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

". OBITUARY; Algernon Charles SWIM
burne, poet and essayist, at Putney.
England. aged ~.
Political The Payne tariff bill passed
the house of representatives by a vote
of 2l7 to II.
II. Fire Disaster: deaths in fire at
Lenox. Mass; loss nearly 100000.
Financial Troubles: Ennis Il Stopani
brokers in New York and Chicago
failed for $l500 600.
10. Turkey: Turkish garrison in Constan-
tinople mutinied and expelled the
Young Turks ministry.
a. Fire. At Rochester, N. Y. churches,
40 dwellings and a business block de-
stroyed; loss nearly 100000
Obituary: EXUnted States Senator Nj
c. Butler of South Carolina at Column
bia. S. c.; aged 70.
IS. Political: Ultmatum of Young Turks
to parliament.
10. Convention: National Society Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution met
in Washington.
Il. Storm Disaster: persons killed and
property valued at 81 100000 ruined by
a windstorm at Cleveland
g. Obituary: Ex-United States Senator
William M. Stewart of Nevada. in
Washington; aged 50.
"a. Turkey: Young Turks gained control
in Constantnople. making Sultan Alb
dull Hamid prisoner in his palace.
g. Obituary: Charles Warren Stoddard,
author and educator in Monterey,
Cal; aged 65.
26. Convention: 5th congress of the Inter
national Womans Suffrage alliance
opened in London
q. Abdul Hamid IL. of Turkey formally
deposed by the Constitutional party
(Young Turks and his brother, Mo
manned Rescued, chosen successor.
Obituary: Heinrich Conried impresario,
former director of the Metropolitan
Opera House. New York. in Neral,
Austria; aged o.
2S. Obituary: Ex-Governor Frederick IIol-
brook of Vermont, at Brattleboro;
aged 9G. Olive Logan, former actress,
author and lecturer near Sutton. Sur
rey, England; aged TO-
80 Convention: Annual meeting of the
National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution opened in Balti-
more
Turkey: $50 leaders of the mutiny of
April Is in Constantinople executed for
conspiracy.
Fire: In Chicago 81, 100000 loss by the
burning of Elevator Is of the Illinois
Central.
go Persopal: Daughter born to Queen
Wilhelmina of Holland.
Storm Disaster: over 200 dead and mil
lions in Ifoperty destroyed by lorna
does which swept the SOUTH including
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and
Georgia.
2 Convention: National peace congress
opened in Chicago.
3. Judicial: The commodity clause" OF
the Hepburn act declared constitutions
al by the United States supreme court
s. Sporting: st. Yves won the interna-
tional derby in New York. covering y
miles and $50 yards in hours A min
utes and seconds
9. Obituary: Augusta Evans Wilson, au-
thor of "Beulah." st Elmo" Wash
til and other popular novels of south
crn life, at Mobile. Ala; aged II.
10. Political: Mohammed Y. Of Turkey
invested with the sN ord of sovereignty
at Constantinople.
II. Boat Disaster: q deaths by the sink
ing Of a ferry launch on the Ohio river
near Pittsburg
Il. Quarry Accident Loo pounds of dyna
mite exploded at South Bethlehem
near Albany n Y, causing the los.
of .9 lives.
10. Sporting: King James won the Metro
rolitan handicap at Belmont par,
New York.
H. Personal: Gen. Stoessel and Admira
Ncboeatoff. Russian officers who Wer,
serving sentences for neglect Of duty
in the late war, pardoned 10y the ear
is. Iinancall Tracy * Coz New Aor
brokers and bankers went into bank
ruptcy owing $lO0O.OJN.
obituary: George Meredith, tile Englisl
novelist ia London: aged 81.
ersonU: Dr. Charles William Eliot re
tired from the presidency of Harvar,
after 10 Years in that office
Fire: Loss of $l,5o0ool 10y the destruc
ton Of manufacturing Mock at Ak
ron ..
Convention: National good roads con
.rrcss met in baltimore
-. Obituary: Henry II. Rogers, lnanciei
and director of the Standard oil com
pany, in New York; aged 60.
/ Personal: Abbott Lawrence Lowell as
sumed the presidency of Harvard uni
Versity.
g Maj. Israel G. Greene. captor of JOIN
Brown at liarpers Ferry in 1889 a
Mitchell, S. D.; aged -.
Sporting: King Edwards Minoru wol
the English Derby.
90 Storm Disasters: - persons killed anC
40 injured in Oklahoma by tornadoes
Many lives lost in a cyclone which
swept over western Minnesota are
North Dakota.
80 Tornado: Over 80 persons killed an,
upward of 100 injured III windstorn
at Zephyr. Tex.
81 Fire: At Porta Costa, Cal, loss of 81.
100000 by the burning OF the Nevad;
grain docks.
JUNE.
| /. Worlds Fair: The Alaska Yukon p
cific exposition opened at Seattle.
! p Obituary: Theodore Barth noted Ger
man editor. publicist and authority oil
American affairs. at Baden Baden
| aged GO.
| g. Sporting: King James won the Brook
| lyn handicap at GraVesend.
| o. Balloon race start at indianapolis 70
distance and endurance contests.
G. Obituary: Col. Alexander Kelly Nc
Clure. noted journalist. long promi
nent in Pennsylvania politics. in Phil
adelphia aged 81
g. Conventions: United Confederate Vet
Grams met at Memphis. Meeting o
the American Medical association a
Atlantic City.
! 3. Convention: National conference O
charities and correction met at Buf
falo.
10. Obituary: Rev. DIR. Edward Everett
Hale. distinguished clergyman. autho