Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-05
S. Harris. founder of Children's day,


once famous as dwarf, died at Lew
iston, Me-, at the age of 81 4s seal
fishers persisted on an ice foe In the
arctic waters.
&c. Obituary: James Payn. the English
novelist in London; aged 6s.
2S. Report of the Maine inquiry board
submitted to congress.
Obituary: Anton Seidl the we'll known
musical director, in New York city.
APRIL.
1. Arthur orion. the Tichborne claimant,
died in England.
g. Fire: At Rock Hill. s. c.. II buildings
burned, causing a loss of 100000.
Convention: American Association For
the Advancement of Science met in
Boston
g. Disasters: About so lives lost by tho
breaking of 81 levce at Shawneetown.
Ills.
8. Fires: At Vicksburg. Miss. tho Piazza
Opera House and other property burn
ed loss, 1925. 900.
shipwrcck: British ship Marlborough
lost in midocean; Is sailors drowned.
T. Spanish War: Representatives of Great
Britain. France Germany Russia and
Italy presented Joint note to the
president
Obituary; Margaret Mather the actress.
at Charlcstowu. w. Va; aged 30.
8. Obituary: Ger. James Ronald Chal-
mers. a noted leader in FORESTS Con-
foderate cavalry corps, at Memphis:
aged GS.
II. Spanish War The presidents mos
sage asking power to intervene in Gu
ba submitted to congress. Gen. Lee
testified before the senate committee
on foreign relations.
IL Fire: At Charlostown. Mass. dust OK
plosion started flames in a grain Gle
vator; loss 81, 100000.
Gen. joaquin Crespo. ex-president of
Venezuela. killed in battle.
rnf IttlA Mnrr ia
nous geologist, at Cambridge, Mass;
aged a. George Parsons Lathrop au-
thor in New York city.
| Spanish War: Tho Cuban Intervention
resolutions passed congress; ultima
| tum sent to Spain.
| 90 Spanish War: Senior Bernabe, tho
Spanish minister. took his passports
and left Washington for Canada.
Fire: Surgeons tabernacle in London
| destroyed
81. Spanish War: u. s. Minister Wood
| ford given his passports At Madi id.
| SIMPSONS squadron block7ded Cuba
First marine capture of the war, tho
Spanish ship Buena Ventura, in the
| gulf of Mexico.
Obituary: Gen. f. c. Walthall, noted
| ex-Confederate and L. S. senator from
Mississippi, in Washington; aged ca.
| % Obituary: Richard Smith, prominent
| western newspaper man, in Cincinnati;
aged II.
%. Convention: American Society of Re-
lgious Education met in Baltimore.
a. Spanish War: The president called for
/ 125. 100 troops.
rs. Spanish War: Declaration by the Unit
ed States that war began April q.
Fire In Glasgow. st. Andrews Catholic
cathedral destroyed; loss, $4,000.
| rs. Spanish War: Spanish steamer Pam
anna captured off Havana by the L. s.
lighthouse tender Mangrove. England
proclaimed neutrality and declared
that the war began April q.
Is. Spanish War: At Matanzas Admiral
SIMPSONS vessels bombardod Spanish
forts. Spanish steamer Guido. from
Spain with sinews of war for Cuba.
captured by the L. S. monitor Terror.
20. Spanish War; Ccrvera's squadron
sailed westward from the Cape Verde
islands.
l. Spanish War: Commodore Dewey. with
the Asiatic fleet. defeated the Span
iards in Manila harbor, Philippine is
lands
Fire: At Augusta, Ga: loss. 5000, 900, by
the burning of an elevator and ware
house.
s. Spanish War: French steamer Lafa.
yette captured by the blockading flee,
off Havana.
6. Convention: Southern Baptist conven.
ton opened at Norfolk
8. Hundreds of Italians shot down by the
troops during a bread riot in Milan.
9. Fire The Elms hotel. Excelsior
Springs. Mo. burned loss, $500 900.
II. Fires: At Ballardvale, Mass. stock OF
stored wool valued at $250,0O0 burned
In Philadelphia deaths and property
loss OF s225, 600 at the burning of toy
store.
T. Spanish War: First u s. officer killed
Ensign Bagley. on the torpedo boa
Winslow at Cardenas San Juan, Por
to Rico. bombarded by Sampson s war
} ships.
Fire. In Chicago a grain elevator anc
other property burned; loss 81 200 900,
, 10. Spanish War: Cerveras squadron
reached Martinique. in the West In
dies.
H. Accident: workmen killed and /
severely injured by the collapse o
walls in a building in New York city.
| Shipwreck: - sailors drowned on tn
coast of Wales by the wreck of tn
British steamer Benholm.
Is Fire: At Muncie. Ind: loss 1886, 0O0
Obituary: Edouard Remenyi, the note'
) violnist. in San Francisco; aged 6S.
16. Fire Disaster: At La Providence Can
ada, st. Hyacinthe Auxiliary hospfta
Z burned; many lives lost.
II. Accident: In Boston an elevator fell
killing workmen.
IS. Fire: At Attleboro Mass, the bushes
section destroyed; loss, over $1,000 900.
Cyclone: Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon
t sin visited 81 deaths.
r 10. Obituary: Gladstone, at Castle Hawar
den; aged 50.
Y %. Obituary: Edward Bellamy author O
, Looking Backward" Equality" etc
al Chicopee Falls Mass; aged As.
Shipwreck: "a passengers drowned b
= the sinking of the Alaska schoone
Jane Grey off Cape Flattery.
,. Is Spanish War Second call for volun
/. teers 1900 asked for.
Shipwreck: British steamer Mecca san