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

oleCtloHS. "A street car strike riot
IN Houston, Texas, results in call
ing out the militia
2S-Richard T. Lopez whose operations
wrecked the Peoples Bank, Phil
adelphla, arrested on conspiracy
charge.
29-Cashier Steele, of the failed Chest
nut Street Bank, Philadelphia, ar
rested charged with classifying re-
ports.
3O-Captain General Blanco issues an
edict releasing the reconcentradoes
in the four western provinces of
Cuba. Depew resigns the Presi-
dency Of the New York Central
railroad to assume the chairman
ship of the entire Vanderbilt sys-
TEN.
APRIL.
1.-The Joint Episcopal Committee
submits its report of revision OF
the church constitution, containing
clause forbidding the solemniza-
ton of marriages of divorces.
Editor Braun and Politician Davis
ffeht a street duel in Waco, Tex,
and both mortally wounded.
UNITED States Judge Taft, at Gin
cinnati, de, .des Glover Leaf rail-
road bonds valid and DEGREES fore
closure sale.
3-Shawneetown, Ill.,, inundated by
the bursting of the levee; % people
drowned. An avalanche on Chill
kOot trail, Alaska, buries alive over
100 gold seekers.
Alive thousand Chicago carpenters
strike. Two thousand cotton mill
operatives at TaftVille, Conn.
strike.
5-Municipal reformers carry Chicago
and fusioniStS win in Milwaukee
elections.
7-Republicans carry Rhode Island.
S-Dervishes defeated by Anglo-Egyp-
tian troops in a great battle at AL
bara, Soudan.
10-Rev. DR.. Briggs, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, joins the Pro-
testant Episcopal communion.
E11-Captain General Blanco proclaims
an armistice in Cuba. A receiver
ship asked for Dodge & Son at
Dolgeville, N. Y.
lex President Crespo, of Venezuela,
killed in battle with rebels.
ia colliery fire at Leicestershire,
England, results in the loss of Al
lives.
2O-Spurgeon Tabernacle in London
burns. City Treasurer Widber, of
San Francisco, arrested, charged
with embezzling $780, 900.
21-The President dominates Charles
Emory Smith Postmaster General
to succeed James A. Gary, resigned.
23-Lemuel L. Terry, cashier of the
Merchants National Bank, of New
Bedford, after embezzling $125,000
commits suicide.
| 25-Secretary of State Sherman resigns.
26-Assistant Secretary Day promoted
to be Secretary of State Powder
mills at Santa Cruz, Cal. blow
up, killing ten men.
29-Cap Hatfield, vendetta chief, sur
renders at Williamson, w. Va.
30-American missionaries massacred
in Sierra Leone, Africa North
western Iowa and Southeastern
South Dakota visited by wind
storms; many lives lost.
MAY.
steam filters of the country strike
martial law proclaimed in Madrid
4-The Senate passes a resolution
looking toward amendment of that
part of the Constitution relating
to Presidential succession.
6ZBread riots break out in Spain and
Italy.
China pays the last installment of
the japanese war indemnity.
S-Hundreds slain in a bread riot in
Milan, Italy.
9-The United States Supreme Court
nullifies the inspection feature of
the South Carolina dispensary act.
1.-THE House passes a resolution
looking to an amendment of the
Constitution providing for election
Of United States Senators by popu-
lar vote
12-Several Spanish Cabinet Ministers
resign.
1.-THE entire Spanish Cabinet resign.
1.-two hundred small boats wrecked
by a storm near Marioka, Japan.
and ] 800 lives lost.
1S-A new Spanish ministry organ
lied, Sagasta continuing as Prem
Ter. Tornadoes in Western IlH-
nois, Eastern Iowa and Southern
Wisconsin wipe out about As
lives.
22-Fire breaks out in the zollern
mine at Dortmund. Prussia: AZ
lives lost. Thirty-four people
drowned by the laundering of
Klondike steamer off Cape Flat
terry.
24-The British East Indian steamers
Lindula and Mecca collide. sink
ing the latter; So drowned.
27-The Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, passes a resolution asking
Professor McGiffert to either Ne
consider his published views or ~
leave the Presbyterian eommun.Y
ion. Ex-Auditor Bechtel and hisf
chief clerk. Scarborough, Of ths
Pacific Express Company, Omahal
arrested charged with embezzling
$3.50. 000
2S-An extradition treaty between the
United States and Brazil signed at
Rio Janeiro
30-A reciprocity arrangement con-
Guided with France. An agree
ment reached with Canada for
joint commission to settle all dis
putes between the two countries.
JUNE.
1.-The s-Mississippi and Inter-
national Exposition at Omaha
opens. Four thousand houses burn
at Peshawar. India, loss, $4,000