Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR

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14EEnd of strike of lake captains.
lo-B Burning of steamer General Slocum
IN East River New York; COO persons per-
lsh Vladiyostok squadron sinks two
Japanese transports, destroying 1000 lives.
ls-American Derby in Chicago Won by
Highball.
2o-Five thousand Russians killed and
wounded at Haicheng.
2l-Republican national convention opens
in Chicago.
% Roosevelt and Fairbanks nominated in
Chicago.
2627-Japanese defeat Russians In two
days fight at Dalin Hill
2S-Death Of Dan Emett, composer of
Dixie" -. Nine million acres of land
thrown open to settlement in Nebraska.
29-Steamer Norge lost in North Atlantic
Ocean; over 200 persons perish.
July.
twenty persons killed In Wabash
wreck at Litchfield Ill.
o.People,s party national convention
nomlnates Watson and Tibbles
o-Democratlc national convention meets
IN 81. Louis. -. Heavy rains cause great
floods in Kansas
9-Democratic convention nominates AL
ton b. Parker for President
lO-Henry G. Davis named for Vice Pres
ldent by Democratic convention - Mar
biehead, Ohio, wrecked by explosion -. IL
killed and 90 injured In train wreck at Mid
Ndie, N. j..
1l-Thirty thousand Japanese killed or
wounded In attack on Port Arthur.
l2-Strike of $4,000 packing house en-
ployes begins in Western cities 49, Death
OF Mayor s. NJ. Golden Rule) Jones in To-
ledo. o. -. 200 lives lost In cloudburst and
Hood near Manila
&c. & E. |. excursion train wrecked
at Glenwood, III; "a killed and - injured.
14--Death of Paul Kruger
22-24-Ritous times at Bonesteel. S. D.
24-Russians evacuate Newchwang after
two-days' battle. -. Russians sink British
steamship Knight Commander off LEU.
2t-England protests to Russia regarding
sinking OF steamship knight Commander
2S-Drawing for Rosebud reservation land
begun in Chamberlain, S. ID.
August.
death of Ex-Governor Robt E. Patti
son of Pennsylvania
illinois Central train robbed near Har-
yey, Ill. -. Death of Mrs Nelson A. Miles,
british expedition enters Lhassa, the
forbidden city,
4-S-Japanese attack Port Arthur.
1-Wreck on Rio Grande railway near
Pinop. Col, causes 100 deaths.
death OF ex-senator Geo. G. Vest OF
1o-Former Premier Wadeck- Rousseau Of
France dies. Naval battle off Port Ar
thur.
1s-Turkey yields to demands of United
States in regard I American schools.
14-Russian Via livostok squadron defeat
ed by Japanese in Straits of Corea.
10 Mob burns two negroes at stake in
Hannah at Traverse city, Mich.
19-T0rnado in North st. Louis. -. Gen
eral attack on Port Arthur.
Colorado in st. Paul. Minneapolis and
vicinity kills 16 persons ard causes $1,000
900 loss.
21-Russian cruiser Nov,k beached after
two days fight. -. Russians win battle at
Port Arthur
(tot 10 H. - T.
September.
Japanese take Laio-yrng
Big fire in Memphis, Tenn
Tenement house tre in New York ends
IA lives.
S-Stockyards strike in Chicago is ended.
-. Death of Rev. Geo. G. Lorimer
11-Russian cruiser Lena arrives In port
at San Francisco.
1S-Death of Prince Herbert Bismarck
19-Two million dollar wharf fire liz Hal
flax, n. S. WsI
21-Peter Karageors evitch crowned King
of Servia
24-sixty-two persons killed in train
wreck near Knoxville, Tenn. -. Mt. Vesu-
yius in eruption.
26-Death of Lafcadio Hearn, author
2S-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-
eral Henry C. Payne dies
10-Robert ]. Wynne appointed Postmas-
ter General Missouri Pacific wreck
near Warrensburg, Mo-, kills 20 people
11-Steamer Call sinks Off Prince Ed
wards Island; 10 lives lost
liking George of Saxony dies. -.
Famine in Swedish province Of Goteburg-
Bohus. Russians lose great battle near
Yenta
13-17-Great battle south of Mukden.
22-Russian Baltic fleet fires upon English
fishing boats and sinks two Of them.
24-England demands reparation for sink
ing of fishing boats by Russian feet.
26-Russia sends note of apology to Eng
land
27-Mrs Rae Krauss confesses murder of
stepdaughter in Hartford City, Ind.
2Sz-Ex-Governor Geo. K. Nash of Ohio
drops dead. -. England and Russia agree
to refer North Sea affair to arbitration
court. -. Twenty-one miners killed by
mine explosion in Teroio, Col.
November.
3-French steamer GiroHde sunk in col
lision off Herbillon, Algiers, and 100 lives
lost.
S-Roosevelt nd Fairbanks elected by
unprecedented I ijorities.
13-Gale SWEEPS Atlantic Coast States.
16-Russian torpedo boat destroyer Ras-
toropny blown up In harbor of Che-Foo
y
kills IA miners. -. Gas explosion in Chi
cago kills four men.
19-Burning of Missouri building at the
Worlds Fair; one fireman killed -. w. C.
Z. Breckenridge dies.
2O-Twelve persons lose lives la burning
of Brooklyn, n. Y, tenemelts. -. 100000
fire in business section of Cincinnati.
23-Steamer Elpis lost in Black Sea, with
II persons aboard.
29-Death of Madame Janauschek, famous
actress.
December.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in ST.
Louis closes. -. Seventh Inauguration of
President Diaz of Mexico. 49,. Haley Gipe
found guilty of manslaUghter at Newcastle,
Ind -. i. Peter Nissen, inventor of a roller
boat dies in contrivance on Lake Michigan.
2-Death of Mrs. G. II. Gilbert, veteran
actress.
5-Death Of ex-Postmaster General James
n. Tyner 49, Opening Of last session Of
5Sth Congress
S-Japanese wipe out Russian fleet at
Port Arthur.
l3-Big fire Ia Minneapolis.
21-Death of ex-senator George L. Shoup
of Idaho. 49,. Congress adjourns for holiday
recess.