The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-01

dent Diaz of Mexico met at El Paso.
Tex.
Sporting: Jack Johnson defeated STAN
ley ketchel in Il rounds for the
heavyweight championship at San
Francisco
Seattle Fair: The Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition closed with a record for at
tendance OF about 3.750.000.
q. Sporting: Henri st. Yves won the
Marathon Derby at Seattle In hours.
80 minutes and 80 seconds.
%. Obituary: Cesare Lombroso, noted
crirninologist and alienist, at Turin;
aged 70.
Portola Festival: Celebration of the dis
covery in 1863 of the bay of San Fran
cisco by Don Gaspar de Portola begun
In San Francisco.
D. Political: Cabinet crisis in Spain; re-
suit of the execution on Oct. ID of
Prof. Ferrer. the revolutionist.
Earthquake: Catania. Sicily, shaken;
Vesuvius again active.
z Convention: Annual convention of the
National Women's Christian union
opened at Omaha.
3. Personal: The car entered Italy as
guest of King Victor Emmanuel
26. Obituary: Gen. Oliver Otis Howard
U. S. A, retired. distinguished veteran
of the civil and Indian wars. at Bur-
lington, VT: aged 7S. Rear Admiral
Henry Erben, U. s. NJ, retired, a ma
- n
city; aged n. Prince Herobumi Ito
Japanese statesman. formerly resident
general of Korea. at Hardin, Manchu-
ria. victim of a Korean assassin; aged
n
Shipwreck: 20 deaths in the wrecking
of the steamer Hestia from Glasgow,
of the Maine coast.
3. Greece: Battle at Athens between gov
eminent ironclads and fiotilla of de-
stroyers manned by mutineers
Aw>Ar To- 10
Jack johnson to box for the heavy
weight championship. .45 rounds or
more"
8 Personal: Lillian NJ N. Stevens elected
president of the national W. c. T. o.
o. Sporting: H.. F. Grant won the Van
derbilt cup race. driving a 90 horse
power Alec car an average of 62s miles
for 27S.o8 miles. Pennsylvania beat
Carlisle Indians at football Is to G. on
Franklin field.
NOVEMBER.
E Political: Judge William ]. Gaynor
elected mayor Of New York on the
Democratic ticket: the election a gen.
eral reverse for Tammany Hall. Mu-
nicfpal reform defeated in San Fran
cisco. Tom johnson beaten by Her.
man Baehr in Cleveland mayoraIty
election
q Personal: Peary awarded gold med
al by the National Geographic society
Obituary: William Torrey Harris, noted
philosopher and former United States
commissioner of education, at Provi-
dence, r. l.; aged IA
s. Storm: Beginning Of a rainstorm on
the island of Jamaica which caused
many deaths and the destruction by
landslides. shipwreck and inundation of
property estimated at $7,000,00o-
9. Aeronautics: Paulhan, French aviator
made new record in flight, reaching
oil ifr11A Of 81
park. London.
& Obituary: Lionel Brough, once noted
comedian, in London.
Fatal Fire: 9 deaths in the burning of
a celluloid factory in Brooklyn.
Convention: The American Federation
of Labor met in Toronto.
10. Personal: President Taft reached
Washington at the end of his tour.
3D. Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton. IT
to o, at New Haven. Michigan defeat
ed Pennsylvania. II to 6, at Philadel-
phia. Game between Cornell and Chi
cago at Ithaca resulted in a score of
6 to 6.
Mine Disaster: Explosion in the st. Paul
Coal company's mine near Cherry. ILL.,,
resulted in the death of nearly 200
miners.
Il Shipwreck: 100 deaths by the sinking
of the Pacific liner La Seyne after col
lision near Singapore.
Financial: The American Telephone and
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany.
Is. Obituary: Richard Watson Glider, au-
thor and editor of the Century Maya
zine. In New York city: aged 66.
19. Obituary: William M. Laffan, editor
OF the New York Sun, at Lawrence,
N. Y; aged 81.
%. Sporting:. Yale beat Harvard at foot
ball. too. in Cambridge. Brown de-
feated Carlisle Indians at football, q
to s, in New York.
Standard Oil Case: The eighth United
States circuit court, sitting as a court
of appeals. ordered the Standard Oil
trust to dissolve.
Obituary: Consuelo, dowager duchess of
Manchester called the most influential
woman in England in London; aged 81.
%. Obituary: David A. De Almond, one
of the Oldest and best known Demo-
cratic members of congress. at Butler.
Mo-: aged 65.
rejected the Liberal budget by a vote
of $50 to Is.
Switchmen's Strike: Switchmen's strike
begun on railroads in the northwest.
DECEMBER.
/. Political: The. United States severed
diplomatic relations with Nicaragua.
virtually demanding the organization
of a new government to replace Ze-
laya's.
2 Fire: Fire in the business district of
Baltimore caused a loss of nearly ST.
600, o00
8. Sporting: Calvin Demarest of Chicago
won the 1872 baIk line billiard title
from George Sutton in New York.
4. Shipwreck: Steamer ELAN Vannin lost
in the Mersey: IL passengers and p
sailors drowned. Steamer Thistlemor
wrecked in Barnstable bay; 20 OF the
crew lost.
Obituary: Princess Waldemar, noted
member of the royal family of Dem
mark, in Copenhagen.
6. Obituary: George Crocker, capitalist.
in New York city; aged 3d.
6. Personal: William J. Calhoun of Chi
cago appointed United States minister
to China