The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-03
ReDiew Of the Deeds, Incidents
 and Happenings Of the Year 1908

an explosion in a model mine at Marianna, Pa. resulted in the death Of 150 miners,
 The most disastrous railroad acci- dent of the year occurred at Contich. Belgium. on May al. the dead num-
 bering sixty and the injured 100
 Cholera in St. Petersburg ragged throughout the month of September.
 causing the death of as many as l50 in day In Manila the same disease killed twenty and more q day during the same month. Bubonic plague at Caracas caused an embargo on the shipping from that port by Venezuela. On March schoi house suddenly took fire in Collingwood. a suburb of Cleveland. which resulted in the death of iS5 children. The fearful loss of life was due to the, fact that the building had only two fire escapes. Most of the little ones were killed by being crushed in q wild stampede The disaster caused the reconstruction of many school houses in nearly all the , large cities of the United States.
 Deaths Shining Fist fin 1908. m addition to the Dowager Empress and the Emperor of China and King
 Carlos and the Crown Prince of Por- tusal' death claimed many a potable cictln m 1908 Among them were
 WHODO HliuViB IuncT~ al at Princeton was attended by Pres ident Roosevelt; former Senator Ed
 ward W. Carmsck of Tennessee. who
 was shot down in Nashville, Tenn, in november, by Robin J. Cooper, as the result of a political quarrel; Senator stephen R. Mallory of Florida. John Chandler Bancroft Davis. formerly Minister to Germany; Bishop Edward G. Andrews ofsthe Methodist Episco- pal Church; James Ryder Randall, writer of Maryland, My Maryland" !:
 Edmund Clarence Stedman. the bank er-poet; Charles Emory Smith, editor of The Philadelphia Press: Morris K Jesup. New York banker and phiIan- thropist: Edward Mcdowell. the conn poser; "ouida" (Isouise della Ramee), ],
 the novelist: Cardinal Richard of Pa- ris, Col T, G. Lawlor, formerly com mander-in-chief of the c. A. R.: Gen eral Tung Fun Slang, leader of the
 Boxer insurrection; Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont. Senator William
 Pinkney Whyte of Maryland. Senator William James Bryan of Florida, Sen- ator W. B. Allison of Iowa. the Duke
 of Devonshire.S the Rev. Charles Cuth-
 bert Hall of New York, Durham White Stevens, the Yankee adviser to Japan on Corean matters. who was murdered
 by Corean in California: the Rev.
 pr. Morgan Dix. rector of Trinity CHuECu, NeW IOrks Sir tfenry camp bell-Bannerman. Premier of. England: {: General Linevitch. commander-in- chief of the Russian forces in the latter part of the war with Japan; Peter r. DaI< ley. the comedian; Rear Admiral A. S.
 Crowninshield. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. William Davis Ely. oldest
 Yale alumnus; Bishop Henry c. Pot
 ter of New York, Murat Halstead.
 journalist; the Rev.. Erastus Blakeslee. founder of the system of Sunday School instruction; Baron Speek von SternburS, German Ambassador to the United States; former Senator Wm. F.
 Villas of Wisconsin; Giovanni P. Moro sinl, New York banker. who rebuilt the campanile in Venice, and pr. Dam
 iel c. Gilman. founder and first presi- dene of Johns Hopkins University, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. Victori- en Sardou. the great French dramatist. after a long illness; Charles Eliot Norton. at sI: Mrs, William, Astor. 7s. long the leader of New York society; Estrada Palma, 72. the first President
 of Cuba; Donald c. Mitchell, the au- thor.