The Dickinson press., 1898-12-31

| ODilUOTy: lnOn1aS r. Bayard, StGtesn1an
and diplomat. at Dedham, Mass; aged
70. Obituary: Louise. queen Of Denmark,
Mt Copenhagen: aged 81.
". Sporting: Tod Sloane. a noted Ameri-
can Jockey. won out Of events at
the Newmarket races.
Personal: Col. John Hay was sworn into
office as secretary Of state.
OCTOBER.
!. Spanish War: First joint conference
Of the American and Spanish peace
Cyclone: South Carolina and Georgia
| coasts devastated and over 100 lives
lost; Brunswick. Ca, inundated
Obituary: Caroline Miskel Hoyt, the
actress. in New York city; aged Is.
T. Fire: At Clarksville. Tenn: over
$500,000 loss by the burning of ware
houses and other buildings.
Indian Troubles: Maj. Wilkinson. U. $.
| A.. and several soldiers killed near
Bear Island. Minn.. by Pilager Indians.
Convention: National meeting of the
| Protestant Episcopal church in the
g. Obituary: Rev. Dr. Cunningham Geike.
| noted as Bible commentator, in Lon
don; aged "a.
T. Obituary: Blanche Willis Howard
| (von TeuffeD. American author, in
Munich. ES-Mayor A. Oakley Hail of
| IL
Foreign: Strike Of $4,000 workmen in
Paris.
g. Fire: At Atlantic City; block of build
ings destroyed, causing a loss of $780,
900.
L. Personal: Tho emperor and empress
| OF Germany set out on their journey
| to Palestine.
Strikers Riot: At Virden. Ills. II men
killed and 25 wounded in the trouble
over imported negro labor
| t3. Fire: AT Macon; loss, $125O0O
A. shfpwreck: The Mohegan of the At
iantic Transport line wrecked on the
Cornish coast. off Falmouth: out of
capped.
ls Obituary: e. J. Henly. the actor. at
Lake Placide.
Fire: In Dawson City; 40 buildings
burned; loss 100000.
u. Accident: On the Great Central rail-
| way of England; killed and 13 in
jured Mt Barnet Junction.
I8. Spanish War: Military occupatio of
Porto Rico completed by the raising
OF the United States flag over the pub
Tic buildings at San Juan: peace jubi-
lee opened in Chicago.
ID. Obituary: Harold Frederic, American
journalist and novelist, in London:
| aged AZ.
%. Fire: At Dallas: loss. s50O.OOO by the
| burning Of the establishment Of the
Texas Drug Co.
r. Accident: On the Rock Island rail-
| road near Fort Worth. Tex; 8 deaths.
Race Riot: IA negroes and white kill
ed IN conflict near Harperville, Miss.
". Personal: Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt.
| U. 8. A., married in London to Miss
Laura Williams.
Spanish War: Porto Rico evacuated.
and the last Spanish troops sailed for
| Spain.
| Fire. Tn South D,oa,,,,,- a
loss Of 100000 by the destruction of
city blocks, with docks, wharfs and
vessels
6. Philadelphia peace jubilee opened.
! obltuaryi Chavannes. noted French
| painter, In Paris; aged 70.
folittca!: &. Cabinet crisis in France; de-
Feat OF the government in the Dreyfus
case and resignation Of the ministry.
3 shiDwreck: On Lake Michigan the
steamer L. F. Doty went down with
crew of 16 men,
q. shipwreck: On Lake Ontario the
| schooner st. Peters was lost and
persons drowned.
obituary: Silas sadler Packard, edu-
Gator. founder of Packard's college, in
New York city: aged 72.
o. Obituary: Williams Kingsford, ILL., D..
F. r. s.. noted as one Of Canada's
great historians. in Ottawa; aged 70.
Col George e. Waring. the sanitary
expert. in New York city; aged 66,
| Foreign: Court Of cessation at Paris
granted q revision Of the Dreyfus case,
O. Nine. Carnot, widow of President Car
| not. who was assassinated in 1894, died !
| in Paris.
I. Helen Fauoit (Lady Martin), a noted
| don. !
NOVEMBER,
]. Shipwreck: The captive warship Ma ,
| r@a Teresa found unseaworthy and
abandoned off the Bahamas.
4 Obituary: Jerome Hopkins, musical
composer. in Philadelphia: aged CO. !,
I Accidents: Is workmen killed by the
| falling Of the roof in the New Won
derland theater at Detroit. Collision !
between the cage and q train of coal
ears crushed miners to death in the {
Exeter shaft at Scranton.
l. Obituary: David A. Wells, the econ
omist, at Norwich. Conn.
| z. Political: Cuban assembly organized
at Santa Cruz del Sur.
.. Fires: At Sacramento the railway
shops OF the Southern Pacific burned ;
loss, $780, 600. 40 buildings burned in
Pitkin, Colo; loss. 100000,
Political: Theodore Roosevelt elected
governor Of New York.
| Obituary: Max Alvary, German tenor;
aged 40
CQnvention: General assembly knights
of Labor met in Chicago.
10. Riot: deaths in a race war between
negroes and whites at Wilmington,
N. c.
II, Firea; Explosion at the burning of a
store at Hanover Corners. Mass, kill
ed men and injured several.
Conventions: The w. c. T. e. national
body began Its annual session at ST.
Paul.
u. Obituary: Virginia Dreher the actress.
at Phenix, A. T. Clara Fisher Mae
der. one of the old school players Of
the American stage. 1T Mctuchen. N. J..
Sporting: The Yalo-Princeton annual
football game won by Princeton at
Princeton; score, 6 to 0.
! Personal: Earl OF Mimic took the oath
as governor general OF Canada.
| ". COLLATION.: On the Grand Trunk rail-
road near Murray Hill. Canada: IL
persons killed.
| Bartlett, former president Of Dart
/ mouth college. at Hanover NJ H. !:
aged 81.
| Ethel Marlowo died while performing
| on the stage of the Knickerbocker
theater in New York city.
II. Obituary: Dr. Stephen II. Tying. once
prominent Episcopal divine and later
president Of the American chamber of
commerce In Paris; aged 50.
Shipwreck: The British ship Atalanta
wrecked off the Oregon coast; rs sea-
men drowned.
Convention: The National Firemans as
ISOLATION began its annual session in
Chicago.
L. Herman Heinrich Meier. founder of
the North German Lloyd Steamship
company. died In Bremen; aged 80
John Erast WorreI Keeiy, inventor of
Tho motor, died in Philadelphia: aged
81.
lo Sporting: Yale defeated by Harvard in
the annual football game at New Ha-
ven; score. II to o.
Fir4i Starin's shipyards at West
Brighton. N. Y. partly destroyed: loss.
$400,0OO
Obituary: Gen. Don Carlos Buell., not
ed Federal leader Of the western army,
near Rockfort, KY; aged 80
a. Obituary: Sir John Fowler noted civil
engineer. in London.
Fire: Perry. Ia: the business section
partly destroyed: loss, $3.50, 900.
q, Storms: Blizzard and extreme cold i
the northwest.
spanish War: The American peace COM
missioners announced that the United
States demand a treaty Of cession Of
the entire Philippine archipelago upon
Q payment to Spain of $20.OO0,OOO.
q. Fire: In San Francisco, the famous
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