St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-12-27


IA. Obituary: Cornelius Vanderbilt, head OF the |
family in the third generation. in New York |
city; aged 90.
15 Storm: Destructive hurricane in Bermuda.
49, Fires: At Seattle, Wash. loss, $4,000. At
Lincoln, Neb., Masonic temple, st. PauPs
Methodist church and several blocks burned;
loss, s5OO,00O
H. Fire: At Promised Land, N. Y, the American
Fisheries Co. burned out; loss 100000
Riot nonunion miners killed at Carterville,
Ills.
18. Fire: Farnham, N Y, the business section
wiped out; loss over $250,0OO
10. Fire: At Lowvle, N. Y, over $250,OO0 loss
in lumber plant FIRE.
Disaster; 30 lives lost In the burning OF the
passenger steamer Montoya on Magdalena riv-
err, Colombia.
Obituary: Charles Patrick DAILY, noted justice
in New York city; aged SO.
20. Fire. At Iegeswich, Ills; loss, $500
Earthquake: 1000 people reported killed at
Adm, Asia Minor.
Miscellaneous: Harry W. Benton, the first
Sound" teegrapher in America. died at
Denver at the age OF 90. Dreyfus released on
pardon.
Obituary: NJ. Scheurer Kestner former French
senator and strong champion Of Dreyfus, in
Paris; aged GO.
81. Fire: At Norfolk; loss OF 100000 by the
burning Of a hospital; deaths.
Shipwreck Loss OF the Dominion steamer Scots
man In the strait OF Belle Isle; IA passengers
drowned
%. Fire: At Salem, Or; loss sl5O,0OO by the
burning Of a planning mill.
%. Accident: killed and 10 injured in head
on collision on the Rio Grande road at Reno,
Colo.
Filipino War: naval force led by the cruiser
Charleston bombarded 0angapo, on Subig bay,
and captured insurgent works.
a. Personal: Julia Dent Grant married to Prince
Cantacuzene at Newport.
Obituary: John Sleeper Clarke, noted English
comedian, at Surbiton.on.Thames.
g. Fire: At Upton, Ind; 100000 loss by the
burning Ola tin plate mill.
Obituary: Jared B. Flagg, noted American por.
trait painter, in New York city; aged so.
27. Obituary: Gen. Henry Heth, noted Conieder
ate soldier, in Washington; aged a.
Earthquake: Island Of Ceram; 5000 people
killed.
20. Naval and marine parade in New York bay
and Hudson river in honor Of Admiral Dewey.
80. Reception and loving cup presentation to
Admiral Dewey by Mayor Van Wyck, followed
by military land parade.
Fire: At Little Rock the State Deaf and Dumb
Mute institute burned; loss 100000.
OCTOBER.
/. Fires: At Call, Tex; loss, sl5O,OOO. At
Bloomington, Ills, buildings burned; loss,
100000
| 9. Fire: At Duquen, Ark, 81 buildings burned;
loss. $25O,OOO
Filipino War: Filipino attack at Bacoor re-
pulsed by troops under Gen. Fred Grant.
8. Fires: At Des Moines the Masonic temple and
other buildings destroyed loss, 100000. At
Endeavor, Pa; loss Of 100000 in lumber
yard fire.
g. Obituary: Former U. S. Senator James Har-
Ian, last surviving member OF Lincoln's cabi.
net, at Mount Pleasant, Ia. aged 70.
o. Fire: Mojave, CAL, wiped out.
South African War: President Kruger's ulti-
matum demanding arbitration and the recall
OF British re-enforcements from the Cape.
| TO- Fire: In the business section Of New Iberia,
La; loss 100000
II. Expiration OF the Boer time limit; armies
moved to the Transvaal border.
70. South African War: Beers opened the war by
attack on a British armored train.
IS. Fires: In Brooklyn; loss 100000 by the
burning Of two cotton warehouses. At Has.
tings, N. Y, cable works burned; loss, $685..
900. At Haverstraw N Y, 2 acres Of build.
ings burned; loss, 100000
Obituary: Vice Admiral Philip Howard Coomb,
British naval officer, inventor and writer, In
London; aged 6S.
IA. Fire: The LOOMS sanitarium burned at Lib
| tTty, ". l. ioss, @iuu,Vuo'
Disaster: The sound steamer Nutmeg State
burned off Sands point; several lives lost.
South African War: Fighting began at Mafeking.
Is. Fire: At Waterloo, Ia loss 100000.
South African War; Beers under Gen. Cronje
laid siege to Kimberley
Obituary. Laurence Gronlund social economist
and author, in New York city; aged SO.
49, Sporting: Columbia won the first race over
the Shamrock by ION. IS.
Obituary: Edward orion, Phi. D., IL. D., dis
tinguished geologst, at Columbus o.. aged
TO-
H. Sporting: Columbia won the second race, the
Shamrock breaking her topmast.
49, Obituary: Isaac Bird California pioneer
orchardist, at Watsonvile, CAL; aged SO
10. W. II. Appleton, last OF the old circle Of
New York publishers. in New York city
aged SIS.
20. Sporting: The Columbia won her third con
secutive victory over the Shamrock by 6m. 1ss
Filipino War; Insurgents routed at San lsidrC
by Gen. Young's command.
South African War: Battle at Glencoe; British
loss, oil. Gen. symons mortally wounded.
, Convention: National meeting OF the W. @. 7
U. began at Seattle Wash.
21. Fire Disaster: IA persons burned to death II
their dwellings at FARES, Ala.
South African War: Battle OF Elandslaagte
British and Beers lost heavily. ~->,
rs. Grant Allen the English author, died il
London; aged 81.
81. Obituary: John Goldman Ropes, military his
toran, in Boston; aged 90. Gen. Guy V
Henry, U. s. A. civil war and regular arm
veteran, in New York city; aged co.
49, 0ttmar Mergenthaler, inventor Of the limo
type machine, died in Baltimore; aged 49,
Sporting The principal football contests result
. ed as follows: Columbia s. Yale 0. at NeN
York; Cornell 5, Princeton 0, at Ithaca; Har
ward 90 Carlisle 10, at Cambridge; Chicago
. Pennsylvania 5, at Chicago
20. Obituary: Florence Maryatt (Mrs. Franci
+ Lean. English novelist, at Brighton, Ens
land; aged G2.
{: 30. South African War: Battle before Ladysmith
4 British regiments and battery captured
Shipwreck: Steamer George l.. Colwell Of De
troit, for New York from Fernandina, wen
to pieces off Charleston; IL sailors drowned
i. 81. Fires: At Aberdeen, Wash; loss $l5O,00O b.
/. the burning Of salmon cannery. At Hack
ettstown, N. j., the Hackettstown seminar.
9 burned loss 100000,
7, NOVEMBER.
1. Shipwreck: OF Cape Roman, s. c., schoone
; William N. Bird lost and sailors drowned.
; l. Fires: In Kansas City Jones' department
> store and the st. James hotel burned; loss
$4,000. At waukegan, Ills, the plant Of tn
: American Steel and Wire company damage
to the extent OF 100000.
Sporting Harvard scored 10 to Pennsylvania
at the Cambridge football contest.
s. Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops car
. tured Magalang after sharp fighting.
g. Filipino War: Gen. Wheaton's division lande
at San Fabian, on Lingayen guilt under tn
= enemy's fire.
Political: First autonomous government In tn
Philippines installed at Bacoor, island
Negros, by the U. s. governor general.
=, 7. Shipwreck The u. s. cruiser Charleston los
- off the northwest coast OF Luzon.