The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-21
tornado, l50 persons being killed. :. .Dupuy
ministry resigns at Paris.

tornado, l50 persons being killed. :. .Dupuy
ministry resigns at Paris.
1S-Herman, Neb., destroyed by storm.
18-Thlrteen persons drowned In steam.
boat accident near StettiD, Germany -.
Twelve miners killed by mine explosion al
Glace Bay, G. B.
22-New French cabinet organized at Paris.
23-Death Of H. b. Plant.
2e-Nine lives lost In wreck of steamer
Margaret Olwill In Lake Erie.
+ .80-Qreyfus lands in France. Waikout
at Homestead mills, Pittsburg.
2S-Disastrous floods In Texas.
July.
6-Death Of Bishop J. p. Newman.
6-Death Of Robert Bonner. Order Is
sued for enlistment Of ten regiments for the
death of George W. Julian, Indiana
anti-slavery leader. D.. .Lindell Hotel, Lin
coin, Neb.. burns.
18.Street car strike inaugurated In Brook
19-Resiynation of r. A. Alger. Secretary
of War.
21-Death of Robert G. Ingersoll.
22-Elihu Root named as Secretary Of War
-. Telegraph messengers strike at Cincin-
23-$1, 600 900 loss by burning of c., Fl. &
d. elevator at East Toledo, Ohio.
20LAssassination of President Ulysses
Heureaux OF San Domingo.
G-Death Of A. l.. Luetgert In Joliet, ILL.,,
prison.
8O-Tupper Lake. n. Y, wiped out by fire.
August.
1-Elihu Root, Of New York, sworn In as
Secretary of War.
6-Thrty-five killed and twelve injured in
trolley car accident near Bridgeport. Conn.,
-. Collapse Of ferry slip at Bar Harbor,
Me-, kills twenty persons and Injuries forty
others.
7-Dreyfus trial begins at Rennes, France
I'm. LabOri, counsel for Capt Dreyfus,
shot at Rennes.
m-Great riot in Paris.
H-Business portion Of Victor, Colo. de-
strOyed by fire.
S-ChicagO Coliseum framework collapses
killing nine men and Injuring as many more.
September.
Extremely hot weather In Chicago;
thermometer registers 9S degrees
8-Fifty persons injured In collision on the
b, & o. Railway ut COnnellsville. Pa.
eeCapt. Alfred Dreyfus convicted at Rem
12-Death Of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
13-Trust conference begins In Chicago.
17-Seven negroes killed In coal mine riot
at Carterville. Ill. :: Death Of Chas. A. Pills
bury of Minneapolis.
1g-Capt. Dreyfus pardoned.
21-Fire In Chicago stockyards; loss
$500, 900.
26-Admiral Dewey.s flagship, the Olym-
pia, arrives in New York.
29-Dewey naval parade in New York.
30-$1 .00O,O 600 fire In Big Four depot and
warehouse at Cincinnati.
October.
Fall festival In Chicago.
n-War is begun, In South Africa. For
NAL declaration Of war made by Beers.
12-FOur thousand persons killed by earth
quake In Ceram, MOlucca Islands.
16+COlumbia wins first race for Americas
cup.
i7-Columbia wins second race, Shamrock
being disabled by breaking of topmast.
20-Columbia wins third race. Beers de-
feated ut Glencoe.
23-Battle at Glencoe, South Africa.
2+BOers repulsed at Ladysmith.
28-Death Of Gen. Guy v. Henry.
27-Death Of Florence Marryat, English
novelist.
3O-British badly defeated In desperate
battle at Ladysmith. .FerrybOat sunk In
North River, New York, and ten lives lost.
November.
StJeffries defeats Sharkey In New York.
EAmerican Steel and Wire Company's
plant at Waukegan, ILL.,, burns.
7-Cruiser Charleston goes ashore or
northwest coast of LuzOn.
9-Admiral Dewey and Mrs. Mildred Hazen
welded in Washington. .Joubert begins
bOmbardment Of Ladysmith.
12-Major John A. Logan killed In battle
21-Death of Vice President Garret A.
Hobart.
23-British defeat Beers in hard battle a,
Belmont.
25-Death Of George R. Davis, Of Chicago,
Director General Of Worlds Fair of 1891.
27-Death of Charles COghlan, the actor.
2S-Boers defeated In severe engagement
on banks of Modder River.
29-Block Of Philadelphia business houses
burned; loss $3,oOO,0OO.
December.
4EFifty-sixth Congress opens.
6Death OF Senator Hayward of Nebraska.
6-Dick Coleman, negro murderer, burned
at the stake at Maysville, KY.
9British meet decisive defeat at Storm
berg. .Tnirry-two miners killed by gas ex-
plosion In mine at CarbOnado, Wash.
11-British suffer great losses In engage
ment with Beers at Magersfontein.
14-Gen. Butler badly defeated by Beers
in attempting to cross Tugela River.
17-Death of Thos. NJ. Brumby, Dag lieu
tenant Of U. s. warship Olympia.
1S-Currency bill passed by lower house
Of Congress. Excitement on Wall street
causes two big failures.
19-Gen. Henry W. Lawton killed before
San Matp0 p I