Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-12-30

noted linguist, at Bonn; aged &c.
& Obituary: Gen Isaac II. Baily, veteran Of the
civil war; formerly prominent in New York
politics, in New York city; aged 70. Gen.
Thomas Vincent Fletcher. ex-governor Of
Missouri in Washington; aged 72 Count
Chaudordy, French diplomat, in Paris; aged
70.
H. Rev. James Ormsby Murray dean of Prince
ton university at Princeton; aged 70.
49, Disaster: The Mississippi steamboat Rowena
Lee sank at Tyler, Mo-; 60 lives lost.
Obituary: Gen. Daniel W. Flagler, u S. A., at
Old Point Comfort, Va; aged GA.
Fire: At Hartford. the j. L. Howard car fac
tory burned; loss, $lS0,000.
30. Shipwreck: The passenger steamer Stella ran
on the Casquet rocks, near the island of AL
derney, and exploded, carrying down 70 to
100 people.
81. Filipino War: Gen. Macarthur entered Malo.
los, the insurgents having fired and evacuated
the city,
APRIL.
/. Obituary: Baroness Clara de Hirsch de &C.
reuth, who left $l0o,0O0,000 to charity, in
Samoan Troubles: Americans and English am
pushed near Apia; 8 officers and sailors
killed
4. Shipwreck: Steamer Chilkat capsized on the
bar at the entrance to San Francisco harbor
carrying down 10 sailors and passengers.
Cuba: The Cuban military assembly voted to
dsband the army and dissolve.
Personal: w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., married Vir-
ginia Fair}in New York city.
Obituary: Lily Post, formerly well known light
opera star, in San Francisco
8. Obsequies at Arlington to honor the remains
of 1856 officers and soldiers who died in Cuba
and Porto Rico.
7. Disasters: Ii deaths "a the burning of resi-
dences of w. c. Andrews and W. j. Adams in
y1sfA W
sons drowned by ice freshet at Glendive,
Mon.
Obituary: James Clark, the Oldest Mason in the
world, at Quincy, Ills
Q. Obituary: Stephen ]. Field, associate justice
of the supreme court of the United States, re-
tired, in Washington; aged SO.
10. Riot: street riot, caused by miners trouble
at Pana, Ills, caused the death of people;
many wounded.
Filipino War: Gen. Lawton captured Santa
Cruz, an insurgent stronghold.
Obituary: Sir Monier Monier Williams, professor
of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford, in
London; aged so.
II. Spanish War: Formal proclamation by Presi
dent Mckinley announcing the ratification of
the treaty and the restoration of peace with
Spain.
l8 Fire: The curiO hall of the famous Boston
museum burned.
where W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., took his bride
for the honeymoon, burned loss, $25O,000
Obituary: The Duchess of Marlborough, mother
in-law of Consuelo Vanderbilt in England.
I5 Fire: In Cleveland half a block of business
houses burned; loss, $1,000,0O0.
II. Obituary: John L. Lay, inventor of the navy
torpedo, in New York; aged 81.
8. Obituary: Lieut.. Gen. Correa, Spanish min
lister of war in 1898, at Madrid.
Samoa: Fighting between the Americans and
English and the Mataafans
%. Fire: At San Jose, CAL; loss, 100000.
Obituary: NJ. Edouard Jules Henri Pailleron, !
French poet and dramatist, in Paris; aged IS. ,
i. PERSONAL Matthew S. Quay-appointed U. s. |
senator by the governor of Pennsylvania.
Obituary: Dr. Heinrich Kiefert, noted geog- |
rapher and photographer, in Berlin; aged 80
2. Fire: In Omaha the Kingman block burned; |
loss, 100000.
Obituary: The Rt Hon. Sir John Mowbray, !
''Father of the House of Commons" in Lon
don; aged "a.
s. Political: The German ambassador lodged
with the secretary of state 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 Calunpit.
Obituary: Gen. Richard ]. Oglesby, former gov
ernor of Illinois, in Springfield; aged rs.
s. Fire: Dawson City, the business center wiped !
OUT loss between 81, 100000 and 100000.
Tornado: 10 people killed at Kirksville, Mo-,
and at Newton hundreds of houses destroyed,
with about 100 deaths
I. Obituary: Robert Goelet, member of the New
York aristocracy of wealth. in the harbor OF
Naples; aged &c. Sheridan Shook, once
prominent New York politician and afterward
a theatrical manager, at Red Hook, n Y;
aged Il.
Filipino War: MacArthur's division crossed the
Rio Grande at Calumpit.
). Filipino War: Peace overtures from the in
surgents, asking for an armistice, rejected by
Gen. Otis.
}. Accident: so people hurt in a railway wreck
near Rochester.
MAY.
|. Dewey day generally celebrated in the United
States and possessions, especially on the sea.
Fire: Gen. Wade Hampton's home, containing
fine library, valuable jewels and treasured
relics, burned at Columbia, s. c.
Spanish War: Spains agent received warrants
for the $40, 900, 900 stipulated in the treaty in
payment for the cession of the Philippines.
J. Filipino War: Lawton's column captured Bal
mag.
J. Obituary: Keokuk chief of the Sac and Fox
Indians, at Guthrie, o. 7. Emma Marshall,
English novelist, in London.
l. Fire: Greenville, s. c., the heart of the town
destroyed loss $780, 900.
Obituary: Gen. Manning F. Force, Federal war
veteran and campaign historian, at Sandusky,
O.; aged 75
J, Convention: The Confederate veteran reunion
held at Charleston.
Obituary: Gen. Samuel B. Smith, Federal vet
eran. known as the "Father of the National
Guard System at Dayton, O.; aged 81.
!. Obituary: Roswell P. Flower, ex-governor of
New York, at Eastport, N. Y; aged g. Au-
gust Brentano (second), head of the noted pub
fishing and bookselling house of Union square,
New York, in that city; aged 46.
!. Disaster: go killed and over 40 injured in a
wreck on the Philadelphia and Reading at
Exeter, Pa.
!. Fire: At Manchester, N. H.; loss, $780,
Obituary: NJ Francisque Sarcey, famous French
dramatic critic, at Paris
Fire: In Chicago the Blue Island avenue lum-
Der district suffered loss of $500, O00
Convention: The international peace congress
convened at The Hague.
Personal: Admiral Dewey sailed from Manila
the cruiser Olympia on his voyage home.
Obituary: Grisi the Italian dancer, in Rome.
Mile. Rhea French actress, at Montmorenci,
France; aged So.
Personal: The eightieth anniversary of Queen
victorias birthday celebrated throughout the
British empire and colonies
Obituary: Senior Don Emilio CASTELAR,, Spanish
Republican statesman, at Murcia, Spain; aged
81.
. Fire: In st. John, N. B.; $50 buildings burn
ed; loss, 100000
Obituary: Aaron B. Magoun, master in the
Cambridge schools from 1888 to 1881, in Rox-