Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-01-11
A YEAR OF DISASTER.
IEcoRD OF 1906 is A DARK AND
BLOODY ONE.
Nature Causes Terrible and Wide
spread Destruction of Life and
Property Grim Reaper Works
More Peacefully.
January.

More Peacefully.
January.
4-Explosion in mine at Coaldale, w.
Va, kills 81 miners.
S-Landslide in Haverstraw, N. Y,
kills 10 persons.
! 10-Ten lives lost in fire in West hotel,
Minneapolis. . . 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. E. 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
bill.
29-Death of King Christian of Den
mark.
30-Frederick VIII. proclaimed King
Indiana song writer.
3 February.
Colombian coast towns destroyed
by tidal wave following earthquake.
S-Hurricane sweeps Society and Tua-
motu Islands, destroying thousands of
lives. Mine explosion near Oakhill, w.
Va, kills % men.
death of Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
negro poet.
16-Pat Grove acquitted of Cudahy
kidnapping by Omaha jury.
17-Longworth- Roosevelt wedding in
Washington
1S-Peavey elevator burns in Duluth,
with loss of $1,000,000. M. Faillieres
takes oath us 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.
2T-Marriage 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.
death of Gen. ]. NJ. Schofield
7-Rouvier ministry falls in France.
S-Fifteen Americans and 600 Moros
killed in fierce battle on Island of Jolo.
10-1,060 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. I. 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 inaugurated
Governor General of Philippines.
Great coal strike begins.
S-Vesuvius in eruption destroys towns
at its 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 TO 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.
26-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
5-Pennsylvania anthracite miners vote
to not strike.
14-Death of Carl Schurz.
18-Railroad rate regulation bill passes
Senate. 9. &. 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. d. . . Bomb
thrown at Spanish king and bride kills
70 persons and Injuries 100.
June.
= death of Senator Arthur P. Cor.
man of Maryland. Senator Burton OF
Kansas resigns. Death of John O
New.
4-7-Tornadoes in Texas, Kansas, Min.
nesota and Wisconsin.
14-Explosion on British boat at Liv.
erpool kills persons and Injuries 40.
Massacre Of Jews at Bialystok, Russia
-. Bill admitting Oklahoma as State
I, passed by Congress.
1S-Death of Gov. John NJ. Pattisor
of Ohio. Lieut.. Gov. Andrew L. Harri,
sworn in as successor. Republican.