The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-29
A YEAR OF DISASTER.
RECORD OF 1905 is A DARK AND
BLOODY ONE.
Nature Causes Terrible and Wide
spread Destruction of Life and
Property Grim Reaper Works
More Peacefully.
January.

January.
4-Explosion in mine at Coaldale, w.
Va. kills q miners.
S-Land3lide in Haverstraw, n. Y,
kills 10 persons.
10-Ten lives lost in fire in West hotel,
Minneapolis. -. Death of President w.
K. Harper of University of Chicago.
11--New Croton dam in New York
finished.
12-Famine in northern Japan.
16-Death of Marshall Field.
17-Clement Armand Fallieres elected
President of France.
Gl-Eighteen lives lost in fire panic in
Philadelphia church. -. Brazilian turret
ship Aquidaban sunk by explosion and
212 men perish.
23-Steamer Valencia goes ashore on
Vancouver Island coast; 14S lives lost.
25-Death of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, y.
s. A.. House passes joint statehood
bill.
29-Death of King Christian of Den
mark.
30-Frederick VIII. proclaimed King
OF Denmark. Death of Paul Dresser,
Indiana song writer.
1-Colombian coast towns destroyed
by tidal wave following earthquake.
S-Hurricane sweeps Society and Tua-
motu Islands, destroying thousands of
lives. E. q. Mine explosion near Oakhill, w.
Va, kills % men.
9-Death of Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
negro poet.
16-Pat Grove acquitted of Cudahy
kidnapping by Omaha jury.
17-Longworth-Ro Roosevelt wedding in
Washington.
1S-Peavey elevator burns in Duluth,
with loss of $1OOO,O00. M. Faillieres
takes oath as President of France.
19-Explosion in mine at Maitland,
Colo, causes 16 deaths.
23-Johann Hoch, bigamist and wife
murderer, hanged in Chicago.
25-Death Of ex-Speaker David B.
Henderson.
27--Ma1riage of Prince Eitel Frederick
of Prussia and Duchess Sophie Charlotte
of Oldenburg, in Berlin.
March.
2-Tornado and fire destroy large part
of Meridian, Miss.
7-Rouvier ministry falls in France.
S-Fifteen Americans and 600 Moros
killed in fierce battle on Island of Jolo.
10-1,O60 die in mine disaster in Cour-
rieres, France.
13-Death of Miss Susan B. Anthony.
1876 killed in railway collision near
Florence, Colo.
17-Death of Johann Most, anarchist.
21-Death of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
April.
John Alexander Dowie deposed at
Zion City, ILL.,, as head of Christian
Catholic church and succeeded by Wilbur
G. Voliva. q. . Henry G. Ide inaugurated
Governor General Of Philippines.
Great coal strike begins.
S-Vesuvius in eruption destroys towns
at it's base.
11-Death Of James A. Bailey, great
Snowman.
1.-Two negroes burned to death by
mob in Springfield, Mo. Two officers
and five men killed by explosion on bat
tleship Kearsarge. (. . Earthquake in For
mosa.
15-Four trampled 10 death and many
injured in panic in st. Ludmilla's church,
Chicago.
1S-Earthquake and fires devastate
business district of San Francisco.
19-Prof. Pierre Currie, discoverer OF
radium, killed in Paris.
22-Dust explosion In mine 40 miles
west of Trinidad, Colo, kills % men.
28-Tornado sweeps across Texas.
30-Tornado strikes parts of Furnas
county, Nebraska.
Mob violence and wild disorder In
Paris. Iron workers strike in Chicago
%. Many minor strikes start in the East.
tPennsylvania anthracite miners vote
to not strike.
14-Death of Carl Schurz.
1S-Railroad rate regulation bill passes
Senate. {. . Forest fires destroy towns in
northern Michigan and Wisconsin.
23-Death of Henrik Ibsen.
25-Seven political assassinations in
Russia.
31-Michael Davitt, famous Irish lead
er, dies. King Alfonso of Spain weds
Princess Ena of Battenburg. -. q. Bomb
thrown at Spanish king and bride kills
20 persons and Injuries 100.
June.
+Death of Senator Arthur p. Cor
man Of Maryland. Senator Burton of
Kansas resigns. Death of John c.
New.
4-7-Tornadoes in Texas, Kansas, Min
nesota and Wisconsin.
14-Explosion on British boat at Liv-
erpool kills 8 Sersons and Injuries 49,.
Massacre of Jews at Bialystok, Russia
....Bill admitting Oklahoma as State
passed by Congress.
18-Death Of Gov. John M. Pattison
Of Ohio. Lieut.. Gov. Andrew l.. Harris
sworn In as successor :. Republicans
celebrate 5Oth anniversary of foundation