Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-02

i and North Carofna, covering 400 so. m. on i fire from end to end.
 Sep 2g-In Washington. power house of Central Traction 4e.. on, Ca; 2;, $l ,0oo GOO: 2 business buildings: $500.000
 Oct 27-In St. Louis. building containing Wabash railway offices; S500,Q0O,
 Dec I2-In Philadelphia. wholesale and retail salesrooms of carpet manufacturing firm of John ( Jas. Dobson.
 Dec 23-In Cleveland. block in business Dec 25EIn Chicago. Coliseum building: s5o0,ooo -z-zz--zzzz-zz-.
 FOREIGN.
 Feb 7-Mussulmans in Crete massacre l 500 Christians.
 Greek var ship fires on Turkish vessel conveying troops thither and governor of Crete takes refuge on Russian man-of-war.
 Feb 19-Dr. Richard Ruiz, naturaliZed American citizen, beaten to death by his l jailors ill Cuban cell. .Spantards kill 500 l insurgents in battle on Philippine islands.
 Apr 12-Greek troops attack Turks simul- l taneousiy from 9 different points, S9sa1e- l ing some distance into Turkish territory. Apr 10-Turkey declares war against 1 Greece; Greeks have captured Turkish po- sftions from Nezeros to Kontra. l Apr 20@Greeks after desperate battle eap- 1 ture and barn Damasi and repulse Turks at Apr a@Gfeek troops after a stand at Matt forced to retreat from both Larissa l and Tyrahavos.
 May 4-fn Paris 159 persons perish as re- suit of fire in q crowded charity bazar. May 6-Pharsalos taken by Turks, Greek l troops retreating to Dokomos.
 May 7-Felestino occupied by Turkish 1 army.
 May 9-Greeee asks the mediation of the 1 powers to bring war to close.
 May 15-Tufkey demands eessien Of Thes- l sally and 900 indemnity before com plying with demands of powers for an 1 heun to Cuba reports that accounts Of starvation and misery forwarded by con- suar officers had not been exaggerated. Inn l4-RaFnpE RaFnaf0 S9Hfh= 1 friaa diamond king, commits suicide by jump ing from steamer off western coast of Mo- rocco.
 Jun 2o-Queen vietoria's diamond jubi- lee celebration opens with q private service 1 in St. Georges chapel, Windsor castle, at tended by queen and members of royal | family.
 Jun Magnificent naval display par 1 tieipated in by all maritime nations with 1 ls9 fighting ships in line. closes queens 1 jubilee. Mrs. Margaret o. Oiiphant. fa- nous novelist dies in London; aged 70. Jul 21-Sultan signs trade sanetfoning set tlement of frontier question according to 1 demands of powers.
 Jul 29aTreatg signed by Guatamala. 1 Costa Riea. Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador to take effect Sep 15, union named l Republic Of Central America ,... Cuban insurgents attack outposts of Havana and l sweep through it's suburbs. l Aug 8-Ganovas del Castillo premier of 1 Spain, assasstnated at Santa Agueda. by i Michele Angiollf.
 Aug 15-Gen, Martinez Campos appointed 1 president of new Spanish cabinet 1 Aug N-British. French and Prussian min- fsters to Greece agree Greece cannot pay in- i aemnity exceeding 93.600 000. .Indiafs out posts on Afghan frontier captured by the Afridis and 300 Sepoys mastered l Sep Ambassadors of powers reach an l agreement in peace negotiations. provid- ing for an international commission to 1 and evacuation of Thessaly. 1 Sep 17-Armulfo Arroyo attempts to as- sassinate Pres. Diaz in City of Mexico and
 Sep 19-Treaty of peace between Turkey and Greece signed.
 Oct 2Isagasta liberal leader. intrusted by | queen regent of Spain to form new cabinet.
 Oct 6-In Philippine islands 400 Europeans and 6.0o8 natives perish in typhoon.
