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


ASSASSINATION of President Fal-
lieres attempted in Paris.
15-Powder explosion on battleship
Georgia kills 8 seamen and Injuries 13.
1S-Emperor of Korea abdicates.
2o-3O killed in Pere Marquette wreck
near Salem, Mich
2l-Steamer and freight boat collide
of California coast and $50 lives are lost.
23-Death of Col. Will S. Hays, ballad
writer.
27-Death of Senator Z. w. Pettus Of
Alabama.
2S-Jury in Boise Idaho; acquits Will
liam ID. Haywood of murder of Gov.
Steunenburg. Big fire at Coney Island,
n Y.
AUGUST.
| 1-Standard Oil Co. fined 500, 900, ,OO1
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
K. NJ. Lands of Chicago.
SBeginning of telegraphers' general
strike.
| 12vDeath of Robert A. Pinkerton.
15-Joseph Joachim, violinist, dies in.
Berlin.
19-Prince Wilhelm of Sweden at
jamestown exposition.
| ~ oiSot hiC III IldhOuulc, Jdpdn.
27-Nelson Morris, Chicago packer,
dies.
29-Great bridge over st. Lawrence
river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying 81
workmen to DEATH
3o-Death of Richard Mansfield.
SEPTEMBER.
4Death of Edward Grieg, Norwegian
composer.
7-Anti-Japanese outbreak in vancou-
yer, B. G.
9IJapanese battleship Kashima blows
VI NJ Kure with loss of 40 lives.
15-25 lives lost in wreck of excursion
train near Canaan, n. II.
17-First election in Oklahoma. :. Chi
cago defeats new charter.
21-Frank ]. Constantine convicted Of
murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago
.... .Grandstand blown down in Higgins,
Pa, and 80 people hurt.
25-Flood in Japan browns 600 per-
sons.
2S-Eight lives lost in B. & o. wreck
at Bellaire, Ohio.
30-McKinley mausoleum dedicated in
Canton, Ohio.
OCTOBER.
6-Death of Mrs. Mary ]. Holmes,
authoress.
1O-Steamship Lusitania crosses At.
lantic ocean in four days twenty hours.
Death of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick in Co.
lumbus (Ohio) penitentiary.
12-Steamship Cypress wrecked on
Lake Superior and % lives lost.
14-Town of San Jose del Cabo, Lower
California, destroyed by cloudburst.
15-Du Pont powder works near Fon.
tanet, Ind, explodes, killing so people.
16-Wall street furry causes great
slump in copper stocks.
22-23-Panic in New York and the
East marked by suspension of Knicker-
booker Trust Company and of various
financial concerns, appointment of receiv-
ers for Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company, and wild scenes on
Stock Exchange.
23-Germans win balloon race from st.
Louis with France second.
27-New $2OOO0OO0 Union station
opened in Washington.
30-Earthquake and mountain slide de-
stloys town of Karatagh, Russian Tur.
kestan, and causes $4,000 deaths.
wv En-
Great railway strike in Great Brit
ain called.
5-End of telegraphers' strike. Elec-
tions in many States
11--Death of Dexter NJ. Ferry, seeds
man, of Detroit.
15-Death of Moncure D. Conway,
American author. Fire destroys town
of Cleary Alaska.
16-Okahoma admitted to statehood.
24-Jury in Steve Adams case in Rath-
drum, Idaho, disagrees.
2J-Ihirteen lives lost in New York
tenement house fire.
26-Death of Gen. b. d. Prtchard of
Alegan, Mich, whose regiment captured
Jefferson Davis.
DECEMBER.
1-EXploson in mine at Fayette City,
Pa, kills 40 miners.
2-SiXtieth Congress opens.
liking Oscar of Sweden resigns gov
eminent into hands of Crown Prince as
regent.
6-Exploson entombs 400 miners at
Monongah. w. Va.
S-Death of King Oscar II. of Sweden
and accession of his son as Gustaf V.
11--President Roosevelt reterates his
declaration that he will not again be
candidate for chief executive.
16-Dust explosion kills IS men in
mine at Yolande, Ala. :. Great war fleet
sails from Hampton Roads for Pacific.
17-Death of Lord Kelvin, English
scientist
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