The Dickinson press., 1899-12-30

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lister Of war in 1893, ut Madrid.
Samoa: Fighting between the Americans and
English and the Mataafans.
20. Fire: At San Jose, Cal; loss, 800. 000.
Obituary: N. Edouard Jules Henri Pailleron,
French poet and dramatist, in Paris; aged 65.
81. Personal: Matthew s. Quay appointed U. 8.
senator by the governor Of Pennsylvania.
Obituary: DR.. Heinrich Kiefert, noted geog.
rapher and photographer, in Berlin; aged 80.
q. Fire: In Omaha the Kingman block burned;
loss, 5000. 900.
Obituary: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Mowbray,
Father OF the House Of Commons" in Lon
don; aged 81.
Is. Political: The German ambassador lodged
with the secretary Of state a protest against
certain language Of Capt. Coghlan Of the U.
s. cruiser Raleigh.
Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's division fought
its way to the trenches before Calumpit.
Obituary: Gen. Richard j. oglesby. former gov
ernor Of Illinois, in Springfield; aged rs.
%. Fire: Dawson City, the business center wiped
out; loss between 81 900, 900 and $2, 600, 900. b
Tornado: 40 people killed at Kirksville. NO..
and at Newton hundreds Of houses destroyed,
with about 100 deaths.
q. Obituary: Robert Goclet. member Of the New
York aristocracy Of wealth, in the harbor Of
Naples; aged IS. Sheridan Shook, once a
prominent New York politician and afterward
n theatrical manager, at Red Hook. N. T.;
aged IL.
Filipino War: MacArthur's division crossed the
Rio Grandc at Calumpit.
| %. Filipino War: Peace o~verturcs from the in
surgents, asking for an armistice, rejected by
Gen. Otis.
80. Accident: so people hurt in a railway wreck
near Rochester.
IA
1. Dewey day generally celebrated in the United
States and possessions, especially on the sea.
Fire: Gen. Wade %Hampton's home, containing a
fine library, valuable jewels and treasured
relics. burned at Columbia, s. C.
Spanish War: Spain's agent received warrants
for the $20,000,0 900 stipulated in the treaty in
payment for the ccssion Of the Philippines.
2. Filipino War: Lawton's column captured Bal.
mag. ~
8. Obituary: Keokuk, chief Of the Sac and Fox
Indians, at Guthrie, o. T. Emma Marshall,
English novelist, in London.
1. Fire: Grcenyille, s. O., the heart Of the town
destroyed; loss. $500, 900.
Obituary: Gen. Manning F. Force, Federal wal
veteran and campaign historian. at sandusky.
O.; aged IS.
10. Convention: The Confederate veteran reunion
held at Charleston.
Obituary: Gen. Samuel B. Smith, Federal vet
Gran, known as the "Fathcr Of the National
Guard SYSTEM at Dayton, O.; aged g..
II. Obituary: Roswell P. Flower, ex-governor OF
New York, at Eastport, N. Y; aged 81. Au.
gust Brcntano (second), head Of the noted pub.
fishing and bookselling house Of Union square,
New York, in that city; aged 40.
IL. Disaster: 20 killed and over 40 injured in q
wreck on the Philadelphia and Reading at
Exeter, Pa.
II. Fire: At Manchester, N. H.; loss, $780, 900.
Obituary: NJ. Francisque Sarcey. famous French
dramatic critic, at Paris.
II. Fire: In Chicago the Blue Island avenue lum.
Der district suffered a loss Of $500, 600.
Convention: The international peace congress
convened at The Hague.
81. PERSONAL: Admiral Dewey sailed from Manila
on the cruiser Olympia on his voyage home.
%. Obituary: Grisi, the Italian dancer, in Rome.
Mile. Rhea, French actress. at Montmorenci,
France; aged IS.
"a. Personal: The %eighticth anniversary Of Queen
Victoria's birthday celebrated throughout the
British empire and colonies.
Obituary: Svnor Don Emilio CASTELAR,, Spanish
Republican statesman, at Murcia. Spain; aged
e..
Is. Fire: In st. John. N. B.; $50 buildings burn.
cd; loss, $500, 900.
Obituary: Aaron B. Magoun. master in the
Cambridge schools from 1888 to 1881, in Rox-
bury, Mass. aged 90. Rosa Donheur, famous
animal painter, at Fontainebleau; aged IS.
20. Fire: In the "Bowcry district at Concy Is.
land; loss, $400, 900.
81. Tornado: Devastation in Missouri, Iowa and
Michigan. 0 deaths at Bijou, S. D..
Sporting: Banistar won the Brooklyn Handicap
at Gravesend.
