Connecticut western news., 1900-01-25
OCTOBER

From January to December.
 OCTOBER. l. Fires: At Call. Tex; Ioss s15o.ooo. At Bloomington, Ills, buildings burned; loss, s150.OOO.
 1, Fire: At Duquen. Ark. 54 buildings burned; loss. s250.00O.
 Filipino war Filipino attack at Bacoor re- pulsed by troops under Gen. Fred Grant. g. Fires: At Des Moines the Masonic temple and other buildings destroyed; loss. s5oo.00o. At Endeayor. Pa; loss of s5oo,0Oo in lumber yard fire
 g. Obituary: Former U. & Senator James liar. Ian. last surviving member of Lincolns cabi- net, at Mount Pleasant. Ia.; aged 79. 9. Fire: Moiave. Cal. wiped out.
 South African War: President Kruger's ulti- matum demanding arbitration and the recall of British re-enforcements from the Cape. TO- Fire: In the business section Of New Iberia. La.; loss, $200. .000 IL Expiration of the Boer time limit; armies moved to the Transvaal border. 12 South African War: Boers opened the war by attack British armored train. I3 Fires: In Brooklyn: loss s600.000 by the burning of two cotton warehouses. At Has tings, N. Y., cable works burned; loss. sl25,- 900. At Haverstraw. N. r., acres of build ings burned; loss. s200.000
 Obituary: Vice Admiral Philip Howard Colomb, British naval officer inventor and writer. in London; aged 6S H. Fire: The Loomis sanitarium burned at Lib erty, N. r.; loss. s100,00O.
 Disaster: The sound steamer Nutmeg State burned of Sands point; several lives lost. South African War: Fighting began at Mafeking. 15 Fire: At Waterloo, la. loss sl00.0o0 South African War: Boers under Gen. Cronje laid siege to Kimberley.
 Obituary: Laurence Gronlund social economist and author in New York city; aged 5s. l6. Sporting Columbia won the frst over the Shamrock by l0m. Ss. .-.. Obituary Edward Orton, Ph. D., LLA D., dis tinguished geologist, at Columbus. O.; aged 70.
 17. Sporting: Columbia won the second race, the Shamrock breaking her topmast. IS. Obituary: Isaac Bird. a California pioneer orchardst. at Watsonville, Cal; aged s6. l9. w. H. Appleton. last of the old circle of New York publishers. in New York city; aged s5. %. Sporting: The Columbia won her third con secutive victory the Shamrock by 6m. lss. Filipino War: Insurgents routed at San Isidro by Gen. Young's command.
 South African War Battle at Glencoe; British loss, 2ll. Gen. Symons mortslly wounded. Convention: National meeting of the W. c. T..
 U. began at Seattle. Wash. f1. Fire Disaster: l4 persons burned to death In their dwellings at Faires, Ala.
 South African War: Battle of Elandslaagt
 British and Boers lost heavily. 25. Grant Allen, the English author, died in London; aged 51.
 27. Obituary: John Goldman Ropes, military hs- torisn, in Boston; aged 63. Gen. Guy V.
 Henry. U. 8. A., civil and regular army
 veteran in New York city; aged 60. 2s. Ottmar Mergenthaler. inventor of the lino-
 type machine. died in Baltimore; aged +5. Sporting: The principal football contests result
 ed as follows: Columbia 5. Yale 0. at New
 York Cornell 5. Princeton 0. at Ithaca; liar
 yard 22. Carlisle 10. at Cambridge; Chicago 5,
 Pennsylvania 5. at Chicago. f9. Obituary: Florence Marryatt (Mrs. Francis a Lean) English novelist, at Brighton, Eng
 land; aged 62. so South African War: Battle before Ladysmith;
 British regiments and battery captured. Shipwreck: Steamer George L. Colwell of De
 trot, for New York from Fernandina. went
 to pieces of Charleston; l2 sailors drowned. Sl. Fires: At Aberdeen, Wash; loss Sl5O,OOO by
 the burning of salmon canncry. At Hack
 ettstown, N. J., the Hackettstown seminary
 burned; loss, sSOO.0oo.
