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be maintained.
 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.
 {. Earthquake: 15.000 deaths reported by an earthquake in India which affected an area of 700 square miles, rendering every building uninhabitable. & Labor Troubles: Teamsters' strike be- gun at Chicago.
 [. Personal: King Edward VII. of Eng land arrived in Paris and held con- ference with President Loubet of France.
 g. Obituary: Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Susan Coolidge), writer of children's stories, at Newport R. l.; aged 70. Il. Conventions: Fifth triennial meeting of the National Council of Women open ed in Washington. A. 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 five years search under direction of United States Ambassador Horace Porter. Is. Labor Troubles: Strike of railroad op- eratives in Italy.
 Russo Japanese War: The Russian Bal 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. $200,00O.
 Fatal Fire: 14 deaths in the burning of
 af Ia a. 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 8. Obituary: Joseph Jefferson, veteran American actor. at Palm Beach, Fla !; aged 16.
 6. Shooting Affray: men of prominence, including a congressman, killed in a
 political shooting affray at Hemp stead. Tex.
 q. Fire at Milwaukee,; loss, $3O0,0o Labor Troubles: Over 5000 Chicago teamsters out on a strike.
 Convention: Meeting of the Y. W. c. A. in Detroit.
 2S. Accident: IF miners killed by explo- sion in the Elanora shaft at Big Run, Pa.
 Obituary: General Fitz-Hugh Lee, noted
 Confederate veteran, former United
 States consul general at Havana, in
 Washington; aged 70. @. Accident: Special train bearing dele gates of the educational conference at
 Columbia, s. C.. wrecked at Green
 vile, s. C.; trainmen killed and sew
 eral prominent persons, including St.
 Clair McKelway, editor of the Brook
 lyn Eagle, injured.
 ahn
 Chicago.
 Tornado: Nearly 100 people killed. sev-
 eral hundred injured and 15o houses
 destroyed by a windstorm at Laredo,
 Tex.
 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. s0 Russia: Religious liberty granted to certain denominations by Czar Nich- olas II.
 | Accident: 13 miners killed In an ex. plosion at Wilburton, okla. Fl
 MAY. 1. Russia: Workmen's riots suppressed by troops in Warsaw. | 2 Convention: Sixteenth annual con
 gress of the Sons of the American | htNOlutlOn OpeIleu ! g. Strike Troubles: Riot and bloodshed
 by strikers in Chicago. ! Sporting: George Hackenschmidt de feated Tom Jenkins for the worlds championship at catch-as-catch-car wrestling in New York 6 Fire: St. Joseph, Mo-; loss of $500. .0O
 by the burning of Roberts Parker wholesale grocery.
 g. storm 20 deaths in Tornado at Mar. quette, Kan. ! Schiller Centenary: One hundredth an niversary of the death of the poe Schiller celebrated in Germany and the United States. ! 10. Convention: Thirty-seventh annual re union of the Society of the Army oi | the Potomac at Manassas, Va Fire: Utica, N. r.; loss of sl50.0oo. Sporting: Agile won the Kentucky ! Derby.
 Storm: Over loo deaths in a tornado q i Snyder. okla. and vicinity. ' II. Conventions: American Bible society held it's eighty-ninth annual meeting | fin New York.
 Accident: g killed and s4 injured in { wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad al
 South Harrisburg. Pa ' F. Obituary; Emerson Bennett. notet I writer of fiction. fin Philadelphia; ageC | S.
 V 1s Obituary: Hiram Cronk. last surviving -soldIer of the war of lslZ at Ava. N Y.: aged i05.
 lL Obituary. Jessie Bartlett Davis, thu
 light opera singer. in Chicago; aget R H. M Ticknor. educator, lecturel
 and journalist. in San Francisco; aget ' O.
 | IS. Convention: American Federation o Musicians met in Detroit. | 1s Conventions: First joint meeting sinc'
 the civil war of the Baptists of thu
 north and south at St Louis. Tentl
 annual meeting of the National Manu faeturers' association at Atlanta As
 sociatIOn of American Physicians me in Washington. | IF. Yacht Race: Contest for the iS.o0
 kaiser's cup began at Sandy Hook iS Convention. General assembly of thu Presbyterian church opened ct Who
 na. Ind.
 \ n. Obituary: Mrs. R Ogdens Doremus
 formerly prominent in New York co
 ciety. in that city: aged .. Albion "
 TourEee. noted writer and lecturei and United States consul at Bor
 deaux. in that city. aged q. | Fire: Wilkesbarre. Pa: loss. fsO.oo0 i a Obituary: Mary A. I1vermore. write
 and reformer. at Msirose. Mass; age' Financial. Merchantg Trust companl
 close,i it's doors In New York. s. Financial. Burnett. Cummings q Go.
 bankers. failed h Boston: liabilities | u1Lea
 sporting: DsIh won the Brooklyn | handicap.
 q, zx Rasso-Japanese War. Rattle In thi ! strait of Korea between the Russiai neef under Admiral Ratestvensky an.
 the Iaparese under Admiral Togo.
 Russian chips captured or destroyed
 Russian loss estimated at Nqoc C
 IsHe killed. wounded and captured
 Togo reported a ioss Of Japanes
 torpedo boats and lD Jspaness kille'