The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28

the German balloon Berlin H., won
the Bennett trophy by covering l6s
miles. Kansas City to Ladysmith, Wis.,
g. Obituary: Gen Charette OF the French
army, former Papal zouave and noted
in the Franco Prussian war. at Nantes,
France: aged 49, Hesba Stretton. Eng
lish novelist in London. aged 20.
10. Convent,on: Society Of the Army OF
the Tennessee met at Council Bluffs, Ia.
II. Political: Anti-Manchu revolt broke
out in China.
Aviation: c. +. Rodgers, who left New
York Sept. IS to fly to the Pacific,
reached Kansas city. having covered
1iS3 miles cross country record.
~. Sporting: De ORC won the three cush-
ion carrom championship. beating
John Daily, In New York. final score
$50 to li6
Convention: National farmers congress
met at Columbus. o. First session OF
the American Indian association at CO.
lumbus, o.
Anniversary: 200th anniversary OF the
birth of DR.. Henry NJ. Muhlenberg.
German American church pioneer. cell
ebrated at Allentown.
49, Personal. The Duke of Connaught in
stalled as governor general OF Canada
at Quebec.
H. Obituary: Associate Justice John NJ.
Harlan of the United States supreme
court died I'm Washington: aged IS.
Is. Railroad Accidents killed In head
on collision on the Missouri Pacific rail-
road near Fort Crook, Neb
H. Obituary: II. X. Munlkittrick. humor-
Gus poet. in Stamford. Conn: aged So
49, Convention: The Military Order OF the
loyal Legion met In Philadelphia.
49, Convention: National Woman's Suf-
frage association met in Louisville.
Aviation Disaster: Eugene B. Ely, noted
airman. killed at Macon. Ga.
a. Obituary: Ida Lewis Wilson. lighthouse
nf n /
2 China: The national assembly de-
manded reforms by the imperial gov
ernment.
26 Sporting: Philadelphia Athletics Amer
ican league) won the worlds baseball
championship by defeating New York
(National league) at Philadelphia;
score 10 to ..
a. Rear Admiral J. H. Sands, Y. s. N,
retired. civil war veteran In WASH
ington: aged 66.
g. Obituary: Joseph Pulitzer. proprietor
OF the New York World. at Charleston,
S. c.: aged g.
Sporting: Matt McGrath threw the ham
mer iS7 feet inches in New York.
breaking John Flanagan's record by
feet.
30 China The throne yielded to the ma
tional assemblys demand for constitu-
tional government.
NOVEMBER.
l. Personal: President Taft arrived In
Washington at the close OF his western
trip.
Shipwreck French steamer Diolobah
wrecked off Canary islands; "a drown
ed
2 Obituary: Kyrle Bellew. the actor. at
Salt Lake City; aged So.
Naval Review: Fleet OF over 100 battle
ships. cruisers and auxiliary vessels
reviewed by President Taft at New
York
l. Football: Princeton defeated Harvard,
s to 6. at Princeton. Minnesota de-
feated Chicago 30 to o. at Chicago
Carlisle Indians beat Pennsylvania, 16
to o. at Philadelphia Syracuse and
Michigan tied, s TO 6, at Ann Arbor.
5. Aviation: c. F. Rodgers, the aviator.
landed at Pasadena, Cal. making
worlds record of 1920 miles; he left
New York city Sept. II on the Atlantic
to Pacific prize flight.
6 Political: Madero was inaugurated
president OF Mexico.
8. Political: Hon. A. ]. Balfour resigned
as leader of the British Conservatives.
Obituary: W. Clark Russell, author OF
sea stories. In London; aged g.
o. Howard Pyle. artist and author In
Florence. Italy: aged 5S.
II. Cyclone: Wisconsin and Illinois swept
by an electric and wind storm; II dead
In Rock county, wis.
Football: Carlisle Indians beat Harvard.
IS to 15 at Cambridge. Michigan lost
TO Cornell. to o. at Ithaca.
~. Cold Wave: The temperature fell rap
idly from the Rockies to the Atlantic
coast
Obituary: John l.. Carncross, noted old
I time minstrel. in Philadelphia; aged n.
10. Convention: American Federation of
Labor at Atlanta.
16 Fire. At ogden, Utah the Eccles
building wrecked; loss s750.O00.
China: Yuan Shih Kai assumed the reins
as premier.
/ Convention: National Good Roads asso-
! citation in Chicago.
16 Shipwreck Norwegian ship Antigua
wrecked at the mouth of the St. Law
renee: 10 sailors lost
l8 Naval: England launched her 21st
Dreadnought the Centurion.
Shipwreck: Russian steamer Hermann
Lerche In the North sea; 26 drowned.
Mining Disasters 10 operatives md sur
veyors killed In an explosion In the
Bottom Creek mine at Vivian. w. Va.
Football: Princeton. 6; Yale. 3. at New
Haven. Harvard. 8; Dartmouth. 8. at
Cambridge. Chicago. 6: Cornell, 0. at
Chicago. Michigan, H. Pennsylvania,
Q. at Ann Arbor. Minnesota. 6; WIS.,
consin. 6, at Madison.
10. Wireless Telegraphy wireless mes-
sage was transmitted from Coltano.
Italy. to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1000
miles.
20. Convention: American good roads con-
gress In Richmond, Va.
%. Railroad Accident: Train on the state
railway plunged into the river Thouet
at Montreuil- -Bellay. France; about 100
passengers killed or seriously injured.
a. Obituary: Marquis Jutaro Komura,
japanese statesman and diplomat. In
Tokyo; aged sc.
Is. Football: Yale and Harvard tied at
Cambridge. to 0. Navy beat Army, 3
to o. at Philadelphia. Minnesota de-
feated Illinois, II to 0, at Champaign.
Ill. Chicago beat Wisconsin. TO 0. at
Chicago.
30. Footballs Pennsylvania outplayed Cor
nell p TO o. at Philadelphia. Carlisle
Indians defeated Brown. ~ to g. at
Providence
DECEMBER.
!. Obituary. Charles S. Francis. Journals
list and diplomat, in Troy, N. Y; aged
6S.
Persia: Russia ordered an army advance
upon Teheran
L. Persia: The national council appealed
to the United States for aid against