The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-12-27
CHRONOLOGY OF 1905.
BRIEF RECORD OF YEARS PRlN-
clPAL EVENTS.

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Independence I'm Norway-Close
Of the War I'm the East-Many
Great Names I'm List OF Dead.
Most significant of the events OF
1905, because it indicates unmistak-
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 load of taxation, rem
dered well-nigh unbearable by added
burdens imposed by the prosecu-
ton of a disastrous war, the
peasantry and common people started
revolt against the tyrannical aris-
tocracy, aud 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 n king upon its
long unusued throne. The recent eX-
posures Of graft and fraud in high
financial circles and last summers Ia
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 a
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 op-
ponents, and a 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 a
close, and largely, we believe, by
American influence.
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-IoWboat Defender blown up on Ohio
River; 20 lives lost
4-Death of Theodore Thomas, orchestra
leader.
Admiral Rojestvensky's fagship Knjaz
Souvarof sunk off Madagascar
9-Death Of Louise Michel, French an
15-Combes' ministry In France resigns.
l6-Secretary Hay advises China to re-
main neutral. :. Earthquake at Shemakha,
Russia, buries hundreds of people.
lS-End of textile strike in Fall River,
Mass.
19-Attempt to assassinate Car and Rus
sian royal family.
22-Massacre of ,workingmen by Cars
troops in st. Petersburg.
cities.
Editorials defeated in Ontario general
elections. Car issues proclamation prom
Using reforms.
29-Kouropatkln's army driven back from
Sandepas by Gen. Uku's forces.
3o-Czar signs document granting great
reforms to Russian people.
February.
1-2-EXtreme cold wave sweeps Northern
temperature Of "a degrees below zero
death of Joseph II. Manley of Maine
-. Senate passes Statehood bill
S-Roosevelt and Fairbanks declared elect
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
I6-Death OF jay Cooke, noted fnancier.
1I-Grand Duke Sergius killed by bomb
In MOSCOW Frances Willard ato dadi
Gated In Statuary Hail. Washington.
20-Explosion In Virginia City coal Mines
near Bessemer, Ala, entombs 152 miners
....Fire destroys piers and ships at Charles
town, Mass.
2EBoring Of simplon tunnel under the
Alps Is finished.
25--$1, 100000 fire in Hot Springs. Ark.
49,. North Sea Commission announces de-
cision against Russia.
26-lllinois Central terminals in New Or
leans burn with loss of S5.O0O.0G0. Thirty
FIVE miners killed by explosion AT Wilcoe,
27-Death of Geo. S. Boutwell, Of Massa
! chusetts. :. Judge Swayne Of Florida ac-
quilted by United States Senate. ;. Eleven
in Brooklyn, n. y.
IS Death of Mrs. Leland Stanford in
Honolulu.
3-Czar of Russia signs rescrlpt giving
people a right to representation In law
making body. >. Thirty persons killed In
wreck Of Inauguration special trains near
Pittsburg
'4-Roosevelt is inaugurated. End Of
5sth Congress. :. VIII j. Davis and two
others indicted as responsible for Iroquois
fire. .Chas. Thomas found guilty of Ma
bel Scofeld murder.
big traction strike begins in New
York
S-Japanse win battle of MuBden. after
eighteen days. fighting.
10-Mukdcn 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.