Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30

the burning OF salmon cannery. At Hack
ettstown, N. j., the Hackettstown seminary
burned; loss, 100000
NOVEMBER.
l. shipwreck: OFF Cape Roman, S. c., schooner
William NJ. Bird lost and sailors drowned.
T. Fires: In Kansas City Jones department
store and the St.. James hotel burned; loss
100000. At Waukegan, Ills, the plant of the
American Steel and Wire company damaged
to the extent Of 100000
Sporting Harvard scored 10 to Pennsylvania 0
at the Cambridge football contest
s. Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops cap
tured Magalang after sharp fighting.
g. Filipino War: Gen. Wheaton's division landed
at San Fabian, on Lngayen gulf, under the
enemy's fire.
Poitical First autonomous government in the
Philippines installed at Bacoor, island Of
Negroes by the u S. governor general.
T. Shipwreck: The U. S. cruiser Charleston lost
off the northwest coast of Luzon.
g. Fire: A $250,0O0 blaze at Memphis.
South African War: Severe fighting at Lady
smith.
Personal: Admiral George Dewey married to
Mrs Mildred Hazen at Washington
II. Sporting: Princeton scored IL to Carlisle In
dams in football contest at New York.
At Easton Lafayette scored to Cornell 5.
Indian Troubles: 9 Nayajoes and l white killed
in a battle between Indians and settlers near
Walton Station, A. 7.
IL. Fire: At Montreal; loss, $500,000
Venezuelan War: Puerto Cabello surrendered to
Gen. Castro after battle in which $50 were
killed and wounded.
Filipino War Sharp fight at San Jacinto; Ma
jor John A. Logan killed at the head of his
battalion
ID. Obituary: Col. Henry Inman veteran of the
regular army and the civil war; author of
the cold Santa Fe Trail,'' at Topeka: aged g.
IA. Obituary: DR.. Moritz Busch, biographer of
Bismarck, at Leipsc aged IS.
16. War In Colombia Conclusion of two days
battle at Bucarananga in which 1000 rebels
were killed and 1000 wounded
II. Fire: The Hamburg American liner Patria
abandoned to- the flames in the North sea.
Obituary: Col. Lawrence Kip, veteran of the
civil war and noted turfman, in New York;
city; aged So.
Is. Sporting: The Yale-Harvard annual football
game ended in draw at Cambridge.
10. Accident killed and seriously injured in
wreck the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis and Omaha railroad at Humboldt S. D.
South African War: Beers repulsed by the Brit
ish at Estcourt q
Obituary: Sir William Dawson, noted Canadian
educator and geologist. at Montreal; aged So.
20 Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops enter
ed Dagupan, the northern terminus of the
Manila railway.
Personal: Emperor William arrived at Windsor
castle, the guest of Queen Victoria.
81. Obituary: Garrett A. Hobart. vice president of
the United States, at Paterson, N. j.: aged So.
%. Accident: killed in end collision be-
tween limited passenger and a freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio near McCool, Ind.
%. Obituary: Prof Miaskowski. an authority on
political economy and international law in
the University of Leipsic, at Leipsic; aged 81.
Fire: The Hustled elevator burned at Buffalo;
loss about $1500O0.
South African War: Battle at Belmont, south of
Kimberley; British loss, 22O.
The Sudan: Gen. Wingate, with an Egyptian
force, defeated the dervishes near Dreifssa, Oh
the line of the Nile, killing 400. including
the khalifa.
"a. Fire: At Detroit; loss, $3.50, 900.
rs. South African War: Battle at Gras Pan Hills,
north OF Belmont. lasting four hours. Gen.
Methuens column lost heavily.
Sporting: Princeton defeated Yale at football at
New Haven; score, Princeton H. Yale TO-
Obituary: Rev. Robert Lowry. author of several
very popular hymns, at Plainfeld, n j.; aged
49,
26 South African War: Great Britain formally
notified the powers of the state of war re-
sulting from Boer invasion of British terri =
tory.
Filipino War: Gen. Hughes captured Passi, in
lloilo, driving the insurgents to the noun
tains.
Wallace Ross, once ranked as the greatest oars
n. Obituary: Charles Coghlan, the actor, at
Galveston; aged IS.
Is. South African War: ten hours battle at
Modder rivers British loss, AS, including
Gen. Methuen, wounded. Maj. Scott Turner
led a sortie from Kimberley and was killed,
with % of his men. Casualties to date on the
British side Also.
Obituary. Countess of Castiglone, noted beauty
of the second empire and charmer of Napoleon
III, in Paris
Financial Troubles: Harper & Bros publishing
house turned to the agent of its cred
itors, with liabilities of S. 900.
%. Fires: In Philadelphia Lippincott's publish
ing house and a department store and other
concerns burned out; loss, 100000.
New Athens CO., Franklin college destroyed.
Accident: killed and 20 injured in wreck on
the D., L. and W. at Paterson, NJ.
o. Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cornell % to
0 at Philadelphia. The Carlisle Indians scor-
ed is to Columbia in the Thanksgiving foot
ball game in New York
DECEMBER.
e. Sporting: West Point scored II to Annapolis
5 at Philadelphia
Obituary: John Inslee Blair, multimillionaire
and coal and railroad magnate, at Blairstown,
N. j.. aged 81
8. Fire: At Clinton, Mass; loss, $150,000, by the
burning of theater.
Storms: First wintry weather of the season;
snow in the northwest.
{. Political Opening of the 56th congress.
Filipino War: Gen. Young's column reached
Tagudin, which 600 Filipinos abandoned on
his approach.
Accident: passengers killed and 8 seriously in
jured in rear end collision on the Denver
and Rio Grande near Salida, Colo.
The Molineux murder trial opened in New York
). Political: The presidents message read in
both houses
Fire: At Meridian, Miss; loss, $3.50, 900.
Obituary: Monroe Leland Hayward, U. S. SEN
ator elect from Nebraska, at Nebraska City;
aged SO.
Filipino War: 200 Americans repulsed 500 Fill
pinos at Vigan.
Shipwreck: 16 persons wounded by the wreck
of the Niagara off Long Point, Lake Erie.
;. Disasters: In the burning of a hosiery factory
at Reading, Pa, operatives were killed and
so injured At Sunneytown Pa workmen /,
were killed by the blowing up of a powder
mill.
South African War: BoeF raiders cut the railway
and telegraph at Gras Pan, in rear of Gen.
Methuens column.
Obituary; Gen. Henry Hayes Lockwood a reg
ular army and civil veteran, in Wash
ington; aged IS. James P Reed, once cham
pion checker player of the world, at Pitts
burg
South African War: Boer guns DESTROYED
and / captured by British sortie at Lady
smith.
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