The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-01-21

aged a.
Fire: LOSS OF 81 5OoO)O in the business
district OF Atlanta.
Sportipg RiodOr1 Richard Croller's
horse, won the Thousand Guinea stakes
at Eewmarke..
.. Convention: The american Surgeons
association met in BicHnord Va.
Financial TroGbles: The Euclid Avenue
Trust Co OF Cleveland assigned with
= liabilities OF S1i5JC,0
Personal: Rear Admiral Robley ID. Ev-
ans rellnquished command of the At
lantic battlcship fleet.
IL. Convention: The National Association
OF Retail Grocers met in Boston
TemplR Of Peace: Cornerstone of the
Hall of the International Union of
American Republics laid In Washing
ton.
12. Storm 12 people killed by tornado
at Bellevue Neb.
13. Convention. Conference Of governors
met In washington.
Aeronautics Feat: Wright brothers
made a successful flight with their
aeroplane at Manteo, N. c.
Sporting: Jack At'iin won the Metropol-
itan handicap at Belmont part. New
York
Storm 80 people killed in Louisiana by
a tornado
H. Obituary: Rear Admiral c. w. Rae,
u. s. N. in Washington,
mated Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin
Hanford at Chicago.
Obituary: Mrs. Emily e. Woodley, ia
nous In the civil war as a Federal
army nurse. in Philadelphia; aged 73
Prof w. A. wyckoff. sociologist stu
dent and author. at Princeton. NJ ].
Fire. Loss of 81 $4,000 by fire in the
Omaha Packing Co.'S plant at South
| Omaha,
Is. Sporting: Jay Could defeated Eugene
Miles. the English player. for the
worlds amateur tennis championship
In London.
49, Financial Troubles: The Allegheny Ma
| tional bank suspended in Pittsburg.
| 10. Sportinr Preceptor won the worlds
record for two -year-olds, running four
and one-han furlongs straightaway In
81 seconds.
| Conventions: The National Association
Of Manufacturers net In New York
The Southern Baptists met at Hot
| Springs. Ark.
20. Convention Conference on interna-
tional arbitration met at Lake Mo
honk N %.
a. Railway Accident: 90 killed and 100 in
| jured in n collision near Antwerp. Bel
| gium.
Convention: The general assembly of
| the Pres 'terian Church In the United
| States mo In Kansas City, Mo.
q. Obituary: Francois Coppee, French
poet and dramatist. in Paris; aged 66.
| o6. Financial Troubles. The Ainador Min
ing and Development co. OF Montana
failed in Chicago.
"a. Shipwreck: The fishing schooner Fame
run down off the coast OF Maine by
the Dominion Atlantic line steamer
Boston: IS sailors drowned.
Obituary: David Henderson. composer
OF "Blueheard" and n theatrical man
ager OF note. In Chicago: aged 6S.
H. -.
s. N, retired. In Philadelphia: aged G5.
Is. Storm 10 persons killed by tornado
| in Alfalfa county, Okla.
| Obituary: Lieut.. Gen. stephen ID. Lee,
noted Confederate veteran. In Vicks-
burg. Miss: aged 20.
Convention International congress OF
aeronauts met In London.
30. Political: Emergency currency bill
passed and signed by the president
Congrc.s adjourned.
| 81. Convention: The international con
gress OF navigation met in st. Peters
burg
JUNE.
I. Convention: American Medical associ-
alton met In Chicago.
Sporting: Celt won the Brooklyn handi-
cep nt CroyC'euh. New York.
2. Ohlturr' ''er. Sir Henry Redvers
Dulor ll..i n commander at the siege
OF ;.adysmitl In the Boer war, In Lon
| uoU, aktN ~"
). Sporting: Sisnornetta. an Italian
horse, won he II .l,Sh Derby.
Convention: sth biennial convention OF
| the Brotherhood ~ locomotive En-
gineers at Columbus O.
6. Warship Tsr.'Cr: .,y the explosion OF
a boiler tube ON the cruiser Tennessee
| near San Pedro, CAL OF the crew
were killed and several injured.
6. Storm: Windstorms and food caused
| heavy loss Of life In Oklahoma. Kan
sas, Nebraska aud Iowa.
T. PERSONAL King Edward VII. OF Eng
land and Emperor Nicholas IL. OF Rus
sia met for offic.al conference at Reval
o. Conventions: Reunion OF United Con-
federate Veterans at Birmingham
| Ala.
10. Obituary: Former Congressman oliver
Hazard Ferry Belmont, prominent cap
| italist and society man, at Hampstead
N Y, aged 20,
| Personal: cen. Clement A. Evans elect
ed comWmnder In chief OF the United
| Confederate Veterans.
| II. Obituary: Isaac Il. Rich. veteran the
atrical manager. In Boston; aged 81.
| IL Convention: Worlds church congress
met In London.
Miscellaneous, Caleb Powers convicted
OF completely In the murder Of Gov,
William Goebel OF Kentucky par
doned Thomas Virgins (Bllnd Tom).
noted negro plano player, died in Ho-
Doken, N, il aged about 10.
IL Obituary; Frank C. Bangs, an actor
associated with Edwin Booth, Char
lotte Cushman and Laura Keene In
Philadelphia; aged Il.
Sporting; w. X. Vanderbilts horse
Northeast won the Grand Prix de
Paris, the greatest race on the French
turf.
Is. Convention: The worlds temperance
congress met at Saratoga Springs
N. Y.
II. Fire: Loss of s25O,0lO at the Kaul lum-
ber plant, Birminqham. Ala.
| l8. Convention: International Sunday
school convention met In Louisville.
Political; w. n. TAFT nominated for
president at the Republican conven-
tion I'm Chicago.
Fire; Plant OF the Shelby Steel Co,
burned at Shelby, o.; loss 81 OO0,OO0
| 10. Sporting; Ballot owned by j. r.
Keene, won the Suburban handicap at
Sheepshend Bay New York,
%. Fire: In the business section OF Three
Rivers que; loss 81 O00,OOO
Obituary: Ellen NJ. Ames. an author
known as Eleanor Kirk at Weeka-