Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — DISASTERS AT SEA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DISASTERS AT SEA

JANUARY. 13. Steamer Czarina wrecked on Coos bay 1 bar, Oregon coast; So drowned. FEBRUARY. 8. The United States naval tug Nina lost on the Voyage from Hampton Roads to Boston with crew of 32 on board. 1L The French liner General Chancy wrecked in a gale near the island of Minorca; 156 persons perished. 12. 88 Uvea lost on the Pacific Navigation company's steamer Lima, stranded in the strait of Magellan. 7 MARCH. . 28. 8 sailors killed by explosion on the United States cruiser Charleston during practice in Philippine waters. MAY. 24 18 deaths by the sinking of the steamer Flank li. Goodyear near Port aux Barquias, Lake Huron. 26. The French submarine Pluviose rammed by a ferryboat .and sunk with all her crew of 27 in Dover strait. OCTOBER. 22. British steamship Wally wrecked off the Brazilian coast; 50 passengers and sailors drowned. 25. The Haitian gunboat La Liberte was wrecked by an explosion off Port aux Palx and sank with 70 persons, including 10 generals. '* DECEMBER. 11. German steamer Palermo wrecked on the Spanish coast, carrying down 21 persons

) AVIATION ) JANUARY. 4 Leon Delagrange. pioneer aeroplane experimenter, killed by the fail of a Bleriot monoplane at Bordeaux. France. 7. Hubert Latham, Freneh aviator, beat the records for height of heavier than air machines by ascending nearly 3,G00 feet at Mom-melon, France. 10. Aviation meet opened at Los Angeles, Cal. APRIL. 27. Louis Paulnan. French aviator, won the Daily Mail $50,000 prize by Hying from London to Manchester. England, 185 tniies, in 252 minutes actual time. mat 7

29. Glenn iL Curtiss flew from Albany to New York, following the course of the Hudson river, winning the New York World's prize of SIO,OOO. JUNE. 13 Walter S Brookins established new world's altitude record by :ascending 4.3§jl feet in a - Wright s aeroplane at' Indianapolis. - 13. C. K. Hamilton drove a Curtiss bi-

piane from New York to Philadelphia and return, winning SIO,OOO prizetime. New York to Philadelphia. 86 miles. 1 hour 51 minutes: Philadelphia to New York. 1 hour 31 minutes 17. Walter S Brookins made new World’s j altitude record by ascending 4.SCQ feet at Indianapolis. «- , 21 Count Zeppelin’s dirigible Deutschland I sailed 3<>) miles from Friedrichshaven to Dusseldorf, carryirtg 11 passengers. 24. Zeppelin's airship Deutschland made an excursion trip, carrying 32 passengers JULY. 2. Clifford B. Harmon broke the American amateur long flight record this own) by remaining in the air 2 hours 3114 minutes at Mineota. 3. Second international aviation meet opened at Rheims. France. > Aviator Wac-hter killed by the fail or his machine. 9. Walter R. Brookins flew 6.27 a feet up in the air at Atlantic City. 12. Capt. C.’ S.' "Rolls. English aviator, killed at Bournemouth m a Wright biplane. , AUGUST. 13. Radley, an English aviator, broke the i world's speed flight record by flying a I ' mile in 47 2-5 seconds. 14. C. F. Willard carried three passengers on a quarter mile biplane trip at Garden City, beating the world's record on the number of passengers. 31. Glenn H; Curtiss made an over water record by flying 60 miles over Lake Erie in 1 hour IS minutes, an average of 46.1 miles an hour. 1 I SEPTEMBER 17. 13 balloons started from Indianapolis in an American championship race. Balloon America II landed near War- , renton, Va., after a flight of 41 hours. 19. Weymann, an American, and George | Chavez, a Peruvian, attempted to fly over the Alps. Chavez succeeded, but was mortally hurt in landing 29. Walter S. Brookins broke the cross country distance record by flying from Chicago to Springfield. 186 miles, winning a SIO,OOO prize. * OCTOBER 1. Aviator Wynmalen made a world's record for height by ascending 9.156 feet at Mourmelon, France. 15. Wellman's balloon America started, on its oversea flight at Atlantic City. 17. 10 balloons.' representing four nations, started from St. Louis in the International race for the Bennett cup and $4,750 in prizes. The dirigible balloon Ciemeijt-Bayard, carrying 7 people, sailed from Paris to London in 6 hours. 18. Wellman abandoned his airship 360 miles off Hatteras after sailing about 870 miles in 72 hours; farthest eastern point reached was 140'miles northeast of Nantucket. 19. Balloon America It. Post and Hawley aeronauts, landed, in the province of Quebec, I.So miles from St. Louis, winning the Bennett cup for distance. 22. The international aviation meet opened at Belmont park. New York. 25. Ralph Johnstone broke the American aeroplang record for flight by ascending 7,303 feet at Belmont park, beating J. Armstrong Drexel’s record of 7.106. 27. Ralph Johnstone ascended 9,000 feet in an aeroplane at Belmont park. (The 1 world's record was 9.156.) 29. Claude Grahame-White won the speed race at - Belmont park; time for 62.1 miles. 61 minutes 14 seconds. 80. J. B. Moisant won the race from Befmont park to the Statue of Liberty and return, covering 34 miles in 34 minutes 34.84 seconds. 31. Ralph Johnstone ascended 9.714 feet at Belmont park, establishing a world's 1 record for altitude. - ' NOVEMBER. e 14 Eugene B. Ely in the Curtiss biplane Hudson Flier flew from the deck of the United States cruiser Birmingham, In Hampton Roads, to Willoughby beach, 7 miles distant. , 17; Ralph Johnstone, the aviator, killed by " the falj of his biplane at Denver; aged 23. J. Armstrong Drexel ascended 9.897 feet in a monoplane at Philadelphia, breaking the world’s record. DECEMBER 9. Legagneux. French -aviator, soared 10.498 feet at Pau. making a new world’s record for altitude.

