The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-01

lorIlecelFlnS railway rebates was laid
against the Standard OH companies.
The mortality list of 1907 includes
many distinguished authors, artists,
scientists, soldiers and celebrities in
various walks Of life. Among the
Americans who died during the year
were Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the poet;
Mary J. Holmes and A. @. Gunter.
novelists; Generals Russell A. Alger,
0. B. Wilcox, NJ. H. Blunt and T. H.
Ruger, veterans Of the civil war; John
II. Morgan and Edmund W.. Pettus,
United States senators from Alabama:
Gulusha a. Grow, formerly noted con-
gressman; e. II. Conger, who was
United States minister at Picking dur
Ing the Boxer war; Mrs. William Nc
hlnley, widow of the martyred presi,
dent; Mrs. Agassiz, widow Of the great
scientist, and Isabella Beecher Hooker,
last of the children of Rev. LYMAN
Beecher. John Alexander Dowie, the
Zionist leader, died during the wear:
also Theodore Tilton, formerly promi
nent In America, who had lived in
Paris for generation
Richard Mansfield, the actor and
Saint Gaudens, the sculptor, Americans
by adoption and long association, died
during the year. Notable deaths abroad
include Alexander Herschel, English
astronomer; Maurice Loewy, director
OF the Paris observatory and called the
dean of Astronomers; Joachim, Hun
garian violinist; Edward Grieg, Norwe-
glan composer; the shah of Persia,
and Princess Clementine, daughter of
King Louis Philippe of France, a relic
Of past glories, who attained the age
of ninety; also Oscar II. Of Sweden.
JANUARY.
2. Accident: s. deaths in a wreck on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific at
Volland, Kan.
g. Obituary: Ernest Howard Crosby, So
cial reformer, in Baltimore; aged so.
Russia: Gen. Won der Launitz, project
OF the police at st. Petersburg, assas-
sinated.
8. Obituary.: The shah Of Persia at Te-
heran; aged IS.
9. Persia: Ali Mira recognized as shah.
IL. Fire: Moss & Co.'s toba eco warehouse
burned in Lancaster, Pa; loss 81, 900, 900.
Tidal Wave: Island of Simalu, Dutch
Last 4luleS, euSulLeO ana OCner ada
cent islands devastated.
13. Shipwreck: British ship Pengwern
grounded off Cuxhaven, Germany:
crew of "a drowned.
IA. Earthquake: Business part of Kings
ton, Jamaica, destroyed; incomplete
records show nearly 1000 deaths;
United States naval vessels carried
first relief to the stricken city; prop
erty loss over s13OOO,OOO.
convention: National foreign commerce
convention opened in Washington
16. Storm: 100 deaths in a typhoon, which
swept the islands Of Leyte and Samar,
in the Philippines
II. Obituary: Margaret Young, widow of
President Brigham Young, at Deseret,
Utah; aged "a.
~. Accidents: 16 deaths in a train COL
lision on the Big Four at Fowler, Ind
"a dead and II injured in wreck
caused by powder explosion on the Big
-Four system at Sanford, Ind
70. Storm: Loss Of $1,000, 900 from hurri-
cane at Buffalo.
Fire: At Youngstown, O.; loss Of ST.
OO0 900.
q. Obituary: Josiah Flynt Willard So
biologist, who wrote over the name
Josiah Flynt,' in Chicago; aged 49,
70. Explosion: 20 coal miners killed near
Primero Colo.
Mexico: Tehuantepec National railroad,
Mexican enterprise, making a short
cut between the oceans, inaugurated
by President Diaz.
"a. Obituary: Gen. Russell A. Alger
United States senator from Michigan,
prominent Federal veteran and former
secretary of war. in Washington;
aged II.
rs. Obituary: Isabella Beecher Hooker
last of the children Of the Rev. Lyman
Beecher, at Hartford, Conn: aged g.
26. Obituary.: Rev. Henry Martyr Field,
clergyman and author, former editor
Of the New York Evangelist, at Stock
bridge, Mass; aged 3d.
Fatal Fire: 4 deaths and property loss
OF 100000 in a factory fire at Dover,
N. H.
%. Fire: Plant Of the Phelps Publishing
CO. at Springfield, Mass; loss 81, 900, 0O0
Explosion: 14S miners killed by firedamp
at Johann-on-Saar, Prussia.
%. Fire: Flames in the plant of the
Baldwin works at Philadelphia caused
a loss Of 81, 600, 900.
Explosion: rs miners killed in the Stew
art mine, Fayette county, w. Va.
81. Shipwreck: 20 deaths in the wrecking
of the British steamship Clavering off
Scotland
FEBRUARY.
1. Fire: business buildings burned in
Harrisburg; loss $1,OOO,OOO.
2. Obituary.: Hugh o. Pentecost, min
1oICl, Ia" yer, lecturer ana all round
freethinker, in New York city: aged
60. Prof. Mendeleef, celebrated Rus
sian chemist Of worldwide fame, in
st. Petersburg; aged 70.
4. Mine explosion: II killed in the
Thomas mine at Elkins, Va.
6. Obituary: Rear Admiral Albert Kautz
U. S. NJ. retired veteran Of the civil
war, at Florence, Italy; aged 68.
8. Fire: Lindenhurst, the country home
of John Wanamaker at Jenkintown.
Pa, destroyed; loss nearly $200O,0OO.
Ship Accident: killed by explosion on
the French torpedo boat Spod at
LOrent, France.
10. Obituary: Sir William Howard C"Bull
Run'O Russell, famous English war
correspondent, in London; aged &c.
IL. Obituary.: Frank W. Higgins, ex-gov-
ernor Of New York, at Clean; aged 81.
Political: King Edward opened the
British parliament.
ID. Fire: At Pine Bluff, Ark; 50 build
1ngs burned with loss of s25O,OO
"a. Convention: 18th annual assembly Of
the National Suffrage association met
In Chicago.
1e. shipwrecl1: British steamer Orlando
sunk In collision off the coast Of
Wales; IA drowned.
obituary.: Princess Clementine of Sake
Coburg-Gotha, daughter Of King Louis
Philippe Of France, in Vienna: aged 90
Railway accident: "a killed and over
100 injured in an electric express train
wreck on the New York Central at
New York city.
q. Personal: Right Hon. James Bryce
British ambassador to the United
States, arrived in New York city.
%. ShipwreclS: 40 drowned by the loss Of
the Austrian steamer lmperatrix On
the coast Of Crete.
Is. Obituary: A. c. Gtnter. novelist and
playwright, in New York city; aged So
Fire: Loss of 100000 by the burning of