The Somerset reporter., 1908-12-31

ed Melbourne.
10 Convention: Annual tnoampmeut OF
the United Spanish War Veterans In
Boston.
Fire: In New Orleans loss of 81. 500.0oo By
flames in the business district
Sporting: Aasliette won the FuturitY at
Sheepshead Bay. New York.
81 Convention: AID annual encampmeot OF
the O. A. r. opened at Toledo.
SEPTEMBER.
L Shipvreck: British bark Amazon lost
near Port Talbot; n sailors drowned.
Fires: Forest fires wrought destruc-
ton to towns and villages In Mime
sofa and Wisconsin. The famous Gala
Veras group of California giant trees
injured by flames.
D. Personal: Col Henry N. MENUS elect
ed commander IN chief of the G. A r
nj Toledo.
Obituary: Sir Lionel Sackville- West.
former British ambassador to the
United States in London: aged 81.
4 Obituary: Frank +. Sargent. United
States commissioner OF immigration,
In Washington. aged 81.
Fire: At Rawhlde. New. business sec
ton suffered loss OF $4,000 by
flames.
g. Sporting. Papke defeated Ketchel In
u rounds for the middleweight cham
pionship at Los Angeles.
q Convention: 18th international eucAa-
r.stic congress opened in London.
Sporting Battling Nelson defeated Joe
Cans Tor the lightweight champion
ship in q rounds at San Francisco.
Aeronautics: Orville Wright made rec
ord breaking aeroplane flight at Fort
Myer, remaining in the air hovf.
minutes and 16 seconds.
10. Personal: Count Tolstoy's S0th birth
day honored in Russia.
Financial Troubles. A. Booth & Co.
fish and oyster firm, placed In receIv-
ers hands in Chicago liabilities s..
100000.
IL. Sporting; 2 Lozier cars broke the
worlds "A hour auto spin record by
running 1,107 and 1092 miles respective
ly at Brighton Beach, N Y.
Aeronauucs; Orvile Wright few his
aeroplane / hour IA minutes at Fort
Myer, Va.
Fire: Plant Of the Cosmodale Cement
Co. near Louisville. Ky. burned: loss
100000.
II. Fire: Flames in the library of the
John Hopkins university at Baltimore
destroyed valuable scientific records
and collections.
Airship Accident: OrVille Wright, the
airship inventor, injured and his com
panion, Lieut.. Thomas e. Selfridge.
U. S. A. killed by the fall of Wright's
aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va.
%. Fire: Paris telephone central burned
out and all telephone connections in
the city destroyed.
Shipwreck: The salmon cannery ship
Star OF Bengal dashed to pieces in
storm off Coronation island; ITO per
sons drowned
q. Aeronautics: Wilbur Wright made
flight of l hour 81 minutes 25 seconds
in his American aeroplane at LIE
Mans, France.
MT
gress opened In Washington.
%. Warship Disaster: 13 French sailors
killed and many injured by the explo
sion of gun on the cruiser La Touche
at Toulon.
Convention: Biennial session of the
United Irish League of America open
ed In Boston.
"A. Convention: 18th annual meeting of
the farmers national congress opened
at Madison, Wis.
Is. Railroad Accident: 20 killed and many
injured in head-on collision on the
Northern Pacific at Youngs Point.
Mont.
q. Shipwreck: 20 sailors of the British
ship Loeb Finias drowned by the
wrecking of that vessel of Foster
island
q. Anniversary: 150th anniversary of tho
founding of Pittsburg celebrated.
Conventions: Triennial international con-
gress ON tuberculosis opened in Wash
ington, American Bankers associa-
ton met in Denver.
.. Convention: 18th session of the ma
tional irrigation congress opened in
Albuquerque, N. M
30. Alfred Thompson Bricher, American
painter of marine pictures, at New
Dorp, N. Y; aged II.
OCTOBER.
Juniata wrecked on the Grand banks;
2 sailors lost.
q Pacific Cruise: The batteship feet en-
tered Manila bay.
4. Philadelphia Anniversary The 225th
anniversary of the founding of Phlla-
delphia by William Penn celebrated in
that city.
Fire: In Pittsburg the Pittsburg Plate
Glass Co.'S plant burned loss $500. goo
8. Sporting: Martin j. Sheridan beat the
worlds record for discus by throwing
l4o feet bh inches from a "a meter
circle in New York.
The Balkans: Bulgaria declared indie
pendent OF Turkey by Prince Terdi-
nand who proclaimed himself "czar
OF the Bulgars."
Convention: 10Th transmssissippi COM
mercial congress met in San Fran
cisco.
The Balkans: Austria annexed the nom
inally Turkish provinces OF Bosnia
and Herzegovina TO the territory of
the empire.
T. Convention: The national inland wa
terways convention opened In Chicago.
Accident and Fire: Explosion and fire in
a grain elevator at Richford Vt, re-
suited in the death OF Is persons and
a loss of 500, 900.
Sporting: Czarena made new worlds
record for two-year-olds and for two
oil hNff
In 2:12h and 2:13l1 at Lexington, Ky.
g Political: Crete withdrew from Turk
ish rule and announced annexation 10
Greece
H. Obituary; Gen. Eppa Hunton. noted
Confederate veteran and long distir
guished In Virginia public life. at
Richmond; aged Sc.
Aeronautics: q balloons started fro'n
Berlin In the international balloon
race, the British Banshee winning.
l3. Obituary: DR.. Daniel Colt Gilman. en-
inent American educator at Norwich
Conn: aged r.
Sporting: The Chicago National LEAGUE
baseball club (Cubs) won TIE worlds
championship at Detroit b. defeating
the Detroit American league club Cri-
Rers) score 70.
u. Convention: 10th annual convention of
the National American Woman SUI
frage association opened in Buffalo.
Obituary: Mrs. George &. Toward an
old time actress and the original Topsy
In Uncle Toms Cabin" I'm Cambridge
Mass. aged 70.
l6. Railroad Accident: Train bearing ref
ugees from forest fires wrecked near
Metz Mich: many lives lost
Fires At Rock Island, Ill, loss of 800,
900 by flames in lumber plant. Loss
OF 1880 900 by fire on the International
Salt docks, Chicago