 Oct 8Spanish cabinet decides on recall 1 of Gen. Weyler and appointment of Mar | shai Blanco as governor-generaI of Cuba Oct 22-Correspondence in regard to bi- metallic proposals of United States moue- | tary commission issued by British foreign office; England rejects all offers to enter
 Oct 271Duchess of Teck, cousin of Queen l Victoria. dies in Richmond. Eng. aged 64.
 Noy l9-Ffre in London destroyed 150 Nov 26-Hayana advices say no American 1 citizen is now confined in prison in Cuba c..,l Royal decree ls granting autonomy to government refuses autonomy declaring 1 for absolute independence. Nov SocRussia adopts gold standard. Kiao-Chau, China.
 Dec 7-Hayti, in the face of Germany's 1 uiSItdy OI 1OTtet makes satisfactory r. 1 arrangement to settle indemnity demanded 1 for alleged imprisonment of German sub l ject and salutes German flag. Cuban in- surgents capture town of Guisa; SG0 Span i iards slain in battle.
 Dec u-Haytian ministry resigns.
 Dec I5-Gen. Sangutlly. Cuban leader, 1 reported to have deserted to the Spaniards
 Dec 16-Sagasta, Spanish premier, an- l nounces complete paeifieation in Philippine ifstands, .AIphonse Daudet. novelist. died
 Dec 1S-Cubans put to death Col. Ruiz. sent to induce Aranguren, an insurgent 1 leader. to surrender. Dec 22-China grants Russia permission | to winter a squadron at Port Arthur. Dec 2o-Cuban insurgents reported to be burning cane fields within 10 miles of HaY-
 Dec 24-spanIsh squadron q gunboats and tugs) forced from mouth of Canto river 1 by insurgents,
 Dec 27-Raiders from Koordestana mas ] sacred S00 inhabitants of a Persian Chris l tan town near Salinas Two commissions 1 tonGmy hanged In Pinar del Rio province Russia occupies Kin-Chau, China
 INDUSTRIAL.
 Feb 11-IlIinofs Steel Co s works al South l Chicago start full blast giving work to :, Q00
 May 22-Strike of American flint glass 1 workers union, inaugurated in Pittsburgh 1 yrs ago, declared off; had cost union over 1 S1,6o5.G90
 l ence at Youngstown, O., of Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and l manufacturers, all union mills closed; E, 000 men rendered idle.
 Jul 5-Great wage struggle inaugurated 1 by United Mine Workers of America by a l general strike of coal miners in Pittsburgh l (Pa.) district
 Jul S-United Mine Workers headquar- ters al Columbus, O.. report l25,C00 miners l out
 Jul 27-Algonquin Woolen Mills Go. of 1 Passaic. N. J., notified employees Of wage l increase of from 10 to b per cent. Jul 2S-Coal operators of Pittsburgh dis 1 trict adopted true uniformity agreement.
 Jul 31-Wiliiam Cummings, leader Of non union miners at Scottdale, Pa, killed in quarrel with union men.
 Aug 4-Judge Jackson (federal court at Parkersburg, ". Va.) en1oins E. V. Debs 1 and associates tresspassing on property of l Monongah Coke 6 Coal Co.,. or melting it's l employees to strike.
 1 Aug 1S-Prelfminary injunction issued al l Pittsburgh, Pa, against marching of strik- 1 CTS or interference with N. Y. & Cleveland Gas Coal Co.'S miners made permanent
 Aug 21-Nine men seriously Injured in riot among strikers at Unity mines near Pitts 1 burgh.
 Aug 26-Employers concede increase of 25 l per cent. Tn wages to New York tailors, l and strike declared off Aug 25-In New York city, 12000 cloak makers strike for higher wages.
 Aug 31-I1abor leaders in conference at 1 St. Louis adopt resolutions scoring govern ment by injunction, favoring public owner 1 ship of railways and telegraphs, and right 1 of people to bear arms | Sen 4-In 10 weeks of min arSi strftxa rsl