Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-01-07
FOREIGN.
Brief Mention of the Most Important
Happenings Outside Our own Land.

Brief Mention of the Most Important
Happenings Outside Our own Land.
Jan. New cabinet of provisional govern.
ment in Cuba swear loyalty to Spain at
Havana.
l2-Mobs headed by Spanish officers destroy
newspaper offices in Havana; Commodore
Bunce ready to go TO protection OF Amer.
leans. British surveying expedition,
consisting of $50 natives, massacred in
Beloochistan district
24-Algiers under mob rule; over 100 Jews
Feb. 2NCen. Santos j. Zelaya inaugurated
second time president Nicaragua. E. I'm.
portation of American fresh fruit into
Germany prohibited. Car said to have
obtained entire control in Chinese af-
fairs.
e-Senor Sagasta, replying to official note
fix date for her complete pacification Of
Cuba. Turks capture several Thes.
saian villages, killing 100 people,
S-Earthquakes continue at Balikesen,
Asia; 1000 rendered homeless and 100
Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, to protect
American consulate on account of revolu-
tion.
| 10-Japan notifies China she intends perma.
nently to occupy Wei-Hai-Wei. Gen.
Morales declared president Guatemala;
Assassin Oscar Salinger shot.
l9-China agrees to open all inland waters
to steamers of all nations.
| 23-M. Emile Zola found guilty in Paris OF
making libelous comment upon conduct
of Esterhazy court-martial sentence one
years Imprisonment and fine of 3,000f
Mar. l-Ontario's vote continues liberals in
office.
Fresh rebellion breaks out in Philip
pine islands; 80 Spanish soldiers killed.
Sire at Manila destroys S5,O0O,00s prop
al-Capt. Gen. Banco revokes reconcen-
tration orders in Havana, Matanzas,
Pinar del Rio and Santa Clara. :. French
court Of appeals RENTS punishment of
Emile Zola
Apr. 2-Great Britain seizes Chusan island
off east coast of China.
e-Reports of recent massacre at Ana
tolia, Turkey, say parents of 10000 chill
dren were killed and 40 churches de.
stroyed.
May 4-Thirty persons killed in bread riot
in Rome.
PAT London, British council of w. G.
I. U. reflects President Lady Henry
Somerset. .Moret, Gullon, Xiquena and
Bermejo, members Spanish cabinet, re-
| sign.
1s-New Spanish cabinet formed, sagasta,
premier.
19-William Ewart Gladstone dies at Ha-
warden castle, England.
| Jun. 2-Fire at Peshawir, India, DESTROYS
1900 houses; $50 000, 900 damage.
+Protocol agreed on between Russia and
Japan recognizes independence of Corea.
8-Siun Flu made capital of China instead
of Peking. Over l,500 people said to
have drowned in storm off Mi Yoke,
I'M. Ribot selected to form new French
cabinet
25-Gilbert John Elliott, earl of Minto, ap-
pointed governor-general of Canada.
30-Prince Bismarck dies at Fredrichsruh,
Germany, aged SO.
| Aug. l-Empress dowager of China openly
takes to herself direction of empires af
fairs, relieving emperor of all real power.
3l-Lieut. Col. Henry, a chief witness
against Capt. Dreyfus, commits suicide
near Paris after confessing to forgery
OF a document he had offered at the
Dreyfus trial.
| Sep. 3-Egyptian forces under Sir Herbert
Kitchener defeat dervishes in great bat.
tie at Omdurman, on the Nile. M.
Cavaignac, minister of war for France,
resigns because of disagreement with his
colleagues who favor Dreyfus revision.
5Queen Wilhelmina of Holland crowned
at Amsterdam. =. Gen. Zurlinden, mill
tary governor of Paris, made French min
lister OF war.
6-Riot at Gambia, Crete, between Mussul.
mans and British, and British warship
threw shells, destroying part of the city;
about 800 people were either burned or
massacred.
lo-Eizabeth Amelia Eugena, empress of
Austria, assassinated at Geneva, Switz-
erland. Business section of New West
minister, B. c., burned; S2,5O0,OOO.
l4-Kingston, capital of St. Vincent, in
West Indies, partially destroyed by cy-
clone; 300 lives lost -. Hurricane sweeps
over Barbados, in Windward group of
Lesser Antilles; 200 killed and 10000 rem
dered homeless.
26-French cabinet decides for Dreyfus re.
vision.
2s-Queen Louise of Denmark dies at Copen-
hagen, aged so.
Oct. 6-Han Kow, China, nearly destroyed
by fire; $500 people said to have perished.
9-Lord Salisbury issues ultimatum to
France to order Maj. Marchand out OF
Fashoda, in Nile valley.
| 25-French ministry resigns owing to re-
fusal of chamber of deputies to pass vote
of confidence. Pierre Puvis de Cha
yannes, great French painter, dies at
Paris, aged IA.
Nov France decides to retire from
Fashoda Internationally, thus avertinS
war with England.
Dec. l9-Chinese rebels massacre French
priest and 100 converts at Chun-Y Yang.