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

gresham and noted Populist leader, at
Wichita, Kan: aged 6.
"a Chile: 80 persons killed and 500 wound.
ed In a riot at Santiago.
%. Russia: General strike Of railway
men followed by rioting in the great
cities.
30. Accident: Is killed and 30 injured in a
wreck on the Topeka and Santa Fe,
near Kansas City.
Russia: The czar issued a manifesto
granting civic liberty.
II. Sporting: Ed Bryan broke the worlds
two mile record by trotting In t:S at
Philadelphia.
Russia: The railway strike committee
decided to continue the strike In spite
OF the cars liberal manifesto and de-
manded general amnesty.
NOVEMBER.
l. Rusnia: 30. and disorder at Odessa
and vicinity. accompanied by attacks
on the Jews.
Z Personal: Prince Louis OF Battenberg
bearing a message from King Edward
VII. to President Roosevelt. received
at the White House.
l. Russia: Car Nicholas granted the de-
mands of Finland for autonomy in gov-
ernment as 1t existed before 1888. Am
nesty ukasc signed freeing political
prisoners and press censorship abol-
ished.
Storm: 30 killed and many injured by a
tornado at Mountain View, o. T.
5. Obituary: William T. Richards. IA.
nous American marine artist at New
port, r. l.; aged ~
Z. Obituary: Sir George Williams. found
er of the y. NJ. c. A, in London: aged
81. Lady Florence Dixie. author, ex-
plorer and woman's rights champion,
at Glen Stuart, Scotland: aged IS.
8. Russia: Mutiny of Russian sailors at
Cronstadt. accompanied by rioting and
pillage.
IL. RUSSIA Martial law proclaimed
throughout Poland. Political uprising
and riot at Vladivostok.
13. Convention: Congress Of the American
Federation Of Labor opened at Pitts
burg.
II. Political: The Isle of Pines seeded
from. Cuba and organized a govern
ment under United States laws
II. Russia: The car granted land conces-
sions to the peasants.
Is. Sporting: Yale defeated Princeton at
football at New Haven.
Miscellaneous: Prince Charles of Dem
mark elected king of Norway. Korea
yielded to Japan's demands in the
matter Of government.
-. Shipwreck: Over 100 deaths by the loss
Of the steamer IIilda in the English
channel
Is. Russia: Mutiny of sailors Of the Rus
sian fleet and soldiers of the garrison
at Sevastopol.
Personal: Norway's new king. Haakon
VII. given royal welcome into Chris
tiania.
Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard at foot
ball. to O. at Cambridge.
g. Accident: 16 killed and Is hurt In q
wreck on the Boston and Maine, near
Lincoln. Mass.
Celebration: The 2Joth anniversary of
the settlement of Jews In America OBJ
served throughout the country
27 Norway: King Haakon formally as
cended the throne at Christiania-
%. Personal: Edwin v. Morgan. former
United States minister to Korea, ap-
pointed minister to Cuba, vice Herbert
G. Squiers resigned.
Russia: Russian mutineers at Sevastopol
conquered after a severe battle.
DECEMBER.
2 Sporting Army and navy football
game at Princeton resulted In a tie:
score to C.
s. Obituary: John Bartlett. compiler OF
'Bartiett's Familiar Quotations." at
Cambridge. Mass: aged 76.
T. Political: Premier Balfour rendered
the resignation of the British cabinet.
s. Russia: Gen. Sacharofr. former minis
ter of war. assassinated by q woman
revolutionist.
Political: International fleet occupied
the Turkish island of Lemnos. Sir
the task of forming a new British
cabinet.
Z. Personal: Capt. Roald Amundsen,
Norwegian explorer. reached Eagle
City. Alaska. overland from Herschel
island. after having sailed the north
west passage in the sloop Gjoa.
Accident: 10 killed ard Is injured in q
wreck of the Overland Limited On the
Union Pa ifc at Rock Springs. Wyo.
6. Obituary United States Senator John
II Mitchell Of Oregon, at Portland;
aged 20.
9 Obituary: Louisa Eidridge (Aunt LOU
isa). well known actress. In New York
city: aged 75.
Sporting: Root and FoGler won the six
day bicycle race In New York city:
score 2.260 miles laps
10. Personal Baroness Won Suttner OF
Austria awarded the Nobel peace
prize. valued at $4,000.
II. Obituary: Edward Atkinson. social
and political economist. In Boston:
aged IS
Political: Change of ministry in Eng
land. The porte accepted the terms OF
the powers concerning Macedonia.
l3 Obituary: Sir Richard Ciaverhouse
Jebb. noted Greek scholar. in London:
aged ca
II Obituary: Gen Herman Haupt. a civil
war veteran and the oldest graduate
Of the West Point Military academy,
at Jersey city; aged 81.
Convention. Anthracite coal mInerE
conference begun at Shamokin. Pa.
f5. Russia: The executive committee Of the
labor unions arrested In St Petersburg
Il. Russia: Martial law In force thrpuRh-
Out the empire.