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1905:
1905 Jan / Plan / Do up each element to date—and then give 1904-5 which = all. [C; 629.]
1905 / Wlf / See Oct 26, 1886. / Depradations—then animal caught—Doubtful a seal do as said. [C; 721. See: (1886 Oct 26).]
1905 / Wld dog / Ennerdale / May, 1810, to Sept. 12th. [C; 723. See: 1810 May, (A; 22).]
1905 / A wolf of France / A. Reg. 1827/160. [C; 724. (Annual Register, 1827-160; not found here.)]
1905 / Wlf / A fox in N.Y. City / March 9, 1892. [C; 725. See: 1892 March 9, (B; 1279).]
1905 / Tiger from a circus / Ap., 1827. [C; 726. See: (1827 Ap.; not found).]
[The following nineteen notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 726-744.]
1905 / Stick insects in England, / spring, 1910. [C; 727. See: (1910 spring).]
1905 / Alligator at Flushing / B. Eagle, Aug 3-5-3, 1898. [C; 728. "A Live Alligator." Brooklyn Eagle, August 3, 1898, p. 5 c. 3.]
1905 / Cobra killed on Long Island / 1881 / NY Times, May 31-4-5 / NY Times. [C; 729. See: 1881 May 31, (B; 363). “Our Cobra.” New York Times, May 31, 1881, p. 4 c. 5.]
1905 / Onondaga phe / great rise in Lake O. / spring, 1874. [C; 730. See: 1874 / spring, (IV; 1410).]
1905 / Wlf / Crocodile in England / 1856 or 57. [C; 731. See: 1856-1857, (A; 345).]
1905 / Coypu in England / Oct 25, 1862. [C; 732. See: (1862 Oct 25; not found here).]
1905 / “Horned toad (?) in Weston-super-Mare. / Sept 2, 1871. [C; 733. See: 1871 Sept 2, (A: 694, 696, & 697).]
1905 / Wlf / Sea fish in fresh water lakes / Oct 21, 1877. [C; 734. See: (1877 Oct 21; not found here).]
1905 / Wlf / Seal in Lake Onondaga / May 2, 1882. [C; 735. "Hair Seal Shot in Onondaga Lake." New York Times, May 2, 1882, p. 8 c. 7. See: 1882 April 28, (C; 735).]
1905 / Animals appear. / alligators / Sept 20, 1888. [C; 736. See: 1888 Sept 20, (B; 949).]
1905 / Alligators—July 28, 1889 / May 9, 1891. [C; 737. See: 1889 July 28, (B; 1035), and, 1891 May 9, (B; 1136).]
1905 / Alligator (?) / Sept 29, 1891 / July 11, 1892 / Sept. 13, 1893. [C; 738. See: 1891 Sept 29, (B; 1161); 1892 July 11, (VII; 581); and, 1893 Sept. 13, (VII; 915).]
1905 / (Wlf) / Tiger in a town near Calcutta / May 1, 1902. [C; 739. See: (1902 May 1).]
1905 / Alligator / July 28, 1912. [C; 740. See: (1912 July 28).]
1905 / Wolf / Disap. and reap. monkeys of Gibraltor / July 1, 1920. [C; 741. See: (1920 July 1; London Daily Mail, July 1, 1920; not found there). ("He knows the tricky monkeys well." New York Sun, February 6, 1929, p. 30 c. 1.)]
1905 / Wlf / Animals / transported / Fish— Oct. 6, 1921. [C; 742. See: (1921 Oct. 6).]
1905 / (wlf) / Seal in Lake Ond., May 2, 1882 / Marked reindeer of Greenland. [C; 743. See: 1882 April 28, (C; 735). (James Lamont. Yachting in the Arctic Seas. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876; 110-11, 357.) (Nordenskiold. Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe. London, 1881, v.1, 135.) ("Reindeer in Spitzbergen." Field, 138 (December 24, 1921): 883, c. 2-3; not at BNA.)]
1905 / Animal / stoat? / Dec. 5, 1849. [C; 744. See: Animal / 1849 / Dec 5, (SF-I: 210).]
[1905] / 1904 Dec / See Wild dog of Ennerdale, May, 1810. [C; 745. See: 1810 May, (A; 22).]
1905 / Wlf / One in Ill., Jan., 1900. [C; 746. See: (1900 Jan.)]
1905 / Wolf / Zoologist 2-5-2220 / The last wolf in Great Britain was killed by Sir Evan Cameron, in 1680. [C; 747. (Zoologist, 2-5-2220.)]
1905 / Wld / Animal—man / Nov. 27, 1888. [C; 748. See: 1888 Nov. 27, (B; 977).]
1905 Jan / Sheep in US—attrib. to a panther / March 30, 1895. [C; 749. See: 1895 March 30, (C; 256).]
1905 / Wlf / See May 3, 1833. [C; 750. See: 1833 May 3, (A; 101).]
1905 Jan. / Supposed wolf / See May 23, 1868. [C; 751. See: 1868 May 23, (A; 525).]
1905 / Wolf / See Aug 12 and May 13. [C; 752. See: (1905 Aug 12), and, (1905 May 13).]
1904-[190]5 / Polts and Animals / Nov, 1887-Jan., 1888. [C; 753. See: (Nov. 1887-Jan., 1888.)]
1905 Jan / Wolves / See Hyena Man, July, 1919. [C; 754. See: (1919 July).]
1905 Jan 1 / Animals / [C; 755. See: (Ap 25, 1883 / May 27, 1885 / Nov. 18, 1885 / May 2, 1888 / Dec 10, 1888 / Nov. 14, 1894 / Oct, 1886.).]
1905 / Wolf / See May 23, 1868. [C; 756. See: 1868 May 23, (A; 525).]
1905 / Wlf in N.J. / Jan. 28, 1890. [C; 757. See: (1890 Jan. 28).]
1905 / Wlf / Wlf in England / Dec., 1884. [C; 758. See: (1884 Dec.).]
1905 / Animal of Coalville / Jan 11, 1923. [C; 759. See: 1923 Jan 11, (E; 392).]
1905 / Snake with feet / May 16, 1835. [C; 773. See: (1835 May 16; no note found here).]
1905 / Mollie Fancher—cor Gates Ave and Downing street, Brooklyn. [C; 911. (Ref.???)]
1905 / James Brandon lived in Nashville? / See Dec 21, 1930. [C; 912. See: (1930 Dec 21).]
1905 / near Shipton, Oxon—E. Mech, Oct 3, 1919—that for 20 years a loving light been seen occasionally here. [C; 913. “A Mystery.” English Mechanic, 110 (no. 2845; October 3, 1919): 128.]
1905 / Polt, Ashfordsby Rectory, Leicestershire, for ab. 30 years / See Aug. 13, 1913. [C; 914. See: 1913 Aug 23, (D; 686).]
1905 / Mrs John Bennett, Gloversville, NY / See May 23, 1914. [C; 915. See: 1914 May 23, (D; 780).]
1905 / Wlf / Starving animals (bears) in Siberia / Datum seems to agree or a date. [C; 916. (Ref.???)]
[The following six notes were folded together by Fort. C: 917-922.]
1905 / Catalepsy / Weekly Dispatch, Ap. 16—boy named Wallace Allsopp, of South Normanton. Signs of life. Doctors watched for a week—said that finally signs of decomposition and he was buried. [C; 917. “Corpse Revives.” London Weekly Dispatch, April 16, 1905, p. 2 c. 1. Faint breathing and possible circulation, (despite cold and rigid limbs), suggested signs of life; and, during a watch of the corpse, lasting days, the boy's laugh was allegedly heard. Signs of decomposition settled all doubts.]
1905 / BO / Disaps / Weekly Dispatch, April 16—that Mr. J.E. Newlands, F.R.I.S., who held the Fulton Chair, at the United Free College, Edinburgh, walking homeward, late at night, supposing he saw someone walking beside him, stopped near a street lamp to get a view of his face—the figure vanished. [C; 922.1, 922.2. “Professor Sees a Ghost.” London Weekly Dispatch, April 16, 1905, p. 3 c. 6. “Late at night when walking homewards he was suddenly conscious of the figure of a man walking by his side step for step.” “There was a lady some distance behind. Becoming suspicious of the man, Mr. Newlands stopped suddenly under a lamp-post to get a view of his face. Instantly the figure vanished.”]
1905 / [columns of figures] / [illustration]. [VIII; 2183. (Confirm???)]
[The following thirty notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 691-720.]
1905 [Jan-March] / [Revival] / Barmouth Advertiser, Ap. 20 / That first 3 months of the year, 66 patients admitted to the Denbigh Insane Asylum—of these 25% traced to the revival excitement. [C; 706. (Barmouth Advertiser, April 20, 1905.)]
1905 [Jan-March] / Wld men / See May 26. [C; 865. See: (May 26).]
1905 Jan / Revival lights / Jan 4 and Jan 29, 1889 / St L—Jan. [C; 691. See: 1889 Jan. 4, (B; 1003), and, 1889 Jan 29, (Note missing).]
1905 [Jan] / Revival lights / See Jan 4, 1889. [C; 692. See: 1889 Jan. 4, (B; 1003).]
1905 [Jan] / Revival / Someone in Wales (with publicity) starving, refusing to eat anything unless it came from heaven. / D. Mirror, Jan. 24. // B / Mary Baker / Besides Caraboo. [C; 694. (London Daily Mirror, January 24, 1905; not found in search, check pages.)]
1905 Jan / Revival in Scotland / Dec. 16, 1921. [C; 695. See: (1921 Dec. 16).]
1905 [Jan] / Revival / Wales / 10 patients in the Denbigh Asylum suffering religious mania. / Daily Chronicle 10-6-5. [C; 696. (London??? Daily Chronicle, January 10, 1905, p. 6 c. 5.)]
1905 [Jan] / Revival / At Driffield, Lieut. Tolmie, at the Salvation Army Barracks, preaching every night from his coffin. [C; 697. "Preacher in His Coffin." Hull Daily Mail, January 16, 1905, p. 3 c. 5.]
[1905 Jan] / Revival / Wales / In a church where only conventional services—a girl jumping up and starting to clap her hands and sing—whole audience jumping up, clapping hands and singing. [C; 698. (Ref.???)]
1905 [Jan] / Revival / Protestant Crusaders rioting in Liverpool. [C; 699. (Ref.????)]
[1905 Jan] / Revival / Wales / Singing processions in streets. [C; 700. (Ref.???)]
[1905 Jan] / Revival / At Hirst, near Blyth, swoon after swoon—Rev. T. Wilson, in the midst of a frenzy, swooned and fell head-long from the pulpit. Said (Blyth News, Jan 17) that so common was it, that he lay on the floor half an hour, no one bothering, each occupied with his own frenzy. [C; 702.1, 702.2. “Hirst Revival.” Blyth News, January 17, 1905, p. 3 c. 5. Thomas Wilson was identified as a miner, “engaged in prayer from the pulpit,” (not as a reverend).]
[1905 Jan] / Revival / Leeds / Young ladies of Leeds directed by visions to hold meetings in tram cars. Invading tram cars—expressing surprise that anybody should object to the invasions. [C; 703. (Ref.???)]
1905 Jan / Revival / At Bradford great revival and Mr. Berry, the hangman, was converted. Said that at a meeting at his house, this eloquence was so great that many persons broke down and that in the midst of the excitement loud rappings on the door by a carter to deliver a barrel of beer, which Mr Berry sent back immediately. / News of the World, Feb. 19. / ex-hangman. [C; 704.1, 704.2. (News of the World, February 19, 1905.)]
1905 [Jan] / Revival / In London, Messrs Torrey and Alexander, American evangelists, and a choir of 3,000 singers. [C; 707. (Ref.???)]
1905 Jan / Revival / “The fervor of 500 persons was indescribable/” [C; 709. (Ref.???)]
1905 [Jan] / Revival / Then Mr Evan Roberts went into seclusion. There he battled with “all the powers of earth and hell. He emerged in “a radiant mood”, announcing victory. [C; 710. (Ref.???)]
1905 [Jan] / [Revival] / Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn. / One half of name of a Welsh village. / Jour Soc. 12/241 / Mention fortunately no phe at this village. [C; 711. Bayfield, Matthew Albert. "Discussion of Mme. X's Greek Script." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 12 (April 1906): 233-242, at 241. The full name of "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" was adopted by Llanfairpwll, Wales, to give the village the "longest name" on a railway station sign; and, its translation from Welsh is: "St. Mary’s Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave." Bayfield's interest was in the ability to memorize and reproduce information without any intelligible comprehension of that information. "Or to descend to a humbler class of artists, take the case of our operatic chorus singers, who will sustain their parts in a great number of operas in Italian, German and French, and many of whom, if I mistake not, are quite incapable of understanding the words they sing. Be this as it may, I well know a young lady who will sit down and sing for an hour from memory in German, Italian and Latin without being in the least able to construe the words she sings."]
1905 Jan / That the Revival was Mediaevilism—or phe of Mediaevilism appeared. [C; 713.]
[1905 Jan] / Revival / Torch-light procession / Hull. [C; 720. "A Hundred Torches." Hull Daily Mail, January 30, 1905, p. 4 c. 2.]
1905 Jan / Newcastle Chronicle / Many gas explosions, such as 10-12-5. / 1905 / Jan 11-3-6 / Body decapitated on railroad at Sunderland. Near South Shields. [C; 760. (Newcastle Chronicle, January 10, 1905, p. 12 c. 5; not at BNA.) (Newcastle Chronicle, January 11, 1905, p. 3 c. 6; not at BNA.)]
1905 [Jan] / (Wlf) / London newspapers / That Arctic weather had brought fish trade of Billingsgate almost to a standstill. [C; 761. (London newspapers, ca. January, 1905.)]
[The following eight notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 762-769.]
1905 [Jan] / BO / Liverpool Echo, Jan 25, a letter from a school teacher of Binbrook that a blanket found burning in a room where there was no fire. But this writer records excited gossip of the neighborhood and of her school children, such as one child's story of approaching an outhouse on the farm and the outhouse moving toward him. [C; 776.1, 776.2. “The Lincolnshire Witch.” Liverpool Echo, January 25, 1905, p. 5 c. 6. Also: “Village Witchcraft.” Liverpool Echo, January 25, 1905, p. 3 c. 5.]
[1905 Jan] / BO / Liverpool Echo, Jan 16 / Someone describes sounds from a meeting as like cries he had heard from a sinking steamship. [C; 779. (Liverpool Echo, January 16, 1905.; not found here.)]
[1905 Jan] / BO / Headline in Liverpool Echo, Jan 18th—“Wales in the Grip of Supernatural Forces.” [C; 787. “The Welsh Revival.” Liverpool Echo, January 18, 1905, p. 4 c. 5.]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / H(1) / Hexham Herald, Jan. 7 / Said that upon “Thursday week”, Dec 9, “strange-looking footprints” were seen near West Dipton. The evening of the 31st, at Greenridge, the wolf had attacked a sheep, and that upon Jan 1, a dead sheep partly consumed had been found upona farm at Hainburn Hall. / 14th, Editorial—no more sheep reported killed, but rabbits had been found mutilated. / Herald of the 14th—Said that the mystery remained as great as ever, and that if there were any doubting minds they could not be found at the Dye House, for the wolf had been seen repeatedly. Said that Mr. Bevan, the Hungarian wolf hunter, had arrived to see what he could do toward clearing up the mystery. He had [been] examining footprints in the snow. “They were decidedly not those of a full-grown European wolf, but their deep impression was suggestive of an animal of considerable weight.” It is said that the beast had ceased to raid sheep flocks, but that reports had come in upon the disappearance of rabbits. / 21st—Wolf reported from vicinity of Black Hall Mill; footprints seen in the snow at West Dipton and Dye House. Said that a hunting party had been organized on the 16th. Seems to have been a social affair. We are told that Mr. this and Mrs. that were present—and especially Mr. Bevan, the Hungarian wolf hunter, who was mounted upon a shaggy animal—by “greater mystery than ever”. / Feb. 4—nothing more heard of the wolf, but hunting parties still “sulking forth”. Quite social functions. List of participants. Mr Bevan, the H. wlf hunter, not mentioned. / (In Herald, Feb 4, said that a mongoose had been shot at Stagshaw—had been used at the Post Office at Corbridge for the extermination of rats.) [C; 791.1 to 791.9. (Hexham Herald, January 7, 1905.) (Hexham Herald, January 14, 1905.) (Hexham Herald, January 21, 1905.) (Hexham Herald, February 4, 1905.)]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / Cumwinton / Soon after the finding it was buried—then dug up, viewed by Capt. Bains, newspaper reporters, and many other persons. The decision was that it was not Capt Bains' wolf and was the property of the railroad company. The head was cut off and stuffed and was sent to the office of the Company, at Derby, and hung up on a wall, where presumably it is to this day. [C; 792.1, 792.2. (Refs.???)]
