Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30

FennsyIVanla railroad, at Phlladelphla; aged
SO.
the Cuban people,
z Obituary: Henry L. Clinton, noted criminal
lawyer, in New York city; aged 80 Angus
tin DAILY, American theater manager, in Lon
don; aged 81. Margaret Ann Cusack, the
''Nun OF Kenmare," in London. Gen. W. s.
Walker, noted Mexican and Confederate vet.
eran, at Atlanta.
Fire: At Augusta, Ga. loss $25O,000.
g. Flood: High water mark reached in the Colo
RADIO river, Texas; % drowned.
O. Sporting: Jeffries defeated Fitzsimmons for
the worlds championship at Coney Island
TO- The yacht Columbia, built to defend the
Americas cup, launched at Bristol R. /.
Obituary: Capt. Henry NichoI Of the u s.
monitor Monadnock, at Manila
IL. Fire: In the Armstrong Whitworth Ordnance
Co.'s works at Newcastle-on-Tyne; loss ST.
100000
Sporting: Perth won the Grand Prix de Paris.
Filipino War: Hardest battle to date at Las
Pinas between Gen. Lawton's division and
the insurgents.
Obituary; The Rev. DR.. william Garden Blake,
D. D., Ii. D., noted Scotch theologian, at
North Berwick, Scotland aged 70.
IL. Cyclone In the northwestern states; hun
dreds killed and wounded at New Richmond,
Wis.,. and Herman, Neb.
Duke of Abruzzi's north pole expedition sailed
W.
II. General celebration of Flag day.
Obituary: DR.. Lawson TAFT, pioneer in surgery,
at London; aged 81.
10. Obituary: Prof. Locke Richardson, the Amer
lean elocutionist, in Berlin. Rear Admiral
Pierce Crosby, U. S. NJ, retired, in Wash
ington; aged rs. Congressman Richard Parks
!, Bland, silver champion, at Lebanon, Mo-.
aged "a.
49, Explosion: II miners killed at the Caledonia
mine, North Sidney c. B.
Criminal: George B. Barrow, principal in the
Marion Clark abduction case sentenced to IA
years and 10 months, and Carrie Jones, the
nurse, to years.
IT, Sporting: Imp won the Suburban at Sleeps
head Bay
Is. Fire: At Greensboro, N. c., the Benbow
House burned loss, 100000.
q. Fire: At Kirkwood, Ca, Gen. John B. Cor
don's home, the historic Sutherland, burned.
q. Obituary: John Godfrey Moore, prominent
banker and exchange broker, in New York
city; aged 81. Henry B. Plant, founder of
the Plant system, in New York city; aged 80.
"a. Fire: At LAUREL Del; loss, $780,
Obituary: Kapiolani widow of King Kalakaua,
at Honolulu; aged 65.
%. Shipwreck: Steamer Margaret OlwiIl, founder
ed off Lorain, Lake Erie; 9 seamen lost
20: Obituary: Daniel F. Tieman, oldest Of the
surviving ex-mayors of New York city, at
Audubon Park; aged "a.
sporting: Harvard won three victories over
Yale at New London.
30. Obituary: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte South
WORTH the novelist, in Washington; aged 80.
Sporting: Charles Murphy, Brooklyn cyclist,
rode the fastest mile record, paced by q
railway engine
JULY.
l. Fires. In Brooklyn 10000 cotton bales burned
In storage. Bar Harbor, the Kehoe Valley
clubhouse, golf and social resort, burned.
Obituary: Charles Victor Cherbuliez, French
academician, novelist and critic, in Paris;
aged 70.
2. Fire: At Summit, N. j., property in the heart
of the town valued at $15O,0O0 destroyed.
Obituary: Gen. H. G. Wright, U. s. A.. retired,
in Washington; aged 49,
8. Dreyfus returned to France.
4. Fires In Memphis the famous Gayoso hstel
and other property burned; loss, $450,00 At
Paris, Tenn, 20 buildings burned; loss, $175,-
900.
S. Convention: Annual Christian Endeavor gath
ering at Detroit.
Obituary: Bishop John P. Newman, noted
Methodist divine and the friend of Grant, at
Saratoga; aged 10.
6. Fires: At Coulterville, Cal, the town de- !
stroyed; loss $25OO00. At Ludington, Mich,
100000 loss by the burning of railroad ele- |
vator.
Filipino War: 10 regiments of u S. volunteers
ordered to be raised for the army in the ,
Philippines.
Personal: Mary Wright Sewall of Indianapolis
elected president of the International Council
of Women at London.
Obituary: Robert Bonner, founder and proprie-
tor of the New York Ledger, in New York
city; aged 75.
Z. Obituary: George W. Julian, noted western
statesman, at lryington, Ind; aged 50.
O. Obituary: The Grand Duke George, brother of
the car and heir to the throne, at st. Peters
burg; aged 81. Judge Walbridge A. Field,
eminent Massachusetts, jurist and chief justice
in Boston; aged 81.
g. Fire: 81, 900 worth of uniforms and food
supplies destroyed at the Brooklyn navy yard
T. Fires: Mount Vernon, Ind; $4,000 loss.
North Bend, Ind, the Addystone foundry
burned; loss, 100000.
8. Obituary: Col. A. L. Hawkins, 10th Pennsyl-
Vania volunteers, on the way home from the
Philippines to San Francisco. Horatio G.
Alger famous author of boys stories, at
Natick, Mass. aged IS.
9. Earthquake: Severe shock at Rome; Mount
Etna in eruption.
Personal: Gen. Alger rendered his resignation
as secretary of war.
Obituary: Elizabeth Thompson, noted philan-
thropist, at Littleton, N. H.. aged 7s.
D. PERSONAL President Mckinley accepted the
resignation of Secretary Alger, to take effect
Aug. l.
OBITUARY: ii. h. Ihurber, the retired New
York millionaire merchant, at HALEY, Ia;
aged 70.
|. Accident: killed and injured by explosion
on British torpedo boat destroyer at Lon
don.
Obituary: Robert G. Ingersoll, at Doobs Ferry,
N. Y; aged 66.
;. Personal: Elihu Root of New York appointed
secretary of war
}. Fire: At Toledo; loss of $1,0O0,000 by the
burning of a wheat elevator.
!. Obituary: The Rev. DR.. Thomas j. Sawyer,
noted Universalist writer and educator, in
Boston; aged 90.
J. Obituary: Gideon ]. Tucker, an old time poll
tician and journalist, founder of the New
York Daily News, in New York city; aged 70.
+ Gen. Ulises Heureaux, president OF Santo Do
mingo, assassinated. rr~-s
l. Obituary: Guzman Blanco, president OF
Venezuela, in Paris.
l. Accident: killed and 20 injured in a land
] slide on the Erie at Lackawaxen N Y.
!. Storm: The wheat section around Hamilton,
N. D., damaged to the amount of $250,0OO by
hail.
Obituary: Kate Chase Sprague, daughter Of
Salmon P. Chase, a noted Washington belle in
wartime, in Washington; aged SO. Daniel G.
Brinton, noted ethnologist and physician, at
Atlantic City; aged 80.
AUGUST.
!. Obituary: George Averof, noted Greek phi.
lanthropist, at Alexandria, Egypt; aged TO-
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