The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-01

a. A-t ,,s Chamber OF commcrce passe e
s o 5Gr Jaeass l. Il Rec fnre FRENCH sh
geographer. dlcs..-Major David IIrinph-
r gei' Gonfedera,e historian. des " M No.
out ROOT IN tho Rg iatb h round Wnns tEs
s-Russian' B Black sea sea- 'mnutinecrs issue
civil war. ~. --Twen t Texans Killed By
.o-president selects Elihu Root TO be
.7Japancsc seize saghaien island,,-
Kansas suprems Court nul.itles the State !,t,
refinery nct.-Wilbur II. Sanders, former
Mont.
nntlniK shlp srresdels %
ta q statstieia ct Washnston dsmlssed
on charges or g,yins to certain, brokers
advence jnformation q the c9st9n ,or crop
champion, in London. thus becoming
British as we'll as American tennis
SIns explosion g.s at Wattstogbn WasS
Perfect Of Police Of Moscow. assa ..s1 q +,
be short In his accounts with, the OAR
lngton Trust Company at Columbia, $.
Gu commits suicide. - p,,,,aao,,,,,,
in his will devotes the bulk Of his estate
to the founding Of Jewish collegc;,-;;
l h0 to bew ssts up hs Hsssh pesa
13--Witto made one of the Russian peace
ENJOYS.
Department. Of Agriculture. involving
tobacco cron reoorts.
15--Marauis yillavarde, es-Premer of
ie-Peary Arctic expedition sails Cen
eral w. w. Blackmar. Communicating
Chief OF the G.. a. r.. dies.
17-Ernile Arton. whose name was con-
nec;cd with the French Panama Canal
scandal dies
19-Russian Zemstvo Congress assemblies
20-British Ministry under Balfour de-
feated in the British House of Commons
Land Observation-Disclosures massacre
inhabitants Of two Chr stian villages In
European Turlsey.-Chieago transfers
strike ends. $50
31--At San Francisco Britt wins the de-
oision over. Kid Sullivan, clinchlng his
title to the lightweight boxing champion
ship.-,Bo.ler explosion on the cruiser Ben
nington at San Diego, Cal, kills 5S men
and Injuries more than 1oO-Bomb- thrower
attempts to assassinate the Sultan Of
Turkey.
22-Remaius of John Paul Jones. father
country from France.--Greatest blast ever
set OFF in this country is exploded to
clear out the harDor of Portsmouth On.
I'D navy yard
23-Coionel Daniel S. Lamont. former
Secretary of war. dies ut Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.-Fifteenblive destroyed and great
property damage inflicted by fire in the
Humble oil field OF Texas.
25-1nhabitants of Porto Rico ask Con-
gress for moro home rule-Swedish Cabl-
net resign.
Equitable Life Assurance Society
N--.Rev. Isaac w. joyce, Methodist Epis-
copal Bishop, dies at Minneapolis.
2S-9ellow fever quarantine established
Ing submits to the people referendum to
vote on dissolution of the Union with
Sweden.
s1-state Attorney General of New York
brings suit against the Equitable Life
Assurance Society.
August.
Twill Cumback. author. lecturer and
dies at Greensburg. Ind
2-Great Northern and Northern racfic
telegraphers strike.-General James r.
Carnahan. Commander of the Uniform
Rank knights of Pythias, dies at India
napolis.
4l-Louislana requests the Federal Gov
ernment to take charge of the yellow
fever situat lion. Fernando Maria Alfonso,
infanta and heir to the Spanish throne.
dies.
pPeace ENJOYS received by the Pres-
dent at oyster Bay.-At London. Kieran,
the Australian swimmer, wns-he quar-
ter-mile sea swimming race and the cham
pionship In 5:2as 10, the record ime.
editor a Of the Atlanta Constitution. dies.
7-Insurgent Cretan village of Castelli
bombarded by Russian man-of-war.--
Venezuela Courts OF Cessation confirms
the dissolution OF the Hamilton asphelt
contract.-General strike Of bridge and
structural iron and steel workers ordered
Alexander NJ. Bell, scientist and nven-
tor Of visible speech. dies at Washington
-Russo-Japanese peace conference be-
gins at Portsmouth. N. H.-Fif cen per.
sons killed at Albany by the collapse Of
the John g. Myers Company department
store.
9-Rt. Rev. Placide Louis Chapelle, Cat
holic Bishop of New orleans, dies Of
yeuow fever.
1o-Rescue of the Fiala-Zieger Arctic
from Honnlngsvaag, Norway. Rear Adj
mral f. +. Benhan, U. s. NJ, retired,
dies at Lake Mahopac, N. ",
11--At San Francisco Rubin knocks out
Mccormick in the 18th round.
12-Battleship Kansas chrstcned with
water from John Browns spring before
successfully defends his de to the ma
tional golf championship by defeating u.
e. Sawyer.
13-Norwegian people vote almost unan-
Tairteen persons killed by a coils on
the Nickel Plate Railroad at hishman
l4-Russ,an authorities sentence Sien-
kewics, the Polish novelist, to secluslon
in his home. Gertrude Bloede ("Stewart
Sterne'O poet and dranlatist, dies at Bad
win, n. Y.
l6-.Exerutive committee of the National
Civic Federation appoints commission
to investigate municipal ownership prob
lem in Europe and America. Recipro .ity
conference In Chicago. Rock slide in a
cement mill at Allentown, Pa. kills y
workmen.
17-Excurs.on train runs into an open
drawbridge, and 60 passengers, most of
them negroes, drown in Elizabeth River.
1S-Czar Of Russia summons a duma ma
tonal representative assembly to meet In
md-wnter. At Buffalo Barney 0Idield
drives n flve-m!le automobile exhibition
in AL SIS, said to be Il new record.
20-Lord Curzon resigns as .Viceroy Of
india and Is succeeded by the Earl OF
Minyo.
BINARY Ntapes Dodge, poet and editor
of st. Nicholas Magazine, DIES at Tanncss-
vile, n. Y.
22-Edwin II. conger, American anabas-
sador to Mexico resigns.
25-WorlS begins on, on the tunnel under
former associate stalistician of the De-
paartment, of Agriculture; indicted on
charge OF conspiracy to defraad the gov
ernment in cotton crop reports. At San
Francisco Jimmy Gardner wins his fight
with Ru10y RYAN in tho 15th round Ry-