The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-01-14
goes down on Canary Islands: 81 lives


Hammeerly. Prussia kills 50 persons
100000 fire at Pittsheld Mass. . Brit
lsh steamer Legislator burned at sea.
1S-Death of Miss Frances K. Willard I'm
New YORK City. Large fire at Pitts
burg.
20-New wharf and custom house Mt Tam
pico. Mexico. burned: loss. s.. 900. 600.
25-NatiOnal Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville. KY, burned; loss, $1,000. 600.
2O-Nlne lives lost in tenement house fire
at Charleston, s. c.. Seven persons
killed at Blue Island. ILL.,. by the coils
ION OF train and an omnibus. Ten
persons killed and five injured by an
explosion and fire in Hall Bros labora-
tory at Kalamazoo. Mich
21-Death of VIM. NJ. Singerly, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Record.
March.
2-Six men killed by boiler explosion near
BrewtOn, Ala.
3-Nne drowned by the laundering of the
schooner Speedwel Off the Florida coast.
Fire causes S15OO00 loss in Brownell &
Field Co.'S building at Providence, II. |.
-. .S5,OOO.OOO tre loss at Manila. Phil
ippine Islands
1l-Death of Gen. w. S. Rosecrans.
l3-Eleven men burned to death in Bowery
Mission. New York
l6-Death of Aubrey Beardsiey. the artist.
Many persons killed in a fire at 215
wabash avenue. Chicago.
1I-Death of Blanche X Bruce Register OF
the Treasury
19-six convicts killed in a mine at Pratt
City. Ala.
21-several persons killed in hotel fire at
Butte. Mont.
22-Forty lives lost by sinking of bark
Helen Amy Off San Francisco
20 Death Of James Payn, English novel
list. Death Of Truman F. Handy, OF
Cleveland. Ohio. oldest banker in United
States. Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged S1OO, 600
by fire.
23-Forty-eight sealers of steamer Green
land persisted on ice foes
26-Seven persons burned to death at Kent,
MINI.
27-Death of Congressman simpkins. of
Massachusetts.
3-Fifty lives lost in flood at Shawnee
town. III.
4-Fifteen men killed by explosion of pow
der near San Vicente. Mexico.
Sudden death of Margaret Mather the
tragedienne.
11-oxford Junction. Iowa. visited by $780,
600 fire.
12-Penn glass works at North Irwin. Pa,
burned. loss, $4,000
13-Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Belt,
Mont, suffers $250,00O fire loss
1I-Fire, following a dust explosion, de-
stroys grain elevator at Boston; loss.
19-Death Of George Parsons Lathrop.
21-Postmaster General Gary resigns and Is
succeeded by Charles Emory Smith.
Death of Senator Walthall, of Missis-
25-secretary of State John Sherman re-
signs
26-Wm R. Day appointed to I'LL the va
cancy. Glasgow, Scotland. visited by
$15O,OOO fire. Powder mill at Santa
Cruz. Cal, blown up, causing loss of
eleven lives.
2S-Atlantic Powder Co.'S works at Dover.
n. j.. wrecked by an explosion.
3O-Heavy damage done by tornadoes in
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Da-
kota.
2-Thlrteen persons killed by tornado at
JercO, Mo.
&Schooner Crown wrecked of st. Johns,
n. F., and IL men drowned.
6-S125,OOO fire loss at Cleveland.
Three hundred persons killed In a riot
at Milan, Italy.
S-Duluth, Mimi, suffers a 100000 fire.
11-WOOl warehouse burns at Ballardville,
Mass; loss 100000
12-Burning of Armour's elevator d and
several lumber yards causes $1,000, 900
loss in Chicago.
14-ThOusands killed by cyclone on Sum-
bawa Island, Malay Archipelago. Ed
ward Remenyi, vOlinist, falls dead in a
San Francisco theater. Ball Bros
glass works burned at Muncie. Ind. {;
loss $3.50. 900.
16-Flnt mill Of Mining & Mill Co., at East
Liverpool Ohio, burned; loss. 100000
11-Great damage done and many people
hurt by cyclone in Nebraska.
1s-Business section of Attleboro Mass.
htNAIbHtu ny IRE. o destructive cyclone
sweeps through Iowa. Kansas, Illinois
and Wisconsin
19-Death Of William e. Gladstone
22-Death Of Edward Bellamy . Mine fire
at ZOllern, Prussia; 45 miners perish.
2S-Italian cabinet resigns.
3l-New cabinet formed in Italy.
Ju-e.
death of tragedian Thos. w. Keene.
Iransmissippi exposition opens at
Omaha.
4 Daotb 90 Cant Cho. " c,.ta,o q -,
cruiser Olympia at Manila.
PLANT of Burgess Steel Co. Portsmouth,
Ohio, burned; loss, 100000.
lease Power Building in Detroit burned.
13-COllapse of Joseph Letters wheat deal.
15-Resignation of the French ministry
2S-First party cabinet formed in Japan.
29-FormatOn of the PellOux cabinet In
Italy.
2-Strlke OF stereOtypers causes Chicago
papers to suspend for four days.
4French liner La BOurgOgne goes down
of Sable Island with 553 passengers
6-Hawaiian resolutions adopted by the
Senate.
s-Steelville. Mo, almost oblterated by
waterspOut Congress adjourns sine
die
l1-sagasta ministry In Spain resigns. 49,.
Eleven men killed In water tunnel at
Clevelapd, Ohio.
19-Powder' mill at Oakland. Cal. blown up
by Chinaman and seven lives lost.
30-Death Of Prince Bismarck.
August.
Martin Thorn executed At Sing Sing.
Ny
s-Bismarck. ~ D.. destroyed by fire.
Death Of Georg NJ. Ebers. Psychologist
and novelist.
12-Unlted States flag officially hoisted over
Hawaii.
13-Twenty lives lost by clOudburst In Haw-
klns County. Ky.
15-Resgnation of ministry at Lisbon.