the 3d and 4th snow fell from the states of the lower Missouri valley over the upper lake region, northern Illinois and northern Ohio, breaking generally in that region the snowfall record for May. At Omaha four inches fell on the 3d and at Chicago the fall amounted to 0.8 of an inch. In the second decade snow fell in the lower Missouri valley on the 14th and in the upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the lake region on the 15th. Snow was reported in the third decade of May from the middle and northern Rocky mountain districts over the great lakes.

JUNE.

The remarkable period of cold weather east of the Rocky mountains which began in April came to a close in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana in the early part of June. From the lake region and the Ohio valley eastward to the Atlantic it continued until about the middle of the month, thus completing a period of continuous cold weather in those districts which is unparalleled in the history of the weather service. April was the coldest month of that name in thirty-two years, May the coldest May in twenty-five years, and the cold period was not broken until the early part of the second decade of June. Light snow was recorded at Cleveland, O., on the 5th of that month and frosts occurred east of the Rocky mountains, as follows: Week ended June 3, light to heavy frosts were general in the lake region, Ohio valley, New England and the middle Atlantic states, light frosts also occurring as far south as western North Carolina, northern Alabama and Arkansas; week ended June 10, light frosts occurred in the western portion of the upper lake region and in the lower lake region; week ended June 17, light frosts occurred in exposed localities in the lower lake region and the northern part of the middle Atlantic states on the 12th and 13th.

After June the weather conditions were nearly normal and so favorable in most places that the anticipated failure of the crops did not occur. They were, as a matter of fact, close to if not above the average for the entire country.

PREVIOUS COLD SEASONS.

Prof. A. J. Henry in an article dated June 24, 1907, and printed in the Monthly Weather Review, says: "Tradition and record both point to 1816 as the coldest continuous spell of summer weather

ever experienced in this country. Dire accounts of the unseasonable weather of that year are probably familiar to most persons, but, unfortunately, the complete story of the year has not been told. The writer has collected the record of thermometric observations made in the United States from April to September, 1816, and presents them in a table given herewith. For comparative purposes similar records for more recent years, especially for the spring of 1857 and April and May, 1907, have been added.

"There was nothing out of the ordinary in the winter and autumn of 1816, but beginning in April it was noted that the season did not advance with its accustomed celerity. May was unseasonably cool, but, as may be gleaned from the few comparative means available, not much worse than May of 1907. The culmination of untoward conditions appears to have been reached in the fore part of June, when there seems to have been a depression of temperature attended by snow and ice in the St. Lawrence valley, northern New York and northern New England, which was then and still is unparalleled for the season.

"The month of July was colder than any July since that time, but there appears to have been sufficient heat for the ripening of wheat and rye. The latter part of June also probably furnished a number of days of summer heat. August was likewise a cool month, but the deficiency of temperature was hardly half as much as in July. September was nearly normal, and by October normal weather prevailed, after five consecutive months of cool weather. The records established in 1816 for June and July stand for all stations, except Brunswick, Me.. at which place June and August, 1859, were colder than the corresponding months of 1816.

"Passing down the line of years from 1816 it will be found that the next pair of consecutively cold months occurred in 1857. As a cold month, April of that year has not been surpassed in many places during the last ninety-odd years. This is especially true of the upper Mississippi valley, where the April mean temperature in 1857 at Fort Snelling Minn.. was but four-tenths of a degree above freezing point, or nearly 5 degrees below the April mean of 1907. The month of May, 1857, was not so cold as May, 1907. In the eastern part of the country the month last named was 4 degrees to 8 degrees colder than May, 1857. Considering the

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entire period, April 1-May 31, there is little difference between the two years.