10. Capt. Bellanger. Freneh army aviator; broke the world’s speed record by making an average of over 86 miles an hour in a 100 mile Sight from Vincennes u> Mourmelon. *

( GAMES AND RACES ) )- ' JANUARY.' f 12. Fred Eames won the ! three cushion billiard championship of the world from Alfredo De Oro, the Cuban champion, in New York; final score 150 to 1*7.FEBRUARY.

22. Ad Wolgast defeated Battling Nelson for the lightweight championship at Richmond. CaL, in 40 rounds. MARCH. 1 Thure Johansen. S w e«l e. set a world's Marathon record by running 26 miles 3(5 yards in 2.hours 36 minutes oohk seconds. 16 Barney Oldfield, Irish-A merican autoist. broke the world's auto rec-

ord for a mile by driving car over the course in 27 33 seconds at Daytona. Beach. Fla. - ; Tom Hueston won 3 cushion billiard title from Fred Eames at Denver. 22. "Barney Oldfield won the 20 mile auto event at Daytona Beach. Fla., covering the course in 19 minutes. - 23. Cambridge defeated Oxford in the annual eigi’.t oared rowing race at Putney, England. 7 c may. 31. Fitzherbert won the Brooklyn handicap at Gravesend. JUNE. L Lemberg won the English Derby. 25. Cornell won the varsity eight, four oared race and freshman’s eight at Poughkeepsie. v 26. Nuage, owned by Mime. Cheremeteff, won the French Grand Prix, beating W. K. Vanderbilt’s Reinhart by a neck. 30 Harvard won the varsity races over Yale at Mew London. JULY. 4 Jack Johnson defeated Jeffries in 15 rounds at Reno for the world's heavyweight championship. AUGUST. 12. Uhlan set a new trotting record by going a mile in 1:58% at Cleveland. 24. Harvester lowered the world’s record for stallions by trotting a. mile in 2:03 at the Empire- City track. Yonkers. 25. William A. Lamed, national lawn tennis champion, defended his title at Newport, defeating Thomas C Bundy of California. 31. Novelty won the Futurity and S2>,3GO at Saratoga, with Bashti second. SEPTEMBER 17: Paul Sorg broke the four-in-hand record by driving a mile in 2:40% at White Plains. N Y. ■ 23. Harvester lowered the trotting record for stallions to 2:01 at Columbus. OCTOBER. L The Vanderbilt cup auto race for 1910 was won by Harry F. Grant; time 4 hours 15 minutes 58 seconds. 15. The Army football team beat Yale. 9 to 3.* at West Point. 23. The Philadelphia Athletics beat the Chicago Nationals for the world’s basebali championship. 7 to 2, at Chicago \ NOVEMBER. 12. Harvard beat Dartmouth. IS to 0, in a ; , foptball game at Cambridge. Yale defeated Princeton, 5 to 3. at Princeton. Michigan and Pennsylvania played a.tie game at Franklin field; score o—o.0 —0. Minnesota defeated Wisconsin by score of 28 to 0 at Minneapolis. Cornell beat Chicago in football at Ithaca by score of 18 to 0. 19. Yale and Harvard's football match resulted in a no score game at New Haven. Michigan captured the western -football championship from Minnesota by a score of 6 to 0 on Ferry field. Ann ’ Arbor. 26. The Navy defeated the Army. 3 to 0. at football on Franklin field. Philadelphia. * DECEMBER. 7. George Moore made a new world's record run of 15 at 3 cushion carom billiards in New York. 10. Root and Mora.n. the "Irish American team, won the 6 day bicycle race in New York; score 2,545 miles 3 laps.

