Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-05
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tornado, 150 persons being killed. .Dupu.
ministry resigns at Paris.
16-Thirteen persons drowned In steam
boat accident near Stettin, Germany. :.
Twelve miners killed by mine explosion a
Glace Bay, C.. b.
22SNew French cabinet organized at Paris
23-Death of H. B. Plant.
29-Nine lives lost in wreck OF steamel
Margaret Olwill in Lake Erie.
3OeDreyfus lands in France. Walkou
at Homestead mills, Pittsburg.
28-Disastrous foods in Texas.
July.
6-Death of Bishop j. P. Newman.
6-Death of Robert Bonner. Order Is
sued for enlistment of ten regiments for the
Philippines.
anti-slavery leader. .Lindell Hotel, Lin
l6.Street car strike inaugurated in Brook
19-Resignation of R. A. Alger. Secretary
of War.
21-Death of Robert G. Ingersoll.
22-Elihu Root named as Secretary OF Wal
natl.
psi 100000 loss by burning of c.. H. &
d. elevator at East Toledo Ohio
26-Assassination of President UfJsse
Heureaux Of San Domingo.
27-Death of A. L. Luetgert in Joliet, ILL.,,
prison.
August.
1-Elihu Root, of New York, sworn In as
Secretary of War.
6-Thirty five killed and twelve injured in
trolley car accident near Bridgeport, Conn.
Collapse of ferry slip at Bar Harbor,
Me-, kills twenty persons and Injuries forty
others.
7-Dreyfus trial begins at Rennes, France.
I'm. Labori, counsel for Capt. Dreyfus,
shot at Rennes.
20-Great riot In Paris.
21-Business portion Of Victor, Colo. de-
2s-Chicago Coliseum framework collapses
killing nine men and injuring as many more.
September.
5-Extremely hot weather In Chicago;
THERMOMETER registers 9s degrees.
6-Fifty persons injured in collision on the
B. & o. Railway at Connellsyille, Pa.
e-Capt. Alfred Dreyfus convicted at Rem
mes, France.
12+Death of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
13-Trust conference begins In Chicago.
17-Seven negroes killed in coal mine riot
at carteryille. H.; Death of chas. A. Pills
19Capt. Dreyfus pardoned. -
21-Fire in Chicago stockyards; loss
$500, 900.
pia. arrives In New York.
29-Dewey naval parade in New York.
30-$1 100000 fire in Big -Four depot and
warehouse at Cincinnati.
October.
Fall festival in Chicago.
11-War Is begun in South Africa. :. For
NAL declaration of war made by Beers.
12-Four thousand persons killed by earth
quake in Ceram, Molucca Islands.
16-COlumbia wins first race for Americas 3
cup.
i7-Columbia wins second race, Shamrock
being disabled by breaking of topmast.
20-Columbia wins third race. Beers de-
feated at Glencoe.
2l-English defeat Beers at Elandslaagte.
23-Battle at Glencoe, South Africa.
24Boers repulsed at Ladysmith.
26-Death of Gen. Guy V. Henry.
27-Death of Florence Marryat, English
novelist.
3O-British badly defeated in desperate
battle at Ladysmith.. :. .Ferryboat sunk in
North River, New York, and ten lives lost.
November.
S-Jeffries defeats Sharkey In New York.
4-American Steel and Wire Company's
plant at Waukegan, ILL.,, burns.
Cruiser Charleston goes ashore on
northwest coast of LuZon.
9-Admlral Dewey and Mrs: Mildred Hazen
welded In Washington. .Joubert begins
of Ladysmith.
12-Major John A. Logan killed In battle
- 2fEDeath Of Vice President Garret A.
23~British defeat Beers In hard battle at
Belmont.
Director General of Worlds Fair of 1893.
27-Death of Charles Coghlan, the actor.
28-Boers defeated in severe engagement
on banks of Modder River.
29-Block of Philadelphia business houses
burned; loss $3,o0O0O0.
December.
FIFTY y-sixth Congress opens.
5-Death of Senator Hayward of Nebraska.
6-Dick Coleman, negro murderer, burned
at the stake at Maysyille, KY.
9IBritish meet decisive defeat at Storm
berg. Thirty-two miners killed by gas ex-
plosion in mine at Carbonado, Wash.
11-Brltish suffer great losses in engage
ment with Beers at Magersfontein.
314-Gen. Butler badly defeated by Beers
in attempting to cross Tugela River.
17-Death of Thos M. Brumby, flag lieu
tenant Of U. s. warship Olympia.
1S-Currency bill passed by lower house
of Congress. Excitement on Wall street
causes two big failures.
19-Gen. Henry w. Lawton killed before
San Mateo, p. L.