The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-01-12

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16. Fire: 81 buildings burned at Jamestown. N.
Y; loss, $500,00O.
Obituary: Prof. Robert Wilhelm Everhard Bum
sen, distinguished German chemist, at Heidel-
berg; aged IS.
II. Walter Wellman and the survivors of his
polar expedition arrived at Tromso Norway,
from Franz-Jose Land.
10. Obituary: Gen. Thomas Alfred Davies, a vet
eran of the civil war, at Ogdensburg N Y;
aged 80. Sir Charles Lennox Peel X. G. B.,
noted Conservative, at London; aged &C.
20. Obituary: Isaac Mcclellan, known as the
sportsme<zs poet, at Greenpoint, N. " aged
90.
81. Fire: At Victor, Colo, the business portion
OF the town destroyed; loss, 81, 100000.
p. Sculptor Caspar Buberl died suddenly while
working the Dewey triumphal arch in
New York
"a. Obituary: Judge Henry Hilton, heir to A. T.
Stewards riches, at Saratoga; aged IS.
q. Giovanni Turin, sculptor engaged in model
ing on the Dewey triumphal arch, died sud-
denly in New York.
%. Accident: workmen killed by the falling Of
arches at the new Chicago Coliseum.
80. Fire: At Upper Lake, N. Y, 1863 buildings
destroyed, causing loss of $1500OO.
81. Fire: At Holyoke, Mass, the stationery esab-
lishment of Parsons Green & Co. burned,
causing loss of $60O,00
SEPTEMBER.
2. Fire: In Kansas City; loss, $3.50, OO0
4. Convention: The thirty-thrd national en-
campment G. A. r. met in Philadelphia
2. Personal: Col. Albert D. Shaw, department of
New York, elected commander in chief of the
G. A. R..
Fire. At Garden City, N. Y. the late A. T.
Stewards pet scheme, the Garden City hotel,
burned.
Convention: The national encampment Sons of
Veterans met in Detroit.
8. Obituary: Rear Admiral Henry F. Picking, U.
S. N, veteran of the civil war, at Charles
ton; aged So Stephen Digger of Lin
coins surviving friends at New Salem, Ind,
at Sullivan, Ind. aged 81. James B. Eustis,
ambassador to France under Cleveland, at
Newport; aged 65.
9. Dreyfus convicted and sentenced to 10 years.
Imprisonment.
IA. Obituary: Cornelius Vanderbilt, head of the
family in the third generation in New York
city; aged SO.
To- Storm: Destructive hurricane in Bermuda.
Is. Fires: At Seattle Wash; loss, $165, 900. At
Lincoln, Neb., Masonic temple, st. Paul's
Methodist church and several blocks burned;
loss, $500, 900.
II. Fire: At Promised Land, N. Y, the American
Fisheries Co. burned out; loss, $5OO,OOO
Riot: nonunion miners killed at Carterville,
Ills
49, Fire: Farnham, N. Y. the business section
wiped out; loss over $250,000
10. Fire: At Lowville, N. Y, over $25O,OOO loss
in lumber plant fire.
Disaster: 80 lives lost in the burning of the
passenger steamer Montoya on Magdalena riv-
err, Colombia.
Obituary: Charles Patrick DAILY, noted justice
in New York city; aged SO.
90 Fire: At Hegeswich, His; loss, $150,OOO.
Earthquake: 1000 people reported killed at
Adm, Asia Minor
Miscellaneous Harry W. Benton, the first
''sound'' telegrapher in America, died at
Denver at the age of 60. Dreyfus released on
a pardon.
Obituary: NJ. Scheurer- Kestner, former French
senator and strong champion of Dreyfus, in
Paris; aged g.
81. Fire: At Norfolk; loss of 100000 by the
burning of hosnita1: II dsat',s
s6ipwreck Loss 6; rna Dominion steamer Scots
in the strait of Belle Isle; IA passengers
drowned.
%. Fire: At Salem, Or; loss $150,000 by the
burning of planning mill.
%. Accident: killed and 10 injured in head
on collision on the Rio Grande road at Reno,
Colo
Filipino War: A naval force led by the cruiser
Charleston bombarded Olangapo, on Subig bay,
and captured insurgent works.
"a. Personal: Julia Dent Grant married to Prince
Cantacuzene at Newport
Obituary: John Sleeper Clarke noted English
comedian, at Surbiton-on- Thames.
25 Fire: At Upton, Ind; 100000 loss by the
burning of tin plate mill.
Obituary: Jared B. Flagg, noted American por-
trait painter, in New York city; aged So
o. Obituary: Gen. Henry Heth, noted Confeder-
ate soldier, in Washington; aged "a.
Earthquake Island of Ceram; 5000 people
killed.
g. Naval and marine parade in New York bay
and Hudson river in honor of Admiral Dewey
IL to+;o 10
Admiral Dewey by Mayor Van Wyck, followed
by military land parade
Fire: At Little Rock the State Deaf and Dumb
Mute institute burned; loss, 100000.
OCTOBER.
l. Fires: At Call, Tex; loss, $15O,oOO At
Bloomington, Ills, buildings burned; loss,
$15O,O0O
Q. Fire: At Duquen, Ark, "a buildings burned;
loss, $25O,0OO.
Filipino War: Filipino attack at Bacoor re-
pulsed by troops under Gen. Fred Grant.
8. Fires: At Des Moines the Masonic temple and
other buildings destroyed loss, 100000. At
Endeavor, Pa. loss of 100000 in lumber
yard fire.
s. Obituary: Former U. S. Senator James Har-
Ian, last surviving member of Lincolns cabi-
net at Mount Pleasant, Ia; aged 70.
Q. Fire: Moiave, CAL, wiped out.
South African War: President Kruger's ulti-
of British re-enforcements from the Cape.
10. Fire: In the business section of New Iberia,
La; loss, 5000, OOO
II. Expiration of the Boer time limit; armies
moved to the Transvaal border.
II. South African War: Beers opened the war by
attack a British armored train.
13. Fires: In Brooklyn; loss 100000 by the
burning of two cotton warehouses. At Has
tings N. Y, cable works burned; loss, $685.
000 At Haverstraw, n. Y, acres of build
ings burned loss 5000, 900.
Obituary: Vice Admiral Philip Howard Colomb,
British naval officer, inventor and writer, in
London aged 6S.
IA. Fire: The LOOMS sanitarium burned at Lib
erty, N. Y. loss, 100000.
Disaster: The sound steamer Nutmeg State
burned off Sands point; several lives lost
South African War Fighting began at Mafeking.
is. Fire: At Waterloo, Ia; loss 100000
South African War: Beers under Gen. Cronie
laid siege to Kimberley
Obituary: Laurence Gronlund, social economist
and author, in New York city; aged So.
16. Sporting: Columbia won the first race over
the Shamrock by 10m. IS.
tinguished geologist, at Columbus. O.; aged
20.
II. Sporting: Columbia won the second race, the
Shamrock breaking her topmast.
Is. Obituary: Isaac Bird, a California pioneer
orchardist, at jacksonville, CAD; aged Sc.