Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-01-05
GENERAL CHRONOLOGY.
Record Of Events that Fave Occurred
During the Past Year,
j a n II airy.

January.
l-OHcers o. the Cubao provisional gov
ernnent sworn in.
SIX persons burned 20 death az JERSEY
City. y. J.
Thirty persons k!I;et By collapse Of
7-Th~otore Durrant hanged foT murder a.
*. Quentin prison. California.
SIX rn-n killed By explosion u an Onto
River towboat near G!eatie.d. Pa
Fifteen men drowned off Barduc by
laundering If a French steamer. Six
lives Jos. In q mine explosion near Pitts
burg. Kan. Death Of MAJ. Moses p.
l2-For,y ives aad s1.ooo.0co worth Of prop
er:y destroyed b. tornado at Fort
Smith. Ark.
le-Death Of Hon. Bent. Butterwo-th. Ual-
ted states Commissioner Of Patents, at
brownsville, Ga.
1a-Bread r!o,s at Ancona. Italy.
2o-Fire loss Of $4,000 At East Grand
% N4rrlsse i Rev. 7. Dewi;; Talaaass
storm over the West AID South.
oJ-Mauy persons burned to ds-ath In con-
facrat.on a. Spokane, Wash. $1,000,
COO worth Of prop.r,y AZ East s.. Louis,
H.. Including Union elevator and Bur
li1gton freight del'or. DESTROYED BY fra
27-January wheat sells fcr $ln5 In Chi;
ca:o. steamer city Of Duluth lost IF
ST Joseph Mich.
The Maine Central Railway g, Orono. ..
Ten men Killed By cavIn- In Of North
vest land tuune, in Chicago.
February.
SIX lives lost hy burning Of the Alrord
House, Glove-syi!e, y. Y. Schooner
Briggs wrecked off Little Nahant and
et,ht lives lost.
2-S5l-u. % fire loss In winnipeg, Manitoba.
SIX persons killed In railway collision
near Boston. Fire destroys S225,oOO
worth Of property At Scranton, Pa.
4-Seven killed In railroad wreck 4; Glas-
gov. Scotland.
G-S50 900 fire at Albany, Ind. %. Holland
American steamer Eeeadan wrecked In
prtso;aent for wife murder IN CHI
caco....As- Ssinatlon u rres!den; Bar
rios Of GuI' eiullG.. .S2J1,OuD fire l. IS
at Fort Worth, Texas.
l0-Th.rty eight l!Yes crush-l out b. fall
liz walls at Plttsbury
11-Nassau Chambers Ia Nev York burned:
loss, 100000. French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 5. lives
FIRE damp explosion IN a coliery at
Hammeerly. Prussia. kills 30 persons, &C..
s1OJ,OQo fire n Pittsaeld. Miss. BRIT
1S-Dea'h Of Mss Frances L. Willard In
New York City. Large fire at Pitts
burg.
2o-New wharf and custom house at TAM
25-National Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville. Ky. burned: loss, 100000
2e-Nine lives lost In tenement house fire
killed at Blue Island. H., by the tolis'
ion Of # train and an omnibus. Ten
persons killed and five injured ny an
explosion sd fire In Han Bros. labora-
tory aUkalamaZoo, Mich
27-Death Of VIM. NJ. Slngerly, proprietor Of
the Philadelphia Record.
2-S.x men killed By boiler explosion near
Brewtoa. Ala.
3-Nine drowned BY the laundering Of the
Schooner speedwel off the Florida coast.
Fire causes $4,000 loss In Browuell !:
Field Co.'S building at Providence, H. l.
-. .s5.(11,ooo fire loss at Manila, Phil
!ppine Islands.
!l-Death Of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans.
l3-Eleven men burned to death In Bowery
Mission, New York
1G-Death Of Aubrey Beardsley, the artist.
-. Many persons killed in fire at 2l5
Waba 81 avenue. Chicago.
11-Death Of Blanche X. Bruce Register Of
the Treasury.
l9-Six convicts killed In a mine at Pratt
City, Ala.
21-Severa; persons killed In a hotel FIRE at
22-Eorty lives lost by sinking of bark
Helen Almy off san Francisco
2t-peath Of James Payn. English novel
st. Death Of Truman p. Handy, Of
l
states. Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged 500, 600
by Ere.
23-Forty-eight sealers of steamer Green
land persisted on tee foes
2e-Seven persons burned to death at Kent,
MINI.
T-Death Of Congressman simpkina of
Massachusetts
April.
3-Fffty lives lost in food at Shawnee
town, III.
4-Flfteen men killed by explosion Of DOW
der near San Vicente, Mexico.
1-sudden death Of Margaret Mather the
tragedienne.
1l-oxford Junction, Iowa. visited by $780,
600 fire. ~
12-Penn glass works at North Irwin, Pa.
burned; ,oss, $4,000.
15-Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt.
Mont, suffers $3.50, 900 fire loss
1I-Ftre, following a dust explosion. de-
e. stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss.
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10-Death Of George Parsons Lathrop.
Zl-fostmaster General Gary resigns and Is
succeeded by Charles Emory smith.
Death Of Senator Walthall, Of Mlssis
slppi.
25-secretary Of State John sherman re-
signs.
26-Wm. R. Day appointed to fill the va
cancy. Glasgow, Scotland, visited by
S150,OoO fire.. Powder mill ar Santa
Cruz, Cal, blown up, causing loss Of
eleven lives
2s-Atlantic Powder Co.'S works at Dover
\. j., wrecked by an explosion.
30-Heavy damage done by tornadoes IN
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
May.
2-Thirteen persons killed by tornado at
Jerico, Mo.
SSchooner Crown wrecked Off st. Johns
\. F., and II men drowned
6-S125,000 fire loss at Cleveland.
't.rds. hun
at Milan, Italy. ''0'
s-Dnluth, MINI, suffers 100000 fire.