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1906.
JANUARY 1,
GALVESTON TRIBUNE: MONDAY,
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ior James Gordon
Bennett cup at Laschamp, France.
Storm: 40 deaths in a tornado which
devastated Montague county, Tex.
6. Sporting: The Leander crew of Eng-
land defeated the Ghent crew of Bel-
gium for the Grand Challenge cup at
Henley-on-the-Thames.
Paul Jones: The remains of Paul Jones
formally delivered to the Uiftted States
government by France.
Convention: Seventh annual gathering
of the Epworth league opened at Den-
ver.
Disaster at Sea: Fjench submarine boat
.....iur Twa Winter Specialties
5. Russia: Gen. Sacharoff, former minis-
ter of war, assassinated by a woman
revolutionist.
Political: International fleet occupied
the Turkish island of Lemnos. Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman accepted
the task of forming a new British
cabinet.
7. Personal:
14. Political: The Isle of Pines seceded
from Cuba and organized a govern-
ment under United States laws.
17. Russia: The czar granted land conces-
sions to the peasants.
18. Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at
football at New Haven.
Miscellaneous: Prince Charles of Den-
mark elected king of Norway. Korea
Accident: 108
cave-in in
Montrose, Colo.
JI. Sporting:
Derby.
in an accident on the Nickel Plate at
Kishman, O.
7. Accident: 50 colored excursionists kill-
ed and as many Injured in an open
drawbridge accident on the Atlantic
Coast line at Bruce, Va.
3. Sporting: Fifth and concluding race
for the Canada cup won by the Amer-
ican yacht Iroquois.
VII., given royal welcome into Chris-
tiania.
Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at foot-
ball, 6 to 0, at Cambridge.
26. Accident: 16 killed and 25 hurt in a
wreck on the Boston and Maine, near
Lincoln, Mass.
Celebration: The 250th anniversary of^l
the settlement of Jews in America ob-
served throughout the country.
27. Norway: King Haakon formally
tic fleet reached Kamranh bay, Cochin
China.
Convention: Fourteenth annual congress
of the National Society of Daughters
of the American Revolution met in
Washington.
Fire: Vanderbilt university burned at
Nashville; loss, $200,000.
Fatal Fire: 14 deaths in the burning of
a convent at Ste. Genevieve, Quebec.
22. Obituary: M. Paul Lessar, Russian
minister to China, at Peking; aged 54.
Financial: Collapse of the Gates May
wheat deal in Chicago.
Earthquake: Severe shocks in Virginia.
Obituary: Joseph Jefferson, veteran
American actor, at Palm Beach, Fla.;
aged 76.
Shooting Affray: 4 men of prominence,
Including a congressman, killed in a
political shooting affray at Hemp-
stead, Tex.
Fire at Milwaukee; loss, $300,000.
Troubles: Over 3,000 Chicago
teamsters out on a strike.
Convention: Meeting of the Y. W. C. A.
in Detroit.
28. Accident: 12 miners killed by explo-
• sion in the Elanora shaft at Big Run,
Pa.
Obituary: General Fitz-Hugh L’ee, noted
Confederate veteran, former United
States consul general at Havana, in
Washington; aged 70.
29. Accident: Special train bearing dele-
gates of the educational conference at
Columbia, S, C., wrecked at Green-
ville, S. C.; 4 trainmen killed and sev-
eral prominent persons, including St.
Clair McKelway, editor of the Brook-
lyn Eagie, injured.
Labor Troubles: Serious strike riots in
Chicago.
Tornado: Nearly 100 people killed, sev-
eral hundred injured and 150 houses
destroyed by a windstorm at Laredo,
Tex.
Political:
Attempted Assassination: A would be
assassin’s bomb narrowly missed the
sultan of Turkey and killed 43 of his
bodyguard.
Fire: 12 deaths in an oil fire in the
Humble fields' Tex.
Obituary: Daniel Scott Lamont,
tary of war under Cleveland, at Pough-
keepsie; aged 54.
24. Personal: Conference of Czar Nicholas
and Emperor William near Bjorko, in
the Baltic sea.
25. Russo-Japanese War: Baron Jutaro
Komura, chief Japanese plenipotenti-
ary to the peace conference, arrived In
New York.
26. Obituary: Gen. William Blackmar,
commander in chief of the G. A. R., in
Boise, Ida.; aged 64.
AUGUST.
2. Personal: M. Sergius Witte, Russia’s
chief plenipotentiary, arrived in New
York.
5. Fire: The Delaware and Lackawanna
railway terminal destroyed in Hobo-
ken, N. J.; loss about $1,500,000.
Peace Conference: Russian and Jap-
anese envoys met on board the yacht
Mayflower at Oyster Bay, N. Y.
6. Sporting: W. W. Coe of Boston put a
sixteen pound stone 49 feet 6 inches at
Portland, Ore., breaking the world’s
record of 48 feet 7 inches;
Obituary: Gen. Roy Stone, noted civil
war veteran and a distinguished en-
gineer on public works, at Mendham,
N. J.; aged 69.
Peace Conference: First session held
at the United States navy yard, Ports-
mouth, N. H.