1905 Jan / Wlf / Plan / Tell all have up to except Hexham story—Then go on. [C; 797.]
1905 [Jan] / Sheep worrying / See sheep alarms attrib to qs or meteors. [C; 805. See: (Sheep & qs or mets.).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / S1 / Shotley Bridge / The Hexham Association refused to accept that the maurauding wolf was the Cumwinton wolf, because for a few days the killings continued. It may be that the reports upon killings, once started, would mechanically continue for a while. / It depends upon the data; whether they convince that the killings went on. / It may be that the Hexham Association so refused, so as to dodge paying the reward. But if wolf had resembled Capt. Bains', individual farmers would have sued him. / Seems unlikely that the track walker got a wolf somewhere and killed it and pretended to find the body on the tracks. He never put in a claim for the reward. If I were a track walker, and needed a reward, how could I get a wolf in England, without extensively advertising for one? There could be no wolf in England that was not there in the knowledge of many persons. If missing, someone would soon write to a newspaper. / If the marauding thing of Hexham was not the physically unable of Shotley Bridge, and was for several reasons not the Cumwinton wolf, there was some third marauding thing in England at this time—Ravages upon sheep farms—a wolf is found dead upon a railroad track. Ravages upon a poultry farm—an otter found dead upon a railroad line. So phe of continued wolf until peters out. / Quote “Farm etc.”. That as soon as stop, ravages break out in Kent. / Drop, and later take up the Jackal story. [C; 809.1 to 809.7. (Refs.???; Farm, Field, and Fireside, not found here (Illinois publication)???) (Three different maurauders: Hexham wolf was Allendale wolf, or malmoot dog, killed by train about December 24, 1904; hyena killed in Kent about March 1, 1905; feral Newfoundland dog killed by hunters about December 20, 1905, at Pucklechurch. Hooper-Scharf, Terry. “The Red Paper: Canids. Vol 1 Foxes, Jackals and wolves of the United Kingtom & Ireland.” Bristol: Black Tower Books, 2011, 119-140.)]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf killed on railroad. In Dec, after chicken raids (otter), an otter killed on railroad. See Nov. [C; 811. "Unusual Death of an Otter." Field, December 3, 1904, p. 955. "The Stray Wolf." Field, January 7, 1905, p. 28. See: 1904 / second week in Nov., (C; 656), and, 1904 Nov. 26, (C; 657).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / So owner not claim. / Might be thought that one should know one's own wolf, but when one's wolf runs up a bill, perhaps of hundreds of pounds damages, one not so likely to identify one's wolf. [C; 815. "The Stray Wolf." Field, January 7, 1905, p. 28.]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / Mystery of the 2 wolves, until find in The Field that the S. Bridge only a cub—Its disap no myst—starved to death—perhaps sheep killed it. But there was a scare over it. / Then a grown wolf did appear. [C; 816. "Hunting Notes." Field, December 24, 1904, p. 1083. "The Stray Wolf." Field, January 7, 1905, p. 28.]
1905 Jan / Field, Jan 2, 1869 / That last wolf in Britain killed by Sir Ewan Cameron ab. year 1680. [C; 821. “Wolves in Britain.” Field, January 2, 1869, p. 9. Nott, John Fortune. Wild Animals Photographed and Described. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886, 124-128. Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg, et al. Lays of the Deer Forest. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1848, v. 2, 244-247. Cameron's “last wolf” was apparently for that district, (not the whole country), of Scotland, as several other “last wolf” occurred afterwards, including one, about 1743, in the wilderness of the Monadhliath Mountains.]
1905 [Jan] / Wlves / In the Essex and Chelmsford Museum is specimen of young wolf killed in the woods near Ongar—it was supposed been imported with fox cubs about year 1862,. / L and Water, Aug 2, 1884, p. 120. [C; 826. (Land and Water, August 2, 1884, p. 120.) See: 1884 Dec., (B; 617).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / Cor to Land and Water, Sept 10, 1881, says he knows of belief that some of cat and weasel tribes that suck blood, but gives observations of his own for denying that any known animal does. / Editor, Sept 24, 1881, writes that when drinking, sucking and not lapping animals are the bear, mongoose, tapir, and otter. [C; 827.1, 827.2. (Land and Water, September 10, 1881.)]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / See 1925, Feb. 16. [C; 828. See: (1925 Feb. 16).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / See May 22, 1909. [C; 829. See: (1909 May 22).]
[The following four notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 830-833.]
1905 [Jan] / Wolf / See Jan, 1900, bear and wolf. [C; 830. See: 1900 Jan, (C; 451 & 452).]
1905 Jan / Wolf / See Jan 28, 1890. [C; 831. See: 1890 Jan 28, (B; 1082).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / See March 18 J. / The phe continued a few days after dth of wolf and then broke out in Kent. [C; 832. See: 1905 March 15, (C; 665), and, 1905 March 18, (C; 664).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / Story begins with the otters—one killed on a railroad. [C; 833. See: 1904 / second week in Nov., (C; 656), and, 1904 Nov. 26, (C; 657).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / Animal / Australia / Feb. 28, 1890. [C; 834. See: 1890 Feb. 28 and March 1, (B; 1085).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf / See Nov. 24, 1874. [C; 835. See: 1874 Nov 24, (B; 24).]
1905 [Jan] / Wlf hunt / When turned social. Said that “A number of excellent photos were taken by a firm of Hexham artists.” [C; 836. (Ref.???)]
1905 Jan / That polts introduced the wolf to divert. [C; 840.]
1905 [Jan] / Fires / In Jan, several “historic” mansions burned down. Two more historic mansions burned. / Told of in D. Mirror, Feb. 6. [C; 857. “Historic Mansion Ablaze.” London Daily Mirror, February 6, 1905, p. 4 c. 1.]
1905 [Jan] / BO / Disaps / “Three strange cases in London.” / In Weekly Budget, Jan. 14. / Say find none that attracted partic. attention. [C; 891. (London Weekly Budget, January 14, 1905.)]
1905 [Jan] / Disaps / D. Mirror, Jan 24 / Under heading Batch of Mysteries, tells of 5 myst disaps. Said that every day, list of strange disaps was lengthening. [C; 892. “Batch of Mysteries.” London Daily Mirror, January 24, 1905, p. 5 c. 4.]
[1905 Jan] / Revival / W. Dispatch / Special trains running from Liverpool to meeting in Wales. / Woman at Bromley wrote a confession of sins, which were said to have been imagined, and threw herself under a railroad train. / W. Dispatch, Feb. 12. [C; 919. “Deluded to Death.” London Weekly Dispatch, February 12, 1905, p. 4 c. 2.]
1905 Jan / Catalepsy / See Jan 5, 1913. [C; 923. See: (1913 Jan 5).]
1905 Jan / Gypsies in England much in evidence. [C; 924. (Ref.???)]
1905 / early in Jan. / psycho animal / Jour Soc for Psychical Research 13-259 / In a paper upon supposed psychic phe at Hoe Benham, a village half-way between London and Bristol, there is a signed statement by a resident, who writes that ab. 7:30 p.m., early in Jan, upon a road he suddenly saw an animal that seemed to be like a large black dog appear out of a hedge. It suddenly turned into a black donkey, with glowing eyes almost as big as saucers, standing on its hind legs, suddenly vanishing. [C; 685.1, 685.2. Miles, Clarissa. "Experiments in Thought Transference." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 13 (June 1908): 243-262, at 259.]
1905 Jan 1 / Newcastle Chronicle 4-12-6 / Woman of South Shields burnt to death—"found in the house [by jer son], about 4 o'clock in the morning, with her clothing on fire." Was subject to dizzy fits. Thought she fell in the fire. [C; 624. "Woman Burnt to Death." Newcastle Daily Chronicle, January 4, 1905, p. 12 c. 6. ]
1905 [Jan 1] / S(1) / Shields Daily Gazette, Jan 3-3-7—morning Jan. 1, Joseph Gallagher entered his parents' house in Byethorne Street, South Shields, “Lying on the ground was his mother, enveloped in flames, her clothing having in some way or another became ignited.” She died the next day. / At inquest (4-2-8), aged 69—supposed to have had a fit and fallen against the fire. Police constable testified not that her clothes had been burned, but that when he arrived “the deceased woman had no clothing on whatever.” / Jan 3-4, midnight. Last seen of a collier, Thomas Thompson, at New Seaham—“No little excitement over the mysterious disappearance.” 5-3-4. / 19-3-6—Bainbridge case—fire attributed either to the upsetting of a lamp or to victim's habit of smoking in bed. [C; 643.1 to 643.4. (Shield Daily Gazette, January 3, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.) (Shield Daily Gazette, January 4, 1905, p. 2 c. 8.) (Shields Daily Gazette, January 5, 1905, p. 3 c. 4.) (Shields Daily Gazette, January 19, 1905, p. 3 c. 6; not at BNA.)]
1905 Jan 1 / myst disap / Hexham Herald, Jan. 7 / Man named John James Collier, lodging with Mr. Carter, of No. 5, Allendale Cottages. He went to bed at 1:30 a.m. When Carter's son went to bed at 3 a.m., he found the window open and Collier missing. Said that footprints in the snow, but he had gone without cap, jacket, or boots. Said that the members of the household could not explain. Week before, the man had been ill of influenza but had recovered. [C; 890.1, 890.2. (Hexham Herald, January 7, 1905.)]
1905 Jan. 1 / Op. Neptune. [VIII; 2184. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac.)]
1905 Jan 2 / 7:30 p.m. / Germany / Meteor / Met Zeit 22-34. [VIII; 2185. "Kleinere Mittheilungen." Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 22 (1905): 22-43, at 34. “Die Dauer der Erscheinung war eine ungewöhnlich lange, denn sie dürfte an 10 Minuten gewährt haben.” The meteor was first observed as a star-like object, (as bright as magnitude 1), at an elevation of 40 degrees, then slowly descended below the horizon over a period of 10 minutes.]
1905 Jan 2-Feb 5 / The Portmadoc polt in the Blyth News, Feb 28. / In the premises of a butcher, David Thomas, where was a servant girl, Mary Hughes, aged 18. Bacon taken from pickle and thrown into the garden. Crockery damaged. On Feb 7, a tin can that had disappeared on 2nd fell in the garden. “Mr Thomas found on the can words to the effect that the ghostly acts would finish that night and that they were due to the black devil of a servant from Nantmor.” Police Sergeant Jones then got samples of handwriting of all persons in the neighborhood. He told the girl that he intended to send all to a handwriting expert. “She then broke down and confessed that she was the ghost.” She was fined 3 pounds and the bench complimented Ser. Jones upon his smartness.” [C; 688.1 to 688.4. “A Ghost in Court.” Blyth News, February 28, 1905, p. 3 c. 8.]
1905 Jan 2 / Newcastle Daily Chronicle / A reproduction of a photograph of the dead wolf. Wolf-like head—bushy tail. [C; 774. (Newcastle Daily Chronicle, January 2, 1905.)]
1905 Jan. 2 / DM, 3-7 / “Opinions still differ as to whether the wolf killed on the railway at Carlisle was the one which has been ravaging Northumberland, but there have been bo further depredations.” / 1905 / Jan 5 / D. Mail / Large, male wildcat caught in a rabbit trap at Ardgay, Ross-shire. [C; 819.1, 819.2. (London Daily Mail, January 2, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.)]
[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. C: 884 & 885.]
1905 Jan 2 / Wld foreigner / Daily Mail (Hull) / At a special sitting of the East Riding Bench, at Hull “this morning”, “a well-dressed foreigner, who refused to give any account of himself, charged with being drunk and disorderly at Hessle, on afternoon of Jan. 1. “Prisoner, who was supposed to be A.O Olsen, from the papers in his possession, was, it was alleged, acting in an extraordinary manner, frighteneing a number of people.” The magistrates remanded him until the 11th, ordering a medical examination to be made, as to his condition. / Mail, 11th and 12th, nothing findable. [C; 884.1, 884.2, 884.3. (Hull Daily Mail, ca. January 2, 1905.)]
1905 Jan. 2 / Another Disap. / See Hull notes. [C; 894. See: (Hull notes???)]
1905 Jan 2 / Disap—another Collins / Alice Collins, aged 17, disappeared from her home, Rufford Place, Fairfield. / Hull Daily Mail 9-2-7 / Fifty pounds reward offered—had left home to go to the “roundabout” of which her father was proprietor, and not seen again. [C; 903.1, 903.2. “Mysterious Disappearance of a Girl.” Hull Daily Mail, January 9, 1905, p. 2 c. 7. “Missing Liverpool Girl Found.” Liverpool Echo, January 16, 1905, p. 5 c. 9. Miss Collins had gone to London in search of work “on the stage.”]
1905 Jan 3 / [LT], 9-d / 5-5-f / Killed on Railroad / See 7-6-f. [C; 925. (London Times, January 3, 1905, p. 9 c. 4.) (London Times, January 5, 1905, p. 5 c. 6.) (London Times, January 7, 1905, p. 6 c. 6; not found here.)]
[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 926-928.]
1905 Jan 3 / F.J. Tatham—bet. Clare and Stoke—killed on a railroad. / East Anglian Daily Times 7-5-8. [C; 926. (East Anglian Daily Times, January 7, 1905, p. 5 c. 8.)]
1905 Jan 3 / Trance / Newcastle Chronicle, Jan 23-6-2 / From a “recent” “Journal” of Paris—young man near St Etienne—subject to epilepsy—thought to be dead—grave digger reported sounds heard—disinterred—evidence been buried alive. Said bitten his thumbs off. [C; 929.1, 929.2. (Newcastle Chronicle, January 23, 1905, p. 6 c. 2.)]
1905 Jan 3-4 night / At Penwortham (Lancastershire) peddler found killed on railroad track. / Daily Chronicle 5-6-7. [C; 928. (London Daily Chronicle, January 5, 1905, p. 6 c. 7.)]
1905 Jan 4 / BO / Liverpool Echo—sheep partly devoured on a farm at Hanburg Hill, Hexham. [C; 770. “Hunting the Wolf.” Liverpool Echo, January 4, 1905, p. 4 c. 5. The “wolf” was seen about noon, from the Devils' Water into the West Dipton Burn, leaving footprints at many points.]
1905 (Jan 5) / (+) / Spon, Comb. / A typical old-line case / Hull Daily Mail 6-3-4 / “A most mysterious and terrible burning accident, the unfortunate sufferer in which a septuagenarian widow, Elizabeth Clark, occurred in the Trinity House Almshouse, Carr-lane, last night. Clark was an inmate of the institution, and as she was exceedingly feeble, another inmate, Harriet Walton, made it her duty to extinguish the light in the old lady's room regularly every night, She did this as usual last night, about eleven o'clock, and then went to bed. Her room adjoins that of Clark's, and, about six o'clock this morning, Walton heard groans proceeding from the other woman's chamber. She went to the door and found it locked, and called the attention of another inmate, William Conyers, to the moans, which were exceedingly audible. Conyers burst open the door and discovered Clark in bed. Her body was covered withburns, and not a shred of her night dress remained. There was no fire nor light in the room, and Clark was in a semi-conscious condition. She was unable to give an articulate account of the manner in which she received her dreadful injuries, but it is surmised that she got out of bed, and in striking a match, set her night dress on fire. This must have burned away, and then the unfortunate woman must have got into bed again. How long she had been in this state it is impossible to say. Conyers called Dr. Evans, who ordered Clark's removal to the Informary, where she was detained. (Clark succumbed to her terrible injuries about twelve o'clock.) [C; 617.1 to 617.8. Hull Daily Mail, January 6, 1905, p. 3 c. 4.)]
1905 / Spons. / Cases of stupid-cunning—2 cases of shattered lamps, which, however, not explain. Found near fireplaces, where little or no fire. Still, no stupidity if no inquiry anyway. Coming up behind persons, as if fearing were visible. / 2 cases of cat and lamp. [C; 618. (Ref???)]
1905 Jan 5 / Liverpool Daily Post of / Intense cold in Italy—River Tiber frozen. [VIII; 2187. (Liverpool Daily Post, January 5, 1905.)]
(1905) [Jan 5] / Carl / Ev Jour, Jan 9 / On Jan 5th, a shooting party on Lord Ridley's estate, near Throckley (Northumberland), saw a half-naked man in the woods. The police were informed and found him in a deep hole covered with underbrush. He told the police that he was a boot-repairer named Mitchell, unable to get work. [C; 873.1, 873.2, 873.3. (Carlisle Evening Journal, January 9, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 6 / The Throckley wild man / Fell. Same peculiarity. With his trousers off and his coat and top coat hanging in a tree. / Blyth News, Jan 10. [C; 876. “Lived in a Wood.” Blyth News, January 10, 1905, p. 3 c. 7. John Mitchell was arrested for vagrancy, (not for “wild” behavior), begging during the day and sleeping in the woods at night.]
1905 Jan 6 / Hull Daily Mail of / “Another trio of sudden deaths was reported to the City Coroner this morning.” [C; 930. (Hull Daily Mail, January 6, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 6 and May 13 / q's / Servia / BA '11/52. [VIII; 2186. Turner, H.H., et al. "Seismological Investigations." Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1911, 30-67, at 52.]
1905 Jan. 6 / Dust. / Aberdeen liner Moravian / 23 N and 17 W. / Fall of yellow dust or sand. So thick that passengers collected quantities on deck. Supposed from Sahara. / Daily Chronicle, Jan. 14. [VIII: 2188.1, 2188.2. (London Daily Chronicle, January 14, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 7 / 4:58 a.m. / Severe shock / Gibraltar / Liverpool Echo, 7th. [VIII; 2189. “Earthquake at Gibraltar.” Liverpool Echo, January 7, 1905, p. 6 c. 3.]
1905 Jan 7 / 4:40 a.m. / 4:52 a.m. / Severe shocks / Spain / Nature 71-253. [VIII; 2190. “Notes.” Nature, 71 (January 12, 1905): 253-256, at 253.]
1905 Jan 7 / Ext tide / Thames / N.Q. 10-3-47. [VIII; 2191. (Note and Queries, s. 10 v. 3 p. 47.)]
1905 Jan 7 / Abnormally high tide and destruction / E. coast of Britain / Nature 71-258 / “tidal wave”. [VIII; 2192. “Abnormal Tides of January 7.” Nature, 71 (January 12, 1905): 258.]
1905 Jan 7 / BO / Riot / Details in Liverpool Echo, March 9 / The procession, with a band playing, singing “To hell with Popery!” [C; 785. “Sectarian Disturbances in Liverpool.” Liverpool Echo, March 9, 1905, p. 7 c. 6.]
[1905] Jan 7 / BO / This procession rioting down middle of street and sidewalks to ending in fight with police. [C; 782. “Sectarian Disturbances in Liverpool.” Liverpool Echo, March 9, 1905, p. 7 c. 6.]
