Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-01-02
ocToBER.

OCTOBER.
I. Accident: IL killed, q hurt, In collision
Of street tar with train IN Detroit
Baseball: Boston Red Sox clinched
American league pennnnt.
4 Baseball: Brooklyn clinched the Ma
tionai league pennant
4 Obituary: Mai william Warner. for
mcr u. 8. senator from Missouri and
past commander In chief OF the @. A.
r.. In KRnsas City, Mo-; aged 7e
Z. Submarine: German U-ss dropped an
chor In Newport harbor at the end
Of Il days run from wIlheimshayen,
ia Neutrality: United States notified al
lied powers that II would continue to
apply existing rules of international
law 10 submarines.
II. Greece. France took over the navy
OF Greece.
II. Baseball: Red Sox defeated Brooklyn
In the NTH and decisive game OF the
world series. winning the champion.
ship.
II. Greece: Allies took control of Athens
by force.
a. Anniversary: yale university COM
memorated ao0th anniversary of re-
movnl to New Haven by mammoth
pageant.
Austria: Austrian premier. coun,
Stuergkh. assassinated In Vienna BY
Ludwig Adler, political opponent.
=. Shipwreck; Steamer Merida lost In q
storm on Lake Erie with s sailors
The James b. Colgate also went down
with n sailors
s. Obituary. william NJ. Chase. noted
portrait painter. in New York city;
aged %. Sr At EH
.. Anniversary. Pittsburgh began cele-
x>e rltx
n. Obituary: Charles Taxe Russell
preacher and editor known as PAS
tor" Russell. at Pampa. Tex: aged "
NOVEMBER.
I. Submarine: Merchant submarine
Deutschland reached New London; q
days out OF Bremen. u boat Eareach-
cd home port British steamer Ma.
rina sunk OF Irish coast: ivs Amer.
cans lost. M
Z Aviation: Victor Carlstrom broke the
American cross country aviation rec
ord by flying from Chicago to Erie,
Pa. <t miles In 4 hours and is min.
utes.
4 shipwreck: Steamers Retriever and
connemara wrecked or Irish coast;
81 lives lost
Poland: Austria and Germany pro.
claimed Poland an independent state,
Z. Political: Woodrow Wilson reelected
president.
ELECTORAL Vote. Wilson. g1s; Hughes, s5
Popular vote tapproxlmate,: Wilson,
s,b75.sii: Hughes, SlN,+JS.
10 Obituary: Charles N. Fiags. portrait
painter. In Hartford. Conn; aged g
Aviation: Lieut.. Guido Culdi. Italian
aviator. attained e5.soo feet, a record.
II. Football: Ohio state defeated Indiana
at Columbus. 10 10 I. Cornell defeated
Michigan at Ithaca, 80 to 90 Harvard
beat Princeton Z to o at Cambridge
Browns team beat Yale u 10 a,
New Haven. Pennsylvania and Dart.
! mouth tied I 10 4 at philadelphia.
lG Obituary: Molly Elliot Seavell. nov.
elist and playwright. IN Washington,
y, c.S aged SC, Henry sicnkiewicx
Polish novelist. author OF cQuo vadisT
"Flre and Sword" "Tae pe,uge," etc,
at Berne. Switzerland; aged 70,
10 Football Yale defeated princeton u
TO O Brown beat Harvard q 10. o
Pennsylvania bea, Michigan 10 toL
| ia Aviation: Ruth Law landed at New
. YORK. after u record nonstop nisa'
on tho way from Chicago OF CsS mi'es
90 Conventions: W. c, 4. U ANIMAL con
vention met nj Indianapolis. ,s..
\. obituary; Frans JoHcph. emperor OF
AZ Austria and king Of Hungary. In Wen
nj; ascd IS, NN
y, obituary; Jack London author; aged
70, NNt
=. vnlistas defeated by Mexican regulars
| at chihuahua, tG.a
~ obituary, Sir Hiram Maxim inventor
IN London: aged a. t hE3H~
American Mexican protocol signed.
%. Mexico, villlstas attacked Chihuahua
City and drove out Carranra's troops.
FOOTBALL; Yale defeated Harvard at
New Haven, ito 3 Army beat Navy,
u to I. wisconsin tied With nllnois,
o to o Chicago lost to Minnesota. y
DECEMBER.
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