Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-01-06
well. 8. c.; aged g. c. H. Byrne,
noted baseball expert. in New York

II. Tornado: 81 lives lost at Fort Smith.
Obituary: Mary Cowden Clarke. autho,
OF Shakespeare Concordance. in Genoa
aged 50.
IA. Obituary: Rev. c. L. Dodgson (Lewi,
CARROLL. author of "Alice In Wonder
land" in London; aged So,
IL. Obituary: Rt. Hon. e. p. Villiers, "Fa
Their of the House of Commons" VIII,
sat continuously from 1885, in London
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth. U. 8
commissioner Of patents. at Thomas
Vile. Ca: aged rs. Gen. C. C. Augur
veteran Of the Mexican and civil wars
In Washington; aged n.
IL. Obituary: Ella Bassett Washington
great-grandniece of George Washing.
ton. in New York city.
l9. Fire: 30 buildings burned at Ransburg
Cal; loss. 500, zoo.
Obituary: Very Rev. Henry George Lid.
dell, noted English clergyman and
Greek photographer, in London: aged
81.
Y. Foreign: Chamber Of deputies in Paris
dispersed by a riot growing out Of the
Dreyfus case.
q. Miscellaneous: Capt. Thomas F. Hines,
q noted ex-Confederate. called the
'brains of Morgan's cavalry corps
died at Frankfort, Ky. Cuban filibus-
Barnegat; 4 men lost.
"A. Battleship Maine ordered to Havana.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. Michael j. Cramer,
brother-in-law Of Gen. Grant, at Car
Isle, Pa; aged 63.
Is. Fires: Union elevator, filled with grain.
burned in a st. Louis; loss. $780,
OW. 8 lives sacrificed n property
loss of $225. 900 at the burning of the
Great Eastern block, Spokane, Wash.
Conventions: National Stock Growers
convention began at Denver. Sd IN
nual convention of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers of the United
States began in New York city.
John Laird. the English shipbuilder
who turned out the Confederate cruis-
err Alabama. died in London.
q. Gen. A~ranguren, the Cuban leader,
killed by the Spaniards..
30. Admira Daniel Lawrence Braine, U.
s. NJ, retired. died in Brooklyn; aged
GO.
FEBRUARY.
l. Fires: L. s. Rubber Co., at Nauga-
tuck, Conn.,, burned out; loss. 500, O00.
In the burning Of the Alvord House,
Gloversville. N. Y, 6 persons persisted.
Shipwreck: Channel Queen, mail steam
ship. wrecked of the Isle of Wight; q
lives lost.
Storms: Billiards in New England, the
west and Canada.
Z. The Mcintyre block burned at Winui-
peg; loss. $500. 900.
3. Y. M. c. A. building burned at Scran-
ton. Pa: loss, $3.50, 600.
s. 6 firemen killed by the collapse of q
burning building in Boston.
q. Fires: Highland Park hotel burned at
Aiken. s. c.; loss. $4,000. Loss Of
$780, 600 by flames In Savannah; the Re.
man Catholic cathedral burned.
T. The famous De LONE letter made pub
lie.
q. Miscellaneous: George Lord. the old
est Mason in the world, died at San
Bernardino. CAL. at the g Of 81.
President Barrios of the republic Of
Guatemala assassinated.
Convention: South and west CONNER
cial congress met at Tampa, Fla.
8. Fire: At Fort Worth, Tex; loss, $780,
600.
Accident: 20 people killed in a panic in
a synagogue at Idziencioi, Russia.
Convention: Annual assembly L. A. W.
held at St. Louis.
10. Fire: II deaths and property loss of
$1,500.000 by the burning of a storage
enc n other buildings in
Pittsburg.
Obituary.: Rev. DR.. William A. Hitch
cock. we'll known Episcopal divine. In
New York city; aged 81.
II. Fire: Polo Club building and Atalanta
casino. burned in New York city.
"A. Spanish Troubles: Senior Polo y Ber-
nabe appointed Spanish minister to the
United States to succeed De LONE.
Conventions: 18th annual convention OF
the National American Woman Suf-
frage association opened in Washing
ton.
IS. The u. s. battleship Maine wrecked
by explosion in Havana harbor; 266 Of
the officers and crew lost their lives.
16. Ship Disasters: In the burning of the
British steamer Legislator at sea 8
sailors lost. French steame Flacahat
wrecked off Canary islands: 81 lives
lost.
10. Obituary: Frances E. Willard. the well
known temperance advocate. in New
York city: aged So.
Conventions: Woman's national press
congress met in Washington.
q. Shipwreck: 10 sailors drowned at the
wrecking Of the British ship Asia of
Nantucket.
q. Convention: Continental congress
Daughters Of American Revolution
met in Washington.
q. Conviction in Paris of lola on charge
of libel in Dreyfus case; sentence, /
years Imprisonment n a fine Of 5000
francs.
Is. Fire: American Tobacco Co. of Louis
Vile burned out; loss, $4,000
26. Fire: In a night fire at Charleston, 8.
c., 9 lives were lost.
Accident: An omnibus in Chicago COL
lided with a Grand Trunk train: s
passengers killed.
q. Obituary: Gen. W. B. Taliaferro, an
ex-Confederate and Mexican war vet
eran. in Gloucester county, Va: aged
76. William N. Singerly, the Philadel-
phia capitalist and editor. in that city;
aged 66.
q. Explosion: At the Kalamazoo Chem
ical works: 10 lives lost.
Obituary: John Thomas Scharf, histor-
zeal writer. who served in h Confed-
crate army. in New York city; aged 81.
MARCH.
/. Obituary: Prof. William A. Rodgers
of Colby university, noted astronomer:
aged 66.
:. shipwreck: 9 drowned by the capsizing
Of the schooner Speedwell neal Key
West.
I. Col. Henry wounded by Col. Picquart
in a duel growing out Of the lola trial
in Paris.
Foreign: China agreed to lease Port
Arthur and Talien Wan to Russia for
80 years.
{ Obituary: Hugh J. Jewett, a railway
%flnancier and manager, In Augusta,
Ca: aged 81.
Cavellotte, a popular italian poet, killed
by the editor Of the Gaxetta di vene-
Ella in q sword duel.
Z. Obituary: Gen. Nelson B. sweitzer. U.
8. A., retired, in Washington: aged q.
g.. Fire: At Providence; loss. $50. 900.
8. Spanish Troubles: Bill appropr1atina
$50, 10000 o for the national defense be-
came a law.
10. Obituary: George Muller. English phi.
lanthropist. In London; aged 81. Gen.