1905 Jan 7 / Newcastle Chronicle of, 11-5 / That the gentleman from Hungary had taken up quarters at Dipton Hill—wolf seen at Dotland. [C; 804. (Newcastle Chronicle, January 7, 1905, p. 11 c. 5.)]
1905 Jan 8 / myst fire / 5:15 p.m. / 2 trees in Ipswich were seen on fire. Attributed to boys playing with matches. Nothing said of observations upon anything of the kind. / East Anglian Daily Times 9-5-5 / See 13, 15, 25. [C; 852. (East Anglian Daily Times, January 9, 1905, p. 5 c. 5.) See: (15, 15, 25).]
1905 Jan 8 / BO / Weekly Dispatch / Women fainting in a [revival] meeting so crowded they could not move—water obtained for them by sopping moisture from windows with handkerchiefs. [C; 918. “Coming to London.” London Weekly Dispatch, January 8, 1905, p. 9 c. 5.]
1905 Jan 8 / Weekly Dispatch of—at Portsmouth, 7 suicides in 3 weeks. [C; 919. “Brief Dispatches.” London Weekly Dispatch, January 8, 1905, p. 2 c. 6-7.]
1905 Jan 9 / BO / [Revival] / Liverpool D. Post. / and invading places where people were dancing. [C; 693. (Liverpool Daily Post, ca. January 9, 1905.)]
[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 866-867.]
1905 Jan 9 / (Other World) / The Wld man of Kent / East Anglian Daily Times 13-2-4 / At Woodbridge Petty Sessions, Jan 12, “an extraordinary-looking individual, name and nationality unknown,” was placed in the stock. Charged with assaulting Henry Harvey, an Ipswich laborer, on January 9th. “He had a massive head of jet black hair, and a dark brown beard, and his clothes were in rags.” It was Harvey's story that whilst he was walking from Ipswich to Woodbridge, he met the defendant, who put out his hand and asked for “baccy”. The man was seen to have a knife in his hand, and was arrested, charged with assault. Ac to the Superintendent of Police the man had a small knife and about a shilling. He had paper and a book in unknown characters. Paper and book were sent to Scotland Yard, and the authorities there replied: “With reference to the attached, we are unable to say what language it is. It is not French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Bohemian, Greek, Portuguese, Arabic, Persian, or Turkish. Neither is it Hebrew nor Russian. The writer appaears to be mad.” It is said that alternating with the strange writings were numerous letters of the English alphabet and “some decidedly quaint and elementary drawings of men and ships”. The magistrates found that no assault had been committed and ordered the man's release. He was escorted out of town by a constable. [C; 866.1 to 866.7. (“Queer Character at Woodbridge.” East Anglian Daily Times, January 13, 1905, p. 2 c. 4.)]
1905 Jan 9 / Wld man of Throckley / See Carlisle batch. [C; 874. See: (Carlisle batch).]
1905 Jan 9 / Wild / [source unidentified], 6-6 / John Mitchell, found without trousers, in Lord Ridley's woods, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. Had come from Dumfries, looking for work. Charged with wandering. [C; 875. (Unidentified source, January 9, 1905, p. 6 c. 6.) (“A Man o' the Woods.” Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, January 9, 1905, p. 5 c. 7.) (“Back to Nature.” Eastern Evening News, January 9, 1905, p. 2 c. 8.)]
1905 Jan 9-10 / night / Farmer killed on railroad track near Framlingham. / East Anglian Times 11-15-5. [C; 931. (East Anglian Daily Times, January 11, 1905, p. 15 c. 5.)]
1905 Jan 10 / Liverpool Echo / Small fire seen in a house in Wrexham St. In back yard found body of a man “burnt past recognition. Fragments of a lamp in the room indicated been an explosion of it. Thought man had rushed to back yard and there burned to death—all this with no outcry. / 11th—said he had been found standing, burning to death in back yard—that he had been drinking. [C; 620.1, 620.2. “Lamp Fatality in Liverpool.” Liverpool Echo, January 10, 1905, p. 5 c. 2. (Liverpool Echo, January 11, 1905; not found here.)]
1905 Jan 10 / BO / Liverpool Echo—3 cases of mania reported from Bangor. [C; 784. “The Revival.” Liverpool Echo, January 10, 1905, p. 5 c. 1.]
1905 Jan 10 / Daily Chronicle of, 6-5 / Man killed on railroad at Worksop. [C; 927. (London Daily Chronicle, January 10, 1905.)]
[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. C: 923-924.]
1905 Jan 10 / Totnes (2 cases) / Ac to Totnes Times of Jan 14, woman drove up to Totnes Workhouse, in a cab. She could not tell her name. The cab man could solve nothing. He had brought her from Paignton, where she had hired him to drive to the Workhouse. Noticing E and W on a weather vane, next morning, though previously unable to tell anything about herself—having the card (as told in the other note), seeing e and W she said that her name was West. Then it was learned that a woman named West was missing from Paignton. Mrs West did not remember living in nor leaving Paignton, and could not explain. Her daughter arrived and identified her. She died ap. 7 p.m. / Case 2 / Totnes Times, Jan 14 / That at Downgate, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, Mr. John Dawe had found a young man wandering up and down in front of his house, and, when questioned, could give no account of himself. He was taken to the police station, where he could tell nothing, but on the 12th his brother arrived, identifying him as John Cary, of Bocastle. [C; 923.1 to 923.5. (Totnes Times, January 14, 1905.)]
1905 Jan. 11 / Jupiter moon and Venusian line / Bull Soc 19/57. [VIII; 2193. (Bull. Soc. 19-57.)]
1905 Jan 11 / Newcastle Chronicle / in Hexhamshire / The wolf continues to be “seen”—no further reports of damage. / 16th—2 more near Newcastle. [C; 806. (Newcastle Chronicle, January 11, 1905.) (Newcastle Chronicle, January 16, 1905.)]
1905 Jan. 11 / Daily Chronicle of, 5-5 / At Kilburn, 2 Fordwyeh-road—strange disap—Miss Gertrude Boone—aged 22—said not of a romantic disposition. / 2 more cases, in Chron of 12th, in London. [C; 900. (London Daily Chronicle, January 11, 1905, p. 5 c. 5.) (London Daily Chronicle, January 12, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 12 / Ghst / Barmouth Advertiser of / Ghost reported in Barmouth. / No details. [C; 687. (Barmouth Advertiser, January 12, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 12 / Revival in wlf district / East Anglian Daily Times of / “Religious mania” in Northumberland / frnezied, weeping men and women / torch-light processions at midnight. [C; 712. (East Anglian Daily Times, January 12, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 13 / Spon Comb / Mary Schorley, of Newcastle (Newcastle Chronicle 17-7-5), aged 90, ran from her house in flames—died of burns. She said that she had set her cap on fire, and throwing it on the stairs it had set fire to her dress. “It was the second or third time she had set herself on fire.” [C; 613.1, 613.2. (Newcastle Chronicle, January 17, 1905, p. 7 c. 5.)]
1905 Jan 13 / Strange fleet / The Southern Daily Echo (Southampton) of / The Aberdeen liner Moravian, arrived in Plymouth, had reported having passed an “unknown fleet of eight warships in the Bay of Biscay”. The vessels were sailing west. [C; 641. (Southern Daily Echo, January 13, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 13 / Fire / Mysterious fire ina stable at Ipswich. / E. Anglian Daily Times, 14-6-1 / Fire of unknown origin—charred bodies of seven horses, lying just as they had dropped. Said was curious to note that all the horses lay on the left side except one that had made efforts to escape. [C; 851.1, 851.2. (East Anglian Daily Times, January 14, 1905, p. 6 c. 1.)]
1905 Jan 13 / Wld Man / Southern Daily Echo of / At Southampton, Henry Williams, a laborer of no fixed abode. Policeman had seen him in street, shouting at boys around him. Sent to the workhouse for “wandering abroad in an unsound state of mind”. [C; 885. (Southern Daily Echo, January 13, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 14 / Ashton Codd / Spon—See “Binbrook, Jan 28. [C; 640. See: (1905 Jan 28).]
1905 Jan 14 / Newcastle Chronicle of—3 fires of unknown origin—one of them in a church. [C; 854. (Newcastle Chronicle January 14, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 14 / Wild Man / Daily Mail. / “The Suffolk police had in custody this week, a mysterious individual. His language resembled the groan of some angry animal, and his writing was unintelligible to Scotland Yard authorities, who said it was no language known to them. They came to the conclusion he was mad, He was charged with assault, but the case was not made out and he was released. / See Feb 8. [C; 867.1, 867.2. (London Daily Mail, January 14, 1905.) See: 1905 Feb 8, (C; 883).]
1905 Jan 14 / Wld woman / Hexham Herald of / That on 10th a woman had entered Totnes Workhouse, apparently thinking it was a hotel. “She was unable to give any information concerning herself except that she had come from New Zealand. She was well-dressed and wore valuable rings. She had an envelope addressed “Mrs. Earle, Maori Street, Christchurch, New Zealand. / Totnes, Devonshire. / In Totnes paper, not said she said from New Zealand, but that the paper found on her. [C; 933.1, 933.2, 933.3. (Hexham Herald, January 14, 1905.) (Totnes Times, ca. January 14, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 14 / A “myst foreigner near Southampton, at this time, He, too, charged with assault. / Seems technical was to accuse. [C; 934. (Ref.???)]
1905 Jan. 15 / Spon Comb / See Hull notes. [C; 627. See: 1905 (Jan 5), (C; 617).]
1905 / ab Jan 15 / In Manchester Guardian, Feb. 17, Mr. R. Bowen, Station-master at Towyn, said ab Jan 15 had seen a large luminous body, “with three large sparklets emanating from it. One night it had been stationary from 6:30 to 7:50. 12 minutes after last ob. it had travelled far to the N.W. [C; 653.1, 653.2. (Manchester Guardian, February 17, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 15 / Lloyd's Weekly News of, 2-2 / 2 residents of Westhoughton, near Bolton, Lancashire, had heard a pattering sound from a church near a graveyard at night. According to them a black figure seven or eight feet high approached them. It is said that the sequel was prosaic. Investigation revealed that the sound was nothing but the beatingof a rope against a flagstaff. [C; 686.1, 686.2. (Lloyd's Weekly News, January 15, 1905, p. 2 c. 2.)]
1905 Jan 15 / Simultaneously with the Solway Moss fire (near Carlisle) another fire of unknown origin broke out in a forest several miles away—both of unknown origin. / Blyth News 20-4-2. [C; 846. “Solway Moss Ablaze.” Blyth News, January 20, 1905, p. 4 c. 2.]
1905 Jan 15 / Near Carlisle, great excitement. great fire of the Solway Moss, an expanse of moss and heather covered land—and reflection seen far in sky. / E. Anglian Daily Times 18-3-6. [C; 847. (East Anglian Daily Times, January 18, 1905, p. 3 c. 6.)]
1905 Jan 15 / early morning / Saw mill at Hull burns. / H. Daily Mail 16-4-3 / “There was no light on the premises [on Saturday,] and it is difficult to account for the outbreak.” [C; 849. “Alarm on Anlaby-Road.” Hull Daily Mail, January 16, 1905, p. 4 c. 3.]
1905 Jan 15 / afternoon / “By some means not definitely ascertained, a trellis started to burn. / Tunbridge Wells Advertiser 20-5-3 / at Mt. Sion / That evening a fierce fire in Ashdown Forest near Withyham. Reflections in the sky seen miles around. [C; 864. (Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, January 20, 1905, p. 5 c. 3.)]
[1905 Jan 15] / BO / Ghst / Weekly Dispatch, Jan 15—people at Bradford thought saw a burglar enter a clubhouse. Police were notified—search—no one found. [C; 920. “Joke or Ghost?” London Weekly Dispatch, January 15, 1905, p. 15 c. 4. The man dressed in the colours of the Bradford Football Club was only seen by the groundsman, but was not found with the aid of a policeman,]
1905 / ab Jan 16 / Spon Comb? / At Louth, aged man, Ashton Codd, living alone, said to have fallen while poking the fire. He was disabled with rheumatism. He fell and was unable to rise and received burns of which he died. / Hull Daily Mail 23-3-3 / Lived alone in a small house. [C; 614.1, 614.2. “Louth Man Dies of Burns.” Hull Daily Mail, January 23, 1905, p. 5 c. 3.]
1905 Jan 16 / 7 p.m. / Market Rasen / Unknown case a shed took fire roasting 57 fowls. / Louth and N. Lincolnshire News 21-8-4. [C; 638. (Louth and North Lincolnshire News, January 21, 1905, p. 8 c. 4.)]
1905 Jan 16 / Fire / Newcastle Daily Chronicle 17-9-2 / Fire in top part of a Lunatic Asylum near Otley, Yorkshire. “It is supposed that pieces of straw and hay, carried by bords, became ignited, and caused the fire.” [C; 848. (Newcastle Daily Chronicle, January 17, 1905, p. 9 c. 2.)]
1905 Jan 16 / Disap. at Fulham, of Mr. C.R. deVilliers, of Niton street. / Louth and N. Lincolnshire News, Feb 11-2-2. [C; 899. (Louth and North Lincolnshire News, February 11, 1905, p. 2 c. 2.)]
1905 Jan 16 (?) / Trance / Mrs Holdon, of Hapton, supposed to be dead. Revived while the undertaker was carrying her down the stairs. / D. Chronicle, 19-6-3. [C; 935. (London Daily Chronicle, January 19, 1905, p. 6 c. 3.)]
1905 Jan 16 / Like the other woman / At Accrington, woman supposed to have died. Undertaker was measuring her for a coffin. Applied artificial respiration and friction to the body and she recovered. / Hull Daily Mail 17-3-5 / Daily Mail, Jan 19—Gives her name, Mrs. Holden—similar case had occurred in Norway. Here Mrs. Naess, a relative of a Grimsby man, supposed dead—body in a cellar in intense cold 4 days—but revived. [C; 936.1, 836.2, 936.3. (Hull Daily Mail, January 17, 1905, p. 3 c. 5.) (Hull Daily Mail, January 19, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 17 / 21 h, 36 m / Detonating meteor / Bratolioubovka, Russia / Bull Soc Astro de France, Nov, 1905. [VIII; 2194. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, November, 1905.)]
1905 Jan. 17 / 21 h., 36 m / Bratolioubovka, Russia / loud detonating meteor / B. S Astro de F, Nov, '05. [VIII; 2195. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, November, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 17 / D.M., 3-7 / In search of the wolf which is supposed to be ranging Hexhamshire, the Haydon foxhounds went through several woods last week, but without result. [C; 807. (London Daily Mail, January 17, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.)]
1905 Jan 18 / D.M. / “Weird noises which have lately been heard in Omagh Workhouse are attributed to 'ghosts', and inmates are becoming very excited.” [C; 681. (London Daily Mail, January 18, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 18 / Polt. / Hull Daily Mail of / Says surprising that such a story should be believed but at the farm house occupied by a man named White and his wife, near Binbrook, said that objects were moving around. “The other day the clothes of the servant started to burn in the middle of the back, and she affirms that she was nowhere near the fire at the time. She was rather badly burned, and had to receive medical attention.” / (Other issues (24th) more but same details.) [C; 690.1, 690.2. “Lincolnshire Farm Bewitched.” Hull Daily Mail, January 18, 1905, p. 3 c. 4. “Bewitched Binbrook Farm.” Hull Daily Mail, January 24, 1905, p. 2 c. 8.]
1905 Jan 18 / Newcastle Chronicle of / Wolf still reported—last damage was Jan 2. [C; 799. (Newcastle Chronicle, January 18, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 19 / early / South Shields / Man—his room on fire—burst open—dead. / Newcastle Chronicle, 21-10-5 / A shattered lamp—may have exploded without other occupants of the house hearing it. Also—coroner to a witness—“Was he in the habit of smoking in bed?” “Yes, sir.” [C; 626.1, 626.2. (Newcastle Chronicle, January 21, 1905, p. 10 c. 5.)]
1905 Jan 19 / BO / Liverpool Echo / “Through a mysterious agency,” 110 sheep, at Beddgelert, Wales, had been driven into a [mountain] fold and locked in. Days or weeks went by before the owner noticed they were not grazing on the mountain side. Found them starved to death. “Some of them had attempted to prey on each other.” Said nothing been learned but the police were investigating. [C; 778.1, 778.2. “Sheep-Starving Sensation on Snowdonia.” Liverpool Echo, January 19, 1905, p. 7 c. 1.]
1905 Jan 19 / See Carlisle lot. / Wld woman. [C; 888. See: (Carlisle lot???)]
1905 Jan 20 / Destructive q. / Greece / BA 1911-50. [VIII; 2196. Turner, H.H., et al. "Seismological Investigations." Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1911, 30-67, at 50.]
1905 Jan 20 / 1:50 a.m. / St Agnes, Cornwall / q. / Geol. Mag, 1908-298. [VIII; 2197. Davison, Charles. “On Some Minor British Earthquakes of the Years 1904-1907.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 5 (1908): 296-309, at 298.]
1905 Jan 21 / [LT], 6-b / q. / Cornwall. [VIII; 2198. “Earthquake Shock in Cornwall.” London Times, January 21, 1905, p. 6 c. 2.]
[The following three notes were followed together by Fort. C: 678-680. See: 1904 Dec 24, (C; 680), and, 1905 Feb 11, (C; 679).]
1905 Jan 21 / Omagh Herald of / That for a week some rather weird sound, not unlike the moaning of a restless spirit—not said what that is like—heard in the Omagh Workhouse—some offocials remained awake all night and found that the disturbance “was due to the fact that the gas meter needed a little water”. [C; 678.1, 678.2. Omagh Herald, January 21, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 21 / wlf / Carlisle Ev. Jour of. / That 2 persons in Hexhamshire had reported seeing the wolf—but since ab Jan 1, “it is singular that there has been no danger among sheep. Wrong sheep. [C; 812. (Carlisle Evening Journal, January 21, 1905.)]
