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

bearing tie rc..ains OF Paul Jones ar
rived in Virginia waters.
Naval Disaster: Boilers OF the United
Status gunboat Bennington. lying at
San Diego. Cal. exploded. causing the
death. all told. of 66 OF her crew.
% FIRE: a 100000 blaze i'm Auburn. n. Y.
Attempted Assassination: A would be
assassin's bomb narrowly missed the
sultan of Turkey and killed AZ of his
bodyguard.
%. Fire: Il deaths I'm an oil fire In the
Humble fields. Tex.
Obituary: Daniel Scott Lamont, secre-
tary OF war under Cleveland. at Pough-
keepsie; aged "a.
"a. Personal: Conference OF Car Nicholas
and Emperor William near Bjorko. in
the Baltic sea.
q. Russo-Japanese War: Baron Jutaro
Komura. chief Japanese plenipotenti-
airy to the peace conference, arrived in
New York.
%. Obituary: Gen William Blackmar.
commander in chief OF the c.. A r.. In
Boise. Ida. aged Ca
2. Personal: NJ. Sergius Witte. Russia's
chief PARLIAMENTARY. arrived in New
York.
5. Fire: The Delaware and Lackawanna
railway terminal destroyed in Hobo
KEN n. j.; loss about $i,bO0000.
Peace Conference: Russian and Jap
anese ENJOYS mot on board the yacht
Mayhower at oyster Bay, N. Y.
G. Sporting: w. w Coe of Boston put
sixteen pound stone 40 feet inches at
Portland. ore. breaking the worlds
record of 4S feet inches.
Obituary: Gen. Roy Stone. noted civil
war veteran and a distinguished en-
gineer on public works. at Menoham.
n. j.; aged 60.
g. Peace Conference: First session held
at the United States navy yard. Ports
mouth. n. II.
Obituary: Archbishop Chapelle of the
Roman Catholic diocese of New Or
leans victim of yellow fever: aged 81.
Conventions: The National Catholic To-
tai Abstinence association met at
Wilkesbarre. Pa. and was addressed
by President Roosevelt.
IL. Obituary: Rear Admiral L. X. Ben
ham, L. S. N, retired at Lake Ma
hopac. n. Y; aged 20.
Il. Political: New treaty OF alliance con-
cluded between England and Japan.
13. Accident: IL killed and many injured
In an accident on the Nickel Plate at
Kishman, o.
II. Accident: so colored excursionists kill
ed and as many injured in an open
drawbrdge accident on the Atlantic
Coast line at Bruce. Va.
IS. Sporting: Fifth and concluding race
for the Canada cup won by the Amer
lean yacht Iroquois.
10. Russia: a national representative as
sembly summoned by the car.
q. Storm: q killed and many missing in
storm which swept over southern
Minnesota.
Obituary: Mary Mapes Dodge author
poet and editor of st. Nicholas. at
Tannersville. N. Y; aged 67.
%. Earthquake: Severe shock felt in
southern Illinois. Tennessee and Ken
lucky.
%. Convention: Twentieth annual meet
ing of the American Bar association
at Narragansett Pier. r. l.
Is. PERSONAL President Roosevelt went
down in the submarine boat Plunger
in Long Island sound
%. Peace Conference: The ultimatum of
Car Nicholas that Russia would not
pay indemnity received by the peace
ENJOYS at Portsmouth.
Sporting: Ormondae won the $53,6S0 Fu-
turity at Sheepshead Bay.
q. Peace Conference: President Roose-
welt made final appeal to the mikado
to modify Japans peace terms.
%. Shipwreck: 20 seamen drowned by the
wrecking of the steamer Peconic off
Florida.
Convention: Interpariamentary con-
gress opened i'm Brussels.
Peace Conferences: The mikado ordered
further concessions to Russia i'm order
10 insure peace.
29 Peace Conference: Terms agreed upon
by the ENJOYS at Portsmouth. Russia
retaining half of the island of SAX
halin and paying no indemnity to
Japan for the cost OF the war.
Fire: At Johnstown, Pa; loss of 81, 2J0,-
600 by the burning of the Penn Traffic
stores
3d. Earthquake: Shocks felt along the
New Hampshire coast line.
Financial: Ernest Crouier French sugar
king failed for $2l00O0 900.
Eclipse: Total eclipse Of the sun lasting
from two and one-half TO three min
utes observable from northern Africa.
81 Obituary: francesca Tamagno, noted
tenor, at Varese, Italy; aged IS.
Accident: John T.. Baldwin and his air
ship blown TO atoms by dynamite
while 1850 feet in air at Greenville, q.
SEPTEMBER.
l. Accident: 10 people killed and 20 hurt
In a wreck on the Great Eastern rail-
way at Witham, England.
Fire: At Portland, ore; loss Of over
100000 by the burning OF docks along
the Willamette.
3. Fire: zoos houses burned in Adrian
ople, the second city of European
Turkey; loss, 100000.
4. Convention: The thirty-ninth encamp-
ment of the @. A. Il. opened at Den
yer.
s. Obituary: Cen Bjornstjerna. distin-
gushed Swedish soldier. diplomat and
legislator, at Stockholm: aged So.
Hezekiah Butterworth noted Amer
lean, author and editor, at Warren.
r. l.; aged G6.
6. Japan: Rioting in Tokyo because OF
dissatisfaction with the peace treaty.
8. Earthquake: IS villages destroyed In
the district Of Calabrla, Italy; 10000
houses ruined and $500 people killed
or injured.
Personal: Corporal James Tanner elect
ed commander in chief OF the G.. A. r.
Accident: 10 workmen killed by an ex-
plosion in the Rand powder mills at
Fairchance. Pa.
TO- Fire: At Chattanooga; loss of 100000
by flames I'm the freight yards.
H. Accident: IL people killed or fatally
injured by the fall of a coach from
the elevated tracks I'm New York city.
L. Miscellaneous: Admiral Togos flag
ship Mikasa destroyed by an explosion,
following a fire. In Sasebo harbor; COO
officers and men lost. The Zambezi
bridge, the highest in the world, cross
ing the gorge at Victoria falls, on the
Cape to Cairo line. formally opened.
10. Obituary: Comte de BrazZa, noted
French explorer. at Dakar. Africa;
aged 55
Accident: II deaths by fire and explo-
sion in the Climax fuse works at
Avon, Conn.
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