Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-12-26

for president by the Democratic con.
vention at Baltimore
Fire: Fire in the business district Of
North Adams. Mass. caused loss OF
100000
8 Obituary: Gen. Robert Frederick Hoke,
distinguished Confederate veteran, at
Raleigh, n. c.: aged 15
Political: Governor Thomas r. Marshall
nominated for vice president by the
Democratic convention at Baltimore.
l. Railroad Accident: IL killed and many
injured on the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna railroad in a rear end collision
at Gibson's Narrows, N. Y.
Sporting: AID Wolgast declared winner
in IL round contest for the light
weight championship. defeating Joe
Rivers at Los Angeles, Cal. Jack
Johnson defeated Jim Flynn in the
ninth round for the heavyweight cham
pionship at East Las Vegas. N. NJ.
8. Anniversary: The memorial lighthouse
to commemorate the tercentenary Of
Champlain's discovery of the lake
which bears his name was unveiled at
Crown Point n. Y.
Railroad Accident: q killed an5 80 in
Jured in an accident on the Ligonier
Valley railroad at Wilpen, Pa.
6. Sporting: Formal opening of the Olym-
pic games at Stockholm.
2. Sporting: Jim Thorpe Of Carlisle Pa,
won the pentathlon in the Olympic
games at Stockholm.
g. Obituary: Robert Wiedemann Barrett
Browning. only son of the English
poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, at Asolo. Italy:
aged 63.
Convention: 5Oth annual convention of
the National Education association
met at Chicago.
g. Fire: Thousand Island park swept by
fire: loss 100000.
Convention: The North American Es-
peranto congress met in Boston.
Mine Disaster: 81 lives lost in a mine ex-
plosion at Conisboro, Yorkshire, Eng
land.
10. Political: The national Prohibition con
vention met at Atlantic City, N. ].
IL Sporting: Ted Meredith (American)
won the 400 meter race In the Olympic
games, making new worlds record:
time IS seconds. .' .....
ID. Obituary: Gen. II. NJ. Dufield, veteran
Of the civil and Spanish-American
wars. at Detroit. VS.. ...r. ..
Political: BY vote Of IS to % the Unit
ed States senate declared that William
Lorimer of Illinois had not been duly
elected to that body. a.. ... .....- .a-
H. Railroad Accident: 16 killed in q COLI
sion on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad at Western Springs.
Ill.
H. Sporting: K. K. Macarthur of South
Africa won the Olympic Marathon al
Stockholm.
Is. Sporting: America won the track and
field meet at Stockholm with Us points
to Sweden's 104 and England's g.
Thorpe. the Indian, won the decathlon
rs Storm: A cloudburst at Denver caused
100000 damage. E.. rsr .r.rE
II. Obituary: Henri Poincare. the world
famous mathematician. In Paris; aged
IS. .......
10. italian War: Italian torpedo boats
tried to run the Dardanelles and were
driven back by the fire of Turkish
forts
Storm: The mining towns Of Mazuma
and Seventroughs, New, were nearly
wiped out by a cloudburst; many per-
sons killed.
10 Fire: A 100000 fire in Vancouver
b. G.
Obituary: Andrew Lang English poet,
critic and novelist. at Banchory, Scot
land; aged 6S. .... ..
q Sporting: Olympic games ended. Swe-
den won with total OF 133 points:
United States. 129; England, 70. United
States led In firsts with Is Sweden
second with %.
a. Fire: A 100000 oil fire at Marcus Hook.
Pa.
Obituary: Fannie Denham Rouse, prob