Review of reviews and world's work . . B. Angell retires from the presidency of the University of Michigan The Cleveland Railway Company accepts the citys offer to set-tle the street-railway question. October 2.—The Kalvan Railroad, the first tobe constructed solely by the Chinese, is openedto traffic. October 3.—Seventeen balloons leave Zurichin the contest for the Gordon Bennett Cup andare driven in the direction of .HubertLatham attains a height of 580 feet in his aero-plane at .St. Louis begins thecentennial celebration. October 4.—The Cunard liner Lusitan
Review of reviews and world's work . . B. Angell retires from the presidency of the University of Michigan The Cleveland Railway Company accepts the citys offer to set-tle the street-railway question. October 2.—The Kalvan Railroad, the first tobe constructed solely by the Chinese, is openedto traffic. October 3.—Seventeen balloons leave Zurichin the contest for the Gordon Bennett Cup andare driven in the direction of .HubertLatham attains a height of 580 feet in his aero-plane at .St. Louis begins thecentennial celebration. October 4.—The Cunard liner Lusitania com-pletes the record run from New York in 4 days, 15 hours, and 52 minutes Eight balloons start in a distance and time contest from St. Louis Wilbur Wright makes an aeroplane flight from Governors Island up the Hudsonas far as Grants Tomb and back (see page 551). October 5.—Many miners lose their lives ina mine explosion near Nanaimo, B. Taft visits San Francisco. October 6.—A monument to Verrazano, the. :ipll by \ick. N. i. HUBERT LATHAM, THE DARING MONOPLANE AVIATOR. Italian discoverer, who is held to have been thefirst white man to see New York Bay, is un-veiled in Battery Park, New York Lawrence Lowell is inaugurated presidentof Harvard University. October 9.—Wilbur Wright breaks the worldsaeroplane speed record in a flight at CollegePark, xMd. October 12.—The United States Comptrollerof the Currency closes the First National Bank,of Mineral Point, Wis., on account of a short-age amounting to $210,000.
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