Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
CHRONOLOGY OF 1905.
BRIEF RECORD OF YEARS PRIN
ClPAL EVENTS.
Internal Disturbances In Russia and
Independence in Norway-Close
of the War In the East-Many
Great Names in List of Dead.


of the War In the Eazt-Many
Great Names in List of Dead.
Most significant of the events of
ably the memorable advance of man
kind toward high ideals of liberty,
justice and perfect civilization, is the
political and economic upheaval now
taking place in Russia. Wearying
under a load of taxation, rem
dered well-nigh unbearable by added
burdens imposed by the prosecu-
ton of disastrous war, the
peasantry and common people started
revolt against the tyrannical arts
tocracy, and have been able to force
from their unwilling ruler many con-
cessions tending toward free citizen
ship. Massacre and rapine, in which
the Jews were the chief sufferers, are
part of the price paid for the advan-
tage gained. Another impressive proof
of civilizations advance is the blood
less revolution by which Norway has
dissolved its political connection with
Sweden and seated a king upon its
long unusued throne. The recent ex-
posures of graft and fraud in high
financial circles and last summers la
Dor troubles in Chicago are only Incl
dents of the constant conflict being
waged for the establishment of JUS
tice and fair treatment between man
and man.
The Russo-Japanese war, after
brilliant series of land campaigns,
during which one after another of the
strongholds of the Russians in Man
churia fell into the hands of their OPP
ponents, and decisive battle on the
Sea of Japan, that is said to have been
one of the greatest naval contests of
all history, has been brought to
close, and largely, we believe, by
American influence.
The completion of the great Simplon
tunnel was the accomplishment of an
other great engineering feat, and the
Lewis and Clark Exposition in Port
land, Ore, presented to the world a
record of achievement in all lines.
Great disasters have been fewer
than usual, though tornadoes in Okla
homa and Kansas destroyed more
than five hundred lives, and earth
quakes, fire and railway wrecks have
done their dread work
The years list of famous dead con-
tains the names of many men and
women noted in the arts, statecraft,
philanthropy and business.
The principal events of 1905 are
briefly summarized below:
January.
2-Surrender of Port Arthur
.3-ToWboat Defender blown up on Ohio
River; 20 lives lost.
4-Death Of Theodore Thomas, orchestra
leader.
admiral Rojestvensky's flagship Kniaz
Souvaroff sunk off Madagascar
S-Death of Louise Michel, French an
archist.
15-Combes' ministry in France resigns.
16-Secretary Hay advises China to re-
main neutral. >. Earthquake at Shemakha,
Russia buries hundreds of people.
1S-End of textile strike in Fall River
Mass.
.19-Attenpt to assassinate Car and Rus
sian royal family.
<z-MasSacre OF Work1ngmen by Cars
troops in st. Petersburg
23-Revot spreads through Russian
cities.
25-Liberals defeated in Ontario general
elections. Gear issues proclamation prom
Using reforms.
29-Kouropatkin's army driven back from
Sandepas by Gen. Oku's forces.
3O-Czar signs document granting great
reforms to Russian people.
February.
1-2-Extreme cold wave sweeps Northern
States and Canada. Glendiye, Mont has
temperature Of "a degrees below zero
death of Joseph II. Manley of Maine
-. Senate passes Statehood bill
S-Roosevelt and Fairbanks declared elect
ed after count of electoral votes In Con
gress.
9-House passes Townsend Esch railway
rate bill
1O-Death of Hon. Chas H. Hackley of
MuSkegon, Mich
13-Severest cold wave Of winter.
15-Death of Gen. Lew Wallace.
16-Death of Jay Cooke, noted financier.
17-Grand Duke Sergius killed by bomb
In Moscow. Frances Willard statue dedi-
Gated in Statuary Hall, Washington.
20-Exploson in Virginia City coal mines,
near Bessemer, Ala, entombs 152 miners
town, Mass.
"a Boring of simplon tunnel under the
Alps is finished.
25-$1, 100000 fire in Hot Springs, Ark.
cision against Russia.
2G-Illinois Central terminals in New Or
leans burn with loss of So. 900 600. . Thirty
five miners killed by explosion at Wilcoe,
w. Va.
27-Death of Geo. S. Boutwell, of Massa-
chusetts. Judge Swayne of Florida ac-
quilted by United States Senate. Eleven
persons killed by collapse of church floor
In Brooklyn n. Y.
28-Death of Mrs. Leland Stanford in
Honolulu.
March.
3-Czar of Russia signs rescript giving
people a right to representation in law
making body. Thirty persons killed in
wreck of Inauguration special trains near
Pittsburg.
Roosevelt is inaugurated:. =. End of
5Sth Congress. =. VIII ]. Davis and two
others indicted as responsible for Irouuois
fire. Chas. Thomas found guilty OF Ma
bel Scofeld murder.
big traction strike begins in New
York.
S-Japanse win battle of Mukden, after
eighteen DAYS fighting.
1O-Mukden captured by japanese
11-Mrs. Chadwick convicted of conspir-
acy in Cleveland
14-Nineteen lives lost in New York tene-
ment house fire.
17-Death Of Gen. Joseph r. Hawley of
! Connecticut.
! plnsion in mines near Thurmond w Va.
2O-EXplosion and fire in Brockton, Mass
| shoe factory causes 1O3 deaths.
24-Death of Jules Verne
April.
3-President Roosevelt leaves Washington
vacation trip. Explosion in Letter
mines at Zeigler, ILL.,, kills thirty-five men.
e. Russian artillery depot in Hardin blown
up and seventy-fve men killed.
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