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place at South Omaha. The match
will be for $50 side and the entire
gate receipts.
DR.. C. M. Dinsmoor of this city has
been honored by being elected to the
presidency of the alumni of the Hahne-
mann Medical College and Hospital of
Chicago.
George Ostrom has left the drug
firm of Neil & Ostrom in Grand Island
and has returned to Omaha.
Mrs. T. G. Magrane, the well known
dancing teacher, entertained her pu-
pills and friends at social in Metro
politan hall, at which fifty-five couples
were present.
An important meeting of the Irish
National league was held in Cunning
ham hall. presided over by Hon. John
A. McShane, president of the league.
The delegates elected to represent the
Omaha branch at the state convention
at Lincoln were John Rush, 7. ]. Ma
honey, John Whalen, e. ]. Brennan,
John E. Price, Richard O'Keefe, ]. c.
Brennan, Fred Gray Michael Dono-
van, r. F. Brennan and T. B. Minahan.
Mrs. Joe Fisher Of Cheyenne, with
her children, Retta and Willie, who
has been visiting her mother since the
death of her father, the late General
George M. O'Brien, has left for home.
This Day in History.
16SO-Father Hennepin descended
the Illinois river to begin an explora-
ton of the upper Mississippi.
1889 - Joseph Barrall, a Boston
merchant, who formed the expedition
which carried the American flag
around the world for the first time,
born in Boston. Died at Charlestown,
Mass, October 13, 1904.
1747-John Tyler, governor of Vir-
ginia, and father of President John
Tyler, born in James City county, Vir-
ginia. Died January s, 1913.
1S47-Colonel Doniphan, with 900
Missouri volunteers, routed 1000
Mexicans in the Pass Of Sacramento.
Emigrant ship Floridian,
from Antwerp to New York, wrecked
on the English coast, with loss of zoo
lives.
1S53-Libenyi executed for his at
tempt on the life Of the Emperor OF
Austria.
1S54-United States steamer Black
Warrior, seized by the Cuban authori-
ties at Havana.
1S61-Congress passed an act Great
ing a new territory to be called Colo
RADIO.
190O-Ladysmith South Africa
was relieved by Lord Dundonald.
1905-Beginning of the great bat
tie between the japanese and Rus
slams at Mukden, Manchura.
The Day We Celebrate.
Rt. Rev. Monsignor A. NJ Colaneri,
chancellor of the diocese Of Omaha,
was born February 2S, 1858, at Rome.
He was formerly secretary to Bishop
Scannell.
E. C. Garvin, president Of Garvin
Bros, real estate and investments, was
born February 2S, 1850, at Belvidere,
III. He went to Northwestern univer-
sity at Evanston in the early sos,
was cashier in bank in South Da-
kota and has been in Omaha since
1889.
C. E. Bedwell, vice president of E.
E. Bruce & Co., wholesale druggists,
is So years old today. He was born
in Agency City, Ia, and educated at
Ottumwa, where he started in the
drug business at 20 years of age.
John P. White. president of the
| United Mine Workers of America,
born at Coal Valley. ILL.,. forty-seven
| years ago today.
Sir John A. Simon, former home
secretary in the British government,
born forty-four years ago today.
Samuel W. Mccall, former congress-
man and now governor of Massachu-
| sets, born at East Providence, Pa,
| sixty-six years ago today.
Rev; Silas E. Price, president of
Ottawa (Kan.) university, born near
Newark, o., fifty-seven years ago to-
| day.
| w. Bourke Cochran, celebrated law
yer, orator and former congressman,
born in Ireland sixty-three years ago
today.
Geraldine Farrar, famous opera
| singer who also has attained success
as motion picture actress, born at
Melrose, Mass, thirty-five years ago
| today.
Earle Williams, widely known lead
ing man in motion pictures, born at
Sacramento, Cal, thirty-seven years
ago today.