Obituary: Archbishop Chapelle of the
Roman Catholic diocese of New Or-
leans victim of yellow fever; aged 61.
Convention: The National Catholic To-
tal Abstinence association met at
Wilkesbarre, Pa., and was addressed
by President Roosevelt.
1. Obituary: Rear Admiral E. K. Ben-
ham, U. S. N., retired, at Lake Ma-
hopac, N. Y.; aged 73.
1 Political: New treaty of alliance con-
cluded between England and Japan.
3. Accident: 12 killed and many injured
Pointer’s pacing record of with-
out wind shield, at Readville, Mass.
23. Obituary: Sven Adolf Hedin, Swedish
reformer and historian and leader of
the liberal party, in Stockholm; aged
71.
24. Personal: Wu Ting Fang, former Chi-
nese minister to the United States, in-
jured by the explosion of a bomb in
Peking.
Fire: At Butte, Mont.; loss of nearly
$1,000,000 by flames in the business dis-
trict.
27. Storm: A destructive and fatal ty-
phoon swept over Luzon and other
Philippine islands; over 100 deaths and
a property loss estimated at $5,000,000.
80. Personal: The czar rewarded Witte
for his services on the peace commis-
sion by creating him a count of the
empire.
yielded japan’3 demands in
matter of government.
19. Shipwreck: Over 100 deaths by the loss
of the steamer Hilda in the English
channel.
25. Russia: Mutiny of sailors of the Rus-
sian fleet and soldiers of the garrison
at Sevastopol.
Personal: Norway’s new king, Haakon
Capt. Roald Amundsen,
Norwegian explorer, reached Eagle
City, Alaska, overland from Herschel
Island, after having sailed the north-
west passage in the sloop Gjoa.
Accident: 10 killed and 18 injured in &
wreck of the Overland Limited on the
Union Pacific at Rock Springs, Wyo, •
8. Obituary: United States Senator John
H. Mitchell of Oregon, at Portland;
aged 70.
9. Obituary: Louisa Eldridge (Aunt Lou-
isa), well known actress, in New York
city; aged 75.
Sporting: Root and Fog’er won the six
Norway handed over the reigns of
government to - his son, Crown Prince
Gustav.
10. Russia: Conflict between troops and
the people at Lodz, Russian Poland.
13. Fire: The historic “Battle House” ho-
tel and other properties burned at Mo-
bile, Ala.; loss, $400,000.
Blizzard: Cold wave in the northwest;
many persons frozen to death.
Obituary: Fanny Moran-Olden, former-
ly well known, opera singer, in Ber-
lin. W. C. Prime, noted author and
editor, in New York city. Sylvester
Scovel, noted war correspondent, in
Havana.
15. Obituary: William Cullen Bryant, well
known newspaper man, founder of the
American Newspaper Publishers’ as-
sociation, at Plainfield, N. J.; aged 56.
Jay Cooke, noted financier, at Ogontz,
Pa.; aged S3. Gen. Lew Wallace, sol-
dier, diplomat and author, at Craw-
fordsville, Ind.; aged 78. Daniel Mc-
Carthy, well known caricaturist, in
New York^ city.
17. Russia: Grand Duke Sergius, uncle of
the czar of Russia, slain by an assas-
sin’s bomb in Moscow.
20. Accident: 116 miners entombed by an
explosion in the Virginia mines at
Birmingham, Ala.
Fire: At Indianapolis; loss of $1,110,000
by flames in the wholesale district.
21. Russia: The students of the Univer-
sity of St. Petersburg suspended
studies for the remainder of the uni-
versity year in sympathy with the
strike of the workingmen.
Fire: At the Hoosic tunnel piers,
Charlestown, Mass.; loss, $1,000,000.
Obituary: Mrs. Isabella Hogg Parker,
niece of James Hogg, poet, and child
friend of Sir Walter Scott, at Bing-
hamton, N. Y.; aged 86.
Simplon Tunnel: Meeting of the Swiss
and Italian boring parties working
from opposite sides of the Alps.
Russo-Japanese Wai-: Gen. Kuroki’s
Japanese army attacked the Russian
left southeast of Mukden.
North Sea Court: The international
commission of Inquiry into the North
sea incident rendered a decision which
was a practical compromise favoring
Great Britain.
Russo-Japanese War: Desperate fight-
ing at Che and Ta passes between the
Russians and Japanese, the Russians
holding their ground.
Sir Wemyss Reid, noted English au-
thor and journalist, in London; aged
63.
Fires: In New Orleans; loss of $5,000,009
by flames along the river front. Hot
Springy Ark., suffered a loss of $2,000,-
000.
27. Obituary:
Notable Period of the World Covering Acuon
From Day to Day--A Far-Reaching and Most In-
......,.teresti.ng.Clyon,Q ogical Review.
cended the throne- St Christiania.
29. Personal: Edwin V. Morgan, former
United States minister to Korea, ap-
pointed minister to Cuba, vice Herbert
G. Squiers, resigned.
Russia: Russian mutineers at Sevastopol
conquered after a severe battle.
DECEMBER.
