Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-12-27
Nor.h Adams. Mos. eaussd : - &

s distinguished 2Coneederate veteran. 81
Raleigh. N. c.: aEed Is
Political: Governoe SAeaAs r. Marshall
nominated Tor ~ president BY TIA
Democratic co0voation al Baltimore. X
| q Railroad Accident: II killed and many
wanna railroad III q rear end collision
at Gihsons iNarrows, M =.
Sporting: Ad Wolgast declared winner
In q II round contest Tor the light.
weight championship. defeating Joe
Rivssv at Log Angeles, 7Calr Jack
johnson defeated Jim Flynn In the
ninth round for the heavyweight cham.
ptonship at East Las Vegas. N. M.
Anniversary: The memorial lighthouse
g commemorate the tercentenary Of
Chanaplatn's discovery Of the lake
which bsaS1 his name was unveiled al
Crown Point. N. Y.
IL Railroad Accident: killed an3 80 In.
yured In an accident on the Ltgon!el
Valley railroad at Wilpen. Pa.
- Sporting: Formal opening Of the Olym-
pic games at Stockholm.
Sporting: Jim Thorpe Of Carlisle, Pa,
n won the pentathlon in the Olympic
games at Stockholm.
Obituary: Robert Wiedeinann Barrett
Browning. only son Of the English
poets Robert Browning and Elizab beth
Barrett Browning. at Asolo, Italy;
aged s.
Conventions: Goth annual convention of
the National Education association
met at Chicago.
O. Fire: Thousand fsland par1k swept by
fire: loss 100000.
Conventions: The North American Es-
peranto congress met In Boston.
Mine Disaster: 81 lives lest In mine ex-
plosion al Conisboro. Yorkshire, Dng-
land.
+
u Political: The national Prohibition con-
vention met at Atlantic City, N. J.
u Sporting: Ted Meredith (American)
won the 400 meter race In the Olympic
games. making new worlds record :
time IS seconds
u Obituary: Gen. H. Nj. Duffield, veteran
Of the civil and Spanish American
wars. at Detroit.
Political: BY vote of IS to % the Unit
ed States senate declared that William
Lortnler Of Illinois had not been duly
elected to that body.
IL Railroad Accident: 16 killed In COLI
sion on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad at Western Springs.
Ill. E
IL. Sporting: X. X. Macarthur Of South
Africa won the Olympic Marathon at
Stockholm.
o. Sporting: America won the track and
field meet At Stockholm with 1eS points
to Sweden's lo4 and England's C.
Thorpe. tho Indian. won the decathlon
u. Storm: A cloudburst at Denver caused
100000, damage
famous mathe,na tician. In Paris: aged
ID italian War: Italian torpedo boats
tried to run the Dardaneiles and were
driven back by the fire OF Turkish
forts.
Storm: The mining towns Of Mazuma
and ISeventroughs. New, were nearly
wiped out by cloudburst; many per-
sons killed.
- Fire: a 100000 fire in Vancouver,
BIC.
Obituary: Andrew Lang. English poet,
critic and novelist. at Banchory. Scot
land: aged 6S.
a Sporting: Olympic games ended. swe-
den won with total Of 1873 points:
United 0eAtes, 12s; England, 7s. United
States ~ In frsts with 81: Sweden
second with g.
y Fires A 100000 oil fire at Marcus Hook,
Obituary: Fannie Denham Rouse. prob.
ably the oldest actress In America, 1t
g Ohiovilies N; Z; aged q.
!; Convention: The nrst International ca.
genics congress met In London: ..-= -
Sporting: ArthlasI Cts&pple ran motor
SSCAef WHe q - 1-o SECONDS ana "
miles In q minutes So rs seconds, both
records. at Brighton Beach. N. Y.
- storm: A cloudburst caused damage In
southwest Pennsylvania: mines food
60 and wide area inundated: many
Deaths /.
q. Aeronautics: huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas City in an elimination
race for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held In Germany.
~ Aorona uttcu Tho hoJ FTeoln Gel
which left Kansas City on the 9th,
landed at Manassas. Va. having trav-
eled 925 miles. beating competitors in
the Bennett elimination race.
y. Sporting: Ernest Barry. the English
champion scullers defeated; Richard
Arnst Of Australia on the Thames
course for the sculing championship
Of the world: !.
y. Obituary: Mutsuhito. emperor Of ia
pan. at Tokyo; aged 60. (succeeded by
his son Yoshihite.)
AUGUST.
Z Political: The United States senate
warned foreign nations against acquir-
Ing naval military sites near United
States possessions.
Z Storm: Snow fell In Pennsylvania.
l. Sporting: Arthur Chapple drove q mo-
torcycle a. mile in 1916 seconds at
Brighton Beach. beating his own rec
ord of July "a.
& 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 JoA1son nominated by the Pro-
Gressive national convention at ChicA-
20. ..t.&
Z Aossdent: Explosion In the national
palace Of IIaiu 1t Port au Prince kill
Cd President Leconte, and 100 others
were killed or wounded. I. ,.fs.i
DerthQuAke: An earthquake IN Turkey,
destroyed 5000 lives: Adrianople and
a 0allip0N suffered severely. ~
~ Army: United States army maneuvers
began In Connecticut.
u Political: Aulai HRhd, Is! the sultan Of
Morocco abdicated the throne; Mulai
Youssef was proclaimed sultan
Convention: The International Typo
graphical union met Cleveland, o..
n Obituary: Aassenet. French composer
Of opera music; at Paris: aged TO- DR..
Horace Howard Furness. noted Shake
spea rean scholar. 1t Wallingford Pa;
aged D. sss2lS % z Fq,t
q. Obituary: Gen. z. ". Sumner. u. Q. A.,
retired veteran Of the civil war ana
also the Standardization war, at Ban
Francisco: aged H.
Army: War game for the control OF New
York city ended at Newtown, Conn
r.. Storm: "A cfOudhnrat cents r.&n1 AZ NI1Vaa