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

~. conventions. Z4In annual. conference
of the International Law association
met at Portland Me.
Accident: A section of the great canta-
lever bridge under construction on the
st. Lawrence, at Quebec, collapsed
killing 81 workmen
30. Accident: q persons killed and so in
jured in a head-on collision on the IN
terurban Electric line near NATION,
ILL.,
Obituary: Richard Mansfield, the actor,
at New London, Conn. aged so.
81 Sporting: Colin won the Futuritv at
Sheepshead Bay.
SEPTEMBER.
8. Obituary: General Pleasant Porter.
chief of the Creek Indian nation, at
Vinita, l. T.; aged 81.
Railroad Accident: killed and 20 in
jured in a wreck on the Canadian Pa
cific near Caledon, Ont.
l. Obituary: DR.. Edward Grieg, famous
Norwegian musical composer, at Ber-
gen, Norway.
5. Financial Troubles: Watson & Co.,
stock exchange brokers in New York
and Chicago, failed for 100000.
g. Obituary: w. H. Merrill, we'll known
journalist, at bingham, Mass. aged 81.
Railroad Accident: II killed and many
injured in a collision on the Rock Is
land and Pacific at Norris, Ia.
Z. Fire: The famous Cliff House, on the
beach at San Francisco totally de-
stroyed by fire.
Sporting: The United States rifle team
won the Palma trophy at Ottawa over
Canada, Australia and Great Britain;
record breaking score 1,712 out of
possible 1900.
g. Conventions: The 10th International
peace congress opened at Munich, Ba-
varia. 41st annual national encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. opened at Sara
toga.
Russia: Anti-Jewish outbreak at Kishe-
new.
II. Personal: Charles G. Burton of Mis-
souri, elected commander in chief of
the G. A. R.,
15 Obituary: Rear Admiral John Grimes
Walker, U. S. NJ retired, at High
Pasture, N. H; aged r.
Railroad Accident: Is killed and as
many injured in head-on collision on
the Boston and Maine at West Ca
naan, N. H.
IT. Sea Disaster: Explosion on the Japa-
nese battleship Kashina caused the
death of % of the crew.
TO- Railroad Accident: 80 persons killed
and as many injured in a collision on
the Mexican Central at Encarna cion.
y
railroad builder, at Garrison, N. Y;
aged SO.
rs. Morocco: French terms of peace &C
copied by the Moors at Casablanca
3d. Railroad Accident: killed and 20 in
jured in a wreck on the Baltimore and
Ohio at Bellaire, o.
30. Personal: Monument to the late Presi-
dent William Mckinley dedicated at
Canton, O.
OCTOBER.
2. Convention: 45th triennial general
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church opened at Richmond, Va.
8. Shipwreck: The arctic steamer Firth
Jof, accompanying the Wellman polar
exposition, lost off the coast of Ice
land; the captain and Is sailors
drowned.
6. Obituary: Mary j. Holmes, popular
American novelist Of the romantic
school, in Brockport, N. Y; aged 79.
7. Obituary: Prof. David Mason, noted
Scotch scholar and historian, at Edin-
burgh; aged IS.
10. Sporting: Trampfast won the worlds
racing record for a two-year-old by
trotting mile in 2:1214 at Lexington,
KY.
Ii. Shipwreck: % lives lost by the sink
ing Of the steamship Cyprus during
gale on Lake superior.
IL Sporting: Miss Margaret Curtis won
the national golf championship with a
score of Z up and to play at Chicago.
Brookdaie Nymph lowered the worlds
record for 6ia furlongs around a turn
by running the distance in lit Is at
Belmont park. The Chicago National
league baseball team won the worlds
championship, defeating the Detroit
American league by the score of to 0,
at Detroit.
IA. Cloudburst: 50 houses destroyed and
16 people drowned at San Jose, Del
Cabo Lower California.
Naval: The armored cruisers Tennessee
and Washington sailed from Hampton
Roads for the Pacific around the coast
of South America.
Is. Maurice LoeWy, director of the Paris
observatory and the dean Of astrono-
mers, in Paris; aged a.
Railroad Accident: 10 persons killed
and SO injured by the derailment Of
passenger train on the London and
Northwestern at Shrewsbury, England
Explosion: SO persons killed and over
800 injured by a series Of explosions
In the Du Pont blasting powder mills
at Fontanet Ind
16. Political: The first national Philip
pine assembly opened at Manila by
Secretary Taft.
Sporting: Sweet Marie made a new
worlds record for half mile track,
trotting in 2:o8 at Allentown, Pa
Financial: Sensational collapse Of United
Copper stock in Wall street
II. Marconi Wireless: Commercial teleg-
raphy by wireless inaugurated be-
tween stations in Nova Scotia and
Ireland.
18. Financial Troubles: AS a result Of
the collapse Of copper stock in Wall
street the New York clearing house
compelled the Mercantile National
bank of New York to reorganize
Peace Conference: The international
peace conference closed at The Hague.
Balloon Racing: Mccoy and Chandler
In the United States signal corps bal
loon No. 10 won the Lahm cup for
ballooning by a flight of AIS miles
from St. Louis to West Virginia.
Shipwreck: Danish steamer Alfred Err
landsen wrecked off Scotland 20 sail
ors drowned.
81. Earthquake: Town of Karatagh, Rus
sian Turkestan, destroyed by an earth
quake; $4,000 deaths reported in Kara
tagh and vicinity.
%. Financial Troubles: The Knicker-
booker Trust Co. of New York closed
its doors; liabilities $70,00OOOO. Meyer
& Co. Of New York, stockholders,
failed fer $4,000, 900.
Ballooning: Flight from st. Louis Of
balloons in a race for the James Cor
don Bennett cup
%. Financial Troubles: The secretary of
treasury depOSited S25 900 600 in New