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

visiting division or the German navy
to American waters at Fort Monroe,
Va.
Convention: American Medical associ-
alton met at Atlantic City.
Obituary: Eliza Archard Conner, social
reformer and writer. in New York city;
aged r.
s. Sporting: Tagalie won the English
Derby at EPSON
O. Sporting: Mark s. Wright cleared 10
feet 2h inches in pole vault at Cam
bridge. Oswald Kirkby defeated Je-
rome d. Travers at Atlantic City for
the New Jersey golf championship.
Ship Disaster: French submarine war
ship Vendemaire sunk Ia collition with
the battlcship Saint Louis of Cher
burg peninsula; crew OF % drowned.
D. Obituary: Rear Admiral BENJAMIN PEI
fer Lamberton. U. S. N, retired. who
received the surrender of the Spanish
fleet at Manila bay, in Washington.
10. Obituary: Lottie ellison, actress known
for years as the Little Magnet" In
New York city; aged Al.
Is. Storm: Tornadoes swept over Missouri
and Ohio; loss OF lives, 30 or more.
IS. Mining Accident: - men killed by ex-
plosIon in the Victor American Fuel
company mines at Trinidad, Colo.
Political: Republican national conven-
ton met in Chicago.
10. Aviation Disaster Capt. Dubois and
Lieut. Albert Peignan. officers in the
French army, killed when their BIZ
planes collided in midair at Douai.
France.
20. Obituary: Edward Stuyvesant Bragg.
noted civil war veteran who command
ed the famous Iron brigade. at Fond
du Lac; aged S.
n. Harvard won the varsity eight row.
ing race. defeating Yale at New Lon
don.
q. Political President W. H. Taft and
Vice President Sherman renominated
F.. at Chicago ..r
q. Accident: 40 people killed by the col
lapse Of a decayed dock at Eagle park.
Grand island, Niagara river.
"a. Obituary: Field Marshal Sir George
Stuart White. defender of Ladysmith
in the Boer war; at London: aged n.
Storm: Nearly the entire city of Guiana
1uato. Mexico. destroyed and about
1000 lives lost as the result Of cloud
burst. .... .. .. s..
g. Sporting: Edwin Ray won the British
open golf championship at Muirfeld.
England. ... .. III
Obituary: Sir Laurence Alma Tadema,
the famous English artist. at Wiesba-
den. Germany; aged rs.
Political: Democratic national conven-
ton met at Baltimore
Convention: General Federation of Wo-
mans Clubs met at San Francisco.
.. Sporting: American marksmen won in
the international shooting competition
at the Olympic games In Stockholm;
grand aggregate score Of 1.6S8 Cornell
won all three boat racing events at
Poughkeepsie-varsity eight cared race
Z miles. time. 10 minutes q rs seconds:
varsity four Dared race. q miles, time,
10 minutes "a l-5 seconds; freshman
eight Dared race. miles. time. min
y utes 81 rs seconds "
D. Storm Disaster; Regina. the wheat
city" Of Saskatchewan province. al
most entirely ruined by a cyclone: 80
to 20 deaths: property loss estimated
at 81, 100000 ... ....r
. JULY ...-
Sporting Miss May Sutton won the
clay court tennis championship OF the
United States by defeating Miss Mary
Brown at Pittsburgh
Aviation Disaster: Miss Harriet Quimby
the first woman 10 cross the English
channel in an aeroplane. killed in flight
at Boston.
Aviation Disaster: The great dirigible
balloon Akron exploded In flight at At
iantic City. N. j.. killing aeronauts
including Melvin Vaniman. her pilot
Personal: The cornerstone Of the Pulitzer
school OF journalism laid in New York
Political: Woodrow Wilson nominated