Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-30

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| tempted to turn their march upon the
| Elysee Palace Deroulede seized General
Roget's bride, crying out, General the
| moment has arrived, 1 summon you to
| march upon the Elysee." He and his fol-
lowers We're promptly arrested, and after
| a long period In prison were finally brought
| to trial and sentenced to terms of imprison-
| ment varying from few months to two
years, Deroulede receiving the latter term
| The death of President Faure caused a
| change in the French ministry, which was
| decidedly favorable to Dreyfus. In fact.
| he probably owes his release from prison
| to the friendly sentiment of the new gov
| eminent
| The Alaskan Boundary Question.
| The question of the boundary between the
| Alaskan possessions of the United States
| and Canada still remains unsettled. The
| joint high commission for the adjustment
of all difficulties between the two countries
| postponed the date of its reassemblng,
| which had been set for August 3 because
| of the failure of the negotiations for an
| agreement respecting the Alaskan boun-
| dairy. The dispute has about narrowed
| down to the question of the locating the
| boundary line around the Lynn canal. Can
| ada is anxious to secure seaport on the
| canal and makes the claim that the line
| crosses this canal while this government
| claims that the canal is an arm of the open
| sea and that consequently the line runs
| around the canal.
As the whole question turns upon the in
| depreciation of the Anglo-Russian treaty of
| 1873, 1t seems probable that the question
VIII ultimately be settled by arbitration
| In the latter part of October Canada Jffer-
ed permanent settlement of the question
| by taking Pyramid Harbor and leaving
Dyea and Skagway to the United States as
| a condition precedent to arbitra ton This
proposition was rejected by this govern
ment Later on modus vivendi vas agreed
upon between the two governments to adj
just current questions pending the perma-
nent settlement, but none of the compro-
misses which might arise under this ar
rangement We're to be considered as estab-
hshlng precedent in settling the main
question finally.
The COlumbia-Sham Races
The most noted event in the world of
sports during the past year were the races
between the yachts Columbia and Sham
rock for the America cup. The races be-
gan October 3, and the first seven trials
resulted in fiukes, owing to light winds part
Oh the time and dense fogs other occa-
sions Firally on October IS the yachts
salled their first race over a straight course
1tteen miles to windward and return In
TINS race the American yacht beat the
challenger from every standpoint. She out
rooted and outpointed her antagonist and
won by good margin of time and distance.
Inc next day the race was over triangu-
lar course, and the Shamrock's topmast
breaking early in the race 1T was awarded
10 the Columbia under the rules The CO.
happened. The third and last race also
over straight course was won by the Co
lumbla. making three straight defeats for
the challenger.
Disasters in 1899.
The past year has been remarkab BILE for a
number of serious disasters. On March II
the Windsor Hotel in New York burned
Thirty-eight bodies were taken from the
ruins, of whom twenty-seven were I'M
identified.
From February II to 13 the severest
snowstorm and hurricane since that of 1888
swept the entire Atlantic coast doing an
immense amount of damage to shipping.
paralyzing railroad and street car traffic in
the cities along the coast.
January collision between two trains
on the Lehigh Valley railroad Bound
Brook, N. j., resulted in the deaths of
eighteen passengers and the injury of
twenty more.
During the first week in March great
damage was done by floods in the Ohio
valley.
On March 30 the steamer Stella, plying
between Southampton, England, and the
Channel Islands, struck on Casquet rock
near the Island of Attorney, and sank in
ten minutes. Seventy persons were
drowned
Fifteen persons lost their lives in two
fires In the fashionable residence part of
New York city April I. The fires de-
stroyed the residences of Wallace c. An
drews and A. ]. Adams. A fire in the bust
ness StcllOT Oh 1ieSeldHu ueSlIoSeu Sl,Vpo,-
900 in property on April ID.
tornado swept through northern Mis-
souri, on April q, doing immense damage
In lives and property in the towns of New
ton and Kirksville. In the former place
fifteen We're killed and fifty families rem
dered homeless. In Kirksville forty-nine
persons persisted and 200 buildings were
wrecked.
Portions of Nebraska and Wisconsin were
swept by a tornado June u and b. In
New Richmond. Wis, seventy-one persons
We're killed and 321 injured Practically the
whole town of Herman. Neb., was de-
stroyed, ten persons being killed and twen-
ty-five injured.
In the early part of July Texas was visit
ed by floods which did an immense amount
of damage to crops and destroyed the lives
of hundreds of people, as well as vast num-
bers of live stock of all kinds. The finan-
cial loss was estimated at 50 100000.
About the middle of July the steamer
Paris of the American line went ashore at
the Manacles, on the English coast. No
lives were lost and the vessel was finally
foated off the rocks and saved.
An explosion on the British torpedo boat
Bullfnch in the Solent killed nine and in
jured four men.
In the latter part of August a crowded
trolley car fell from a high trestle near
Bridgeport, Conn, killing thirty persons
and wounding several more.
On the same day gang plank to an ex-
cursion steamer at Bar Harbor. Ne, broke
under the crowds of people going aboard
and precipitated them into the water.
Twenty were drowned.
Fourteen men were killed and ten injured
by the collapse of the steel arches al the
Coliseum building in Chicago on August IS
The city of Rome experienced severe
earthquake shock on July 10, the first in
several hundred years. Mount Aetna, 300
miles north, broke out in an eruption, due
to the seismic disturbance. The columns
of the Pantheon in Rome were seen to
tremble and few stones of the Coliseum
were disodged
A square mile of the city of Yokohama
Japan, was destroyed by fire August II
The loss was estimated at $4,000 900.
During the week of September 80 land
slides in India killed 800 persons. The bu-
bonic plague broke out at Alexandria,
Egypt.
An earthquake in one of the Molucca
group of islands killed 1000 people on Oc-
tober IA.
The steamer Nutmeg State burned off
Execution light, on the Long Island coast,
and eight persons persisted.
During November a landing stage at a
wharf in Antwerp collapsed. killing fifteen
persons. The cruiser Charleston went
ashore on a coral reef on the north coast
of LuZon and totally wrecked The
crew was saved The HAMBURG merican