The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-01
HOUSTON DAIl Posi-: MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY i 1900

q. Fire: At vsctet. cclc., the business portion
OF tho town destroytd; loss. ss.oooooo
q. Sculptor Caspsr Ruherl died suddenly while
working on the Dewey triumphsi arch in
New York.
~ Obituary; Judge Henry Hilton. heir to A. T.
Stewards riches. at Saratoga; aged rs,
o.. Giovanni Turin. sculptor engaged In model.
Ing on the Dewey triumphal arch. died sud.
denly In New York,
.. Accident; workmen killed BY the falling o.
srcics At the new Chicago Coliseum.
% Fire. AT Topper Lake, N. ", 100 buildings
destroyed. causing loss Of si5oooo.
n Fire: AT Holyokc. Maks,. the stationery estab.
iishmept Of Persons Green 4 Co. burned.
causing loss Of sb0O.ooo
SEPTEMBER.
Z Fire: In Kansas City; loss $3.50 ooo
& Convention; The thirty-third national en-.
campment q. 4. n. met In philadclphis.
. Personals Col. Albert D. Shaw. department Of
New York. elected commander IN chief Of the
q. A. n.
Fire; At Garden City, n T.. the late A. 7.
Stewards pet scheme. the Garden City hotel.
burned.
Convention: The national enesmpment Sons Of
Veterans met In Detroit.
q Obituary; Rear Admiral Henry F. Picking. U.
s. NJ. veteran Of the civil war, at Charles
ton; aged 50. Stephen pugger, one Of Lin
coins surviving friends at New Salem, Ind,
at Sullivan, Ind; aged ST. James \. Eustis,
ambassador TO France under Cleveland, at
Newport; aged e5
. Dreytis convicted and sentenced to 10 yesr'
imprisonment.
IL Obituary; Cornelius Vanderbilt, head OF the
family N the third generation. in New York
city, aged 90.
Is Storm; Destructive hurricane In Bermuda.
TO- Fires: At Seattle, WASH. loss, sits, 600 AZ
Iincoln. Neb., Masonic temple, 81. Paul's
Methods, church and several blocks burned;
loss, $500 900.
H. Fire; At Promised Land. N. Y, the American
Fisheries Co. burned out; loss, $500, 900.
Riot 7 nonunion miners killed at Cartervilis.
Ills
IS Fire Farnham. n. v, the business section
wiped out; loss over se5o,ooo
10 Fire; At Lowville. n ", over ss5o,ooo loss
in a lumber plant hte
Disaster: 70 lives lost in the burning OF the
passenger steamer Mentoya on Magdaiens riv-
er. Colombia.
Obituary. Charles Patrick DAILY, noted Justice
In New York citys aged S.
20. Fire. Az Ilegeswich. Ills, loss, $4,000,
Earthquake; 1000 people reported killed at
Adm. Asia Minor.
Miscellaneous Harry W. Benton the hrst
sound tf)cgrapher In America died It
Denver at fhe age OF SO. Dreytus released on
pardon
Obituary. n, scheurer.Kestner former French
senator and strong champion OF Dreyfus IN
parisi aged GO.
Il. Fire; At Norfolk. loss o. 100000 by the
burning Of a hospital; deaths.
Shpwrecki Loss OF the Dominion steamer Scots.
man in the strait OF Belle Isle, IA passengers
drowned
q. Fire; At Salem, Or; loss $4,000 by the
burning Of planning mill.
~. Accident: killed and 10 injured In n head
on collision the Rio Grande road at Reno.
Colo
Filipino War naval force led by the cruiser
Charleston bombarded olangapo, on subig bay,
and captured insurgent works
~. Personal; Julia Dent Grant married to Prince
CantacuKene at Newport.
Obituary: John Sleeper Clarke, noted English
comedian, at surhiton-on. Thames
%. Fire; Al Upton, Ind 100000 loss by the
burning Of tin plate mill.
Obituary; Jared H. Flagg. noted American por.
trait painter, in New York city sEsd &C.
"a. obituary; Gen. Henry Heth noted conieder.
nte soldier, in Washington: aged "a.
Earthquake; Island o. ceram; 5000 people
Killed.
20. Naval and marine parade In New York bay
and Hudson river 10 honor Of ADMIRAL Dewey
90. Reception and loving cup presentation to
Admiral Dewey by Mayor Van wyek, followed
by military land parade.
Fire; AZ Little Rock the State Deaf and Dumb
Mute institute burned; loss, 100000
OCTOBER.
1. Fires At Call, Tex; loss. $4,000, Al
Bloomington, Ms. buildings burned; loss,
O. Fires AZ prqucn, Ark, "a buildings burned
loss, s2500n0.
Filipino War A Filipino attack at Bscoor re.
pulsed by troops under Gen Fred Grant.
5, Fires; At Des Moines the Masonic temple and
other buildings destroyed; loss, s6oO.noo, At
Endcavor, Pa; loss OF 100000 In lumber
yard FIRE.
s. obituary; Former L. S, Senator James Har-
Ian, last surviving member OF Ilncolns cabi-
net, at Mount Pleasant, la. aged 70,
0. Fires Mojave, CAL. wiped out
South African War; President Krugcrs uti-
matum demanding arbitration and the recall
OF British re,cnfarcoments from the Cape.
10. Fire. IN the business section OF New iberia.
In; loss, s2o0ooo,
IL Expiration OF the Boor time limit; arme,
mosoi TO the Trapsvsa border.
~. South African War; Beers opened the war by
attack on British armored train
II. FIRES In Brooklyn loss 100000 by IN,
burning Of two cotton warehouses Al Has
tings, N. y, cable works burned; loss, si25,
0O0 Al Hayerstraw, N. " acres Of build
ings burned; loss, 5000, o00.
Obituary: Vice Admiral Philip Howard Coiomb
British naval officer, inventor and writer, in
London; aged 6s
II. fire. The LOOMS sanitarium burned AZ Lib
erty. N. Y; loss, 100000.
Disaster, The sound steamer Nutmeg State
burned on Sands point; several lives lost
South African War; Fighting began at Mafsking.
i6 Fire; At Waterloo. la. loss 100000.
South African War; Boers under Gen. Cfonj,
laid siege 10 Kimberley.
Obituary; Laurence 0ronlupd. social economis,
and author, IN New York city; aged 5s.
ie Sporting; Columbia won the first race owe,
the Shamrock by Tom. S.
Obituary Edward orton. Phi, D., Ill. D., dis
tingushed seoiosist, at Columbus. o. aged
TO-
II. Sporting, Columbia won the second race the
Shamrock breaking her topmRat.
IS Obituary. Isaac Bird. California pioneer
( orchaniist NJ jacksonville. CAL; aged SO.
I 49, W, II, Appleton last oil the old circle OF
New York publishers. in New York city;
aged SIS.
I DO Sporting: The Columbia won her third con-
: secuiiye victory over the Shamrock by On Iss.
Filipino War; Insurgents routed at San Isidro
by Cen Young's command.
South African War; Battle at Glencoe; British
loss, 2l1. Gen, symons mortally wounded
] Convention: National meeting the W. G. T.
u. began At Seattle, Wash.
a. Fire Disaster; II persons burned To death In
their dwellings az FARES Ala.
South African War; Battle OF Elandslaagfe;
British and Beers iost heavily.
%. Grant Allen. the English author, died In
London; aged 81.
n, Obituary: John Goldman Ropes. military bis
tofian, in Boston; aged 90. Gen Guy v,
H.