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

Americana. drowned by tie swampins
OF rowboat on Lake Killarney.
Mining Accident: Gas explosion caused
the death of II miners at Wehrum.
Pa.
n Obituary: Sarah Orne Jewett, writer
of stories depicting New England life.
at South Berwick. Me-: aged go.
Sporting: FItzherbert won-th Suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay. New
York
Fire: Fort william Henry hotel. noted
hosiery on Lake George. destroyed:
loss about $250.000.
n. Sporting: Verdun, Rothschild owner.
won the Grand Prix over the Long
champs course. near Paris.
o. Convention: American Library associ-
s.tion met at Breton Woods, N. Fl.
30 Obituary: Carrie Burnham Kilgore.
pioneer woman lawyer. at Swarth-
more. Pa; aged Y.
JULY.
L Earthquake; Severe shocks at Reggie
and Messina, scene of the devastation
last December.
Convention: 41st annual meeting of tbs
National Woman Suffrage association
opened at Seattle.
Sporting: Harvard won the varsity race
over Yale at New London.
z Sporting: Cornell won the varsity
eight cared race at Poughkeepsie.
g. Champlain Celebration: Ceremonies in
honor of the discovery of Lake Cham
plain in 1909 began on the Vermont
shores of the lake.
G. Convention: The American Institute
of Instruction met at Castine. Me.
Sporting: The champion polo cup. which
has been held in England % years.
won back by the Meadowbrook IN. Y,
team.
T. Flood: High water swept down the
Missouri valley, causing the loss of II
lives and great damage to property.
Conventions: Anti-vivisections congress
opened in London. International con-
vention of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety met in st. Paul. The Epworth
league met at Seattle.
O. Political: The senate passed its amend
ed tariff bill by a vote of IS to "a.
Sporting: The Belgian crew won the
Grand Challenge cup at Henley, Eng
land. defeating the Cambridge crew.
.. Political: Riotous Bolivians attacked
the Argentine legation at La Paz in
protest against Argentina's decision in
the Peruvian boundary dispute.
Obituary: Gen. GaIlifet. distinguished
French soldier, in Paris; aged 49,
Lord Ripon, noted English statesman.
in London: aged 81.
II. Obituary: Prof Simon Newcomb, noted
astronomer. mathematician and trav-
eler in Washington: aged IA.
Convention: Grand lodge of the Order
of Elks met in Los Angeles.
y. Shipwreck: In Lake Superior, OFF
Whitefish Point light. steamers. ]. B.
Cowle and l. M Scott collided caus-
ing the death of IA sailors the
Cowle. which sank.
u. Obituary: Frederick PhiSterer, civil
war veteran and noted military writer
and statistician, at Albany. N. T.;
aged 73 Louis Loeb, American artist
and illustrator. at Canterbury. N. H:
aged 43.
II. Personal: Prince Won Bulow, chancel-
lor of the German empire, retired from
office. succeeded by DR.. Won Beth
mann-Hollweg.
Marine Disaster: British submarine c IL
sunk in collision with the steamship
Eddystone off Haisborough lightship;
Is of the crew drowned.
Political: Royal troops of Persia defeat
ed by the Nationalist at Teheran.
Sporting: Weston arrived in San Fran
cisco. having accomplished total dis
tance of S.S95 miles in about los days.
beginning at New York March Is.
Is. Earthquake: In southern Greece 300
lives lost.
throne of Spain. died at Varese, Lom-
hardy; aged 81
Storm: In New York city is persons
killed and over 20 injured by sudden
windstorIns.
20. Obituary: Rosa Nouchette Cary, popu-
lar English novelist, in London.
q. Hurricane: Il persons killed in a gulf
storm which struck the Texas coast
at Galveston and vicinity.
Political: Diplomatic relations severed
between Bolivia and the Argentine Re-
public upon the initiation of Argen-
tina
Is. Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor cambridge,
daughter of President Zachary Taylor
and mistress of the White House dur
ing his term. at Winchester. Va: aged
Aeronautics: Louis Bleriot French aero
naut. crossed over the English channel
from Calais to Dover in an aeroplane,
covering the distance of q miles in
about 40 minutes.
z6. Political; Anti-Diaz riot at Guadala-
jara, Mexico, resulting in wrecking the
town. Anti-hIoroccan war riot in Bar
celona.
aeroplane record by remaining in flight
1 hour. II minutes and SO seconds with
one passenger at Fort Myer.
Is. Convention: World conference OF the
Y. M C. A. at Barmen- Elberfeld. Ger
many.
80. Earthquake: Acapulco and Chilpan-
cingo, Mexico, badly shaken and dam
aged.
Aeronautics: Orville Wright made the
speed required by the government for
army aeroplanes at Fort Myer. flying
an average of 42.5 miles an hour in a
10 mile flight.
81. Fire: 10000 houses destroyed in Osaka.
Japan.
Earthquake: Mexico City badly shaken.
Miscellaneous: The Chinese vice consul,
Lock Wing, shot dead in New York by
Chinaman. 200 rioters summary
tried. convicted and shot at Barcelona.
Spain
AUGUST.
2 Personal: The Russian Emperor Mich
olas received a guest by King Ed
ward of England at Cowes.
s. Political: Congress adjourned. The
Payne tariff bill finally passed by the
senate.
6. Aeronautics: Paulhan, French aviator.
made new height record for aero
planes. varying from 200 to $50 feet. at
Douai. France
Tennyson Centenary: The Tooth anniver-
sary of the birth of Alfred Tennyson
celebrated.
T. Aeronautics: Roger Sommer of France
beat Wilbur Wright's duration record
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