The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-21
HAPPENINGS OF 1899.
SUMMARY OF A YEARS I'M.
PORTANT EVENTS.

War in Philippine Islands and South
Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political
Difficulties in Samoa, Death and De.
struction by Fire, Wind and Flood.
| Many causes have combined to make
| The year 1899 rather remarkable one
Its opening was signalized by SPANS
surrender of the last vestige of her soy
sreignty in the western hemisphere; its
progress brought forth the declaration OF
war between England and the Transvaal
Republic, and its close leaves these ma
lions still engaged in a bloody contest,
that may result in important political
changes in South Africa. During the
rear the fighting between the natives
ana United States troops in the Philip
>ines has continued and the war is yet on
Other events, aside from warfare, that
aave occupied public attention to great
| .r or less extent have been: Signing OF
The treaty of peace with Spain; settle
| nent Of difficulties in the Samoan Isl
lnds; trial, conviction and pardon of Cap
| lain Alfred Dreyfus in France; numer-
|
ives and much property; tornadoes that
.aused disaster and death at Kirksville,
Mo-. in April, and at New Richmond,
Wis. in June; several fatal shipwrecks;
ieaths Of prominent men, among them
President Felix Faure of France, Garret
A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United
States, and Robert G. Ingersoll; great
street car strike at Cleveland and labor
siOts at Pana and Carterville, III.
A brief chronological transcript Of the
rear's events is given below:
January.
1-Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba,
Train held up and robbed at MacOmb,
MO-. Peace treaty with Spain introduced
In the Senate
eFourteen persons killed and forty eight
injured In collision near Dunellen, N. J.
va0,EMcCoy defeated by Sharkey, in New
l3-F1re at Memphis, Tenn, destroys
wholesale dry goods house Of ]. s. Menkin
Y Co., and causes $500, loss. :. Death of
Congressman Dingley of Maine.
14-British bark Andelina sinks at Tacoma
with her entire crew Of nineteen men.
1I,Death Of John Russell Young, librarian
,f Congress.
consul at ApIa, Samoa, elected from Su-
Preme Court Building by American and
British cOnsuls,
20-Bank at Arthur, ILL.,, robbed Of $1,000.
N,Earthqueke shakes Peloponnesan pen
.nsula of Greece. :. Massacre of Spanish Of
dcers by natives ut Balabac, In the Philip
pines.
25-0ne hundred thousand dollars damage
lone by fire ut Johnstown, Pa. :. ,Adelina
Patti and Baron Cederstrom married at Bre-
con, Wales.
28-Ex-Attorney General A. H, Garland
lies suddenly In Washington. Court mar
Hal finds Gen. Chas. p. Eagan guilty under
Two charges.
20-COld wave over the West; 13 degrees
below zero ut Chicago,
30-Two hundred thousand dollar lumber
Tard fire In Chicago.
1-seven persons perish In snowslide in
rogers Pass, b. c.
2-$7oO. 600 fire in Columbus. Ohio, In which
many are injured. . Burning Of the Buck
ngham Theater, Louisville, Ky.
S-SSOO,O 900 fire at Philadelphia.
+-Battle between FillpinOs and Americans
1t Manila. Mrs. BOtkin receives life SEN
tence for murder. :. James A. Sexton, Com
hander-in-chief G. A. r., dies In Washing
ton.
6--Last detachment of Spanish army leaves
Cuba. Death Of Gen. Count Won Caprivi,
former Chancellor German Empire. Peace
treaty ratified by United States Senate.
S-Manitoba Hotel at Winnipeg burns; loss
s4OO, 900. Eleven business houses burn In
Prairie du Chien, WIS.
9-Twenty-one degrees below zero at Chi
sago; coldest day in twenty-six years.
k6OO, 600 fire In Front street, New York. -.
Five business houses ut HerIngton, Kan,
burn.
1O-Exploslon In Baxter Stove Works,
Mansfield, Ohio. causes a 100000 fire. -. :.
Kelly Block In Cleveland burns; loss $780,
200. 100000 fire In Toronto, Ont. -.
american troops capture Caloocan.
11-TrOOps under Gen. Miller take lioilo
In nh hfnh
FilipinOs are driven back.
12-Twenty-four Italian miners and fami
lies perish in snowsllde at Silver Plume,
Colo. .McClurgs book store In Chicago
women burned to death at Yankton, 8. d.
-. Report of War Investigating Board
made public In Washington. Great fires
In New York City and Albany. N. Y.
Blizzard In the East and South.
14-$50O.0O0 fire in manufacturing district
Of Cincinnati. Burning Of manufacturers
warehouse In Chicago; loss 100000.
burned.
16-Death Of NJ. Felix Faure, President of
France.
1s-Emle Loubet chosen President of
France. Riots In Paris.
20-Fire causes $5OO, 900 loss at Port Wash
22-City of Manila Ared by FYlipInos.
March.
death Of Lord Herschell In Washing
ton. :. .Sagasta ministry resigns at Madrid.
3-George Dewey made an Admiral by
President Mckinley.
4-COngress adtourns.
5-Storm destroys life and property In
East Tennessee. New ministry takes Of
aee at Madrid. Terrific powder explosion
at La Goubran, France. kills sixty persons.
Washington pastorate. Battle between
Americans and Canadians on Porcupine
River. b. c.
11-Gen. Maxine Gomez deposed from
command by Cuban Assembly.
13-Pasig captured by American troops. "
Understanding reached on Samoan affairs
-. Herbert Putnam. Of Boston. appointed
librarian.
Ga. Death of Editor Joseph Medill. =.
Five killed In street riot at Hot Springs,
Ark. Election riot In st. Louis results in
death Of two men,. b. p. Hutchinson.
wheat operator, dies at Lake Geneva, Wis
17-Peace treaty signed by the Queen Re-
gent of Spain. Windsor Hotel burns in
New York. with great loss Of life.
1S-Fatal riot In Havana.
20-Mrs. Martha Place electrocuted at
Sing Sing.
2I-2+Race war In Little River County,
Ark, where many negroes are lynched.
23-Malietoa Tanus crowned King of Sa-
moa.
25-OpenIng of ship canal at Port Arthur
Texas.
N-Burning Of Armour's felt works In Chi
cago.
29-American and British warships bonn
bard native towns In Samoa. .. Sinking of
the steamer Rowena Lee In the Mississippi
below Charlottesville, Mo.
30-One hundred and twenty lives lost by
shipwreck Of passenger steamer Stella In the
English channel.
S1-Fall Of Malolos. D.. $500, 900 fire in San
Francisco.
April.
ELEVEN lives lost In burning of Wallace
Andrews residence In New York.
9-Death of Justice 8. ]. Field, retired. -.
Seventeen lives lost by breaking of an Ice
gorge on Yellowstone River at Glendive,
Montana.
1O-Seven persons killed In riot at Pana,
Illinois.
11-Exchange Of peace treaties with Spain
ends the state Of war. Greek coaster Ma
ria sunk of Tripoli with loss Of forty five
lives.
14Twenty-three Crow Indians drowned
N floods near Sheridan, WyO.
15-Great fire In Cleveland; loss almost
3, 600 900.
iS-Fishing schooner Eliza lost OF Nan
.ucket, with eleven Of her crew.
24-Death of eX-Gov. X. ]. Oglesby of ILL
lois. :. Thirty persons drowned In wreck of
British ship Loeb Sloy on Kangaroo Island.
2e-Dawson City, Alaska, almost wiped