The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-01-05

the MISSISSIPPI river steamer IL. M
Carter at the mouth of Red river
3. Shipwreck: q lives lost by the sinking
OF the British bark Afghanistan In
collision with the battleship Caesar
on Dungeness.
Russo-Japanese War; Three Russian
cruisers under Admiral Enquist which
escaped in the battle I'm the strait OF
Korea reached Manila.
Personal: Whitelav Reid the new
American ambassador to England.
arrived In London.
Obituary: Gen. III. V. Boynton, noted
Journalist, Federal veteran OF the civil
war and president OF the Chicka-
manga Park association In Atlantic
City; aged 90.
L. Fire: In Milwaukee; loss of 100000 by
the burning of the Milwaukee exhibit
ton building.
G. Personal: Crown Prince Frederick
William OF Prussia married to the
Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg
Schwern at Berlin.
T. Convention: The national coancil OF
the General Federation of Womens
Clubs met at Atlantic City.
Obituary. Beriah Wilkins editor and
proprietor of the Washington Post. in
Washington. aged so.
s. Shipwreck: British submarine boat
AS lost off Plymouth with IA of her
crew
Obituary; Prince Leopold of Hohenzol-
lern, whose nomination TO the throne
of Spain caused the Franco-Prussian
war in $780, in Berlin; aged 20.
8. Financial Thomas +. Ryan acquired
a controlling interest I'm the Equitable
Life Assurance society; Paul Morton,
former secretary of navy, chosen
chairman of the board of directors.
10. Flood; Sudden rise of the Mississippi
river caused loss of $3000,000 in
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
RnOSp-
velts suggestion for "a peace confer
ence accepted by Russia and Japan.
IL. Fire: At Fort Worth Tex; loss OF
$4,000 by the burning of a packing
plant.
IA Convention: Reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans at Louisville.
10. Sporting: Bedame won the Suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
16. Fire: AT Fort Francis. Ont; the bust
ness section destroyed; loss. 100000
IL Accident: % killed and many injured
IN a wreck on the Western Maryland
railroad at Patapsco. Md
Obituary: Gen. Maxine Gomez, the
Cuban leader. at Havana; aged "a
is. Fire: At Pemaullee Wis; loss of $685.
600 by the burning of the Armour ice
plant
Russo-Japanese War: Washington cho-
sen as the meeting place of the Rus
sian and Japanese plenipotentiaries.
19. Convention: The Interstate National
Guard association met in st. Paul.
20. Political: H. w. Bowen, former min
lister to Venezuela, dismissed from the
diplomatic service.
n. Accident: The Twentieth Century
Limited wrecked by an open switch at
Mentor, o.; deaths.
q. Russia: Battle between troops and
strikers at LodZ, Poland; 80 citizens
killed and 200 wounded
rs. Political: The Chinese exclusion law
defined by the president
Fire: At Nashville; loss of 100000 in the
shopping district
q. Personal: John Findlay Wallace. chief
engineer of the Panama canal resign
ed.
Sporting Yale defeated Harvard to 2
at baseball at New Haven.
2S. Accident: deaths i'm a dynamite ex-
plosion at Emporium, Pa.
Sporting: Cornell won the eight cared
varsity races at Poughkeep5ie; time
miles, - minutes - % seconds; 2
miles. minutes % seconds.
Russia: Strike disorders at Odessa; loss
of $30,O00,OOO by incendiary fires. The
Russian batteship Kniaz Potemkine,
I'm the hands of mutineers, appeared
in the harbor and trained her guns
on the city.
20. Convention: The National Equal Suf-
frage association met at Portland,
Ore
sporting. ale QtICulcu l1dlNulQ IN lllS /
varsity boat race at New London;
time, miles, q minutes 81 2-5 seconds.
80. Personal: John L. Stevens appointed
chief engineer OF the Panama canal
Charles +. BonapIrte installed as sec
rotary Of navy, vice Paul Morton, re-
signed
Obituary. Gen. Hugh Boyle Ewing. sol
der. author and diplomat, at Lancas-
ter, o.; aged 20.
July
!. Obituary: John Hay. United States
secretary OF state, at Newbury, n. H.;
aged 81.
2. Obituary: Rev. George Day, noted He
brew scholar and one of the revisers
of the Bible, i'm New Haven; aged 90
Storm: 1850 persons drowned by
cloudburst at Guanajuato, Mexico.
3. Convention: National educational con-
vention met at Asbury Park, N j.
L. Obituary: Prof. Jacques Reclus ia
nous geographer, in Brussels; aged 20.
Sporting: New worlds record for autos
made at Morris park. New York. by
Webb Jay, who drove his machine
mile In As As seconds.
Convention: Twenty-second information
al Christian Endeavor gathering, in
Baltimore.
Russo-Japanese War: Baron Rosen, the
new Russian ambassador to the Unit
ed States and one Of the Gar peace
plenipotentaries, arrived In New
York
s. Sporting: NJ. Thiery won the inter-
national auto race for James Gordon
Bennett cup at Laschamp, France.
Storm: 40 deaths In a tornado which
devastated Montague county, Tex
6. Sporting: The Leander crew of Eng
land defeated tho Client crew of Bel
gium for the Grand Challenge cup at
Henley-on-the Thames.
Paul Jones: The remains of Paul Jones
formally delivered to the United States
government by France.
Conventions: Seventh annual gathering
of the Epworth league opened at Den
yer.
Disaster at Sea: French submarine boat
Farfadet sank i'm the port OF Sid Ad-
dallah, Tunis, carrying down Il men.
&. Obituary: Walter Kittredge author Of
''Tenting Tonight at Manchester,
n. H.
Fire: At Meridian. Miss; loss Of 100000
by the burning of the Gulf cotton COM
press plant
Russia: The battleship Knaz Potem-
kline delivered to the Roumanian au-
thoritcs by its mutiuous crew
Sporting: May Sutton OF Pasadena,
Cal, won the woman's tennis cham
pionship OF the world in London. Art
full won the Brighton handicap.
10. Russo-Japanes war: Japan hoisted
her flag over Russian soil by seizing