The Dickinson press., 1910-01-01
Poe Centenary: The Tooth anniversary
Of the birth Of Edgar Allan Poe cele-

OF the birth OF Edgar Allan Poe colo-
brated.
%. Cuba: Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez pro-
claimed president Of the republic.
Political: Secretary Of State Elihu Root
elected United States senator by the
= New York legislature.
q. Accident: Explosion, followed by IRE.
! in temporary crib Of a tunnel under
:" Lake Michigan of Chicago: about 70
z. workmen lost their lives. ~.
II. Fire: At Galveston flames on the
{; wharfs caused loss Of $4,000. =
- shipwreck: on Nantucket White Star
liner Republic rammed and sunk by
= Italian liner Floridas 6 deaths and re-
r markable rescue Of over 1000 imperiled
:. passengers.
4 E EARTHQUAKES: 60 villages destroyed and
= 5000 to. 5000 lives lost in the province
Of Luristan. Persia.
q. Obituary: Benoit- Constant Coquelin.
noted French actor. in Paris aged 81.
g. .Cuba: The reins of government turned
over to President Gomez by the Amer
lear governor general. Magoon.
=: Fire: st. Paul. loss Of $4,000 by fire
In q department store.
Personal: President Elect Taft arrived
at Colon. Panama
30. Earthquakes: Severe shocks in Spain.
II. Obituary: Miss Martha Finley, author
of the Elsie Books" at Elkton. Nd:
; aged 81. =. 10.
r': ~ FEBRUARY. .r
:: l. Personal: President Elect William H.
Taft formally opened the Pacific end
Of the Panama canal. +" 49, !
: 66ipwreck: British steamer Clan Ranald
lost of the coast of Australia: tho
captain and 46 sailors drowned.
! Obituary: John Gilmer Speed, journal
list and author. at Mendham. N. j.:
aged Sc.
{ The Cruising Fleet: The battleships
sailed from Gibraltar, homeward
q bound. s,-
q Obituary: catullus ,Mendes, noted
French poet. in Paris.
Personal: King Edward VII. received in
Berlin. the first visit of a British king
to the German capital in 1856 years.
Political: France and Germany signed a
Morocco pact.
II. Lincoln Centenary: The Tooth ami
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
T.; coin celebrated.
Is. Fire Disasters: Between 200 and 300 per-
~ sons burned to death and scores in
jured in a fire which destroyed tho
Flores theater in Acapulco, Mexico.
II. Obituary: Geronimo. noted Apache
chief and raider, died a prisoner Of
war at Fort Sill.
II! Obituary: Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle
burg; aged 81. e Admiral Charles
8. Cotton. u. s. NJ. retired. at Nice.
France; aged 66.
Conventions: National ongress of moth
ers opened In New Orleans.
20. Disaster at Sea: The Hamburg-South
America liner Presidente Roca burned
off Peninsula Valdes; loss Owners re-
porD 20 lives. press report, 266 of the
passengers and crew.
Il. Obituary.: Carroll d. Wright. soldier.
statistician and educator, at Worces-
ter. Mass: aged 60.
q. The Cruising Fleet: The battleships
reached Hampton Roads.
q. Storm: 10 killed and many injured by
a tornado which swept over eastern
Arkansas.
Is. Obituary: Rev. Theodore Cuyler, noted
minister and author, in Brooklyn:
aged 81.
a. Sporting: American bowling congress
opened in Pittsburg.
MARCH.
!. Obituary: E. ]. ("Lucky') Baldwin,
: we'll known turfman, at Arcadia, CAL;
aged 81.
I Sporting: Ora Morningstar won the
championship of the world at 1872 balk
line billiards. defeating George F. Slos-
son the 1871 champion, in New York
city; final score, 500 to "a.
4 Political: Inauguration of William
Howard a as 9th president of the
United States. The Goth ongress ended.
Storm: Fierce windstorm ard 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. .
{ Political: President Taft nominated
his cabinet as follows: Philander c.
Knox, secretary of state: Franklin
MacVeagh. the treasury; Jacob M.
Dickinson. war; George o L.. Meyer.
nQvv. Pio1,or1 A DoIl:n->- -A-~t--.
James Wilson. .agriculture: Charles
Nagel, and labor; Frank H.
Hitchcock, postmaster general; George
w. Wickersham, attorney general.
Obituary: John H.. Starin. pioneer in
river and harbor transportation, in
New York city; aged "a.
.. 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 a cyclone
at Cuthbert. Ca; 6 deaths
II. Black Hand: Lieutenant Petrosini.
noted Italian detective in New York
city, assassinated at Palermo. Italy.
Is. Political: Special session of the 61st
congress opened. Joseph G. Cannon
elected speaker of the house.
Weston's Walk: Edward Payson Wes-
ton started from New York on a walk
to San Francisco.
l& Obituary: Elmo 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 E.. Payne. chairman of the COM
mittee.
20. The Cooper Trial: Col. Duncan &.
Cooper and his son Robin found guilty
of the murder of ex-senator Carmack
In Nashville and sentenced to 20 years.
q. Aeronautics: Count Zeppelin's dirigi-
BILE airship created a worlds record
by carrying q persons $50 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 1866. at
Norfolk, Va: aged 70.
n. PERSONAL: Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford of the British navy retired after
so years service.
p. Convention: Southern child labor con-
gress met in New Orleans.