The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

JANUARY
3. Conviction of Mayor Schmitz set aside
in San Francisco.
II. Henry Kenny president of the Della
ware railway, who attended to the Sc
cret journey of President Elect Abra-
nam Lincoln on his way to Washing
ton in 1861, died at Ridley Park, Pa.
FEBRUARY.
40. Gen. Stoessel, Russian commander in
the defense of Port Arthur, sentenced
to death by military court at St.
Petersburg, with a recommendation of
mercy.
g. Trolley tunnel under the Hudson from
Hoboker, N. j.. to New York opened.
MARCH
2. Germany launched her biggest battle
ship. the Nassau. at Wilhelmshaven.
TO- The death sentence Of Gen. Stoessel
for the surrender of Port Arthur COM
muted TO Imprisonment for ten years.
APRIL.
q. Beginning of the Roman Catholic CEN
tennial celebration in New York city
MAY.
6. The Atlantic battleship fleet entered
the Golden Gate, San Francisco.
Ii. Successful flight of the Wright broth
ers' aeroplane at Manteo, N. c.
is. Prof Walter A. Wyckoff sociologist
student and author. died at Princeton,
n. j.
United States battleship Michigan
launched at Camden, NJ ].
JUNE.
!. DR.. Williamson Boyakin, a protege of
Andrew jackson and at one time on
the staff of Gen. U. S. Grant in the
civil war; died at Marysville, Tenn.
aged 102.
13. Thomas Virgins (Blind TOM, noted
negro piano player, died in Hoboken,
N. j.; aged about 60.
l. Count Zeppelin made new world rec
ord by 220 mile airship flight over
Switzerland.
T. The battleship feet sailed from San
Francisco bound for the orient
H. Opening of the celebration of the Booth
anniversary of the founding of the
city of Quebec.
q Decision of the United States court of
appeals overruled the 900 stand
ard Oil fine imposed by Judge Landis
AUGUST
4 Count Zeppelin travelled 26l miles over
southern Germany in a dirigible bal
loon, which was 'afterward destroy ed
by fire.
10. The battleship fleet arrived at sgd
ney, N. S. w.
Il. Fifrieth anniversary of the opening
of the great debate between Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas cele-
brated at Ottawa, Ill.
70. The battleship fleet reached Mel
bourne.
SEPTEMBER.
IL. Orville Wright made an aeroplane
flight of hour IA minutes at Fort
Myer, Va.
q Wilbur WRIGHT ynada n aiob+ 80 :,
hour 81 minutes 25 seconds in his
American aeroplane at LIE Mans.
France
Is. both anniversary Of the founding of
Pittsburg celebrated.
OCTOBER.
2. The battleship feet entered Manila
bay.
l. Philadelphia celebrated the 225th an
niversary of The founding of the city
by William Penn
8. $4,000 acres OF government land open
ed for settlement on the Rosebud In
dian reservation, South Dakota
IL. % balloons started in the interna-
tional balloon race at Berlin, the Brit
ish Banshee winning.
IL. The American battleship fleet well
coined with salutes by the Japanese
fleet at Yokohama.
70. The battleship fleet welcomed by the
Chinese at Annoy.
NOVEMBER
1. Julia A. f. Carney, author OF the
schoolhouse classic Little Drops of
Water" and other poems, died at
Galesburg, ILL.,: aged IS.
8. United States battleship North Dako-
ia, the largest warship in the world
to date. launched at Quincy, Mass
10. Governments appeal for a rehearing
In the Standard Oil fine case denied by
the federal circuit court in Chicago
Former United States Senator Edward
w. Carmack OF Tennessee shot and
killed in Nashville by Robin Cooper
Ii. Special Prosecutor Francis j. Heney