"Two years after the cold spring of 1857, in what had thus far been a normal season, a change of temperature in a single night spread destruction over a large proportion of the wheat fields from eastern Iowa to New York. The corn crop and a great part of the garden truck in the same districts were killed. A killing frost, coming at a time when the wheat was generally considered as past all danger from freezing, overwhelmed the country with astonishment. The areas affected by this destructive freeze were eastern Iowa and

Minnesota, northern and central Indiana and Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, all of Pennsylvania and New York, except the southeast portions, and northern New England. In some localities thin ice was formed in vessels and stagnant pools.

"In 1874 and 1875 April and May were both deficient in temperature, April especially, but not so markedly as in 1857 or 1907. Wheat in 1874 was a good crop, the yield per acre in the spring-wheat states being, however, lower than usual. The corn crop was 82,000,000 bushels less than the crop of 1873."

In the United States senate Feb. 20, 1907, it was decided by a vote of 42 to 28 that Reed Smoot, senator from Etah, was entitled to his seat in that body. Efforts were begun shortly after his election in 1903 to have him unseated because of his official connection with the mormon church in Utah and they were actively continued throughout the first four years of his term. The resolution upon which the vote in the senate was taken was as follows:

"Resolved, That Reed Smoot, a senator from Utah, be expelled from the senate of the United States.'

The roll call resulted as follows:

Burrows.

Carinack.

Hansbrough.

Hemenway.

Clapp.

Kittredge.

Rayner, Simmons. Smith. Stone. Tillman.

Bulkeley. Burkett. Burnham.

Martin.

Morgan.

Patterson. Platt. Proctor.

Smoot. Taliaferro. Teller. Wetmore. Whyte.

So the resolution was rejected, two-thirds of the senators present not voting therefor. Of the fortytwo votes in favor of Mr. Smoot three were cast by democrats. They were Messrs. Blackburn, Clark of Montana and Daniel. Senator Teller was paired in favor of Mr. Smoot. Of the twentyeight votes against Mr. Smoot nine were republicans. They were Messrs. Burrows, Clapp, Du Pont, Hale, Hansbrough, Hemenway, Kittredge, La Follette and Smith.

Eugene E. Schmitz, mayor of San Francisco, Cal., was sentenced July 8, 1907, to five years' imprisonment in the state prison at St. Quentin, having been convicted June 13 of extortion. Schmitz was serving his third term as mayor, having first been elected in 1901 on the union-labor ticket, chiefly through the instrumentality of Abraham Ruef, an attorney. He was re-elected in 1903 and 1905. In 1902 it became common talk that Ruef, under the guise of legal services, was selling licenses and protecting illegal enterprises through his influence over the mayor. His law practice grew enormously and his monthly income ran into the thousands, but it was not until three years later that it was openly charged that he divided his profits with the mayor and other city officials. In 1906, when the great earthquake and fire nearly destroyed the city. the mayor won much praise for the way in which he handled the affairs of the city in the crisis, but soon the cry of graft became so loud and persistent that an investigation was set afoot. It was backed by Rudolph Spreckels, James D. Phelan and others, including William J. Langdon, who had been elected district attorney on the union-labor ticket. Abraham Ruef secured the removal of Langdon and had himself appointed in his place.

Mr. Spreckels secured the services of Francis J. Heney, who had done efficient work for the government in the Oregon land-fraud cases, and William J. Burns, a government secret-service agent. Their investigations resulted in steps being taken to prosecute Ruef, the mayor and others. The action of the board of supervisors in removing Langdon and appointing Ruef was taken into court and declared illegal. Langdon then appointed Heney his assistant as district attorney. Ruef

was indicted for extorting money from the French restaurants and when arraigned for trial May 14 pleaded guilty and subsequently testified against Schmitz and the others against whom charges had been brought. On the strength of his confession and other facts brought to light by the investigators the following men were indicted in May for bribery: Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railways company; Thornwall Mullaly, his assistant: Tirey L. Ford and W. M. Abbott, counsel for the company; Abraham Ruef and Mayor Schmitz for bribery in the matter of the overhead trolley franchise and for receiving bribes in the matter of fixing the gas rate at 85 cents instead of 75 cents; President Louis Glass of the Pacific States Telephone company; Theodore V. Halsey, agent of that company; Frank G. Drum. gas company official; Eugen De Sabla, president of power company; John Marin, gas company official: G. H. Umbesen and W. L. Brobech of the Parkside Transit company.

