The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-01-02


g. Obituary: Gen. Robert Frederick Hoke,
a distinguished Confederate veteran, at
Raleigh, N. c.; aged 20.
Political Governor Thomas r. Marshall
nominated for vice president by the
Democratic convention at Baltimore.
l. Railroad Accident: Al killed and many
injured on the Delaware and Lacka-
/ wanna railroad in a rear end collision
at Gibson's Narrows, N. Y
Sporting: Ad Wolgast declared winner
in IL round contest for the light
weight championship, defeating Joe
Rivers at Los Angeles, Cal Jack
johnson defeated Jim Flynn in the
ninth round for the heavyweight cham
pionship at East Las Vegas, N. M.
6. 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 ane 30 in
jured in an accident on the Ligonier
Valley railroad at Wilpen, Pa
6. Sporting: Formal opening of the Olym-
pic games at Stockholm.
T. Sporting: Jim Thorpe of Carlisle, Pa,
won the pentathon in the Olympic
games at Stockholm
g. Obituary: Robert Wiedemann Barrett
Browning. only son of the English
poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, at Asolo, Italy;
aged g.
Convention: 50th annual convention of
the National Education association
met at Chicago.
g. Fire: Thousand Island park swept by
fire; loss $500,000.
Convention: The North American Es-
peranto congress met in Boston.
Mine Disaster: 81 lives lost in a mine ex-
plosion at Conisboro, Yorkshire, Eng
land.
TO- Political: The national Prohibition con-
vention met at Atlantic City, N. ].
IL Sporting: Ted Meredith (American)
won the 400 meter race in the Olympic
games. making a new worlds record;
time 4S seconds.
l3 Obituary: Gen. II. NJ. Duffield, veteran
of the civil ana Spanish h-American
wars at Detroit.
Political: BY vote of 55 to 2s the Unit
ed States senate declared that William
Lormer of Illinois had not been duly
elected to that body.
a. Railroad Accident: 16 killed in COLI
sion on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad at Western Springs,
Ill.
a. Sporting: X. X. Macarthur OF South
Africa won the Olympic Marathon at
Stockholm.
Is. Sporting: America won the track and
field meet at Stockholm with 12S points
to Sweden's 104 and England's &C.
Thorpe, the Indian, won the decathlon.
10. Storm: cloudburst a Denver caused
$l,000000 damage.
II. Obituary. Henri Poincare, the world
famous mathematician, in Paris; aged
19. Italian War: s Italian torpedo boats
tried to run the Dardanelles and were
driven back by the fire of Turkish
+ forts
Storm: The mining towns of Mazuma
and Seventroughs, New, were nearly
wiped out by a cloudburst; many per-
sons killed.
20. Fire: A s2OOO.0OO fire in Vancouver,
B. G.
Obituary: Andrew Lang, English poet,
critic and novelist at Banchory. Scot
land; aged 6S
% Sporting: Olympic games ended Swe-
den won with a total of 1873 points,
United States 129; England, 76 United
States led in firsts with 25; Sweden
second with %.
"a. Fire: A $4,000 oil fire at Marcus Hook,
Pa.
Obituary Fannie Denham Rouse, prob
ably the oldest actress in America, at
Ohioville. N. Y; aged 81.
Convention: The first international eu-
genics congress met In London.
Sporting: Arthur Chapple ran a motor
miles in 21 nInutes 3S As seconds, both
records, at Brighton Beach, N. Y.
%. Storm: A cloudburst caused damage in
southwest Pennsylvania; mines flood
ed and wide area inundated; many
deaths.
q. Aeronautcs huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas City in an elimination
race for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held in Germany.
29. Aeronautcs The balloon Uncle Sam,
which left Kansas City on the 9th,
landed at Manassas, Va, having trav-
eled 925 miles. beating competitors in
the Bennett elimination race.
%. Sporting: Ernest Barry, the English
champion sculler. defeated Richard
Arnst of Australia on the Thames
course for the sculllng championship
of the world.
30 Obituary: Mutsuhito, emperor of ia
pan, at Tokyo; aged CO. (Succeeded by
his son Yoshihito)
AUGUST.
| g. Political: The United States senate
| warned foreign nations against acquir-
ing naval military sites near United
| States possessions.
| g. Storm: Snow fell In Pennsylvania.
4 Sporting: Arthur Chapple drove a mo-
torcycle a mile in 3S AS seconds at
Brighton Beach, beating his own rec
/
| s. Political National convention of the
Progressive party met at Chicago
! 6. Political: The sultan of Turkey dis
solved parliament; Young Turks lead
ers removed.
Z. POLITICAL Theodore Roosevelt and Hi
| ram Johnson nominated by the Pro-
gressive national convention at Chica-
go.
8. Accident: Explosion in the national
palace of Haiti at Port au Prince kill
ed President Leconte, and 400 others
/ were killed or wounded.
Earthquake: An earthquake in Turkey
destroyed 1900 lives; Adrianople and
Gallipoli suffered severely.
10. Army: United States army maneuvers
began In Connecticut.
IL Political: Mulai Hahd, the sultan OF
Morocco. abdicated the throne; Mula
Youssef was proclaimed sultan.
Convention: The International Typo
graphical union met at Cleveland, o.
l3. Obituary: Massenet, French composer
of opera music, at Paris; aged 70. DR.
Horace Howard Furness, noted Shake
spearean scholar. at Wallingford. Pa.
aged 49,
H. Obituary: Gen. Z. " Sumner, U. 8. A.