1905 [Jan] / Wolf / Great advertising after death. Photo on picture post cards. [C; 813. (Ref. to photo.)]
1905 Jan. 21 / “wld Man” / Hexham Herald of / Shoemaker of Throckley, who had taken to living like a hermitm arrested and brought to Newcastle, charged with “wandering abroad and lodging in the open air”. [C; 886. (Hexham Herald, January 21, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 21 / [LT], 11-f / Somnambulists Strange Act. [C; 937. “A Somnambulist's Strange Act.” London Times, January 21, 1905, p. 11 c. 6.]
1905 Jan. 22 / BO / Woman burned to death in Carnarvon. Said she was subject to fits and must have fallen and knocked over a candle. / North Wales Observer, Jan. 27. [C; 619. (North Wales Observer, January 27, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 22 / Lloyd's Weekly News of, 8-1 / Child, Joyce Barber, London, burnt to death. Her mother had left her tied in a chair, a yard away from a fire. Supposed cinder shot out. [C; 639. (Lloyd's Weekly News, January 22, 1905, p. 8 c. 1.)]
1905 Jan 22 / Weekly Dispatch / Wolves driven by cold into appearing in Roumania, and attacking peasants. [C; 938. “Peasants Fight With Wolves.” London Weekly Dispatch, January 22, 1905, p. 15 c. 2.]
1905 Jan 23 / BO / Liverpool Echo, 4-5 / “Weird sounds” reported from Epworth, where a woman had died not long before. “Strange lights” and bedclothes tugged. [C; 781. “Mysterious happenings....” Liverpool Echo, January 23, 1905, p. 4 c. 4-5. “Weird noises,” (not sounds).]
1905 Jan 23 q's in Thessaly continuing—7 villages in ruins. / Liverpool Echo 24-6-8. [VIII; 2199. (Liverpool Echo, January 24, 1905, p. 6 c. 8.)]
[1905] Jan 24 / Carl / Like the wild men, a woman who at the cliffs of Beachy Head had, on 19th, taken off all her clothes and jumped 350 feet to the base of the cliff. / Carlisle Ev Jour. [C; 880. Carlisle Evening Journal, ca. January 24, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 25 / (Polt) / White's farm / (Southampton) / Southern Daily Echo of / Said that the fowls had been killed in a most remarkable manner. “Their necks from the head to the breast wer e skinned, and the windpipe pulled out.” [C; 843. (Southern Daily Echo, January 25, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 25 / evening / Another fire of unknown origin in a stable at Ipswich. / E. Anglian Daily Times 26-8-6. [C; 853. (East Anglian Daily Times, January 26, 1905, p. 8 c. 6.)]
1905 Jan 26 / Wave / Ship reached Melbourne then reported tremendous wave that struck or fell upon the vessel off St. Paul's Island. / Liverpool Echo, Feb. 7. [VIII; 2200. (Liverpool Echo, February 7, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 26 / Spon / In Gloucester (Gloucestershire Chronicle), Ann Perkins, 84 years old, in her room in Naples street, in home of Mrs. Hickman. Odor of fire. Mrs Hickman's son went to the room. Found Mrs Perkins lying across the fender before the fireplace, in flames, dead. “No noise or cry was heard in the house.” [C; 622.1, 622.2. (Gloucestershire Chronicle, ca. January 26, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 26 / BO / Liverpool Echo / A burning of old woman at Shrewsbury. Body found in a flaming bed. No explanation. [C; 788. (Liverpool Echo, ca. January 26, 1905; not found here.)]
1905 Jan. 26 / A servant girl in Liverpool sitting with back to fireplace. Fire in her clothes so died next day. / Liverpool Echo 30-7-5. [C; 906. “Liverpool Servant Girl's Fatal Burns.” Liverpool Echo, January 30, 1905, p. 7 c. 5.]
1905 Jan 28 / Bonbrook / Louth and North Lincolnshire News of, 5-3 / The account opens with—“Superstition dies hard” at the Binbrook farmhouse—dishes and bottles falling from shelves, a table mysteriously transported from a room to the cellar—a pan of mmilk overflowing—dishes had been placed in it. “A story that greatly dismays the unsophisticated people is that of the servant girl, who whilst sweeping the kitchen, was badly burned on the back. This is how the farmer relates it:—'Out servant girl, whom we had taken from the Workhouse, and who had neither kin nor friend in the world that she knows of, was sweeping this kitchen. There was a small fire in the grate; there was a guard there so that no one can come within two feet or more of the fire, and she was at the other end of the room and had not been near. I suddenly came into the kitchen, and there she was, sweeping away, while the back of her ddress was on fire. She looked around as I shouted, and, seeing the flames, rushed out through the door. She tripped, and I smothered the fire out with wet sacks. But she has been badly burned, poor girl, and she is at the Louth Hospital now, in terrible pain.' The last sentence is very true. Yesterday (Friday) our representative called at the hospital and was informed that the girl was burnt very extensively on the back and lies ina critical condition. She adheres to the belief that she was in the middle of the room when her clothing ignited.” / “Out of 250 fowls, Mr. White says that he has only 24 left. They have all been killed in the same weird way. The skin around the neck of the head to the breast has been pulled off, and the windpipe drawn from its place and snapped. The fowl house has been watched night and day, and whenever it was examined four or five birds would be found dead. / Same issue, page 8, told case of Ashton Codd, aged 75, who the week before died in same hospital. Told that he had been putting coals on fire, when his arm with which supporting himself gave waway and he fell into the fire, and, because of his rheumatism, was unable to rise. Yet in the report of the inquest, story not definite. His son testified that his father, after being found, that his father “thought he had got down to poke the fire, when his arm gave way”. “Deceased did not seem to know how he got on fire.” He was found by a carrier who afternoon of 14th had brought him his laundry, lying with his head near the fireplace, very much burned. Ac to witness—“If there was any fire in the firplace it was very little.” [C; 841.1 to 841.13. (Louth and North Lincolnshire News, January 28, 1905, p. 5 c. 3 & p. 8; not at BNA.)]
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1905 Jan 28 / (L1) / Polt—flames—devour / In Jour. Soc P R 12-138, an account dated [Jan 28], by the Rev. A.C. Custance, of Binbrook Rectory, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, of manifestations in a farmhouse occupied by a foreman and his family and a servant girl. Things were thrown around and pushed to the floor. / Some things were hanging before a “not very good or big fire”. Three times some of them caught fire. One morning the foreman entering the house saw the girl sweeping the floor. The back of her dress was in flames of which she was unconscious. He put out the fire, but she was burned and was taken to the hospital at Louth. / The name of the occupants was White. Their farm was near Great Grimsby. A representative of the Society went to investigate. The first manifestations were upon the last Friday in December. Other phe. were heard of. A marauding thing. Fowls which were about the farmyard in the daytime were sometimes found dead with their throats torn. The investigator, Col. Taylor, says that he could account for this by supposing that there was a rat or stoat, or weasel there. But he tells that three times at night the padlock on the fowl house had been removed and fowl killed or maimed. Said that twice a padlock had been found in a pond—and that this looked like human agency. This story of the removed padlocks was told to Col. T. by a spiritualist. [C; 842.1 to 842.7. "Two Poltergeist Cases." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 12 (October 1905): 124-42, at 137-142.]
1905 Jan 28 / Louth and N. Lincolnshire News of, 8-5 / At Retford, 7 dead sheep found embedded in the mud on a Nottinghamshire dyke. Said that boys had been seen chasing them and riding on their backs just previously. [C; 939. (Louth and North Lincolnshire News, January 28, 1905, p. 8 c. 5.)]
1905 Jan 28 / Sunspot / enormous / See July, 1906. [VIII; 2201. See: (1906 July).]
1905 Jan 28 / Sun / See June 25 / July 15. [VIII; 2202. See: (June 25), and, (July 15).]
1905 Jan 28-Feb. 3 / Another large eruption on sun appears when central on Feb 3 was and 4th area exceeded that of the great disturbance of 1858. / South lat. 15 deg. / disap on 10th / See 25th. [VIII: 2203.1, 2203.2. See: (25th).]
1905 Jan 29-Feb 11 / Spots back to Oct. 5. [VIII; 2204. (Ref.???)]
1905 Jan 29 / Detonations heard near Paris. Ac to a Paris newspaper, a shower of stones. This told in Bull Soc Astro de France, March, 1905. Said that been not authoritative account of it. [VIII: 2205.1, 2205.2. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, March, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 29-Feb 11 / Sunspot exceeded in area any other that had been measured at Greenwich. / Nature—75-378. [VIII; 2206. "Sun-Spots in 1905." Nature, 75 (February 14, 1907): 378.]
1905 Jan 29 / Cat—and a fire / near Abbey Town / See Carlisle lot. [C; 858. See: (Carlisle lot???).]
1905 [Jan 29] / The cat-fire cases / See May 19, 1899. [C; 859. See: (1899 May 19).]
1905 Jan 29 / (Phe?) / Farm at Abbey Town, Cumberland. Farmer sets a lamp on barn floor. “A cat rushed out and overturned it.” Fire to the barn. / Hull Daily Mail 30-3-3. [C; 860. “A Cat Causes Fire.” Hull Daily Mail, January 30, 1905, p. 3 c. 3.]
1905 Jan 29 / In the Sheerness Guardian, the story about the same. In addition, said that Thompson's only idea was that a rival of his fallen affections of a “young damsel” might have done this to him. The police enquired and the suspected person established an alibi. / Central power station of the tramways of Sheerness East. / Although deftly blindfolded by a cloth thrown over his head and tied upon a form he had felt only one pair of hands. [C; 941.1, 941.2, 943.3. (Sheerness Guardian, January 29, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 30 / BO / Crowds in streets of Liverpool stoning houses in which lived Catholics, shouting “Down with Popery!” / Echo, Liverpool, March 20. [C; 786. “Sectarian Feuds in Liverpool.” Liverpool Echo, March 20, 1905, p. 5 c. 5.]
[1905] Jan. 30 / Carl. / Cat fire / At East Border, near Abbey Town, on 29th. Farm occupied by Mr. Joseph Pinquey. Mr. P. entered his barn and set lamp on floor. A cat ran past him and upset the lamp. Barn burned down. Mr. P severely burned. [C; 862. (Ref.??? ) See: 1905 Jan 29, (C; 860).]
1905 Jan 30 / Southern Daily Echo of / John D Graham, a laborer of Totten, charged in Southampton with “wandering abroad in an unsound state of mind” on 29th. [C; 878. (Southern Daily Echo, January 30. 1905.)]
1905 Jan. 30 / (Outrage) / Southern Daily Echo (Southampton) / “Extraordinary Outrage” / That upon the morning of the 29th, ab. 1 a.m., Frank Thompson, having been at work cleaning cars in the generating station of the Sheerness Tramways Company, was eating his supper—“he was suddenly stunned by a terrific blow upon the side of the head.” It is said that an “unknown assailant bound him and stuffed oily rags in his mouth. He was found semi-conscious 7 hours later. “There was no attempt at robbery and no evidence can be obtained of people having been about the premises. [C; 940.1, 940.2, 940.3. (Southern Daily Echo, January 30, 1905.)]
1905 Jan 31 / q of unusual severity / N.W. part of S. America / Huge sea waves on W. coast U.S. Columbia. / Nature 73-395. [VIII; 2207. “The Colombian Earthquake.” Nature, 73 (February 22, 1906): 395.]
1905 Jan 31 / Psycho-star Wales. / Oc Rev 1/120 / the Norfolk. [C; 646. Evans, Beriah Gwynfe. “Merionethshire Mysteries.” Occult Review, 1 (no. 3; March 1905): 113-120, at 118-120.]
1905 Jan 31 / D. Chronicle, 5-6 / Woman of Keynsham who revived. [C; 942. (London Daily Chronicle, January 31, 1905, p. 5 c. 6.)]
1905 / last of Jan / Spon Comb in Axminster? [C; 635.]
[1905 Jan-March] / Blyth News, Jan 3—haystack fire—unknown origin. / 3-3-5—Explosion on Dec. 31 / That a terrific explosion awoke residents in Princess Louise Road, Blyth, at 3:30 a.m. Window panes were broken in several houses. All blown in, so the explosion was somewhere in the street. No trace of where could been; police theory that some malicious person had fired off a bobbin of powder. On 19th a fire of unknown origin near scene of the explosion. Nothing found out except that by unknown means it had started behind a counter. It was the 4th fire in this shop since the preceding August. / 24-3-2 / Feb 23 / Bell case / Blyth News, Feb 28 / Report of the inquest, Barabar Bell, aged 77. Ab. 3 p.m. smoke seen coming from windows. Neighbors had broken in. Found in a sofa, clothes burned and body charred, but seeming little damage to the room. Nothing mentioned but end of the sofa and a table scorched. The body was “fearfully charred.” No explanation. Thought she must have slipped and fallen into the fire. / On March 19, 3 a.m., another fire in same part of town. / Blyth News 21-3-3 / Nothing said as to origin. / March 23 / Blyth News 28-1-7 / Small fire in a warehouse, by the Railway Hotel, whatever part of Blyth that may be. Unknown origin. “Small and insignificant as the incident was, however, it will have served to add to Blyth's sinister notoriety for fires.” [C; 623.1 to 623.7. (Blyth News, January 3, 1905, p. 3 c. 5, plus.) (Blyth News, January or February 24, 1905, p. 3 c. 2.) (Blyth News, February 28, 1905.) (Blyth News, March 21, 1905, p. 3 c. 3.) (Blyth News, March 28, 1905, p. 1 c. 7.)]
[1905 Jan-March] / Wlf disappeared in north. / Then chicken-polt. / Then Jackal. / Lion. [C; 628.]
1905 Feb / Daily Mirror spec. cor (15-4-1) tells of flashes he saw around a form like a ball of fire or a star. There are other accounts associating with the revival—I leave these as already told. / 16-3-1, Daily Mirror cor—says saw night of 14th a light like an unusually brilliant carriage-lamp. “Then, when I went in its direction, and was about 100 yards from the chapel, it took the form of a bar of light, quite 4 ft. wide, and of the most brilliant blue.” Lasted a minute or so. / Here he says that the bottle story in the Proc. was seen by someone else. / So I write if anything over this chapel high enough, over thing miles away. [C: 654.1, 654.2, 654.3. “Mystic Light.” London Daily Mirror, February 15, 1905, p. 4 c. 1. “Mystic Lights of Egryn Seen Again.” London Daily Mirror, February 16, 1905, p. 3 c. 4.]
1905 Feb / Animal like Jackal attacked sheep in Eng. / L.T., 1905, Marc. 2/10/d. [C; 674. “A Supposed Jackal Shot.” London Times, March 2, 1905, p. 10 c. 4.]
1905 Feb [Revival/ / Barmouth Advertiser mentions or applauds her (Mrs Jones) 51 converts but noted that not especial. There are several columns upon the subject, but they begin “A allwn lai na theinloynbryderus” and not that encouraging. [C; 701. (Barmouth Advertiser, ca. February 1905.)]
[1905 Feb] / BO / Disorders broke out again in Liverpool, several months later. In Liverpool Echo, Feb 6, a magistrate quoted—said to a complainant who had been attacked,”When you see one of those processions you should run away as you would from a mad bull.” [C; 783.1, 783.2, 783.3. (Liverpool Echo, February 6, 1905.)]
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[1905 Feb] / BO / Lights / An account in Liverpool Echo, Feb 28, of experience of a police constable at Egryn—a light like a bicycle lamp that moved to the top of a wall. There were reflections from it, or as he described, 3 columns of fire, ab 3 feet high from the wall. Disappeared as he went to investigate. [C; 789.1, 789.2. “The Lights Stay at Home. A Constable's Experience.” Liverpool Echo, February 28, 1905, p. 6 c. 8.]
[1905 Feb] / BO / Liverpool Echo, Feb 10 / That three times had police constables reported strange lights in the sky, at Pwllheli. / Quote B.D. lights other times. [C; 790. (Liverpool Echo, February 10, 1905.)]
1905 [Feb] / BO / In Wigan Observer, 2 accounts, each under heading of “Mystery cleared”, or that body identified but nothing known as to how the woman got there. [C; 895. (Wigan Observer, ca. February, 1905.)]
1905 [Feb-March] / Eskasoni / In Syren, March 29, said arrived Limerick. Said the report was erroneous (March 22, p. 116) that passed Scilly on Feb 10—she passed on March 9. / See Shipping Gazette, March 24-8-5. [C; 908. (Syren and Shipping Illustrated, 1905 v. 1, (March 29, 1905).) (Shipping Gazette, March 24, 1905, p. 8 c. 5.)]
1905 Feb. 1 / 10:15 a.m. / 2 severe shocks / Andijan, Russian Central Asia / Liverpool Echo—Feb. 2. [VIII; 2208. (Liverpool Echo, February 2, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 1 / Cat. / fire / Hull Daily Mail of / Cat jumps up and knocks a lamp to the floor, and burns a house, at North Cave. [C; 861. “North Cave.” Hull Daily Mail, February 1, 1905., p. 5 c. 4.]
1905 Feb. 3 / Aurora / Jour B.A.A. 15/286. [VIII; 2209. Daunt, R. "The Aurora of February 3, 1905." Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 15 (1904-1905): 286-287.]
1905 Feb 3 / afternoon / Baton Rouge / afternoon q / Trib 4-16-1. [VIII; 2210. "Louisana's First Earthquake." New York Tribune, February 4, 1905, p. 16 c. 1.]
(1905) Feb 3 and 4 / —10 / See Jan 28. / Disap of spot on 10th. [VIII; 2211. See: (Jan 28).]