2. Sporting: Army and navy football
game at Princeton resulted in a tie;
score 6 to 6.
8. Obituary: John Bartlett, compiler of
“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” at
Cambridge, Mass.; aged 76.
4. Political: Premier Balfour tendered
the resignation of the British cabinet.
, Pound Work is Family
■ Work Rough Dried
1 hone Us Today
Ex-Governor George S.
Boutwell of Massachusetts, former
United States senator from that state
and former secretary of the United
States treasury, at Groton, Mass.;
aged 87.
Russia: Peasant riots in various cities
of Russian Poland. Maxim Gorky, au-
thor and revolutionary agitator, re-
leased from prison and immediately
rearrested.
Accident: 23 deaths in a mine explosion
at Wilcox, Va.
MARCH.
1. Obituary: Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stan-
ford, widow of United States senator
Leland Stanford of California, in Hon-
olulu.
Russo-Japanese War: Desperate coun-
ter attacks by the Russians at Muk-
den temporarily successful.
2. Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Kuroki
pushed his attack upon the Russian
left flank held by Gen. Linevitch. Jap-
anese cavalry suddenly appeared at
the neutral city of Simintin, 30 miles
northwest of Mukden, on the right
flank of Kuropatkin’s army.
8. Russia: The czar issued a liberal re-
script promising to convene a national
.assembly of elected representatives.
Russo-Japanese War; Gen. Oku’s force
turned the Russian right flank at Muk-
den.
4. Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Nogi, with
the Port Arthur soldiers, swept down
from the northwest upon the right,
flank of the Russians at Mukden,
forcing Kuropatkin to retreat.
Political: Close of the Fifty-eighth con-
gress. Theodore Roosevelt inaugurat-
ed president.
Accident: 15 killed and 30 injured in a
wreck on the Fort Wayne at Ems-
worth, Pa.
6. Russo-Japanese War: Fierce conflict
northwest of Mukden between the
Japs under Gen. Nogi and the Rus-
sians under Gen. Kaulbars.
Obituary: Judge John H. Reagan, sole
survivor of the Confederate cabinet,
at Palestine, Tex.; aged 87.
7. Russo-Japanese War: Kuropatkin’s
forces repulsed in a desperate attempt
to retake their positions north of the
river Hun.
Fire: At Cedar Rapids, la., the Amer-
ican Cereal company’s plant destroy-
ed; loss, $1,500,000.
Strike: Train and station men of
Personal:
American
arrived In London. ]
Obituary: Gen. H. V. Boynton, noted
journalist, Federal veteran of the civil
war and president of the Chicka-
mauga Park association, in Atlantic
City; aged'70.
4. Fi :: In Milwaukee; loss of $300,000 by
the burning of the Milwaukee exhibi-
tion building.
6. Personal: Ci own P;
William of Prussia i
Duchess Cecilia of
Schwerin at Berlin,
11 deaths by Are and explo-
the Climax fuse works at
day bicycle race in New York city;
score 2,260 miles 6 laps.
Personal: Baroness von Suttner of
Austria awarded the Nobel peace
prize, valued a.t $40,000.
Obituary: Edward Atkinson, social
and political economist, In Boston;
aged 78.
Political: Change of ministry in Eng-
land. The porte accepted the terms of •
the powers concerning Macedonia.
13. Obituary: Sir Richard Claverhouse
Jebb, noted Greek scholar, in London;
aged 64.
14. Obituary: Gen. Herman Haupt,
war veteran and the oldest graduate
of the West Point Military academy,
at Jersey City; aged 88.
Conyention: Anthracite coal miners’
colfcrence begun at Shamokin, Pa.
Russia: The executive committee of the
labor unions arrested.in St. Petersburg.
Russia: Martial law in force through-
out the "
etl S-aies and one ot the czar’s peace
plenipotentiaries, arrived in New
York.
,5. Sporting: M. Thiery
national auto race fc
OCTOBER.
1. Fire: At Hiroshima, Japan; loss of
$5,000,000 by the burning of military
stores.
7. Sporting: Dan Patch paced a mile in
1:5514, breaking his own record of 1:56,
at Louisville, Ky.
10. Convention: Thirty-first annual con-
vention the American Bankers’ as-
sociation met in Washington.
12. Obituary: Josephine Shaw Lowell,
well known reformer and philanthro-
pist, in New York city; aged 62.
13. Obituary: Sir Henry Irving, the Eng-
lish actor, at Bradford, England; aged
67.
14. World’s Fair: Close of the Lewis and
Clark exposition at Portland, Ore.; at-
tendance for the entire fair period,
2,545,509. The Missouri building at the
fair, with valuable art treasures,
burned.
Russo-Japanese War: The emperors of
Russia and Japan signed the peace
treaty, officially ending the war.
18. Accident: 8 people killed and 35 in-
jured by a tornado at Sorento, Ill.
19. Personal: The Danish court announc-
ed that Prince Charles of Denmark
would accept the crown of Norway.
21. Celebration: Centenary of the naval
battle of Trafalgar and the death of
the British commander, Lord Nelson,
celebrated in the British dominions.
