The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-01-05

APRIL.
g. Smplon Tunnel: Tunnel at the Sim
plon pass i'm the Alps, the longest i'm
the world, inaugurated by the passing
of trains from the Swiss and Italian
sides.
4. Earthquakes 1900 deaths reported by
an earthquake I'm India which affected
an area Of 700 square miles, rendering
every building unlnhabitable.
6. Labor Troubles: Transfers strike be-
gun at Chicago.
2. Personal: King Edward VII. OF Eng
land arrived I'm Paris and held con-
ference with President Loubet OF
France.
o. Obituary: Sarah ChauDcey Woolsey
(Susan Coolidge). writer of chidrens
stories at Newport. II. L.; aged 20.
IL. Convention: Fifth triennial meeting OF
the National Council of Women open
ed I'm Washington.
IA. Fire: Business section OF Sprlngvale.
Me, burned: loss. $500 coo.
Paul Jones: The remains of Paul Jones'
naval hero OF the American Revolu-
ton. discovered In Paris after five
years search under direction Of United
States Ambassador Horace Porter.
16. Labor Troubles: Strike of railroad OPP
eratives In Italy.
Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Bal
tic fleet reached Kamranh bay, Cochin
China.
SOHNtnllOH. annual COuSTtSS
Of the National Society of Daughters
OF the American Revolution met In
Washington.
20. Fire: Vanderbilt university burned at
Nashville; loss. 100000
Fatal Fire: IA deaths In the burning of
a convent at Ste Genevieve, Quebec.
%. Obituary: NJ Paul Lessar, Russian
minister to China, at Picking; aged "a
Financial: Collapse Of the Gates May
wheat deal in Chicago.
Earthquake: Severe shocks I'm Virginia
g. Obituary: Joseph Jefferson. veteran
American actor. at Palm Beach, Fla;
aged &c.
Is Shooting ARRAY: men Of prominence,
including a congressman. killed in
political shooting affray at Hemp
stead, Tex.
q. Fire at Milwaukee,; loss. 100000.
Labor Troubles: over 5000 Chicago
teamsters out on strike.
Convention: Meeting of the Y. w. c. A.
in Detroit
%. Accident: IL miners killed by explo-
sion In the Elanora shaft at Big Run.
Pa.
Obituary: General Fitz-Hugh Lee. noted
Confederate veteran, former United
States consul general at Havana. in
Washington aged 20.
! %. Accident: Special train bearing dele
gates of the educational conference at
Columbia, S. c., wrecked at Green
vile, s. c.: trainmen killed and sew
eral prominent persons, including st.
Clair McKelway, editor OF the Brook
Ign Eagle, injured.
Labor Troubles: Serious strike riots In
Chicago.
Tornado: Nearly 100 people killed. sew
eral hundred injured and $50 houses
destroyed by windstorm at Laredo.
Tex
Political: w. w. Russell appointed
minister to Venezuela to succeed II.
w. Bowen, who was recalled to meet
charges made by former Minister
Francis y. LOOMS.
] 30. Russia: Religious liberty granted to
certain denominations by Car Mich
olas III.
Accident: IS miners killed in an ex-
plosion at Wilburton. Okla.
MAY.
/. Russia: Workmens riots suppressed
by troops in Warsaw.
2. Conventions Sixteenth annual con-
gress of the Sons OF the American
Revolution opened In Philadelphia.
3. Strike Troubles: Riot and bloodshed
by strikers in Chicago.
4. Sporting: George Hackenschmidt de-
feated Tom Jenkins for the world 8
championship at catch-as-catch-can
wrestling in New York.
5. Fire: St Joseph, Mo-; loss OF 100000
by the burning of Roberts-Parler
wholesale grocery.
! 9. Storm: 20 deaths In Tornado at Mar
quette. Kan.
Schiller Centenary: One hundredth an
niversary of the death of the poet
Schiller celebrated in Germany and
the United States.
! 10. Conventions: Thirty-seventh annual re-
union of the Society Of the Army of
the Potomac at Manassas. Va.
Fire: Utica, n. Y; loss of $4,000.
Sporting. Agile won the Kentucky
Derby.
Storm over 100 deaths In a tornado at
Snyder, Okla, and vicinity
IL. Convention: American Bible society
held its eighty-ninth annual meeting
in New York.
Accident: % killed and 81 injured in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at
South HARRISBURG, Pa.
r. Obituary: Emerson Bennett. noted
writer Of fiction. in Philadelphia; aged
49,
lS Obituary: Hiram Cronk, last surviving
soldier Of the war of 1912. at Ava, N.
Y; aged 105.
! IL Obituary: Jessie Bartlett Davis, the
light opera singer in Chicago; aged
46. II. NJ. Ticknor. educator. lecturer
and journalist, in San Francisco; aged
CO.
10. Convention: American Federation of
Musicians met i'm Detroit
16 Conventions: First joint meeting since
the civil war Of the Baptists of the
north and south at st. Louis. Tenth
annual meeting of the National Manu-
facturers' association at Atlanta. AS
ISOLATION of American Physicians met
In Washington.
| H. Yacht Race: Contest for the $1,000
kaiser's cup began at Sandy Hook.
| 49, Convention: General assembly OF the
Presbyterian church opened at Vino
ma, Ind
Il. Obituary: Mrs. r. ogden Doremus.
formerly prominent In New York So
ciety. in that city; sged 70. Albion w.
Tourgee, noted writer and lecturer
and United States consul at Bor-
deaux, I'M that city; aged g.
Fire: Wilkesbarre, Pa; loss, 100000.
g. Obituary: Mary A. Livermore, writer
and reformer, at Melrose Mass; aged
So
Financial: Merchants Trust company
closed its doors in New York.
%. Financial: Burnett, Cummings e. Co..
bankers failed in Boston: liabilities,
$1,14,OO0.
Sporting: Delhi won the Brooklyn
handicap.
n, 2S Rus.o-Japanese War: Battle in the
strait of Korea between the Russian
fleet under Admiral Rojestvensky and
the Japanese under Admiral Togo; %
Russian ships captured or DESTROYED.