1905? / Feb 4 / near Montpelier, Ind / Explosion of nitroglycerine / heard in Ohio City, 50 miles away / Trib 5-12-1. [VIII; 2212. "Explosion Heard Fifty Miles." New York Tribune, February 5, 1905, p. 12 c. 1.]
1905 Feb 4 / Wigan Observer of—a wolf reported from Southport, where sheep killed. / Dec 25, 1872. [C; 896. (Wigan Observer, February 4, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 4 / BO / Liverpool Echo, Feb. 8—body of a woman found on the shore near Douglas, Isle of Man. Identified as Mrs Alice Hilton, of Wigan. 66 years old. Left her home on Feb 2, saying going to visit a cousin in Ince, near Wigan. No known trouble. Found alive but unconscious and died. 200 people visited the mortuary before the inquest and none could identify her as one who had come by boat to the island. Identified by inquiries from Wigan. Not drowned. Never seen to leave Ince or to arrive at Douglas—verdict of Coroner's Jury that died of effects of cold and exposure upon action of the heart. [C; 897.1, 897.2, 897.3. (Liverpool Echo, February 8, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 4 / Catalepsy / Lloyd's Weekly News of, 4-4—William Haylett, an aged resident [of] Downham Market, near King's Lynn, Norfolk. Supposed that he had died, but at times of preparing for burial found he had been in a cataleptic state. [C; 943. (Lloyd's Weekly News, February 4, 1905, p. 4. c. 4.)]
1905 Feb. 5 / At Mablethorpe, an inebriate and her trained nurse. Nurse sitting too near the fire—spark ignited her clothes. She said that she swooned and burned. She died on the 17th. / Hull Daily Mail, 20-5-6 / Spon comb? [C; 612.1, 612.2. “Terrible Death of a Nurse.” Hull Daily Mail, February 20, 1905, p. 5 c. 6.]
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1905 [Feb 5] / Spon Combs / (See Explanation, Feb. 5) / Seems wrong explanation. In all the cases it is written as if dying agonized persons explained in a clear calm way. [c; 636.]
1905 Feb 5 / Spon Comb / Lloyd Weekly News of, 3-6 / “Mysterious burns—Maria Hall, aged 37, of 70 Howe-street, Kingsland road—came running downstairs to street in flames—died—said had been asleep in front of a fire. Ac to opinion of the coroner this was very strange—sitting, facing the fire, a cinder might have leaped out, but her burns were on her back. “Nothing in the room was burned.”; 637.1, 637.2. (Lloyd's Weekly News, February 5, 1905, p. 3 c. 6.)]
1905 Feb 5 / Great revival in London, too. [C; 905. (Ref.???)]
1905 Feb. 7 / polt—devour / Daily Mail / For a fortnight on Mr. White's farm at Binbroke, Lincolnshire, objects moved about by unseen fingers—200 fowls died “mysterious deaths. A wagon that moved by unseen force. [C; 844. (London Daily Mail, February 7, 1905.)]
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1905 Feb 8 / Fires / Hull Daily Mail of / 2 cases of children burned to death; presumably ordinarily from fires in rooms— / Mail of 9th, a drug and spice mill in Hall burned unaccountably, no known light in it. / Feb. 10th, another child—presumably from a fire in a room. “There was a fireguard.” This at Frodingham. [C; 845.1, 845.2. (Hull Daily Mail, February 8, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 8 / D. Mail, 3-7 / Football players at Miltown Malbay saw a half-clad man. They caught him and handed him over to police. “No amount of persuasion could induce him to disclose his identity, and he was sent to the Ennis Asylum.” / (See Jan 14.) [C; 883. (London Daily Mail, February 8, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.) See: 1905 Jan 14, (C; 867).]
1905 Feb 8 / Derby Mercury of / Catalepsy at Downham Market, near King's Lynn. Aged man, Wm. Haylett, supposed to be dead—recovered during preparations for burial. [C; 944. (Derby Mercury, February 8, 1905.)]
1905 [Feb 8-22] / BO / I find in Liverpool Echo, issues Feb 8-22, no mention of the malmoot. [C; 775.]
1905 Feb 9 / Wales / Daily News of / Mr. Beriah G. Evans, who wrote the series of papers in the Occult Review, tells of some of his own experiences when calling upon Mrs Evans, not in the least connecting the lights with her but with the general part in which she lived. He saw “an enormous luminous star,” in the south. It made a huge jump toward a mountain and returned, then rushed straight toward the observers, disap and reap several times. Seemingly about 2 miles from where last seen, a light appeared and circled a valley, “illuminating the heather as if bathed in brilliant sunshine. This light like a flash-light and not like the star-light. [C; 655.1, 655.2, 655.3. (London Daily News, February 9, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 10 / Spon? / Newcastle Chronicle 11-12-4 / Occupants of Croft Hall awakened by smoke in the house at early hour in morning. Went to Sir William Croft's room—his bedding on fire. Awakened him—he was burnt slightly. [C; 625. (Newcastle Chronicle, February 11, 1905, p. 12 c. 4.)]
1905 [Feb 11th] / Light as described in North Wales Observer, Feb. 17th, as seen night of 11th, near Pwllheli, it was “a glaring light above”. [C; 644. “Pwllheli: The Mysterious Lights.” North Wales Observer, February 17, 1905, p. 5 c. 2-3. “On Saturday night, a prayer meeting at Efailnewydd lasted till twelve o'clock, and as people were going home they saw, it is said, a glaring light above. Two police officers who were on duty in Pwllheli late at night say that they also saw the light above Pwllheli.”]
1905 Feb. 11 / The later meteor—In Western Mail, Feb 18, Arthur Mee is quoted that besides the great meteors of 10:30 there was a later one of which he had not the particulars. [C; 648. (Western Mail, February 18, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 11 / In Barmouth Advertiser, Feb 23 / At Llwynn, near Barmouth, cor saw a brilliant meteor moving so slowly that he could take a snapshot of it. / Barmouth Advertiser, Feb. 23 / He says that the light was so intense that he could distinguish objects more clearly than by the full moon. This was Saturday the 11th. Upon another page, account by Beriah G. Evans. Says that upon Saturday (either the 11th or 18th) near Barmouth, Mrs Jones was returning home from a meeting, likely enough. At 11:48 p.m. “her carriage was suddenly bathed in a brilliant light descending from a radiant ball from the heavens. The point is that if Sat, the 11th, so was every other carriage, etc.—but claimed for Mrs. Jones. / Revival / Mr Evan Roberts / Barmouth Advertiser, Ap. 27 / “He is also very fond of poetry, and he will play with animals all day. / Welsh phe / Names towns / Dyffryn / Llwyngwril. [C; 650.1 to 650.5. (Barmouth Advertiser, February 23, 1905.) (Barmouth Advertiser, April 27, 1905; not at BNA.)]
1905 Feb 11 / polt / Night—a ghost ringing a door bell in Blackheath. Said that the police, called upon, stood and watched the bell wire pulled by the ghost. / Daily Mirror 13-4-3. [C; 679. “Ghost Rings a Bell.” London Daily Mirror, February 13, 1905, p. 4 c. 3.]
1905 Feb 11 / Epworth Herald / Incendiary fires in St. Petersburg. [C; 863. (Epworth Herald, February 11, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 11 / Totnes Times of / Missing man at Fulham. Missing from Fulham. [C; 901. (Totnes Times, February 11, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 11 / 10:30 (sic) / Magnificent meteor in Glamorganshire. / Western Mail (Cardiff) 13-4-9. [VIII; 2213. (Western Mail, February 13, 1905, p. 4 c. 9.)]
1905 Feb. 11 / Three large fireballs / England / M Notices 82-307. [VIII; 2214. Denning, William Frederick. Meteoric Phenomena, February 7-22." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 82 (March 10, 1922): 307-309, at 307.]
1905 Feb. 13 / Daily Mail—That several months before, a revival had started in Wales, and that lights of unknown origin and of dazzling brilliance were shining over a little chapel of Egryn, N. Wales, where Mrs Mary Jones was conducting services. A special cor of the Daily Mail was sent to investigate, and he writes that at 7 o'clock, night of Feb. 10, he started toward the chapel and reaching it saw what [seemed] to be a ball of fire over the building. “It had a steady, intense yellow brilliance and did not move.” Like Venus, but “suddenly disappeared, having lasted about a minute and a half. Then after an interval two appeared. “In the distance they were like large and brilliant motor lights. The cor set out for Barmouth, 4 miles away. “Just after half-past ten I was startled by a flash on the dark hillside and looking up I saw I was comparatively close to one of the strange lights. It was about 300 feet up the hillside and ab 500 feet from where I stood. It shone out dazzlingly, not with a white brightness, but a deep yellow brightness. It looked like a solid bulb of light 6 inches in diameter and was tiring to look at. He ran toward it, but it disappeared. / Mail, 14th—cor writes had seen no more—meone says St Elmo's fire. / Feb. 15—“Mysterious lights flashing across the sky at Leeds, where a revival movement is being conducted.” Said resembled huge fireballs sweeping across the sky, apparently not more than a hundred feet from the ground. “One seemed like a balloon on fire, expanding, contracting, and then disappearing from view. / Feb 15—Mr. Bernard Redwood sent to Egryn by D. Mail. Says that he had given up hope—“when suddenly in the northern sky a brilliant flash appeared, and shortly afterward a second one, the first flash being followed by a distinct report.” Says did not resemble the lights that were seen by the Mail's cor. / (16th)—He saw no more and says he suspects a few will-o'-the-wisps leavened by a little practical joking with lanterns. [C; 652.1 to 652.11. (London Daily Mail, February 13, 1905.) (London Daily Mail, February 15, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 13 / Polt / Daily News [of] / At Lampeter, near Cardiff, mysterious knockings at the house of a Mr. Howell. / Visited by Bishop of Swansea, and Prof Harris, who were unable to explain. / News, Feb 11-9-5 / Account of investigations by special cor. Phe started late in Jan. Crowds around the house—police had to regulate traffic. Small boy in the house. Mr Howells rapped to the tune of “Say Anrevoisl, and the ghost rapped back in time and measure. [C; 675.1, 675.2, 675.3. (London Daily News, February 13, 1905.)]
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1905 Feb 13 / Wild Man / Clare Journal of—story told—said that almost without clothing and his captors had to find him trousers. But he wore 2 flannel skirts. This on Feb 5th. On the 7th, his clothes, or supposed to be his, were found. Coat and vest of blue serge. “A corduroy trousers of primitive make, and opening toward the breast”—and a tin box containing canary seed. It is said that at the asylum he was examined by medical officers to whom his case was unique in their experience. “They were unable to glean anything intelligible from him, but later in the weekm when the patient became more composed, the officials were able to gather little pieces of information which lead to the belief that he belongs to a family in the Kilrush district. / Whether these in words or mere nods or gestures, not told. Seemed between 26 and 28. Had tattoo marks. Even they not clear. One was a B, and the other looked like a C but was not legible. [C; 882.1 to 882.5. (Clare Journal, February 13, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 13 / (+) / Western Mail, 8-3 / Lampeter / Ghost / (Etc.) / Said that must be in presence of small boy, Jack Howell, or no phe. [C; 904. (Western Mail, February 13, 1905, p. 8 c. 3.)]
1905 Feb 13 / Phe. / Hull Daily Mail / Woman in car compartment, with a man. She fell unconscious. She alleged nothing against the man, who left his card with the railroad officials. [C; 945. (Hull Daily Mail, February 13, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 14 / Liverpool Echo of / Letter from Mr. J. Evans THomas, solicitor of Machynlleth—reeferred to by Mr. B.G. Evans. Writes that he had had a casual conversation with Mrs. E, in which lights mentioned, but that he had expressed no opinion and had never seen Mrs. Jones. [C; 649.1, 649.2. (Liverpool Echo, February 14, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 14 / Southern Daily Echo of / 5 sudden deaths in Southampton. Heart failure, apoplexy, etc. [C; 946. (Southern Daily Echo, February 14, 1905.)]
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1905 Feb. 15 / BO / Liverpool Echo / Tapping sounds heard in Sal Army barracks, Rhymney, Wales, and the assertion by the Rev J. Evans, who had spent a night investigating, that he and others with him had seen “very bright lights” and had heard a rustling sound. Salvationists asserted that they had seen “ figures”. [C; 780.1, 780.2. (Liverpool Echo, ca. February 15, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 15 / One of the largest fires in many years in the New Forest. “There appears to have been seven distinct outbursts.” The furze set on fire. Said that cause of the fire was unknown. Was assumed that the same incendiary had started all. / Southern Daily Echo, Feb. 16. [C; 856.1, 856.2. (Southern Daily Echo, February 16, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 15 / The Syren and Shipping Illustrated of—The Stork. / Reported safe, in issue of March 8, p. 74. [C; 907. (Syren and Shipping Illustrated, 1905 v. 1, February 15, 1905.) (Syren and Shipping Illustrated, 1905 v. 1, March 8, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 16 / Clare Journal of / Headquarters of Salvation Army at Rhymney, Monmouthshire, haunted. [c; 682. (Clare Journal, February 16, 1905.; not at BNA.)]
1905 Feb 17 / Wild / Brixton Free Press, 8-4 / At Cheadle, a man tore his clothes to shreds and appeared before the magistrate in a sack. [C; 869. (Brixton Free Press, February 17, 1905, p. 8 c. 4.)]
1905 Feb 17 / (Wild) / Dean Forest Mercury of / That the police of Buda Pesth had raided a community of 50 persons who had taken to living in trees in a grove in that city. Both sexes—destitute—sleeping upon matted branches, some having tied themselves there. [C; 889.1, 899.2. (Dean Forest Mercury, February 17, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 18 / Spon Comb—no outcry / Hampshire Advertiser / In the village of Silverdale, Mrs. Barfoot put her child to bed in a cot near the fire. She went downstairs and soon afterward saw smoke coming from the room. Found the cot almost burned away and the child dead. Said that from a cinder from the fire. [C; 634.1, 634.2. “Child Burnt to Death.” Hampshire Advertiser, February 18, 1905, p, 2 c. 3.]
1905 Feb 18 / Light / Mr. Benjamin Buckram, of Sancton, R.S.O., writes to the Editor of the Daily Mail (Hull), Feb. 20, that night of the 18th, ab. 9:15, driving with his friend, Frank Romford, from South Cave to Newbald, they saw a strange light of great brilliance in the heavens. It disappeared with a loud report. it reappeared 2 or 3 minutes later and again disappeared with a loud report. / He says that he writes this in view of the appearances in Wales. [C; 647.1, 647.2. Buckram, Benjamin. “The Revivalist Lights in Wales.” Hull Daily Mail, February 20, 1905, p. 5 c. 4.]
1905 Feb 18 / Death / night / Southern Daily Echo 23-4-2 / A mysterious knock on a door. A young woman in the house drops dead. / Her state remarkable. At the inquest the coroner remarks that she had no appearance of being dead—“not a single sign of death.” Nothing said of any precaution against burying alive. / S.D. Echo (Southampton). [C; 947.1, 947.2. (Southern Daily Echo, February 23, 1905, p. 4 c. 2.)]
1905 Feb. 18 / Light in sky and detonations / See Hull notes. [VIII; 2215. See: (Hull notes).]
1905 Feb 19 / Weekly Dispatch / (no dates / no names) / The pseudo ending—Capt. Alexander Thompson, of Tacoma, Washington, happened to be in Derby and saw the wolf's head in a taxidermist's window. He recognized it, not as the head of a wolf, but of a malamoot, Toby, who had been brought to Liverpool for exhibition purposes, and there he had escaped from the other malamoots, and the owners, fearing his damages as a sheep-slayer, said nothing. / Sleigh dogs, half dog and half wolf. So, story of a dog that was valuable enough to bring from Alaska to Liverpool, and lost in streets of Liverpool, and owners, instead of thinking of him wandering streets of Liverpool, visualized his sheep-slaying. Liverpool 120 miles from Hexham. [C; 798.1 to 798.4. “Toby the Wolf.” London Weekly Dispatch, February 19, 1905, p. 2 c. 1. This animal's head was identified by name and with extraordinary details about its ancestry, “His mother was a full-blooded wild wood wolf, and his father was a cross between a terrier and a sheep dog.” A malamute, (a breed long used by native Alaskans), would not likely be mistaken for a terrier-sheep dog hybrid; and, a malamute-wolf hybrid, (known as a wolamute or malawolf), was an exaggerated tale, by a wag, when the Allendale wolf had already been identified as an adult grey wolf.]
1905 Feb 19 / BO / Lloyd's W. News of / Among other disaps tells of one, a Clerkenwell girl, 6 ft., 2 in., in height. [C; 898. (Lloyd's Weekly News, February 19, 1905.)]
1905 Feb 21 / BO / At an inquest at Crowe (Liverpool D. Post, Feb. 22). Rapping on th door, night of Feb 19th. Almost immediately afterward Mrs Annie Jinks, 21, dropped dead. Attending physician said that though not a sign of death, she was dead. [C; 689. (Liverpool Daily Post, February 22, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 22 / Wlf / Derby Mercury of—as to identity—described as a wolf by A.S. Hutchinson, taxidermist who prepared the pelt for the Midland Railway. A story arose that not a wolf, but an Eskimo dog that been brought to England—no dates nor name of owner. As to whether Hutchinson would know a wolf—He was taxidermist to the Manchester Museum of Nat. Hist. [C; 772.1, 772.2. (Derby Mercury, February 22, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 23 / Wld Man / Southampton / The Southern Echo of / I suspect that names assigned to them—Said that Julius Blackman, a tailor, charged with “wandering abroad in an unsound state of mind”. But said that the only statement that could be gotten from him was that he had come from “the other side”. [C; 887.1, 887.2. (Southern (Daily?) Echo, February 23, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 23 / Liverpool Echo of / Serious cases of sheep killing near Ormskirk. [C; 948. (Liverpool Echo, February 23, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 24 / Shipping Gazette, Feb 27-9-1+ / 4 bodies—made 11 within a week, on coast near Brest—coast here strewn with wreckage. / See 28-14-4. / March 1-9-2. [C; 949. (Shipping Gazette. February 27, 1905, p. 9 c. 1+.) (Shipping Gazette, February 28, 1905, p. 14 c. 4.) (Shipping Gazette, March 1, 1905, p. 9 c. 2.)]