The result of the trial of Mayor Schmitz has already been given. The next case to be tried was that of Louis Glass of the telephone company. He was charged with having bribed the supervisors to vote against granting a franchise to a rival company. He was found guilty and was sentenced Sept. 4 to serve five years in the state penitentiary. The other cases were pending when this edition of The Daily News Almanac and YearBook went to press.

After the conviction of Mayor Schmitz Charles T. Boxton served temporarily as head of the municipal government. July 16 the board of supervisors elected Edward R. Taylor, a physician and lawyer, as mayor and in November he was chosen as such at the regular election.

FIRE LOSSES AND CASUALTIES. Alpena, Mich., Feb. 19-Cement plant burned; loss, $400,000.

Bangkok, Siam, Jan. 7-Chinese quarter of city burned; loss, $3,000,000.

Birmingham, Ala., June 28-Chalifoux building burned; loss, $300,000.

Bremen, Germany, May 4-Free Zone warehouse damaged by fire; loss, $1,500,000.

Chicago, Jan. 15-Donohue printing plant burned; loss, $500,000.

Chicago, Jan. 22-Tannery at Elston avenue and Blackhawk street damaged by fire; loss, $250,000. Chicago, Jan. 23-Building at 39 Franklin street burned; loss, $100,000.

Chicago, Jan. 31-Clark street barn of Union Traction company burned; loss, $200,000; three men injured. Chicago, Feb. 11-Coliseum annex burned; loss, $75,000.

Chicago, March 24-A. G. Spalding & Bros. burned out; loss, $350.000.

Chicago, March 27-Piano factory of the M. Schulz company damaged by fire; loss, $200,000. Chicago, April 10-Hollister block, 256 Madison street, burned; loss, $310,000.

Chicago, April 22-Giles building, 296 Wabash avenue, burned; loss, $150,000.

Chicago, May 1-Lotus lunch club rooms, 155 Wabash avenue, burned out; forty-eight women and men injured; loss. $45,000:

Chicago, May 7-Wollensak building. Canal and Washington streets, burned; five persons hurt; loss. $275,000.

Chicago, June 6-Barrett tar plant burned; loss, $300,000.

Chicago, June 14-Olympic theater damaged by fire; loss, $150,000.

Chicago, Aug. 5-Meyercord plant, Lake street and Willow avenue, burned; loss, $100,000. Chicago, Aug. 20-Plant of American Corn Milling company, Wallace and 81st streets, burned; loss, $200,000.

Chicago, Aug. 31-Garage at 51 Evanston avenue burned: loss, $100,000.

Chicago, Oct. 31-Building at 223 State street burned; loss, $500,000.

Chicago, Nov. 28-Two breweries damaged; loss, $275,000.

Cincinnati, O., Aug. 22-Block at Hunt and Broadway streets burned; loss. $1.000,000. Columbus, O., April 9-Columbus Dispatch plant burned; loss, $250,000.

Dover, N. H., Jan. 26-Cocheco mill burned; six lives lost; property loss, $500,000.

East St. Louis, Ill., Nov. 2-Office building of Morris packing plant burned; loss, $300,000. Englewood, N. J., March 16-Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall burned; one man killed and five injured.

Hakodate, Japan, Aug. 26-Fifteen thousand houses burned and 60,000 persons made homeless; loss, $15.000.000.

Harrisburg, Pa.. Feb. 1-Eight business buildings burned; loss, $1,000,000.

Hutchinson, Kas.. March 25-The Morton Salt block burned; loss, $500,000.

Kansas City, Mo., May 8-University building burned; loss, $250,000.

