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

ed III Washington
L. Fire Business section OF Sprtngvale.
Ne burned loss 100000
Pau. Iores The remains OF Paul Jones.
cava: hero of the American Revoiu.
ton discovered in Paris after q five
years search under direction of United
States Ambassador Horace Porter.
Is. Labor Troubles Strike of railroad op-
eratives in I,aly
Russo-Japanese War The Russian Bal.
tic fee. reached Kamranh bay. Cochin
China
Convention. Fourteenth annual congress
OF the National Society OF Daughters
OF the American Revolution met In
Washington.
%. Fire: Vanderbilt university burned !.
Nashville: loss. 100000
Fatal Fire: IA deaths in the burning OF
a convent at Ste. Genevieve. Quebec.
2 Obituary: M. Paul Lessar. Russian
minister to China, at Peking: aged 81.
h Financial: Collapse Of the Gates May
wheat deal in Chicago.
Earthquake: Severe shocks In Virginia
g. Obituary: Joseph Jefferson, veteran
American actor, at Palm Beach. Fla
aged 76.
8. Shooting ARRAY: men Of prominence.
including a congressman, killed in q
political shooting affray at Hemp
stead, Tex.
IL. Fire at milwaukee,; loss, $4,000.
Labor Troubles: Over 1900 Chicago
teamsters out on strike.
Conventions: Meeting of the Y. w. G. A.
in Detroit.
%. Accident: II 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.
e. Accident: Special train bearing dele
gates of the educational conference at
Columbia, s. c.. wrecked at Green
vile. S. c.; 4 trainmen killed and sew
eral prominent persons. including st.
Clair Mckelway, editor of the Brook
lyn Eagle. injured.
Labor Troubles: Serious strike riots In
Chicago.
Tornado: Nearly 100 people killed. sew
eral hundred injured and $50 houses
destroyed by a windstorm at Laredo.
Tex
Political: W. W. Russell appointed
minister to Venezuela to succeed H.
W. Bowen, who was recalled to meet
charges made by former Minister
Francis 3. Loomis.
90 Russia: Religious liberty granted to
certain denominations by Car Mich
olas II.
Accident: 13 miners killed in an ex-
piOSlOu dl w liUuIlOIl, Ohld
MAY.
/. Russia: Wcrkmens riots suppressed
by troops in Warsaw.
2. Conventions: Sixteenth annual con-
gress of the Sons of the American
Revolution opened In Philadelphia
> Strike Troubles: Riot and bloodshed
by ril1ers in Chicago.
1. Sporting: George Hackenschmidt de-
feated Tom Jenkins for the world s
championship at catch-as-catch-can
wrestling in New York.
$, IRE: ST. Joseph. Mo: loss OF $500, ,00O
By the burning Of Roberts-Parker
wholesale grocery.
S,orm: 2s deaths in Tornado at Mar
CHctte. Kan.
Slii.iler Centenary: One hundredth an
niversary of the death of the poet
S .aii.er celebrated in Germany and
tie United States.
o. Convention: T..irty-seventh annual re-
union of the Society of the Army OF
the Potomac at Manassas. Va.
Fire: Utica. N. Y; loss of $3.50. 900.
Sporting: Agile won the Kentucky
Derby.
Storm: Over 100 deaths in a tornado at
Snyder. Okla. and vicinity.
L. Conventions: American Bible society
held it's eighty ninth annual meeting
in New York.
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at
South Harrisburg. Pa
q Obituary: Emerson Bennett, noted
writer Of fiction. in Philadelphia; aged
So
,. Obituary: Hiram Cronk. last surviving
soldier of the war of 1872. at Ava, N
Y; aged los.
light opera singer. in Chicago; aged
a.. II. NJ Ticknor. educator, lecturer
and journalist in San Francisco: aged
g.
Is. Conventions: American Federation of
Musicians met in 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
sociation of American Physicians met
in Washington.
II Yacht Race: Contest for the 5000
kaiser's cup began at Sandy Hook.
1s Convention: General assembly of the
Presbyterian church opened at Vino
ma, Ind
q Obituary. Mrs. r. Ogden Doremus,
formerly prominent in New York So
cie:y. in that city: aged IS. Albion w.
Tourgee. noted writer and lecturer
and United States consul at Bor-
deaux. in that city; aged CT
Fire: Wilkesbarre. Pa: loss. $500. 900.
n Obituary: Mary A. LivermOre. writer
and Ieformer. at Melrose. Mass: aged
Financial: Merchants Trust company
closed its doors in New York.
g. Financial: Burnett. Cummings & Co.,
bankers failed in Boston: liabilities.
$I.1140O0.
Sporting Delhi won the Brooklyn
handicap.
n % p,Ssn Iap,peso War. Ratfla II, ths
strait Of Korea between the Russian
fleet under Admiral Rojestvensky and
the japanese under Admiral Togo; "a
Russian slips captured or destroyed.
Russian loss estimated at 10000 to
15Gst Ei!1ed. wounded and captured.
Togo reported loss Of japanese
torpedo boats and 113 Japanese killed
wounded and captured. Admiral Me-
bogatoff captured and Admiral Voel-
kersam killed.
u Convention: National conference on
agriculture opened at Rome.
Exposition: The Lewis and Clark Gen.
tennial exposition opened at Portland
Ore
q Sporting: American schooner yacht
Atlantic finished first In the interna-
tional race for the kaiser's cup: time.
IL days and ? hours. the fastest ever
made by a sailing yacht for the dis
tance. , es5 miles
90 Personal, King Alfonso of Spain ar
ri*ei in Paris.
Accident: !Js wn:,:-len buried by a
cava-i1 in az :gT-ation tunnel at
Atontr0se. colo
:. ing: Cicero won the English
Leroy.
I. Personal: Attempted assassination OK
King Alfonso of Spain IN Paris
Accident IS deaths by the sinking OF
tie Mississippi: aver steamer II. n.
Carter at the mouth of Red river
SaIpwreck. 3 ives lost by the sinking
of ths British bark A.ghanistan in
collision wi:h me battiesnIp Caesar
Of Dungeness
usso-Japanese War. Three Russian
cruisers 1Eder Admiral Eneuist which
escaped II the battle n the strait Of
Korea reaened Manila
Personal: Wh,ieiaw Reid. the new
American ambassador &c England.
arrived IN loIooa.
Cc.taary Ser II EoyEton- noted
journalist Fecerai veteran OF the -lvtl
war aL5 president OF tie Caicka.
naaga Fars association. ia Atlantic
Cry aged 70
{ Fire IL Milwaukee loss OF 100000 By
the b.rr:.e I. the Milwaukee exhibit.