Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-12-27
HAPPENINGS OF 1899.
SUMMARY or a YEARS i'm.
PORTANT EVENTS.
War in philippine Islands and south
Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political
Difficulties ia samoa Death and De-
struction ~ Fire, Wind and Flood.

9uAtthuel VI tue last fesltSt OF ucf SOW
ereignty in the western hemisphere; its
progress brought forth the declaration Of
war between England aud the Transyaal
Republic and its close leaves these ma
tons still engaged ia Il bloody contest,
that may result in important political
changes in South Africa During the
year the lighting between the natives
and United States troops iii the Philip
pines has continued and the war is yet on.
other events, gsIde from warfare, that
have occupied public attention to great
eF or less sxtent have been. Signing of
the treaty OF peace with Spain; settle
ment Of difficulties IN the Samoan ISL
ands; trial, tonviction and pardon OF Cap-
tan Alfred breyfus IN France; numpr
Gus large fires that have destroyed many
lives and much property, tornadoes that
caused disaster and death at kirksyile,
Mo-, in April, and at New Richmond,
Wis, in June. several fatal shipwrecks;
deaths of prominent men, among them
President Felix Faure of France, Garret
A. Hobart, Vice~ President of the United
States, and Robert G.. Iagersol; great
street car strike al Cleveland and labor
rios at Pana and Carterville, LII.
brief chronological transcript of the
years events is given below:
January.
Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba.
,.a-Irain held up and robbed at Macomb,
MO-. Peace treaty with Spain introduced
In the Senate.
9-Fourteen persons killed and forty-eight
injured In collision near Dunellen, N. ].
l0-McCoy defeated by Sharkey in New
i9aA. Severe storm In California.
i5-b1re at Memphis, Tenn, destroys
wholesale dry goods house of ). 5. Menkin
y Co, and causes $500, 600 loss !. Death Of
congressman Dingley of Maine.
IA British bark Andelina sinks at Tacoma
with her entire crew of nineteen men.
lI-Death of John Russell Young, librarian
OF Congress.
1S-Disastrous flood at Cleveland German
consul at Apia, Samoa, elected from Su-
preme Court Building by American and
20-Bank at Arthur, Ill.,, robbed of So, ,Oo0
N-Earthquake shakes Peloponnesan pen
insuia or Greece. Massacre of Spanish Of
pines
25-One hundred thousand dollars damage
done by fire at Johnstown, Pa. .Adelina
Patti and Baron Cederstrom married at Bre-
2e-Ex-Attorney General A. H. Garland
dies suddenly in Washington. :. Court mar
tial finds Gen. Chas. +. Eagan guilty under
two charges.
Nv
below zero ut Chicago.
30-Two hundred thousand dollar lumber
yard fire In Chicago.
1-Seyen persons perish In snowslide In
Rogers Pass, b. c.
2-$75O,000 fire in Columbus, Ohio, in which
many are injured... Burning of the Buck
ingham Theater, Louisville Ky.
3--$S00, 900 fire at Philadelphia.
4--Battie between Fillpincs and Americans
at lianila... Mrs Botkin receives life SEN
tence for murder. :. James A. sexton, Com
rnaIIderin-chlef g. A. r., dies In Washing
tor.
6-Aast detachment of Spanish army leaves
Cula... Death OF Gen. Count Won Caprivi.
form er Chancellor German Empire. ;. Peace
treat" ratified By United States Senate.
S-Manitoba Hotel at Winnipeg burns; loss
S400, ,002 Eleven busirS $ houses burn In
Prairie du Chien, Wis.
9-Twenty-one degrees below zero at Chi
cago; coldest day Ia tWenty-six years.
100000 fire IN Front street, New York..
Five business houses at Herington, Kan.
burn.
10--Explosion In Baxter Stove Works.
Mansfield, Ohio, causes a 100000 fire..
Kelly Block In Cleveland burns; loss $780,
060. 100000 fire. In Toronto, Ont....
American troops capture Caloocan.
11-Troops under Gen. Miller take Iloilo
80. Engagement outside Manila, In which
FiIipinos are driven back.