LaCrosse, Wis., March 29-Building of La Crosse
Cracker and Candy company burned; loss, $200,000.
Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 11-S. R. Moss & Co.'s to-
bacco warehouse burned; loss. $1,000,000.
London, England, March 16-Three warehouses in
Finsbury district burned; loss, $1,000,000.
Long Branch, N. J., May 30-Four persons burned
to death in residence of Walter Schiffer.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 30-The Courier-Journal and
Evening Times offices burned; loss, $600.000.
Manila, P. I., March 28-Stevenson & Co.'s ware-
house burned; loss, $500,000.

Manila, P. I., April 20-Eleven hundred houses burned; loss, $200,000.

Minneapolis, Minn., April 25-Wisconsin Central freight depot burned; loss, $400,000.

Montreal, Que., Feb. 26-Hochelaga school burned; seventeen lives lost.

Montreal, Que., April 5-Engineering building at McGill university burned; loss, $750,000,

Newberry, S. C., March 29-Business section burned; loss, $200,000.

Newport, Ky., Jan. 24-Distillery burned; loss, $250,000.

New York, N. Y., April 8-City railway car barns burned; loss, $1,500,000.

New York, N. Y., July 28-Twenty persons burned to death and twenty injured in fire at 222 Christie street.

New York, N. Y., July 29-Steeplechase park buildings on Coney island burned; loss, $1,500,000. New York, N. Y., Nov. 25-Thirteen lives lost in tenement-house fire.

Old Orchard, Me., Aug. 16-Many hotels and cottages burned; two lives lost; property loss, $800,000. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 29-Baldwin locomotive

works damaged; loss, $1,000,000.

Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 8-Country home of John Wanamaker burned; loss, $1,500,000.

Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 25-Business buildings burned; loss, $350,000.

Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 22-Two clothes-pressing establishments burned; loss. $250,000.

Pullman, Ill., Feb. 18-Lumber yards burned; loss, $200,000.

Richmond, Va., Jan. 23-Williams and other buildings burned: loss, $295,000.

Rush City, Minn., May 13-City partly destroyed by fire; loss, $200,000.

San Francisco, Cal., April 2-Plant of San Francisco Gas and Electric company damaged; loss, $2,500,000.

San Francisco, Cal., April 4-Twenty persons burned to death in Italian hotel fire.

San Jose, Cal., Oct. 12-Arcade building burned; loss, $300,000.

Shelton, Wash., Sept. 5-Fifteen lives lost in hotel fire.

South Boston, Va., March 28-Tobacco warehouses and other buildings burned; loss. $1,000,000. Superior, Wis.. Nov. 8-Elevators and docks burned; loss, $2.500.000.

Tokyo, Japan. Jan. 22-Main buildings of department of communications burned; loss, $500,000. Victoria, B. C., July 24-Five blocks burned; loss, $250,000. Wuchow, China, Sept. 27-One hundred lives lost and property valued at $250,000 destroyed in fire.

STORMS AND FLOODS.

Alexandria, La., April 5-Twenty-five persons killed by tornado in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 20-21-Storm in city and vicinity caused several deaths and destroyed property valued at $2,000,000.

Caroline Islands, March 28-29-Between 200 and 300 persons killed by typhoon.

Hongkong, Jan. 28-Fifty Chinese boats sunk by storm; 100 persons drowned.

Illinois, June 8-Thirty persons killed by storm in southern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky; twenty-one killed at Gradyville, Ky. Kurrachi, India, June 6-Property valued at $3,000,000 destroyed by cyclone.

Leeds, Ga., Oct. 8-Fifteen persons killed by tornado in vicinity of Leeds.

Leyte, P. I., Jan. 10-One hundred lives lost in ty phoon.

Medicine Lodge, Kas., June 24-Twenty-five houses destroyed by tornado; six persons injured. Williston, N. D., July 20-Twenty-five persons injured in storm. Pittsburg,

Pa.. March 12-15-Fourteen deaths caused by floods; property losses estimated at $10,000.000.

