Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-12-30
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FOR the lightweight championship at
Richmond. Cal, in 40 rounds.
Eicaraguan Revolution: Revolutionists
defeated at Tasma, losing 800 in all.
"A. Obituary: Clay Clement. actor. in Kan
sas City, Mo; aged A.
Financial: Soaring & Co.. private bank
ers in New York, failed owing s350,OOo
IS. Snowslide: Two villages and a mining
camp buried In the mountains of north
ern Idaho; over 80 deaths.
MARCH.
/. Obituary: Don Jose Domingo de Obai-
dia president of the republic of Pan
ANA. at Panama; aged Go.
Avalanche Upward of 100 deaths from
snowslides in the mountains of Wash
ington
g. Sporting: Thure Johansen. Swede, set
the worlds Marathon record by run
ming &c miles 365 yards in 2 hours &c
minutes 551a seconds.
Mining Accident: SO miners killed by
explosion in the gold diggings on Doug
las island, Alaska.
5. Avalanche: Snowslide in Rogers pass.
British Columbia, caused the loss of
upward of 60 lives.
Strike: General walkout in Philadelphia
to aid the striking street car men.
Obituary: Louis James. actor, at Hell
ena, Mont; aged so.
6. Obituary: Thomas Collier Plat, for
mer United States senator and a noted
political leader, in New York city;
aged H. DR.. Louis Klopsch, editor
Christian Herald and promoter Of
worldwide philanthropy, in New York
city; aged So.
Z. Accident: IL killed and II seriously in
jured by an explosion in a starch fac
tory at Roby Ind.
s. Obituary: Jake Schaeffer, noted bill
lard player, at Denver.
O. Strike State wide strike declared in
Pennsylvania in sympathy with the
Philadelphia car mems strike
10. Shipwrecks: over 1000 fishermen per-
ished in wrecks caused by a storm on
the coast of Japan
IA. Fire: At jamestown, N. Y, causing
loss OF $500, 900.
Obituary: Phil DAILY, noted gambler, at
Long Branch. N j.
l5. Venezuela: George Cannon, cousin of
Leroy Cannon, one OF Americans exc
cuted by zelaya. hanged at Corinto
for conspiracy by order Of President
Madriz.
I6. Sporting: Barney Oldfield. Irish-Amer-
lean autoist, broke the worlds auto
record for l mile by driving a car over
the course in 27.33 seconds at Daytona
Beach, Fla.
q. Railroad Accident: A deaths in a
wreck of Rock Island railroad trains
at Green Mountain. Ia
q. Sporting: Barney Oldfeld won the 20
mile auto event at Daytona Beach,
Fla, covering the course in 10 minutes
%. Sporting: Cambridge defeated oxford
in the annual eight cared rowing race
at Putney, England.
q. Strike: State wide sympathy strike to
aid the Philadelphia car men declared
off by the PENNSYLVANIA labor unions.
%. Warship Disaster: sailors killed by
explosion on the United States cruiser
Charleston during practice in Philip
pine waters.
Obituary: David Josiah Brewer. associ-
ate justice United States supreme
court, in Washington; aged 70.
20. Political: State Senator lothian P.
Aids declared guilty of bride taking
by a vote of his colleagues 40 to 9, at
Albany, n. Y.
Obituary. Alexander Agassiz natural
list son of the celebrated Louis Agas-
siz of Harvard university, at sea; aged
30. Obituary: King Menelik of Abyssinia;
aged &C.
Railroad Accident: % killed and so seri-
ously injured in a collision at Hulheim
Germany
APRIL.
l. Obituary. Robert w. Patterson, pres
ident of the Chicago Tribune company.
in Philadelphia aged Co
3. Airship Disaster: German balloon
Pommern wrecked in flight near Stet-
tin and lost with three passengers in
the Baltic sea.
II Obituary: Prof. William Graham Sum-
ner. social scientist, of Yale, at En-
glewood, N. j.; aged TO-
IL. PERSONAL Col. Duncan B. Cooper, one
of the convicted murderers of Senator
E. w. Carmack. pardoned by Cover
nor Patterson of Tennessee.
IA. Earthquake: Costa RIGA shaken; loss
100000.
Chinese Riot: Natives attacked foreign
ers and burned missions at Changchau,
Human, China
Political: Premier Asquith's resolutions
limiting the veto power OF the house
of lords carried in the house Of COM
mons by 103 majority.
Labor: The steel trust increased the
wages of about 225. 900 employees over
s per cent.
H. Convention: National Suffrage associ-
alton met in Washington.
16 Obituary: Ignacio Marshal Mexico's
chief diplomat. at Mexico City.
IT. Airship Disaster: German balloon
Deutsch struck by lightning during an
ascension near Eisenach and wrecked,
killing four passengers.
49, Convention: Annual congress Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution met
in Washington.
Labor: Philadelphia car mems strike
ended with some advantage to the
strikers.
q. Obituary: Samuel Langhorne Glenn
ems Mark Twain. the author, at Red
ding, Conn; aged 70.
q. Fire: Lake St Charles, La 20 blocks
burned; loss about 100000
Storm: Violent snow and wind storm,
with freezing temperature. caused de-
struction of budding fruits in the CEN
trail lake region. extending south to
Tennessee.
rs. Personal: Governor Charles E. Hughes
of New York appointed justice of the
United States supreme court to sue
coed the late Justice Brewer.
Obituary: Bjornstjerne Bjornson, IA
nous Norwegian novelist. poet play
wright and patriot, in Paris; aged 49,
o. Political: Dedication of the Hall of
American Republics in Washington.
a. Aviation: Louis Paulhan. French avi-
ator. won the London Daily Mail $780,
900 prize by flying from London to
Manchester. 1856 miles. in 252 minutes
actual time.