Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-01
atWtw OF EVENTS OF 1912
Cont: ued From Page TwnD
North Adams. Mass, caused a loss OF

$4,000
s. 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.
4. Railroad Accident; II killed and many
injured on the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna railroad in a rear end collision
at Gihsens Narrows. N. Y.
Sporting. Ad Wogast declared winner
in u 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.
& Anniversary: The memorial lighthouse
to commemorate the tercentenary OF
Champlaips discovery Of the lake
which bears his name was unveiled at
Crown Point. N. y.
Railroad Accident q killed and 80 in
jured in an accident on the Ligonler
Valley railroad at Wilpen, Pa.
6. Sporting: Formal opening of the Olym-
pic games at Stockholm.
Z. Sporting: lin Thorpe OF Carlisle. Pa.
won the pentathon In the Olympic
games at Stockholm
8. Obituary: Robert Wiedemann Barrett
Browning. only son of the English
Barrett Browning. at Asolo, Italy:
aged g.
Convention: 50th annual convention of
the National Education association
met at Chicago.
0. Fire. Thousand Island park swept by
fire: loss 100000.
Conventions. The North American Es-
perante congress met in Boston,
Mine Disaster: 81 lives lost in mine ex-
r,rlye !, i,-n Isvsv-
land.
10. Political: The national Prohibition con-
vention met at Atlantic City, N. j.
II Sporting: Ted Meredith tAmerican)
won the 400 meter race in the Olympic
games. making a new worlds record;
time 4S seconds.
s. Obituary: Gen. II. NJ Duffleld. veteran
of the civil and Spanish American
wars. at Detroit.
Political: BY a vote OF S. to 2S the Unit
ed States senate declared that William
Lorimer OF Illinois had not been duly
elected TO that body.
81 Railroad Accident: l6 killed in q COLI
sion on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad at Western Springs
Ill
H. Sporting: K. X Macarthur of South
Africa won the Olympic Marathon at
Stockholm.
Is Sporting. America won the track and
field meet at Stockholm with l2s points
to Swedens l0i and England's g.
Thorpe, tho Indian. won the decathlon
IS. Storm: A cloudburst at Denver caused
100000 damage.
IT, Obituary: Henri Poincare. the world
famous mathematician. in Paris: aged
49, Italian War: s Italian torpedo boats
tried to run the Dardanelies and We're
driven back the fire of Turkish
forts.
Storm: The mining towns OF Mazuma
and Seventroughs, New. were nearly
wiped out by cloudburst; many per-
sons killed.
20 Fire: A 100000 fire in Vancouver
b. c.
Obituary: Andrew Lang, English poet
critic and novelist. at Banchory Scot
land, aged g.
p Sporting Olympic games ended Swe-
den won with a total of 1873 points,
United States, 1929; England, &C. United
States led In firsts with %; Sweden
second with q.
"a. Fire: A 100000 oil fire at Marcus Hook
Pa
Obituary: Fannie Denham Rouse. prob
ably the oldest actress in America. at
ohiovilie, N Y. aged 81
Convention: The first international eu-
genics congress met In London.
Sporting: Arthur Chapple ran motor
cycle mile d 80 10 seconds and 30
miles in q minutes IS As seconds. both
records, at Brighton Beach. N. Y.
%. Storm: A cloudburst caused damage in
southwest Pennsylvania: mines food
ed and wide area inundated: many
deaths
r. Aeronautics: huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas city In an elimination
race for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held in Germany
30 Aeronautics: The balloon Uncle Sam,
which left Kansas City on the 2ith
landed pt Manassas. Va having trav-
eled 925 miles. beating competitors in
the Bennett elimination race
%. Sporting: Ernest Barry the English
champion scniler. defeated Richard
Arnst OF Australia on the Thames
course for the sculling championship
CT che world
90. Obituary; Mutsuhito emperor of ia
pan. at Tokyo; aged 80. Succeeded by
his son Yoshihto)
AUGUST.
2. POLITICAL The United States senate
warned foreign nations against aeaulr-
ing naval military sites near United
States possessions.
3. Storm: Snow fell In Pennsylvania.
4 Sporting. Arthur Chapple drove a mo-
Brighton Beach. beating his own rec
ord OF July "a
5. Political: National convention of the
Progressive party met at Chicago.
Political: The sultan of Turkey dis
solved parliament: Young Turks lead
ers removed.
Z. Political: Theodore Roosevelt and H.
ram Johnson nominated by the Pro-
gressve 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
GallipoH suffered severely,
10. Army: United States army maneuvers
began In Connecticut.
IL Political: Mulai Hafid the sultan Of
Morocco. abdieated the throne: Mulai
Youssef was proclaimed sultan
Convention: The international Typo
graphical union met al Cleveland o.
IL. Obituary: Massenet. French composer
of opera music. at Paris. aged 10 Dr.
Horace Howard Furness. noted Shake
spearean scholar. at Wallingford, Pa.