The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-12
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record of Events that Have Occurred
During the Past Year.

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During the Past Year.
January.
1-Oficers of the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn In.
o-Si1 nersons burned to death at Jersey
3-Thirty persons killed by collapse Of
floor In city hall at London, Ont.
Theodore Durrant hanged for murder at
ST. Quentin prison, California.
sSix men killed by explosion Of an Ohio
River towboat near Glenfeld, Pa. :.
Fifteen men drowned OF Bauduc Dy
foundering Of a French steamer Six
lives lost in a mine explosion near Plus
burg, Kan. Death Of Maj. Moses +.
Handy.
erty destroyed by a tornado at Fort
Smith, Ark.
1e-Death Of Hon Benz. Butterworth, Uni
ted States Commissioner OF fatents, at
Thomasville, Ga.
19-Bread riots at Ancona, Italy.
2O-Fire loss of 100000 at East Grand
22L ,Dsni' se' Of Rev. T. Dewitt ralmage
and Mrs. Col. Collier. Destructive
storm over the West and South.
25-Many persons burned to death In con-
Hagration at Spokane, Wash. 81 800
600 worth Of property at East ST. Louis,
IN. Including Union elevator and Bur
Hngton freight depot, destroyed by fire.
o7-Jannary wheat sells for $1O5 in Chi
cago. Steamer City Of Duluth lost of
St. Joseph, Mich.
2o-Seyeral persons killed In smash-up on
the Maine Central Railway at Orono. !.
Ten men killed by caving In of North
west land tunnel In Chicago.
February.
six lives lost by burning Of the Alvord
House, Gioversville, n. y. Schooner
Briggs wrecked of Little Nahant and
eight lives lost.
2Zs50O. 600 fire loss In Winnipeg, Manitoba
3-Six persons killed in railway collision
near Boston. Fire destroys $225,OOO
worth of property at Scranton, Pa.
4Seven killed in railroad wreck at Glas-
gow Scotland.
6-S5O. 600 Ire at Albany, Ind. :. Holland
American steamer Veendam wrecked In
mid-Ocean.
oAAdolph l.. Leutgert sentenced to life i'm
nrisonment for wife murder In Chi
cago. :. Assassination of President Bar
rios of Guatemala. .$25O,OO fire loss
at Fort Worth, Texas.
O-Thrty-eight lives crushed out by fall
Ing walls at Pittsburg.
11-NaSsau Chambers In New York burned;
loss, $500, 000.. French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 81 lives
lost
17-Fire damp explosion In a colliery at
Hammeerly, Prussia, kills so persons.
100000 fire at Pittsfeld, Mass. Brit
ish steamer Legisla or burned at sea.
1S-Death of Miss Frances f. Willard In
New York City. Large fire at Pitts
burg.
20-New wharf and custom house at Tam
p!co, Mexico. burned; loss, $1,000, 600.
25-National Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville, KY, burned; loss $1,000 600.
26-Nine lives lost In tenement house IRE
at Charleston s. Co. Seven persons
killed at Blue Island, ILL.,, by the coils
Ion of train and an omnibus. Ten
persons killed and five Injured by an
explosion and fire in Hall Bros labora-
tory at Kalamazoo, Mich.
27-Death Of VIM. NJ. Singerly, proprietor OF
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
2-Six men killed by boiler explosion near
S-Nine drowned by the laundering Of the
schooner Speedwell off the Florida coast.
Fire causes $15O.OOO loss in Brownell 4
Field Co.'s building at Providence, r. /.
ippine Islands.
l1-Death of Gen. w. s. Rosecrans.
believer men burned to death In Bowery
Mission, New York.
16-Death Of Aubrey Beardsey, the artist.
Many persons killed In fire st 215
Wabash avenue, Chicago
17-Death Of Blanche K. Bruce, Register of
the Treasury.
1871. convicts killed in mine at Pratt
21-Several persons killed in a hotel fire at
Butte, Mont.
22-Forty lives lost by sinking Of bark
Helen Almy off San Francisco.
25-Death OF James Payn, English novel
LIST. >. Death of Truman P. Handy, of
Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker in United
States. Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged 100000
by fire.
23-Forty- eight sealers Of steamer Green
land persisted on Ice foes.
26-Seven persons burned to death at Kent
MINI.
27-Death Of Congressman simpkins, of
April.
3-Fifty lives lost In food at Shawnee
town, Ill.
Fifteen men killed by explosion Of now.
der near San Vicente, Mexico.
Sudden death of Margaret Mather, the
tragedienne
11-Oxford junction. Iowa, visited by $780,
coo fire.
12-Penn glass works at North Irwin. Pa.
burned; loss. $7oO,OOO.
15-Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt.
Mont, suffers $3.50, 900 FIRE loss.
1I-tire, following a dust explosion, de-
stroys grain elevator at Bosom; loss,
19-Death Of George Parsons Lathrop.
Z1-Postmaster General Gary resigns and Ia
succeeded by Charles Emory Smith
Death OF Senator Walthall, Of Missis-
25-Secretary Of State John Sherman re-
signs.
2e-wm. R. Day appointed to nll the va
cancy Glasgow. Scotland, visited by
$7bO,O00 fire.. -. Powder mill at Santa
Cruz, Cal, blown up, causing loss OF
eleven lives
2S-Atlantic Powder Co.'S works at Dover,
y: j., wrecked by an explosion.
30-Heavy damage done by tornadoes In
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
May.
2Thirteen persons killed BY tornado 1t
Jerico, Mo.
s-Schooner Crown wrecked OF st. Johns,
N. E-,and-11 men drowned
@6S$125, 600 fire loss at Cleveland.
Three hundred persons killed In 4 riot
at Milan, Italy.
8EDuluth, MIMI, suffers 500, 600 ire
11-Wool warehouse burns at BallardviIle.