Texas, May 7-Nine persons killed by tornado at Ridgway and Birthright.

Wisconsin, July 3-Twenty-one persons killed by tornado in central counties of the state; property loss, $100,000.

RAILROAD WRECKS. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, in Los Angeles, Cal., March 23-Six killed and seventeen injured. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, near Earl, Col., June 17-Eighteen injured.

Atlantic Coast line, near Yemassee, S. C., Jan. 22
-Three killed, seven hurt.
Baltimore & Ohio, near Washington, D. C., Dec.
30. 1906-Fifty-three killed, fifty injured.
Baltimore & Ohio, near Black Lick, O., Feb. 1-
Four killed.

Baltimore & Ohio, near Indian Creek, Pa., Feb. 28-One killed, thirty-eight injured.

Baltimore & Ohio, at Rosby's Rock, W. Va., May 7-Two killed.

Baltimore & Ohio, at Bellaire, O., Sept. 28-Six killed, twenty injured.

Big Four, near Fowler, Ind., Jan. 19-Twenty-nine killed, thirty-one injured.

Boston & Maine, at South River, Mass., Jan. 29Four killed, several injured.

Boston & Maine, near Canaan, Vt.. Sept. 15Twenty-four killed, score injured.

Burlington, in Chicago, May 9-One killed, thirtyone hurt.

Burlington, near Manhattan, Mont., May 4-One killed, twenty-five injured.

Burlington, near Russell, Iowa, Aug. 15-Eleven injured.

Burlington, at Weston, Mo., Aug. 16-One killed, four hurt.

Canadian Pacific, at Chapleau, Ont., April 10-
Fifteen killed, twenty seriously injured.
Canadian Pacific, at Horseshoe Curve, Ont., Sept.
3-Eight killed, fifty-one injured.

Chesapeake & Ohio, near Maysville, Ky., May 22-
One killed, fifteen hurt.

Chicago, Indiana & Southern, near Reddick, Ill., June 4-Three killed, ten injured.

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, in Chicago, Feb. 8-One killed, nineteen injured.

Chicago & Northwestern, at Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 4-Six killed, twelve hurt.

Grand Trunk, near Guelph, Ont., Feb. 26-Three killed, many injured.

Great Northern, at Bartlett, N. D., April 15-Five killed, score injured.

Great Western, at German Valley, Ill., Feb. 7Three killed, three injured.

Missouri, Kansas & Texas, at Bethel Switch, Tex., April 1-Six killed.

Mobile & Ohio, near Percy, Ill., May 6-Six injured. New York Central, near Albany, N. Y., Jan. 22Five killed, fifteen injured.

New York Central, near 205th street, New York, N. Y., Feb. 16-Twenty-two killed, 140 injured. New York Central, near Pittsford, N. Y., June 23Five killed, eight injured.

New York, New Haven & Hartford, near Waterbury, Conn., March 2-Three killed, several injured. Pennsylvania, near Conemaugh, Pa., Feb. 22Eighteen-hour train wrecked; fifty-four injured. Pennsylvania, at Kelly, Pa., Aug. 6-Four killed, twenty injured.

Pere Marquette. near Salem, Mich., July 20Thirty-three killed, seventy injured.

Rock Island, near Volland, Kas., Jan. 2-Thirtythree killed, fifty-five injured.

Rock Island, at Barney, N. M., Jan. 13-Five killed, eight hurt.

Rock Island, near Norris, Iowa, Sept. 6-Twelve killed, twelve injured.

St. Louis & San Francisco, near Sapulpa, I. T.. Aug. 24-Four killed, thirty injured.

Southern, near Johnson City, Tenn., July 14-Six killed, twenty injured.

Southern, near Ryan's siding, Va., Sept. 22-Thirty

two injured.

