The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-01

mafkabls rescue OF orer s.1Oo imr.ssrnsd
passengers.
Earthquake: 60 villages destroyed and
5000 to 6o00 lives lost in the province
OF Luristan, Persia
q Obituary: Benoit-Constant CoQueiir,
noted French actor. in Paris: aged o.
n cuba: The reins of government turned
over to Presiden; Gomez by the Amer
lean governor general. Magoon.
y Fire: 81. Paul. loss OF $sSo.coo by fire
in a department store
Personal: President Elect Taft arrived
at Colon. Panama
30 Earthquake: Severe shocks in Spain
IL Obituary: Miss Martha Finley. author
Of the Elsie Books" at Elkton. Nd.
aged 81.
FEBRUARY.
l. Personal: President Elect William FL.
Taft formally opened the Pacific end
of the Panama canal
Sh!pwreck: British steamer Clan Ranald
lost of the coast OF Australia. the
captain and IS sailors drowned
= Obituary: John Gilnier Speed. journal
ist and author. at Mendham n. J.:
aged Sc
6 The Cruising Fleet: The ba,,leships
sailed from Gibraltar. homewari
bound.
s Obituary: Catul,us Mendes. noted
French poet. in Paris.
Personal: King Edward VII. received IN
to the German capital in ls6 years.
Political: France and Germany signed a
Morocco pact.
IL. Lincoln Centenary: The Tooth ami
versary OF the birth OF Abraham Lin
coin celebrated
Is. Fire Disaster: Between 200 and 600 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
% ~ al ~
war at Fort Sill.
1a. Obituary: Grand Duke Vladimir. uncle
of the car of Russia, in ST. Peters
burg; aged g. Rear Admiral Charles
s. Cotton. L. S. N. retired, at Nice.
France: aged &c
Convention: National congress of moth
ers opened in New Orleans.
u. Disaster at Sea: The Hamburg-South
America liner Presidente Roca burned
off Peninsula Valdes; loss Owners re-
porO % lives. tPre report. a66 of the
passengers and crew.
q. Obituary: Carroll d. Wright. soldier.
statistician and educator at worces-
ter. Mass: aged g.
.. The Cruising Fleet: The battleships
reached Hampton Roads.
g. Storm: IL killed and many injured by
tornado which swept over eastern
Arkansas.
q Obituary: Rev Theodore Cuyler, noted
minister and author. in Brooklyn:
aged 81.
o. Sporting: American bowling congress
opened In Pittsburg.
MARCH.
/. Obituary: E. J. c'LuckyD Baldwin.
well known turfman. at Arcadia. Cal
aged 81.
= Sporting: Ora Morningstar won the
championship of the world at 49, balk
line billiards. defeating George F. Slos-
son. the ISL champion. in New York
city: final score 500 to IA
t. 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
one editor OF the New York World in
dicted by the federal grand jury In
New York city.
g. Political: President Taft dominated
his cabinet as follows: Phtlander 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 II. 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 q cyclone
at Cuthbert. Ga: 6 deaths.
II Black Hand: Lieutenant Petrosini.
noted Italian detective in New York
city. assassinated at Palermo. Italy.
IL Political. Gnacial session q 1Sf
congress opened. Joseph G. Cannon
elected speaker Of the house.
Weston's Walk: Edward Payson Wos-
ton started from New York on a walk
to San Francisco.
Is. Obituary: Elinor 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 L. Payne. chairman OF the COM
mittee.
20. The Cooper Trial: Col. Duncan B.
Cooper and his son Robin found guilty
of the murder of ex-senator Carmack
in Nashville and sentenced to % years.
z. Aeronautics: Count Zeppelin's dirigi-
BILE airship created a worlds record
by carrying q persons 80 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 1885. at
Norfolk, Va: aged %.
"a. Personal: Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford of the British navy retired after
90 years service.
.. Convention: Southern child labor con-
gress met in New Orleans.
Political: Agreement reached between
Austria and Servia, effectinG peace IN
the Balkans.
81. Convention: The 125th annual confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
met in Baltimore.
APRIL.
]. Cuba: The last troops of the United
States army left the island.
3. Fire: At Fort Worth. Tex. 10 blocks
destroyed, entailing a loss of s.. 600. 600
deaths
Sporting: oxford won the 65th annual
varsity race on the Thames. beating
Cambridge lengths. Henri St Yves
of France won the international Mara
thon for professionals in New York.
Obituary: Vice Admiral Cervera. who
commanded the Spanish feet at San
tiago in 1898. at Puerto Real. Spain
aged 20.
6. Polar Research: Commander r E
Peary. L. s. N. reached the north pole.
Z Storm Disaster: IS deaths in a hurri-
cane which swept the middle west
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