New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-12-29
Poe Centenary: The Tooth anniversary
OF the birth Of Edgar Allan Poe cele-

Political: Secretary of State Elihu Root
elected United States senator by the
New York legislature.
a. Accident: Explosion. followed by fire,
in temporary crib of tunnel under
Lake Michigan off Chicago; about 70
workmen lost their lives.
a. Fire: At Galveston flames on the
wharfs caused loss of $500, 600
g. ShipWreck: Off Nantucket White Star
liner Republic rammed and sunk by
Italian liner Florida; deaths and re-
markable rescue of over 1000 imperiled
passengers.
Earthquake: go villages destroyed and
5000 to 6,ooO lives lost in the province
of Luristan, Persia.
n. Obituary: BenOlt-C Constant COQuelIn,
noted French actor in Paris: aged 67.
g. Cuba: The reins of government turned
over to President Gomez by the Amer
lean governor general, Magoon.
g. Fire: st. Paul. loss of 100000 by fire
in department store.
& Personal: President Elect Taft arrived
at Colon, Panama.
80. Earthquake: Severe shocks in Spain.
81. Obituary: Miss Martha Finley. author
Of the Elsie Books" at Ellzton, Md. ;
aged 81.
FEBRUARY.
1. Personal: President Elect William H.
Taft formally opened the Pacific end
of the Panama canal.
Shipwreck: British steamer Clan Ranald
lost off the coast of Australia; the
captain and As sailors drowned.
z Obituary: John Gilner Speed, journal-
list and author at Mendham, N. j.;
aged Sc.
6 The Cruising Fleet: The battleships
sailed from Gibraltar. homeward
bound.
8. Obituary: Catullus Mendes, noted
French poet. in Paris.
Personal: King Edward VII. received in
Berlin. the first visit of a British king
to the German capital in 1856 years.
Political: France and Germany signed a
Morocco pact
II. Lincoln Centenary: The Tooth ami
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin celebrated
Is. Fire Disaster: Between 200 and 300 per-
sons burned to death and scores in
jured in a fire which destroyed the
Flores theater in Acapulco. Mexico.
II. Obituary: Geronimo, noted Apache
chief and raider, died prisoner Of
war at Fort Sill.
IS. Obituary: Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle
of the car of Russia, in st. Peters,
burg; aged g.. Rear Admiral Charles
S. Cotton, U. S. N, retired, at Nice.
France; aged 66.
Convention: National congress of moth
ers opened in New Orleans.
20. Disaster at Sea: The Hamburg-South
America liner Presidente Roca burned
off Peninsula ValdeS; loss Owners re-
porD 20 lives. press report, 2C6 of the
passengers and crew.
Il. Obituary: Carroll D. Wright, soldier,
statistician and educator. at Worces-
ter, Mass; aged So.
%. The Cruising Fleet: The battleships
reached Hampton Roads.
q. Storm: Is killed and many injured by
uorf TOW,
Arkansas.
rs. Obituary: Rev. Theodore Cuyler, noted
minister and author, in Brooklyn;
aged 81.
27. Sporting: American bowling congress
opened in Pittsburg.
MARCH.
l. Obituary: E. j. CLucky'D Baldwin,
well known turfman, at Arcadia Cal. !;
aged 81.
2 Sporting: Ora Morningstar won the
championship of the world al 49, balll
line billiards, defeating George F. Slos-
son, the ISL champion, in New York
city; final score. 500 to PA.
1. Political: Inauguration of William
Howard Taft as 9th president of the
United States. The Goth congress ended.
Storm: Fierce windstorm and rain in
the Atlantic states.
Panama Scandal: The publishers and
dicted by the federal grand jury in
New York CITY,
9. Political: President Taft nominated
his cabinet as follows: Philander c.
Knox, secretary of state; Franklin
MacVeagh, the treasury; Jacob NJ.
Dickinson, war; George Won L. Meyer.
navy; Richard A. Ballinger interior;
James Wilson. agriculture: Charles
Nagel, commerce and labor; Frank H.
Hitchcock. postmaster general; George
w. Wickersham, attorney general.
Obituary: John H. Starin, pioneer in
river and harbor transportation, in
New York city; aged 81
8. Storm Disaster: 20 killed and "a in
jured in a tornado at Brinkley, Ark
10. Obituary: Maj E. L. G. Zalinski. u
S. A., retired, noted inventor and en-
gineer, in New York city; aged 60.
Standard Oil: Railway rebate case de-
cided in favor of Standard Oil in
Chicago.
Storm: 100 houses wrecked by cyclone
at Cuthbert Ca: deaths
T. Black Hand: Lieutenant Petrosini
noted Italian detective in New York
| city, assassinated at Palermo Italy.
| ID. Political: Special session of the 61st
| congress opened. Joseph G. Cannon
| elected speaker of the house.
! Weston's Walk: Edward Payson Yves
ton started from New York on walk
16. Obituary: Elnor Mac Cartney Lane
author of Nancy Stair and other
novels, at Lynchburg, Va.
! II. Tariff: Bill framed by the Republican
members of the ways and means com.
mittee introduced in the house by Sc
reno E. Payne, chairman of the com
1nittee.
20. The Cooper Trial: COL Duncan B.
| Cooper and his son Robin found guilty
I of the murder of ex-senator Carmack
in Nashville and sentenced to 20 years
q. Aeronautics: Count zeppelin's dirigi-
BILE airship created worlds record
by carrying 81 persons $50 miles.
q. Personal: Theodore Roosevelt, ex-
president. sailed from New York for
Naples on the Hamburg American
liner Hamburg.
Obituary: Col. William Lamb, soldier
editor and lawyer. hero Of the Confed-
| crate defense of Fort Fisher in 1865, al
Norfolk, Va; aged Is.
| "A. Personal: Admiral Lord Charles Beres
ford of the British navy retired after
| SO years service.
| q. Conventions; Southern child labor con
gress met in New Orleans
Political: Agreement reached between
Austria and Servia. effecting peace II
the Balkans.
! a. Convention The 1o5tb annual confar