The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25

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| siana.
b. Convention: TriennIal convention e.
| the Worlds W. c. r. Y. met In Brook
| Ign.
g. Sporting: Dartmouth college football
team defeated Princeton university. g.
to o. at Princeton. Carlisle Indians
tied with Pennsylvania in football at
| Philadelphia; score to I.
| Mexico: Mexican rebels Constitutional
ists) captured Monterey after days
| battle.
q. Personal: Katherine Elkins. once be-
trothed to the Duke Of the Abruzzi the
explorer. married to w. T. r. Hit.
q. Mexico: Gen. Felix Diaz. political rival
| Of Gen. Huerta. given refuge on q
United States warship at Vera Cruz.
NOVEMBER.
!. Sporting: Cornell defeated at football
by Harvard. % to G. at Cambridge.
| Mass.
7. Obituary: DR.. Charles McBurney. noted
| specialist in appendicitis. at Brookltne.
| Mass.
| Earthquake: Shocks in Peru wrecked the
city Of Abancay killing 300 persons.
& Political: Ludwig Ill took the oath
as king of Bavaria
Sporting: Yale defeated Brown at foot
| ball, II to 0. at New Haven. Dart
mouth won over Pennsylvania at foot
ball, "a to q, at Philadelphia Harvard
beat Princeton In the annual footballs
| game. to O. at Princeton
| .. Storm: Fierce blizzard swept the mid
| die west and lake region: vessels
wrecked and property destroyed; over
| 200 lives lost; snow q inches deep In
| Cleveland.
10. Convention: American Federation Of
La Dor met at Seattle. Wash National
| Association Of Good Roads met In St
Louis
IL. Mexico: The premier Of Great Britain
| announced that his government would
uphold the Mexican policy of the Unit
| ed States.
! Conventions: Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy met at New Orleans.
Is. Political: Chinese parliament suspend
| ed.
| Railroad Accident: IL killed and over 100
| injured in a wreck on the Central OF
| Georgia railroad near Eufala, Ala
IA. Financial Troubles: II. B. Hollins &
Co., noted banking house Of New York
| failed with liabilities estimated as high
as $5.OOO,OOO; assets $4,000.
| Is. Mexico: Mexican rebels Constitution
| alists) captured Juarez from the fed
! erals.
| Sporting: Carlisle Indians defeated Dart
| mouth by So to 10 at football In New
York Michigan defeated Pennsylva-
! MIA at football, ID to 0. at Ann Arbor.
|
over Minneapolis at football in Min
| neapolis. Yale Princeton annual foot
ball game tie at New Haven: score
3 to g.
ls Mexico: Aldape Mexican minister Of
the interior, resigned.
| II. Panama Canal: Steam tug Louise. with
| official party on board, passed through
| the canal from ocean to ocean.
10. Sporting: Harvard won 81 to foot
| ball victory over Brown at Cambridge.
| Mass.
Mexico: Rebels captured Victoria. cap
ital OF Tamaulipas.
| Convention: Atlantic Deeper Waterways
| associa ton opened at Jacksonville. Fla
| National conservation congress met tn
| Washington.
-. Sporting: Chicago defeated Wisconsin
at Chicago. capturing the conference
! football championship; score 10 to 0.
| Harvard defeated Yale Is to 5. at Cam
bridge.
IS Personal: Jessie Woodrow Wilson. Sec
| ond daughter of the president. married
to Francis Bowes Sayre in the White
House at Washington.
Mexico: Mexican rebels defeated the fed
erals at TERRA Blanca, near Juarez;
losses estimated at l.5O0 federals and
| $40 rebels.
| g. A Walton: Glenn L. Martin made new
American record by carrying passen-
| SeT " ueI5Ht "a VOW A0Se eN ~~O~
| Angeles. Cal.
| Naval: England launched the super
| Dreadnought Warspite. greatest bat
tleshp In the world.
q. Mexico: Rebels captured Mazatlan. on
the west coast.
Sporting: Cornell defeated Pennsylvania
| at football q to 0. in Philadelphia
%. Financial: New York Real Estate Sc
| curities company failed with liabilities
| amounting to SIS 900, 000
| g. Sporting: Army defeated Navy in tho
annual football game in New York:
| score % to 9.
30 Conventions: National Woman Suffrage
association met In Washington
DECEMBER.
| Political: President Wilson's annual
| message to congress advocated direct
| election Of president and waiting pol
| icy In Mexican affairs The Barthou
| ministry In France resigned after q de-
feat by a majority OF 25 votes.
Floods: Rising waters In southern Texas
| began a work Of destruction which
caused a loss Of over 100 lives ana
| damage amounting to $6oO0.O00
| Fire: % deaths In the burning OF tho
Arcadia hotel. Boston.
Political: The house Of representatives
| passed a bill authorizing 242,0OO volun-
| teers subject to the order Of the prest-
| dent
| g. Storm: Snow fell in central Colorado
| to the depth of 49, inches. blocking
| railroad traffic.
Shipwreck: Swedish steamer Malmber-
get foundered off Bodo. Norway: =
| lives lost.
Obituary: Lieut. Col. David du Bose.
| Gaiard U. S. A.. engineer conspic-
| uous on the Culebra cut Of the Panama
| canal, In Baltimore; aged "a.
| Panama Canal: Gatun dam completed
| after six years labor.
| Political: National senate passed the
| Hetch Hetchy valley bill converting
the domain into reservoir
| Obituary: Phoebe W. Couzins, author
and lecturer. in ST Louis: aged 70
| Anniversary: Centenary of Hollands
revolt against Napoleon Bonaparte cell
| ebrated by historical paseantry.
| Sporting: Georges Carpenter French
| champion boxer defeated Bombardier
| Wells of England in the LIST round in
| London
| O. Mexico: Mexican congress annulled the
| October elections and named Huerta
provisional president pending new cleo
| ton in June. 1914
TO- Personal: Nobel peace prize for 1912,