The Somerset reporter., 1905-01-05

lOSt
Russo-Ja panese War: The Russian
VladIvostok squadron suddenly APP
peared at Wonsan. eastern Korea. f
and sank a japanese merchant ship.
Dc. Russo-Japanese War: The Japs IN
dor Gen Kuroki forced the passage of
the river Yalu for miles above VIII f
%. sso-Japanese War: The Russian +
Vadlvostok squadron sank the Japa-
nese troopship Klnshindlaru. with 200
soldiers. who refused to surrender, In
the sea Of Japan.
g. Obituary: Richard s. Greenough. not t
ed American sculptor. In Italy; aged
o. Worlds Fair. The Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition opened at St Louis
with inaugural ceremonies.
Accident A train on the Iron Mountain
railroad wrecked at Wicks. Mo; 3
killed and % injured
MAY.
j. Russo-Japanese War. Climax Of
DAYS fighting west OF the Yalu river;
Gen Kuroki's Japanese army routed
Russians 10 miles above Antung driv-
ing Gen. Zassoulitchs army toward
Fengwangchcng; Russian loss. 1000
killed and wounded; the Japanese loss
700 in all; Russians abandoned Antung
Obituary: Antouin DVorak. the noted
Bohemian musical composer and d.
rector well known in America, in
Prague; aged &C.
Convention: Socialist national eonven-
ton met in Chicago
g. Sporting: Elwood won the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville.
Obituary. Edgar Fawcett. well known
American author. novelist Of New
York society life, in London. aged G6.
3. Fires: Drew college burned al Carmel
n. Y; loss, 100000 At indianapolis
Ind. Union stockyards burned; loss
100000
To, A Arr,Ir
made a desperate but vain attempt
to seal up the Russian fleet at Port
Arthur.
l. Sporting: James Shea broke the
worlds billiard record at Chicago,
making 80 points in 40 innings against
the previous record of so points in 81
innings
Convention: Annual session of the Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers Amalgamated
association began at Cleveland, O.
s. Panama.: The canal zone formally
ceded to the United States.
Obituary: Maurus Jokai, noted Hun
garian novelist, at Budapest; aged rs.
Franz Won Leubach, famous historical
and portrait painter at Munich. Ba-
varla; aged g.
Political: Eugene " Debs and Benjamin
Hanford nominated by the Socialist
party at Chicago.
g. Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Kuropat-
cheng to the Japanese without giving
battle. The Second Japanese army
under Gen. Oku, 10000 strong, landed
on the Liautong peninsula, cutting the
Russian communications from Port
Arthur northward.
Tibet The English under Col. Young
husband defeated the Tibetans in bat
tie of kharola Pass.
8. Russo-Japancse War: The Russians
hastily evacuated Newchwang after
dismantling the forts and destroying
the artillery.
10. Obituary: Henry M Stanley, journal
list and explorer, author of In Dark
est Africa and other works. in Lon
don; aged G3.
II. Accident: 8 people killed in train
wreck on the Illinois Central railroad
near Sterling, Ill.
Explosion; Z miners killed by the ex-
plosion of fire damp in the Heron
mine at Murphysboro Ill.
IL. Obituary: Gen Andrew Hickenlooper.
noted Federal artillery commander in
the civil war at Cincinnati; aged g.
ID. Russo-Japanese War: Dalny captured
from the Russians by a joint attack
by the Japanese army and navy.
10 Russo Japanese War: The japanese
batteshp Hatsuse sunk off Port Ar
thur by Russian mine, and the Japa-
nese cruiser Yoshino sunk by collision
with her consort, the Kasuga.
l6 Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese
cruiser Miyako sunk by a Russian
mine.
II. Conventions: The general assembly OF
the Presbyterian church met In Buff
falo. The American Peace society
met in Boston.
Russo-Japanese War: The Third Japa-
nese army landed at Kaicou. near
Kaiping.
l8 Personal: Ion Perdlcars. an American
of Ei1Dana1 In
Tangier by the bandit Raisouli.
20. Shipwreck: The British steamer Tur-
ret Bay wrecked off Cape North, Cape
Breton; l3 drowned.
Storm: 20 deaths from cloudburst and
flood in Colorado.
a Fire: sunnybrook mill, No 10. of the
United States Paper Co, burned near
Morrstown, n. J. loss, 81 000,00
Russo japanese War: The Russian gar
rlson at Port Arthur. led by Gen.
Stoessel defeated the Japanese be-
siegers In a sortie. INJECTING a loss OF
over 900 men.
e. Explosion: In the Novelty Torpedo
works, at Findlay. O.; IL operatives
killed and 10 injured.
g. Obituary: Col A. c. Buel. "A civil war
veteran and author in Philadelphia;
aged 81.
Is Fire; At Yazoo City. Miss; loss. near
ly 100000
D.. Russo-J japanese War: Decisive battle
at Nanshan HILL preventing the re-
enforcement of Port Arthur by Rus
SLAMS from the north; Japanese loss,
$500 and the Russian, nearly 2.000
Sporting: The Picket won the Brooklyn
handicap.
Explosion: In the Ohio river, near
Louisville; the towboat Fred Wilson
exploded her boilers 10 people killed
and II injured.
n. Fire: Plant OF the New York Milling
Co. burned in New York city; loss
$4,000.
e8 Obituary: Matthew Stanley Quay
United States senator from Pennsyl-
vania at Beaver. Pa; aged II.
o. Fires: In Jersey City, loss, 81, 600 900 by
the burning OF the Lackawanna rail-
road piers. In New Orleans: loss Of
100000 by flames
%. Gen. Okus Japanese army occupied
Dalny.
JUNE.
/. Sporting: St Amant won the English
Derby.
l. Fire: At Peoria. Ill Corning distil-
lery burned: loss 81, 800 900; Is deaths
5. Fire: Danvllle, Va, loss OF $500 600 by
the burning OF tobacco warehouses.
6. Obituary. Mrs Samuel L. Clemens.
wife OF Mark Twain at Florence.
Italy
O. Sporting: New worlds record for BIZ /
cycles established at Cambridge. /
Mass, by James F. Mason. who rode
Al ?-5 miles In hour
Obituary: Levi 2. Letter, the merchant
prince. at Bar Harbor, Me.
IL Sporting: Schaefer defeated Cure In /
contest for the worlds billiard cham
pionship in Paris, winning by Il points. F
Obituary: Abner Mckinley. brother of
the late president at Somerset, Pa;