundreds of the
Inhabitants. hurricane in the Caro-
line Islands wiped AOut 200 lives; a
great food in Japaneaused 600 deaths.
Among the catastrophes originating in
the operations and enterprises of hui
mainly there have been explosions
several of them in mines. others in
blast furnaces and on shipboard-col
lisionS of ships and of railway trains,
the collapse of the great uncompleted
bridge over the st. Lawrence river
near Quebec, and the blowing up of
the Du Pont powder works in Fonta-
net, Ind. All these produced long cas-
ualty lists.
The roll of eminent dead is also an
extensive one. Sweden has lately been
called upon to mourn the decease of its
beloved king, Oscar H., and his son
and successor has assumed the reins
OF government. In Persia. also. the
old Shah has died and new one rules
Not death, but abdication has also
changed the governmental head in
Korea. Politics, art, science, letters
and the platform have each paid its
toll to death in the loss of some fore
most representatives. Among the names
may be recorded those of former Pres
ident NJ. Casimir Perier of France
Senators Morgan, Pettus and Alger
Galusha A. Grow, James ii. Eckels,
Maurice Grau, Richard Mansfield, Jo-
seph Joachim, Edward Grieg James
McGranahan, Col. VIII S. Hayes. Prof.
Alexander S. Herschel, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, DR.. John Watson Clan Mac
laren), Theodore Tilton, Mrs. Mary ].
Holmes. Francis Murphy and Mrs
Helen NJ. Cougar. Mrs. VIM. McKin-
ley and John Alexander |Dowie are so
in the list of the well-known dead
A financial disturbance of widespread
influence has made itself felt during
the last three months of 1907.
The number of States in the Union
has been increased to 46 by the adj
mission of Oklahoma.
TIT modern minds are not appalled,
by large amounts is shown by two of
the years transactions The Standard
Oil Company has been fined $4,000
900 by a Chicago judge, and John D.
Rockefeller has made donations of $780,
100000 to educational projects
Two great expOsitions have been
held. That at Jamestown, Va, did not
receive the patronage expected and is
in the hands of a receiver. The other
was i'm Greater Louisville. Ky.
\ public work of vast MAGNITUDE was
begun when Mayor Mcclellan of New
York broke ground for the construc-
ton of the great Catskil aqueduct
which in few years is to convey to
the metropolis an inexhaustib3e supply
Of pure water. F,
,The Harry Thaw trial in New York
and the general strike of telegraphers
the country over were subjects of much
interest to the public while they con-
tinued.
The principal happenings of 1907 are
briefly given below:
JANUARY.
2-wreck on Rock Island near Vol
land, Kansas. kills 30 persons. f. Chas.
NJ. Floyd Republican, elected Governor
of New Hampshire by Legislature.
Bomb thrown in Fourth Street Ma
tional bank, Philadelphia.
S-Deatn of Shah of Persia.
9-James Cullen lynched in Charles
City. Iowa. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff as
sassinated in st. Petersburg. D.. . 80 miners
killed by explosion in Pittsburg blast fur
mace.
1O-Typhoon in Philippines Kills 100
persons.
11-Fire near Strassburg, Germany.
causes 20 deaths. 81, 100000 fire in
Lancaster, Pa.
14-Earthquake destroys Kingston, ia
maica.
19-Sixty lives lost in two Big Four
railroad wrecks in Indiana. Moham-
med Ali Mira crowned Shah of Persia
Admiral Davis and American squad
ron sent away from Kingston, Jamaica,
by Gov. Swettenham.
2O-Death of Josiah F'lynt Willard
tramp and author. England apologies
for Swettenham incident.
23-Twenty miners killed by explosion
near Primero, Colo. :. Thaw trial begins
IN New York
24-Death of Senator II. A. Alger of
Michigan.
2S-Explosions in mine near Saar-
brueck, Prussia, kill 800 persons. 100
lives lost by typhoon in Hongkong har-
Dor.
29-Ninety miners killed by mine explo-
sion near Thurmond, W. Va.
FEBRUARY.
John ID. Rockefeller makes $4,000
600 gift to educational work
POO lives lost by sinking of JOY
line steamer Larchmont off Block Island,
r. l.. Death of ex-Gov. Frank w. Hig-
gins of New York
1G-25 persons killed and 100 injured
in train wreck on New York Central in
New York City.
= 2O-S173,00O stolen from L. s. sub
treasury in Chicago.
21-English steamer Berlin goes down
Two Kinds of Tuberculosis.
Reports from London state mat the re-