Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-05

1S Obituary. Miss Winnie Davis daugh-
ter of jefferson Davis, at Narragan-
sett Pier. Capt. Allyn Capron. whose
battery shelled the Spaniards out of
their blockhouses at El Caney, at
Fort Myer. Va.
- The 18th annual session of the SOW
ereign grand lodge l. o. o. r. opened
In Boston
90 Explosion: In the Union elevator at To-
1odo: missing and Killed; loss, $780,
dQO.
q. A monument to Samuel de Champlaln,
the French explorer, unveiled at QUE
q. Personal: Abdcation of the emperor
of China in favor of the dowager
empress.
a. Explosion: In mine at Brownsville
Pa; S lives lost.
Obituary: Col. Richard Malcolm john
ston, the southern novelist. in Bati-
more; aged 16.
20. The ashes Of Columbus exhumed at
Havana by the Spaniards.
Tornado. At Tonawanda, N. Y, much |
property destroyed; several persons in |
iurcd.
Obituary: Fanny Davenport. the well
known actress. at Duxbury, Mass.
2S. Fire: At North Weymouth, Mass,
loss $500 600
Obituary: Thomas f. Bayard. statesman
ana diplomat. at Dedham. Mass; aged
10
90. Obituary; Louise, queen of Denmark,
at Corenhagcn; aged ST.
30. Sport lg: Tod Sloane, a noted Ameri-
can ckey. won out of events at
the Newmarket races.
Personal: Col John Hay was sworn into
Office as secretary of state.
OCTOBER.
/. Spanish War: First joint conference
of the American and Spanish peace
commissioners.
2. Cyclone: South Carolina and Georgia
coasts devastated and over 100 lives
lost; Brunswick, Ga, inundated
Obituary: Caroline Mlskel Hoyt. tho
actress, in New York city; aged %.
| s. Fire: At Clarksville. Tenn; over
100000 loss by the burning of ware
| houses and other buildings.
Indian Troubles: Maj. Wilkinson, u s.
a. and several soldiers killed near
Bear Island. Mimi, by Pillagcr Indians.
Convention: National meeting OF the
Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States opened in Washington.
6. Obituary: Rev. DR.. Cunningham Geiko,
J noted as a Bible commentator. in Lon
don; aged "a.
T. Obituary: Blanche Willis Howard
won TeuffeD, American author. in
| Munich. EX-Mayor a. Oakley Hall Of
New York city, in that city: aged e.
| Foreign: Strike of 10000 workmen in
| Paris.
s. Fire: At Atlantic City; block of build
ings destroyed causing a loss of $780,
OC0.
70. Personal: The emperor and empress
of Germany set out on their journey
to Palestine.
Strikers Riot: At Nirden. Ills, 10 men
killed and % wounded in the trouble
over imported negro labor.
! II. Fire: At Macon: loss. S125000.
! IA. Shipwreck: The Mohegan of the At
lantic Transport line wrecked on tho
n
2lJ passengers and crew only 81 es-
capped.
16. Obituary: f. J. Henly, the actor. at
Lake llGcide.
Fire: In Dawson City; 40 buildings
burned loss, 100000
II. Accident: on the Great Central rail-
way of England: killed and 10 in
jured at Barnet Junction.
IS. Spanish War: Military occupation of
Porto Rico completed by the raising
of the United States flag over the pub
lie buildings at San Juan; peace jubi-
lee opened in Chicago.
10. Obituary; Harold Frederic. American
journalist and novelist in London;
aged A.
TO- Fire: At Dallas loss. $500. 900 by the
burning of the establishment of the
Texas Drug Co.
o. Accident: On the Rock Island rail-
road near Fort Worth, Tex; deaths.
Race Riot: IA negroes and l white kill
cd IN n CONNECT near HarperNllle, MISS
"a PERSONAL: Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt,
U. 8. A., married in London to Miss
Laura williams
Spanish War: Porto Rico evacuated
and the last Spanish troops sailed fol-
Spain.
Fire: In South Brooklyn flames caused
loss OF $500 900 by the destruction OF
. city blocks. with docks, wharfs ant
vessels.
Is. Philadelphia peace jubilee opened.
. Obituary: Chavannes, noted French
painter in Paris; aged 70.
Political: Cabinet crisis in France: de,
feat of the government in the Dreyfu:
case and resignation of the ministry.
26. Shipwreck: On Lake Michigan the
steamer l.. T.. Doty went down witt
a crew of &c men,
q. Shipwreck: On Lake Ontario thu
schooner St Peters was lost and
persons drowned.
Obituary. Silas Sadler Packard. edu
+ Gator, founder of Packard's college, IL
New York city; aged ".
.. Obituary: Williams Kingsford, LII D..
+. X. s., noted as one of Canada:
=. great historians in Ottawa: aged 70
Col. George Il. Warning, the sanitar,
- expert, in New York city; aged 65
Foreign: Court of cessation at Pari:
= granted revision of the Dreyfus case
On. Nine. Carnot. widow of President Car
not, who was assassinated in 1894, dice
u in Paris.
81. Helen Faucit Uady Martini, n notet
English actress retired died in Lon
don
q NOVEMBER.
= l. Shlpwreck: The captive warship Ma
"a ria Teresa found unseaworthy anc
" abandoned off the Bahamas.
4 Obituary: jerome Hopkins, musica
a composer. in Philadelphia; aged 80.
= L Accidents: - workmen killed by tn,
falling OF the roof in the New Won
, dorlanI theater at Detroit. Collision
between the cage and a train of Goa
= cars crushed miners to death in tn,
u. Exeter shaft at Scranton.
6. Obituary; David a. Wells, the econ
t omist at Norwich, Conn.
7. Political: Cuban assembly organized
q at Santa Cruz del Sur.
.; s. Fires: At Sacramento the railway
shops of the Southern Pacific burned
d loss, $500 900. 40 buildings burned il
: Pitkin. Colo; loss. 100000
Political: Theodore Roosevelt elected
g governor of New York.
J. Obituary. Max Alvary, German tenor
aged Ao
h Conver .on: General assembly Knight
II of Labor met in Chicago.
|, 10. Riot: deaths in race war between
negroes and whites at Wilmington
n. &.
. Il. Fires: Explosion at the burning of
, store at Hanover Corners, Mass. XIII
> cd men and injured several.
~ Convention: The W, G. T. u. nattona
=, body began its annual session at 81