The Somerset reporter., 1906-01-04
Ii. Paul Jones: The United States fleet
bearing the remains OF Paul Jones ar

San Diego, Cal, exploded. causing the
death. all told Of 66 OF her crew.
o. FIRE. a 100000 blaze in Auburn. ~ Y
Attempted Assassination would be
assassins bomb narrowly missed the
sultan of Turkey and killed g Of his
bodyguard.
3. Fire: L deaths in an oil fire in the
Humble fields. Tex
Obituary: Daniel Scott Lamont. secre.
tary of war under Cleveland, at Pough.
keepsie. aged o.
A. Personal: Conference of ear Nicholas
and Emperor William near Bjorko, lr
the Baltic sea.
IS. Russo-Japancse War Baron Jutarc
Komura chief Japanese pleuipotenti.
airy to the peace conference. arrived II
New York.
.. Obituary: Cen. William Blackmar
commander IN chief of tie q \. r.. II
Boise. Ida. aged bt
AUGUST.
2. Personal NJ. Sergins Witte, Russia's
chief plenipotontiary. arrived in New
York.
5. Fire. The Delaware and Lackawanna
railway terminal destroyed in Hobo
ken. y. J.. loss about S.5oO, 900.
Peace Conference: Russian and Jap
anese ENJOYS met on board the yacht
Maynower at oyster Bay. \. Y.
6. Sporting. W. w. Coe of Boston put
sixteen pound stone - feet inches at
Portland. ore. breaking the worlds
record OF Is feet inches
Obituary. Gen. Roy Stone. noted civil
war veteran and distinguished en-
gineer on public works, at Mendham.
y. J.. aged 80
9. Peace Conference. First session held
at the United States navy yard. Ports
mouth. y. H.
Obituary. Archbishop Chapelle Of the
Roman catholic diocese of New Or
leans victim OF yellow fever: aged ii.
Convention: The National Catholic To-
tai Abstinence association met ar
Wikesbarre, Pa, and was addressed
by President Roosevelt.
j. Obituary Rear Admiral +. *. Ben
ham. L. s. N, retired, at Lake Ma.
hopac. y. Y; aged 7a.
,, Political: New treaty of alliance con-
cluded between England and Japan
). Accident: L. killed and many injured
in an accident on the Nickel Plate at
kishman. O.
I. Accident: 80 colored excursionists kill
ed and as many injured in an open
drawbridge accident on the Atlantic
Coast line a Bruce, Va.
IS. Sporting Fifth and concluding race
for the Canada cup won by the Amer
lean Yacht IroUuols.
9. Russia: \ national representative as
semblX summoned by the czar,
4. Storm: = killed ard many missing ~
storm which swept over southern
Minnesota.
Obituary: MARY Mapes Dodge. author
poet ard editor Of St Nicholas a.
Tannersville. n Y aged g..
2. Earthquake. Severe shock felt In
southern Illinois. Tennessee and Ken
tuckS
9. 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.
IS. Peace Gonfertnce: The ultimatum of
ear Nicholas that Russia would not
pay indemnity received by the peace
envoYs at Portsmouth.
Sporting. Crmondale won the $53 $50 Fu-
turitv at Shcepshead Bay.
Y. Peace Conference: President Roose-
Welt made final appeal to the mikado
to modify Japan's peace terms
g. ShipNreoh: % Scamc. drowned by the
wreekirg OF the steamer Peconlc OFF
Florida.
ConVentIou. iuterparliameutary con-
gross opened in brussels
Prar. Conference: The mikadO ordered
furth"r concessions 10 Russia in order
10 insure peace,
-. 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 go
600 by the burning of the Penn Traffic
stores.
20. Earthquake; Shocks felt along the
New Hampshire coast line.
Financial. Ernest Cronier French sugar
king failed for $1,000. 000.
Eclipse: Total eclipse of the sun lasting
from TWO and one-half to three min
utes observable from northern Africa.
81. Obituary Francesca TamaRno, noted
tenor. at Ndrese, Italy; aged IS,
Accident. John f. Baldwin and his air
ship blown to atoms by dynamite
while 500 feet in air at Greenville, o.
SEPTEMBER.
/. Accident. 10 people killed and % hurt
In a wreck on the Great Eastern rail-
way at Witham, England.
Fire AT Portland, ore, loss OF over
$500 900 by the burning OF docks along
the Willamette
B. Fire: 900 houses burned in Adrian
ople. the second city OF European
Turkey: loss. S5,O00,OOO
Convention The thlrtY-ninth encamp-
ment of The q. A. r. opened at Den
yer
S. Obituary. Gen. Bjornstjern dstin-
guished Swedish soldier, diplomat and
legislator. at Stockholm. aged 86.
Uezekiah Butterworth. noted Amer
lean author and editor. at Warren.
r l aged to,
g. Japan Kloting in Tokyo because OF
dissatisfaction with the peace treaty
g. Cart hquako. Is villages destroyed in
the district of Calabria, Italy; 1000
houses ruined and 2.5o0 people killed