Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-04-03
STORY Of 1903
Review of the Year From
January to December.
RECORD DAY BY DAY.
Notable Political Events II Amer
lea and Europe.
NAMES ON MORTUARY LIST.
NAMES ON MORTUARY LIST.
APRIL.


2. Warship Disaster: British torpedo boat
destroyer Tiger cut in two by collision
with the cruiser Berwick off the Isle
OF Wight: So men drowned
g. Fires: At Lynchburg Va. loss OF
s225 600 in the tobacco district. over
s15OOOO loss by the burning of Corning
x CO.'S distillery at Peoria. Ill.
Sporting: Gotch defeated HaCken-
schmidt for the worlds heavyweight
wrestling championship at Chicago.
Political; Thomas f, Watson of Georgia
nominated for president by the Peo-
pies party at st, Louis
Obituary: James Jeffrey Roche. noted
American poet, at Berne. Switzerland;
aged 81.
l. Political: Sir Henry Campbel-Banner-
man. prime minister Of England, re-
signed.
C. Political Riot: over 100 people killed
and wounded during an election dis
turbanCe In Lisbon Portugal.
g. Political: Herbert S. Asquith appoint
ed prime minister of England by King
Edward.
l2 Obituary: Lieut.. Charles A. l.. Tottsn,
u. s. A, retired, noted for his prophe-
cies of the coming end of the world, at
Milford, Conn: aged 81. Gen. Byron
NJ, Cutcheon noted veteran OF the civil
war. at Ypsilanti. Mich; aged II.
Fire: In Chelsea. Mass; 20 blocks de-
stroyed. causing a loss OF nearly slo,-
ono 600: IL deaths.
Is. Sporting: Jack Atkin won the so 00
Carter handicap at the Aqueduct track.
New York.
l6. Obituary: Rear Admiral George Beal
Balch. L. S. N, retired, at Raleigh,
n C.; aged 81.
20. Convention: The national society,
Daughters of the American RevOlu-
ton. met in Washington.
q. Convention: The general society.
Daughters of the Revolution, met In
New York city
%. Obituary: Sir Henry ramphcll-Ban-
herman. who had recently resigned the
premiership OF England, in London;
aged -. Bishop Ellison Capers. noted
veteran of the civil war, Mt Columbia.
S. c.: aged TO-
%. Obituary: Gen. Nikolai I.inevitch, sue
cessor to Kuropatfin In command OF
the Russian army In Manchuria in
1905, at St Petersburg; aged 60.
Storm: beginning of a two days tor
nado which swept the southern states
from Texas to Georgia: nearly 400 PEG
pie killed and many thousands injured
a. Convention: The American Society OF
International Law met in washington.
Auto Race Louis Strang won the tro-
ply in the BriarCiff contest, near New
York speeding 256 miles In 5 hours "A
minutes 13 2-5 seconds in an Italian
car.
&. Personal: Cardinal Logue. head OF the
Roman Catholic church In Ireland, ar
rived In New YORK to participate In
the centennial OF the New York arch
diocese.
Beat Disaster; Is people drowned by the
capsi2ing of the Mississippi river
steamer Marion near the mouth Of
the St. Francis river, Arkansas.
Warship Disaster: 2S sailors killed or
missing in a collision between the
British cruiser Gladiator and the
American liner St. Paul off the Isle OF
Wight.
r. Catholic Centennial: beginning OF tho
Roman Catholic celebration in New
York city.
8 Financial Troubles The New York
Stock Exchange firm OF Coster, KNAPP
& Co failed for nearly 100000
Accident: killed and 80 Injured in a
trolley collision near Ypsilanti, Mich,
g. Obituary: Rev. DIR. Morgan Din, son
OF the late Gen. John A. Dix, who was
noted in the civil war and rector OF
Trinity parish, New York, over 4
years in that city; aged 81.
30 Convention: The national congress
Sons of the American Revolution
opened In Buffalo.
Warship Disaster: Japan's protected
cruiser Matsushima destroyed by ex
plosion of Pescadores islands; over
200 deaths reported.