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


U.s. Obituary: Gen. Isaac H. Baily, veteran OF the
civil war; formerly prominent in New York
politics, in New York city; aged TO- Gen.
Thomas Vincent Fletcher. ex-governor OF
Missouri, in Washington; aged "a. Count
Chaudordy, French diplomat, in Paris; aged
49,
81. Rev. James Ormsby Murray, dean OF Prince
ton university. at Princeton; aged u.
90 Disaster: The Mississippi steamboat Rowena |
Lee sank at Tyler, Mo-; so lives lost
Obituary: Cen Daniel W. Flagler, U. S. A., at
Old Point Comfort, Va; aged 81.
Fire: At Hartford, the j. l.. Howard fac
tory burned; loss, $1s0,000.
so. Shipwreck; The passenger steamer Stella ran
on the Casquet rocks, the island of AL
derney, and exploded. carrying down 70 to
100 people
81. Filipino War: Gen. Macarthur entered Malo
los, the insurgents having fred and evacuated
the city.
APRIL.
l. Obituary: Baroness Clara de Hirsch de &C.
reuth. who left 800, 900 to charity, in
Samoan Troubles: Americans and English am
pushed near Apia; 3 officers and 4 sailors
killed.
4. Shipwreck: Steamer Chikat capsized ON the
bar at the entrance to San Francisco harbor,
carrying down 10 sailors and passengers.
Cuba: The Cuban military assembly voted to
disband the army and dissolve.
PERSONAL W. X. Vanderbilt, Jr, married vir
GINA Fair in New York city.
Obituary: Lily Post, formerly well known light
opera star, in San Francisco.
6. Obseques at Arlington to honor the remains
Of 1886 officers and soldiers who died in Cuba
and Porto Rico.
Z. Disasters: ID deaths at the burning Of resi-
dences OF W. c. Andrews and W. j. Adams in
the Fifth avenue district, New York. 10 per-
sons drowned by an ice freshet at Glendive,
Mon.
Obituary: James Clark, the Oldest Mason in the
world, at Quincy, Ills.
9. Obituary: Stephen ]. Field, associate justice
OF the supreme court Of the United States. re-
tired, in Washington; aged SO.
10. Riot: street riot, caused by miners trouble
at Pana, Ills, caused the death Of people;
many wounded
Filipino War: Gen. Lawton captured Santa
Cruz, insurgent stronghold.
Obituary: Sir Monier- Monier Williams, professor
OF Sanskrit at the University Of Oxford, in
London; aged CO.
il Spanish War: Formal proclamation by Presi-
dent Mckinley announcing the ratification Of
the treaty and the restoration of peace with
Spain.
Is. Fire. The curio hall of the famous Boston
museum burned.
a. Fire. Idle Hour, the Long Island residence
where W. K Vanderbilt, Jr., took his bride
for the honeymoon, burned loss S250,0OO
Obituary: The Duchess Of Marlborough, mother
in-law of Consuelo Vanderbilt in England.
49, Fire: In Cleveland half block Of business
houses burned; loss, 81, 100000.
II. Obituary: John L. Lay. inventor OF the navy
torpedo, in New York; aged 81.
Is. Obituary: Lieut.. Gen. Correa, Spanish min
lister of war In 1893, at Madrid.
Samoa: Fighting between the Americans and
English and the Mataafans.
20. Fire: At San Jose, Cal. loss, 100000.
Obituary: NJ Edouard Jules Henri Pailleron,
French poet and dramatist. in Paris; aged So.
81. Personal: Matthew S. Quay appointed u B.
senator by the governor of Pennsylvania
Obituary: Dr. Heinrich Kiefert, noted geog-
rapher and photographer, in Berlin aged 80.
o. Fire: In Omaha the Kingman block burned;
loss, 100000.
Obituary: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Mowbray,
''Father of the House OF Commons" in Lon
don; aged 81
Is. Political: The German ambassador lodged
with the secretary of state a protest against
certain language of Capt. Coghlan OF the U
s. cruiser Raleigh.
Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's division fought
its way to the trenches before Calumpit.
Obituary: Gen. Richard J. Oglesby former gov
ernor of Illinois, in Springfield; aged 70.
90. Fire: Dawson City, the business center wiped
out; loss between 81, 00O,0 900 and 50, 000,0 900.
Tornado 40 people killed at Kirksville, Mo-
and at Newton hundreds of houses destroyed
with about 100 deaths.
81. Obituary: Robert Goelet, member of the New
Naples aged SIS. Sheridan Shook, once
prominent New York politician and afterwar'
a theatrical manager, at Red Hook, N. y
aged II.
Filipino War: MacArthurs division crossed tn
Rio Grande at Caumpit
g. Filipino War; Peace overtures from the In
surgents, asking for an armistce. rejected b.
Gen. Otis.
80. Accident so people hurt in railway wrec
Rochester.
1. Dewey day generally celebrated in the Unite
States and possessions, especially on the sea.
Fire. Gen. Wade Hamptons home, containing
fine library, valuable jewels and treasure
relics, burned at Columbia, s. @.
Spanish War: Spains agent received warrant
for the $40, 900 900 stipulated in the treaty
payment for the cession Of the Philippines.
2. Filipino War: Lawton's column captured Ba
mag.
8. Obituary: Keokuk, chief of the Sac and Fo
Indians, at Guthrie, o. T. Emma Marshal
English novelist, in London.
L. Fire: Greenville, S. G., the heart OF the tow
destroyed; loss, 100000
Obituary: Gen. Manning F. Force, Federal WI
veteran and campaign historian. at Sandusk.
O.; aged rs.
10. Convention: The Confederate veteran reunio
held at CHARLESTON.
Obituary: Gen. Samuel B. Smith, Federal We
eran, known as the Father OF the Nation
Guard SYSTEM, at Dayton, w.. ageu o.
IL Obituary Roswell p. Flower ex-governor
New York, at Eastport, N. y; aged 81.
gust Brentano (second), head of the noted pu
fishing and bookselling house of Union squar
New York, in that city, aged 46.
10. Disasters 90 killed and 40 injured in
wreck the Philadelphia and Reading
Exeter, Pa.
IA. Fire: At Manchester, N. H.; loss, 100000.
Obituary. NJ. Francisque Sarcey, famous Fren
dramatic critic, at Paris.
II. Fire: In Chicago the Blue Island avenue lui
Der district suffered loss of 100000.
Convention: The international peace congre
convened at The Hague.
81. Personals Admiral Dewey sailed from Mani
on the cruiser Olympia on his voyage home
%. Obituary: Grsi, the Italian dancer, in Rom
Mile. Rhea, French actress, at Montmoren'
France; aged 90
"a. Personal: The eightieth anniversary of Que
victorias birthday celebrated throughout
British empire and colonies.
Obituary: Senior Don Emilio Castelar, Spani
Republican statesman. at Murcia. Spain; ag
g.
rs Fire: In st. john, n. B.; $50 buildings bur
ed; loss, 100000,
Obituary: Aaron B. Magoun, master in
Cambridge schools from 1888 to ISL, in Re