The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-01-03
EVENTS IN 1905


Political: Anglo-Cuba treaty of COM |
merce navigation and industry rati- |
fed by the Cuban senate.
81. Personal: Marriage of King Alfonso |
and Princess Ena In Madrid. Bomb |
thrown at the king and bride while |
receiving an ovation IN the streets
narrowly missed the royal couple and |
killed 80 attendants and bystanders.
JUNE.
2. SPAIN Morales. the Madrid bomb |
thrower, committed suicide after dis !
patching guard sent TO arrest him. /
3. Accident: Il killed and 20 hurt In !
trolley snashup In East Providence |
r. l..
4. Obituary: United States Senator Ar.
thur Pue German. In Washington |
aged G..
6. Obituary; Karl Won Hartmann notice |
German philosopher in Berlin aged 65 |
I. Obituary: Oliver Summer Teall. once . |
New YorA social sensation, at Lib. |
erty, n. Y. aged "a
8. Mining Accidents: miners killed by !
white damp" at Rocky Fork. Mont !
9. Accident: u workmen killed by explo-
sion at McAbee's dynamite factory
Lancaster. Pa
10. Sporting Spearmint won the Grand
Prix de Paris
Storm: people killed and many injured
In storm which swept the lower !
Hudson valley
Obituary: Mary Putnam jacob, noted |
woman physician, In New York city; !
aged Ga
Il. Panama Canal; The house voted for a
lock canal. 10 to &c.
Russia: Jewish massacres at Btalystok. !
Ship Disaster: 10 killed and 40 injured |
by an explosion on the British steam
ship Haverford at Liverpool.
Is. Obituary: r. B. Roosevelt, uncle OF |
the president and a we'll known law !
yer author and politician. IN New |
York city: aged rs.
Russia: Continued attacks on the Jews |
at Bialystok.
16. Obituary: Henry o. Houghton, the
publisher, at Cambridge. Mass; aged |
"a
Political; Bill admitting Oklahoma to
statehood became a law.
Is. Obituary: Gov. John M Pattison OF |
Ohio, at Fremont; aged So.
q. Coronation: King Haakon VII. OF |
Norway crowned at Trondhjem.
Sporting: Go Between won the $4,000 |
Suburban handicap.
q. Obituary: The Duke OF AlmodoVar |
who presided over the Moroccan con- |
ference at Algeciras, at Madrid; aged |
Congress: The pure food bill passed the
house, 240 to HI
Sporting: Cornell won the four mia |
eight cared varsity race at Pough- |
keepsie.
q. Sporting: Szisz won the Grand Prix |
automobile race at lie Mans, France.
%. Sporting: Harvard won the varsity !
cared boat race at New London
29 Congress: Railway rate bill signed by |
the president.
1. Obituary: Sir Wnfrid Lawson, noted |
Liberal NJ. p. and temperance reform |
er, in London; aged II.
Accident q lives lost In the wreck of an |
American line special train at Sails |
bury, England; % Americans among
the victims
4. Obituary: II. A. Ward. noted Amer |
lean scientist killed by an automobile |
In Buffalo, n. Y.
Personal: A son born to Crown Prince |
Frederick William of Germany at
Potsdam.
8. Storm: so people killed and serious
damage done to crops by a hailstorm |
in the Valencia district of Spain.
TO- Russia: Vice Admiral Choukin. COM |
mander of the Russian Black sea fleet. !
fatally shot by a sailor in league with |
revolutionists
IL The Dreyfus Case: The supreme court |
of France annulled the condemnation /
of Capt. Dreyfus.
Sporting: c. NJ. Daniels American won |
the 100 yard amateur swimming match !
for the championship of the world at |
Nottingham. England.
South America: Cen Regaldo, COM |
mander of the Salvadoran army. kill |
ed In battle with Guatemalan forces.
13 The Dreyfus Case: Capt. Dreyfus re-
stored to the army of France by a
special act of the Legislature.
IA Sorth America; Honduras declared I
W = against Guatemala thus becom- !
Il; the ally OF Salvador.
:. South America The Salvadoran army |
won a victory over the Guatemalans !
at Platenar.
IT Obituary: Alfred Belt. the noted South |
African financer. in London; aged 81. |
1S South America: Armstice declared be |
tween Salvador and Honduras and |
Guatemala. !
Obituary: Lady Curzon American wife |
of the ex-viceroy OF India. in London.
20 Russia: radical newspapers sup
pressed In st. Petersburg
Fire: In Syrian, Russia loss Sc. 900 900.
South America: Treaty OF peace be. !
tween Guatemala and the Salvador |
Honduras alliance signed by commits. !
sioners of the belligerent powers on |
board the United States cruiser Mar
blehead off the Guatemalan coast.
Obituary: Brig Gen. Edmund Rice u. |
g. A, retired, at Wakefield. Mass;
aged g.
u. Accidents: % killed and "a injured in
wreck on the Seabord Air line. near
Hamlet. N. c. 9 killed In a wreck on
the Great Northern, near Elk. Wash. ,
Obituary: Russell Sage. at Lawrence
Beach, n. Y; aged 80. Gen. Baron
Kodama, chief of staff OF the Japanese |
army, at Tokyo.
Russia Car Nicholas dissolved the |
douma. Martial law declared In ST |
Petersburg
q. Russia: 1856 members of the douma /
met at Viborg, Finland. and issued a |
revolutionary manifesto to the Rus I
sian people.
Convention: Pan American congress /
opened at Rio de Janeiro.
Accident: Many deaths caused by the |
collapse of building under construc-
ton at South birmingham, Mass.
Philippines: $50 Filipinos (Pulajanes) ,
killed In battle with American forces
near Baneun. island of Leyte.
o. Obituary: Prince Eugene Murat great
grandson of King Joachim Murat. Ma
poleon's famous cavalry leader, killed
by hts own automobile in Munich
30. Obituary: John Lawrence Toole. noted |
English comedian. at Brighton, Eng .
land; aged 49,
AUGUST.
/. Russia: Fortress at Sveaborg. Fin
land. known as the "Gibratar of the |
North" seized by mutineers as part 4
of a general conspiracy against the
car.
Q. Labor: Strike of photographers involv-
ing $4,000 workmen In the United /
States and Canada. begun
g. Obituary: Rear Admiral Charles j. |
Train, commander of the United !