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


miles. Kansas City to Ladysmith, wis.
g. Obituary: Cen Charette OF the French
army, former Papal Zouave and noted
In the Franco-P russian war, at Nantes,
France; aged 49, Hesba Stretton, Eng
fish novelist. in London; aged 20.
TO- Convention: Society of the Army OF
the Tennessee met at Council Bluffs, Ia.
H. Political: Anti-Manchu revolt broke
out in China
Aviation: c. +. Rodgers, who left New
York Sept. Is to fly to the Pacific,
reached Kansas City, having covered
1,4s3 miles, a cross country record.
II. Sporting: De ORC won the three cush-
ion carrom championship, beating
John DAILY, in New York; final score
$50 to 146
Convention: National farmers congress
met at Columbus o. First session OF
the American Indian association at Co.
lumbus, O.
birth Of DIR. Henry NJ N-uhlenberg.
German American church pioneer, cell
ebrated at Allentown.
i3. Personal. The Duke OF Connaught in
stalled as governor general of Canada
at Quebec.
IA. Obituary: Associate Justice John M.
Harlan of the United States supreme
court died in Washington; aged 49,
Is. Railroad Accident: killed in a head
on collision on the Missouri Pacific rail-
road near Fort Crook, Neb.
IT, Obituary; r. X. Munkttrick humor-
Gus poet, in Stamford Conn; aged So
Is. Convention: The Military Order of the
Loyal Legion met in Philadelphia.
10. Convention: National Womans Suf-
frage association met in Louisville.
Aviation Disaster Eugene b. Ely, noted
arman, killed at Macon, Ga.
"a. Obituary: Ida Lewis Wilson, lighthouse
heroine, at Newport, r. l. aged 70.
% China The national assembly de-
manded reforms by the imperial gov
eminent.
&C. Sporting: Philadelphia Athletics (Amer-
lean league won the worlds baseball
championship by defeating New York
National lcague) at Philadelphia;
score IS to .
o. Rear Admiral j. II. Sands, U. 8 N,
retired a civil war veteran, in Wash
ington; aged c.
29 Obituary: Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor
of the New York World at Charleston,
S. c.; aged GA.
Sporting: Matt McGrath threw the ham,
mer 1s7 feet inches in New York
breaking John Flanagan's record by
feet
30. China; The throne yielded to the ma
tional assembly's demand for constitu-
tional government
NOVEMBER.
1. Personal: President Taft arrived in
Washington at the close of his western
trip
shpwreck: French steamer Diolobah
wrecked off Canary islands; "a drown
q Obituary: Kyrle Bellew, the actor, at
Salt Lake CITY; aged So
Naval Review: Fleet OF over 100 battle
ships, cruisers and auxiliary vessels
reviewed by President Taft at New
York
A ho1 Ia rxyar I'd
S to 6, at Princeton. Minnesota de-
feated Chicago, 80 to O. at Chicago.
Carlisle Indians beat Pennsylvania, Ii
to 0. at Philadelphia. Syracuse and
Michigan tied, to g. at Ann Arbor
5. Aviation: c. T. Rodgers, the aviator,
landed at Pasadena. Cal, making a
worlds record of 1920 miles; he left
New York city Sept II on the Atlantic
to Pacific prize flight
6. Political: Niadero was inaugurated
president of Mexico.
s. Political: Hon. A j. Balfour resigned
as leader of the British Conservatives.
Obituary: w. Clark Russell, author Of
sea stories, in London; aged g.
9. Howard Pyle. artist and author, in
Florence, Italy; aged IS.
II. Cyclone: Wisconsin and Illinois swept
by an electric and wind storm; II dead
in Rock county, Wis
Football: Carlisle Indians beat Harvard.
to Cornell, to 0, at Ithaca.
r. Cold Wave The temperature fell rap
idly from the Rockies to the Atlantic
coast.
Obituary: John /. Carncross. noted old
time minstrel in Philadelphia. aged -.
49, Convention: American Federation Of
Labor at Atlanta
10 Fire: At Ogden Utah; the Eccles
building wrectcd; loss S-5o.o0)
China Yuan Shh Kai assumed the reins
as premier
Convention: National Good Roads asso-
citation in Chicago.
16 Shpwreck: Norwegian ship Antigua
wrecked at the mouth Of the st. Law
renee; Is sailors lost.
| IS. Naval: England launched her 2lst
Dreadnought, the Centurion.
| Shipwreck; Russian steamer Hermann
Lerche, in the North sea- % drowned.
Mining Disaster: 10 operatives and 3 sur
veyors killed in an explosion in the
Bottom Creek mine at Vivian w. Va.
Football: Princeton, 6; Yale, 3, at New
Haven Harvard 81 Dartmouth, 3, at
Cambridge. Chicago, 6; Cornell, 0, at
Chicago. Michigan, Il; Pennsylvania.
9. at Ann Arbor Minnesota, 6; Wis
consin. q. ut Madison
! 10. Wireless Telegraphy: A wireless mes
sage was transmitted from Coltano.
Italy, to Glace Bay. Nova Scotia, 1000
miles
| 20. Convention: American good roads con-
gress in Richmond. Va.
90 Railroad Accident: Train on the state
railway plunged into the river Thouet
at Montreuil- Bellay, France; about 100
passengers killed OF seriously injured.
"a. Obituary: Marquis Jutaro Komura,
japanese statesman and diplomat, in
Tokyo: aged 81,
| Is. Footballs Yale and Harvard tied at
Cambridge. to 0. Navy beat Army. 3
to 0, at Philadelphia Minnesota de-
feated Illinois, II to 0, at Champaign,
Ill. Chicago beat Wisconsin, TO 0. at
Chicago
90. Football: Pennsylvania outplayed Cor
nell p to g. at Philadelphia. Carlisle
Indians defeated Brown, u to g. at
| Providence.
DECEMBER.
!. Obituary: Charles S. Francis, journal
list and diplomat, in Troy. n. Y; aged
IS.
| Persia: Russia ordered an army advance
upon Teheran.
| 4 Persia. The national council appealed