Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-01-11
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.
4-Explosion in mine at Coaldale, W.
Va, kills p miners.
S-Landslide in Haverstraw, N. Y,
kills 10 persons.
10-Ten lives lost in fire in West hotel,
Minneapolis. e. Death of President w.
R. 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.
21-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, U.
S. A.. House passes joint statehood
29-Death of King Christian of Den
mark.
3O-Frederick VIII. proclaimed King
of Denmark. =. Death of Paul Dresser,
Indiana song writer.
February.
Colombian coast towns destroyed
by tidal wave following earthquake.
8-Hurricane sweeps Society and Tua-
motu Islands, destroying thousands of
lives. 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-R Roosevelt wedding in
Washington.
1S-Peavey elevator burns in Duluth,
with loss of $1,OOOOOO. 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.
2I-Marriage of Prince Eitel Frederick
of Prussia and Duchess Sophie Charlotte
of Oldenburg, in Berlin.
March.
2-TOrnado and fire destroy large part
or Meridian, Miss.
death of Gen. ]. NJ. Schofeld.
7-Rouvier ministry falls in France.
S-Fifteen Americans and 600 Moros
killed in fierce battle on Island of Jolo.
1O-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. Henry G. Ide i1augurated
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.
injured in panic in st. Ludmillas 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.
26-Tornado sweeps across Texas.
3O-TOrnado strikes parts of Furnas
county, Nebraska.
May.
Mob violence and wild disorder in
Paris. -. Iron workers strike in Chicago
Many minor strikes start in the East.
5-Pennsylvania 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 WEEDS
Princess Ena of Battenburg. 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 q.
New.
47-TornadOes in Texas, Kansas, Min
nesota and Wisconsin.
14-Explosion on British boat at Liv-
erpool kills 8 persons and Injuries 40,
of Jews at Bialystok, Russia
bill admitting Oklahoma as State
passed by Congress.
1S-Death of Gov. John NJ. Pattison
Of Ohio. Lieut.. Gov. Andrew L. Harris
sworn in as successor. Republicans
celebrate 5Oth anniversary of foundation
Of party.