Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-01-31


... Admiral Davis and American squad
ron sent away from Kingston, Jamaica,
by Gov. Swettenham.
20-Death of Josiah Flynt Willard,
tramp and author. . l.. i. England apologies
for Swettenham incident.
23-Twenty miners killed by explosion
near Primero, Colo. :. Thaw trial begins
in New York
24-Death of Senator r. A. Alger of
Michigan.
2S-Explosions in mine near Saar-
brueck, Prussia, kill 300 persons. 100
lives lost by typhoon in Hongkong har-
Dor.
29-Ninety miners killed by mine explo-
sion near Thurmond, w. Va.
FEBRUARY.
John d. Rockefeller makes S32, ,0O0,-
600 gift to educational work.
12-200 lives lost by sinking of Joy
line steamer Larchmont off Block Island,
K L.. Death of ex-Gov. Frank w. Hig-
gins of New York.
1876 persons killed and 100 injured
in train wreck on New York Central in
New York City.
20-$113,0OO stolen from U. s. sub
treasury in Chicago.
21-English steamer Berlin goes down
off coast of Holland; 1S0 lives lost
Cornelius j. Shea and associates acquit-
ted of conspiracy in Chicago. :. Mrs.
Dora Mcdonald shoots and kills Webster
S. Guerin in Chicago.
22-Pennsylvania railroads 1S-hour
flyer wrecked near Johnstown, Pa.
Missouri Legislature adjourned by small
pox scare.
MARCH.
die. -. Three changes in Presidents cab
met take effect.
1-Strother brothers in Culpepper, Va,
acquitted of murder under "unwritten
law"
9-Death of John Alexander Dowie.
Will j. Davis freed of responsibility for
lroquois theater disaster by Judge Kim
brough of Danville, Ill.
12-Death of NJ. Casimir Perier, for
mer president of France. Z. . Magazines on
French battleship Jena explode at Toulon,
killing so and injuring 500 persons.
14-Death of Maurice Grau, impress
sario.
16-Burning of Helicon Hall, Upton
Sinclair's colony, near Englewood, n. j.
1S-Greater Louisville exposition open
ed.
19-Death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
22-Many persons killed in riots in
Moldavia.
25-Death of Alexander Beauben, first
white male born in Chicago.
31-Death of Galusha A. Grow, former
Congressman from Pennsylvania.
APRIL.
Chicago elects Fred A. Busse,
Republican. Mayor and approves new
traction ordinance by majority of 33.126.
4-Hotel fire in San Francisco kills II
persons. Lunacy commission declares
Harry X. T'haw sane.
9-Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold convicted of murder of Mrs. Mar
garet Leslie in Chicago.
11-Lord Cromer, British ruler in
Egypt, resigns.
13-Standard Oil Company convicted
in Illinois court of rebating.
14-Death of James H. Eckels of Chi
cago. Earthquakes at Chilapa and
Chilpancingo. Mexico.
15-Great Northern's Oriental Limited
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett. " d.
16-19-Vocanic eruptions in Chile.
2O-Great fire in native quarter of
Manila,
26-Opening of jamestown (va.) Ex-
position.
30--Hurricane in Caroline Islands kills
200 people.
Great loss of life from explosion in
Canton, China.
3-Sir Alexander Swettenham retres
as Governor of Jamaica.
6-Dr. John Watson Clan Maclaren)
dies in Mt Pleasant, Iowa. Tornado
wipes out towns of Birthright and Ridge
way, Texas.
1O-Son born to King Alfonso of
Spain.
11-Mystic Shriner special wrecked at
Honda, Cal, and 81 lives lost.
12-Mine fire at Veardena Mexico
kills 90 men. =. Earthquake in China
kills 1000 persons.
17--Isaac Stephenson elected United
States Senator from Wisconsin.
25-Death of Theodore Tilton in Paris
26-Death of Mrs. William Mckinley
JUNE.
Oscar III. resumes reign as King of
Sweden.
6-Sudden death of Mrs Helen NJ.
Cougar.
Fatal and destructive tornado in
Kentucky and southern Illinois and In
diana.
death of Julia Magruder, novelist.
10-Great strike against government in
wine growing regions of France. =. q. 500
lives lost in burning of Chinese theater