The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-04

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Q. Fire: 81 buildings burned at jamestown, N.
Y; loss, $780, 200.
Obituary: Prof. Robert Wilhelm Everhard Bun
sen, distinguished German chemist, at Hedel-
berg; aged IS.
T. Walter Wellman and the survivors of his
polar expedition arrived at Tromso, Norway.
from Franz-Josef Land.
O. Obituary. Gen. Thomas Alfred Davies, vet
eran of the civil war, at Ogdensburg, n Y;
aged 90. Sir Charles Lennox Peel, X. c. b..
noted Conservative, at London; aged 10.
o. Obituary: Isaac Mcclellan, known as the
sportsmen's poet at Creenpont, N. Y; aged
%.
L. Fire: At Victor Colo. the business portion
OF the town destroyed; loss, $2,QJ0,0)0.
q. Sculptor Caspar Buber died tiddenly while
working the Dewey triumphal arch in
New York
A. Obituary: Judge Henry Hilton heir to A. t. |
Stewards riches, at Saratoga aged 20.
n. Giovanni Turin, a sculptor engaged in model
ing on the Dewey triumphal arch. died sud
denly in New York.
g. Accident: 8 workmen killed by the falling Of
arches at the Chicago Coliseum
3d. Fire. At Upper Lake, N. Y, 1859 buildings
destroyed, causing loss OF $4,000
81 Fire. At Holyoke. Mass, the stationery estab-
lishment OF Parsons Green & Co. burned,
{. causing a loss of $60O,O00.
SEPTEMBER.
2. Fire: In Kansas City; loss, $25o.OOO
1. Convention: The thirty-third national en-
campment G. A. R. met in Philadelphia.
7. 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.
q dt.,iro Nv
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.
H. Obituary: Cornelius Vanderbilt, head OF the
family In the third generation. in New York
city; aged &c.
is. Storm: Destructive hurricane in Bermuda.
10. Fires: At Seattle, WASH; loss, $l65. 900. At
Lincoln, Neb. Masonic temple, st. Paul's
Methodist church and several blocks burned;
loss, 100000.
II. Fire: At Promised Land, N. Y, the American
Fisheries Co. burned out; loss, 100000.
Riot: nonunion miners killed at Carterville,
Ills.
49, Fire. Farnham, N. Y, the business section
wiped out; loss over s250,0o0.
10. Fire: At Lowville, N. Y, over $250000 loss
in lumber plant fire.
Disaster: 80 lives lost in the burning OF the
passenger steamer Montoya on Magdalena riv-
er, Colombia.
Obituary. Charles Patrick DAILY. noted justice
in New York city; aged SO.
20. Fire: At Hegeswich. Ills; loss $4,000.
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 SO. Dreyfus released on
pardon.
Obituary: NJ. Scheurer- Kestner. former French
senator and q strong champion Of Dreyfus. in
Paris; aged SO.
81 Fire. At Norfolk loss OF 100000 by the
burning of hospital; deaths.
Shipwreck Loss Of the Dominion steamer Scots
man in the strait OF Belle Isle; IA passenger
drowned
%. Fire: At Salem, Or; loss $4,000 by tn,
burning OF planning mill.
49, Accident: 8 killed and 10 injured in heat
on collision on the Rio Grande road at Reno
Colo.
Filipino War: naval force led by the cruise
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.
g. Fire: At Upton, Ind; 800, 900 loss by thu
burning OF tin plate mill.
Obituary: Jared b. Flagg, noted American por
trait painter. in New York city; aged So
81 Obituary: Gen. Henry Heth noted Confeder
ate soldier. in Washington; aged "A.
Earthquake: Island of Ceram; 5000 peopl
killed.
90 Naval and marine parade in New York ba
and Hudson river in honor of Admiral Dewey.
80 Reception and loving cup presentation t
Admiral Dewey by Mayor Van Wyck, followe
nv n military land parade.
Fire: At Little Rock the State Deaf and Dunn
Mute institute burned; loss, 100000.
OCTOBER.
l. Fires: At Call Tex; loss, Sl50,00o. A
Bloomington His, buildings burned los
S150,000.
2. Fire: At Duquen, Ark, "a buildings burned
loss, S2500OO.
Filipino War: A Filipino attack at Baeoor r
pulsed by troops under Gen. Fred Grant
g. Fires: At Des Moines the Masonic temple ar
other buildings destroyed; loss S500,00
Endeavor Pa: loss OF $780, 900 in lumb
yard fire.
s. Obituary: Former U. S. Senator James Hs
Ian, last surviving member OF Lincoln's cat
net at Mount Pleasant. Ia; aged 70.
9. Fire: Mojave, CAL, wiped out.
South African War: President Kruger's ul'
matum demanding arbitration and the reca
OF British re-enforcements from the Cape.
10. Fire: In the business section OF New Iberi
La; loss, 100000
II. Expiration OF the Boer time limit armi
moved to the Transvaal border.
H. South African War: Beers opened the
attack on a British armored train.
] 10. Fires: In Brooklyn; loss 100000 by t
burning OF two cotton warehouses. At Hs
e tngs, N. Y, cable works burned; loss, $12
900. At Haverstraw, N. Y, acres Of bull
, ings burned; loss, 100000.
n Obituary: Vice Admiral Philip Howard Colon
British naval officer. inventor and writer,
: London; aged 6S.
v a. Fire: The Loomis sanitarium burned at Ii
!. erty, N Y; loss, 100000.
burned off Sands point; several lives lost.
4 South African War: Fighting began at Mafel0ir
l5 Fire. At Waterloo, Ia. loss 100000.
i South African War: Beers under Gen. Cror
laid siege to Kimberley.
, Obituary: Laurence Gronund, social econom
y and author, in New York city; aged SO.
16. Sporting: Columbia won the first race OF
II the Shamrock by ION. SIS.
n Obituary. Edward orion, Phi. D., IL. D.,
!. tinguished geologist, at Columbus. o.; ag
It 20.
II. Sporting: Columbia won the second race,
Shamrock breaking her topmast.
is. Obituary: Isaac Bird. California pion
L orchardst, at Watsonville, Cal; aged So.
10. W. H. Appleton. last OF the old circle
q New York publishers. in New York cit