Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-01-13
EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR
END of strike Of lake capta,ns.

slf-EnQ OF SLrlKe OF lake CAPTAINS.
15-Burnfng Of steamer General Slocum
in East River, New York; 1000 persons per-
ism. Vladtvostok squadron sinks two
japanese transports. destroying 1000 lives.
Highball
2o-Five thousand Russians killed and
wounded at Haicheng.
21-,Republican national convention opens
23-Roosevelt and Fairbanks nominated in
o9sssE0. ae.aE&J.panese defeat Russians in two.
days fight at Dalin Hill
8-Death Of Dan Emett, composer Of
Dixie" -. Nine million acres Of land
2s-steamer Norge lost in North Atlantic
ocean; over 100 persons perish.
July.
STwenty persons killed in wabash
wreck at Litchheld, ILL.,
o.People's party national convention
nominates Watson and Tibbles.
SDsmocratic national convention meets
a. nnn5. st Il LeR.s: Heavy rains cause great
'Denocratic convention nominates Al
| ton B. Parker for President.
q, l1Henry G. Davis named for Vice Pres
biehead, Ohio, wrecked BY explosion. -. II
kiiieo ana % injured In train wreck at Mid
11-Thirty thousand japanese killed or
wounded in attack on Port Arthur.
dIstrike Of 5000 packing house EN-
pr ptoyes begins In Western cities; Death
ledo, o. .... 200 lives lost in cloudburst and
flood near Manila.
- 1@c; siac E. !. excursion train wrecked wrecked
death Of Paul Kruger.
2aZ-24-Ritous times at Bonesteel. 8. D.
aLRussians evacuate Newchwang after
| steamship Knight Commander off IZu.
N.England protests to Russia regarding
singing ae OF steamship Knight Commander:
| 2S-Drawing for Rosebud reservation land
| Degun In Chamberlain, S. D.
August.
son Of Pennsylvania.
Illinois Central train robbed near Har-
@British expedition enters Lhassa, the
forbidden city,
4-szz!Japanese attack Port Arthur.
0Wreck on Rio Grande railway near
Pinon, Col, causes 100 deaths.
death of ex-senator Geo. G. Vest Of
1o-Former Premier waldeck-Rousseau Of
thur.
Turkey yields to demands Of United
States in regard to American schools.
1ERussian Vladivostok squadron defeatS
ed by japanese in Straits Of Corea.
l6-Mob burns two negroes at stake ken IN
Hannah at Traverse city, Mich. A
19-Tornado in North st. Louis. 80. Cen
eral attack on Port Arthur.
2O.Tornado in st. Paul. Minneapolis % and
vicinity kills 16 persons and causes $3,OOO,-
600 loss.
21-Russian cruiser Novik beached after
2sCable line to Alaska is completed.
September.
| 1-Japanese take Laio-Yang.
3-Big fire in Memphis, Tenn.
Tenement house fire in New York ends
| "A lives.
s-stockyards 8 strike in Chicago is ended.
-: Death of Rev. Geo. c. Lorimer.
ctar7 nrr1v IN
1s,Death Of Prince Herbert Bismarck
1s.-Two million dollar wharf fire in Hal
21-Peter Karageorgevitch crowned King
of Servia.
2Asi1ty-two persons killed in train
2e-Death Of Lafcadio Hearn. author.
28-Japanese capture Ia Pass.
30-Death of Senator George Frisbie Hoar
! of Massachusetts.
death Of Sir William Vernon Har-
court.
death Of Frederic A. Bartholdi, IA
nous French sculptor. -. Postmaster-Gen-
erai Henry C. Payne dies.
ter General Missour ops0'fe Paeihe WrecE
: near Warrensburg, Mo-, kills % people.
11-Steamer Call sinks on Prince Ed
wards Island; 10 lives lost.
liking George Of sa1ony dies. ....
Famine in Swedish province Of Goteburg-
, Bohus. Russians lose great battle near
| Yentai
13-17-Great battle south of Mukden
22-Russian Baltic feet fires upon English
fishing boats and sinks two Of them.
2-England demands reparation for sink
ing Of fishing boats by Russian fleet.
26-Russia sends note Of apology to Eng
land.
stepdaughter in Hartford City, Ind.
| 2S-Ex-Governor Geo. K. Nash Of Ohio
drops dead: -. England and Russia agree
court. 80. Twenty-one miners killed By
mine explosion in Teroio, Col.
3+French steamer Gironde sunk in COL
lision of Herbillon, Algiers, and 100 lives
lost.
unprecedented majorities.
i3-Gale sweeps Atlantic Coast States
16-Russian torpedo boat destroyer Ras-
toropny blown up in harbor Of Che-Foo.
1S-Explosion in mine at Morrissey, Man.
kills IA miners. Gas explosion in Chi
{ cago kills four men,.
, 19-Burning Of Missouri building at the
D Worlds Fair; one fireman killed. -. W. C.
2O-Twelve persons lose lives in burning
| of Brooklyn, n. Y, tenements. 200
are in business section of Cincinnati.
j 23-Steamer Elpis lost in Black Sea. with
!; II persons aboard.
actress
| December ~
4 1-Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St.
Louis closes. -. Seventh Inauguration Of
President Diaz Of Mexico. -. Haley Gipe
found guilty of manslaughter at Newcastle,
q Ind -. Peter Nissen, inventor of a roller
boat, dies in contrivance on Lake Michigan.
death Of Mrs. G. n. Gilbert, veteran
|Death of ex-Postmaster General James
|, N. Tyner. opeoing of last session Of
5Sth Congress.
: s-Japanese wipe out Russian feet at
Port Arthur.
: 13-Big fire in Minneapolis.
21-Death of ex-senator George L. Shoup
= Of Idaho. -. Congress adjourns for holiday
recess.