22. Personal: Admiral Togo made a public
entry of Tokyo to report to the mika-
do the return of his fleet from the
war.
23. Personal: Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived
at San Francisco from Yokohama.
Obituary: Jerry Simpson, former con-
gressman and noted Populist leader, at
Wichita, Kan.; aged 63.
24. Chile: 50 persons killed and 500 wound-
ed in a riot at Santiago.
26. Russia: General strike of railway
men followed by rioting in the great
cities.
80. Accident: 13 killed and 30 injured in a
wreck on the Topeka and Santa Fe,
near Kansas City.
Russia: The czar issued a manifesto
granting civic liberty.
31. Sporting: Ed Bryan broke the world’s
two mile record by trotting In 4:45 at
Philadelphia.
Russia: The railway strike committee
decided to continue the strike In spite
of the czar’s liberal manifesto and de-
manded general amnesty.
NOVEMBER.
1. Russia: Riot and disorder at Odessa
and vicinity, accompanied by attacks
on the Jews.
8. Personal: Prince Louis of Battenberg,
bearing a message from King Edward
VII. to President Roosevelt, received
at the White House.
4. Russia: Czar Nicholas granted the de-
mands of Finland for autonomy in gov-
ernment as It existed before 1898. Am-
nesty ukase signed freeing political
prisoners and press censorship abol-
ished.
Storm: 30 killed and many injured by a
tornado at Mountain View, O. T.
5. Obituary: William T. Richards, fa-
mous American marine artist, at New-
port, R. I.; aged 72.
7. Obituary: Sir George Williams, found-
er of the Y. M. C. A., in London; aged
84. Lady Florence Dixie, author, ex-
plorer and woman’s rights champion,
at Glen Stuart, Scotland; aged 48.
8. Russia: Mutiny of Russian sailors at
Cronstadt accompanied by rioting and
pillage.
12. Russia:
$300,000 by the burning of docks along
the Willamette.
8. Fire: 7,000 houses burned In Adrian-
ople, the second city of European
Turkey; loss, $5,000,000.
4. Convention: The thirty-ninth encamp-
ment of the G. A. R. opened at Den-
ver.
6. Obituary; Gen. Bjornstjerna, distin-
guished Swedish soldier, diplomat and
legislator, at Stockholm; aged 86.
Hezekiah Butterworth, noted Amer-
ican author and editor, at Warren,
R. I.; aged 66.
6. Japan: Rioting in Tokyo because of
dissatisfaction with the peace treaty.
8. Earthquake: 18 villages destroyed in
the district of Calabria, Italy; 10,000
houses ruined and 2,500 people killed
or injured.
Personal: Corporal James Tanner elect-
ed commander in. chief of the G. A. R.
Accident: 19 workmen killed by an ex-
plosion in the Rand powder mills at
Fairchance, Pa.
10. Fire: At Chattanooga; loss of $500,000
by flames in the freight yards.
11. Accident: 17 people killed or fatally
injured by the fall of a cbaqh from
the elevated tracks In New York city.
12. Miscellaneous: Admiral Togo’s flag-
ship Mikasa destroyed by an explosion,
following a Are, in Sasebo harbor; 600
officers and men lost. -The Zambezi
bridge, the highest in the world, cross-
ing the gorge at Victoria falls, on the
Cape to Cairo line, formally opened.
15. Obituary: Comte de Brazza, noted
French
aged 55.
Accident:
sion in
Avon, Conn.
Tornado: A violent wind and rain storm
swept over eastern Nebraska and
western Iowa, causing many deaths
and heavy loss in property.
18. Miscellaneous: Rain-ln-the-Face, one
of the leading chiefs in the Custer
massacre and who boasted that he
killed Gen. Custer, died at the Stand-
ing Rock reservation. The annual en-
campment of the National Sons of
Veterans’ association opened at Get-
tysburg.
Obituary: George Macdonald, English
novelist, at Sagamore, Surrey, Eng-
land; aged 8L
19. Obituary: Dr. Thomas John Barnardo,
founder of numerous homes for poor'
boys in English cities, in London; aged
60.
22. Sporting: Audubon Boy equaled Star
4 the
elevated and subway transit lines in
New York city struck for shorter
hours and increased pay.
Obituary: A. M. Palmer, well known
theatrical manager, in New York city;
aged 67. Gabriel Jules Thomas, noted
sculptor, in Paris; aged 81.
Russo-Japanese War: Kuropatkin’s ar-
my abandoned its positions south of
Mukden.
9. Strike: Crand Chief Warren S. Stone
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers ordered the striking members
on the New York transit lines to re-
sume duty.
Russo-Japanese War: The Russians
continued to dispute with the Jap-
anese the roads leading from Mukden
northward.
Convention: Ninth national Congress
of Mothers opened in Washington.
Russo-Japanese War: Mukden occupied
T>y' the Japanese army, the Russians
being in full ^retreat.
11. Strike: Striking railway men In New
York abandoned the struggle by the
advice of their leader.
15. Shipwreck: British ship Khyber
wrecked on the Cornish coast during a
hurricane; 23 of the crew drowned.
