The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-31

2o-The theaterphone successfully test
ed in Chicago.
r. w. Wood of the Uni
versary Of Wisconsin thaws frozen
water pipes with electricity.
informally requests of the
United States the removal of Chief
Justice Chambers of Samoa.
2S-The pope. in a letter to Cardinal
Gibbons, condemns 'Americanism"
as a church movement.
senate passes the army reor-
ganizat ton bill with the German
observation-disclosures r. Moiineux
arrested on the charge Of murder
ing by poison Mrs. Adams in New
York.
2s-Borchgrevink's expedition lands on
the Antarctic continent.
1.-The house passes the compromise
army reorganization btll.-Tne
Spanish ministry resign.-Edison
claims to have discovered a meth
cd of hardening steel plates.---The
Chicago & Alton railroad sold to
the Harrison syndicate.-A general
advance of wages takes place in the
iron and steel industries.
2-President Mckinley signs the $780,
100000 Spanish appropriation and
admiral bills.--Italy demands from
China railroad concessions and the
lease of San Nun bay.-General To-
raj arrested in Madrid.
S--Dewey promoted to be admiral Of
the United States navy.--S!1vela be-
comes premier of Spain.-Bailey re-
signs the democratic leadership in
the house of representatives.
Three German lisutenants make the
fastest balloon trip on record. 60
ing from Berlin across the Austrian
frontier at the rate of 6S miles an
hour.
4-Congress adjourns.- peo-
pie killed by gunpowder explosion
at Toulon, France.
6-Prof. Wood of the University of
Wisconsin announces the discovery
of a new method of color pho
Biography.
9-Mrs. Margaret Cody convicted at
Albany of attempting to blackmail
the Jay Gould heirs.
1.-THE last Spanish troops, except the
sick in hospitals evacuate Cuba
The Cuban assembly removes
General Gomez from authority
General James A. Wafer shoots
and mortally wounds <.orney w.
S. Hamilton in a street combat.
13-Representatives of the United
States, Great Britain and Germany
reach. a new agreement concerning
Samoa.
15-American and British cruisers bonn
bard Samoan villages.
16-Four negroes shot dead in jail at
Palmetto, Ga.-Six men killed at
Hot Springs, Ark. in a riot be-
tween political mobs.
1.-THE Hotel Windsor in New York
burns; about so lives lost.
1S-A new satellite of Saturn discov-
cred by Prof Pickering of Harvard
iversity.-Tornadoes kill over a
score of people in Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Arkansas.
20-Martha Place, the New York muir
deress, the first woman to suffer
electrocution.
21-The republican party OF Porto Rico
organized
23-Railroads of the Central states, in
conjunction with the interstate
commerce commission, reach tar
iff greement.-Tanumafil Malietoa
crowned king Of Sa1noa.-A mob in
Little River county, Ark. lyncnes
gang of seven negroes.-Three
colored men lynched near Silver
City, Miss.
24-The American Independent Tele-
phone company organized.
25-The Port Arthur, Tex, ship canal
opened.-Great Britain annexes the
Tonga islands.-Paul and John
Zeltner kill Lawyer Westenhaver in
a court room at Hoytsville, o.; and
also two farmers,cwhile besieged in
their house by citizens; troops
called out; the brothers surrender
next day. .ut
2S-Messages exchanged over the EN-
glish channel by Marconi's system
of wireless biography.
31-The United States, Great Britain
and Germany reach an agreement
for joint high commission to set
tie the Samoa questionable excur-
sion steamer Stella runs upon a
rock in the English channel and
founders; 70 lives lost.
APRIL
lover 400 lives wiped out by a hur-
ricane in Queensland, Australia.
4-The Cuban assembly dissolves and
the native army disbands.-The
Gerlach Antarctic expedition re-
turns to the Patagonian coast after
a successful cruise.-The steamer
Ch:lkat capsizes at Eureka, CAL; 10
people drowned
6-The president appoints commission
ers to represent the United States
at The Hague peace conference.
THE burning of two New York
mansions results in the loss of ID
lives.
s-Yellowstone river foods in Montana
destroy IL lives
1O-seven people killed in a strike riot
at Pana. Ill.
liberalization of the Spanish peace
treaty exchanged and peace formal
ly proclaimed,-Boli revolution
lists led by Pando overthrow The
government.
11-Dr. Nancy Guilford sentenced to il
years in the Connecticut state pris-
on for her connection with the
death of Emma Gill.
15-The Duke Of ARGOS appointed Span
ish minister to Washington.-Twc
ancient statues. one the largest OF
ala baster ever discovered, un
earthed at Karnak, Egypt.
17-Ministerialists win Spanish cleo
tions.
1s-Incendiary fires at Pointe Pitre
Guadalupe island, w. l., wipe on
81 lives and 400 houses, rendering
1000 people homeless.
! Accommodation of the Monroe
head" 500 silver certificates arrest
ed in Philadelphia and Lancaster
Pa; ex-United States District At
torney hewitt also arrested in Phil
| adelphia on the charge Of briber!
in the case.
Ex-senator Quay acquitted of con
sp.racy in the Peoples bank cas-