The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-01-05
we'll, 8. c.; aged g. c. H. Byrne.
noted baseball expert. in New York

well, g. c.; aged 60. c. H. Byrne.
noted baseball expert. in New York
city. at the age Of 55.
I Fire: Hardware and dry goods store
burned at Denison. Tex; loss, 5000, 900.
Obituary: Moses P. Handy, well known
Journalist at Berlin, Md: aged 81.
II. Tornado: 81 lives lost at Fort Smith.
Obituary: Mary Cowden Clarke. author
OF Shakespeare Concordance. in Genoa;
aged SO.
II. Obituary: Rev. c. L. Dodgson (Lewis
CarrolD, author of "Alice In Wonder
land" in London; aged So.
l6- Obituary: Rt. Hon. c. p. Villiers, "Fa-
ther of the House of Commons who
sat continuously from 1885. in London.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth. u. s.
commissioner Of patents, at Thomas
Vile. Ca; aged rs. Gen. c. G. Augur,
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars,
In Washington; aged II.
1a- Obituary: Ella Bassett Washington,
great-grandniece of George Washing
ton. in New York city.
10. Fire: 80 buildings burned at Ransburg
Cal. loss, 500. 600.
Obituary: Very Rev. Henry George Lid
dell, noted English clergyman and
Greek photographer. In London; aged
81
e. Foreign Chamber of deputies in Paris
dispersed by riot growing out of the
Dreyfus case.
a Miscellaneous Capt. Thomas f. Hines,
noted ex-Confederate, called the
"brains OF Morgan's cavalry corps"
died at Frankfort, KY. Cuban filibus-
tering schooner Tillie foundered off
Barnegat; men lost.
"a. Battleship Maine ordered to Havana.
Obituary: Rev. DR.. Michael j. Cramer,
brother-in-law of Gen. Grant, at Car
Isle. Pa; aged 63.
Is. Fires: Union elevator. filled with grain.
burned In East st. Louis; loss, 81, ,000,-
900. lives sacrificed and property
loss of s225 900 at the burning of the
Great Eastern block Spokane, Wash.
Conventions: National Stock Growers
convention began at Denver. Sd an
'nual convention of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers OF the United
States began in New York city.
John Laird, the English shipbuilder
who turned out the Confederate cruis-
er Alabama, died in London.
n. Gen. Aranguren, the Cuban leader,
killed by the Spaniards..
30 Admiral Daniel Lawrence Braine, u.
s. N. retired died in Brooklyn: aged
69.
FEBRUARY.
1. Fires: L. s. Rubber Co., at Nauga-
tuck, Conn.,. burned out; loss. 100000.
In the burning of the Alvord House.
Gloversville, N. Y, persons perished
shipwreck: Channel Queen. mail steam
ship, wrecked off the Isle of Wight; 22
lives lost.
Storms: Billiards in New England, the
west and Canada.
3. The Mcintyre block burned at Winni-
peg: loss. $500. .0O0
:. Y. M C. A. building burned at Scran-
ton, Pa: loss $3.50. 900.
8. firemen killed by the collapse of a
burning building in Boston.
g. Fires: Highland Park hotel burned at
Aiken. S. c.; loss. $4,000. Loss of
$350,000 by flames in Savannah; the Ro-
man Catholic cathedral burned.
z. The famous De LONE letter made pub
lie.
9. Miscellaneous: George Lord. the old
est Mason in the world. died at San
Bernardino, CAL, at the age of 81
President Barrios of the republic ol
Guatemala assassinated.
Convention: South and west CONNER
cal congress met at Tampa. Fla.
| .. Fire: At Fort Worth. Tex; loss. $780,
600.
| Accident: 20 people killed in panic ir
a synagogue at Idziencioi. Russia.
| Conventions: Annual assembly L. A. W
| held at ST. Louis.
| TO- Fire: II deaths and property loss oil
$1.50O.000 by the burning of a storage
warehouse and other buildings II
Pittsburg.
Obituary: Rev. DIR. William A. Hitch
cock. we'll known Episcopal divine. II
New York city: aged GA.
| IL. Fire: Polo Club building and Atalants
casino, burned in New York city.
| a. Spanish Troubles: Senior Polo Ber
nabe appointed Spanish minister to thu
United States to succeed De LONE.
Convention: 18th annual convention o
the National American Woman Suf
frage association opened in Washing
| ton.
Is. The U. S. battleship Maine wrecked
by explosion in Havana harbor; 266 o
the officers and crew lost their lives.
16. Ship Disasters: In the burning of tn
British steamer Legislator at sea
sailors lost French steamer Flacaha
wrecked Off Canary islands; 81 live
lost.
12 Obituary: Frances e. Willard, the wei
known temperance advocate, in Ney
York city: aged SO.
Convention: Woman's national pres
congress met in Washington.
Il Shipwreck: 18 sailors drowned at tn
wrecking of the British ship Asia oi
Nantucket.
q. Conventions: Continental congress
Daughters of American Revolutio
met in Washington.
g. Conviction in Paris of Zola on charg
of libel in Dreyfus case sentence.
years Imprisonment and fine of 30t
francs.
25 Fire: American Tobacco Co. of Louis
Vile burned out; loss. $3.50, 900.
rs. Fire: In a night fire at Charleston, S
c., lives were lost.
| Accident: An omnibus In chicago col
lded with a Grand Trunk train;
passengers killed.
q. Obituary: Gen. w. B. Taliaferro. a
ex-Confederate and Mexican war vel
eran, in Gloucester county, Va; age
rs. William M. Singerly. the Philade
phia capitalist and editor. In that city
aged &c.
g. Explosion: At the Kalamazoo Chen
ical works: 10 lives lost.
Obituary: John Thomas Scharf. histol
ical writer. who served In the Confet
crate army. In New York city: aged
MARCH.
l. Obituary: Prof William A Rodgel
of Colby university. noted astronomer
aged G6.
;. Shipwreck: drowned by the capsizin
of the schooner Speedwell near Ke
West.
s. Col Henry wounded by Col. Picqua
In duel growing out Of the Zola tri
in Paris.
Foreign: China agreed to lease Po
Arthur and Talien Wan TO Russia II
, SO years.
8. Obituary: Hugh ]. Jewett, railws
fnancier and manager. in August
Ca; aged 81.
Cavellotte. a popular Italian poet kill'
by the editor of the Gazetta di Ven
zia in a sword duel.
Z. Obituary: Gen. Nelson B. Sweitzer.
, s. A, retired. In Washington: aged
| s. Fire: At Providence; loss. s150000.
3. Spanish Troubles: Bill appropriate
$50. 100000 for the national defense b
came law
3 10. Obituary: George Muller. English pt