1905 Feb 24 / [LT], 10-d / The recent sunspot. [VIII; 2216. “The Recent Sun-Spot.” London Times, February 24, 1905, p. 10 c. 4.]
1905 Feb. 25 / Spot like that of Feb 10. Appears or reappears on March 1st—Pop Astro 14-369. A dark area of unusual size was close aside the east limb. “This was the fourth stupendous sun storm within a period of 7 [sic, seven] weeks.” [VIII: 2217.1, 2217.2. O'Halloran, Rose. “The Sun-Spot Maximum of 1905.” Popular Astronomy, 14 (no. 6; June-July 1906): 368-371, at 369.]
1905 Feb 25 / Spon Comb? / At Richmond, late at night,woman burned to death in her home. Flames seen. House entered, found on fire. “She was dead, and, from the position of the body, it appears that she had fallen head first on the fire, and had been suffocated. / Totnes Times, March 4-7-5. [C; 611.1, 611.2. “Tragic Death of a Woman.” Totnes Weekly Times, March 4, 1905, p. 7 c. 5.]
1905 Feb. 25 / night / Woman at Richmond. Smoke from house. Woman found burned to death; seemed to have fallen head first upon fire and suffocated to death. / Louth and N. Lincolnshire News, March 4-2-3. [C; 616. (Louth and North Lincolnshire News, March 4, 1905, p. 2 c. 3.)]
1905 Feb 25 / Newcastle Chronicle, 12-5 / At Blyth, in the afternoon. Neighbor saw smoke coming from the home of Barbara Bell, aged 77. Ran to Mrs Bell's room. Found her dead, “charred from head to foot”. / There were then several unexplained fires in Blyth. / See Newcastle Chronicle, March 24-3-4. / 1905 / Jan / Newcastle. [C; 642.1, 642.2. (Newcastle Chronicle, February 25, 1905, p. 12 c. 5.) (Newcastle Chronicle, March 24, 1905, p. 3 c. 4.)]
1905 Feb. 25 / Wld Man / Hexham Herald of / “A wild man of the woods” at Carlisle. Not said how long he had been a wild man, but “his name is Richard Brewer and formerly he was in good circumstances. Perched in trees and ate raw fish. [C; 870. (Hexham Herald, February 25, 1905.)]
1905 Feb. 25 / Liverpool Echo of / That for a long time myst sound been heard in a house in Edge-hill, Liverpool. The garden had been dug up, and human remains found. / Echo of March 9—The tenant writes that he had never heard strange sounds. He had dug up the remains. [C; 950.1, 950.2. (Liverpool Echo, February 25, 1905.) (Liverpool Echo, March 9, 1905.)]
[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. C: 631 & 632.]
1905 Feb 26 / Spon Comb / early morning / At Butlock's Heath near Southampton. / Hampshire Advertiser, March 4 / Old couple named Kiley. Neighbors heard slight scratching sound. Investigated. Saw that house in flames. Old man found burned to death on floor. Mrs. K burned to death sitting in a chair, “badly charred [by the flames,]but [still] recognizable”. The table was overturned and the lamp found broken to pieces. Nevertheless supposed some other cause of fire and old couple suffocated. Verdict at inquest was accidental death, “but by what means they (jury) were unable to determine.” At inquest testified, “Both bodies were fully dressed, except that Mrs Kiley had no shoes on.” Mrs Kiley was sitting in the chair, apparently asleep, and Mr. K had evidently been sitting in a chair, but was then on the floor. Mr K 60 years old. Mrs K—55. / No signs of a struggle. Nothing especial as to drinking habits. At inquest drinking habits investigated. A witness testified as to gin they bought. Asked as to whether were drunkards. “I would not like to say that.” [C; 631.1 to 631.5. “Shocking Occurrence at Butlock's Heath.” Hampshire Advertiser, March 4, 1905, p. 4 c. 5-6. The last quote was not found in this article.]
1905 [Feb 26] / Spon Comb / Kiley case / At inquest, witness—they were “fond of a glass” but he'd not like to say they were habitual drunkards.[C; 632. “Shocking Occurrence at Butlock's Heath.” Hampshire Advertiser, March 4, 1905, p. 4 c. 5-6. “The couple were 'fond of the glass,' but he should not like to say they were habitual drunkards.”]
1905 Feb. 26 / News of the World, 9-7 / For some weeks at Portmadoc, North Wales— In a butcher shop things thrown around and much damage done. Investigators and the police baffled. But then a tin can with a note in it—“The ghost will trouble you no more”—was thrown through a sky light by a servant girl. She was arrested. “She made a full confession.” [C; 683.1, 683.2, 683.3. (News of the World, February 26, 1905, p. 9 c. 7.)]
1905 Feb 27 / [LT], 8-e / Disap. of a lady. [C; 902. (London Times, February 27, 1905, p. 8 c. 5; not found here.)]
1905 March / Daily News / Nothing except Jackal story. [C; 630.]
[1905 March] / BO / In Liverpool there were Babels, English and Welsh accusing each other of monopolizing singing, praying, shouting each other down. / Liv. Echo, March 27. [C; 777. (Liverpool Echo, March 27, 1905.)]
1905 March 1-22 / Derby Daily Telegraph / Nothing of the Jackal. [C; 666.]
1905 March 1 / Jackal not findable in Tunbridge Wells Advertiser. [C; 667.]
1905 March / Jackal / No Sevenoaks paper w/ this date. [C; 670.]
1905 [March] / Plan / Jackal / Give the Farm, etc., and London paper notes—and not develop because can't. By chance Blyth News—to Derby, Sevenoaks. [C; 671.]
1905 March / Lion / In the West Sussex Gazette, March 16-3-4, said that all over Chichester and in villages near Goodwood was heard the story of a lion loose at Goodwood. The writer had traced one story to a well-known Chichester doctor, but the story that this doctor had told was from a letter from a relative (his sister), telling of “an animal with a body like a dog's and a tail like a donkey's” that the writer (the doctor's sister) had seen near Goodwood. The reporter met several country men who told stories of sheep that had been devoured, but traced to no specific case. Said that on 12th of March the keepers on the Rewell had organized a hunt. According to some unnamed persons, 2 lions had been discovered eating sheep. Said that altogether details absent, that never stories of specific sheep. But same issue, p. 9—told of 3 injured sheep at Headley; said been mutilated by dogs. [C; 659.1 to 659.5. (West Sussex Gazette, March 16, 1905, pp. 3 c. 4.)]
1905 March / The “Lion” / In the Hants and Sussex News, March 22, published at Petersfield, mentions stories “many and wonderful” of depredations, and tells of account in Hampshire Post that the escaped lion had been killed near Harting. Seems nothing to the story of the escaped lion. But stories had been told in West Surrey, from Chichester to Arundel, of some ravaging animal. / Joke in Mail was that sign of a pub “The Red Lion” lost and story of escaped lion so originated. [C; 668.1, 668.2, 668.3. (Hants and Sussex News, March 22, 1905.)]
1905 March / A mother and daughter in trances at Presbyterian Hospital, N.Y. City. / Weekly Dispatch 26-9-6. [C; 951. “Hypnotised Each Other.” London Weekly Dispatch, March 26, 1905, p. 9 c. 6.]
1905 March 1 / Jackal / In Derby Mercury 15-2-6, said that the Indian jackal, which had killed sheep to the value of £200, in Sevenoaks, Weald, and Underriver districts of Kent, was upon exhibition in the studio of Mr. A.S. Hutchinson, London Road, Derby. / No explanation attempted. [C; 660.1, 660.2. (Derby Mercury, March 15, 1905, p. 2 c. 6.)]
1905 March 1, 18 / Sheep worrying again in Kent, / See Dec 30. [C; 952. See: (Dec 30).]
1905 March 1 / myst man assault / bet 6 and 7 p.m. / In a street of Ipswich a woman, name and residence stated, met a man carrying a cudgel. He started beating her with it. He made no attempt at robbery or other violence. struck her down and ran away. / E. Anglian Times. [C; 953.1, 953.2. (East Anglian Times, ca. March 1, 1905.)]
1905 March 1 / debris at sea / See Krakatoa, Aug 26 (+), 1883. [VIII; 2218. See: (Krakatoa, Aug 26, 1883).]
1905 March 1 / Sea Debris / Nothing in L.T. Index. [VIII; 2219.]
1905 March 1 / See S. Amer q and wave, Jan 31. [VIII; 2220. See: (Jan 31).]
1905 March / Tropical plants near island of Mull / Oct 20, 1877. [VIII; 2221. See: (1877 Oct 20).]
1905 March / Tropical plants in Arctic / Ap. 15, 1872. [VIII; 2222. See: (1872 Ap. 15).]
1905 March 1 / (Sea) / Hants and Sussex News of / “Advices from San Francisco state that the City of Panama, which lately left for parts on the Central American coast had a strange experience in Latitude 16-58 N and Long. 100-29 W. She sailed through miles of sea covered with masses of vegetation, tree trunks, and carcasses of animals. The debris was so thick that at times the progress of the vessel was impeded. The trees were five or six feet in diameter, and the dead animals were of many descriptions. The officers of the vessel were unable to explain the strange circumstances. It is supposed, however, that the floating mass of debris was cast upon the waters by some gigantic volcanic eruption on the Central American coast. / Hants and Sussex News, Feb 15, tells of a great wave said been 40 feet high encountered by a vessel in Southern pacific off St Paul's Island. / See back in Jan. / Ac to Totnes Times, Feb. 25, the vessel left on Jan 21 for ports on C.A. coast. [VIII: 2223.1 to 2223.7. (Hants and Sussex News, March 1, 1905.) (Hanfs and Sussex News, February 15, 1905.) (Totnes Times, February 25, 1905.) See: (Jan).]
1905 March 1 / Sea foliage—see Oct 20, 1877. [VIII; 2224. See: (1877 Oct 20).]
[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 661 & 662.]
1905 (March 1) / J(1) / Farm and Home of March 18 / That hardly had the wolf of Northumberland been interred and dug up again (for identification) when farmers in the district between T and Sevenoaks, Kent, were mystified by attacks on their flocks by an animal supposed on account of its size and color to be a wolf. “Sometimes 3 or 4 sheep would be found dying in one flock, having in nearly every case been badly bitten on the shoulder and disemboweled. Many people had caught sight of the animal and one man had a shot at it. The inhabitants were living in a state of terror, and so on the first last (March) a search party of some 60 guns beat the woods in an endeavor to put an end to the depredations. This resulted in its being found and dispatched by one of Mr. R.K. Hodgson's gamekeepers, the animal being pronounced on examination to be a jackal.” [C; 661.1to 661.4. (Farm and Home, March 18, 1905.)]
1905 March 2 / Animal / Daily Mirror / During the past week people living between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge had been in a state of terror because of the ravages of a supposed wolf. Many farms visited. Sometimes 3 or 4 sheep found dead or dying. 1st of March an animal finally killed. “The animal which is much larger than a fox is now thought to be a jackal.” / LT 2-10-d. [C; 662.1, 662.2. (London Daily Mirror, ca. March 2, 1905; not found in search, check pages.) “A Supposed Jackal Shot.” London Times, March 2, 1905, p. 10 c. 4.]
1905 March 1 / (+) / Jackal / In Blyth News, March 14-3-8, said, “The Indian jackal, which was killed recently near Sevenoaks, Kent, after having destroyed sheep and game to the value of over £200, is attracting much attention on the shop window of a Derby taxidermist.[C; 663.1, 663.2. (Blyth News, March 14, 1905, p. 3 c. 8.)]
1905 March 1 / Cardiff Express 2-2-3 / That the Lampeter spook had cooled down, but on March 1, considerable disturbance, and that the whole matter remained as mysterious as ever. [C; 677. (Cardiff Express, March 2, 1905, p. 2 c. 3.)]
1905 March 2 / Jackal story—same as in Farm paper—in Daily News of March 2-7-4. [C; 672. (London Daily News, March 2, 1905, p. 7 c. 4.)]
1905 March 2 / W. Sussex Gazette / Fire after fire in the New Forest supposed of incendiary origin. [C; 855. (West Sussex Gazette, March 2, 1905.)]
1905 March 4 / Wild / At Stratford, man ran to railroad line, tearing off his clothes with intention of throwing himself before a train. He was caught and examined—“had lost his reason. / Omagh Herald, March 11. [C; 877. (Omagh Herald, March 11, 1905.)]
[The following ten notes were clipped together by Fort. C: 954-963.]
1905 March 4 / Flames and thefts by girl / Derby Daily Telegraph, March 13-3-3 / On morning of 13th, Emma Piggott, aged 20, charged in Derby Borough Police Court with stealing from the home of her employer, John Sanders, fish monger, 75 Colville St., Derby, ab 5 pounds in money and a large number of articles of jewelry and clothing valued at 24 pounds. Removed to her parents' home in a box, where they were found. Ab. 10:30, Sanders' house on fire. The firemen extinguished a fire in a bedroom. No sooner to the fire station when they were called back to the house and found “an exactly similar fire in another bedroom”. The prisoner was arrested. She admitted the theft but denied the arson. Remanded to the 15th. On 15th, seems the first fire was in her bedroom. Ac to her lawyer, she was not near the house bet. 7:30 and 9:55 p.m.—(and then saw smoke and called attention to passers-by.) Case of the fires for the next assizes, and the theft charge for next day. (Next day both charges for next assizes.) [C; 954.1 to 954.5. (Derby Daily Telegraph, March 13, 1905, p. 3 c. 3.)]
1905 March— / Derby Mercury, July 19—Summer assizes/. Emma Piggot had pleaded guilty to the thefts, and was represented by counsel in charge of arson, which she denied. The Judge said it was enough to accept that plea and that he would not proceed upon the arson charge. 6 months and hard labor for the thefts. [C; 955.1, 955.2. (Derby Mercury, July 19, 1905.)]
1905 March / Objects girl stole—sugar tongs, carving set, table clothes, 18 handkerchiefs, salt sppons, bottles of scent, curtain hooks, hair brush, Turkish towels, gloves, a sponge, 2 watches, a puff box. / Derby Mercury / Girl had told her sister she was going to leave her employment. [C; 956.1, 956.2. (Derby Mercury, ca. 1905.)]
1905 March / Thefts amd polt phe. / See Feb. 28, 1874. [C; 957. See: 1874 Feb. 28, (A; 906).]
1905 March 4 / This —? / Girl had stolen something, in a small way—wished house burn and cover her thefts. Learned could start a fire. Then plundered and wished fires. [C; 958.]
1905 March 4 / Myst fires and thefts / See Sept 26, 1921. [C; 959. See: (1926 Sept 26).]
1905 March / As if had thought fire. / See fire in Govt office, Dec 18, 1889. [C; 960. See: 1889 Dec. 16, (B; 1064), and, 1889 Dec 18, (B: 1065 & 1066).]
1905 March 4 / Derby case / As if this girl “thought fire”. / See a fire in a Govt office, as if to destroy a paper, Dec., 1889. [C; 961. See: 1889 Dec. 16, (B; 1064).]
1905 March 4 / Looks as if girl collected great numbers of small articles likely to be burned, with the idea of setting the house on fire to cover the stealings. [C; 962.]
1905 (March 4) / Flames—theft / Mrs Sanders testified that the prisoner had been a good hard-working girl. There is something astonishing about her looting. A great number of objects taken. Ceertainly be missed by the Sanders, who were in small circumstances—a fish stall, at which Mrs Sanders helped. / Find no assizes up to June. / 2 vols to the year. Nowhere in the reports is the accusation that the girl made a sweep with the idea of having it thought that her plunder was destroyed by fire. / If then not tried for incendiarism, seems because the case could not have been made out. She could have started the first fire easily. The second fire is more mysterious. It looks as if she intensely thought fire and fire occurred. / Reminds me of—c 2, 1919. Disap of Small would be to Doughty's advantage. He intensely thought something of the kind—it occurred. [C; 963.1 to 963.4.]
1905 March 7 / Southern Daily Echo of / James Elwell, a watchmaker, for “wandering abroad in an unsound state of mind”. Said to have had delusions as to a conspiracy against him. [C; 871. (Southern Daily Echo, March 7, 1905.)]
1905 March 9 / Liverpool Daily Post of / Numerous packs of wolves ravaging in eastern districts of Prussia. Wolf-hunts on a large scale organizing. [C; 964. (Liverpool Daily Post, March 9, 1905.)]
1905 March 10 / Vesuvius again and unexpectedly in violent eruption. / Liverpool Echo, 11th. [VIII; 2226. (Liverpool Echo, March 11, 1905.)]
1905 March 11 / New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, S. Wales / Landslide in a hillside / Daily Mail 13-5-6 / railroad tracks covered and thousands of miners ou of work / 14-5-5. [VIII: 2225.1, 2225.2. (London Daily Mail, March 13, 1905, p. 5 c. 6.) (London Daily Mail, March 14, 1905, p. 5 c. 5.)] .
1905 March 11 / afternoon / Cardiff / 3 clouds in “water spout formation”. / Nature Notes 16/74. [VIII; 2227. (Nature Notes, 16-74.)]
1905 March 11, ab. / or ab Jan 14 / Southampton / wld man / See Advertiser. [V; 879. See: (Advertiser???)]
1905 March 12 . Wld / 2 boys aged 15, and 2 girls aged 13, at Enfield, ran away from home to live in Epping Forest. / Portsmouth Times 18-5-8. [C; 872. (Portsmouth Times, March 18, 1905, p. 5 c. 8.)]
