The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-12-31

miscellaneous Items OF interest.
The World OF Sports-A Chronology
Eeal Review.
The year 1903 has been memorable
Cor q prolonged drought during the
gfpening season of some soil products,
get o. bumper crop in point Of value
vas garneged. Stirring political events
zresF the attention Of the world from
ahe opening to the close Of the year,
Eotahly in Portugal the king and
GROWN prince being assassinated in
February; in Persia and Turkey, re-
sHltiug in changes in the form of gov
Ernment; in Morocco where a pretend
err was placed on the throne, and in
Che Balkan states of Bulgaria, Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
The years mortuary record bears
Che names of Grover Cleveland, Sena-
8or Allison Senator Proctor and Sen
&t0y Whyte, E. G. stedman, Joel Chan
Sic Harris, Murat Halstead Louise
Chandler Moulron, Harriet Hosmer,
Professor Norton, Dr. Gilman, Bishop
H. G. Potter, Bronson Howard Rear
Admiral Coghlan. Donald G. Mitchell
83k MarveD Louise de la Rance
8Onida), Campbell Bannerman, Gener-
al Nodzu and General Linevitch lin
Russial, Ludovic Halevy and Francois
Sgppee lin France.
JANUARY.
4 Storm: % deaths in a tornado near
Messon, Miss.
& Obituary: Dr. Nicholas Sem, surgeon,
H. S. A., prominent in the Spanish
american war, in Chicago aged 63.
4 Obituary: Charles Augustus Young
noted American astronomer, at Han
over, n. H.; aged a.
Sn2i4ieal: Mulai Hafid proclaimed sui
t1ID of Morocco.
" Business Troubles: Receivers appoint
ed for the Chicago and Great Western
railway.
n Political: Appointment of Baron Taxa
hira as ambassador to the United
States officially announced at Tokyo.
accident: 16 children killed in a theater
Srush at Barnsley, England
Fire; $5,0OO,C0O loss by the burning of the
Parker building in New York city.
obituary: Henry Kenny, president Of
d1a Delaware railway, who attended to
tie secret tourney of President Elect
1braham Lincoln on his way to Wash
iligtoa in 1861 at Ridley Park, Pa;
aged 60
g& Fire Catastrophe: 173 deaths by the
burning of the Rhoads Opera House at
8oYerstoWn, Pa.
"a Obituary: James Ryder Randall au-
AK of Il, GCNF
maryland" at Augusta, Ga; aged &c.
Is Obituary: Holger Drachmann, Den
marks greatest modern poet at Co
pellhagen; aged 81.
R obituary: Edmund Clarence Stedman,
American author and critic, known as
the Handicapped" in New York city;
aged "a.
a. Personal: Lord Curzon former vice
roy of India, elected to the Irish peer
age in the face of great opposition.
n. Obituary: Charles Emile Cameron,
acted French landscape painter in
Paris; aged CO. Morris K. Jesup,
noted banker and philanthropist, in
New York city; aged 49,
~ Obituary: DR.. Edward A. Mcdowell,
noted American composer and pianist,
in New York city, aged IS.
X obituary: August Wilhelmj, noted VIC
Iinfst, in London; aged 62. Mrs. An
Aenta Yznaga, noted for her beauty
wealth and noble connections, in
Natchez, Miss.
Fire: City hall and police building at
Portland, Me-. destroyed; loss $1,000
400.
Us. Obituary: Louise de la Rance (Ouida),
The novelist at Florence, italy.
a. Fire: In Portland, Me-; loss o. |ver
$800,C00 in the wholesale district
Sc Fire: In Chicago loss of $1,000,000 in
the business district.
Obituary: Cardinal Richard, archbishop
of Paris, in that city; aged SO.
Personal: Gladys Vanderbilt married to
Count Laszlo Szechenyi Of Hungary in
New York city.
40 Obituary: David Johnson, American
landscape painter, at Walden, N. Y;
aged 81.
a. Political: Special presidential message
to congress upon the corporations.
obituary: Bishop E. G. Andrews of the
NJ E. church, in New York city; aged
e.
FEBRUARY.
& POLL: King Carlos of Portugal and
the Crown Prince LUZ Filippe assas-
sinated at Lisbon.
Political: Manuel, second son of the
assassinated monarch, proclaimed king
as Manuel H. of Portugal.
Ship Disaster: Phoenix line steamship
St. Cuthbert destroyed by an explosion
off Nova Scotia; Is deaths.
s. Fires: Loss of $780, 900 in Rochester, N.
Y. Loss Of 100000 at Berlin, N. H.
81 Obituary: Valerian Gribayedoff, jour-
nalist and illustrator, in Paris; aged so.
81 Shipwreck: American ship Emily Reed
wrecked OF the Oregon coast; 10 sail
ors lost.
rs. Flood: Highest water of the flood at
Pittsburg; loss $2,50O,000
81 Shipwreck: British steamer Aslak
wrecked on the Norway coast: IA sail
ors lost,
ii Explosion: % killed at the Hercules
powder works at Pinole, Cal.
Personal: Gen. Stoessel, Russian com.
nnender in the defense of Port Arthur
sentenced to death by a military couri
at st. Petersburg, with a recommends
zion to mercy
n Obituary: Crosby S. Moves, editor Of
the Washington STAR at Los Angeles
Caf aged So. Harriet Hosmer, noted
American sculptor, at Watertown
Mass: aged IT,
a Obituary: Pauline Lucca (Barones.
Wallhofen), famous opera singer, II
! Vienna; aged 68.