Russo-Japanese War: Tie pass, the key
to the region around Mukden, captured
by the Japanese.
17. Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Linevitch
appointed to succeed Kuropatkin in
gpmmand of .the armj. In Manchuria.
Failure o: ;uo ne»v Russian loan in
Paris. Russia's war council decided toi
send 450,000 more men to Manchuria.
The Baltic fleet sailed from Madagas-
car.
Obituary: Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, ex-
United States senator from Connecti-
cut, former governor of that state and
a veteran of the civil war, in Wash-
ington; aged 79.
20. Accident: 75 workmen killed and many
injured by the explosion of a boiler in
the R. B. Grover company’s shoe fac-
tory at Brockton, Mass.
South America: Ultimatum by France
to Venezuela stopping the seizure of
French property; French warships or-
dered to La Guayra.
21. South America: The United States
proposed arbitration in the Venezuelan
dispute.
24. Obituary: Jules Verne,
thor, at Amiens; aged 77.
South America: President
Venezuela refused
the United States.
15. Obituary: Maurice
American actor, at
aged 58.
31. Political: In a speech to German sub-
jects at Tangier the kaiser declared
that the integrity of Morocco would
be maintained.
APRIL.
2. Simplon Tunnel: Tunnel at the Sim-
plon pass in the Alps, the longest in
the world, Inaugurated by the passing
"''Of trains from the Swiss and Italian
sides.
4. Earthquake: 15,000 deaths reported by
an earthquake in India which affected
an area of 700 square miles, rendering
every building uninhabitable.
6. Labor Troubles: Teamsters’ strike be-
gun at Chicago.
7. Personal: King Edward VII. of Eng-
land arrived in Paris and held a con-
ference with President Loubet of
France.
9. Obituary: Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(Susan Coolidge), writer of children’s
stories, at Newport, R. L; aged 70.
11. Convention: Fifth triennial meeting of
the National Council of Women open-
ed in Washington.
14. Fire: Business section of Springvale,
Me., burned; loss, $300,000.
Paul Jones: The remains of Paul Jones,
naval hero of the American Revolu-
tion, discovered in Paris after a five
years’ search under direction of United
States Ambassador Horace Porter.
Labor Troubles: Strike of railroad op-
eratives in Italy.
Political: W. W. Russell appointed
minister to Venezuela to succeed H.
W. Bowen, who was recalled to meet
charges made by former Minister
Francis B. Loomis. •>.
80. Russia: Religious liberty granted to
certain denominations by Czar Nich-
olas II.
Accident: 13 miners killed in an ex-
plosion at Wilburton, Okla.
MAY.
L Russia: Workmen’s riots suppressed
by troops in Warsaw.
2. Convention: Sixteenth annual con-
gress "of the Sons of the American
Revolution opened in Philadelphia.
3. Strike Troubles: Riot and bloodshed
by strikers in Chicago.
4. Sporting: George Hackenschmidt de-
feated Tom Jenkins for the world’s
championship at catch-Ss-catch-can
wrestling in New York.
5. Fire: St. Joseph, Mo.; loss of $500,000
by the burning of Roberts-Parker
wholesale grocery.
9. Storm: 26 deaths in Tornado at Mar-
quette, Kan.
Schiller Centenary: One hundredth an-
niversary of the death of the poet
Schiller celebrated in Germany and
the United States.
Convention: Thirty-seventh annual re-
union of the Society of the Army of
the Potomac at Manassas, Va.
Fire: Utica, N. Y.; loss of $-150,000.
Sporting: Agile won the Kentucky
Derby.
Storm: Over 100 deaths In a tornado at
Snyder, Okla., and vicinity.
11. Convention: American Bible society
held its eighty-ninth annual meeting
in New York.
Accident: 22 killed and 34 injured in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at
South Harrisburg, Pa.
12. Obituary: Emerson Bennett, noted
writer of fiction, in Philadelphia; aged
83.
13. Obituary: Hiram Cronk, last surviving
soldier of the war of 1812, at Ava, N.
Y.; aged 105.
14. Obituary: Jessie Bartlett Davis, the
light opera singer, in Chicago; aged
46. PI. M. Ticknor, educator, lecturer
and journalist, in San Francisco; aged
69.
15. Convention: American Federation of
Musicians met in Detroit.
16. Conventions: First joint meeting since
the civil war of the Baptists of the
north and south at St. Louis. Tenth
annual meeting of the National Manu-
facturers’ association at Atlanta. As-
sociation of American Physicians met
in Washington.
17. Yacht Race: Contest for the $5,000
kaiser’s cup began at Sandy Hook.
18. Convention: General assembly of the
Presbyterian church opened at Wino-
na, Ind. ,
21. Obituary: Mrs. R. Ogden Doremus,
formerly prominent In New York so-
ciety.. in that city; aged 75. Albion W.
Chief Events of a
brew scholar and one of the reviseis
of the Bible, in New Haven; aged 90.
Storm: 1,000 persons drowned by a
cloudburst at Guanajuato, Mexico.
Convention: National educational con-
vention met at Asbury Park, N. J.
