Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
tornado, $50 persons being kllled.. .Dupuy

TORNADO, 100 persons being Killed. .Dupuy
ministry resigns at Paris.
13-Herman, Neb., destroyed BY storm
16-Thirteen persons drowned in steam
boat accident near Stettin, Germany.
Twelve miners killed by mine explosion at
Glace Bay, c. b.
22-New French cabinet organized at Paris.
2S-Death of HI. b. Plant.
29-Nine lives lost In wreck Of steamer
Margaret 0lwill in Lake Erie.
30-Dreyfus lands in France =. Walkout
at Homestead mills, Pittsburg.
2S-Disastrous hoods in Texas.
July.
5-Death of Bishop j. p Newman
G-Death of Robert Bonner. Order Is
sued for enlistment of ten regiments for the
Philippines
death of George W. Julian, Indiana
anti-slavery leader. -. Lindell Hotel, Lin
coin, NeJ., burns.
lo-Street car strike inaugurated in Brook
10 Resignation of r. A. Alger. Secretary
of War.
21-Death of Robert G. Ingersoll.
22-Elthu Root named as Secretary of War
Telegraph messengers strike at Cincin-
2}-S1, 900. 900 loss by burning of c., II. &
d. elevator at East Toledo, Ohio.
26-Assassination of President Ulysses
Heureaux Of San Domingo.
27-Death of A. L. Luetgert in Joliet, ILL.,.
prison.
3O-rupper Lake. n Y, wiped out by fire.
August.
1-Elihu Root, of New York, sworn In as
Secretary of War.
6Thirty-iv killed and twelve injured In
trolley car accident near bridgeport, Conn.
Collapse Of ferry slip ut Bar Harborr
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-
StrOyed by fire.
2S-Chicago Coliseum framework collapses
killing nine men and injuring as many more.
September.
Extremely hot weather in Chicago;
Thermometer registers SO degrees.
6-hifty persons injured in collision on the
B. & o. Railway at Connellsville, Pa.
9-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
ut Carterville, Ill, !. Death Of Chas. A. Pills
bury of Minneapolis.
19-Capt. Dreyfus pardoned.
21-bire in Chicago stockyards; loss
Admiral Deweys flagship, the olym-
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.
T-Fan 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.
1G-Columbia wins first race for Americas
cup.
i7-Columbia wins second race, Shamrock
being disabled by breaking of topmasr
20-Columb!a wins third race. Beers de-
feated at Glencoe.
21-English defeat Beers at Elandslaagte.
23-Battle at Glencoe, South Africa.
24-Beers repulsed at Ladysmith.
26-Death of Gen. Guy v. Henry.
27-Dcath of Florence Marryat, English
3o-British badly defeated in desperate
battle at Ladysmith. Ferryboat sunk in
North River, New York, and ten lives lost.
November.
3-JeffrieS defeats Sharkey in New York.
American Steel and Wire Company's
plant ut Waukegan, ILL.,, burns.
7-Cruiser Charleston goes ashore of
northwest coast of LuZon.
9-Admiral Dewey and Mrs. Mildred Hazen
welded In Washington. Joubert begins
bomhardment of Ladxsmith.
12-Major John A. Logan killed in battle
in Philippines.
21-Death Of Vice President Garrett a.
Hobart
2S-British defeat Beers in hard battle at
Belmont.
25-Death Of George r. Davis, Of Chicago,
Director-General of Worlds Fair of 1893.
27-Death of Charles Coghlan, the actor.
2S-Boers defeated in severe engagement
on DankS OIL MOuueF hlN0T-
29-Block Of Philadelphia business houses
burned; loss $3,o00000.
December.
4-Fifty-sixth Congress opens.
5-Death of Senator Hayward of Nebraska.
6-Dick Coleman. negro murderer, burned
at the stake at Maysville, Ky.
9-British meet decisive defeat at Storm
berg. Thirty-two miners killed by gas ex-
plosion In mine at Carbonate, Wash.
11-British suffer great losses in engage
ment with Beers at Magersfontein.
14-Gen. Butler badly defeated by Beers
in attempting to cross IGgela River.
1T-Death of Thos NJ. Brumby, flag lieu
tenant of u. $. warshlp 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, L. l.