Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1905 — CHRONOLOGY OF 1905. [ARTICLE]

CHRONOLOGY OF 1905.

BRIEF RECORD OF YEAR’S PRINCIPAL EVENTS. Infernal Disturbances in Russia and Independence in Norway—Close of the War in the East—Many Great Names in List of Dead. Most significant of the events of 1905, because it indicates unmistakably the inexorable advance of mankind toward high ideals of liberty, justice and perfect civilization, is the political and economic upheaval now taking place in Russia. Wearying under a load of taxation, rendered well-nigh unbearable by added burdens imposed by the prosecution of a disastrous war, the peasantry and common people started a revolt against the tyrannical aristocracy, and have been able to force from their unwilling ruler many concessions tending toward a free citizenship. Massacre and rapine, in which the Jews were the chief sufferers, are part of the price paid for the advantage gained. Another impressive proof of civilization’s advance is the bloodless revolution by which Norway has dissolved its political connection with Sweden and seated a king upon its long unusued throne. The recent exposures of graft and fraud in high financial circles and last summer’s labor troubles In Chicago are only Incidents of the constant conflict being waged for the establishment of justice and fair treatment between man and man. The Russo-Japanese war, after a brilliant series of land campaigns, during which one after another of the strongholds of the Russians in Manchuria fell into the hands of their opponents, and a decisive battle on the Sea of Japan, that is said to have been one of the greatest naval contests of all history, has been brought to a close, and largely, we believe, by American influence. The completion of the great Simplon tunnel was the accomplishment of another great engineering feat, and the Lewis and Clark Exposition iu Portland, Ore., presented to the world a record of achievement in all lines. Great disasters have been fewer than usual, though tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas destroyed more than five hundred lives, and earthquakes, fire and railway wrecks have done their dread work. The year's list of famous dead contains the names of many men and women noted in the arts, statecraft, philanthropy and business. The principal events of 1905 are briefly summarized below. January. 2 Surrender of Port Arthur. 3 Towboat Defender blown up on Ohio River; 20 lives lost. 4 Death of Theodore Thomas, orchestra leader. 5 Admiral Rojestvcnsky’s flagship Kniaz Souvaroff sunk off Madagascar. 9—Death of Louise Michel, French anarchist. 15— Combes’ ministry In France resigns. 16— Secretary liny advises China to remain neutral... .Earthquake nt Shemakha, Russia, buries hundreds of people. 18 — End of textile strike In Fall River, Mass. 19— Attempt to assassinate Czar and Russian royal family. 22 —Massacre of workingmen by Czar's troops In St. Petersburg. 23 A Revolt spreads through Russian cities. 25 —Liberals defeated In Ontario general elections... .Czar Issues proclamation promising reforms. 29 Kouropat kin’s army driven back from Sandepas by Gen. Oku's forces. 80—Czar signs document grautlug great reforms to Russian people. February. I- Extreme cold wave sweeps Northern States and Canada. Glendive. Mont., has temperature of 54 degrees below aero. 7 Death of Joseph 11. Manley of Maine. ....Senate passes Statehood bill. 8— Roosevelt and Fairbanks declared elected after count of electoral votes In Congress. 9 House passes Townsend Esch railway rate bill. 10 —Death of Hon. Chas. IL Hackley of Muskegon. Mich. 13 Severest cold wave of winter. 15 Death of Gen. Lew Wallace. 16 Death of Jay Cooke, noted financier. 17 Grand Duke Sergius killed by bomb In Moscow... .Frances Willard statue dedicated in Statuary Hall. Washington. 20— Explosion in Virginia City coal mines, near Bessemer, Ala., entombs 152 miners. ....Fire destroys piers and ships at Charlestown, Mass. 24 Boring of Simplon tunnel under the Alps Is finished. 25- $1,000,000 fire In Hot Springs. Ark. ....North Sea Commission announces decision against Russia. 