6

Noah Thomas Guymon 85

5

Susan Coons (Killian) 66
George Brinton Matson 77
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 66
Lott Russon 75
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 74
George Wilson 79 died
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 79

4

Joseph Jasper Powell 70
Bernard Snow (II) 48
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 44
John Sylvester Perry 52
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 47
Anders Peder Jensen 79
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 76
Elijah Peck Sr. 54
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 53
Lawson Green Wilson 57
Elmina Green (Wilson) 51

3

William Nephi Lowe 35
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 25
Charles Eben Snow 20
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 23
Martin Peterson 39
Elisha Peck Jr. 33
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 28

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 1
Harry Chester Peterson 2
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 2

General

Population: 1.69 Billion*

• Entertainment: Music includes Ravel, Puccini (Madame Butterfly), Delius, Richard Strauss, Victor Herbert, Leos Janacek
  Top songs include I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give My Regards to Broadway, Meet Me St. Louis, Louis, Un Bel Di Madame Butterfly
  Writing includes James Barrie (Peter Pan), Shame of the Cities, GK Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Jack London, Checkhov's play The Cherry Orchard performed, Romain Rolland, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Forster-Nietzsche, Freud, Max Weber (Protestant Ethic and birth of Capitalism), Max Halbe, Hermann Hesse, O Henry, Frank Wedekind, Henry James, LT Hobhouse
  Films include Le Barbier de Seville and Le Damnation de Faust
  Art includes Max Beerbohm, Henri Rousseau
  
• Food: Ice cream cone invented
• Military: Trenches first used - Russo-Japanese War
• Politics: Russo-Japanese war begins with Russian forces humiliated
  Jean Jaures issues socialist newspaper
• Science: Sigmund Freud publishes Psychopathology text
  Rutherford and Soddy postulate general theory of radioactivity
  Marie Curie writes about radioactive research
  Fleming uses thermionic tube to generate radio waves
  Kipping discovers silicones
  Entomologist Kirkaldy names several species names ending with chisme (kiss me)
• Technology: JPL Elster devises first practical radioactive cell
  First use of ultraviolet lamps
  First telegraphic transmission of photographs
• Transportation: Emergency code is CQD (not SOS)
  First Vanderbilt cup auto race won by Mercedes
• Deaths: Author Samuel Smiles, Painter GF Watts, South African statesman Paul Kruger, Composer Anton Dvorak, Painter Henri Fantin-Latour American financier and president-maker Alonzo Mark Hanna, Liberty sculptor F.A. Bartholdi, African explorer Sir Henry M Stanley, Anton Chekhov

Africa

• General: Entente Cordiale settles the Anglo-French disputes over Morocco, Egypt, the Suez Canal and Madagascar
• Dahomey: (Benin) Acquired by France as part of French West African Federation
• French Sudan: (Mali) Becomes part of French West African federation
• French West Africa: French create federation of French West Africa
• Namibia: (German South-West Africa) Hereros and Hottentots Wars begin with Oct. Massacre
• Senegal: France creates a federal structure for its African empire based at Dakar

Americas

• General: Statue "Christ of the Andes" erected, showing boundary between Argentina and Chile
  Final settlement between Bolivia and Chile after War of the Pacific
• Argentina: Drago Doctrine claims foreign investors cannot use force to exact debts from Latin American countries, but Roosevelt Corollary states the U.S. has personal interest and can intervene
• Bolivia: Presidency of Ismael Montes of Bolivia begins – period of social reforms
• Colimbia: Rafael Reyes becomes dictator
• Panama: US Engineers begin Panama Canal
  Yellow fever outbreak eradicated by Gorgas
• Venezuela: Venezuela and Britain agree to US arbitration

Asia

• General: Japan routs Russia on land and at sea, wins control of Manchuria
• China: Japan attacks Russians at Port Arthur starting Russo-Japanese War to 1905,
• India: Plague kills one million over four years
• Japan: War on Russian lands in China
• Korea: Russians retreat from Manchuria through Korea - Japanese follow and occupy Seoul
• Manchuria: Japan gains control
• Tibet: British explorer Sir Francis Younghusband leads expedition – treaty opens Tibet for trade

Europe

• General: England signs secret Entente Cordiale with France, settle territorial disputes
• Austria-Hungary: Nikola Pasic becomes Serbian Prime Minister – nationalist anti-Austrian
  First radio transmission of music at Austria
• Finland: Governor-General of Finland assassinated
• France: Church and State separated
  10-hour work day established
  Paris Conference on white slave trade
• Germany: Industrialist Carl Duisberg creates IG Farben Company
  Carl Lindstrom Company founded in Berlin for production of phonographs and records
• Great Britain: Rolls Royce company created
  London Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert
  Drink Licensing Laws
  Last sighting of Spring-Heeled Jack in Liverpool – the vanishing man with fiery eyes who leaps
• Ireland: Abbey Theater in Dublin founded
• Russia: Trans-Siberian railway created
  Russian Minister of the Interior Viacheslav Plehve assassinated
  Russians defeated in China
  Russian fleet partially destroyed
• Spain: Isabella II dies in exile

Middle East

Pacific

• Fiji: Legislative council organized

President:

Pres: Theodore Roosevelt reelected over Alton Parker and Socialist Eugene V. Debs

General

• Culture: Deaf and blind Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College
• Entertainment: "Mother of the Blues" Ma Raines begins Vaudeville tour
• Finance: End of minor depression in US economy
  Steerage rates for immigrants to US cut to ten dollars by foreign lines,
• Politics: Roosevelt Corollary announced - US has right to intervene in affairs in Western Hemisphere
• Sports: World Series (second) between Giants and Boston cancelled due to dispute with John McGraw
  US Lawn Tennis Men's Singles – Holcombe Ward and Women's by May G. Sutton
  "Elwood" F Prior up wins Kentucky Derby
  American Walter J Travis wins British amateur golf
  US amateur won by H Chandler Egan – US open won by Will Anderson
• Transportation: US Engineers begin Panama Canal

East

• General: Rail tunnel created under Hudson River between New York and New Jersey
• Maryland: Baltimore burns destroying 2500 buildings but only one death – a firefighter
• New York: Subway opens - first lines under Broadway
  New York Policeman arrests woman for smoking cigarette in public
  Frank Lloyd Wright builds his first office building in Buffalo
  General Slocum steamer burns killing 1021

Midwest

• General: First great dust storm of the Dust Bowl era hits Great Plains
• Michigan: National Ski Association of America formed
• Missouri: First Olympics in United States
  World Expo in St. Louis

South

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 7.3 Quake

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 324,289

Temples: 4

Other

• President Smith issues statement upholding manifesto and invoking excommunication on violators (Second Manifesto)
• Roosevelt honors Saints by having President Smith on stand at World's Fair – discuss persecution of missionaries in Germany
• Church actively supports Roosevelt – gets 61% of votes
• Two Apostles leave quorum. Elder Cowley remains faithful and Elder John W Taylor excommunicated later for new polygamous relationship
• Elder Hugh B Brown preaches to 17 families who left Church of England and sought new pastor - All baptized within 6 months
• Tract in Independence MO purchased