Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-12-31
JULY.

/. Sporting. Miss May vutto0 Won ths
clay court tennis championship Of the
United States by defeating Miss Mary
Brown at Pittsburgh.
Aviation Disaster: Miss Harriet oufmby.
the first woman to cross the Enslish
channel In an aeroplana, killed In dight
at Boston
: Aviation Disaster: The great dir1gthls
balloon Akron exploded In dight at Al.
lantic City, N. J.. killing asronauts.
including Melvin vaniman. her pilot
Personal: The cornerstone Of the Pulitzer
school Of journalism laid In New York
Political: Woodrow Wilson nominated
for president by the Democratic COO
vention at Baltimore.
Fire: Fire In the t'istnass district q
North Adams. Masa. caused los os
100000
/ Obituary: Gen. Robert Frederick Hoke.
q distinguished Confederate veteran. at
Raleigh. N. c.: aged Is.
Political: Governor Thomas R. Marshall
nominated for vice president by ths
Democratic convention at Baltimore
L Railroad Accident: Il killed and many
injured on the Delaware and Lacks
wanna railroad in a rear end COLLISION
at Gibsons Narrows, N. 7.
Sporting: Ad Wolgast declared winner
In a II round contest for the light
weight championship. defeating Joe
Rivers ut Los Angeles. Cal Jack
Johnson defeated Jim Flynn In the
ninth round for the heavyweight cham
p,onship at East Las Vegas, n n.
l. Anniversary: The memorial lighthouse
to commemorate the tercentenary OF
Champlain's discovery Of the lake
which bears his name was unveiled at
Crown Point, N. Y.
Railroad Accident: q killed and 30 In
jured In an accident on the LgonieI
Valley railroad at Wilpe,i. Pa
6 Sporting: Formal opening Of the Olym'
pic games al Stockholm.
!. Sporting Jim Thorpe Of Carlisle. Pa.
won the pentathlon In the Olympic
games at stockholm.
& Obituary: Robert Niedemann Barrett
Browning. only son Of the English
poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett BrowninS. at Asolo. Italy:
aged g.
Convention: 6oth annual convention OF
the National Education association
met ut Chicago
q Fire: Thousand island park swept BY
FIRE: loss $4,000
Conventions: The North American Es-
peranto congress met In Boston
Mine Disaster: 81 lives lost In mine ex-
plosIon at Conlsboro. Yorkshire. Eng.
land.
10 Political: The national Prohibition con.
vention met at Atlantic City. N. J.
Il Sporting: Ted Meredith (American)
won the 400 meter race In the Olympic
games. making new worlds record:
time 4S seconds.
L. Obituary: Gen. IL n. Dufheld. veteran
Of the civil and Spanish American
wars. at Detroit.
Political: BY vote Of IS to q the Unit
cd States senate declared that William
Lorimer of Illinois had not been duly
elected to that body.
Il Railroad Accident: Is killed In COLI
sion on the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy railroad at Western Springs.
ILL.,
II Sporting: K X. Macarthur Of South
Africa won the Olympic Marathon at
Stockholm
Is Sporting: America won the track ana
field meet at Stockholm with l8 points
TO Sweden's lN and England's @
Thorpe, the Indian. won the decathlon
4. Storm: A cloudburst at Denver caused
100000 damage
H. Obituary: Henri Poincare. the world
famous mathematician. In Paris; aged
S.
L. Italian War: Italian torpedo boats
tried to run the Dardanelles and were
driven back by the frs OF Turkish
forts
storm: Tho mining towns Of Mazums
and Seventroughs. New, were nearly
49, IL al AAs,R1 - mn y,V fN<RP-
sons killed.
% Fire: A 100000 nre In vancouver
B. e.
Obituary: Andrew Lang. English post
critic and novelist. at Banchory. Scot
land; aged g.
a Sporting: Olympic games ended. swe-
den won with a total Of lSa points;
United States. 10; England. 76 United
States led In flrsts with 3: 6wedeE
second with q
u Fire: A 10000 oil IRE at Marcus Hook.
Pa
Obituary: Fannie Denham Rouse prob
ably the oldest actress In America. at
Ohioville. N. T.: aged 81.
Conventions: The first international Cd
genics congress met In London.
Sporting: Arthur Chapple ran . motor.
cycle a mile a tsiS seconds and %
miles In q minutes IS t-6 seconds, both
records, at Brighton Beach. N. 7.
& Storm: A cloudburst caused damage IN
southwest Pennsyivania: mines Hood
cd and Q wide area inundated: many
deaths
a. Aeronautics: huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas City In an elimination
race <for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held In Germany.
kAn rfvAl Ia
which left Kansas City on the Nth.
landed at Manassas. Va, having trav.
eled s25 miles. beating competitors n
the Bennett elimination race
q Sporting: Ernest Barry. the English
champion sculIer. defeated Richard
Arnst OF Australia on the Thames
course for the souliing championship
OF the world
20 Obituary: Mutsuhito. emperor Of Ja.
pan. at Tokyo: aged Co 6ucceeded b
his son YoshihitoI