20—Illinois Central terminals in New Orleans burn with loss of $5.0»»>.000... .Thirtyfive miners killed by explosion at Wllcoe, W. Va. 27 Dentil of Geo. S. Boutwell of Massachusetts... .Judge Swayne of Florida acquitted by United States Semite.... Eleven persons killed by collapse of church floor In Brooklyn. N. Y. 28 Death of Mrs. Leland Stanford Ic Honolulu. March. 3 Czar of Russia signs rescript giving people a right to representation In lawmaking body... .Thirty persons killed In wreck of Inauguration special trains near Pittsburg. 4 • Roosevelt Is Inaugurated... .End of 58th Congress.... Will J. Davis and two others Indicted as responsible for Iroqnols tire... .Chns. Thoma* found guilty of Mabel Scofield murder. 7 Big traction strike begins In New York. 8 Japan*? win tattle of Mukden, after eighteen day*' fighting. 10 Mukden captured by Japanese. ll Mr*. Chadwick convicted of conspiracy In Cleveland. 14 Nineteen live* lost lu New York tenement house fire. 17— Death of Gen. Joseph R. Hawley of Connect lent. IN 19 Twenty-four miner* killed by explosion In mine* near Thurmond. W. va. 20—Explosion and fire In Brockton, Mass., •hoc factory causes lo.’l death*. 24—Death of Julea Verne. April. 3 President Roosevelt leaves Washington on vacation trip.... Explosion In Leiter mine* at Zeigler. 111., kills thirty five men. ....Russian artillery depot In Harbin blown up and seventy-five men killed. 4 Earthquakes In India devastate wide range of country and destroy hundreds of Ilves fi Chicago iramstcrs strike In sympathy with garment workers. 8— Collapse of water reservoir at Madrid kill* or Injures too persons.... Battleship Minnesota launched. 14 —Hard frost damages early fruit and garden truck In Central and Southern States.

17— Four boys Killed in panic In Indianapolis Masonic Temple. 20— Thirteen lives lost In burning of convent In St. Genevieve, Quebec. 23 Death of Joseph Jefferson. 24 Frank G. Bigelow, president of Milwaukee First National Bank, acknowledges himself a defaulter for $1,500,000 of bank's funds... .Teamsters’ strike in Chicago supposed to be ended. .. .Earthquakes near Bombay, India, kill fifty persons. 25 — Chicago teamsters’ strike on again.* 28 —Death of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.... Rioting in Chicago... .Tornado at Laredo, Tex., kills sixteen persons. 30—Thirteen miners killed by explosion near Wilburton, Qk. May. 1 — One hundred persons killed in disturbances in Poland. 2- —Serious strike riots in streets of Chicago. . 6—Pat Crowe gives himself up to authorities in Omaha, but disappears later. 9 Tornado destroys thirty-five lives and much property in Marquette, Kan. 10 — President Roosevelt entertained In Chicago... .Tornado in Oklahoma kills 000 persons. . , , 11— Fifty persons killed and 100 Injured in railway accident at South Harrisburg, Pa. 12— Nan Patterson released in New York. 14— Death of Jessie Bartlett Davis. 16— Northern and Southern Baptists meet in joint convention in St. Louis... .Czar issues rescript granting sweeping reforms In Poland and Baltic provinces. 21— Death of Judge Albion W. Tourgee In Bordeaux, France. 23—Death of Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. 26 Death of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. 27 Russian Baltic fleet under Rojestvensky defeated in great battle In Korean Straits by Japanese under Togo. 28— American yacht Atlantic wins Kaiser’s cup In trans-Atlantic race. 29 Death of former Premier Francisco Sllvela in Madrid, Spain. 30— Bomb thrown at carriage of King Alphonso of Spain and President Loubet oi France in Paris. June. 1— Opening of Lewis and Clark Exposition In Portland, Oregon. .. .Earthquake in Montenegro... .Two hundred drown in overflow of reservoirs at Princetown, Natal. 2 Japan shaken by earthquakes. 6 —Crown Prince Frederic William of Germany weds Princess Cecile of Mecklenburgschwerin... .Norway declares her independence of Sweden. 9 —President Roosevelt arranges for peace negotiations between Japan and Russia. 13— Theodor Delyannis, Grecian premier, fatally stabbed by gambler. 