1905 March 14 / (Ghst) / Blyth News, 3-2 / That crowds gathered around the Forster Council School—Strange sounds said been heard—said simply creaking of a partition as was well-known. [C; 684. (Blyth News, March 14, 1905, p. 3 c. 2.)]
1905 March 15 / “Lion” / wld man / Chichester Observer of / Said ferocious Animal reported from Goodwood, Oakwood, Woodend and Ashling. Reporter writes of his own experiences—went out on the South Downs and hunted, and some things appeared. Seems to be intended humorously. He saw some Scotch Runts—whatever they. Sid reported a lion had escaped from a menagerie at Steyning. [C; 665.1, 665.2. (Chichester Observer, March 15, 1905.)]
1905 March 15 / Swiss insects / Daily Mail of / That snow black with millions of tiny insects had fallen at Coire, the capital of the Swiss Canton of Grisons. [VIII; 2228. (London Daily Mail, March 15, 1905.)]
1905 March 15 / 1:59 a.m. / Barnet and Hadley / q / vibrations and loud sound / “It was quite unlike thunder. / LT—17-7-f / Times 18-12-b / from Hadley—“A loud report like a powerful explosion accompanied by vibration. [VIII: 2229.1, 2229.2. “Earthquake Shock at Barnet.” London Times, March 17, 1905, p. 7 c. 6. “The Earthquake at Barnet.” London Times, March 18, 1905, p. 12 c. 2.]
1905 March 16 / Derby Daily Telegraph, 2-5 / On a farm at New Mills, 2 terrier dogs, covered with blood, found with 7 dead and 12 mutilated sheep. Dogs were followed to Hayfield and traced to their owners. [C; 965. (Derby Daily Telegraph, March 16, 1905, p. 2 c. 5.)]
1905 March 17 / Brixton Free Press of, 8-5 / “Whilst a revival service was in progress at Calbourne Weslayan Methodist Chapel, Isle of Wight, a Gospel Car outside the building caught fire.” [C; 850. (Brixton Free Press, March 17, 1905, p. 8 c. 5.)]
1905 March 17 / sheep / Melton Mowbray Times of / A series of very serious losses upon the Piper Hole Farm—sheep dying of a mysterious ailment. Grazing and apparently well—and then something the matter and die immediately. For several years had occurred at this season. Whether due to some deleterious herb or not could not be learned. / (at Scalford). [C; 966.1, 966.2. (Melton Mowbray Times, March 17, 1905.)]
1905 March 18 / Animal / Daily Mail / Scores of villages [in] Hampshire and Sussx terrified by stories of an escaped lion—Petersfield especially—said traced to a joke about sign of a house known as the Red Lion. [C; 664. (London Daily Mail, March 18, 1905.)]
1905 Mch 21 / Explosions / [Trib], 1-3—Brockton / Ap 5-1-5—Bridgeport / June 22-1-1—Emporium, Penn. / July (July 10-_ 4-3—Harrisburg, Penn / July (July 22 etc.-) 1-5—Cal. / Sept 10-1-1?—Conn? / Trib, Dec 17-1-5—Marquette, Mich / Other explosions. [VIII: 2230.1, 2230.2. "Scores Killed By Explosion." New York Tribune, March 21, 1905, p. 1 c. 3. "Panic After Explosion." New York Tribune, April 5, 1905, p. 1 c. 5. " (New York Tribune, June 22, 1905-1-1—Emporium, Penn; not found here.) "Explosion Kills Eight. " New York Tribune, July 10, 1905, p. 4 c. 3. "The Bennington Blown Up." New York Tribune, July 22, 1905, p. 1 c. 5-6. "Explosion Kills Score." New York Tribune, September 10, 1905, p. 1 c. 1. At Fairchance, Pennsylvania, (not Connecticut). "Five Blown To Shreds." New York Tribune, December 17, 1905, p. 1 c. 5.]
1905 March 22 / Daily Mail / A hill slowly sliding down upon a village near Cannes, France. [VIII; 2231. (London Daily Mail, March 22, 1905.)]
1905 March 22 / Wld Man ./ Chichester Observer of—a mining student at Creswell, who had been missing a week, was found in a cave in the Cresswell Crags. He could give only a rambling account of himself. [C; 881. (Chichester Observer, March 22, 1905.)]
1905 March 26 / See Dec 8, '04. / myst / [source unidentified], 12-5 / On Feb 10, 1905, about the time she was due, the British ship Eskasoni, from Portland, Oregon, to Limerick, cargo of grain, was sighted off the Scilly Isles and signalled and identified herself. Signalled, “Report me all well,” but instead of keeping on toward Limerick, turned about and sailed away. On March 10, she reappeared off the Scillies. The signalman there ordered her to go on to Limerick. She signalled that this order had been received and understood, but up to 26th, had not arrived in Limerick. She was a large vessel, with about 30 members of her crew. [C; 967.1, 967.2, 967.3. (Unidentified source, ca. March 26, 1905, p. 12 c. 5.) See: 1904 Dec 8, (C: 600).]
1905 March 26-29 / Kashmir / unprecedented fall of snow, amounting to 17 feet / Madras Mail, Ap 10-5-6. [VIII; 2232. (Madras Mail, April 10, 1905, p.. 5 c. 6.)]
1905 March 26 / Ext halo sun. / Paris / C.R. 140-959. [VIII; 2233. Besson, Louis. "Sur un halo extraordinaire, observé à Paris." Comptes Rendus, 140 (1905): 959-961.]
1905 March 29 / Camb. Nat Observer 1905/32—several accounts [of] object that was seen in Wales. “Like a long cluster of stars observed in a thin film or mist.” Grew brighter and looked like an incandescent light and lasted for about 25 or 30 minutes. At 10 p.m.” By others at 10:30. Like an iron bar heated to an orange-colored glow and suspended vertically. [VIII: 2234.1, 2234.2, 2234.3. (Cambrian Natural Observer, 1905-32.)]
1905 March 31 / [LT], 4-6 / Indian Ocean Phe. / Can't find. [VIII; 2235. (London Times, March 31, 1905, p. 4 c. 6; not found in London Times nor New York Times, on this ref.; ; or, c. B; check New York Times; also in AF-II; 840.)]
1905 / spring / Polt and stones / Lyons, France / An. Psych. Sci, Sept., 1905. [C; 909. “A Lawsuit occasioned by a Haunted House.” Annals of Psychical Science, 2 (no. 3; September 1905): 197-198. (Le Temps, July 2, 1905.)]
[19]05 Ap. 1-11 / L. Astro / Cherbourg / Bull Astro de France 19/243. [VIII; 2236. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 19-243.)]
1905 April / For list, see March 10, 1883. / Cherbourg / See Irish Comet, Aug., 1856. [VIII; 2237. See: (1882 March 10), and, (1856 Aug.).]
1905 Ap. / Cherbourg Obj / See Sept 15, 1886. / ab Aug 15, 1886. [VIII; 2238. See: (1886 Sept 15), and, (1886 Aug 15, ab.).]
1905 Ap. 2 / Ongole / 6:48 p.m. / severe shock / slight at Madras / Madras Mail 3-5-2. [VIII; 2239. (Madras Mail, April 3, 1905, p. 5 c. 2.)]
1905 Ap. 4 / q, of unprecedented violence at Lahore. / L.T. 5-5-c / from Agra to Simla. / W. to E / 6:10 a.m. / 11 shocks. in Dharmsala the native quarter obliterated. / Zoological gardens, Lahore, every living thing screamed or bellowed, etc. / Ap 8-5-2—That Dharmsala was the center. / Ap. 10—fresh shocks at Simla—12-5-4. [VIII: 2240.1 to 2240.4. “Earthquake at Lahore.” London Times, April 5, 1905, p. 5 c. 3. “The Earthquake in India.” London Times, April 8, 1905, p. 5 c. 2-3. “The Earthquake in India.” London Times, April 12, 1905, p. 5 c. 4.]
1905 Ap. 4 / Cries from a City—boulders thrown from hillsides, snow turned black with the dust. [VIII; 2241. (Ref.???)]
1905 Ap. 4 / From a distance nothing intelligible left of Kangra but a glean of yellow light from the roof of the Golden Temple. [VIII; 2242. (Ref.???)]
1905 Ap. 4 / Barisal Guns heard at Barisal. / Madras Mail 11-6-5. [VIII; 2243. (Madras Mail, April 11, 1905, p. 6 c. 5.)]
1905 Ap 4 / Estimated over 80 percent of the inhabitants of Dharmsalla killed. / Madras Mail, Ap. 7 / Center was Dharmsalla. [VIII; 2244. (Madras Mail, April 7, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 4 / q / Kangra / See Records Geolog. Survey India, last part of vol. 32. [VIII; 2245. (Records of the Geological Survey of India, v. 32.)]
1905 Ap. 4 (?) / 1 a.m. / Taveslock sq., London / slight q. / Times 10-9-f. [VIII; 2246. “Slight Earthquake in London.” London Times, April 10, 1905, p. 9 c. 6.]
1905 Ap. 4 / Much damage at Dehra-Dun. (See later metite.) / Madras Mail, 6th. [VIII; 2247. (Madras Mail, April 6, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 4 / Small q's at Simla continue. / I have to June 11 (Madras Mail) 11-7-5. [VIII; 2248. (Madras Mail, April 11, 1905, p. 7 c. 5.)]
1905 Ap. 4 / Much damage in Srinagar. / Madras Mail, 6th. [VIII; 2249. (Madras Mail, April 6, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 4 . In Indian Spectator, Ap. 15, loss of life estimated 15,000. [VIII; 2250. (Indian Spectator, April 15, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 4 / See L.T., May 4-8-b / 5-4-b / June 3-4-6 / 30-4-b / May-June—one vol. [VIII; 2251. “Lord Kitchemer's Relief Fund.” London Times, May 3, 1905, p. 8 c. 2. “The Earthquake in India.” London Times, May 5, 1905, p. 4 c. 2. Rivaz, C.M. “The Indian Earthquake Relief Fund.” London Times, June 3, 1905, p. 4 c. 6. “The Earthquake in India.” London Times, June 30, 1905, p. 4 c. 2.]
1905 Ap. 4 / q in India registered 1 h., 6 m., at Birmingham / LT 17-6-e. [VIII; 2252. Davison, Charles. “The Indian Earthquake.” London Times, April 17, 1905, p. 6 c. 5.]
1905 Ap. 4 / q in the Kangra Valley / See Metites / NY Sun 8-2-2. [VIII; 2253. “Buried Alive in Earthquake.” New York Sun, April 8, 1905, p. 2 c. 2. See: (Metites).]
1905 Ap. 4 / Loss of lives estimated at 20,000. / N.Y. Sun 12-2-2. [VIII; 2254. “Dead in Earthquake, 20,000.” New York Sun, April 12, 1905, p. 2 c. 2.]
1905 Ap 4 / After this q., many slight shocks in New Zealand. / N.Y. Sun 12-2-2. [VIII; 2255. “Dead in Earthquake, 20,000.” New York Sun, April 12, 1905, p. 2 c. 2.]
1905 Ap 9 / 8:20 p.m. / Severe shock / Benevento, Italy / N.Y. Sun 10-1-6. [VIII; 2256. “Earthquake in Italy.” New York Sun, April 10, 1905, p. 1 c. 6.]
1905 Ap. 11 / date of dispatch from Calcutta—Traders had reported outbreak of a new volcano in a hill in the state of Bahshaba, on Tibet frontier. / N.Y. Sun 12-2-2. [VIII: 2257.1, 2257.2. “Dead in Earthquake, 20,000.” New York Sun, April 12, 1905, p. 2 c. 2.]
1905 Ap. 9 / Rumors of fire and smoke from a mountain in the Busbahr State / Madras Mail 11-5-6. [VIII; 2258. (Madras Mail, April 11, 1905, p. 5 c. 6.)]
1905 Ap 9 and 11 / Pelée smoke / 13-14, more active / Nature 71-588. [VIII; 2259. “Notes.” Nature, 71 (April 20, 1905): 588-592, at 588.]
1905 Ap. 10 / Madras Mail / The shocks continue. [VIII; 2260. (Madras Mail, April 10, 1905.)]
1905 Ap 10 / afternoon / 2-inch hailstones, at Pittsburg, Pa. / N.Y. Sun 11-1-4. [VIII; 2261. “Hit by 2 Inch Hailstone.” New York Sun, April 11, 1905, p. 1 c. 4.]
1905 Ap. 11 / Shocks continue at Simla. / M. Mail, 11th / Continue with force at Dharmsala. / M Mail, 12th. [VIII; 2262. (Madras Mail, April 11, 1905.) (Madras Mail, April 12, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 12 / Severe shocks at Simla. / Mad. Mail, 13th / on 14th, more—Mail, 14th / on 17th, severe—[Mail], 24th / 19th, small—[Mail], 20th / 27, 2 more—[Mail], 27th / All these at Simla. None for several days and then small, May 1—[Mail], May 2. / no more read to 11th. [VIII: 2263.1, 2263.2, 2263.3. (Madras Mail, 1905 April: 13, 14, 20, 24, & 27, and May 2.)]
1905 Ap. 16 / ab. 2:10 p.m. / Stromboli / sudden eruption / Nature 72-65. [VIII; 2264. “Notes.” Nature, 72 (May 18, 1905): 61-66, at 65.]
1905 Ap. 19 / night of / John Henry calculated maximum of Lyrids. / Nature, April 13, 71-560. [VIII; 2265. Henry, John R. “The Lyrid Meteors.” Nature, 71 (April 13, 1905): 560.]
1905 Ap. 19 / No Lyrids recorded in Nature. [VIII; 2266. (Confirm.)]
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1905 Ap. 19-22 / Welsh Phe / Barmouth Advertiser, Ap. 27—Said that near Vroncysyllte, three persons, two of them clergymen, investigated, and in no reference to Mrs Jones except that she was there and was claiming the lights. One interviewer (Barmouth Advertiser, Ap. 27) said, “Twice (11:30 p.m.), I distinctly noticed a large ball of fire rise from the earth and suddenly burst luridly, On a third occasion I saw a similar light travelling toward Vroncysyllte. [C; 651.1, 651.2. (Barmouth Advertiser, April 27, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 19-22 / Lights of Vroncysllte (ver) / See Welsh phe. [C; 969. See: (Welsh phe.)]
1905 Ap-June / Escaped animals told of in Derby Mercury. A bear, monkey, elephant, babboon. June 28—another monkey from a pub house at Stockport. [C; 968. (Derby Mercury, ca. June, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 21 / Brixton Free Press, 3-7 / That at Paisley, a house said been haunted. Some boys decided to “lay the ghost”. They burned the house down. Sentenced by the Court to be birched. [C; 970. (Brixton Free Press, April 21, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.)]
1905 Ap. 23 / July 23, 26 / Sept (21, 22, 25), 30 / Oct 28 / Dec 22 / Ochil / See 1908. / Geol. Mag 1908-297 / The hours given. / See July [note cut off; July 3, 4, 7, 1906] / Feb 10, '07 / Jan 19, 08 / Jan 19, '09. [VIII: 2267.1, 2267.2. Davison, Charles. “On Some Minor British Earthquakes of the Years 1904-1907.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 5 (1908): 296-309, at 297. (Geological Magazine, ca. 1909.) Davison, Charles. “The British Earthquakes of the Years 1908 and 1909.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 7 (1910): 315-320, at 315 & 318. Davison, Charles. “The British Earthquakes of the Years 1908 and 1909.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 7 (1910): 315-320.]
1905 Ap. 23 / Doncaster / (q) / Nature 73-141. [VIII; 2268. “Societies and Academies.” Nature, 73 (December 14, 1905): 141-144, at 141-142.]
1905 Ap. 23 / 1:30 a.m. / large part of N. of England / heavy rumbling sound and shock / Nature 71-614. [VIII; 2269. “Notes.” Nature, 71 (April 27, 1905): 613-617, at 614.]
1905 Ap. 23 / q in England / Near Leeds, an explosive sound like thunder. / Derby Mercury, 26th / 1:34 a.m. [VIII; 2270. (Derby Mercury, April 26, 1905.)]
1905 Ap. 23 / Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire / early morning. / q and sound rumbling thunder / LT 24-8-d. [VIII; 2271. “Earthquake in the North of England.” London Times, April 24, 1905, p. 8 c. 4.]
1905 Ap. 25 / India / severe shock / Bandar Abbas / Nature 72-38. [VIII; 2272. “Notes.” Nature, 72 (May 11, 1905): 38-42, at 38.]
1905 Ap. 26. / Venus Inf. conjunction sun / greatest brilliancy March 21 and June 2. [VIII; 2273. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1905, ???.)]
1905 Ap. 27 / ab. 1 p.m. / Metite / Karkh, Baluchistan, India / R—Ap. 18, 1838. Also in S. Kensington / q's continuing / See Ap. 5. [VIII: 2274.1, 2274.2. Refer to: 1838 Ap. 18, (I; 2306). Brown, John Coggin. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Meteorites Comprised in the Collection of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta (On August 1st, 1914)." Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 43 (1916): part 2, 149-287, at 215-216. See: (Ap. 5; nothing here; possibly 1905 Ap. 25, VIII; 2272.)??? This is the Karkh meteorite.]
1905 Ap. 29 / 2 a.m. / East of France / strong q. / An. Soc Met de France 1905-137. [VIII; 2275. Moureaux, Th. “Tremblements de terre.” Annuaire de la Société Météorologique de France, 53 (1905): 136-138.]
1905 Ap. 29 / 2 a.m. / Shocks—the Jura and Rhone valley, bet Lyons and Valence. Further shocks, May 1, 2, 6 / Nature 72-16. [VIII; 2276. “Notes.” Nature, 72 (May 4, 1905): 14-19, at 16. (Ref??? for May 1, 2, 6.)]
