The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-01-07
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trotting mile I'M 2:l2tk at Lexington.
Ky.
ii. shipwreck: q lives lost by the sink
ing or the steamship Cyprus during q
gale on Lake Superior.
L. Sporting: Miss Margaret Curtis won
the national golf championship with q
score OF ! up and 9 TO play at Chicago.
Brookdaie Nymph lowered the worlds
1t, record for 6h furlongs around a turn
by running the distance In lii Is at
Belmont park The Chicago National
league baseball team won the world
championship, defeating the Detroit
American league BY the score OF to o.
at Detroit .s.. ~ IL.
IA. Cloudburst: 80 houses destroyed and
l6 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. 49,
Is. Maurice Loewy, director of the Paris
observatory and the dean of astrono-
mers. In Paris: aged a.
= Railroad Accident: 10 persons killed
ard 80 injured by the derailment of a
passenger train on the London and
Northwestern at Shrewsbury. England.
Explosion. IS persons killed and over
TOO injured by a series Of explosions
In the Du Pont blasting powder mills
at Fontanet Ind 49,.
is. 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 EOS at Allentown. Pa.
Financial: Sensational collapse Of United
Copper stock In Wall street.
Marcnnt tViratasa. areial faIaC,.
,raphy by wireless inaugurated be-
tween stations In Nova Scotia and
ireland
rs. Financial Troubles: As result OF
the collapse of copper stock In Wall
street the New York clearing house
compelled the Mercantile National
bank OF New York TO reorgarize.
Peace Conferences: The International
peace conference closed al The Hague.
Balloon Racing: Mccoy and Chandler
In the United States signal corps bal
loon No. 10 won the Lahm cup for
ballooning by flight Of s75 miles
from ST. Louis 10 West Virginia.
shipwreck: Danish steamer Alfred Err
iandsen wrecked or Scotland: 20 sail
ors drowned. :s~ ss
n. Earthquake: Town Of Karatagh. Rus
sian Turkestan. destroyed by an earth
quake: i4.0oO deaths reported In Kara.
tagh and vicinity. =.
Q. Financial Troubles: The Knicker-
booker Trust Co. or New York closed
Its doors: liabilities s.o.0oonD. Meyer
a Co. OF New York. stockholders.
failed for 10000. Vt. rs
BalioonIng: Flight from ST. Louis OF .
balloons In a race for the James Cor
don Bennett cup. &@s @
o. Financial Troubles: The secretary Of
treasury deposited sa5,0D0OO0 In New
York city to relieve the money market
Three Westinghouse companies put
into receivers hands In Pit,sburg: liza
btlities sf.cOoo00,
BaIIooning: The German balloon Pom
mern won the second international
balloon race and the James Gordon
Bennett cup by a flight Of SCI miles
air line from 81. Louis to Asbiry Park.
". j.. In 70 hours.
Earthquake: Shocks In the province of
caIabria. Italy: villages destroyed IN
1876 again shaken: over 30 deaths:
vesuyius in eruption.
a Financial: The government made a
second deposit OF sE.Ooo.ooo In New
York banks TO restore confidence In
the money market: three small banks
IN New Yora city suspended.
Conventions: Biennial session Of the
UnIversaiIst general convention opened
In Philadelphia. 81
IS. Sporting: Martin y. Sheridan made q
new worlds record by covering =
feet In pole yallt ~ Madison Square
Garden
n FIRE: Los. Of roO.oo BY flames at
Nome. wash.
Sporting: The Carlisle Indians defeated