( ACCIDENTS ON LAND \ T4JXUARY. 21. 11 killed by dynamite explosion in the Ashokan tunnel at Cold Spring. N. Y. 48 killed and 28 injured in the wreck of a passenger train on the Canadian Pacific at the crossing of Spanish river, Ontario. 31. 79 miners killed by explosion in the Colorado Fuel and Iron' company’s mine at Primero, Colo FEBRUARY. L 33 miners killed by an explosion in the Browder mine near’Drakesboro. Ky. 14 12 killed and 20 injured in a head-on collision near Macon. Ga., on the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad 1 march i 2. 33 miners killed, by explosion tn the gold diggings on Douglas island. Alaska. . '. 21. 44 deaths in a wreck of Rock Island railroad trains at Green Mountain, la. may . 5. Explosion" in a coal mine at Palos. Ala., entombed ISO mineps. 17. 7 boilers of the American Tin Plate company at Canton, oJ. exploded, killing 20 men and injuring upward of 54 18. Dynamite explosion in the guard barracks at Pinar del Rio; Cuba, destroyed over 100 lives. JTTNE. 18. 19 people killed and nearly 100 Injured In a railway collision near Versailles. France. % JULY. 4 Cincinnati section of the Twentieth Century Limited wrecked in collision at Middletown, O.; 22 killed and many Injured. SEPTEMBER) tL Collision on the Wabash Traction line near Kingsland, Ind., caused the death of 46 passengers. OCTOBER. 4 Collision of electric cars at' Springfield. 111.,, caused the death of 37 persons. I chiefly passengers. & 50 miners were trapped by an explosion in the Colorado Fuel and Iron company's mine at Starkville, Colo. NOVEMBER 8. Explosion in mine No. 3 of the Victor American Fuel company. Colorado, entombed 49 miners. j DECEMBER i. Explosion in the Canada collieries mines at Bellevue. Alberta, buried 60 miners. v ."i . . 19. Explosion in a power house at Grand, Central station. New York, caused extensive damage in the vicinity and the loss of many lives.

People WJio Passed Away In 1910. EDWARD VII. A VICTIM. Renowned Authors, Famous Artists, Distinguished Statesmen and Balers and Noted Soldier* on the List—All Ranks Leveled.

JANUARY. J. Agues Booth, widow of Junius Brutus Booth and at one time a star actress. in Brookline, Mass.; aged 64 4. Darius Ogden Mills, banker and capitalist, at San Francisco; aged S 4. 8. Francesco di Paola SatoUi, noted cardinal. in Rome. Gen. Newton Martin Curtis, “hero of Fort Fisher.” in New York city; aged 74. 23. Ezra Kendall, well known comedian, at Martinsville. IncL; aged 43 FEBRUARY. 16. George Holland, the actor, in Philadelphia; aged 64. 19, Neil Burgess, the actor, in New York city; aged-64 24. Clay Clement, actor, in Kansas City. Mo.; aged 47. . MARCH L Don Jose Domingo de Obaldia, president of the republic of Panama, at Panama: aged 15. 6. Louts James, actor, at Helena. Mont.; aged 66. 6. Thomas Collier Platt, former United States senator from New York and a noted political leader, in New York city; aged 77. SL Jake Schaefer, noted billiard player, at Denver. 14. Phi! Di.ly. noted gambler, at Long Branca. N. J. 16. Tom Browne, famous English Illustrator. In London; aged 3s. 25. David Josiah Brewer, associate Justice of the United States supreme court, in Washington; aged 7329. Alexander Agassiz, naturalist, sen of the celebrated Louis Agassiz of Harvard. university, at sea; aged 7a. 30. Maneiik 11.. king of Abyssinia; ag«d so. apr:i2 L Robert W. Patterson, president of the Chicago Tribune company, in Philadelphia: aged 60. 12. Professor William Graham Suianer, social scientist of Yale, at Englewood. N. J. ; aged 702L Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), the author, at Redding, C-tnn.; agt-d 75. . 26. Bjornstjeme BJorason, famous Norwegian novelist, poet, playwright and patriot. In Paris; aged 73. 28. Gen. E. P. Alexander; noted Caufedei ate < #eterah and writer on the civil war, at Savannah, Ga.; aged 75. M4YL Gen. J. P. S. Gobin. civil war veteran and