Southern Pacific,

at Colton, Cal., March

Twenty-six killed, fifty injured.

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Southern Pacific, at Honda, Cal., May 12-Thirtyone killed, many injured.

Southern Pacific, at West Glendale, Cal., May 22 -One killed, twenty-two hurt.

Soo line, at Enderlin, N. D., Dec. 23, 1906-Nine killed, thirty-seven injured.

Texas & Pacific, at Cheneyville, La., April 14Three killed.

England-Nineteen killed and thirty-nine injured at Shrewsbury, Oct. 15.

Germany-Twenty killed in wreck near Posen, Aug. 7.

France-Forty-five killed near Angers Aug. 4; train went into river.

MARINE DISASTERS.

Alexander Nimmick, steamer, lost in Lake Su perior, Sept. 22-Six men drowned.

Alfred Erlandsen, steamer, wrecked off Castle Point, Scotland, Oct. 17-Twenty lives lost. Arcadia, steamer, lost off Pentwater, Mich.. April 23-Sixteen men drowned.

Berlin, steamer, wrecked at the Hook of Holland. Feb. 21-One hundred and thirty-three lives lost. Chanzy, French cruiser, wrecked on one of Saddle islands, May 20-No lives lost.

City of Cleveland, steamer, burned at Detroit, Mich., May 13-Loss, $700,000.

City of Troy, steamer, burned at Yonkers, N. Y.,
April 5-No lives lost.

Clavering, steamer, wrecked at mouth of the Tees,
England, Jan. 30-Twelve lives lost.
Columbia, steamer, lost in collision off Shelter
Cove, Cal., July 21-Seventy-two drowned.
Cyprus, ore steamer, foundered in Lake Superior,
Oct. 11-Twenty-two drowned.

Dakota, steamer, wrecked in Bay of Tokyo, March 3-No lives lost.

Frithjof, arctic steamer, lost off Iceland, Oct. 5Sixteen lives lost.

Gerry, tug, sunk in collision in Patapsco river, Aug. 26-Five men drowned.

Henry M. Stanley, river steamer, burned at Gallipolis island, Ohio, Sept. 6-No lives lost. Imperatrix, steamer, wrecked near Cape Elaphonisi, Crete, Feb. 22-Forty drowned.

Jean Bart, French cruiser, wrecked on Barbary coast, Feb. 12-No lives lost.

John W. Moore, steamer, sunk in Detroit river. Oct. 13-One life lost.

Kashima, Japanese battle ship, damaged by explosion, Sept. 9-Twenty seven lives lost.

Larchmont, steamer, sunk in collision off Block island, R. I., Feb. 11-One hundred and thirtyeight lives lost.

La Jalouse, steamer, sunk off Barbados, June 7Twenty-eight drowned.

Lindholmen, mail steamer, burned off Farsund, Norway, Jan. 4-No lives lost.

Malaga, steamer, lost off Castellamare di Stabia.
Italy, March 7-Thirty or more lives lost.
Marion, steamer, burned at sea four hours out
from Charleston, S. C., Feb. 22-Eight lives lost.
Myroneas, schooner, sunk in Long Island sound,
Aug. 12-Four lives lost.

Naomi, steamer, burned on Lake Michigan, May 21
-Five lives lost.

Nicaraguan, steamer, lost at sea in June-Not heard from.

Orlanda, steamer, lost in

collision off Cardiff.

Wales, Feb. 16-Fourteen lives lost. Pengwern, steamer, wrecked near Cuxhaven, Germany, Jan. 13-Twenty-four lives lost.

Poitou, steamer, wrecked off Uruguay, May 7-Thir teen lives lost.

Santiago, steamer, wrecked off Corral, Chile, June 24-Ninety-one lives lost.

Searchlight, steamer, lost off Harbor Beach, Mich., April 23-Six lives lost.

Suevic, steamer, stranded near the Lizard, March 17-No lives lost.

