Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-01-03

yention al Baltimore.
Fire Fire In the business district Of
North Adams, Mass. caussd ross OF
t5O0.QJo
4 Obituary: Gen. Robert Frederick Hoke.
a distinguished Confederate veteran. at
Raleigh. n c.. aged %.
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
al Gibsons Narrows. n. Y.
Sporting: Ad Wolgast declared winner
In a Y round contest for the light
weight championship. defeating Joe
Rivers al Los Angeles. Cal Jack
Johnson defeated Jim Flynn in the
ninth round for the heavyweight cham
pi0nship al East Las Vegas. n. NJ.
Anniversary: The memorial lighthouse
10 commemorate the tercentenary Of
Champlain's discovery Of the lake
which bears his name was unveiled at
Crown Point. ~ Y.
Railroad Accident. q killed ano 30 in
Iured In an accident on the Ligonier
Valley railroad al Wlpen. Pa
6 Sporting Formal opening Of the olym-
pic games at Stockholm.
T. Sporting Jim Thorpe OF Carlisle Pa.
won the pentathlon In the Olympic
games st Stockholm
Obituary. Robert Wiedemann Barrett
BrOwnrE. only son OF the English
poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning at Asolo. Italy:
aged g.
Conventions 5Oth annual convention Of
the National Education association
met al Chicago
9 Fire: Thousand Island park swept by
fire; loss $1,000.
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. j.
Y Sporting Ted Meredith (American)
won the 900 meter race in the Olympic
games, making a new worlds record.
time 4s seconds.
% Obituary: Gen II. NJ. Dufield veteran
OF the civil and Spanish American
wars at Detroit
Political: BY a vote OF So to % the Unit
ed States senate declared that William
Lorimer Of Illinois had not been duly
elected TO that body
a. Railroad Accident Is killed in a colli-
sion on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad at Western Springs
III
H. Sporting K X. Macarthur Of South
Africa won the Olympic Marathon at
Stockholm
10. Sportng America won the track and
field meet at Stockholm with l2S points
10 Sweden l0i and Englands &C.
Thorpe, the Indian. won the decathlon.
ID. Storm: a cloudburst at Denver caused
100000 damage
II. Obituary Henri Poncare the world
famous mathematician. m Paris: aged
S.
l9 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 Mazuma
and Seventroughs, New, we're nearly
wiped out by a 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 GS
Y Sporting: Olympic games ended. Swe-
den won with a total Of 1873 points;
United States, l29 England, Is. United
States led in firsts with &; Sweden
second with g.
A. Fire: A 100000 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
cycle a mile a 80 is seconds and 30
miles in q rnnutes IS As seconds, both
records, at Brighton Beach. ~ Y.
b Storm: cloudburst caused damage In
southwest Pennsylvania mines flood
ed and a wide area inundated: many
deaths
T. Aeronautics: huge gas balloons start
ed from Kansas City in an elimination
race for the James Gordon Bennett
contest to be held In Germany
y Aeronautics; The balloon Uncle Sam.
which left Kansas City on the 9th,
landed at Manassas. Va. having tray-
eled s2o miles. beating 6 competitors in
the Bennett elimination race.
\ Sporting Ernest Barry. the English
champion sculler, defeated Richard
Arnst OF Australia on the Thames
course for the sculing Championship
OF the world
Obituary: Mutsuhlto. emperor Of Ia.
pan, at Tokyo; aged Co. succeeded by
his son YoshihitoJ
AUGUST.
I Political: The United States sonata
warned foreign nations against aeouir.
ing naval military sites near United
states possessions
storm. Snow fell IN Pennsylvania
sporting; Arthur Chapple drove a mo-
torcycle mile In 81 As seconds at
Brighton Beach, beating his own rec.
ord OF July q
Political National convention OF the
Progressive party met at Chicago.
Foutlcal: The sultan OF Turkey dis
solved parliament: Young Turks lead.
ers removed
b Political. Theodore Roosevelt and HI.
ram Johnson nominated by the Pro.
gresslye national convention at Chica.
20
Accident: Explosion in the national
palace Of Haiti at Port au Prince KIN.
Ell President Leconte. and 400 others
were killed or wounded
Earthquake. An earthouaks IN Turxev
destroyed 30O lives. Adrianonle ana
Gallipoli suffered severely
Army. Jnued States army maneuver.
began IN Connecticut
Political Mulai Hafd. the sultan n,
MNfnHnn nNII.s.Ir
loussef was proclaimed sultan.
OohNrni'on The International Typo.
sI'Pn'c'l union met az Cleveland. O.