Obituary: Prof. Jacques Reclus, fa-
mous geographer, in Brussels; aged 75.
Sporting: New world’s record for autos
made at Morris park, New York, by
Webb Jay, who drove his machine a
mile tn 48 4-5 seconds.
Convention: Twenty-second internation-
al Christian' Endeavor gathering, in
Baltimore.
Russo-Japanese War: Baron Rosen, the
new Russian ambassaipr to the Unit-
The Haya bird of India has the curious
habit of fastening fireflies to its nest with
moist day. On a dark night such a nest
might be taken for an electric street
lamp. 3
1. Personal:
King Alfonso of Spain in Paris.
2. Accident: 18 deaths by the sinking of
the Mississippi river steamer H. M.
Carter at the mouth of Red river.
3. Shipwreck: 23 lives lost by the sinking
of the British bark Afghanistan in
collision with the battleship Caesar
off Dungeness.
Russo-Japanese War: Three Russian
cruisers under Admiral Enquist which
escaped in the battle in the strait of
Korea reached Manila.
Whitelaw Reid,
ambassador to
Farfadet sank in the port of Sidi Ad-
dallah, Tunis, carrying down 12 men.
8. Obituary: Walter Kittredge, author of
“Tenting Tonight,” at Manchester,
N. H.
Fire: At Meridian, Miss.; loss of $200,000
by the burning of the Gulf cotton com-
press plant.
Russia: The battleship Kniaz Potem-
kine delivered to the Roumanian au-
thorities by its mutinous crew.
Sporting: May Sutton of Pasadena,
Cal., won the woman’s tennis cham-
pionship of the world in London,
ful won the Brighton handicap.
10. Russo-Japanese War: Japan hoisted
her flag over Russian soil by seizing
the island of Sakhalin.
Obituary: John Selby, famous scout,
who was with Gen. Zachary Taylor in
the Mexican war, at Tacoma, Wash.
11. Accident: 126 miners killed by the ex-
plosion of fire damp at Wattstown,
Wales.
Russia: Count Shuvaloff, prefect of po-
lice at Moscow, assassinated.
15. Fire: The historic Stokes mansion at
Lenox, Mass., destroyed; loss, $100,000.
19. Weather: Hottest July 19 on record In
T^ew York city; 63 deaths from heat.
Russia: Zemstvo congress opened at
Moscow.
Personal: Elihu Root qualified as secre-
tary of state.
20. Labor Troubles: The Chicago team-
. sters’ strike, which began April 7,
ende'd in the unconditional surrender
of the strikers.
21. Paul Jones: The United States neet
bearing the remains of Paul Jones ar-
rived in Virginia waters.
Naval Disaster: Boilers of the United
States gunboat Bennington, lying at
San Diego, Cal., exploded, causing the
death, all told, of 66 of her crew.
22. Fire: A $100,000 blaze in Auburn, N. Y.
9. Russia: A national representative as-
sembly summoned by the czar.
1. Storm: 21 killed and many missing in
a storm which swept over southern
Minnesota.
Obituary: Mary Mapes Dodge, author,
poet and editor of St. Nicholas, at
Tanners ville, N. Y.; aged 67.
12. Earthquake: Severe shock felt in
southern Illinois, Tennessee and Ken-
tucky.
23. Convention: Twentieth annual meet-
ing of the American Bar association
at Narragansett Pier, R. I.
25. Personal: President Roosevelt went
down in the submarine boat Plunger
in Long Island sound.
26. Peace Conference: The ultimatum of
Czar Nicholas that Russia would not
pay indemnity received by the peace
envoys at Portsmouth.
Sporting: Ormondale won the $53,680 Fu-
turity at Sheepshead Bay.
27. Peace Conference: President Roose-
velt made a final appeal to the mikado
to modify Japan’s peace terms.
28. Shipwreck: 20 seamen drowned by the
wrecking of the steamer Peconic off
Florida.
Convention: Interparliamentary
gress opened in Brussels.
Peace Conference: The mikado ordered
further concessions to Russia in order
to insure peace.
29. Peace Conference: Terms agreed upon
by the envoys at Portsmouth, Russia
retaining half of the island of Sak-
halin and paying no Indemnity to
Japan for the cost of the war.
Fire: At Johnstown, Pa.; loss of $1,250,-
000 by the burning of the Penn Traffic
stores.
30. Earthquake: Shocks felt along the
New Hampshire coast line.
Financial: Ernest Cronier, French sugar
king, failed for $21,000,000.
Eclipse: Total eclipse of the sun lasting
from two and one-half to three min-
utes observable from northern Africa
Obituary: Francesco Tamagno, noted
tenor, at Varese, Italy; aged 48.
Accident: John E. Baldwin and his air-
ship blown to atoms by dynamite
while 1,500 feet in air at Greenville, O.
SEPTEMBER.
Accident: 10 people killed and 20 hurt
in a wreck oft the Great Eastern rail-
way at Witham, England.
