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

between the United States and Santo
Domingo signed at Santo Domingo.
Political: King Oscar of Sweden and
Norway handed over the reigns OF
government to his son. Crown Prince
Gustav
10. Russia: Conflict between troops and
the people at LODI Russian Poland.
IL. Fire: The historic Battle House ho-
tel and other properties burned at Mo-
bile. Ala: loss. 100000.
Blizzard: Cold wave In the northwest:
many persons frozen to death.
Obituary: Fanny Moran-Olden. former
ly we'll known opera singer. I'm Ber-
lin. w. G. Prime, noted author and
editor, in New York city. Sylvester
Scovel. noted war correspondent. IN
Havana.
10. Obituary: William Cullen Bryant, we'll
known newspaper man. founder of the
American Newspaper Publishers as
ISOLATION. at Plainfield. N. j.; aged SO.
To- Jay Cooke. noted financier. at Ogontz,
Pa; aged So Gen. Lew Wallace, SOL
der diplomat and author at Craw-
louisville. Ind; aged 49, Daniel Nc
Carthy, we'll known caricaturist, In
New York city.
IL Russia: Grand Duke Sergius, uncle of
the car OF Russia, slain by an assas-
sins bomb In Moscow.
70. Accident: lilo miners entombed by an
explosion in the Virginia mines at
Birmingham, Ala.
Fire: At Indianapolis: loss of sl,110.OOO
by flames In the wholesale district.
q. Russia: The students of the Univer-
sity of st. Petersburg suspended
studies for the remainder of the uni
versity year in sympathy with the
strike Of the workingmen.
Fire: AT the Hoosic tunnel piers.
Charlestown. Mass: loss, Sl.OOo.OOO.
Obituary: Mrs. Isabella Hogg Parker.
niece of James Hogg, poet and child
friend of Sir Walter Scott, at Bing-
hamton, n. Y; aged So.
"a Simplon Tunnel: Meeting of the Swiss
and Italian boring parties working
from opposite sides of the Alps.
%. Russo-Japanese War: Gen. kurokis
Japanese army attacked the Russian
left southeast of Mukden.
North Sea Court: The international
commission Of inquiry into the North
sea incident rendered a decision which
was practical compromise favoring
Great Britain.
-. Russo-Japanese War: Desperate fight
ing at Che and Ia passes between the
Russians and Japanese, the Russians
holding their ground.
Sir Wemyss Reid, noted English au-
thor and journalist. in London: aged
63.
Fires: In New Orleans; loss OF s., OOO, 600
Springs, Ark. suffered loss of s., 000.-
600.
q. Obituary: Ex-Governor George s.
Boutwell, of Massachusetts, former
United States senator from that state
and former secretary of the United
States treasury. at Groton, Mass. !;
aged ST.
Russia: Peasant riots in various cities
of Russian Poland. Maxim Gorky. au-
thor and revolutionary agitator, re-
leased from prison and Immediately
rearrested.
Accident: 20 deaths in a mine explosion
at Wilcox, Va
l. Obituary: Mrs. Jane Lathrop STAN
ford, widow of United States senator
Leland Stanford of California, in Hon
olulu.
Russo-Japanese War: Desperate coun-
ter attacks by the Russians at Muk-
den temporarily successful.
2 Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Kuroki
pushed his attack upon the Russian
left flank held by Gen. Linevitch. Jap
anese cavalry suddenly appeared at
the neutral city of Simintin, 80 miles
northwest of Mukden. on the right
flank of Kuropatkin's army.
g. Russia: The car issued a liberal re-
script promising to convene a national
assembly OF elected representatives.
Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Oku's force
turned the Russian right flank at Muk-
den.
L. Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Nogi, with
the Port Arthur soldiers. swept down
from the northwest upon the right
flank Of the Russians at Mukden.
forcing Kuropatl1in to retreat
Political: Close of the Fifty-eishth con-
gress. Theodore Roosevelt inaugural
ed president.
Accident: Is killed and 80 injured in a
wreck on the Fort Wayne at Ems
worth, Pa.
6. Russo-Japanese War: Fierce conflict
northwest of Mukden between the
Japs under Gen. Nogi and the Rus
slams under Gen. Kaulbars.
Obituary: Judge John H. Reagan, sole
survivor Of the Confederate cabinet,
at Palestine, Tex; aged ST.
z. Russo-Japanese War: Kuropatkin' s
forces repulsed in a desperate attempt
to retake their positions north of the
river Hun.
Fire: At Cedar Rapids, Ia. the Amer
lean Cereal company's plant destroy
ed; loss, $l,500,000.
Strike: Train and station men OF the
elevated and subway transit lines in
New York city struck for shorter
hours and increased pay.
s. Obituary. a. NJ. Palmer, well known
lHtdAlltdl lLdiliStIs III NEW lOIh CITY ,
aged 81. Gabriel Jules Thomas, noted
sculptor. i'm Paris aged 81.
Russo-Japanese War: Kuropatkins ar
my abandoned its positions south OF
Mukden.
9. Strike: Grand Chief Warren S. Stone
of the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers ordered the striking members
on the New York transit lines to re-
sumo duty.
Russo-Japanese War: The Russians
continued to dispute with the Jap
anese the roads leading from Mukden
northward.
10. Convention: Ninth national Congress
of Mothers opened in Washington.
Russo-Japanese War: Mukden occupied
by the japanese army, the Russians
being in full retreat.
IL. Strike: Striking railway men in New
York abandoned the struggle by the
advice of their leader.
IL. Shipwreck: British ship Khyber
wrecked on the Cornish coast during a
hurricane: g of the crew drowned.
Russo-Japanese War: Tie pass, the key
to the region around Mukden, captured
by the Japanese.
IL Russo-Japanese War: Gen. Linevitch
appointed to succeed Kuropatkin in
command OF the army in Manchuria.
Failure OF the new Russian loan I'm
Paris. Russia's war council decided to
send 10000 more men TO Manchuria.
The Baltic fleet sailed from Madagas-