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injured on tho Delaware .

Injured on the Delaware
wanna railroad In q rear RI
at Gibson.s Narrows. n
Sporting: Ad Wolgast
In II round contest
weight championship.
Rivers at Los Angelo
Johnson defeated Jim
ninth round for the hea
pionship at East Las
& Anniversary: The mend
to commemorate the tel
Champlain's discovery Of
which bears his name was D
Crown Point, N. Y.
Railroad Accident: q killed
5ured in an accident on the
Valley railroad at Wilpen, Pa
& Sporting: Formal opening Of
pic games at Stockholm.
I Sporting: Jim Thorpe Of CARL
won the pentathlon in the
games at Stockholm.
Z. Obituary: Robert Wiedemann
Browning, only son Of the
poets Robert Browning and 81
Barrett Browning. at Asolo.
aged 63.
Conventions: 60th annual convent
the National Education asso<
met at Chicago.
4 Fire: Thousand Island park s<e bt b.
fire; loss $4,000.
Convention: The North American II.
peranto congress met in Boston.
Mine Disaster: 81 lives lost in q mine ox.
plosion At Conisboro. Yorkshire, Eng.
land
10 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 q new worlds record;
time 4S seconds.
u Obituary: Gen. II. M. Dufleld. veteran
Of the civil and spanish-American
wars, at Detroit.
Political: BY q vote OF IS to Is tho Unit
ed States senate declared that William
Lorimer Of Illinois had not been duly
elected to that body.
Il Railroad Accident: 18 killed in q COLI
sion on the Chicago. Burlington ana
Quincy railroad at Western Springs.
Ill.
Il Sporting: K. K. 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 l04 and England's g.
Thorpe. the Indian. won the decathlon.
6. Storm: A. cloudburst at Denver caused
100000 damage.
II. Obituary: Henri Poincare. tho world
famous mathematician, in Paris; aged
S..
IL italian War: Italian torpedo boats
tried to run the Dardanelles and were
driven back by the fire OF Turkish
forts.
Storm: The mining towns OF MaxumA
and Seventroughs, New, were nearly
wiped out by q cloudburst; many per.
sons killed.
- Fire: A 100000 FIRE in vancouvse.
B. C.
Obituary: Andrew Lang. English poet
critic and novelist. at Banchory, Scot
land: aged 6s.
4 Sporting: Olympic games ended. swe-
den won with total Of 1873 points:
United States, 1923; England, 76. United
States led in f1rsts with Is; 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
Ohioville. N. T.: aged 81
Convention: The first international eu-
genics congress met In London.
Sporting: Arthur Chapple ran q motor
cycle q mile h 80 Is seconds and %
miles in q minutes 80 IS seconds. both
records. at Brighton Beach. N. 7.
s. Storm: A cloudburst caused damage in
southwest Pennsylvania; mines food
Gu anu = WlQo area taunudteOS many
deaths.
n. Aeronautics: huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas City In an elimination
race for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held in Germany.
a. Aeronautics: 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.
y. Sporting: Ernest Barry. the English
champion sculler defeated Richard
Arnst Of Australia on the Thames
course for the aculling championship
of the world.
y. Obituary: Mutsuhito. emperor Of Ja-
pan. at Tokyo: aged CO.. Succeeded by
his son Yoshihito.)
AUGUST.
Political: The United Sta
warned foreign nations az
ing naval military site
States possessions:
4 Storm; saaH - llll Is
Sporting: Arthur Chapple drove mo-
torcycle q mile in IS IS seconds at
Brighton Beach. beating his own rec.
ord of July "A.
s. POLITICAL National convention Of the
Progressive party met at Chicago.
solved parliament; Young Turks lead
ers removed.
O. Political: Theodore Roosevelt and HI
ram johnson nominated by the Pro-
gressive national convention at Chica-