The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-01-02
YEAR 1905 IN BRIEF.
FROM FOURTH PAeE.l

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ciety il that city; eyed Is Aibian Nv.
ana iJTitrea staies coIrsul DOR
deaux il that city. aged G..
Fire: Wilkesharre Pa; loss, S3D0,O00
2S Obituary. Mary A. lsivermore, Wfner
and refosaner, at Me1rose Mass. aged
riSanciai: Merchants. Trust compars
closed its doors in New York.
u.s. Financial: Burnett, Cummings s. Co.,
bankers, failed in Soston liabilities
sporting: Dslhi won the Brooklyn
handicap.
n, rs. Russo-J Japanese War Battle IN the
strait Of Korea between the Russian
Heet under admiral Rojestvensky and
the japanese under Admiral Togo; z
Russian ships captured on destroyed
Russian loss estimated at 10000 70
5000 killed wounded and captured.
Togo reported a loss Of 8 Japanese
torpedo boats and 113 Japanese killed
and 424 wounded. R0iestvensky
wounded and captured Admiral Ne
boEafon captured and Admiral Voel-
Isersam Killed
r. Convention. National conference on
agriculture opened at Rome
Exposition: The Lewis and Clark Cen
tennisi exposition epened at Portland,
Ore.
70. Sporting American schooner yacht
Atlantic finished first in the iTserna-
tion4d race for the kaiser's cup; time,
- DAYS and ? hours the fastest ever
made by a sailing yacht for the dis
lance, 1856 miles
10 Personal King Alfonso Of Spain ar
rived ia Paris.
Accident: los workmen buried by
cave-in In an irrigation tunnel at
Montrose. Colo.
sM. Sporting: Cicero won the English
Derby
J. Personal: Attempted assassination OF
King Alfonso OF Spain in Paris.
Accident is deaths by the sinking Of
the Mississippi river steamer III. M.
Carter at the mouth OF Red river
s Shlpwreck: q lives lost by the sinking
OF the British bark Afghanistan in
collision with the battleship Caesar
off Dungeness.
Russo-Japanese War Three Russian
cruisers under Admiral Enquist which
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 III. ". B0ynton, noted
journalist. Federal veteran Of the civil
war and president of the Chicka-
manga Park association. in Atlantic
City; aged 70.
a Fire: In Milwaukee; loss OF 1000 by
kion building.
a Personal: Crown Prince Frederick
William Of Prussia married to the
Duchess Cecilia OF Mecklenburg
SchWerin at Berlin.
= 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 80
q BhipwFeck; British submarine boat
AS lost on Plymouth with Il OF her
crew
Obituary: Prince Leopold OF Hohenzol-
lern, whose nomination to the throne
OF Spain caused the Franco Prussian
war in 1870, In Berlins aged 10.
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.
70. Flood: Sudden rise OF the Mississippi
river caused a loss of 100000 in
Iowa. Illinois and Missouri.
Russo-Japanese War: President Roose-
VeIt's suggestion for a peace confer
encs accepted by Russia and Japan
a Fire; At Fort Worth. Tex. loss of
e Ss6Q,o0O by the burning Of packing
plant.
H. Convention: Reunion Of the United
Confet. nate Veterans at Louisville.
~ Sporting: Beldame won the Suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
~ Fire: At Fort Francis, Ont; the bust
ness section destroyed; loss s20000
~. Accident: % killed and many injured
In wreck on the Western Maryland
railroad at Patapsco, Md.
Obituary; Gen Maxine Gomez, the
Cuban leader at Havana: aged "a.
49, Fire: At Pemaukee, Wis; loss OF $685.
900 by the burning Of the Armour ice
~ plant.
Russp-Japanese War. washington cho-
sen as the meeting place OF the Rus
4 sian and Japanese plenipotentiaries.
tg Convention: The Interstate National
Guard association met in ST Paul.
10 Political: II. w. Bowen, former min
lister to Venezuela dismissed from the
diplomatic service.
a. Accident; The Twentieth Century
Limited wrecked by an open switch at
Mentor. o.: 6 deaths,
q, Russia: BATHS between troops and
strikers at LODI, Poland; so citizens
killed and 200 wounded.
Vs. Political; The Chinese exclusion law
defined by the president.
Fire: AttNasliville: loss OF $4,000 in tpe
shopping district,
a. Personal: John Findiay Wallace CHIEF
engineer Of the Panama canal. resign
ed
sporting Yale defeated Harvard 10 2
al baseball Al New Haven.
u.s. Accident 3 deaths iil & dynamite ex-
pl0Sloll az EMPORIUM. Ia
Sporting: Cornell won the eight cared
varsity races 81 P0pShkeepsIe. time.
miles. - minutes = - seconds; 2
miles, minutes 9 e-5 Seconds
Russia. Strike disorders ~ odessa; loss
OF S39oOo.gO BY incendiary fires. The
Russian batgieship kniaz Potemkine.
in the hands of mutineers appeared
IN fhe harher ana trained her guns
on the eity.
% convention: The National Equal spf-
fraEe association met at Portland,
Ore
Sporting Yale defeated Harvard 10 the
varsity boat race az New London;
lime. 4 miles p minutes 50 - seconds.
90 Personal: John T.. Stevens appointed
chief engineer of the Panama canilL
Charles #. Bonaparte Installed as Sec
rotary Of navy, vice Paul Morton, re-
signed.
Culinary Gen. Hugh Boyle Ewing, sol-
dior. author and diplomat at I.ancas-
ter o.. aged 70.
JUIlA.
l. Obituary John HAY, Emitted states
secretary OF state at NewburS, y. H. +
aged 81
= Obituary. Rev. C;eoFae~f1aN, noted He
brew scholar and one os The reVisels
Of the Bible IN New Havcn; aged 10.
Storm: 1000 persons drowned bN a
cloudburst AZ Gnanaiuato, Mexico.
3. Convention National educational con-
vention met at Asbury Park n }.
& Obituary: Prof Jacques Reclus. IA