I Like its predecessor,., tha.
year 1905; 7sj iloteiljle .aS a? period ;to/Aj:e :
from in tfie’h’ffe’tofy b'ftlfd wffi* tfetwderf ’
Russia and Japan. The year opened
with the fall of Port Arthur after a
prolonged and stubborn contest in
Which 150,000 men took part and the
casualties totaled 70,000 (estimated).
The Russian land forces were signally
defeated at Mukden in March, and in
May the Russian Baltic fleet was prac-
tically annihilated in the strait of Korea
by the Japanese fleet under Admiral
Togo. On the initiative of President
Roosevelt negotiations for a peace con-
ference were begun in June, and ses-
sions were opened in Portsmouth, N.
H., in August which ended in the con-
clusion of a treaty of peace signed by
the emperor of Russia and the emperor
of Japan Oct. 14. Hostilities in this
war continued approximately one year
and four months, and the estimated
cost of the conflict Is over $3,000,000,-
000. The total battle casualties are
placed at over 400,000.
During the year the internal troubles
of Russia reached an acute stage and
resulted in the granting of civic privi-
leges which in their entirety amount to
a social and political revolution and the
effacement of the autocracy.
Among the political events of the
year were the dissolution of the union
under one crown of Sweden, and Nor-
way and the establishment of the inde-
pendent kingdom of Norway with
Prince Charles of Denmark on the
throne. Venezuela became Involved in
disputes with the United; States and
France over concessions to the subjects
of those two countries, and the Euro-
pean powers, with the exception of
Germany, united in a demonstration to
bring Turkey to terms in the matter of
Macedonia.
The obituary list of the year includes
Joseph Jefferson, Fitz-Hugh Lee, Mary
Mapes Dodge, Mary A. Livermore and
John Hay, in America, and George
Macdonald and Sir Henry Irving, in
'England.
Four crops made new high records
for the year in tills country as to value
—corn, hay, wheat and rice—although
In amount of production the corn crop
is the only one of the four that exceeds
previous yields. In every crop the gen-
eral level of production was high and
that of prices still higher.
JANUARY.
1. Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Stoessel
Offered to surrender Port Arthur to
Gen. Nogi.
2. Russo-Japanese War: Capitulation of
Port Arthur.
8. Russo-Japanese War: Japanese offi-
cials took possession of Port Arthur.
4. Obituary: Theodore Thomas, noted or-
chestra leader, in Chicago; aged 70.
5. Russo-Japanese War: Fraternization
of foes at Port Arthur. Russian offi-
cers and officials allowed to return to
Russia on parole and the men held as
prisoners of war.
7. Fire: In Kansas City, Mo.; loss of
$500,000 by the burning of a wheat ele-
vator.
8. Russo-Japanese War: Transfer of
Port Arthur prisoners completed; 878
officers and 23,491 men surrendered.
11. Labor Troubles: 70,000 coal miners on
a strike in Germany.
18. Labor Troubles: Strike of the cotton
mill operatives at Fall River, Mass.,
which began July 25, 1904, settled
through the mediation of Governor
Douglas.
19. Obituary: George H. Boughton, noted
American artist in England, in Lon-
don; aged 69.
10. Labor Troubles: Strikers in St. Peters-
burg repulsed in an attempt to present
a petition to the czar.
U. South American Affairs: The United
States assumed temporary protectorate
of the republic of Santo Domingo.
12. Labor Troubles: Striking Russian
workmen, led by Father Gopon, fired
upon while attempting to reach the
czar to present their grievances; heavy
loss of life reported.
B4. Sporting: Arthur E. MacDonald of
England lowered the world’s automo-
bile record for five miles held by W. K.
Vanderbilt from 3:311-5 to 3:17 at Or-
mond, Fla.
Russia: St. Petersburg declared In a
state of siege on account of revolution-
ary demonstrations. Gen. Trepoff, chief
of police of Moscow, appointed gov-
ernor of the troubled capital.
25. Russia: Maxim Gorky, the Russian
author, arrested as one of the leaders
in the revolutionary movements.
Russo-Japanese War: Fighting began
on the Sha, Kuropatkin’s army taking
the offensive.
fcj. Russo-Japanese War: Russian attack
on the Japanese line on the Sha re-
pulsed by Oyama’s army, with heavy
loss to the awailants.
17. Labor Troubles: Collisions between
strikers and troops in various cities of
Russia. A general strike begun in
Warsaw, Poland.
Russo-Japanese War: End of the fight-
ing on the Sha; losses reported for the
three days’ battles, 30,000 Russians and
10,000 Japanese.
FEBRUARY.
1. Accident: 9 women killed and 5 injur-
ed by the collision of a sleigh with a
train at Hornellsville, N. Y.
Russia: Prince Sviatopolk-Mlrsky, the
liberal minister of the interior of Rus-
sia, resigned.
Obituary: Oswald Achenbach, well
known painter of the Dusseldorf
school, at Dusseldorf; aged 78.
4. Obit uary: Louis Ernst Barrias, notea
French sculptor, in Paris; aged 64.
8. Santo Domingo: A pact revising and
amending the convention of Jan. 20
between the United States and Santo
Domingo signed at Santo Domingo.
Political; Oscar of Sweden anfl
7. Convention: The national council of
the^General Federation of Women’s
ClulBs met at Atlantic City.