national guard commander, at Lebanon, Pa.; aged 72No rd Alexia, daposed president of Haiti, at Kingston, Jamaica; aged about 93. 6. Edwiard VIL of England, at Byck i n palace; aged 6917. Pauline ViardotGarcia. sister of the late Manuel Garcia and. like him, a noted opera singer, in Paris. ' 28. Dr. Robert Koch, eminent bacteriologist. eiscov-

erer of a consumption cure, at BadenBaden; aged 67. JCXE. L Edward Jenkins, English editor and writer, author of the sensational political pamphlet “Ginx's Baby.” fa London ; aged 72. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, pioneer woman physician in England and the Utiiied States; in London; aged SS. 6. William Sydney Porter, novelist known as “O. flenry,” in New York eitr: aged 43. 7. Prof. Gol twin Smith, Anglo-Air.er ta-h author and educator, at Toronto; aged 87 ‘ 16. John Austin Stevens, founder of the Sons of the Revolution, "at Newport. R. L; age* l . 83. 19. Henry Nerille. noted actor and diamatist. in London. 28. United States Senator Samuel Dimglas Mcßnery of Louisiana, in New Orleans; aged 74. 29. United States Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, at Lynchburg; aged SS JULT. 2. Dr. Frederick James Furnfvaß. noted English philologist, lexicographer, commentator and critic, in London; aged 68. Ove Gude, Norwegian minister to the United States, at White Sulphur Springs; Vs. 4. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller of the United States supreme court, at Bar Harbor, Me.; aged 78. Prof. Giovanri Virginio Schiaparelli, fa- . mous astronomer . and discoverer of canals on Mars, at Milan; aged 75l 7. Dr. William James Rolfe, noted author and Shakespearean scholar, fa Tisbury, Mass., aged 83. 1L John Gottfried Gaiie. noted" astronomer. at Potsdam, Germany; aged 98. 12. Kate Tannatt Woods, author, in Boston; aged 70. 13. Daniel Folger Bigelow, noted American artist and art leader, in Chicago: aged 87, , 18. Z. B. Knight, who is said to have named the Republican party in 1854. In Omaha: aged 89., " 26. Prof. Samuel Ross Wtoans. dean of Princeto-i university, at Princeton;! aged 55. 27. Sir Hen: r Tichbome. infant defendant, in the rotorious Arthur Orton claim to the. 1 ichborne title and estates fa 1871 and noted as a big game hunter, in London; aged 44. 31 John G Carlisle, statesman and member of Csover Cleveland's cabinet, to New V; rk nty; aged a august: 7 J B Stwiley. once noted actor, fa 4 New York citv <" y. . Col Harvey W Scott, editor of the' Portland Or*gonian.' to Baltimore; aped 72‘ ' y 1L Mrs J. Eller Foster, noted women lawyer, to Washington. aged 7<5 13 Edmund D lewis, noted artist and art collector i-r Phfbadetpbta. aged 73 Florence Nightingale, famous curse of the Crimean way, in London; aged S 3

15 R»v E F Hammond, once famous ttzagrlpt at Hartford, Conn. 16. Prescient Pedro Montt of ChQe. to .Bremen' .. SEPTEMStR. T. "William Holman-Hunt, noted artist. In London; aged S 3. 8. Dr. Emily Blackwell, noted woman physician, at York Cliffs, Me. ft. Uoyd W. Bowers, solicitor geheral of the United States, in Boston; aged SL Ml Winslow Homer, famous American painter, at Scartooro. Me.; aged 74. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davln the tathor. at Mount Ktsco, N. Y.; aged 79. OCTOBER . r.. L Ex-Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward of Florida, a former Cuban filibuster. at Jacksonville; aged 53. t Former Governor and United States Senator David Bennett Hilt at Albany ; aged 5?. “ Joseph Abner Harper, member of the 'old firm of Harper & Bro., the New York publishers, at New burg, N. Y.; aged 77. 9- William Vaughn Moody, educator and playwright, author of “The Great Divide.” in Colorado Springs; aged 4L 15. Larkin G. Mead, noted American sculptor.‘in Florence, Italy; aged 75. 15. United States Senator Jonathan P.

