The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-12-30


D. Cuba: Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez PRO
claimed pre- dent OF the republic
Political: Sec ttary OF ate Elihu Roo;
elected Gni % States senator " tht
New York legislature
IT, Atcden' E.piusion. followed by are
ia temporal .rib OF II tunnel nd,
Lake Mich AZ of Chicago. about g..
vot.meh lost their lives
e. Fire At Galveston flames on TN,
wharfs caused 10, D.. Of ..U00O
-. Shipwrerk: on Nantucket White sta
liner Republic rHmmed and sunk o.
Italian liner Florida: q deaths and r,
maj kable rescue OF over 300 imperileH
passenge s.
Earthquake: 60 villages destroyed and
5000 to GOO lives lost In the province
of Luristan. Persia.
T. Obituary Benot-' 'onstant Coqueliu
noted French actor In Paris. aged c.
- Cuba: The reins of government turned
over to President Come by the Amer
lean governor general Magoon
Fire st. Paul los, oi sGO0.OOO by FIRE
la departu cnt stO.e
Personal. President Elect Taft arrived
at Colon. Panama
N Earthquake Severe sl4ucks in Spain
4. Obituary: Miss MaijLt Finley, author
OF the Elsie Books lt Elkton Md.
aged N.
FEBRUARY.
I. Personal: ru. nj Elect william II
Taft formally opened the Pacific end
OF the Panama canal
ShpWreck: British steamer clan Ranald
lost on the coast Of Australia. the
captain and a. sailors drowned
= Obituary; John Gilmer Speed. Journal
ist and author at Mendham. n. j..
aged o..
.. The Cruising Fleet: The Llttleships
sailed from Gibraltar, homeward
bound
s. Obituary: Catullus Mendes. noted
French poet. In Paris.
Personal: King Edward VII. received In
Berlin. the first visit OF British king
TO the German capital I'm 1856 years.
Political: France and Germany signed a
Morocco pact.
20 Lincoln Centenary: The Tooth ami
versary of tie birth OF Abraham Lin
coin celebrated
Fire Disaster; between 200 and 300 per
sons burned to death and scores in
jurcd In fire which destroyed the
Flores theater IN Acapulco. Mexico.
obituary: Geronimo. noted Apache
chief and raider died prisoner OF
war at Fort sill
p obituary: Grand Duke Vladimir. uncle
OF the car Of Russia in st, Peters
burg. aged o.. Rear Admiral Charles
5. Cotton, L. 5. n. retired at Nice.
France. aged 90
convention. National congress OF moth
ers opened In New Orleans.
30 Disaster al Scd. The Hamburg South
America liner Pres idcntc Roca burned
OF Peninsula Naidos. loss towners' re-
porO ~ lives. Gr,ss report. 2Gj of the
passengers ard crew.
.L Obituary: Carroll -. Wright. soldier.
statisiiCiHu and educator. at Worces-
ter Mass; aged o.
% The Cruising Fleet: Tro battleships
rcNched Hampton Roads.
.. storm; 10 Killed aud many injured by
tornado which swept over eastern
arkansas.
g. Obituary: Rev. Theodore Cuyler. noted
minister and author. in Brooklyn:
g. "a s..
z. Sporting: American bowling congress
opened Ia iiusburs.
MARCH.
T. Obituary; 4. j. CLuc'y) Baldwin.
well known turfman. at Arcadia. Cal:
ased ST.
= Sporting: ora Mornmrstar won the
championship OF the world al 49, balk
line billiards. defeating George +. Slos-
son. the Isl cham on. in New York
city; final score. 500 TO 2ll.
I. Political: inaug guratIou Of William
Howard TAFT as 2,th president of the
United States. The Goth congress ended.
storm. Fierce windstorm aud rain IN
the Atlantic states.
Panama Scandal The publishers and
one editor of tire New York World in
d.cted by the federal granl jury In
New York city.
q. Political; President Taft nominated
his cabinet as follows: Philander G.
knox, secretary OF state, Franklin
MacNeagh, the treasury; Jacob NJ.
Dickinson. war, George Won l.. Meyer,
navy. Richard a. Bullnger interior.
James Wilson. agriculture, Charles
NaEel, commerce ana labor. Frank IL.
HitchcOcN. postmaster general. George
W. NicNersuam, attorney general
Obituary: john II. Starin. pioneer In
river aud hurhor transportation, In
New lort city aged ST.
s. Storm Disaster, % killed and "A in
jur,d Ia % ,oruHdO al Brinkley, Ark.
D Obituary. Mai T.. l.. c. ZalinsHi. u.
S. A.. retired, noted inventor and en-
gineer, Ia New York city; aged 90.
STANDARD oil: Railway rebate case de-
cided IN favor of Standard oil IN
Chicago.
storm. 100 houses wrecked by a cyclone
al Cuthbert. Ga. deaths
. Black Hand: Lieutenant Petrosini
noted Italian detective In New York
Clty, assassinated at Palermo italy
D Political: Special session OF the Glst
congress opened. Joseph q. Cannon
elected speaker OF the house,
WeSlOls y walk EDWARD GdysOn WeS-
ton started from New York on walk
10 San Francisco.
g. Obituary: Elnor Mac Cartney Lane,
authOr OF Nancy Stair" and other
novels, al Lyuchburg Va.
Z Tariff Bin framed by the Republican
members Of the ways and means COM
mittee introduced In the house by Sc
reno Il. Payne. chairman Of the com
mttee.
o, The Cooper Trial: Col. Duncan b.
Cooper ana his sou Robin found guilty
OF the murder of ex-senator Carmack
In Nashville and sentenced to % years.
4. Aeronautics: Count Zeppelin's dirigi-
BILE airshp created worlds record
by carrying 2 persons $50 miles.
3. Personal Theodore Roosevelt, ex-
president sailed from New York for
Naples on the hamburg American
liner Hamburg.
Obituary.: Col. William Lamb soldier
editor AMI lawyer hero OF the Confed-
crate defense OF Fort Fisher in 1865. at
Norfolk. Va. aged 49,
"a Personal: Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford OF the British navy retired after
90 years service
g. Convention: Southern child labor con-
gress met In New Orleans.
Political: Agreement reached between