%. Accident: 10 deaths and % injured in a
waslout accident on the Rock Island and Bur.
lington at Waterloo, Ia.
80. Sporting: Flying Fox won the English Derby.
JUNE.
/. Marion Clark, the abducted New York babe,
found at a mountain farm near Haverstraw,
N. s., and returned to her parents home.
3. Obituary: Johann Strauss. the "Waltz King"
at Vienna; aged "a.
Political: President Loubet OF France attacked
by a royalist mob at the Auteuil race course:
near Paris.
s.. Fire: In New Orleans the St. Charles thea
ter, a landmark of the city, destroyed.
Obituary: Frank Thomson, president Of the
Pennsylvania railluad. at Philadelphia; aged
9. Cuba: Gomez issued a farewell manifesto to
the Cuban people.
Z. Obituary: Henry t.. Clinton, noted criminal
lawyer, in New York city; aged SO. Angus:
tin DAILY, American theatcr manager, in Lon-
don; aged 81. Margaret Ann Cusack, the
"Nun OF Kcnmarc,I" in. London. Cen. W. 8.
Walker, noted Mexican and Confederate VET
Gran, at Atlanta.
Fire: At Augusta, Gs.; loss. s25o,OOO.
8. Flood: High water mark reached in the Colo
RADIO river, Texas; % drowned.
Q. ~sporting: Jcfrics defeated Fitzsimmons for
the worlds championship at Coney Island.
10. The yacht Columbia, built to defend the
Americas cup, launched at Bristol, II. l.
Obituary: Capt. Henry Nichol OF the U. s.
monitor Monadnock, at Manila.
IL. Fire: In the Armstrong Whitworth Ordnance
Co.'s works at Eewcastle-on-Ty n loss, 81
Sporting: Perth won the Grand Prix de Paris.
Filipino War: Hardest battle to date at Las
Pinas between Gen. Lawton's division and
the insurgents.
Obituary: The Rev. DR.. William Garden Blake,
D. D., LII. D., noted Scotch thcologian, at
North Berwick, Scotland; aged 70.
IL. Cyclone: In the northwestern states; hun
dreds killed and wounded at New Richmond,
Wis, and Herman, Neb.
Duke Of Abruzzi's north pole expedition sailed
on the Stella Polare from Christiania, Norway.
IA. General celebration OF Flag day.
Obituary: DR.. Lawson TAFT, pioneer in surgery,
at London; aged 81.
Is. Obituary: Prof. Locke Richardson, the Amer.
lean elocutionist, in Berlin. Rear Admiral
Pierce Crosby, U. s. NJ, retired, in Wash
ington; aged 70. Congressman Richard Parks
Bland, silver champion, at Lebanon, No.;
aged O..
10. Explosion: II miners killed at the Caledonia
mine, North Sidney. Q. B.
Criminal: George B. Barrow, principal in the
Marion Clark abduction case, sentenced to IA
years and 10 months, and Carrie Jones, the
nurse, to 4 years.
II. Sporting: Imp won the Suburban at Sleeps
head Bay.
IS. Fire: At Greensboro, N. g., the Benbow
House burned; loss, 100000.
81. Fire: At Kirkwood, Ca, Gen. John B. Cor
don's home, the historic Sutherland, burned.
e. Obituary. John Godfrey Moore, prominent
banker and exchange broker, in New York
city; aged 5a. Henry B. Plant, founder Of
the Plant system, in New York city; aged 80.
"a. Fire: At Laurel, DEL; loss, 5000, 600.
Obituary: Kapiolani, widow Of King Kalakaua,
at Honolulu; aged IS.
Is. S%hipwreck: Steamer Margaret Olwill, founder
ed off Lorain, Lake Erie; 0 seamen lost.
%. Obituary: Daniel F. Ticman, oldest Of the
surviving ex-mayors Of New York city, at
e. yInhN~ Dorlr n~1l "
Sporting: Harvard won three victories over
Yale at New London.
80. Obituary: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte South.
worth, the novelist, in Washington; aged 80.
Sporting: Charles Murphy, Brooklyn cyclist,
rode the fastest mile on record, paced by a
railway engine.
JULY.
l. Fires: In Brooklyn 10000 cotton bales burned
in storage. Bar Harbor, the Kehoe Valley
clubhouse, a golf and social resort, burned.
Obituary: Charles Victor .Cherbuliez, French
academician, novelist and critic, in Paris;
aged 70.
2. Fire: At Summit, N. j., property in the heart
of the town valued at $l5O, 900 destroyed.
Obituary: Gen. II. G. Wright, U. s. A., retired,
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