Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-31

dent Diaz of Mexico met at I'll Paso.
Tex.
Sporting. Jack johnson defeated Stan
ley ketchel IN Y ROUNDS for the
heavyweight championship at san
Francisco.
Seattle FAIR. The Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition CLOSED with record for at
tendance of about 3.1oO.oOO
H. Sporting Henri ST Yves won the
Marathon Derby at Seattle in hours.
81 minutes and 80 seconds.
-. Obituary: Cesare Lombroso. noted
criminologist and aienist, AT Turin
aged 70.
Portola Festival: Celebration Of the dis
covery in 1863 of the bay of San Fran
cisco by Don Gaspar de Portola begun
in San Francisco.
p. Political: Cabinet crisis in Spain; re
suit of the execution on Oct. 10 OF
Prof. Ferrer. the r"voiHionist.
Earthquake: Catania Sicily. shaken:
Vesuvius again active.
q Convention: Annual convention Of the
National Womens Christian union
opened at Omaha.
%. Personal: The car entered Italy as
guest of King Victor Emmanuel
&c. Obituary: Gen. Oliver Otis Howard
u. S. A., retired distinguished veteran
of the civil and Indian wars. at Bur
lington, VT. aged TO- Rear Admiral
Henry Erben, U. S. N, retired, a ma
val hero of the civil war. in New York
city, aged n. Prince Herobumi Ito.
Japanese statesman. formerly resident
general of Korea. at Hardin, Manchu-
ria. victim of Korean assassin; aged
Il
Shipwreck 20 deaths in the wrecking
of the steamer Hestia. from Glasgow.
off the Maine coast.
49, Greece: Battle at Athens between gov
eminent ironclads and a fiotila of de.
strOvers manned hV nutineers
Sporting: James J. Jeffries signed with
Jack Johnson to box for the heavy
weight championship, '45 rounds or
more"
Personal: Lillian NJ. N Stevens elected
president of the national w c. T. u
90. Sporting: II. f. Grant won the Van
derbilt cup race, driving a GO horse
power Alec car an average of 62S miles
for 27S.0S miles Pennsylvania beat
Carlisle Indians at football, 26 to 6, OF
Franklin field.
NOVEMBER.
2. Political: Judge William j Gaynor
elected mayor of New York on the
Democratic ticket; the election a gen
eral reverse for Tammany Hail. Mu-
nicipal reform defeated in San Fran
cisco Tom johnson beaten by Her.
man Baehr in Cleveland mayoralty
election
g. Personal: Peary~a warded a gold med
al by the National Geographic society
for having reached the north pole
Obituary: William Torrey Harris, noted
philosopher and former United States
commissioner of education at Provi
dence. r l.; aged "A.
.. storm: Beginning Of a Tainstorm OF
the island OF jamaica which caused
many deaths and the destruction 10y
landshdes, smpwreck and inundation OF
property estimated at S1plO.OOO
6. Aeronautics. Paulhan. French aviator
made a new record in night. reaching
an altitude of 90 feet at Sandowu
park London.
S. Obituary. Lionel BrOush. once noted
comedian. in London
Fatal Fire: deaths in the burning OF
a cenuoid factory in Brooklyn.
Convention: Tie American Federation
of Labor met in Toronto.
ID Personal. President Taft reached
Washin-tOn at the end Of his tour.
l3. sporting. Yale defeated Princeton. Il
to o. at New Haven. Michigan defeat
81 PENNSYLVANIA IL 90 o. at Phuadel-
p'lia. Game between Cornell and Chi
case at Ithaca resulted iu score Of
80
Mine Disaster: Explosion in the ST. Pau
1 Coal com 1ry's u4lla near Cherry. H..
Ieslite4 'a tie death Ut nearly -lo
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