Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-01

uUO. The house passes a bill TO re-
move political disabilities of ex-
Confederates.
2-The Jiminez fflibustering expedi-
ton from Haiti captured at Monte
Cristi. San Domingo.
S-One thousand Turkestan natives
attack the Russian garrison at
Andijan. William Street, colored,
burned at the stake by a mob at
Daytime, La.
Mrs. Atkinson, wife of the Cover
nor, indicted on a charge of for
gerry at Charleston, w. Va
6-Orangemen mob officers during a
Nationalist demonstration at Bel
fast. Ireland.
7-Arkell and Judge publishing COM
panies, New York, apply for re-
ceivers. The President signs the
ex-Confederate disability removal
act
S-Ernest T. Hooley, the English
promoter, declared bankrupt. The
southern iron agreement col
lapses.
10-The volunteer soldier election bill
passes the House.
1.-THE Niger boundary dispute be-
tween Great Britain and France
settled by convention. Prof.
Coddington, at Lick University,
discovers a comet.
13-The Japanese House of Repre-
sentatives rejects the govern
ment's land bill and is dissolved
14-Count Castellane wounds Editor
Henri Turot in a duel at Paris.
15-The House passes the Hawaiian
annexation resolution. Joseph
Letters wheat corner collapses.
Prof. Ramsay, of London. an
nounces the discovery of the
chemical element krypton.
16-The United States pays the BerinA
sea indemnity.
1.-THE bill to incorporate the Inter-
national Bank passes the Senate.
Centrists make great gains in the
German elections. Five negro
murderers lynched at Wetumpka
Ala.
21-The Industrial Commission bin be-
comes law. Forty people drown
ed at Blackwell, England, by dis
placement of water caused by
launching the battleship Albion.
22-The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
reorganization plan made public.
27-Okuma Stagaki commissioned to
form the first party Cabinet in
Japanese history.
JULY.
THE bankruptcy act signed by the
President. Chicago stereotypers
strike, suspending for several days
publication of every morning news
paper in the city.
4-'rhe steamer Surf City sunk by a
squall off Beverly, Mass; rs people
drowned. The steamer La Bour-
gogne sunk in collision with the
Cromatyshire; $50 lives lost.
6-The Senate passes the Hawaiian
annexation resolution.
IA cloudburst at Steeleville, Mo-,
nearly wipes out the town, drown
ing II inhabitants.
8-Congress adjourns.
11-Yellow fever breaks out in the
American army at Siboney, Cuba.
A gas explosion in the water works
tunnel at Cleveland kills eleven
men.
12-Italy breaks off diplomatic rela-
tons with Colombia and sends a
fleet to Cartagena. Eleven men
killed by a powder mill explosion
at Pompton, n. j.
13-Count Esterhazy again arrested in
connection with the Dreyfus scan
dial. The Racine, Wis, Malleable
and Wrought Iron Company
works burn; ten lives lost
14-Subscriptions to the government
war loan closed.
15-The Spanish government issues a
degree suspending constitutional
rights.
17-Anti-French riots break out at
Ning-Po, China
1S-Zola and PeTreaux each sentenced
in Paris to years imprisonment.
lola leaves the country. Twenty
four people killed in cOlliery cage
accident at Gleinwitz. Prussian 81
lesia.
19-The California Fuse Works at
Oakland blown up by Chinese
murderer. killing himself and six
deputy sheriffs.
25-The Earl Of Mimic appointed Gov
ernor General Of Canada.
ga gang Of cattle thieves wiped out
in two fights with deputy marshals
at Eufala, l. T.
27-Admiral Miller sails for Honolulu.
AUGUST.
THE bankruptcy law takes effect.
The Chinese Emperor deprived Of
his prerogatives by the Empress
Dowager. Martin Thorn electro
cuted
3-The United States Spirits Associa-
ton organized.
5-Turkey repudiates responsibility
for damages sustained by American
- citizens during the Armenian mas
sacres.
9-Fiye negro murderers of J. T. Orr
lynehed at Clarendon, Ark; Orr's
wife, instigator of che crime, com
mits suicide.
10-The United States West Indian
weather service inauggrated. Three
transports containing 900 Spanish
soldiers lost in the Philippine ISL
ands. The appointment OF Curzon
as yiceroy of India announced.
11t-The Westinghouse Electrical and
Manufacturing Company announc-
es that its floating debt would be
funded by the issue of 50, SOC, 900 in
gold debenture certificates.
12TThe stars and stripes hoisted over
4 Hawaiian government buildings.
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