The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-01-02

Il. South America; Tne Unitea state.
| proposed arbitration in the Venezuelan
dispute.
A. Obituary; Jules Verne. French au-
| thor. Of Arri~~ss: rooT n
| South America: President Castro oil
Venezuela refused to arbitrate Will
the United States.
Is. Obituary:e Maurice Barrymore, noted
American actor. at Amityville. N. Y;
aged So.
81. Political: In speech to German sub
jects at Tangier the kaiser declare,
that the integrity of Morocco woult
be maintained.
APRIL.
Q Simplon Tunnel: Tunnel at the Sim
plon pass in the Alps. the longest il
the world. inaugurated by the passing
of trains from the Swiss and Italian
sides.
4. Earthquake: $4,000 deaths reported By
an earthquake in India which affected
an area of 700 square miles renderfnf
every building uninhabitable.
s. Labor Troubles: Transfers strike be
gun at Chicago.
Z. Personal: King Edward VII of Eng
land arrived in Paris and held a con,
ference with President Loubet Of
France.
9. Obituary: Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(Susan Coolidge), writer of children
stories at Newport r. L.; aged 70.
IL. Convention: Fifth triennial meeting OF
the National Council of Women open
ed in Washington.
H. Fire: Business section of Springvale,
Me, burned: loss, $780, 600.
Paul Jones: The remains of Paul Jones
naval hero OF the American Revolu,
tion, discovered in Paris after a five
years search under direction of United
States Ambassador Horace Porter
IG. Labor Troubles: Strike of railroad OPP
eratfves in Italy.
Russo Japanese War: The Russian Bal
tic fleet reached KanSranh bay, Cochin
China.
Convention. Fourteenth annual congress
of the National Society of Daughters
of the American Revolution met in
Washington,
20. Fire: Vanderbilt university burned at
Nashville: loss, $20O,0O0.
Fatal Fire: IA deaths in the burning OF
q convent al Ste. Genevieve, Quebec.
Y. Obituary: NJ Paul Lessar, Russian
minister to China, at Picking: aged "a.
Financial: Collapsenof the Gates May
wheat deal in Chicago.
Earthquake: Severe shocks In Virginia.
q. Obituary.: Joseph Jefferson. veteran
Americans actor at Palm Beach, Fla:
aged 76.
Is. Shooting ARRAY: men of prominence,
including q congressman, killed in a
political shooting ARRAY at Hemp
stead, Tex.
n Fire at Milwaukee, loss, $500, O0O-
Labor Troubles: lover 5000 Chicago
teamsters out on a strike
Conventions Meeting OF the X. W. G. A.
in Detroit.
e. Accident: - miners killed by expio-
sion In the Elanora shaft at Big Rum
Pa.
,t,it,,a,-,,. f.,,.,.,.r rrtt~ I9,,op % ,,satnl
Confederate veteran, former United
States consul general at Havana in
Washington; aged 70.
49, Accident: Special train bearing dele-
gates of the educational conference at
Columbia, S. c. wrecked at Green
willie, s. c.; trainmen killed and sew
eral prominent persons, including St.
Clair MoKelway, editor Of the Brook
lyn Eagle, injured
Labor Troubles: Serious strike riots In
Chicago.
Tornado: Nearly Ice people Killed, sew
eral hundred injured and loo houses
destroyed by a windstorm at Laredo,
Tex
Political: w. w. Russell appointed
minister to Venezuela to succeed IL.
w. Bowen, who was recalled to meat
charges made by former Minister
Francis 3. Loomis-
30. Russia: Religious liberty granted to
certain denominations by Gar Mich
o1as II.
Accident. 1s miners killed in an ex-
plosion at Wilburtons Okla
MAY.
l. Russia: Worlxmens riots suppressed
by troops in Warsaw.
q Convention: sixteenth annual con-
gress of the Sons of the American
Revolution opened in Philadelphia.
B. Strike Troubles: Riot and bloodshed
by strikers in Chicago.
A. Sportings George Hackenschmidt de-
feated Tom Jenkins for the world 5
championship at catch-As-catch-can
wrestling in New York.
5. Fire; st. Joseph Mo-; loss of s5O0.o0
by the burning OF Roberts Parker
wholesale grocery.
3. Storm; " deaths in Tornado at Mar
quette, Kan.
Schiller Centenarys One hundredth an
niversary Of the death of the poet
Schiller celebrated In Germany and
the United States.
10. Convention: Thirty-seyenth. annual re-
union of the Society OF the Army OF
the Potomac at Manassas. Va
Fire; Utica, N. 7. loss of $450,00O.
Sporting Agile won the Kentucky
Derby.
Storm: Over 100 deaths in a tornado al
Snyder, Okla. and Vicinity.
IL Convention: American Bible society
held It's eighty-nin annual meeting
in New York
Accident: % killed and "a injured in 9
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad a
South Harrisburg, Pa.
r. Obituary: Emerson Bennett, notes
writer Of fiction. In Philadelphia; aget
49,
Is Obituary. Hiram Cronk, last surviving
soldier OF the war of 1872, at Ava, N
r.. aged 105.
IA. Obituary: Jessie Bartlett Davis, th'
light opera singer in Chicago; ages
49, II, NJ Ticknor. educator, lectures
and Journalist. in San Francisco; ages
So.
il. Convention: American Federation o
Musicians met in Detroit.
16. Conventions: First joint meeting sine
the civil war OF the Baptists Of tn
north and south at st. Louis. Tent
annual meeting Of the National Manu-
facturers' association at Atlanta. As
ISOLATION Of American Physicians me
in Washington.
Il Yacht Race: Contest for the $500
lxaisers cup began at Sandy Hook.
| 49, Convention: General assembly OF tn
Presbyterian church opened at Vino
ma, Ind.
"a OBITUARY; Mrs. r. Ogden Doremna