The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-01-12

4 Obituary. David A. Wells the eco
omist, at Norwich. Conn.
Z. Political: Cuban assembly organized
at Santa Cruz del Bur.
Fires At Sacramento the railway
shops OF the Southern Pacific burned:
loss, 500. 900. 40 buildings burned In
Pitkin, Colo; loss. 500 900.
Political: Theodore Roosevelt elected
governor OF New York.
Obituary: Max Alvary. German tenor:
aged 10.
Convention. General assembly Knights
OF Labor met In Chicago.
10. Riot: 8 deaths in a race war between
negroes and whites at Wilmington.
N. c.
IL Fires: Explosion at the burning OF
store at Hanover Corners. Mass. kill
ed 4 men and injured several
Convention: The w. c. t. u. national
body began its annual session at st.
Paul
IL Obituary: Virginia Dreher. the actress
at Phenix. A. T. Clara Fisher Mae
der. one of the old school players OF
the American stage. at Metuchen, N. J.
Sporting: The Yale-Princeton annual
football game won by Princeton at
Princeton; score to 0.
Personal: Earl Of Minto took the oath
as governor general OF Canada.
Is. Collision: On the Grand Trunk rail-
road near Murray Hill. Canada; II
persons killed
16. Obituary: Rev. DR.. Samuel Colcord
Bartlett, former president OF Dart
mouth college. at Hanover. N. H.;
aged 81.
Ethel Marlowe died while performing
on the stage of the Knickerbocker
theater In New York city.
II. Obituary: DR.. Stephen H. Tying, once
prominent Episcopal divine and later
president of the American chamber OF
commerce in Paris; aged So.
~
wrecked OFF the Oregon coast; 25 sea-
men drowned.
Convention: The National Fireman's as
sociation began Its annual session in
Chicago.
49, Herman Heinrich Meier founder of
the North German Lloyd Steamship
company died In Bremen; aged S9
John Ernst Worrell Keely, inventor OF
the motor. died In Philadelphia: aged
g.
70. Sporting: Yale defeated by Harvard In
the annual football game at New Ha-
ven: score. IT to 0.
Fire: Starln's shipyards at West
Brighton. N. Y. partly destroyed; loss.
si00. 200.
Obituary: Gen. Don Carlos Buell.. a not
ed Federal leader of the western army.
near Rockfort, Ky. aged so.
70. Obituary: Sir John Fowler. noted civil
engineer. in London.
FIRE. ferry, Ia, tne DuSlneSB beCtlOTl
| partly destroyed; loss, $3.50, 900.
n Storms Blizzard and extreme cold in
the northwest.
| Spanish War: The American peace COM
| missioners announced that the United
States demand a treaty OF cession OF
the entire Philippine archipelago upon
payment to Spain OF $40, .000
q. Fire: In San Francisco, the, famous
Baldwin hotel destroyed; 10 deaths
| financial loss about 81. 100000.
Obituary: j. K. Hamilton Wilcox. noted
as an agitator of female suffrage. ir
New York city; aged Sc.
| Explosion: At the Hercules Powder
works. near Ashburn. Mo-; deaths.
a. Sporting: At Franklin field. Phlladel
phia. Pennsylvania defeated Cornell a
football scoring IL to g.
Shipwreck: on Beachy head. England
steamer Fitzjames foundered; 10 sail
ors drowned
s. Obituary: Gen. Andrew T. McReyn
olds, veteran OF the Mexican and civi
wars at Muskegon. Mich: aged 81.
Spanish War: First American garrison
for Havana. led by Gen Francis Vim
ton Greene. landed at Mariana wharf.
q. Storms: Blizzard OF wind and snow
on the middle Atlantic and New Eng
land coast: southern France and north
ern Italy also storm swept.
Obituary: Charles w. Couldock the old
est actor on the American stage. II
New York city; aged 49, Prof. Georg
James Altman. well known biologist
in London; aged 86. Mrs. Hugh Reginal,
Haweis noted English advocate o
woman's rights. in London.
Shipwreck: 56 vessels wrecked on th
New England coast; about 70 seamsl
lost, exclusive of the crew of tn
Portland of the Portland Packet line
which went down on her trip from
Boston to Portland with 161 souls.
2S. Disaster: The great hall of a new col
lege near Turin collapsed, carrying
down the whole assembly; many kill
ed and injured. among them bishops
Spanish War: The Spanish commission
ers delivered their reply to the Ameri
can demand of Nov. 21. surrenderin
the Philippines for s20.000.000.
Explosion: IL employees killed and In
Jured by the explosion of ammunitio
at Havana.
Fires: In Kansas City. Keith's furntur
house burned: loss. S240. 900. The Frank
lin Stamp mill ut Hancock. Mich. de
stroycd: loss. s150.000
80. Spanish War: Ramon Blanco, ex-car
tain general of Cuba. sailed from Ha
vana for Spain.
Shipwreck: Steamer Ainsworth wrecke
near Balfour. B. c.. 9 persons drown
ed.
DECEMBER.
1. Fire: Normal university near Lincolr
Neb.. burned; loss, 100000.
g. Explosion: men killed by the burst
Ing of a feed pipe on the Texa
steamer Alamo in New York harbor.
Obituary: Mary Jane Parker Champney
formerly well known actress at tn
Edwin Forrest home, Philadelphia
aged 68.
4. Storms: Fiercest gale OF the year O
the Atlantic coast.
Fires: Home Life building. one of Ne'
York's ''skyscrapers," damaged b
fire. which caused loss of 81, ,000. .0V
At Eufaula. I. T.. business porto
burned. causing loss of $4,000.
, 5. Political: Last session of the Fifty
fifth congress opened.
6. Convention: Farmers National cor
! gress opened at Fort Worth, Tex.
Fire: Weyauwega. Wis. destroyed b
fire; loss. s450.000.
{ Z. Fires: A s125. 900 fire at Danbury. Com
Obituary: Maj p. McElrath. new
paper man once associated with Ho
ace Greeley. in New York city: aged 6
! 9. 3 killed and injured in an explosio
at the Dupont Powder works. WI
mington, Del.
8 10. Spanish War: Treaty of peace signe
at Paris. First u. s. troops marche
q through the streets of Havana.
4 Sporting: Miller won the six day bicyc
race at Madison Square Garden.
8 Obituary: William Black, the novels
8 in London; aged 81.
H. Obituary: Gen. Caiixto Garcia. I'll
: Cuban general and commissioner
n the United States; aged 50.
Miscellaneous: Gen. John r. Brooke,
;, s. A. appointed military governor
s Cuba Riot and bloodshed anon
Spanish and Cuban officers I'm Hayan