Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-31

G Weather: First cold wave Of the season;
freezing weather in southern Kansas and Mis-
souri,. Arkansas and Tennessee.
Fire: Biloxi. Miss. visited by flames which de-
stroyed $40 buildings and le'r 200 people
homeless: loss. SSG1cl0-
g. Accident: BY the explosion Of gas in the Buck
Mountain mine, Mahsnoy City. Pa, miner
killed and 20 injured, several fatally
Miscellaneous: Jerry Lynch, the last survivor OF
the crew Of the Confederate cruiser Alabama.
died in Atlanta. Great destruction of life and
shipping by = typhoon At HongGons-
10. Obituary: r -. Dun. head Of the American
Mercantile agency. in New York city; aged -.
South African var: The British forces under
Gen. SElith-Dorien engaged the Beers under
De Wet 80 miles northwest OF kToonstadt and
captured S guns; Boer loss, % killed, 80
wounded and 100 prisoners.
SEipWrecks: The schooner Myra B. Weaver
wrecked On Handkerchief shoal New England
coast; 4 sailors and women drowned. The
steamer Monticello lest OF Yarmouth, Y. s.;
&c sailors and passengers drowned.
Sporting: Yale scored 35 TO for the Carlisle
Indians in the annual football game at New
Haven.
Accident 5 killed and Is injured in a collision
between an express and a suburban train st
Choisv-le-flCi, France.
T.. Fire: persons burned to death and many
injured. ) Of them fatally, in a fire Ct the
Clifford House, Poplar Bluffs, No.
Obituary: Henry Willard, the noted fnancier. at
Marcus DAILY multinillonaire mine owner and
turf patron Of Montana, in New NoTk city;
agCd %.
The Paris exhibition closed
Is. Financial Troubles; William L Strong Co,
wholesale dry goods house in New York.
placed IN the hands Of a receiver; liabilities
yaroUsly estimated at from SI,OOo,O00 TO So
coo 900. Grant Bros, Stockholders in New
YORK. failed, with liabilities placed at $500, 900
Conventions: The 18th annual convention Of
American agricultural colleges met in New
Haven. The 20th annual session of the Prot
csart Episcopal church congress began in
Providence.
Is. Accident: Is passengers killed and 20 injured
by the ferailing OF an express near Bayonne.
Trance; among the killed ;he Peruvian
minister - the French court, Senior Canevaro.
ShipwI,~- The L. :. auxiliary cruiser Yosemite
wrecked of the island OF Guam, near the Phil
ippiues; sailors drowned.
To- Personal: Attempt upon the life Of Emperor
William at Breslau.
Accident: killed and seriously injured in
head collision at RaEmiltOn. Pa
L. Fire: The business portion of Philippi, ".
Va, swept 10y flames: loss 100000.
Sporting: Yale scored % TO Princcton's in the
annual football contest at Princeton.
Miscellaneous: Martin Irons, formerly prominent
in the cause Of labor, died at Bruceville, Tex.
Capt. joseph a. o. Woman, who successfully
Swallowed jefferson Davis on his fight from
Richmond and secured his capture, died at
Washington Court House, Q.
IS Fatal Fire: deaths in the burning of the Nc
GoEigal House at OSwlyO, Pa.
Accident: \ section Of ore docks on the Black
well canal in Buffalo fell, killing persons
and causing u loss Of $4,000.
Financial Troubles; 4. c. Hooper & Co.. stock
brokers in New York. failed, with liabilities of
100000.
90. Financial Troubles: The Pioneer Silk Co. of
Paterson, y. j., failed, with liabilities OF
5000
Convention: The 18th annual convention of the
National Association Of State Dairy and Food
DpparTmputS 1upt al Milwaukee
Obituary: Rear Admiral Roger n. Stembel. U.
:. y, retired, in New York city; aged 90.
Charles H. IIoyt, the popular playwright, at
Charlestown. y. H.; cged 20.
Storm: 4 tornado swept over Mississippi. Ala
hama and Tennessee; 6f persons killed, in
Guiding 40 at Columbia, Tenn, and 81 injured.
81. Storm: Remarkable rain of sand in Colorado;
loss At Colorado Springs, 100000.
Shpwreck: % lives lost in the wrccking of the
steamer st. Olaf on Boule island rocks, in the
ST. Lawrence.
%. Obituary: Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer of
''Pinafore" and other popular comic operas,
in London; aged So.
Financial Troubles: Chester b. Lawrence. Jr.,
stockbroker in New York, failed. with liabili-
ties placed at S2oO, 900
"a. Sporting: ale scored % to Harvard in the
annual football game at New Haven.
Personal: ExPresident Kruger received in Paris
with public demonstrations of welcome.
&c ShpwreCk: The schooner Maumee Valley lost
on Point Pelee Lake Erie; 5 sailors drowned.
81 Obituary: Robert f. A. DOrr, editor and pub
Usher OF the New York Mail and Express, in
New York city; aged sc. Cusfman X. Davis,
L. $. senator from Minnesota, in St. Paul;
aged CO.
2s. South African War: Dewetsdorp, Orange Free
State. captured by the Beers; guns and 400
British prisoners taken.
90. Accidents: 10 persons killed and - injured by
the collapse OF a roof in San Francisco. o
killed and many injured in a collision on the
Mexican Central Il. II. near Symon, Mexico.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Frederick McNair, u.
S. y, Washington; aged 81.