The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-02


al exposition, and a phenomenal fine
for receiving railway rebates was laid
against the Standard Gil 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. G.. Gunter,
novelists: Generals Russell A. Alger,
0. B. Wilcox, NJ H. Blunt and t. III.
Ruger, veterans Of the civil war; John
I. Morgan and Edmund w Pettus,
United States senators from Alabama;
Galusha A. Grow, formerly noted con-
i gresham; e. I'll. Conger, who was
United States minister at Peking dur
ing the Boxer war; Mrs William Nc
Kinley, 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 year;
also Theodore Tilton, formerly promi-
rant in America, who had lived in
Paris for a 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
7 astronomer; Maurice Loewy, director
of the Paris observatory and called the
dean of astronomers; Joachim, Hun
garian violinist; Edward Grieg, NorWe
gian composer: the shah of Persia,
and Princess Clementine, daughter of
King Louis Philippe of France, relic
of past glOries, who attained the age
of ninety; also Oscar Ii. of Sweden.
JANUARY.
2. Accident: IS deaths In wreck on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific at
Volland, Kan
8. Obituary: Ernest Howard Crosby, So
cial reformer in Baltimore; aged so.
i Russia: Gen. Won der LaunltZ, project
of the police at ST. Petersburg, assas-
Sinated
8. Obituary: The shah of Persia at Te-
heran aged IS.
8. Persia: Ali Mira recognized as shah.
II. Fire: Moss & Co.'S tobacco warehouse
i burned in Lancaster, Pa; loss 81, O00 OO0
Tidal Wave: Island of Simalu, Dutch
East Indies, engulfed and other ada
cent islands devastated
/ 1S. ShipWreck: British ship PeEgwern
grounded off Cuxhaven, Germany;
crew of "a drowned.
ID. Earthquake: Business part Of Kings
ton, Jamaica, destroyed; incomplete
records show nearly 1000 deaths;
a6
first relief to the stricken city; prop
erty loss over $13,O0O000.
Conventions: National foreign commerce
convention opened in Washington.
/ l6. Storm: 100 deaths in typhoon, which
swept the islands of Leyte and Samar,
/ in the Philippines.
I II. Obituary: Margaret Young, widow Of
President Brigham Young, at Deseret,
Utah; aged 81.
! 19. Accidents: 16 deaths in q train col
4 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 Sandford Ind.
! 20. Storm: Loss of $1,O00,000 from hurri-
cane at Buffalo,
Fire: At Youngstown, O.; loss Of ST.,
! 100000.
q. Obituary: Josiah F1ynt Willard, So
biologist, who wrote over the name
"Josiah Flynt," in Chicago; aged SO.
/ Is. Explosion: ~ coal miners Killed near
Primero, Colo.
Mexico: Tehuantepec National railroad,
a Mexican enterprise, making 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 Il.
Ok Obituary. isabella Roechar Hooker
last of the children Of the Rev. Lyman
Beecher, at Hartford, Conn; aged Sc.
26. Obituary: Rev. Henry Martyr Field,
clergyman and author, former editor
OF the New York Evangelist, at Stock
bridge, Mass; aged IS.
Fatal Fire: 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, 600.
Explosion: 148 miners killed by firedamp
at Johann-on-Saar, Prussia.
%. Fire: Flames in the plant of the
Baldwin works at Philadelphia caused
loss OF 81, 100000.
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
i Scotland
FEBRUARY.
/. Fire: s business buildings burned in
Harrisburg; loss $1,G0O,0O0.
z Obituary: Hugh O. Pentecost, min
lister, lawyer, lecturer and all round
freethinker, in New York city; aged
go. Prof. Mendeleef celebrated Rus
sian chemist of worldwide fame, in
st. Petersburg; aged 70.
l. Mine explosion: II killed In the
Thomas mine at Elkins, Va.
8. Obituary: Rear Admiral Albert Kautz,
u. s. N, retired, veteran of the civil
war, at Florence, Italy; aged 49,
8. Fire: Lindenhurst, the country home
Of John Wanamaker at Jenkintown,
Pa, destroyed; loss nearly 100000.
Ship Accident: killed by explosion on
the French torpedo boat Spod at
LOrient, France.
10. Obituary. Sir William Howard c'BuT
Run') Russell, famous English war
correspondent, in London; aged 86.
n. Obituary: Frank w. Higgins, ex-gov-
ernor Of New York, at clean; aged 81.
Political: King Edward opened the
British parliament
1S Fire: At Pine Bluff Ark; 81 build
ings burned, with loss of $250,00O.
H. Convention: 18th annual assembly Of
the National Suffrage association met
in Chicago.
l6 Shinwreck. british steamer Orlando