The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-01-21

~. conventions annual encampment OF
the United Spanish War Veterans in
Boston.
Fire: an New Orleans loss OF S1.5OO.OOO BY
flames in the business district.
Sportias; Maskette won the Futurity at
Sncopshead Bay. New York.
81. CO.Nenuol; 42d annual encImpment Of
the G. A. r. opened at Toledo.
SEPTEMBER.
1. Shipwreck: British bark Amazon lost
near Port Talbot n sailors drowned
2 Fires: Forest fires wrought destruc-
ton to towns and villages in Minne-
sofa and Wisconsin. The famous Gala
veras group of California giant trees
injured by flames.
3. Personal: Col Henry M. Nevius elect
ed commander in chief of the g. A. II.
at Toledo.
Obituary: Sir Lionel sackville- e-west,
former British ambassador to the
United States in London; aged 81.
l. Obituary: Frank T.. Sargent, United
States commissioner Of immigration,
in Washington; aged "a.
Fire: At Rawhide, New, business sec
tion suffered a loss Of $4,000 by
flames.
s. Sporting: Papke defeated Ketchel in
II rounds for the middleweight cham
pionship at Los Angeles.
9. Convention: 18th international eucha-
risuc congress opened in London.
Sporting: Battling Nelson defeated Joe
Cans for the lightweight champion
ship in q rounds at San Francisco
AeronautiCs: Orville Wright made "a rec
ord breaking aeroplane flight at Fort
Myer. remaining In the air 1 hour,
minutes and IL seconds.
10. Personal: Count Tolstoys SOth birth
day honored in Russia.
Financial Troubles. A Booth A 90
fish and oyster firm, placed in receiv-
er's hands in Chicago; liabilities So,
6O0,0O0
H. Sporting: 2 Lozer cars broke the
worlds a hour auto spin record by
running 1.lO7 and 1882 miles respective
ly at Brighton Beach, N. Y.
Aeronautics: Orville Wright flew his
aeroplane l hour IL minutes at Fort
Myer, Va.
Fire: Plant OF the Cosmodale Cement
Co. near Louisville, KY, burned; loss
100000.
II. Fire: Flames in the library of the
John Hopkins university at Baltimore
destroyed valuable scientific records
and collections
Airship Accident: orville Wright. the
airship inventor, injured and his com
panion, Lieut.. Thomas Il. Selfridge,
U. S. A., killed by the fall OF Wrights
aeroplane at Fort Myer. Va.
20. Fire: Paris telephone central burned
out and all telephone connections In
the city destroyed.
Shipwreck; The salmon cannery ship
Star OF Bengal dashed TO pieces in
storm off Coronation island; 40 per
sons drowned.
a. Aeronautlcs: Wilbur Wright made a
flight OF / hour 81 minutes Is seconds
in his American aeroplane at lie
Mans. France.
Convention: International fishery con-
gress opened in Washington.
%. Warship Disaster: 10 French sailors
killed and many injured by the explo-
sion OF a gun on the cruiser La Touche
at Toulon
Convention: Biennial session OF the
United Irish League OF America open
ed in Boston.
a. Convention: 18th annual meeting Of
the farmers national congress opened
at Madison, Wis
3. Railroad Accident: % killed and many
injured in a head-on collision on the
Northern Pacific at Youngs Point
Mont.
a. Shipwreck: 20 sailors OF the British
ship Loch Finias drowned by the
wrecking OF that vessel off Foster
island
Is. Anniversary: 10th anniversary OF the
founding OF Plttsburg celebrated
Conventions; Triennial international con-
gress on tulcrculo... opened m Wash.
ington. American Bankers associa.
t!oa nc Denver.
%. Convention; 10th session OF the ma
tional IRRIGATION congress opened In
Albuquerque. n. NJ.
30. Alfred Thompson Bricher. American
painter OF marine pictures, at New
DOrp. n. y. aged Il
OCTOBER.
l. Shlpwreck The French schooner
Juniata wrecked on the Grand banks:
8 sailors lost.
2. Pacific Cruise: The battleshlp fleet en-
tered Manila bay.
4. Philadelphia Anniversary: The 225th
anniversary OF tho founding OF Phlla-
delphia by william Penn celebrated In
that city.
Fire: In Pittsburg the Pittsburg Plate
Glass Co.'S plant burned loss S5O0.o0l
s. Sporting: Martin ], Sheridan beat the
worlds record for discus by throwing
l4o feet 5h inches from a pa meter
circle in New York.
The Balkans: Bulgaria declared indie
pendent OF Turkey by Prince Ferdi-
nand, who proclaimed himself "czar
OF the Bulgars."
8. Convention: 10Th transmississippi com
mercial congress met in San Fran
cisco.
inally Turkish provinces OF Bosnia
and Herzegovina to the territory OF
the empire
7. Convention: The national inland wa
terways convention opened In Chicago
Accident and Fire: Explosion and fire In
grain elevator at Richford. Vt, re
suited In the death OF lS persons and
loss OF $500, ,00O
Sporting: Czarena made new world =
record for wo-year-olds and for two
year-old hlles by trotting respectively
in 2l2la and 2:lSia at Lexington, Ky.
g. Political: Crete withdrew from Turk
ish rule and announced annexation 10
Greece.
II. Obituary; Gen, Eppa Hunton, noted
Confederate veteran and long distin-
guished In Virginia public life at
Richmond; aged sc.
Aeronautics: q balloons started from
Berlin In the international balloon
race, the British Banshee winning
l3 Obituary: DR.. Daniel Colt Gilman, en-
inent American educator at Norwich.
Conn; aged a.
Sporting; The Chicago National league
baseball club (Cubs) won the world 9
championship at Detroit by defeating
the Detroi, American league club CTi-
gers); score 20.
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