Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-04

time T. slcesds.
y obituAsSs 0ea. n n. Dumsid. vsearaa
Of NJ %vil and Spanish Amsrisan
Political; ~ ., vote OF s 70 = the Unit.
ed 9tates senate declared that william
Lorimor of Illinois he'd not been duly
elected TO that body.
Il Railroad Accident: le killed in COLI
sion on the Chicago. Burlington and
III.
IL sportins; X. X. Macarthur Of South
Africa won the Olympic Marathon at
Stockholm.
Is. Sporting: America won the track and
field meet at Stockholm with 10 points
to sweden's lo4 and Englands Is.
Thorpe. the Indian. won the decathlon.
u. Storm:s A cloudburst at Denver caused
3l.OC0.0oo damage.
u. Obituary: Henri Poincare. the world
famoua nathema tician. In Paris; aged
10. Italian War: 8 italian torpedo boats
tried to rpn the Dardanelles and were
forts.
Storm: The mining towns OF Mazuma
and seventroughs. New. were nearly
wiped out by q cloudburst: many per-
sons killed.
70 Fire: A 100000 frs in Vancouver.
B. e.
Obituary: Andrew Lang, English poet.
critic and novelist at Banchory. Scot
land: aged eS.
= Sporting: olympic games ended. swe-
den won with a total Of 13s points:
United Staten. 1923: England. 7s. United
States led in f'rsts with .; Sweden
a. Fire: A 10000 oil f,rs at Marcus Hook.
Pa
Obituary: Fannie Denham Rouse. prob
ably the oldest actress in America. at
Ohiovilie. N. T.: aged 81.
Convention: The first International su-
genics congress met in London.
Sporting: Arthur Chapple ran a motor
cycle mile q 1sl-o seconds and 80
miles In q minutes IS IS seconds, both
records. at Brighton Beach. N. Y.
Is. Storm: A cloudburst caused damage In
southwest Pennsylvania: mines flood
ed and 4 wide area inundated: many
deaths
q. Aeronautics: huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas City in an elimination
race for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held in Germany.
-. Aeronautics: The balloon Uncle Sam,
which left Kansas City on the 9th.
landed at Manassas. Va. having trav-
eled 925 miles. beating 6 competitors in
the Bennett elimination race.
e. Sporting: Ernest Barry. the English
champion sculer defeated Richard
Arnst of Australia on the Thames
course for the sculsing championship
OF the world.
90 Obituary: Mutsuhito. emperor OF ia
pan. at Tokyo: aged 60. Succeeded by
his son yosh.!!to,)
AUGUST.
Z Political: The United States senate
warned foreign nations against arouir-
ing naval military sites near Unitet
States possessions.
Storm: Snow fell IN Pennsylvania.
l. Sporting: Arthur Chapple drove a mo-
torcycle a mile in IS i-5 second: az
Brighton Beach. beating his own rec.
ord OF July p.
s. Political: National convention OF the
Progressive party met at Chicago.
Political: The sultan Of Turkey dis
solved parliament: Young Turks lead
ers removed
T. Politcal:. Theodore Roosevelt and HI
ram johnson nominated by the Pro-
gressive national convention AT Chica-
4 Accident: Explosion In the national
palace Of Haiti at Port au Prince kill
ed President Leconte. and 100 others
were killed or wounded.
Earthquake: An earthquake in Turkey
destroyed 5000 lives: Adrianople and
Gallipoli suffered severely.
10. Army: United States army maneuvers
began In Connecticut.
Il Political: Mulai Hafd. the sultan Of
Morocco, abdicated the throne: Mulai
Youssef was proclaimed sultan.
Convention: The International Typo
graphical union met at Cleveland. O.
IL Obituary: Massenet. French composer
Of opera music, at Paris: aged 70. DR..
Horace Howard Furness. noted Shake
spearean scholar. at Wallngford Pa:
aged p.
II. Obituary: Gen. e. v. Sumner. q. s. A..
retired veteran OF the civil war md
also the Spanish American war, at San
Francisco: aged a.
Army: War game for the control OF New
York city ended at Newtown. Conn.
10. Storm: A cioudburst centering ut Niles.
Mich, caused damage OF 81 900. 900
Nicaragua: Nicaragua rebels inassacred
900 government troops: Americans
were among the victims
%. Obituary: Johann NJ. Schleyer invert-
or Of tho artificial language known as
Volapuk. at Constance. Switzerland:
aged "a. Rev. William Booth. founder
ana general Of the Salvation Army. in
London: aged 50.
n. PERSONAL: Bramwell Booth succeeded
tho late William Booth as general Of
the Salvation Army.
a. Panama Canal: President Taft signed
the Panama canal bill regulating the
canal tolls.
q Political: Second regular session Of the
62d congress closed.
q. Storm Disaster: Typhoon in ChekianB
province, China. caused . loss Of 5000
TO 10000 lives.
eEPTEMeER.
L Obituary: Mat. A. r. Calhoun. q civil
war veteran. journalist and author. In
Brooklyn: aged e. Samuel Coleridgs-
Taylor, colored music composer, In
London: aged 81.
Storms: 6 killed and q hurt by cloud
burst which struck a Northwestern
passenger train near Green Bay. wis.
A death roll OF 80 and q property loss
Of S 100000 resulted from q storm and
cloudburst in the Panhandle district of
Pennsylvania. Vast Virginia and Ohio.
Fire: Fire in Ocean Park. resort near
Los Angeles. Cal. caused damage OF
over 100000.
g. Obituary: Lieut.. Gen. Arthur MacAf-
thur. U. 8. A.. retired. at Milwaukee:
aged 81.
T. Sporting: Jerome Travers won the am
ateur golf championship Of the United
States. defeating Charles Evans. Jr..
At Wheaton. ILL.,. in final round
Political: Maine went Republican.
Convention: The Spanish-American war
veterans were IN session at Atlantic
City. N. J.
| 10 Mexico: Mexican regular troops cross
ed United States soil In pursuit OF in-
sursents by marching through Arizona
with the consent Of the government.
Convention: The American Bankers a.
ISOLATION mot In Detroit.
| IL Conventions: The national encampment
Of the G. A. r. met at Los Angeles.