Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-05

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Fremont. U. s. A, THE Pathfnder) at
Boston; aged Sc.
H. Mexico: 30 fedcrlls and Z municipal
guards Killed in battle with rebels near
Artega
l3. Judicial: United States supreme court
affirmed constitutionality of the corpo-
ration tax.
is. Disaster: IS killed under falling walls
in Nashville Tenn.
Obituary: w. d. Bloxham, ex-governor
of Florida, at Tallahassee; aged 76.
Frank Work. capitalist, famous lover
of horses. who never entered an auto
mobile. in New York city; aged 80.
Aviation: First aero war message deliv
cred at San Antonio, Tex, by Lieut..
Ben d. Foulois. u. S. A, who flew 81
miles in As minutes.
II. Mexico: Insurrectos' Decree No 49,
guaranteed protection to lives and in
terests of foreigners then in Mexico
and reimbursements for losses las
soon as the triumph of the provisional
government will have become recog
nized by the capture of Mexico City"
Is. Personal: Col. Roosevelt opened great
Arizona dam bearing his name.
10. Obituary: Ernest Crofts. r. A., noted
painter and keeper of Royal academy,
London: aged Ga
Sporting: Teddy Tetzlaff in Lozier car
established four worlds records at
Los Angeles, beating Ralph de Palma,
driving a Fiat; 100 mile race finished in
hour II minutes 20 is seconds.
q. Battleship Texas. of Santiago bay
fame. sunk by high explosive projec-
tiles in test.
Fire: At Benton, Pa, loss 100000 by
the burning of a distilling plant.
%. Obituary: Col. Charles Pereg Lincoln.
cousin OF Abraham Lincoln and long
connected with federal diplomatic and
departmental services. at Eel Reno,
Okla.
Fire: Leavenworth county (Kan) court
house; loss 81 900. 600.
%. Aviation; Louis Breguet carried IL pas
sengers two miles in monoplane in
France. breaking record to date.
"a. Aviation Roger Sommer. French BIZ
pianist, broke Breguets "aerobus" rec
ord; carried u passengers.
Shipwreck: British Columbia steamer
sunk in gale off Vancouver island; %
lost.
%. Fire Horror: 1i6 lost lives in fire at
23-29 Washington place, New York.
Railroad Accident Atlantic Coast line
Dixie Filler wrecked near Ocilla Ga. !;
8 killed
Fire Nearly 100000 loss in Minneapo-
lis
&c. Obituary: Brig. Gen. Ira ]. Bloomfield.
civil war hero, at Muntevista, Colo {;
veteran of the civil and Spanish-Amer
lean wars, at Glen Springs, N. Y;
aged 75
q. Cyclone: Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey swept by devastating windstorm
extending to North Carolna St. Law
renee, Pa practically destroyed.
2S Aviation: Lieut.. Erler, with passenger,
flew in bplane from near Berlin to
Hamburg, $40 miles, in hours 80 min
Sporting: c. M. Daniels set new world s
swimming record, 22G for 200 meters
in tank at Pittsburg.
20. Fire: 100000 loss at capitol building,
Albany, n. Y.
Obituary Sir Casper Purdon Clarke,
former director of Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art New York, in London
aged Is.
80. Sporting: Bob Burman drove autocar
20 miles in 13 minutes 1872 seconds
(9l06 miles an hour, a record at Pablo
Beach. Fla.
81. Political: James Aloysius O'Gorman.
supreme court justice, elected senator
from New York.
Sporting: Louis Disbrow at Pablo Beach,
Fla made world auto marks 80 miles
81 minutes 1880 seconds 200 miles.
hours 81 minutes Il seconds; 80 miles
Ono previous time for this straight
away recorded. hours II minutes 81
seconds.
Obituary: otto Ringing, circus man, in
New York city; aged 81
APRIL.
l. Obituary: Martin Grief, lyric poet of
modern Germany, at Kufstein, Austria
Hungary; aged -
Sporting: oxford won GSth annual boat
race from Cambridge, breaking oxford
Cambridge regatta records
a. Personals: Carter II. Harrison elected
mayor of Chicago for fifth time.
Political: ed congress convened: Champ
Clark speaker. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
commercial treaty ratified
Z. Mine Disaster: g. men and boys per-
ished in the Pancoast mine at Throop
Pa; FPS lives lost in the Banner mines
Alabama.
TO- Shipwreck: Steamer Iroquois founder
ed off Coal island, British Columbia; D
lives lost.
Obituary: Tom L. Johnson. former may
or of Cleveland o.. noted for his fight
for cent railroad fares, in Cleveland
aged 81.
r. Sporting: National and American
league baseball season opened
g. Cyclone: Missouri. Kansas, Arkansas
and Oklahoma stormswept; 40 killed
over 300 injured; loss in St. Louis over
100000.
Obituary: William Keith, landscap,
painter, at Berkeley, Cal: aged -
A. Obituary: Denman Thompson, the ac
tor, at West Swanzey, n. H.. aged IS
George Cary Eggleston, author, in New
York city; aged n.
Personal: President accepted resignation
of DR., David Jayne Hin. ambassador
to Germany.
IS. Mexico: The 9Th United States cavalry
ordered by president to protect Amer
leans along Mexican border.
Sporting: +. krimmel won national gym
nastic championship, 1910 points, il
New York. William Queal ran 10 mile
in 81 minutes So 2-5 seconds in New
York; new worlds indoor record.
l6. Mexico: Rebels repulsed federals striv
ing to recapture Aqua Prieta. Bullet
wounded Americans in Douglas, Ar2
IT. Convention: National Society o
Daughters of the American Revolution
in Washington.
Shipwreck: Spanish steamer San Fer
nand sank off Finnisterre. Spain; 2
drowned.
q. Personal: Mrs. Matthew T. Scott o
Illinois elected president general o
National ID. A. X.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Richard Inch