Dolliver of lowa, at Fort Dodge; aged 52. 17- Julia Ward Howe, author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic," at Middletown, R. L; aged 9L 20. Gen- Thomas T. Eckert, manager of the Federal military telegraph in the civil war and later president of

the Western Union, at Long Branch, N. J.; aged SB. 23. Chulalongkorn. king of Siam, at Bangkok, after a reign of 40 years; aged 57. 28. Victor Masscna. Prince d’Essling. grandson of Marshal Massena of France and himself a -noted soldier under Napoleon 111., at Paris; aged 74. NOVEMBER. IX United States Se.iator Alexander Stephens Clay of Georgia, at Atlanta; aged 57; : 14 John La Farge, distinguished mural painter and stained glass artist. In Providence, R. L; aged 67. 20. Count Leo Tolstoy, famous Russian' novelist, at Astapova, Russia; aged 82. 23. Octave Chanute, originator of the aeroplane. at Chicago; aged 78. DECEMBER 2. Gen. E. A. Carr, U. S. A, retired, distinguished on the border before the civil war as well as in that conflict, at Washington; aged Si). . 3. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, in Boston; aged SO. Gen. Wesley Merritt, U. S. A., retired, veteran of the civil and Spanish-Amer-ican wars, at Natural Bridge, Va_; aged 74 4 The Duke of Chartres, grandson of Louis Philippe of France and one of the Orleans princes who served in . America in 1862, in Paris; aged 7ft. T. Ludwig Knaus, noted genre painter, in Berlin; aged SL 8. Gen. Wallace F. Randolph, U. 8. A-, retired, noted artillerist of the civil war. in Washington; aged 69. 1L Dr. Emil Reich, author and lecturer, noted for his criticisms of American women, in London: aged 56. ML Melville D. Landon, humbrous writer and lecturer, known as Eli Perkins, In Yonkers. X. t; aged 7L

( CONVENTIONS > JAXUART. 17- United Mine Workers of North America met at Indianapolis. . v--- APRIL 18. Annnai congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution held in Washington. 2S. Annual parade of the United Confederate Veterans at’Mobile, Ala. : _ ■' HAT. it Pan-American congress opened at Buenos Aires. Argentina. 19l World's Sunday School association met in Washington. ■ 'jult.; 4. Society of Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration met in Philadelphia. 5. National Education association met in Boston SEPTESEBEE--1- 44th national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republican met at Atlantic City. 20. National camp. Sons of Veterans, met at Atlantic City. 28. National.good roads convention met in St. Louis OCTOBER. 28. The international convention of the Y. M C. A. of North America opened in Toronto. . DECEMBER. 3 American Red Cross society met to Washington. B. Conference on international disputes met in Washington. 27. American Historical association at Indianapolis. Association For the Advancement of Science at Minneapolis. 28. Meeting at SL Louis of the Association For Labor Legislation.

WORK OF THE FLARES ■ : * MARCH 14. Jamestown. N. Y., swept by a fire, causing loss of JSOO.OOO. 28. SIO killed by fire in a dance ban at Mateszalka, Hungary. APRII--23. Fire swept away 20 business and residence blocks in Lake St. Charles, La.; loss about 23.000,000. MAY;' t Loss of 21,50,000 by the burning of a glass factory at Ford, Pa. JUNE. lL Fire swept over 20 acres of warehouses and dwellings in Seattle, causing loss of nearly 21.0f10.00a 11 Fire following collapse of roof in the Montreal Herald building caused loss of 40 lives . - ; jct-t. - 4. Sixty buildings burned In a Fourth of July blaze at Benton, Pa.; loss 2300.000. 6. A lumber yard fire at Annprior. Out-, caused a loss of over 23.090.00 C. 11 Campbelltown. N. 8.. nearly destroyed by fire; loss 22.500.000." AUGUST. 1 Loss of 2L500.000 by a blaze in Boston's lumber district. 14. Fire destroyed the “White City" of the world's fair at Brussels; loss estimated at-230.000.000. 2L 13 Uves lost and 21.000.000 worth of property destroyed' at Wallace, Ida., by flames started by forest fires in the vicinity of the city. OCTOBER t! A mysterious explosion followed by fire in the Los Angeles Times building Caused the death of 21 employees It Tim plant of the B. S. Gypsum company burned at Alabaster. Mich.; loss 2mooa M \ 26. Fire in the business section at Victoria. B CL, caused a loss of 22.000. MM. ■ *’ DECEMBER . I : ;: y v - - «. Loss of J50.9G0 at Evaesvflle, Ind. .'v . ‘

Glenn H Curtiss.

Ad Wolgast.

Edward VIL

Julia Ward Howe.