The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-01
1907 IN BRIEF
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"a. Shipwrec,s: British steamship Santl-
ago foundered off Corral Chile; out Of
90 souls on board So were lost.
&c. Sporting: Cornell won the four mile
race for varsity Fights at Poughkeep-
sic. N. Y: time 20 minutes rs Sec
onds. Richard Cookers Orby won the
Irish Derby at Dublin.
q. Obituary: Elizabeth Cary Agasslz.
widow Of the great scientist and one
of the founders of Radcliffe college,
at Boston: aged 81.
Sporting: Harvard Won In the annual
four cared contest at New London.
Conn.
80. Obituary: Francis Murphy, noted
temperance lecturer. at Los Angeles:
aged Il.
2. Sporting: Nazzaro. an Italian. won
the automobile grand prix at Dieppe,
France, breaking the worlds record
by average speed Of Y miles an
hour.
3. Storm: A tornado in central Wiscon-
sin destroyed 26 lives
4. Obituary: Francis B. Thurber, mer-
chant. lawyer and economist, in New
York city: aged G5
8. Convention: 18th annual convention
Of the National Educational associa-
ton at Los Angeles.
IL. Sporting: Peter Pan won the Brigh-
N. Y.
May Sutton. the California wonder, re-
captured the all England tennis cham
pionship at Newport, Wales
Is. Accident: 10 killed and II injured by
explosion in the turret of the bat
tleship Georgia during target practice
at Boston.
II. Accident: persons killed and many
injured by the collapse of building
in London. Ont.
Financial: Thebaud Bros, one of New
Yorks oldest shipping concerns, failed
for nearly s1.OOOOOO.
Obituary: Prof Angelo Heilprin, noted
geologist. who made the ascent Of
Mont Pelee during the eruption of
1902. in New York city: aged 81.
10. Obituary: Gen. George w. Mindil. civil
war veteran, who became colonel at
the age Of 49, in New York city: aged
Ga. Hector Henri Malot, noted French
journalist and novelist. in Paris: aged
: Korea: The emperor of Korea abdicat-
ed In favor of the crown prince.
20. Accident: 81 killed and many injured
in a wreck the Pere Marquette
road near Salem. Mich.
u. Korea: Riot in Seoul the capital on
account of the change of ruler.
q. ShipWreck: SO passengers lost from
the steamer Columbia. which sank in
collision with a schooner off the
Mendocino coast.
Japan and Korea Japan assumed en-
tire control Of the internal ad1ninstra-
ton of Korea.
q. Obituary: United States Senator Ed
mund w. Pettus of Alabama at Hot
Springs. N. c.; aged Sc.
Ship Disaster: lives lost by the burn
ing of the steamer Frontenac on Ca
yuga lake.
%. Fire: In Memphis: loss 5000, coo by
flames in the business section. A
large section Of Coney Island amuse-
ment resorts burned. with loss Of ST.
100000.
20. Fires: In New York city a tenement
house blaze destroyed 10 lives Long
Beach hotel a high class summer re-
sort on the Long Island coast, accom-
modating 800 guests. burned to the
ground
81. Obituary: Francis Miles Finch, law
yer and jurist. author of the war
elegy 1.-THE Blue and the Gray" at
Ithaca; aged so.
Morocco: An inland tribe of Moors at
tackled the French port of Casablan-
ca, killing II foreign residents. includ-
ing Frenchmen.
AUGUST.
l. Obituary: David Christie Murray,
British playwright and novelist, in
London: aged g.
3. Standard Oil Trials: Standard Oh
Company of Indiana fined s29,24O 900 by
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands of
the United States district court at
Chicago for accepting rebates from
railways in violation Of law.
Obituary: Augustus st. Gaudens, the
sculptor, in Cornish, N H.; aged SO.
4. Railroad Accident: 40 passengers
killed by the wreck of railway coach
near Anglers, France.
6. Morocco: French and Spanish troops
landed at Casabanca, and. being fired
upon by the Moors. the French cruiser
Galilee shelled the town.
9. Morocco: Moors attacked Casablanca
and were driven off by gun fire from
the allied warships.
Telegraph Strike: Operators went out
in Is cities Of the south and west.
IL. Conventions: SD annual session of the
Typographical union opened at Hot
Springs.
Telegraph Strike: Operators Of New
York city joined the strike.
Morocco: 1000 Moors attacked Casa
blanca and were repulsed by French
machine guns.
II. Financial Troubles: The Pope Manu-
featuring Co.. maintaining several
plants throughout the country, failed
for s22, 900.
Is. Explosion: killed and 80 injured by
explosion in a dynamite factory at
Doemitz, Germany.
Obituary: Joachim, famous Hungarian
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