Obituary: Beriah Wilkins, editor and
proprietor of the Washington Post, in
Washington; aged 59.
8. Shipwreck: British submarine boat
A-8 lost off Plymouth with 14 of her
crew. «
Obituary: Prince Leopold of Hohenzol-
lern, whose nomination to the throne
of Spain caused the Franco-Prussian
war in 1870, in Berlin; aged 70.
9. Financial: Thomas F. Ryan acquired
a controlling interest in the Equitable
Life Assurance society; Paul Morton,
former secretary of navy, chosen
chairman of the board of directors.
10. Flood: Sudden rise of the Mississippi
. river caused a loss of $3,000,000 in
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
Russo-Japanese War: President Roose-
velt’s suggestion for a peace confer-
ence accepted by Russia and Japan.
12. Fire: At Fort Worth, Tex.; loss of
$450,000 by the burning of a packing
plant.
14. Convention: Reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans at Louisville.
15. Sporting: Beldame won the Suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
16. Fire: At Fort Francis, Ont.; the busi-
ness section destroyed; loss, $200,000.
17. Accident: 23 killed and many injured
in a wreck on the Western Maryland
railroad at Patapsco, Md.
Obituary: Gen. Maximo Gomez, the
Cuban leader, at Havana; aged 74.
18. Fire: At—Pemaukee, Wis.; loss of $225,-
000 by the burning of the Armour ice
plant.
Russo-Japanese War: Washington cho-
sen as the meeting place of the Rus-
. sian and Japanese plenipotentiaries.
19. Convention: The Interstate National
Guard association met in St. Paul.
20. Political: H. W. Bowen, former min-
ister to Venezuela, dismissed from the
diplomatic service.
21. Accident: The Twentieth Century
Limited wrecked by an open switch at
Mentor, O.; 6 deaths.
23. Russia: Battle between troops and
strikers at Lodz, Poland; 50 citizens
killed and 200 wounded.
25. Political: The Chinese exclusion law
defined by the president.
Fire: At Nashville; loss of $500,000 in the
shopping district.
27. Personal: John Findlay Wallace, chief
engineer of the Panama canal, resign-
ed.
Sporting: Yale defeated tlarvard 7 to 2
at baseball at New Haven.
28. Accident: 9 deaths in a' dynamite ex-
plosion at Emporium, Pa.
Sporting: Cornell won the eight oared
varsity races at Poughkeepsie; time,
4 miles, 20 minutes 29 2-5 seconds; 2
miles, 9 minutes 3 2-5 seconds.
Russia: Strike disorders at Odessa; loss
of $30,000,000 by incendiary fires. Tho
Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkine,
in the hands of mutineers, appeared
in the harbor and trained her guns
on the cityi s
29. Convention: The National Equal Suf-
frage association met at Portland,
Ore. t
Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard in the
varsity boat race at New London;
time, 4 miles, 22 minutes 32 2-5 seconds.
30. Personal: John F. Stevens appointed
chief engineer of the Panama canal.
Charles F. Bonaparte installed as sec-
retary of p.avy, vice Paul Morton, re-
signed.
x Obituary: Gen. Hugh Boyle Ewing, sol-
dier, author and diplomat, at Lancas-
ter, O.; aged 79.
JULY.
1. Obituary: John Hay, United States
secretary of state, at Newbury, N. H.;
aged 67. 7
2. Obituary: Rev. George Day, noted He-
Tourgee, noted writer and lecturer
and United States consul at Bor-
deaux, in that city; aged 67.
Fire: Wilkesbarre, Pa,; loss, $300,000.
23. Obituary: Mary A. Livermore, writer
and reformer, at Melrose, Mass.; aged
85.
Financial: Merchants’ Trust company
closed its doors in New York.
25. Financial: Burnett, Cummings & Co.,
bankers, failed in Boston; liabilities,
$1,714,000.
Sporting:
handicap.
27, 28. Rusfto-Japanese War: Battle in the
strait of Korea between the Russian
fleet under Admiral Rojestvensky and
the Japanese under Admiral Togo; 22
Russian ships captured or destroyed.
Russian loss estimated at 10,000 to
15,000 killed, wounded and captured.
Togo reported a loss of 3 Japanese
torpedo boats and 113 Japanese killed
and 424 wounded. Rojestvensky
wounded and captured, Admiral Ne-
bogatoff captured and Admiral Voel-
kersam killed. w
28, Convention: National conference on
agriculture opened at Rome.
Exposition: The Lewis and Clark Cen-
tennial exposition opened at Portland,
Ore.
29, Sporting: American schooner yacht
Atlantic finished first in the interna-
tional race for the kaiser’s cup; time,
12 days and 2 hours, the fastest ever
made by a sailing yacht for the dis-
tance, 2,955 miles.
80. Personal: King Alfonso of Spain ar-
rived in Paris.
workmen buried by
an irrigation tunnel
Martial law proclaimed
throughout Poland. Political uprising
and riot at Vladivostok.
13. Convention: Congress of the American
Federation of Labor opened at Pitts-
burg.
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