15— Marriage of Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught. ~ , 17— Death of Cuban leader, Gen. Maximo Gomez. , , ~ 23 —Death of Judge Stephen Neal, author of 14th amendment. In Lebanon, Ind Bloody strike battles In Lodz, Poland. 25—5750,600 fire in retail district of Nashville. x 28 — Great mutiny and rioting at Odessa, Russia. July. 1— Death of John Hay, Secretary of State ....Paul Morton is succeded as Secretary of the Navy by Charles J. Bonaparte. 2 Cloudburst in Guanajuato, Mexico, de-stroys-,1.000 lives. 5 Tornado In North Texas. 6 Elilin Root appointed Secretary of State to succeed the late John Hay11—Fire damp explosion In Welsh colliery kills 126 minors. 16— Death of Gen. W. W. Blackmar, G. A. R. National Commander. 20— Strike of Chicago teamsters Is ended. 21 — Boiler explosion on U. S. S. Bennington In San Diego harbor kills thirty-seven and Injures ninety-seven others. 23 Death of Daniel S. Lamont. 24 Bones of John Paul Jones placed In vault in Annapolis. 25 Yellow fever epidemic In New Orleans. August. 8— Collapse of store in Albany, N. Y., kills twelve persons. 9 Russian and Japanese peace commissioners meet at Portsmouth, N. H. 10— Flala-Zeigler expedition, rescued by the steamer Terra Nova, reaches Honningsvaag, Norway. 13— Referendum in Norway favors separation. . 16— Reciprocity convention In Chicago. 17 — Fifty passengers drown when excursion train runs into open draw near Norfolk, Va. ... 21—Earthquake felt In Illinois. Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee.... Death of Mary Mapes Dodge. 29 Russian nnd Japanese envoys agree upon terms of peace. September. 1— Alberta becomes new State of Canada. 2 Five milllon-dollar fire in Adrianople, Tu rkov. 4 Death of Hezekiah Butterworth, historian. _ , . 5 Treaty of peace between Russia and Japan signed in Portsmouth, N. 11 Peace riots in Tokio. 8— Earthquake in Southern Italy destroys 400 Ilves and twenty villages. 9 Rand powder factory. Fairchance, Pa., explodes, destroying thirty lives. 11— Mlkas.i. Admiral Togo’s flagship, burns and 599 lives are lost. 14— Death of Patrick Collins, Mayor of Boston. _ ~ „ . 15— Heath of George McDonald, novelist. 24—Great fire In Rutte, Mont. 20— Manila swept by typhoon. October. 4—Six hundred thousand dollar fire In Rhinelander, Wls. 13— Norwegian treaty adopted by Swedish Parliament,.. .Death of Sir Henry Irving. 14— Close of Lewis nnd Clark Exposition In Porthind. Ore... .Treaty between Russia and Japan signed by Czar and Mikado. 17—Fatal tornado at Sorento. DI. 19-20 Storm on Great Lakes destroy* shipping nnd costs several Ilves. 23—Death of Congressman Jerry Simpson of Kansas. 30— Ciar grants representative government to Russians. November, I—Sweden unfurls her new flag... .Bloody riots In Russian cities. 3 Enormous loss of life In massacres In cities of Southern Russia. 4 Czar signs manifesto giving freedom to Finland. 12— Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, prominent Chicago Methodist, dies... .Prime Charles of Denmark chosen King of Norway. 14 People of Isle of Pines declare freedom from sovereignty of Cuba. lg—Torpedo boat sunk In German nnval maneuvers and thirty three men drowned. 10— One hundred lives lost In wreck of steamer Hilda In English Channel.... Thi-rty-nine men die In Glasgow lodging house State entry of King Haakon VII. and Queen Maude Into Christiana. '•o Eighteen person* killed and twentyfive Injures! In railway wreck near Lincoln, Masa Fleet of allied power* »cl»e Turkish Island of Mytllcne. “7—Drunken Russian soldiers at Alexandrov*k burn barrack* and eighty political prisoner*. 28 Severe gale cause* much damage to property In Great Lakes district. December. 1— Cuban election* a landslide for moder ate party. 2 Iron missile thrown through window of President Roosevelt'* special train In Philadelphia. 4 Fifty ninth Congress meet*... .Wisconsin legislature meets In *|>ecl*l session.... Balfour ministry In England resigns. g Lieut. Gen. Hakharoff slnlu by wotnnn In province of Saratoff. Russia. 8 Mr*. Mary M. Rogers hanged In Windsor. Vt. 11— Death of Edward Atkinson, political economist.