Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-31
Features of the Worlds Happenings During Last Year

q. Ad wolgast defeated Battling Nelson
for the lightweight championship at
Richmond, Cal, IN 40 rounds.
Nicaragu3n Revolution: Revolutfonists
defeated at Tasme, losing 800 in all.
"a. Obituary: Clay Clement, actor, in Kan
sas City. No; aged A..
Financial: Soaring & Co, private bank
ers-in New YORK. failed owing $3.50, 900.
g. Snowslide: Two villages and mining
camp buried in the mountains of north
ern Idaho; over SO deaths.
MARCH.
l. Obituary; Don Jose Domingo de Obal.
dia, president of the republic OF Pan
anna. at Panama; aged 60.
Avalanche: Upward of 100 deaths from
snowslides in the mountains of Wash
ingtou.
2. Sporting: Thure Johansen, swede. set
the worlds Marathon record by run
ming &c miles 365 yards in hours 90
minutes 551a seconds.
Mining Accident: 80 miners killed by
explosion in the gold diggings on Doug
las island Alaska.
8. 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 80.
6. Obituary: Thomas Collier Plat for
mer United States senator and noted
political leader, in New York city:
esed q. DR.. Louis Klopsch. editor
Christian Herald and promoter of
worldwide philanthropy in New York
city; aged S.
Z. Accident: IL killed and l. seriously IN
jured by an explosion in starch fac
tory at Roby. Ind.
s. Obituary: Jake Schaeffer noted bill
lard player, at Denver.
9. Strike: State wide strike declared in
Pennsylvania in sympathy with the
Philadelphia car mems strike.
Is. 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, GOO.
Obituary: Phil Daily. noted gambler, at
Long Branch. y. J.
10. Venezuela: George Cannon. cousin OF
Leroy Cannon. one OF Americans exc
cuted by Zelaya. hanged at Corintc
for conspiracy by order OF President
Madriz.
&c Sporting: Barney OldfeId. Irish-Amer-
lean autoist, broke the worlds auto
record for l mile by driving a car over
the course in 2I23 seconds at Daytona
Beach. Fla
p. Railroad Accident: "A deaths in a
wreck of Rock Island railroad trains
at Green Mountain Ia.
.. Sporting: Barney OIdfeld won the 20
mile auto event at Daytona Beach I
Fla. covering the course in 10 minutes.
9. Sporting: Cambridge defeated Oxford
in the annual eight cared rowing race
at Putney. England.
. Strike: State wide sympathy strike to
aid the Philadelphia car men declared I
off by the PENNSYLVANIA labor unions
3. Warship Disaster: s 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 %. (
g Political: State Senator lothian P. /.
Aids declared guilty of bribe taking
by a vote of his colleagues. 70 to O. at /
Albany. y. y.
Obituary: Alexander Agassiz. natural !
list son OF the celebrated Louis Agas-
siz Of Harvard university, at sea; aged /
70
aged So
Railroad Accident: % killed and so seri-
ousiy injured in a collision at Hulheim,
Germany.
APRIL.
I. Obituary: Robert ". Patterson. pres
ident Of the Chicago Tribune company, !
in Philadelphia: aged GO.
3. Airship Disaster: German balloon
Pommern wrecked in flight near Stet-
tin and lost with three passengers in
the Baltic sea.
,. Obituary: Prof William Graham Sum
nc-, social scientist OF Yale at En-
g!ewoOd, y. j. aged 20.
;. Personal: Col Duncan 3. Cooper, one
Of the convicted muTGerePs of Senator
+. ". CarmaCk. pardOued by Cover
nor Patterson of Tennessee.
l. Earthquake: Costa Rica 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 iorGS carried in the house of COM
mons by 1913 ma jOrity.
Labor: The steel trust increased the
wages of about 2250j0 employees over
; per cent
Convention: National Suffrage assoc'-
alton met in Washington.
. Obituary: IgnacIo Marshal, Mexico's
chief diplomat at Mexico City.
Airship Disaster: German balloon /
Deutsch struck by lightning during an
ascension near EisenaCh and wrecked,
killing four passengers.
Conventions: Annual congress Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution met
a Washington.
Labor: Philadelphia car mems strike
ended with some advantage to the
strikers.
Obituary: Samuel Langhorne Glenn
ems mark Twain). the author, at Red
ding, Conn; aged 10.
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.
Personal: Governor Charles z. 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
nd +-in in pa III
Political: Dedication OF the Hall OF
American Republics in Washington.
Aviation: Louis PaUlhan. French avi-
ator, won the London Daily Mail $780,
COO prize by flying from London to
Manchester, 1s5 miles, in 80 minutes
actual time.
Political: The British house of lords
passed the notorious Liberal budget
bill.
obituary: Gen. E. P. Alexander, noted
Confederate veteran and writer on the
civil war at Savannah. Ga: aged 20.
convention: Annual meeting of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans at Mobile,
Ala.