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


1--Emperor William presents to Ger
man Catholics the Jerusalem
church site which the Sultan had
given him.
2-Constitution of the United States
of Central America takes effect.
Gideon w. Marsh, President of the
defunct keystone National Bank.
Philadelphia, SurrenderS to Of
ficers.
5-"The Society of the Service of the
Men of the Spanish War" organized
at Lexington, Ky.-The unfinished
Wonderland Theatre, in Detroit,
collapses, killing Is men.
6-The Supreme Court room in the
National Capitol at Washington
wrecked by gas explosion.
S-Republican Congress elected
First report of the Princeton scien-
tific expedition to Patagonia made
public.
9-Race riots at Phoenix, S. c., Gull
inmate in the lynching of four
negroes and the exile of the Toll
berts.-Nine negroes killed in a
political riot at Rehobeth, N. G.
1O-A Red Shirt mob destroys a
negro newspaper Office and kill
eight negroes assassin of
Empress Elizabeth sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
11-Norway adopts flag of it's own.
15-Dr. Campos SALES installed as
President of Brazil.-Twelve peo-
pie killed in Grand Trunk rail-
road collision at Kingston, Ont.
16-The First National Bank Of En-
poria, Kansas, closed by Comptrol-
Ter Dawes; President Cross COM
mits suicide
17-President Dwight resigns the Pres
idency of Yale University.
1S-Eleven track laborers killed by
Pennsylvania railroad train.
23-Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco,
burns; four lives and $1,500,O00.
IA riot between white and colored
soldiers at Admission, Ala, result in
two deaths.
25-An attachment suit begun against
Grant c. Gillett, the Kansas cattle
man.
26-The battleship Wisconsin launched.
The Mad Mullah crosses the Swat
river and resumes the war against
the British.
IA great storm on the New England
coast wrecks many vessels, includ-
ing the steamer Portland; over 200
lives lost.-Dr. Lyman Abbott re-
signs the pastorate of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn.
29-General Regalado usurps the Pres
idency of Salvador
S0-The United States of Central
America dissolved.
DECEMBER.
1-Governor Tanner, of Illinois, in
dlcted for malfeasance in Office
The British steamer Clan Drum
mond wrecked in the Bay of Bis
cay; 81 people drowned.
1.-THE Consolidated Tinplate Com
pany organized.
3-The Thingvalla line sold to the
United States Steamship Company
5-Congress assemblies.
1.-THE United States mission to Mex
leo raised to an embassy. Hawaiian
commissioners report.
1.-THE House passes the anti-scalping
bill.
9-John Andersen, murderer of the
captain and mate of the Olive P.
Pecker, executed at Norfolk, Va.
1O-The Cleveland Bar Association ex-
pels Burke and demands the in
vestigation of Judge Dellenbaugh.
12-Cashier Steele, of the keystone
National Bank, Philadelphia, con-
victed of misapplication of funds.
l3-Harcourt resigns the Liberal lead
ership of the British House of
Commons.
14-Revolution breaks out in Bolivia.
15-The American Federation of Labor
passes an anti-expansion resolu-
ton. Governor Leedy, of Kansas,
calls an extra session of the Legis-
lature to enact Populist legislation.
The American Potteries Company
organized.
16-The House rejects the international
bank bill.
ia large part of the business sec
ton of Terra HaUte, Ind, burns;
loss nearly 100000. A powder
magazine explosion at Hangkow,
China, kills about 5000 men.
21-Ambassador Ethan Allen Hitch
cock nominated Secretary of the
m.