The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-31


covered a ferment treatment (en-
zymes) for germ diseases.-Rioting
over the Belgian governments
electoral bill breaks out in Brus-
sells.
29-Pingree & Smiths shoe factory en-
ployes in Detroit strike.-The steam
barge Margaret founders in Lake
Erie; II drowned.-Mayor Balbir-
ME of Muskegon, Mich, assassi-
mated by ]. w. Taylor. an office
seeker.
3o-The Boston G. Albany railroad
leased by the New York Central
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad
leased from the receivership.-Non
union miners raid and burn Union
City, Ill.-A flood on the Brazos
river, Tex, browns SO people;
100000 worth Of property de-
stroyed.
1.-The cinematograph utilized in
surgery at Kiel university.
3-Photograph of the interior of liv-
ing mains stomach taken in Chi
cago with Roentgen rays.-Elias
Hatfield shoots dead Deputy Sher-
if Ellis at Williamson, w. va.
The Michigan street railway pur-
chase law annulled by the state
supreme court.
6-Ex-King Milan shot dead in Bel
grade.--In London, May Wright Sc
well elected president of the Inter-
national Council Of Women.
1.-The Spanish court-martial acquits
Admiral Ceryera and other officers
for the Santiago defeat
S-Angus NJ Cannon arrested in
Utah for polygamy and pleads
guilty.-George F. Bell, claiming to
be the secret service agent who
stole the Carranza letter, charges
MY - = 4SI
forged document for the real one.
10-The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse breaks the record for time
between New York and Cherbourg,
France, five days and 20 hours and
SIS minutes.
1.-THE Isham dynamite shell, the
Sims-Dudley dynamite gun and
thorite successfully tested at Sandy
Hook, N. J.-Governor Atkinson in
person arrests Elias Hatfield at
Warncliffe, w, Va.
12-The Central Pennsylvania mine
strike settled.
1.-THE Middlesex County bank at
Perth Amboy, N. j., closed on &C
count of the defalcation of Cash
Ter Edward NJ Valentine, who Is
arrested and fesses.-Lieuten-
ant Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant
Meunier killed by orders Of Cap
tain Voulet of the French expedi-
ton in West Africa.
15-Negotiations in Detroit for NUM-
cipai purchase of street railways
broken off.
16-The Brooklyn traction strike be-
gins.
1.-THE Cleveland street car strike re-
sumed.-Five men killed in feud
in Clay county, Ky.-Japans new
foreign treaties go into effect.
1s-The Transvaal Volksraad passes
seven-year franchise bill as COM
promise with Great Britain's de-
mands.
19-Alger resigns as secretary of war.
An attempt made to blow up an
elevated railroad structure IN
Brooklyn.
2o-Six Italians lynched' at Tellulah,
La.
21-First attempt to dynamite a car
made by Cleveland sympathizers.
22-Elihu Root accepts the war port
folio; sworn in August l.
23-Several negro assailants of Mrs.
j. E. Ogletree, cambridge, Ca,
lynched.
24-Delegates to The Hague peace con-
ference sign the conventions.-The
Franco-American reciprocity treaty
signed.
26-The Pingree & Smith strike in De-
troit settled in favor of the firm
The British Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company form
ed-President Heureux of San
Domingo assassinated
27-Property of the Ruskin colony in
Tennessee sold at auction.
29-The Hague peace conference dis
solves.-The Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern railroad reorganized
as the Cincinnati, Portsmouth &
Parkersburg railroad.
30-Thirty cases of yellow fever de-
velop at Hampton Soldiers Home,
Virginia
S1-Yaquis in Mexico take the warpatn.
The Pennsylvania railroad de-
cides to pension superannuated en-
ployes.--The Archbishop of Canter-
bury forbids the use of incense and
candles in English established
churches.
AUGUST.
| Famine kills 10000 natives of East
Africa.-Several Florida towns
partly swept away by floods; a
number of lives lost.--A financial
| panic precipitated in Montreal by
| two bank failures.-The Belgian
| ministry resign.
| "A revolution in favor OF Jiminez
breaks out in San Domingo.-The
Central Anti-Imperialist league or
ganized in Chicago.
| 6-Twenty mine trolley passengers
| killed by the fall of a car through
| a bridge near Bridgeport, Conn. -
| The collapse of a ferry gangplank
near Bar Harbor, Me-, kills 20 peo-
| pie.
| 1.-THE Dreyfus court martial begins
at Rennes. France.-Jim Baker, the
Kentucky vendetta leader, &C
quilted of murder
"a hurricane sweeps the West In
dies, killing 1000 people in Porto
Rico and 800 in the Bahamas.
paul Deroulede and several otnar
anti-Dreyfusites arrested in France.
| 1s--Maitre Labor, counsel for Dreyfus,
shot at Rennes.
14-The Erie railroad begins cutting
passenger rates.
16--Bubonic plague discovered in Opor-
to, Portugal.--A Chilean train falls
into river near Santiago; SO peo-
pie drowned.--A Venezuela rebel
lion crushed in bloody battle in
the state of Los Andes.
I7-Walter Wellman's Arctic expedi-
ton returns to Tromsoe. Norway
19-The German reichstag rejects the
canal bill.
20-Revolutionary anarchists in Paris
start a riot, WreclIng a church; 5St