New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-30
storm: destructive cloudburst and aood

storm: Destructive cloudburst and food
in Oklahoma.
Personal: Prince August William,
fourth son of the German emperor,
married to the Duchess Alexandra Vic
toria of SchlesWig-Holstein in Berlin.
=. Convention: Annual meeting of the
National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union opened in Denver.
"a. Sporting: George Robertson, driving
80 horsepower locomobile, won the
Vanderbilt cup in the auto race on
the motor parkway, New York; speed
average GA miles an hour
y. Obituary: John Wallace Hutchinson,
last of the Hutchinson family Of
singers, at Lynn, Mass; AGED 81.
Count Gonbel Yamomoto, noted JaIa-
nese admiral at Tokyo; aged IS.
Pacific Cruise: The battleship feet well
coined by the Chinese at Annoy.
NOVEMBER.
/. Venezuela: Expiration of time lin
given by Holland in the case of the
port of Curacao.
3. Political: The national election result
ed in the choice of w. H. Taft. Po
ular vote: Republican, 1857, 676; Demo-
cratic, 6,593,1S2; Socialist, 44S 453; Pro-
hibitionist, 2A ,252 independence league,
1886; Peoples party. 1851; Socialist
S5304
4 Fire: Pembroke, Ont, loss of 100000
in the business section.
Obituary: Tomas Estrada Palma, first
president of Cuba at Santiago; aged
r.
Personal: President Charles w. Eliot of
Harvard university resigned the posi-
ton he has held since 1865
6. The Balkans: ITO soldiers killed by
Bosnian refugees, who dynamited the
Austrian barracks at Konitza, Herze-
goYina.
2. Football: Harvard defeated Carlisle
Indians, II to 0, at Cambridge Wis
consin defeated Minnesota, 5 to O. at
Minneapolis.
8. Obituary: victorien sardou, French
dramatist, author of many popular
plays seen on the American stage in
Paris; aged IT,
8. The Navy: Battleship Dakota of the
Dreadnought class and the largest in
the world to date, launched at Quincy,
Mass.
Convention: American Federation Of
Labor met at Denver.
10. Standard Oil Fine: Governments ap-
peal for rehearing denied by the fed
eral circuit court at Chicago.
II. Railroad Accident: 8 killed at Little
Woods, La, on the New Orleans and
Northwestern.
Mine Disaster: At Hamm, Germany over
300 killed by explosion in the Radbod
mine.
Convention: 18th annual session of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
opened at Atlanta.
IL. Fire: Brooklyns Oldest playhouse, the
Park theater, burned.
13. China: Death Of the emperor, KWang
Seu, announced at Pekin.
IA. Cuban Affairs: Gen. Jose Miguel Co
mez elected president by the Liberals.
Football: Yale defeated Princeton, II to
6. Chicago and Cornell played to tie
score Of to g. Pennsylvania defeated
Michigan, 20 too, at Ann Arbor.
15. Obituary: Tsze Hsi An, dowager en-
press of China, in Pekin; aged a.
Annie Lee Wister, translator of Ger
man novels, at Wallingford, Pa.
Convention: First American Catholic
congress opened in Chicago
II. Fire: In BardstoWn, KY, loss of $780,
600 on stock in the Tom Moore distil-
lery warehouses and $4,000 govern
ment tax.
Convention: Atlantic deep waterways
congress met in Baltimore
q. Marine Disaster: Boiler explosion and
fire destroyed the river steamer H. M.
Caster at Bayou Goula, La; 10 killed
and 20 injured.
Football: Harvard defeated Yale, to 0,
at New Haven.
%. Convention: Conference of New Eng
land governors at Boston.
70. Marine Disaster: Steamer Sardinia
burned at sea off Malta; over 100
deaths.
Personal: Statue to Gen. Phil Sheridan
unveiled in Washington.
S. Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cor
nell at football, II to 4, in Philadelphia
Wagner in a Fiat car won the Grand
Prize of the Automobile club, driving
402 miles in hours 10 minutes 81 sec
Onds, at Savannah Ketchel defeated
Papke for the worlds middleweight
championship in II rounds at San
Francisco.
%. Football: West Point defeated Annap-
oils in Philadelphia, 6 to d.
Mining Accident: 1873 coal miners killed
by gas explosion at Mariana, Pa
80. Sporting: Pat Mcdonald tossed the Sc
pound weight 16 feet three-eighths inch
IN New York, smashing worlds rec
ord of Is feet z inches held by Nc
Grsth Brooks and Wilding, Austria
liam defenders of the international
lawn tennis trophy. defeated the Amer
lean challengers at Melbourne
Political: Identical note regarding the
far east exchanged by United States
and Japan at Washington and Tokyo
DECEMBER.
- e"SAAiS ~ u1oC. L 1lc llteL SduSQ from
Manila, honeward bound
Sporting: Tom Collins made a new
American record for mile run in New
York; time rs minutes 10 2-5 seconds
g. Political Pu vi enthroned as Emperor
Hsuantung Of China, with Prince Chun
regent. President Alexis of Haiti de-
posed by revolutionists.
Personal: Sixtieth anniversary of the
coronation Of Francis Joseph cele-
DRAFTED in Vienna
Convention: American mining congress
opened in Pittsburg
4. Fire: At Portland, Me-, loss of 100000
at the Grand Trunk railway docks
5. Obituary: Rear Admiral Joseph Bull
lock Coghlan, U. S. N, retired, at New
Rochelle. N. Y. aged g.
Z. Political: Last session of Goth congress
opened.
8. Shipwreck: Steamer D. NJ Clemson,
with crew of %, lost on Lake Michi-
gan off Duluth.
y. Celebration: Precautionary Of the birth
of John Milton, author Of Paradise
Lost observed in England and Amer