Tafoo Maru, steamer, burned

on Yangtsekiang.

China, Sept. 18-One hundred lives lost. Teutonia, steamer, wrecked on coast of Arabia, July 20-Sixteen drowned.

Timaru, steamer, lost off coast of Jutland, Feb. 22-Eighteen drowned.

Valdivia, steamer, damaged by explosion at sea Feb. 14--Seven men killed.

Violette, schooner, sunk off the coast of Iceland ir June-Nineteen lives lost.

Silverlip, steamer, destroyed by explosion, May 1, on Bay of Biscay-Five killed. Wettern and Jorgensen, steamers, sunk in collision on North sea, March 9-Thirty-four lives lost.

Johnson City, Ill., Jan. 30-Five men killed in coal mine.

Kleinrosseln, Germany, March 15-Sixty-five men killed by explosion in coal mine.

La Esperanza, Mexico, Feb. 19-One hundred and twenty-three men killed by gas explosion in coal mine.

Lorentz, W. Va., Jan. 26-Twelve men killed by explosion in coal mine.

Negaunee, Mich., Sept. 20-Fourteen men killed by fall of cage in mine.

Priceburg, Pa., June 18-Seven men killed by gas explosion in mine.

Primero, Col., Jan. 23-Twenty men killed by explosion in mine.

Riddlesburg, Pa., May 3-Three miners killed by fall of truck.

Saarlouis, Prussia, March 16-Twenty-two miners killed in Gebhard coal mine.

Saarbrucken, Prussia, Jan. 28-Many miners killed by explosion of fire damp in coal mine. Sonman, Pa., Aug. 17-Five men killed by fall of cage.

Thomas, W. Va., Feb. 4-Twenty-five miners killed by explosion.

Toyooka, Japan, July 20-More than 400 miners killed by explosion.

Velardena, Mex., May 10-Ninety men killed as result of fire in mine.

MISCELLANEOUS CASUALTIES. Baltimore, Md., April 27-Eight workmen drowned by collapse of new pier.

Boulder, Col., Aug. 10-Four killed by dynamite explosion at fire.

Butler, Pa., Oct. 6-Four men killed by accident in steel mill.

Canton, China, May 3-Many lives lost by powder explosion.

Chicago, Jan. 28-Five men killed and many injured by ammonia explosion at stockyards; several of injured died later.

UNITED STATES.

Chicago, May 23-Four men killed by ammonia explosion at stockyards.

Chicago, June 25-Twenty-one hurt in street-car collision at Ogden avenue and W. Adams street. Chicago, Aug. 16-Five killed by blowing down of house at 55 Fry street.

Debreczin, Hungary, June 22-Thirteen men killed in balloon accident.

Duluth, Minn., Aug. 10-Seven men in rowboat run down by tug and drowned.

Elyria, O., May 31-Four persons killed and thirteen injured in trolley-car collision.

Essex, Ont., Aug. 10-Two killed and many hurt by explosion of car of nitroglycerin. Fontanet, Ind.. Oct. 15-Thirty-three killed and more than 600 injured by explosion of powder mills.

Houston, Va., June 26-Eight men killed by dynamite explosion.

Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 7-One killed and thirtyfour hurt in trolley accident.

Jackson, Mich., Aug. 2-Three killed in trolley-car collision.

Joliet, Ill., Aug. 16-Five men drowned by capsizing of a boat.

London, Aug. 20-John Golden, steeplejack, falls from top of tower 448 feet high.

Mattoon, Ill., Aug. 30-Fifteen killed and fifty-two injured in trolley-car collision near Charleston, III.

Pearisburg, Va., Jan. 26-Nine men killed by dynamite explosion on railroad.

Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 9-Twenty-seven men killed by molten metal at steel plant.

Pleasant Prairie, Wis., Jan. 5-Five men killed and three injured by explosion of powder works. Quebec, Que., Aug. 29-Unfinished cantalever bridge over St. Lawrence river collapsed; seventy-eight lives lost.

