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

g. Sporting: Edward PaySOn Weston
long distance pedestrian, started from
Portland to walk to Chicago, distance
of 1,236 miles.
80. Financial Troubles: Kessler & Co.
Wall street bankers, failed owing ST.
000000.
Russia: The mutinous crews Of three
Russian destroyers vanquished in a
hot battle with loyal ships at Via divos-
tok
NOVEMBER.
l. Fire: AT Brocton, N. Y; loss of $4,000
by the burning of Rycllmans wine cell
lars.
2. Sporting: Princeton defeated the Car
Isle Indians at football, 16 to 0, in
New York.
s. Accidents: 10 killed and sc injured by
boiler explosion on board the Ger
man schoolship Butcher at Kiel
Killed and injured by a boiler ex-
plosion at Steubenvine, o.
Obituaries: Don Diego Barros Arana.
eminent Chilean historian and edu-
Gator, known as South Americas
grand old man." al Santiago: aged
n. Gent E. Ross. U. S. A.. retired.
who led the famous tunnel escape of
Federal prisoners from Libby prison.
Richmond, in 1864, in Washington;
aged II.
Financial Troubles: The Arnold Print
works at North Adams, Mass. placed
in a receivers hands.
z. Miscellaneous: The British battle
ship Superb, an improved Dreadnought,
launched at Newcastle, England. 10
persons killed by powder car explo-
sion near Naco, Ariz.
8. Fire: At Superior, Wis: loss OF S.. 250.-
600 by the burning of Elevator A and
other business properties
g. Sporting: The Carlisle Indians de-
feated Harvard at football, Is to Is, at
Boston.
II. Obituary: Mrs. Augustin DAILY widow
Of the founder of Days theater in
New York city.
Conventions: The American Federation
of Labor met in it's 9th annual session
at the jamestown exposition. Amer
lean mining congress met at Joplin.
Mo.
Personal: Emperor William of Germany
arrived in.AIondon on a friendly visit
to King Edward VII.
II. Fires lives lost by the burning OF
the Hotel Garde at New Haven, Conn.
The Hotel Castleton, on New Brighton
hill, overlooking New York bay, de-
stroyed by fire; loss $25O0Q0.
Obituary: Sir Lewis Morris, English
poet, in London; aged a.
we'll known newspaper man, died in
New York city; aged So. Queen Helena
of Italy gave birth to a daughter. w.
F. Shiebler, a White House teleg-
rapher in 1866, who witnessed the as
saasinatton of Lincoln and who received
the first Atlantic cable message, died
in Brooklyn.
II. Political: The third Russian douma
opened in st. Petersburg
1e. Obituary: Rev. Dr. Moncure D. Con-
way, noted American author, in Paris;
aged rs.
Political: President Roosevelt signed
the proclamation admitting the terri
tories Of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory Jointly as one Of the American
states.
Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at
football, IL to TO- at New Haven Dart
mouth scored % to Harvard's at
Cambridge.
II. Obituary: Admiral Sir Francis Nc
Clinton, noted arctic explorer, who
discovered the fate of Sir John Frank
lin, in London; aged So.
49, Conventions: The National Municipal
league convened at Providence. The
American Civic association met in
Providence. Annual meeting of the
transmississippi commercial congress
at Muslogee, Okla.
Fire: At Peoria, ILL.,; loss of 100000 In
the business district.
%. Convention: 36th international con-
vention of the Y. M. e. A. of North
America at Washington.
e. Obituary: Prof Asaph Hall, well
known American astronomer, former
ly in the government service, at An
napolis; aged 70.
Sporting: Yale scored IL to Harvards 0 In
the annual football contest at Cam
bridge.
e. Obituary: Gen. Sir Henry Edward
Colville, an English officer prominent
in the Boer war, killed in an auto &C
cident in London.
%. Obituary: Richard Castro, Mexico's
most noted musical composer, in the
City of Mexico; aged 20.
Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cor
NELL IL to 4, at football in Philadelphia.
DO. Obituary: DR.. George F. Shrady, noted
surgeon and medical author who at
tended Gen. Grant in his last illness,
in New York city; aged 70.
Sporting: The navy beat the army, 6 to
0, at football in Philadelphia
Jamestown Exposition: The exposition
officially closed.
DECEMBER.
/. Pacific Fleet: Flotilla of torpedo boat
QoSIrOyorS SalleQ from NHrIOlK, Va,
bound for the Pacific.
2. Fire: Loss of $780, 900 by the burning
of the Pullman Car Co.'S paintshop at
Buffalo.
Political: The Goth congress opened.
Accident: 40 deaths from gas explosion
in the Naomi mine, near Pittsburg, Pa.
Sporting: Tommy Burns of America
defeated Gunner Moir of England in the
tenth round Of contest for the worlds
heavyweight championship in London.
g. Financial: Chelsea Savings bank at
Chelsea, Mich, closed it's doors by or
der of the state banking commissioner.
4. Convention: National rivers and har-
bors congress convened at Washington.
8. Financial Troubles: The National
Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, Mo-.
closed Its doors.
Political: Baron Takahira named as
JaDan's American ambassador to sue
coed Aoki.
g. Mine Disaster: Explosion Of black
damp in mines Nos. and of the
Paramount Coal Co. at Monongah, W.
Va, resulted in the death Of between
800 and 400 miners.
Z. Miscellaneous: Hopkinsville, KY, raid
ed and number Of tobacco establish
ments set on fire. United States troops
arrived at Goldfield, New, to protect
the mines.
Financial Troubles: The Whitney-Ste-
phenson Co. and Whitney, Stephenson
& Co., brokerage firms, failed in Pitts
burg, with liabilities estimated at S1O,-
600 900.