Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-30

naval HERO or me american Reeoru;
ton, discovered In Paris after five
years search under direction Of United
States Ambassador Horace Porter.
f6 Labor Troubles: Strike Of railroed op-
eratfves In Italy.
Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Bal
tic feet reached Kamranh bay. Cochin
China
Convention: Fourteenth annual congress
OF the National Society OF Daughters
OF the American Revolution met In
Washington.
20. Fire: Vanderbilt university burned at
Nashville: loss. $4,000.
Fatal Fire: IL deaths in the burning of
a convent at Ste Genevieye. Quebec.
p Obituary: NJ. Paul Lessar, Russian
minister to China. at Picking; aged 81.
Financial: Collapse of the Gates May
wheat deal In Chicago.
Earthquake: Severe shocks In Virginia
y Obituary: Joseph Jefferson, veteran
American actor. at Palm Beach. Fla !:
aged sc.
= Shooting ARRAY: men of prominence.
including a congressman, killed in a
political shooting ARRAY at Hemp
stead. Tex
2. Fire at Milwaukee: loss. $4,000.
Labor Troubles: over 5000 Chicago
transfers out on a strike.
convention: Meeting of the Y. w. c. A.
in Detroit.
e. Accident: Il 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 20.
- Accident: Special train bearing dele
gates of the educational conference at
Columbia, s. C. wrecked at Green
vile, s. c.; 4 trainmen killed and sew
eraI prominent persons. including St
Clair McKefway. editor OF the Brook
lyn Eagle. injured.
Labor Troubles: Serious strike riots in
Chicago.
Tornado: Nearly 100 people killed, sew
eral hundred injured and $50 houses
destroyed by a windstorm at Laredo.
Political: w. W. Russell appointed
minister to Venezuela to succeed II.
w. Bowen. who was recalled to meet
charges made by former Minister
Francis y. Loomis
30 Russia: Religious liberty granted to
certain denominations by Car Mich
olas III.
Accident: Is miners killed In an ex-
plosion at Wilburton. Okla
MAY.
!. Russia: Workmens riots suppressed
by troops in Warsaw.
2 Convention: Sixteenth annual con-
gress of the Sons of the American
Revolution opened in Philadelphia
8. Strike Troubles: Riot and bloodshed
by strikers in Chicago.
4. Sporting: George Hackenschmidt de-
feated Tom Jenkins for the world $
championship at catch-as-catch-can
wrestling in New York.
6. Fire: st. Joseph. Mo-; loss of $500, 900
by the burning of Roberts-Parker
Wholesale grocery.
9. Storm: 20 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.
10. Convention: Thirty-seventh annual re-
union of the Society of the Army of
the Potomac at Manassas. Va.
Fire: Utica. n. Y; loss OF $4,000.
Sporting: Agile won the Kentucky
Derby.
Storm: over 100 deaths in tornado at
Snyder Okla. and vicinity. ~
IL. Convention: American Bible society
held its eighty ninth annual meeting
in New York.
Accident: % killed and 81 injured in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at
South Harrisburg, Pa
IL. Obituary: Emerson Bennett, noted
writer of fiction, in Philadelphia: aged
So.
Is. Obituary: Hiram Cronk. last surviving
soldier Of the war of 1872. at Ava. N.
": aged 105
Il Obituary: Jessie Bartlett Davis. the
light opera singer. in Chicago: aged
%. II. NJ. Ticknor. educator. lecturer
and journalist. in San Francisco: aged
g.
Is. Conventions: American Federation of
Musicians met In Detroit.
To- 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
ISOLATION of American Physicians met
I'm Washington.
Il. Yacht Race: Contest for the 5000 |
kaiser's cup began at Sandy Hook.
Is Convention: General assembly of the |
Presbyterian church opened at Vino |
ma. Ind.
4. Obituary: Mrs. r. Ogden Doremus, |
formerly prominent In New York So |
ciety. in that city: aged rs Albion w. |
Tourgee. noted writer and lecturer |
and United States consul at Bor-
deaux. in that city; aged 81.
Fire: Wilkesbarre. Pa: loss. 100000.
9. Obituary: Mary A. Livermore. writer |
and reformer. at Melrose. Mass; aged |
Financial: Merchants Trust company |
closed its doors in New York.
S. Financial: Burnett. Cummings & Co.
bankers. failed in Boston: liabilities. |
81. 14O0o.
Sporting: Delhi won the Brooklyn |
handicap.
z. IS. Russo-Japanese War: Battle in the /
strait of Korea between the Russian /
fleet under Admiral Rojestvensky and |
the Japanese under Admiral Togo; 2 /
Russian ships captured or destroyed. |
Russian loss estimated at 1000 to /
1900 killed. wounded and captured. /
Togo reported a loss of 3 Japanese
torpedo boats and lis Japanese killed /
and 424 wounded Rojestvensky |
wounded and captured, Admiral Ne
bogaton captured and Admiral Voel- |
kersam killed
s. Convention: National conference on
agriculture opened at Rome.
Exposition: The Lewis and Clark Gen.
tennia1 exposition opened at Portland. |
Ore.
.. Sporting: American schooner yacht |
Atlantic finished first IN the interna-
tional race for the kaiser's cup: time,
IL days and hours. the fastest ever /
made by sailing yacht for the dis
lance. 1856 miles.
o. Personal: King Alfonso OF Spain ar
rived IN Paris
Accident; los workmen buried by a
cavern in an irrigation tunnel at |
Montrose. Colo.
/ Sporting: Cicero won the English
Derby.