The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-12

loss In chicago. cru,
bawa Island, Malay Archipelago. 70
vard Remenyi violinist, falls dead IN =
San Francisco theater.. Ball Bros.
glass works burned at Muncie' inu'
~ Vim Flint mil Of Mining & Mill Co., at East
Liverpool, Ohio. burned: loss, *lOo,Ou.
.7-Grenf damage done and many people
hurt by cyclone In Nebraska. 49,.
1a-Business section Of Attleboro, MASS,
destroyed by fre- Destructive c i,,,.nis
sweeps through Iowa, Kansas, Illinois
and Wisconsin.
1e-Death Of william e. Gladstone:
22-Death Of Edward Bellamy. :. Mine nrs
at Zollern, Prussia; IS miners perasn.
2S-Itallan cabinet resigns
31-New cabinet formed IN Italy.
Ju-e.
death Of tragedian Thos- W. Keene... !.
Transmissippi exposition opens a.
death Of Capt Chas. Y. Gridley. Of the
cruiser Olympia at Manila.
7-Piant Of Burgess Steel Co, Portsmouth
Ohio, burned; loss, $4OO,OOO
13-Collapse Of Joseph Letters wheat deal.
DETERMINATION of the French ministry.
o8-First party cabinet formed In Japan
29-Formation Of the Pelloux cabinet ID
Italy.
2Strike Of stereotypers causes Chicago
papers to suspend for four days
AFr,nch liner La Bourgogne goes down
of Sable Island with 553 passengers
6-Hawaiian resolutions adopted by the
Senate.
aSteelville, No.. almost obliterated by
waterspout. Congress ad1ourns sine
die.
11-Sagasta ministry in Spain resigns. !:
Eleven men killed In water tunnel At
Cleveland, Ohio.
19-Powder mill at Oakland. Cal, blown up
by Chinaman and seven lives lost.
3O-Death Of Prince Bismarck.
August.
martin Thorn executed at Sing Sing,
N Y.
aBismarck, N. D., destroyed by fire..
Death Of Georg NJ. Ebers. Psychologist
and novelist.
12-united States flag officially hoisted over
Hawaii.
kins County, KY.
15-Resgnation of ministry at Lisbon.
.0-French steamer La Coquette sunk Oh
Newfoundland by the Norge; 16 lives
lost.
21-Seyen persons killed In railway collision
at Sharon, Mass.
2o-Eieht laborers killed by collapse Of a
wall in Carnegie tunnel. Pa. Garter
VILE, H.. visited by a $3.50, 600 fire. SOC
miners drowned at Nience, Silesia.
Death OF King M8lletOA u SdluOds
obstructive fire at Logansport, La.
23-Ex-Gov Claude Matthews stricken by
paralyss at Meharry's Grove, Ind.
2s-Death Of ex-Gov. Claude Matthews OF
Indiana.
3O-Small pOx breaks out at Put-ln-b Bay Isl
31-Wiihelmina becomes Queen OF Holland
Confession and suicide of Col. Henry,
principal witness against Capt. Dreyfus,
at Paris.
eeptember.
president Wilford Woodruff. Of the Nor
mon church, died at San francisco.
The British captured OmdurmaR oppO-
site Khartoum, In the Soudan.
4-British troops occupied Khartoum. M
Cayaignac, French Minister Of War, re-
signs.
hTwenty- eight people killed In collision
Of train with trolley car at Cohoes, N. Y.
....Gen. ZurIinden appointed French
Minister Of War.
6-Wilhelmina crowned Queen Of Holland
at Amsterdam. :. Thirty men killed by
falling OF bridge over st. Lawrence
River, near st. Regis Indian village. -.
Many killed In riots In Crete. Opening
Of G. A. r. national encampment at Gin
cnnati.
1O-Assa ssination Of Elizabeth. Empress OF
Austria. by an Italian anarchist at
Geneva, Switzerland. 5000, 600 fire at
Livermore Falls, Me.
11-Fire wiped out New Westminster, B. c.,
and Jerome, Ariz.
12-Death Of Judge Thos. NJ. Cooley at Ann
Arbor. Mich: Hurricane on Island OF
st. Vincent, West Indies, killed 800 per-
sons and destroyed much properly.
14-Lorenzo Snow chosen head of the Nor
mon church.
1S-Death of DR.. John Hall. :. Death OF
Miss Winnie Davis.
2O-Ten persons burned to death In an ele
vator fire In Toledo.
22-Thirty six men drowned by sinking OF
French boat Vile de Fecamp OF Fecamp
23-Fifty miners entombed in coal shaft at
Brownsville, Pa.
24-Several persons killed and much prop
erty destroyed by windstorm at Lima, o.
26-Tornado destroys property at Tonawan
da, N. Y. and kills five at MerriltOn, Ont
death Of Miss Fanny Davenport.
27-Claremont, Mimi, DESTROYED by fire.
28-Deaths of exSecretary Thomas F. Bay
ard. Riot at Pana, Ill.
29-Death of Queen Louise Of Denmark.
9O-Hundreds Of lives lost by foods In
Japan.
OctoI,e-.
1-Great fire In Colorado Springs, Colo.
2-Fierce gale on South Atlantic coast.
Gin attempting to quell the rebellion OF
the Indians at Bear Lake, MIMI, several
soldiers were killed and wounded.
S-Great fire In Sidney, N. s. w.
9-S2O0OO0 fire at Atlantic City, N. J.
16-Great FIRE at Dawson City, Alaska.
<V-ScNcA Mcu kitfcu Dy UOileT EXPULSION on
torpedo boat Davis near Astoria, Ore
23-Ten men killed In q race war at Har.
persville, Miss.
24-Fire on the Brooklyn, N. T., water front;
loss, $4Ib 900.
25-FreHch cabinet resigns.
31-New French cabinet formed Japan
csc cabinet resigns. ~
November.
t-Eleven men killed by collapse of new
Wonderland theater at Detroit. Seven
men crushed to death In q mine near
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
6-Capitol at Washington wrecked by gas
explosion. Death Of David A. Wells.
economic writer.
7-Resgnation Of the Greek ministry.
general election.
9-Organization Of Japan's new ministry
completed.
1o-New ministry formed in Greece. :. Pres,
ident Masso and Secretaries Of Cuban re-
public resign.
11-Bank at Kirksville, Mo-, robbed OF
So, 900.
17-British ship Atalanta sinks OF Oregon
coast; % lives lost
18-Death Of John w. Keely, the inventor.
Twelve laborers killed By train at
Hackensack Meadows, N. J.
19-Death Of Gen. d. C. Buell..
23-Burning of the Baldwin hotel and the
alter In San Francisco.
24-26-Great storm sweeps over the conn.
try; many lives lost at sea.
27-Death Of Actor C. W. Couldock J. SIX
persons killed BY boiler explosion near
Fourteen Mile Slough, Cal.
28-Dynamite explosion In Havana kills Ii
persons and Injuries % others.
December.
5Opening Of Congressional session,
10-Death Of William Black, novelist.
11-Death Of Gen. Calixto Garcia at Wash
lngtOn.
15-Death of e1 senator Calvin s. Brice.. !.
Six persons killed In railway wreck at
Madison, Fla.
16-Six persons killed by train at Allen
wood, N. r.. Department store Of q.
Hartstein's Sons burned at Milwaukee:
loss, $4,000.
17-Death Of Baron Ferdinand James de
Rothschild In London. Twenty lives