Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-12-30


ed In collision at Middletown. o.; %
killed and many injured
Fire; At Benton. Pa, GO buildings burn
ed In Fourth of July blaze; loss
1850 900.
Sporting: Jack johnson defeated Jeffries
In 10 rounds at Reno. for the worlds
heavyweight championship.
Race Troubles: Numerous riots in which
both whites and negroes were killed
followed the news of the ring event at
Reno.
8. Fire: At Annprior. Ont flames in n
lumber yard caused a loss of over
$3,0OO,O00
Convention: National Educational ASSOC
citation met in Boston.
7. Obituary; DR.. William James Rolfe
noted Shakespearean scholar. In Tis-
bury, Mass. aged SO.
9. Aviation Walter r. Brookins flew
6,275 feet up in the air at Atlantic City
Obituary: George Berger famous French
art critic. in Paris; aged u.
d. Obituary: John Gottfried Gale, noted
astronomer. at Potsdam: aged 9S.
IL Aviation Accident: Capt. c. S. Rolls
English aviator, killed in a Wright
aeroplane at Bournemouth.
Obituary: Henry Dexter. founder Of the
American News company. in New York
city; aged 9S. Kate Tannatt Woods,
author in Boston: aged 70.
Fire: Campbelltown, N. B.. nearly de-
stroyed; loss S2,500.0O0.
H. Obituary: Daniel Folger Bigelow, noted
American artist and art leader. in Chi
cago; aged 81.
IA. Alloys Wirsching, inventor OF the stock
ticker and New York's fire alarm sys-
tenn In Brooklyn; aged Is.
70. Obituary: 2. B. Knight. who Is said
to have named the Republican party
in 1854. in Omaha; aged SO.
u. Army Accident: Premature explosion
m n
Monroe caused the death of 10 soldiers.
"A. Nicaragua: Estrada's revolutionists
defeated the government forces at
Acoypa.
Storm Disaster: 60 persons killed and
hundreds injured by a tornado near
Milan. Italy.
S. Obituary: Prof Samuel Ross Winans,
dean of Princeton university, at Prince
ton; aged So.
q. Obituary: Sir Henry Tichborne, infant
defendant in the notorious Arthur Or
ton claim to the Tichborne title and
estates in 1871 and noted big game
hunter. in London; aged "A.
81. Obituary: John G. Carlisle, Kentucky
statesman and member of Grover
Cleveland's cabinet. in New York city;
aged 70. Rear Admiral Thomas II.
LOCKER u. s. N, retired, veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars, in Wash
ington; aged 81.
AUGUST.
1. Conventions The international peace
congress met in Stockholm.
3. Obituary: E. L. Sambourne. noted car
toonist of London Punch, in London;
aged g.
l. Obituary: Louis Schriber long known
as a great cornetist, in Los Angeles;
aged SO.
6. Obituary: Rear Admiral Schofield U.
S. N, retired, at Stamford, Conn;
aged II.
Z. Obituary: j. 3. Studley. once noted
actor, in New York city Col Harvey
w. Scott editor of the Portland Ore
CONAN, in Baltimore aged r.
8. Assault on Mayor Gaynor: Mayor Will
liam ]. Gaynor shot on board the
ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
by James ]. Gallagher a discharged
city employee.
Railroad Accident: IA killed and 20 in
jured in a head-on collision on the
Northern Pacific near Ignacio, Cal.
Fire: In Boston's lumber district; loss
100000.
10. Conventions Apple growers congress
opened in st. Louis. Special conven-
ton of the United Mine Workers of
America met in Indianapolis.
II. Obituary: Judith Ellen Foster noted
woman lawyer. in Washington; aged
20.
II. Flood Disaster: 5000 houses and shops
lost in Tokyo.
Sporting Uhlan set new trotting rec
ord by going mile in 1853. at Cleve-
land.
13. Obituary: Florence Nightingale, IA
nous nurse in the Crimean war, in
London; aged 90 Edmund D. Lewis,
noted artist and art collector, In Phil
adelphia; aged 70.
Aviation: Radley. an English aviator,
broke the worlds speed record by fly
ing mile in AZ 2-5 seconds at Black
pool.
a. Fire: The white City" of the worlds
fair at Brussels destroyed: loss esti-
mated at $20.OO0,OOO.
Railroad Accident: 80 killed and 100 in
jured in a collision at Saujon. France.
Aviation C. F. Willard carried three
passengers on a quarter mile bipane
trip at Garden City, beating the
worlds record on the number of pas
sengers.
Is. Convention: The international Espe-
ranto congress met in Washington.
Obituary: Rev. E. p. Hammond, once
famous travelling evangelist at Hart
ford. Conn.
16. Obituary: President Mont OF Chile, in
Bremen
Shipwreck: 80 passengers and 7 sailors
drowned by the laundering OF the
Spanish steamer Tarifa in the strait
of Gibraltar.
II. Convention: Annual convention of the
National Firemen's association met at
Rochester N. Y.
is. Nicaragua: Estrada's revolutionists
defeated the Madriz forces in front of
Managua.
Fire; In Jersey City loss Of 81, 900 by
the burning OF business block.
TO- Nicaragua: Managua. the capital, &C.
cupied by the victorious revolutionists
under Estrada. Madriz. the president
fled.
a. Fire: 10 lives lost and property valued
at 100000 destroyed at Wallace Ida
by flames started by forest fires in the
vicinity of the city.
"a. Sporting: Harvester lowered the worlds
record for stations by trottng a mile
In 2;O3 at the Empire City track. Yon-
kers.
Is Sporting: William A. Larned, national
lawn tennis champion, defended his
title at Newport defeating Thomas C.
Bundy OF California.
81 Sporting: Novelty won the Futurity
and purse of s2j. 800 at Saratoga, with
BaShti second