Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-01-06

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8. Harris, founder Of Children's day
at Camden, N. ].
4 Miscellaneous: Gen. Joseph Totman
once famous as a dwarf, died at Lew.
tston, Me-. at the 6 Of 81. 48 seal
fishers persisted on an ice foe in the
arctic waters.
u. Obituary: James Payn, the English
novelist. in London; aged 6S.
3. Report of the Maine inquiry board
submitted to congress-.
Obituary.: Anton Seidl, the we'll known
musical director, in New York city.
APRIL.
I. Arthur Orion, the Tichborne claimant
died in England.
1 Fire: At Rock Hill, 8. c., IL buildings
burned, causing a loss Of $500. 900.
Convention: American Association Fol
the Advancement Of Science met In
Boston.
4 Disasters: About 30 lives lost by the
breaking Of a levee at Shawneetown,
Ills.
s. Fires: At vicksburg, Miss, the Piazza
Opera House and other property burn.
ed; loss. $125.0 900.
Shipwreck: British ship MARLBOROUGH
lost in midocean; Is sailors drowned.
T. Spanish War: Representatives Of Great
Britain. France. Germany, Russia and
ltaly presented a joint note to the
president.
Obituary: Margaret Mather, the actress,
at Charlestown, w. Va; aged 80.
D. Obituary: Gen. James Ronald Chal-
mers. a noted leader in Forests Con-
federate cavalry corps. at Memphis;
aged 68.
II. Spanish War: The presidents mes
q asking power to intervene in Gu
ba submitted to congress-. Gen. Lea
testified before the nat COMMITTEES
on foreign relations.
II. Fire: At Charlestown, Mass; dust ex-
plosion started flames in a grain ele-
vator; loss 81. 900, 600.
Gen. Joaquin Crespo, ex-president of
Venezuela. killed in battle.
IL. obituary.: Prof. Jules Marcou. IA
nous g%eologist. at Cambridge, Mass.
aged "A. George Parsons Lathrop, au-
thor. in New York city.
Spanish War: The Cuban Intervention
resolutions passed congress: ultima
tum sent to Spain.
20. Spanish War: Senior Bernabe. the
Spanish minister, took his passports
and left Washington for Canada.
Fire: ~spurgeon's tabernacle in London
destroyed.
ford given his passports at Madrid.
SIMPSONS squadron blockaded Cuba.
First marine capture of the war, the
Spanish ship Buena Ventura. in the
gulf of Mexico. 4
Obituary: Gen. e. C. Walthall, noted
ex-~Confederate and U. s. senator from
Mississippi, in Washington; aged 81.
q. Obituary: Richard Smith, prominent
western newspaper man, in Cincinnati:
aged II.
3. Convention: American Society of Re-
ligious Education met in Baltimore.
"A. Spanish War: The president called for
1851 900 troops.
Is. Spanish War;: Declaration by the Unit
ed States that war began April q.
Fire: In Glasgow, st. Andrews Catholic
cathedral destroyed; loss, $4,000 90.
Is. Spanish War: Spanish steamer PAN
anna captured off Havana by the U. 8.
lighthouse tender Mangrove. England
proclaimed neutrality and declared
that the war began April q.
q. Spanish War: At Matanzas Admiral
SIMPSONS vessels bombarded Spanish
forts. Spanish steamer Guido, from
Spain with sinews Of war for Cuba,
captured by the u. s. monitor Terror.
=. Spanish War: Cervera's squadron
sailed westward from the Cape Verde
/ Spanish War: Commodore Dewey, with
the Asiatic fleet, defeated the Span
tards in Manila harbor, Philippine is
lands.
Fire: At Augusta, Ca; loss, 500, 900. by
the burning of an elevator and ware
house.
s. Spanish War: French steamer Lafa-
yette captured by the blockading fleet
of Havana.
6. Convention: Southern Baptist v
ton opened at Norfolk.
8. Hundreds of Italians shot down by the
troops during a bread riot in Milan.
9. Fire: The Films hotel, Excelsior
Springs, Mo-. burned; loss, $500, 600.
II. Fires: At B~allardvale, Mass, stock Of
stored wool valued at $25O,0OO burned.
In Philadelphia 3 1 deaths and property
loss of $225,000 at the burning Of a toy
store.
Ensign Bagley, on the torpedo boat
Winslow at Cardenas. San Juan, Por-
to Rico. bombarded by sampson's war
ships.
Fire: In Chicago a grain elevator and
other property burned; loss. 81, 20O.0 900.
Ii. Spanish War: Cervera's squadron
reached Martinique, i'm the West In
dies.
H. Accident: workmen killed and II
severely injured by the collapse Of
walls in a building in New York city.
shipwreck: IL sailors drowned of the
coast OF Wales by the wreck Of the
British steamer Benholm.
Is Fire: At Muncie, Ind; loss, S2S5. 900.
Obituary: Edouard Remenyi, the noted
violinist. in San Francisco: aged 68.
16. Fire Disaster: At La Providence, Cam
ada. st. Hyacinthe Auxiliary hospital
burned: many lives lost.
II. Accident: In Boston an elevator fell.
killing Z workmen.
Il. Fire: At Attleboro, Mass. the business
section destroyed; loss. over 81, 900, 900.
Cyclone: Illinois. Michigan and Wiscon-
sin visited; 81, deaths.
10. Obituary: Gladstone. at Castle Hawar-
den: aged SO.
q. Obituary: Edward Bellamy, author OF
Looking Backward - Equality" etc..
at Chicopee Falls. Mass: aged 48.
6hipwreck: "a passengers drowned BY
h sinking of the Alaska schooner
Jane Grey of Cape Flattery.
2. Spanish War: Second call for volun-
teers: 5000 asked for.
Shipwreck: British steamer Mecca sank
OF Calcutta; So lives lost.
Sporting: Jeddah o. the English Derby.
y. Spanish War: Largest secret expedi-
ton Of the war landed on Cuban soi)
by the steamer Florida.
q. Obituary: Madeline Vinton Dahlgren.
we'll known writer, widow OF Admiral
John A. Dahlgren, in Washington.
Sporting: Ornament won the Brooklyn
Handicap.
q. Spanish War; Commodore Schley's
feet engaged the forts at Santiago and
one warship In q sharp duel.
Obituary: Baron Lyon Playfair. distin-
tinguished English chemist, political
economist. civil service reformer and
parliamentarian, In London: aged 70.
JUNE.