Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-01-04


U. S. N, son OF the late Gen. J. c.
Fremont, U. S. A., tThe Pathfinder), at
Boston; aged sc.
IL. Mexico: 80 federals and I municipal
guards killed in battle with rebels near
Artega.
ls 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 49,
Aviation: First aero war message deliv-
cred at San Antonio. Tex, by Lieut..
Ben D. Foulois. U. s. A., who few 81
miles in IS minutes.
II. Mexico: Insurrectos. stDecree No. 49,
guaranteed protection to lives and in
terests of foreigners then in Mexico
and reimbursements for losses '.as
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-
is. Obituary: Ernest Crofts. r. A.. noted
painter and keeper of Royal academy,
London: aged GA.
established four worlds records at
Los Angeles, beating Ralph de Palma,
driving a Fiat 100 mile race finished in
/ hour IA minutes 20 1-5 seconds.
Il. Battleship Texas. of Santiago bay
fame. sunk by high explosive projec-
tiles in test.
Fire: AT Benton. Pa, loss 100000 by
the burning of distilling plant.
22 Obituary: Col Charles Pereg Lincoln,
of A ~, r
connected with federal diplomatic and
departmental services. at Ell Reno,
Okla
Fire: Leayenworth county (Kan.) court
house; loss $1,000,000.
%. Aviation: Louis Breguet carried II pas
sengers two miles in monoplane in
France. breaking record to date.
"a. Aviation: Roger Sommer. French BIZ
pianist. broke Breguet's 'aerobus" rec
ord: carried II passengers.
Shpwreck: British Columbia steamer
sunk in gale off Vancouver island; 2e
lost
IS. Fire Horror l46 lost lives in fire at
1923 Washington place, New York.
Railroad Accident: Atlantic Coast line
Dixie Filler wrecked near Ocilla, Ga. j;
8 killed.
Fire: Nearly s1.O0O.0OO loss in Minneapo-
lis
26. Obituary: Brig. Gen. Ira ]. Bloomfield.
civil war hero, at Montevista, Colo. {;
aged 76. Gen. Hamilton S. Hawkins,
veteran of the civil and Spanish-Amer-
ican wars. at Glen Springs, N. Vi;
aged rs.
n. Cyclone: Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey swept by devastating windstorm
extending to North Carolina: ST. Law
renee. Pa, practically destroyed.
g. Aviation: Lieut. Erler, with passenger,
flew in biplane from near Berlin to
Hamburg. 14O miles, in hours 80 min
utes.
Sporting: C. M. Daniels set new worlds
swimming record. 2.26 for 200 meters
in tank at Pittsburg.
g. Fire: 81, 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 65.
3D. Sporting: Bob Burman drove autocar
20 miles in 1S minutes 11.92 seconds
(el.06 miles an hour, a record at Pablo
Beach, Fla.
n. Political: James Aloysius O'Gorman,
supreme court justice, elected senator
from New York.
Sporting: Louis Dfsbrow at Pablo Beach.
Fla, made world auto marks: so miles,
81 minutes 20. seconds; 200 miles. 2
hours "a minutes IL seconds; go miles
(no previous time for this straight
away recorded), 8 hours IA minutes S.
seconds
Obituary: Otto Ringing. circus man. in
New York city; aged 81
APRIL.
l. Obituary: Martin Greif lyric poet of
modern Germany, at Kufstein. Austria
Hungary; aged r.
Sporting: Oxford won 6sth annual boat
race from Cambridge, breaking Oxford
Cambridge regatta records.
T. Personal: Carter H. Harrison elected
mayor of Chicago for fifth time.
Political: ed congress convened; Champ
Clark speaker. Anerican-Ja Japanese
commercial treaty ratified.
e. Mine Disaster: 60 men and boys per-
ished in the Pancoast mine at Throop.
Pa; 128 lives lost in the Banner mines,
Alabama.
TO- Shipwreck: Steamer Iroquois founder
ed off Coal island, British Columbia; 20
lives lost.
Obituary: Tom L. Johnson, former may
or of Cleveland o., noted for his fight
for cent railroad fares, in Cleveland; !;
aged Sc.
L. Sporting: National and American
league baseball season opened.
lS Cyclone: Missouri. Kansas Arkansas
over 300 injured: loss in St. Louis over
$1,000 900.
Obituary: William Keith. landscape
painter. at Berkeley, Cal. aged 72.
a. Obituary: Denman Thompson. the ac-
tor, at West Swanzey. N. H; aged Is.
George Cary Eggleston author. in New
York city; aged II.
Personal: President accepted resignation
of DR.. David Jayne Hill, ambassador
to Germany.
Is. Mexico The 9Th United States cavalry
ordered by president to protect Amer
leans along Mexican border
Sporting: P. Krimmel won national gym
nastic championship. 1910 points. in
New York. William Queal ran 10 miles
in 81 minutes IS rs seconds in New
York: new worlds indoor record.
16. Mexico: Rebels repulsed federals striv-
ing to recapture Aqua Prieta Bullets
wounded Americans in Douglas. Ariz.
II. Convention: National Society of
Daughters of the American Revolution
in Washington.
Shipwreck: Spanish steamer San Fer
nand sank off Finnisterre. Spain; q
drowned
q. Personal: Mrs Matthew T. Scott of
Illinois elected president general of