Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-01-04

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JUNE.
: Personal: Attempted assassination Of
King Alfonso of Spain In Paris.
2, Accident; Is deaths by the sinking Of
the Mississippi river steamer II. M.
Carter at the mouth Of Red river.
8 Shipwreck: % lives lost by the sinking
Of the British bark Afghanistan In
collision with the battleship Caesar
off Dungeness.
cruisers under Admiral Enquist whicS
escaped in the battle in the strait Of
Korea reached Manila.
Personal: Whitelaw Reid, the new
American ambassador to England,
arrived in London.
Obituary: Gen. Fl. v. Boynton, noted
journalist, Federal veteran of the civil
war and president of the Chicka-
manga Park association. in Atlantic
City; aged 70.
4 Fire: In Milwaukee; loss of 100000 by
the burning Of the Milwaukee exhibi-
ton building.
6. Personal: Crown Prince Frederick
William of Prussia married to the
Duchess Cecilia Of Mecklenburg
Schwerin at Berlin
Z. Convention: The national council Of
the. General Federation of Women's
Clubs met at Atlantic City.
Obituary: Beriah Wilkins, editor and
proprietor Of the Washington Post. in
Washington; aged So.
8. Shipwreck: British submarine boat
A-8 lost Off Plymouth with "A Of her
crew.
Obituary: Prince Leopold Of Hohenzol-
lern, whose nomination to the throne
of Spain caused the Franco-P russian
war in 1870, in Berlin; aged TO-
g. Financial: Thomas F. Ryan acquired
a controlling interest in the Equitable
Life Assurance society; Paul Morton.
former secretary of navy. chosen
chairman of the board of directors.
TO. Flood: Sudden rise of the Mississippi
river caused loss of 100000 in
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
Russo-Japanese War: President Roose-
veltss 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 packing
plant.
ID. Convention: Reunion Of the United
Confederate Veterans at Louisville.
I5. Sporting: Beldame won the Suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
I6. Fire: At Fort Francis. Ont; the BUSH
ness section destroyed; loss, 100000.
II. 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 Pemaukee, 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.
10. 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
q. Accident. The Twentieth Century
Limited wrecked by an open switch at
Mentor, O.; 6 deaths.
g. Russia: Battle between troops and
strikers at LODI, Poland; so citizens
killed and 200 wounded.
Is. Political: The Chinese exclusion law
defined by the president
Fire: At Nashville; loss Of 100000 in the
shopping district.
engineer OF the Panama canal resign
ed.
Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard to 2
at baseball at New Haven.
28 Accident: 8 deaths in a dynamite ex-
plosion at Emporium Pa
Sporting: Cornell won the eight cared
varsity races at Poughkeepsie; time,
miles, 20 minutes 1925 seconds; 2
miles, 8 minutes rs seconds.
Russia: Strike disorders at Odessa; loss
of $S0,000000 by incendiary fires. The
Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkine,
in the hands of mutineers. appeared
in the harbor and trained her guns
on the city.
%. 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 rs seconds
80. Personal: John F. Stevens appointed
chief engineer OF the Panama canal
Charles f. Bonaparte 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 70.
JULY.
/. Obituary: John Hay United States
secretary Of state, at Newbury, N. H. !;
aged 81.
3. Obituary: Rev. George Day, noted He
brew scholar and one of the revisers
of the Bible, in New Haven; aged so.
Storm: LOCO persons drowned by a
cloudburst at Guanajuato, Mexico.
8. Convention: National educational con-
vention met at Asbury Park, N. ].
4 Obituary: Prof Jacques Reclus. ia
nous geographer, in Brussels; aged %.
Sporting: New worlds record for autos
made at Morris park New York. by
Webb Jay, who drove his machine a
mile in 48 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 cars peace
plenipotentiaries. arrived in New
York
5. Sporting: NJ Thiery won the inter-
national auto race for James Gordon
Bennett cup at Laschamp, France.
Storm: 10 deaths in a tornado which
devastated Montague county, Tex,
6. Sporting: The Leander crew of Eng
land defeated the Client crew of Bel
GUM for the Grand Challenge cup at
Henley-o 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 Dem
yer
Disaster at Sea: French submarine boat
Farfadet sank in the port of Sidi Adj
daI3ah TliniS carving down - men.