St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-12-28
THE YEARS MISCELLANY.
Record of Happenings at Home and
Abroad.

hecOru OF happenings at Home ana
Abroad.
JANUARY.
5. DR.. Zaccharn. physician to Car
Alexander III. died in Moscow.
China and Germany agreed on terms for
cession to the latter of Kiao-Chau.
Is. John Laird. the English shipbuilder
who turned out the Confederate cruis-
er Alabama died in London.
FEBRUARY.
1. William j. Fitzpatrick, starter,
known in the States and In Canada,
died at Saratoga.
6. President Barrios of the republic Of
Guatemala assassinated.
MARCH
s. China agreed to lease Port Arthur and
Talien-Wan to Russia for 80 years.
@. 4S Newfoundland seal fishers persisted
on an ice foe.
APRIL.
1. Arthur orion, the notorious Itch
borne claimant. died in England
II. Gen. Joaquin Crespo. ex-president Of
Venezuela, killed in battle.
%. William Sexton. former champion bill
lizard player of the world. died In New
York city at the age of A.
MAY.
8. Bread riot at Milan; hundreds Of peo-
pie shot down by the troops.
"a. Great Britain occupied WeiHai-Wei.
China.
8. Ernest T. Hooley. London stock spec
ulator. declared a bankrupt on his
own petition.
Is. Collapse of Letters wheat deal.
JULY.
g. DR.. Cornelius Herr, leading figure
in the Panama scandal In France.
died In London.
q. Hooley. the bankrupt London specu-
lator, implicated several noblemen in
his questionable stock transactions.
AUGUST.
20. Admiral SIMPSONS fleet paraded in
New York harbor.
%. Malietoa king of Samoa. died at Apia.
q. The car published a manifesto invit-
ing an international conference to con-
slider general disarmament.
SEPTEMBER.
& British and Egyptian troops under
Gen. Sir Henry Kitchener annihilated
the army of dervlshes at Omdurman,
near Khartum 1000 dervishes killed
and 10000 wounded.
TO- Empress Elizabeth of Austria killed
81. A monument to Samuel de Champain.
the French explorer. unveiled at Que
bec
o. Abdication of the emperor of China In
favor of the dowager empress
26. The ashes of Columbus exhumed at
Havana by the Spaniards
OCTOBER.
g. Maj Wilkinson and several soldiers
killed in an Indian outbreak near Bear
Island. MINI.
Z. G0,000 workmen In Paris went on a
strike.
10. In strikers riot at Virden, Ills, IL
men were killed and 25 wounded
o. IA negroes and white man killed in a
race riot near Harperville. Miss
25 Political crisis in France; government
defeated In the Dreyfus case. and the
ministry resigned.
20. Revision of the Dreyfus case granted
by the court Of cessation in Paris.
81 Helen Faucit Qady MARTINI, the cele-
brated retired English actress. died In
London.
NOVEMBER.
l. Spanish war steamer Maria Teresa, re-
covered by Hobson. abandoned by her
crew Off the Bahamas.
6. Alvary, the Wagnerian tenor, died.
10. Race riot In Wilmington. N. c.;
deaths.
49, Ethel Marlowe, a talented young &C.
tress. died on the stage Of the Knlcker-
booker theater. New York city.
DECEMBER
s. Riot and disorder In the Patriotic
league. the most violent antl-Dreyfus
organization In Paris.
III. NJ H. Fourier. noted French diplo.
matlst died in Paris,
II. Riot and bloodshed In Havana, Cuban
and Spanish officers participating
IA. Antonio e. Terry. Cuban capitalist,
died In Paris.
II. "Old Sleuth" (H. p. Halsey). noted
dime novelist died in Brooklyn at the
age of 81.