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

80 AetOntutlCS. huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas City in an elimination
race for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held in Germany.
70, AerOnautics: The balloon Uncle Sam,
which left Kansas City on the 9th,
landed at Manassas, Va, having trav-
eled 925 miles. beating competitors in
the Bennett elimination race.
q. Sporting: Ernest Barry. the English
champion sculler. defeated Richard
Arnst Of Australia on the Thames
course for the sculing championship
of the world
so. Obituary: Mutsuhito, emperor of ia
pan. at Tokyo: aged 60. Succeeded by
his son YoshihitoD
AUGUST.
2 Political: The United States senate
varied foreign nations against acuuir-
Ing naval military sites near United
States possessions.
8. Storm: Snow fell in Pennsylvania.
l. Sporting: Arthur Chappe drove a mo-
torcycle a mile in 50 4-j seconds at
Brighton Beach, beating his own rec
ord OF July "a
s. Political: National convention of the
Progressive party met at Chicago.
& Political: The sultan Of Turkey dis
solved parliament: Young Turks lead
ers removed
Political: Theodore Roosevelt and Hi
ram Johnson nominated by the Pro-
gressive national convention at Chica-
go.
O. Accident: Explosion In the national
palace of Haiti at Port au Prince kill
ed President Leconte, and 400 others
were killed or wounded.
Earthquake: An earthquake in Turkey
destroyed 1900 lives; Adrianople and
Gallipoli suffered severely
10. Army: United States army maneuvers
began In Connecticut.
IL Political: Mulai Hahd, the sultan of
Morocco, abdicated the throne Mulai
Youssef was proclaimed sultan.
Convention: The International Typo
graphical union met at Cleveland, o.
lS Obituary: Massenet, French composer
OF opera music at Paris; aged TO- DR..
Horace Howard Furness. noted Shake
spearean scholar, at Wallingford, Pa /;
aged 49,
IT, Obituary: Gen. E. v. Summer. u. s. A.,
retired veteran of the civil war and
also the Spanish American war, at San
Francisco; aged II.
Army: War game for the control Of New
York city ended at Newtown, Conn.
10. Storm: A cloudburst centering at Niles,
Mich, caused damage of 100000.
Nicaragua: Nicaragua rebels massacred
were among the victims
20. Obituary: Johann NJ. Schleyer invent
or Of the artificial language known as
Nolapuk, at Constance, Switzerland;
aged "A. Rev. William Booth, founder
and general of the Salvation Army, in
London aged SO.
d. Personal: Bramwell Booth succeeded
the late William Booth as general of
the Salvation Army.
Do
the Panama canal bill regulating the
canal tolls.
Is. Political: Second regular session of the
cd congress closed
20. Storm Disaster: Typhoon in Chekiang
province, China, caused a loss OF so 900
to 10000 lives
SEPTEMBER.
l. Obituary: Mai A. r. Calhoun. civil
war veteran, journalist and author, In
Brooklyn; aged 6S. Samuel Coleridge-
Taylor, colored music composer, In
London; aged 81. ....
Storms: killed and % hurt by a cloud
burst which struck a Northwestern
passenger train near Green Bay. Wis.
A death roll of so and property loss
Of 100000 resulted from a storm and
cloudburst I'm the Panhandle district of
T. Fire: Fire in Ocean Park. q resort near
Los Angeles. CAL. caused damage Of
over 100000. r...
s. Obituary: Lieut.. Gen. Arthur MacAr-
thur, U. s. A.. retired at Milwaukee;
aged CT. ..-..... LII ...
T. Sporting: Jerome Travers won the am
ateur golf championship OF the United
States, defeating Charles Evans. Jr.,
at Wheaton, Ill. in final round.
O. Political: Maine went Republican.
Convention: The Spanish-American war
veterans were in session at Atlantic
City. N. j. ' Aa a..sE on.
ed United States soil In pursuit of In
. surgents by marching through Arizona
with the consent OF the government.
Convention: The American Bankers as
ISOLATION met in Detroit. gaTg Eg.
IL Convention: The national encampment
OF the G. A. r. met at Los Angeles.
Cal. Eucharistic congress opened in
Vienna. 'f a.F m.ff.-...s...., r.
H. PERSONAL: Judge Alfred B. Beers OF
Connecticut elected commander in chief
Of the G. A. r. at Los Angeles. Gen.
Count Marosuke Nogi. the japanese
hero of Port Arthur. and his wife kill
ed themselves at Tokyo because Of the
death of the emperor. .s.....
IS Obituary: Ex-senator fernando De
Soto Money. at Gulfport. Miss; aged 70.
Sporting: The Chicago Americans de-
feated Philadelphia at Chicago. in
surfing the league pennant to the Bos-
ton Red Sox for the worlds series.
a. Storm: A typhoon In japan caused a
loss of $40, 100000
e. Convention: The international peace
congress opened at Geneva.
a. Obituary: Baron Marschall Won Bic
haratafp M dtplnr,at ~
Berlin; aged 70.
Is Anniversary: The 5oth anniversary of
the meeting OF IA governors on the 18th
of September, 1862. at Altoona, Pa, was
celebrated In that city.
o. Nicaragua: Gen. Mena, the Nicaragua
revolutionist, surrendered with all his
army to United States and Nicaraguan