The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-01-11

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Washington. aged IS
ShipwrecK. British submarine boat
As lost of Plymouth with IL OF her
crew.
Obituary. Prince Leopold of Hohenzoi-
Iern whose nomination TO the throne
OF Spain caused the Franco-P Prussian
war in 1870. in Berlin: aged TO-
g. Financial: Thomas F. Ryan acquired
controlling interest in 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 100000 In
Iowa. Illinois and Missouri.
Russo-Japanese War: President Roose-
vet's suggestion for peace confer !
ence accepted by Russia and japan.
L. Fire: AT Fort Worth. Tex; loss Of
$4,000 by the burning of a packing
plant.
II. Conventions: Reunion Of the United
Confederate Veterans at Louisville.
Is. Sporting: Beldame won the Suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
l6 Fire: At Fort Francis. Ont; the busi-
ness section destroyed: loss, 100000.
II. Accident: q killed and many injured
In a wreck on the Western Maryland
railroad at Patapsco. Md.
i Obituary: Gen. Maxine Gomez, the
Cuban leader. at Havana; aged a.
Is. Fire: At Femaukee. Wis; loss Of $685.
600 by the burning Of the Armour ice
plant.
sso-Japanese War: Washington cho-
sen as the meeting place of the Rus
sian and Japanese p!enipo,entiaries.
/ l9 Convention The Interstate National
Guard association met in st. Paul.
ao Political: IL. w. Bowen. former min
I lister to Venezuela. dismissed from the
| diplomatic service.
IL Accident: The Twentieth Century
| Limited wrecked by an open switch at
Mentor. O.: 6 deaths.
/ q. Russia: Battle between troops and
strikers at Lodz. Poland: so citizens
killed and 200 wounded.
| Is. Political: The Chinese exclusion law
defined by the president.
| Fire: At Nashville: loss of 5000 in tho
shopping district.
q. Personal John Findlay Wallace chief
engineer of the Panama canal, resign
Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard to
at baseball at New Haven.
q Accident: deaths in a dynamite ex-
plosion at Emporium. Pa.
! Sporting: Cornell won the eight cared
| varsity races at Poughkeepsie: time,
miles. 20 minutes 29 2-5 seconds:
| miles. minutes rs seconds.
Russia: Strike disorders at Odessa: loss
of $30,O 600 by incendiary fires. The
i Russian battIeship Kniaz Potemkine,
in the hands Of mutineers, appeared
in the harbor and trained her guns
on the city.
g. Convention: The National Equal Suf-
| frage association met at Portland.
Ore.
| Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard in the
varsity boat race at New London:
| time, miles, % minutes 80 2-5 seconds.
30. Personal: John F. Stevens appointed
chief engineer of the Panama canal.
| Charles +. Bonaparte installed as Sec
| retary Of navy. vice Paul Morton. re-
| signed.
| Obi.uary: Gen. Hugh Boyle Ewing, SOL
| dier. author and diplomat, at Lancas-
ter. O.. aged -.
| JULY.
| l. Obituary: John Hay, United States
secretary Of state. at Newbury. N H.:
| aged 81.
| g Obituary: Rev. George Day. noted He
| brew scholar and one Of the revisers
of the Bible, in New Haven: aged 80.
Storm: l,G95 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 geosrapher. In Brussels. aged Is.
Sporting: New worlds record for autos
made at Morris park, New York. by
Webb Jay. who drove his machine a
mile in 4S AS seconds.
Convention: Twenty-second internatton-
al Christian Endeavor gathering. in
Baltimore.
| Russo. Japanese War: Baron Rosen. the
| new russian AMBASSADOR 10 ina Unit
ed States and one of the cars peace
plenipotentiarles arrived In New
York.
| s. Sporting: M. Thiery won the inter
! national auto race for James Gordon
Bennett cup at Laschamp, France.
| Storm: 40 deaths In tornado which
| devastated Montague county. Tex.
| Sporting: The Leander crew OF Eng
| land defeated the Client crew Of Bel
GUM 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.
! Convention. Seventh annual gathering
| OF the Epworth league opened at Den
yer.
| Disaster at Sea: French submarine boat
| Farfadet sank in the port Of Sidi Ad-
dallah. Tunis. carrying down II men.
| g. Obituary: Walter I<ittredge. author OF
! ''Tenting Tonight" at Manchester.
! N. II. -
| Fire: At Meridian. Miss: loss Of 100000
by the burning Of the Gull cotton com.
l. press plant.
| Russia: The battleship Kniaz Potem-
| kline delivered to the Roumanian au-
| thorities by its mutinous 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-Japanese War: Japan hoisted
| her flag over Russian soil by Selling
the island of Sakhalin
| Obituary: John Selby. famous scout,
who was with Gen. Zachary Taylor in
| the Mexican war. at Tacoma. Wash.
/ II Accident: 12f miners killed by the ex-
| plosion Of fire damp at Wattstown.
| Wales.
| Russia. Count ShuvaiofY, prefect OF Do
| lice a. Moscow. assassinated.
| Is Fire. The historic Stokes mansion at
Lenox. Mass. destroyed: loss. 5000
| 10 Weather. Hottest July 19 on record in
| New York city; G3 deaths from heat.
| Russia: Zemstrc congress opened at
/ Moscow.
| Personal: Elihu Root qualified as Secre-
| tary Of state
| %. Labor Troubles: The Chicago team
| sters' strike. which began April Z,
ended in the unconditional surrender
| of the strikers
| l. Paul Jones: rhe United States deet
| bearing the remains o: Paul Jones ar
rived in Virginia waters.
| Naval Disaster: Boilers Of the United
| States gunboat Bennington. lying at
San Diego. Cal, exploded. causing the
death. all told. of ss OF her crew.
| q. Fire: A 10000 blaze in Auburn. N. 7.
Attempted Assassination: A would be
| assassins benb narrowly missed the
| sultan of Turkey and killed - of his
| bodyguard.
| = Fire: Il deaths In an oil ere La the
| Humble Eeids. Tex.
| Obituary: Daniel Scott Lamont. secre-
| tary OF war under Cleveland. at Pough-
| keepsie: aged s.
| t. Personal. Conference Of Gar Nicholas
and Emperor William near Bjorko. in
the Baltic sea
| - Russo-Japalese War: Baron Jutaro
koMura. chief japanese pIenipotenti-
ary TO the peace conference. arrived in
| New York
= Obituary Gen. William Biackmaf.
commander In chief OF the @. A. r.. In
| Boise. Ida. aged g.
August.
Personal II. Sergius Witte. Russias
| chief plenipotentiary. arrived In New
| York.
| + Fire The Delaware and Lackawanna
| railway terminal destroyed N Hobo.
ken. J loss about n.50D.o60
| Peace Conference. Russian and Jap
| anese ENJOYS met on board the yacht