 NOVEMBER.
 l. Shipwreck: Of Cape Romain, s. C., schooner
 William Nj. Bird lost and sailors drowned {. Fires: In Kansas City Jones department store and the St. James hotel burned; loss s5OO.ooo. At waukegan, Ills. the plant of thu
 American Steel and Wire company damaged to the exten, of 500. 900. Sporting: Harvard scored Is to Pennsylvania at the Cambridge football contest. g. Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops cap tured Magalang after sharp fighting. 6. Filipino War: Gen. Wheaton's division landed at San Fabian, Lngayen gulf. under tn enemys fire. Political: First autonomous government in tn Philippines installed at Bacoor, island o Negros, by the U. s. governor general. !. Shipwreck: The U. s. cruiser Charleston los of the northwest coast of Luzon. O A at South African War: Severe fighting at Lady smith.
 | Personal: Admiral George Dewey married t Mrs Mildred Hagen at Washington. II. Sporting: Princeton scored l2 to Carlisle In dians in a football contest at New York At Easton Lafayette scored to Cornell g. Indian Troubles: Navaioes and l white kille in battle between Indians and settlers nea Walton Station, A. T. ! l2 Fire: At Montreal; loss, $500. 900. Venezuelan War: Puerto Cabello surrendered { Gen. Castro after battle in which 65o wer | killed and wounded. | Filipino War: Sharp fight at San Jacinto; Ma | jor John A. Logan killed at the head of hi \ battalion. IS. Obituary: Col. Henry Inman. veteran Of tn | regular army and the civil war, author the "old Santa Fe Trail." at Topeka; aged 6: \ IA. Obituary: Dr. Moritz Busch. biographer
 Bismarck. at Leipsic; aged IS.
 l6. War In Colombia: Conclusion of two day | battle at Bucaranangs in which 1000 rebe | were killed and 2.000 wounded. l IT. Fire: The Hamburg American liner Patr | abandoned to the flames in the North
 Obituary: Col. Lawrence Kip. veteran of Il ! civil war and a noted turfman, in New Tor
 city; aged 63.
 | IS. Sporting: The Yale-Harvard annual foot ba | game ended in a draw at Cambridge. I9. Accident: killed and { seriously injured
 wreck on the Chicago. St. Paul. Minneap
 lis and Omaha railroad at Humboldt, s. D.
 South African War: Boers repulsed by the Bri | fish at Estcourt.
 Obituary: Sir William Dawson. noted Canadis | educator and geologist. at Montreal; aged 8 20. Filipino War: Gen. MscArthur's troops ente
 ed Dagupan. the northern terminus ot Il \ Manila railway.
 | Personal: Emperor William arrived at Winds
 castle. the guest of Queen Victoria. 21. Obituary: GaTet A. Hobart. vice president | the United States, at Paterson. N. J.; aged 5 22 Accident: killed In rear end collision b | tween limited passenger and freight tra l on the Baltimore and Ohio near AcCool. Ind 23 Obituary: Prof. Miaskowski. an authority
 political economy and international law | the University of Leipsic. at Leipsc; aged c | Fire: The Husted elevator burned at Bufal | loss about $150.0OO.
 South African War: Battle at Belmont, south
 Kimberley; British loss, 220. | The Sudan: Gen Wingate. with an Egypt | force. defeated the dervishes near DreiAsss.
 the line of the Nile. killing 4oo incudi | the khalifa.
 A- Fire: At Detroit: loss. S350oOO.
 a6 South African War: Battle at Gras Pan Hil
 north of Belmont. lasting four hours Ge
 Methuen's column lost heavily.
 Sporting: Princeton defeated Yale at football
 New Haven; score. Princeton Il, Yale 10.
 Obituary: Rev. Robert Lowry, author of sevei
 ysfy ropulaf hymns, at P1ainHsid, \. j.j e - %S e