1905 May. / Polt at Touraine, France / An Psych. Sci, Sept, 1905. [C; 971. “A Haunted House at Touraine.” Annals of Psychical Science, 2 (no. 3; September 1905): 200-201. (Touraine Républicaine, May 31, 1905.)]
1905 May 1 / M. Martier, young American who disappeared at Brighton. / D. Mail 24-3-5 and before. [C; 972. (London Daily Mail, May 24, 1905, p. 3 c. 5.; and, before.)]
1905 May 1 / early morning / q at Llangollen / Loud rumblings. The River Dee rose several feet during the night. / Hampshire Advertiser, May 6-2-3. [VIII; 2277. (Hampshire Advertiser, May 6, 1905, p. 2 c. 3.)]
1905 May 1, 2, 6 / Shocks / See Ap. 29. [VIII; 2278. See: 1905 Ap. 29, (VIII; 2276).]
1905 May, early / Wheel / Enormous shoals of dead fish thrown upon coast by Karachi. The Port Trust authorities had to make arrangements for the removal and burial of millions of fish. Capt. Belton, of the steamship City of Dundee, reported repeated flashes of light passing over surface of the sea about 100 miles from Karachi. / Nature 72-106. [VIII: 2279.1, 2279.2, 2279.3. “Notes.” Nature, 72 (June 1, 1905): 106-110, at 106.]
1904 May 1 / 1:40 a.m. / Llangollen / Shock felt at a military encampment near Llangollen. / like thunder / Geol. Mag 1908-309. [VIII; 2280. Davison, Charles. “On Some Minor British Earthquakes of the Years 1904-1907.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 5 (1908): 296-309, at 309.]
1905 May 1 / [LT], 5-c / 2-3-e / q / Continent. [VIII; 2281. “Earthquake Shocks on the Continent.” London Times, May 1, 1905, p. 5 c. 3-4. “The Earthquake on the Continent.” London Times, May 2, 1905, p. 3 c. 5.]
1905 May 8 / Op. Mars / (Al). [VIII; 2282. Opposition of Mars. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1905, 581. (Found in IX following IX; 41.)]
1905 May 5 / wlf / Farm, Field, and Fireside of / “The recent severe weather caused foxes to be very daring, and a great many lambs are reported to have been devoured by them in the Lammermuir districts, thus compelling shepherds to guard their flocks during the night as in the daytime. [C; 973.1, 973.2. (Farm. Field, and Fireside, May 5, 1905.)]
1905 May 9 / 12:08 a.m. / q / severe / Central Mexico / BA '11/51. [VIII; 2283. Turner, H.H., et al. "Seismological Investigations." Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1911, 30-67, at 51.]
1905 May 9 / 12:08 a.m. / Severe q. / Autlan, Mexico / BA 1911-51. [VIII; 2284. Turner, H.H., et al. "Seismological Investigations." Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1911, 30-67, at 51.]
1905 May 10 / [LT], 5-a / q / Persian Gulf / for “early in May” wheel. [VIII; 2285. “Earthquake on the Persian Gulf.” London Times, May 10, 1905, p. 5 c. 1. See: 1905 May, early, (VIII: 2279).]
1905 May 13 / Destructive q. / Servia / BA 1911-52. [VIII; 2286. Turner, H.H., et al. "Seismological Investigations." Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1911, 30-67, at 52.]
1905 May 14 / Cardiff / flies / Nature 72-87. [VIII; 2287. “Notes.” Nature, 72 (May 25, 1905): 84-89, at 87.]
1905 May 13 / D. Mail of / Subterranean fires at Haden, Worcester. [C; 974. (London Daily Mail, May 13, 1905.)]
1905 May 13 / See wolf '04-'05. / That extensive sheep worrying had occurred in north of England. Early in May, 4 lambs killed on a farm near Newcastleton, and four on another farm, same parish. Traced to a spaniel which was shot. / Hampshire Advertiser of May 13. [C; 975. (Hampshire Advertiser, May 13, 1905.)]
1905 May 15, etc. / Myst Malady / Derby Mercury of May 31—That at Clown, a Derbyshire village, at a girls' school, girls fainting. In less than a week, 45 cases of a girl suddenly fainting—other cases then and before, since ab. 15th. The girls were then exceedingly weak and had to be carried home. One child had lost strength so that could not even sit up. Was thought that some unknown noxious gas or vapor, but mice were placed in the school rooms and were unaffected. / See Sleeping sickness, Jan, 1921. / Last of May, outbreak of smallpox in Derby. [C; 976.1, 976.2, 976.3. (Derby Mercury, May 31, 1905.) See: 1921 Jan, (D; 1203).]
1905 May 18 / Severe hailstorm in Kangra Valley, the scene of the q of Ap 4. / Indian Spectator, May 27. [VIII; 2288. (Indian Spectator, May 27, 1905.)]
1905 May 19 / afternoon / Sharp shock at Simla, after more than a week of quiescence / 20-7-6, Madras Mail / 23—rather severe, Dharmsalla / Mail—24th. [VIII; 2289. (Madras Mail, May 20, 1905, p. 7 c. 6.) (Madras Mail, May 23, 1905.) (Madras Mail, May 24, 1905.)]
1905 May 19 / Sharp shock / Simla / Indian Spectator, May 27. [VIII; 2290. (Indian Spectator, May 27, 1905.)]
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1905 May 19 / Plan / Tell the Derby note—mere obscurity. / Then the Dean Forest note—with all its suggestions of the untold—no phe mentioned—no explanation of why one after another insane, and the terror of Mrs. Markey. / Then details if can from a Gloucester paper. / 1884 = Dec / 85 = Dec / 83 / 83 / 81 / 80 / July—1884 / July, 1885. [C; 977.1, 977.2.]
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1905 May 19 / Polt-Insanity / Dean Forest Mercury of May 26 / That some time before, £50. Had been taken from a drawer in the home of Mr. John Markey, of May Hill, Longhope, near Blakeney. Nothing learned any other way, and a woman supposed to have knowledge of witchcraft was brought to the house. It is said that soon after her arrival Mr. Markey's daughter became violently insane; also the daughter of this daughter. Said that windows and other breakable property smashed—not told how. On evening of May 19, the two insane woman were removed, one to an asylum and the other to a hospital. Then Markey's wife disappeared (on 19th, morning of). She was searched for. And a Police Inspector came from Gloucester to organize renewed search. A large band of searchers turned out, but nothing learned. In the afternoon of 22nd, Mrs Markey returned, saying she had been in the woods, without foodor shelter, and had heard and seen the searchers, but had been in too frightened a state to come out of hiding. On 22nd, Markey's son became violently insane. Smashed furniture, in his home in Blakeney, seriously injured himself, crying out that the whole family had been bewitched, and was sent to the asylum. / But it is said that years before, Markey's first wife had been insane. [C; 978.1 to 978.6. (Dean Forest Mercury, May 26, 1905.)]
1905 May 19 / Derby Mercury of May 31-6-7 / An obscurely told story. That at Blakeney several members of family of George Markey, a laborer, gone insane. His mother disappeared. Constables turned out to search—she returned telling of having seen the searchers, but having been too terrified to go to them.—Then windows smashing by unseen force. / Blakeney (Forest of Dean), Hereford. [C; 979.1, 979.2. (Derby Mercury, May 31, 1905, p. 6 c. 7; not at BNA.)]
1905 May 19 / In Gloucestershire Chronicle, the story is the same. Said that upon May 31, the matter was brought up in the House of Commons, where it is said that if sufficient evidence should be forthcoming against the “witch”, there would be a prosecution. [C; 980. “Alleged Robbery of £50.” Gloucestershire Chronicle, May 13, 1905, p. 7 c. 2. “Strange Sequel to a Robbery at May Hill.” Gloucestershire Chronicle, May 27, 1905, p. 7 c. 3. “Witchcraft in Gloucestershire.” Gloucestershire Chronicle, June 3, 1905, p. 4 c. 4. After failure to find any trace of £50, (taken from a locked drawer at John Markey's residence), during a police search of a suspect's house, a woman “possessed of powers of witchcraft” was employed; and, insanity ensued among members of the Markey family.]
1905 May 19 / Gloucester Journal of June 10—in Journal not cleared up what the phe was, but in 10th, published a letter from the “witch”, Ellen Hayward, that for 30 years she had practiced as a herbalist and a dresser of sores, cuts, and wounds, but had never practiced fortune telling, and did not believe in the powers that the press had said the country people thought she had. She had never been to the Markey's home. One day he called on her and asked her advice about his lost money, but her advice had been in ordinary sympathetic terms, and though he had offered to pay her she had refused payment for such advice. She had not been to May Hill in over 8 years. / In the Journal, May 27, story told, and the members of the family driven frantic or insane by “remarkable and alarming occurrences”, but does not tell what they were. [C; 981.1 to 981.4. “The May Hill Robbery.” Gloucester Journal, May 27, 1905, p. 7 c. 5. “The May Hill Sensation.” Gloucester Journal, June 3, 1905, p. 7 c. 5-6. “The May Hill Sensation.” Gloucester Journal, June 10, 1905, p. 7 c. 1. Ellen Hayward, an herbalist, denied the newspaper accounts of her alleged witchcraft. “A Plea for Witches.” Gloucester Journal, November 22, 1913, p. 3 c. 6. In May of 1906, Ellen Hayward was summoned for “pretended witchcraft” by a farmer complaining that his cows “refused milk” and “strangely unwell” pigs, but his complaint was that Hayward had not removed the charm placed upon his animals by a keeper's wife. The complaint was dismissed.]
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1905 May 19 / News of the World / Nothing. [C; 982.1.]
1905 May 21 / (Rat) / News of the World, 4-6 / “Attracted by the pitiful screams of his 12-months child, Mr. Pennel, of Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, hurried to the baby's cot in the bedroom and found the child covered with blood, while the face and arms bore evidence of teethh marks. Search was made with the result that a large rat was discovered under the bed. It was promptly killed.” / See June 23. [C; 982.2, 982.3. (News of the World, May 21, 1905, p. 4 c. 6.) See: 1905 June 23, (C; 985).]
[1905] / 1893 March 18 / Field of / Mouse biting a man's head. Driven off. Came back 2 or 3 times, ac to a cor. [C; 983. "Mouse Biting a Sleeper." Field, March 18, 1893, p. 411.]
1905 May 24 / At Paddington Station, woman suddenly stabbed in the face by a little French girl, who when asked why so attack a stranger, said she had had some drik. / D. Mail 26-3-2. [C; 986. (London Daily Mail, May 26, 1905, p. 3 c. 2.)]
1905 May 25 / 2 stabbing cases / 3 little boys at play at Farm Pit, Rutherglen, near Glasgow. A man suddenly picked one of them up and stabbed him so that he died later. (D. Mail, 26-5-5) / Same day, boy aged nine, in a park in Glacow, was stabbed but not seriously injured, by an unknown man. / 27-3-7. [C; 987.1, 987.2. (London Daily Mail, May 26, 1905, p. 5 c. 5.) (London Daily Mail, May 27, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.)]
1905 May 26 / Remiremont / See E. Mec 87-436, 507. [C; 988. “Very Remarkable Hailstones.” English Mechanic, 87 (no. 2255; June 12, 1908): 436. “The Miraculous Hailstones of Remiremont.” English Mechanic, 87 (no. 2258; July 3, 1908): 507. (London Times, ca. June-July, 1908.) (Annals of Physical Science, ca. 1908???)]
1905 May 26 / (Wld grl) / D Mail of / “While some men were felling trees near Klostergrab in the immense forests that separate Bohemia from Saxony, they suddenly came upon a young girl of wild appearance, whose skin was dark brown and hairy like that of an animal. Seeing that she could not escape, the strange creature allowed herself to be captured. She is apparently between 13 and 15 years of age and to all questions put to her answers only in unintelligible sounds. The parents of this child are unknown and the residents of the neighborhood are wondering how she managed to survive the rigors of last winter.” [C; 989.1, 989.2, 989.3. (London Daily Mail, May 26, 1905.)]
1905 May 29 / [LT], 6-b / Vesuvius. [VIII; 2291. “Eruption of Vesuvius.” London Times, May 29, 1905, p. 6 c. 2. The Vesuvius volcano.]
1905 June / Revival still on in Wales. Rev Evan Roberts falling prostrate in pulpit—women in congregation falling in faints. [C; 990. (Ref.???)]
1905 June / Fires in Croydon / D Mail, June 24-5-6. [C; 991. (London Daily Mail, June 24, 1905, p. 5 c. 6.)]
1905 June 3-12, etc. / Clouds of smoke and streams of mud from Pelée / La Nat Sup, June 24, 1905. [VIII; 2292. “Informations.” La Nature, 1905 pt. 2, Nouvelles Scientifiques, (no. 1674, supplement; June 24): 13.]
1905 June 3 / Renewed activity Pelee, Martinique / Le Naturaliste 1906-168 / Also June 10-12. [VIII; 2293. (Le Naturaliste, 1906-168.)]
1905 June 9 / Seen at Auckland, New Plymouth, Otaki, Nelson. [VIII; 2294. (Ref.???)]
1905 June 9 / Sunset met train / 45 minutes after sunset / Met train for 20 minutes / Symons Met 40-146 / various places in N. Zealand. [VIII; 2295. Bates, Daniel Cross. “A Strange Spectacle.” Symons's Meteorological Magazine, 40 (September 1905): 146.]
1905 June 9 / Ab. ¾ hour after sunset—met train in New Zealand for 20 minutes like a gigantic “Z”. Symons 40-146 / in the western sky. [VIII; 2296. Bates, Daniel Cross. “A Strange Spectacle.” Symons's Meteorological Magazine, 40 (September 1905): 146.]
1905 June 9 / Roubaux / bolide / N.M. / Bull Soc A. de F., Nov., 1905. [VIII; 2297. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, November, 1905.)]
1905 June 11 / Sep. 7, '71 [VIII; 2298. See: 1871 Sept 7, (IV; 511). Buss, Albert Alfred. "List of 25 exceptional Eruptive Prominences." Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 18 (1907-1908): 326.]
1905 June 11 / Weekly Dispatch / Escaped lioness at Queenstown. [C; 992. “Bored Lioness.” London Weekly Dispatch, June 11, 1905, p. 9 c. 6. A circus lion made a brief escape and was soon recaptured.]
1905 June 11 / Weekly Dispatch of / At Bristol a shop haunted by rushing sounds. People in bed walked on—apparition of a “large man of forbidding appearance”. [C; 993. “Haunted Shop at Bristol.” London Weekly Dispatch, June 11, 1905, p. 9 c. 6.]
1905 June 12 / Pelée very active. / Nature 72-155. [VIII; 2299. “Notes.” Nature, 72 (June 15, 1905): 155-158, at 155.]
1905 June 16 / Brussels / 21 h, 30 m / Bolide. Next day, at Bois-de-Boussy, found a mass of iron supposed to have fallen. / Bull Soc Astro de F, Nov., '05, p. 482. [VIII; 2300. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, November, 1905, p. 482.)]
1905 June 21 / Coinc / Like stabbing cases in May / D Mail 22-5-3 / In San Francisco, a madman named Thomas Lobb barricaded himself in his hotel room and shot from it, seriously wounding 9 persons. At same time a Frenchman named Meley, near St. Etienne, ac to dispatch from Paris, was barricaded in his house, having shot at his neighbors. [C; 994.1, 994.2. (London Daily Mail, June 22, 1905, p. 5 c. 3.)]
1905 June 23 / Baby at Crowe mutilated and bruised—thought dog did it. / D Mail 24-3-7 / See May 21, June 26. [C; 985. (London Daily Mail, June 24, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.) See: 1905 May 21, (C; 982.2 & 982.3), and, 1905 June 26, (C; 984).]
1905 June 24 / Op. Uranus. [VIII; 2301. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac, 1905.)]
1905 June 25 / Three months of moderate activity of sunspots from March, and on June 25 a long faint, dark streak was central. Other spots up to July 15. See. [VIII; 2302. O'Halloran, Rose. “The Sun-Spot Maximum of 1905.” Popular Astronomy, 14 (no. 6; June-July 1906): 368-371, at 369.]
1905 June 26, 28 / Whirls in Essex—one a merger and one not. / Jour Roy Met 31/271. [VIII; 2303. (Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 31-271.)]
1905 June 26 / Sep. 7, '71. [VIII; 2304. See: 1871 Sept 7, (IV; 511). Buss, Albert Alfred. "List of 25 exceptional Eruptive Prominences." Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 18 (1907-1908): 326.]
1905 June 26 / D. Mail of, 3-7 / At Great Yarmouth a 2-month-old baby in its cot attacked by a rat. / See June 23. [C; 984. (London Daily Mail, June 26, 1905, p. 3 c. 7.) See: 1905 June 23, (C; 985).]
1905 June 26 / disap / Mary Rogers / Saranac. [C; 995. (Ref.???)]
1905 June 28 / Parc St Maur / 10-second bolide / Bull Soc A. de F, Nov., 1905. [VIII; 2305. (Bulletin de la Societe Astonomique de France, November, 1905.)]
1905 / end of June / Polt / In Jour Soc P R 12-343—an account of phe in a cottage on the edge of Dartmoor, signed by four witnesses. First night the occupants were roused by the maid, who declared that someone was trying to get into her window. It was 4 a.m. The noises recurred every night at this time, like hammering on an iron bed. The narrator says that according to her own impressions the maid was right and that the hammering was upon the window. Then her mother said that one morning, she saw an enormous bird like a heron, fly over the gate. The narrator says that she saw a magpie fly at the window. Though bothered by the punctuality, the narrator attrib. all to magpies. [C; 996.1, 996.2, 996.3. "Rapping Magpies." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 12 (December 1906): 343-345.]