New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-30
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and the Oldest officer In the navy. ct
Bridgeton, N. j.; aged So.
Pacific Cruise: The battleship fleet reach
ed Melbourne.
10. Convention: Annual encampment of
the United Spanish War Veterans in
Boston.
Fire: In New Orleans loss of 81 500, 900 by
flames in the business district.
Sporting: Maskette won the Futurity at
Sheepshead Bay, New York.
Il. Convention: AID annual encampment of
the G. A. r. opened at Toledo.
SEPTEMBER.
l. Shipwreck: British bark Amazon lost
near Port Talbot; II sailors drowned.
2. 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.
8. Personal: Col. Henry M. MENUS elect
ed commander in chief of the G. A. r.
at Toledo.
Obituary: Sir Lionel Sackville-West
former British ambassador to the
United States, in London; aged 81
4. Obituary: Frank P. Sargent, United
States commissioner of immigration,
in Washington; aged 81.
Fire: At RaWhide, New, business sec
ton suffered loss of $75O,OOO by
flames.
8. Sporting: Papke defeated Ketchel in
II rounds for the middleweight cham
pionship at Los Angeles.
9. Convention: 18th International eucha-
ristic congress opened in London.
Sporting: Battling Nelson defeated Joe
Cans for the lightweight champion
ship in q rounds at San Francisco.
Aeronautics: OrYille Wright made rec
ord breaking aeroplane fight at Fort
Myer, remaining in the air / hour, 2
minutes and 16 seconds.
10. Personal: Count Tolstoy's 8Oth BIRTH
day honored in Russia.
Financial Troubles: A. Booth & Co.,
fish and oyster firm, placed in receiv-
ers hands in Chicago; liabilities S.
100000.
II. Sporting: Lozier cars broke the
worlds "a hour auto spin record by
running 1,107 and LOOP miles respective
ly at Brighton Beach, N. Y.
Aeronautics: Orville Wright flew his
aeroplane 1 hour IA minutes at Fort
Myer, Va.
Fire: Plant of the Cosmodale Cement
Co. near Louisville, KY, burned; loss
s2,00OOOO
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.
TO- 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 a
storm off Coronation island; 10 per-
sons drowned.
q. Aeronautics: Wilbur Wright made a
flight of l hour 81 minutes % seconds
in his American aeroplane at LIE
Mans, France
Conventions: International fishery con-
gress opened in Washington.
r. Warship Disaster: 13 French sailors
killed and many injured by the explo-
sion of a 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 a head-on collision on the
Northern Pacific at Young's Point,
Mont.
81. Shipwreck: 20 sailors of the British
ship Loeb Finias drowned by the
Wrecking Of that vessel off Foster
island.
%. Anniversary: 150th anniversary of the
founding of Pittsburg celebrated
Conventions: Triennial International con-
gress on tuberculosis opened in Wash
lngtOn. American Bankers associa-
ton met in Denver.
20. Conventions: 18th session of the ma
tional irrigation congress opened in
Albuquerque, N. M.
so. Alfred Thompson Bricher American
painter Of marine pictures, at New
Dorp, NJ Y; aged II.
OCTOBER.
l. Shipwreck: The French schooner
Juniata wrecked on the Grand banks:
rs sailors lost.
2. Pacific Cruise: The battleship fleet en-
tered Manila bay.
4. Philadelphia Anniversary: The 225th
anniversary of the founding of Phila-
delphia by William Penn celebrated in
that city.
Fire: In Pittsburg the Pittsburg Plate
Glass CO.'S plant burned; loss $500 900.
o. Sporting: Martin J. Sheridan beat the
worlds record for discus by throwing
l40 feet 51A inches from 2h meter
circle in New York
Inc Balkans: Bulgaria declared indie
pendent of Turkey by Prince Ferdi-
nand who proclaimed himself ''czar
of the Bulgars.'
8. Convention: 18th transmississippi COM
merc1al 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.
I. 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 10 persons and
a loss of $500, OOO
sporting: Czarena made a new worlds
record for two-year-olds and for two
year-old FLIES by trotting respectively
in 2:1212 and 2:131a at Lexington, Ky,
=. Political: Crete withdrew from Turk
ish rule and announced annexation to
Greece
4. Obituary: Gen. Eppa Hunton. noted
confederate veteran and long distin-
guished in Virginia public life. at
Richmond; aged So
Aeronautics: % balloons started from
Berlin In the international balloon
race, the British Banshee winning.
3. Obituary: DR.. Daniel Colt Gilman, EN-.
lnent American educator, at Norwich,
Conn; aged II.
Sporting: The Chicago National leao