Strassburg, Germany, Jan. 11-Twenty killed in explosion and fire.

Toronto, Ont., July 25-Nine men drowned by capsizing of launch.

Wilmington, Ill., Jan. 11-Two killed and a dozen injured by explosion in gas plant.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836), poet, in Boston, Mass., March 19.

Alger, Russell A. (1836), United States senator from Michigan, in Washington, D. C., Jan. 24. Atwater, Wilbur O. (1844), chemist, in Middleton, Conn., Sept. 22.

Ayers, Hiram J. (1823), inventor of giant powder, at Akron, O., July 2.

Babbitt, Clinton (1832), ex-congressman, at Beloit, Wis., March 11.

Barney, Charles T. (1851), banker, in New York, Nov. 14.

Barth, Paul C., ex-mayor, at Louisville, Aug. 21. Barton, Chauncey H. (1825), lumberman, at South Bend, Ind., May 29.

Bell, George A. (1828), brigadier-general, U. S. A.,
retired, in Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.
Bernard, Charles (1823), Mexican war veteran, at
Madison, Wis., Feb. 19.

Birney, William (1819), general, U. S. A., retired,
Aug. 14.

Bishop, Charles A. (1854), judge, at Sycamore, Ill., Aug. 26.

Blair, David W., civil war veteran, Oct. 12. Bothne, Thrond (1835), educator and journalist, at Decorah, Iowa, May 28.

Bowen, Thomas M. (1835), former U. S. senator, at
Pueblo, Col., Dec. 30, 1906.

Bradley, Robert (1835), horseman,
Charles City county, Va.

on farm in

Brown, Arthur, former United States senator from Utah, in Washington, D. C., Dec. 12, 1906. Bryant, George E. (1832), general in civil war, at Madison, Wis., Feb. 16.

Bullock, Rufus B. (1834), former governor of Georgia, at Albion, N. Y., April 27.

Caffery, D. R. (1835), former United States senator, at New Orleans, La., Dec. 30, 1906.

Carter, John (1819), actor, in Philadelphia, June 16. Casarin, Alexander (1850), artist, in New York, N. Y., May 25.

Cassatt, Alexander J. (1839), railroad president, in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 28, 1906.

Chadwick, Mrs. Cassie, at Columbus, O., Oct. 10. Clark, Horace S. (1840), lawyer, soldier in civil war, at Mattoon, Ill., April 11.

Clews, John H. (1856), banker, in New York, N. Y., April 10.

Condon, Thomas (1832), geologist, at Eugene, Ore., Feb. 11.

Conger, Edwin H. (1843), diplomat, at Pasadena, Cal., May 18.

Converse. F. B. (1836), editor, at Louisville, Ky.. Sept. 29.

Conway, Moncure D. France, Nov. 16.

(1832), author, in Paris,

Creighton, John A. (1832), capitalist, in Omaha, Neb., Feb. 7.

Curtin, Jeremiah (1840), author, at Bristol, Vt., Dec. 14, 1906.

Curtis, Charles A. (1837), captain, U. S. A., retired, at Madison, Wis., May 26.

Deere, Charles H. (1837), Moline manufacturer, in Chicago, Oct. 29.

Dill, J. H. C. (1842), prominent Mason, at Bloomington, Ill., Aug. 5.

Dodd, S. C. F. (1834), attorney, at Pinehurst, N. C.. Jan. 30.

Donohue, Francis C.,

port, Ill., June 7.

newspaper man, at Free

Duffield, William W. (1823), civil engineer, in Washington, D. C., June 23.

Eckels, James S. (1827), lawyer, at Princeton, Ill., Feb. 23.

Edward, William H. (1844), pugilist, in New York, N. Y., Aug. 12.

Ellsworth, Eugene E. (1848), capitalist, in Iowa Falls, Iowa, Feb. 15.