Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-01


plosion in colliery at Hamme,
Prussia, kills nearly 100 men. A
cotton mill strike against reduc-
ton of wages begins al New Bed
ford and other New England
towns
of the English engineers
strike accept employers terms.
General McKenna con-
tirmed by the Senate as associate
justice of the Supreme court.
pa total eclipse of the sun observed
in India by American astrono-
mers. John W. Grigg5 nominated
Attorney General.
26-The Interstate coal convention at
Chicago adjourns after settling all
points in favor OF miners. The
second monetary convention at
Indianapolis approves it's commits
sions plan.
2S-The Teller concurrent resolution,
asserting the Governments right
to pay bond in silver, passes the
Senate.
Teller resolution defeated in
the House
FEBRUARY.
1-Thirty-six lives lost in a wind and
snow storm on the Massachusetts
coast.
"a decree forbidding importation of
American fresh meats issued by
the Prussian Minister of finance.
Cashier Quinlan, OF the Chemical
National bank, New York, resigns,
having loaned $393,000 on collat-
eral supposed to be worthless.
3-The United States and Japan con-
cludes a memorandum on the sub
ject of Hawaii. The National
Biscuit Company organized.
1.-The United States legation at ST.
Petersburg raised to an embassy.
New York Central directors author
ize the issue of $1,000 900 bonds
for the purchase of Lake Shore
railroad stock.
5A government relief expedition
sails from Portland, Ore, for Dyea,
Alaska; afterward recalled.
S-Three thousand New York trous-
ers makers strike.
"a storage warehouse fire at Pitts
burg ends in the loss of S1,650, 900
and is lives-President Kruger, of
the Transvaal Republic, reelected.
Luetgart, the Chicago wife murder
er, convicted. President Barrios
of Guatemala, assassinated.
10-Drs. Lubbock and Elfstrom, of
New York, announce the discovery
of an anti-toxin cure for pneu-
monia.
12-The American Flag Association or
ganized.
15-Leaders of Democratic, Silver Re-
publican and Peoples parties in
Congress issue a manifesto urg-
ing fusion in Congressional cleo
tons.
1.-the French steamer Flachet wreck
ed off the Canary islands; 81 people
drowned.
Eastern division of the Kan
sas Pacific railroad sold under fore
closure to the reorganization COM
mittee.
l9-The House passes the bankruptcy
bill. The Hargrave faction Sc
cedes from the American Theo-
sophical Society.
21-Zola convicted in Paris of con-
tempt of court because of his crit
icisms of the conduct of the Drey-
fus case.
22-Frazer b. Baker, colored postmas-
ter at Lake City, S. c., killed, sew
eral of his family wounded and
his house burned by a mob. The
British steamship Asia wrecked off
Nantucket; Is people drowned.
24-The life of King George of Greece
attempted. The Hall Chemical
Works at Kalamazoo, Mich, burn
ed; ten lives lost.
MARCH.
2-Rebellion breaks out in Venezuela
5-The Rock Island railroad mort
gagged for s10O,OO0,000
6-The Imperial University and 5000
other buildings burn in Toxic,
Japan. Cavalotti, poet, MORALLY
wounded in duel with Macola,
Deputy, in Rome.
S-PrOf. James Z. Keller, the Pitts
burg astronomer, elected Director
of Lick Observatory, California.
9-Sheriff Martin and deputies, partic-
ipate as peace officers in the Lat
timer, Pa, riot, acquitted of muir
der.
1.-THE Kentucky elections bill be-
comes a law over the Governors
veto.
l3-The Bowery mission lodging house
in New York burns; eleven lives
lost.
l4-Zoar community in Ohio dissolves.
l5-A Bessemer pig iron pool formed.
l6-Fifteen lives lost in the burning
of a Chicago business block.
elections won by the gov
eminent. A mine explosion at
Bolmez, Spain, destroys about 100
lives
l9-The British-Chitral war in North
ern India ended. The bark Helen
W. Amy, bound for Alaska, foun-
ders off Point Bonita, Cal; 40 peo-
pie drowned.
21-Ten lives lost in the burning OF the
Hall House in Butte, Mont.
seal hunters perish on
an ice foe of Bay de Verde. n. F.
A receiver ship suit brought
against the Guarantors' Finance
Company. Philadelphia.
24-The battleships Kentucky and
Kearsage launched China leases
two ports to Russia
25-The Peoples Bank. PHILADELPHIA.
closes its doors after the suicide of
Cashier Hopkins
27-Ministerialists win the Spanish