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

sgns.-The Belgian chamber
deputies rejects the motion for re
vision of the constitution.
SEPTEMBER.
IA Japanese typhoon destroys 5000
lives.
3-During an earthquake in Alaska a
tidal wave is swallowed up by a \
chasm.
: 6-The g. A. r. pensions committee
reports to the national encampment
criticising rules followed in the adj
ministration of the pension Office
The National Naval Veterans asso-
citation splits over the proposition
The American Banking associa-
ton takes the Initial step toward
establishing bankers institute on
the London plan.-Union glass
workers Of New Jersey win their
strike-The Victoria (Australia)
legislative council rejects the wo-
man suffrage bill.
First electrograph made In Wash
ington by Prof. Elmer Gates.-TnA
Astronomical and Astro-P Physical
Society of America organized at
Yerkes observatory:
8-The Association OF Spanish War
Veterans organized.
9-Dreyfus found guilty and sentenced
to 10 years imprisonment.-A Nor
wegian cutter captain claims to
have found buoy marked and left
by Andree, the polar aeronaut.-
Prof. Campbell at Lick observatory
discovers that the North star Is
triple system.
1.-THE Hatfield fort" near William
son, w. Va, captured, with three
of the outlaw family.
12-Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa
sends his resignation to President
Mckinley.
13-The civic Federations conference
on trusts assemblies in Chicago
Thirty-two people killed during a
fir panic in synagogue at ka-
lisch, Russian Poland.
14-The national export exposition
in Philadelphia opens.-The will OF
Judge Prendergast of Chicago pro-
vides for the founding of rest
cure home for nervous and insom-
mia inyalids.
16-Elias Hatfield convicted at Will
hanson, w. Va, of second degree
murder.
17-Eigtt negroes killed in mine riot
at Gainesville, III.
1S-The French senate begins the trial
of % politicians on charges OF con-
spiracy against the government.
19-Dreyfus pardoned.
Ex-Governor Savers antitrust CONFER
ence assemblies in st. Louis.--Guer"
in, the besieged Partisan agitator,
Observation-Disclosures of the Nlch-
olas II. range of mountains in Abys-
sinia by a Russian expedition an
nounced. Over 1000 New River, W.
Va, miners strike for higher wages.
An earthquake in Asia Minor de-
stroys two villages, 1000 houses and
1000 lives.-Cashier Hilbert Of the
Palatine, ILL.,, bank mortally wound
ed by Walton Lawton. who was sus-
pected of intention to rob the bank;
the cuIprit fatally hurt and farm
ir,i7 in
sons wounded during an anti-Semlt-
ic riot in Algiers.
21-The steamship Scotsman strikes
rock and founders in the straits OF
Belle Isle; IL women drowned;
wrecked passengers robbed by the
crew.
differentiation Of the Tripler Liquid
Air company completed in New
York.-Adam Kessler, miser. his
hired man, his housekeeper and a
child murdered and the house rob-
bed and burned at Kessler's Curve,
Md.
ga maniac in the Kankakee, ILL.,, asy-
lum cured by goat lymph.
24-Earthquake. flood and Landslide
near Darjeeling. India, destroy 340
lives.-A pro-Boer meeting in Ira
falgar square, London, turned into
an enthusiastic war demonstration.
25-Admiral Dewey, on the Olympia, ar
rives in New York bay.-The United
States and Havana Cigar company
incorporated.
27-The Young Peoples Christian Tenn
perance union organizes in Chicago.
2s-Caracas invested by Venezuelan IN
slrgents-The steamer Montoya
burns in Magdalena river, Colom-
bia; 80 lives lost
e9-The, celebration Of Deweys return
begins in New York with a naval
parade; land parade next day-A
furry in the New Orleans cotton
market, caused by false London re-
ports, reaches it's elimination.
2o-Captain Carter, U. ~. A, sentenced
to five years Imprisonment and
fined $1,000 for malfeasance in Of
fice-Count Clary becomes premier
of Austria.
OCTOBER.
Lieutenant Guise and his German
expedition massacred by rebellious
natives near Old Calabar river,
Southwest Africa.-Fifty lives lost
in theater fire in Canton, China.
3-The Transvaal government takes
possession of a treasure train en-
route from Johannesburg to Cape
Town,-The court of arbitration de-
cision on the Venezuela boundary a
compromise. The international
geographical congress takes steps to
organize Se1SmolOSlcal society anu
a seismic research commissi OH.
r. Miller, ex-lieutenant governor OF
Idaho, shoots dead Chief Engineer
O'Melveney of the Oregon Short
Line at Salt Lake, Utah.
4-General Greeley ascends In Siegs-
fields kite balloon in Paris.--Admir-
al Schley installed as commander
of the Loyal Legion.
l0-The Transvaal government presents
an ultimatum to Great Britain de-
manding withdrawal of troops from
the border.
11-Orange Free State burghers invade
Natal, beginning the South African
war.-About 1900 people killed by
an earthquake on German island,
East Indies.
| 12-The international commercial con-
gress opens in Philadelphia.
| liking Oscar signs the separate Nor
| wegian flag bill under protest.--A
British armored train south OF
Mafeking wrecked by Beers, Is sol
| diers killed; first bloodshd of the
| war-One wouldbe robber killed,
! another wounded and captured and
! 51tI ia af