, l&Twenty- four Italian miners s and p,.r fami-
Colo. .McClurg's book store in Chicago
burns; loss S562, 900. J. Seventeen insane
women burned to death at Yankton, s. ID.
Report Of War Investigating Board
In New York City and Albany, N. Y.
1S-Digby, N. s., almost wiped out b. FIRE
-. Blizzard In the East aud South.
14-S500, 600 fire In manufacturing district
of Cincinnati . Burning ci manufacturers
warehouse In Chicago loss s1 100000.
5Machine shops in Brooklyl navy yard
I6~Death of M. Felix Faure, President Of
France.
1s-Emile Loubet chosen President Of
France. Riots In Paris.
20-Fire causes $50o,000 loss at Port Wash
S2-City Of Manila fred bv Filipinos.
Marc.a
1-Death Of Lord Herschc.!.. an washing
ton -. .Sagasta ministry resigns at Madrid.
S-George Dewey made an Admiral by
President Mckinley.
4-Congress adjourrs.
6-Storm destroys life ana property in
East Tennessee. New ministry takes of
flee at Madrid. Terrific powder explosion
at La Goubran, France, kills sixty persons.
e-Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage resigns his
washington pastorate. :. Battle between
Americans and Canadians "A Porcupine
River, b. G.
11-Gen. Maxine Gomez deposed from
command by Cuban Assembly.
19-Pasig captured by American troops.
Understanding reached on Samoan affairs
-. Herbert Putnam, of Boston, appointed
Congressional librarian
16-Mob shoots nine negroes at Palmetto,
Ca. Death of Editor Joseph Medlll.
Five killed In street riot at Hot Springs,
Ark. Election riot in st. Louis results In
death Of two men. B. r. Hutchinson,
wheat operator, dies at Lake Geneva, Wis
17-Peace treaty signed by the Queen Re
gent of Spain. -. Windsor Hotel burns In
New York, with great loss of life.
iS-Fatal riot In Havana.
20-Mrs. Martha Place eiectrocuted at
T.24-Race war in Little River County,
Ark, where many negroes are lynched.
25-opening Of ship canal at Port Arthur
a~Burning Of Armour's felt works In Chi
cago ,.u,..n ana pr,t,sn va,sn,,s ham
bard native towns in Samoa. >. Sinking o.
the steamer Rowena Lee In the Mississippi
below Ssruthersville, Mo.
Boone hundred and twenty lives lost by
shipwrecs Of passenger steamer Stella in the
English channel.
sf-Fall of Malolos. $4,000 fire In San
Francisco.
April.
T-EIeyen lives lost In burning OF Wallace
Andrews residence In New York.
p-Death of Justice s. j. Field, retlred.
Seventeen lives lost by breaking OF an Ice
gorge on Yellowstone River at Gleadive,
io~Seven persons killed in riot ut rana,
II-Exchange of peace treaties with Spain
ends the state of war. Greek coaster Ma
ria sunk OF TrIpoii with loss OF forty-five
lives.
1ATyenty three Crow indians drowned
In floods near Sheridan, Wyo.
15-Great FIRE In Cleveland; loss almost
81 000, ,000
tucket, with eleven Of her crew.
24-Death of cxGey. X. j. Ogiesby OF Illi-
nois. Thirty persons drowned In wreck OF
British ship Loeb Sloy on kangaroo Island.
26-Dawson City, Alaska, almost wiped
27-Tornado at KirksviIle and Newtown,
Mo. and in Soldier River valley, Iowa.
Scores killed and injured.
2pli arthquake shakes Southern Illinois
and indiana and Northern Kentucky Fa-
tai mine riots at Wardner Idaho.
May.
1-DestructIve forest fires in SoLth DAKOTA,
Eebra ska and Colorado.
3-hxsignation OF Italian cabinet.
4--Opening Of Ute reservation IN Ioiorado.
6-Five killed by tornado in Chickasaw ma
.ion a. T. Death OF Mrs. w. z. whitney.
T-Report Of Wade Court OF Inquiry given
ont.
S-RusselI & Co.'S thresher works at Mas
sflIon. Ohio, burned; loss S500.000.
12-Death Of ex-Gov. Il. T.. Flower OF New
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