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

q. CUBA: GOmez issued . farewell manifesto TO
the Cuban people.
Z. Obituary: Henry L. Clinton, noted criminal
lawyer, in New York city; aged so. Angus
tin DAILY, American theater manager, in Lon
don; aged 81. Margaret Ann Cusack, the
''Nun Of Kenmare," in London. Gen. W. s.
Walker, noted Mexican and Confederate vet
eran, at Atlanta.
Fire: At Augusta, Ga.; loss, s25O,O0O
8. Flood: High water mark reached in the Colo
RADIO river, Texas rs drowned.
9. Sporting: Jeffries defeated Fitzsimmons for
the worlds championship at Coney Island.
TO- The yacht Columbia, built to defend the
Americas cup, launched at Bristol, r. !.
Obituary: Capt Henry Nichol of the U. s.
monitor Monsdnock, at Manila.
j. Fire: In the Armstrong Whitworth Ordnance
Co.'s works at Newcastle Tyne; loss, ST.
100000
Sporting Perth won the Grand Prix de Paris.
Filipino War: Hardest battle to date at Las
Pinas between Gen. Lawton's division and
the insurgents.
Obituary: The Rev. DR.. William Garden Blake,
D. D., LII. D., noted Scotch theologian, at
North Berwick, Scotland; aged 70.
r. Cyclone: In the northwestern states; hun
dreds killed and wounded at New Richmond,
Wis, and Herman, Neb.
Duke OF Abruzzi's north pole expedition sailed
on the Stella Polare from Christiania, Norway.
"A. General celebration Of Flag day.
Obituary: DR.. Lawson TAFT, pioneer in surgery,
at London; aged "a.
Is. Obituary: Prof. Locke Richardson, the Amer
lean elocutionist, in Berlin. Rear Admiral
Pierce Crosby, U. S. NJ, retired, in Wash
ington; aged &c. Congressman Richard Parks
Bland, silver champion, at Lebanon, No.;
aged "a.
Is. Explosion: IL miners killed at the Caledonia
mine, North Sidney, G. B.
Criminal: George B. Barrow, principal in the
Marion Clark abduction case, sentenced to IA
years and 10 months, and Carrie JONES' the
nurse, TO years.
II. Sporting: Imp won the Suburban at Sleeps
head Bay.
la Fire: At Greensboro, N. c., the Benbow
House burned; loss, 100000.
q. Fire: At Kirkwood, Ca, Gen. John B. Cor
don's home, the historic Sutherland, burned.
%. Obituary: John Godfrey Moore, prominent
banker and exchange broker in New York
city; aged 81. Henry B, Plant, founder Of
the Plant system, in New York city; aged so.
"a. Fire: At Laurel, DEL; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Kapiolani, widow of King Kalakaua,
at Honolulu; aged 65.
%. Shipwreck: Steamer Margaret Olwill, founder
ed off Lorain, Lake Erie; seamen lost.
90. ObitS=S~- Dsc!"I Tipmau Oldest of tina
:s:-g:V,ng ex-naydfs of New York CITY. &C
Audubon Park; aged "a.
Sporting: Harvard won three victories over
Yale at New London.
30. Obituary: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevtte South
WORTH the novelist in Washington; aged 80.
Sporting: Charles Murphy, Brooklyn cycist,
rode the fastest mile record, paced by
railway engine.
l. Fires. In Brooklyn 10000 cotton bales burned
in storage. Bar Harbor, the Kehoe Valley
clubhouse, golf and social resort, burned.
Obituary: Charles Victor Cherbuliez, French
scademician, novelist and critic, in Paris;
aged 20.
2. Fire: At Summit, N j., property in the heart
of the town valued at $15O,OOO destroyed.
Obituary: Gen. II. G. Wright, U. S. A., retired,
in Washington; aged 70.
8. Dreyfus returned to France.
4. Fires: In Memphis the famous Gayoso hotel
and other property burned; loss, $450,000. At
Paris Tenn, 20 buildings burned; loss, $751;
O00
5. Convention: Annual Christian Endeavor gath
ering at Detroit.
Obituary: Bishop John P. Newman, noted
Methodist divine and the friend of Grant, at
Saratoga; aged 70.
9. Fires: At Coulterville, CAL, the town de-
stroyed; loss, $25O,OOO At Ludington Mich,
100000 loss by the burning of railroad ele-
vator.
Filipino War: 10 regiments of U. s. volunteers
ordered to be raised for the army in the
Philippines
Personal: Mary Wright Sewall of indianapolis
elected president of the International Council
of Women at London.
Obituary: Robert Bonner founder and proprie-
tor of the New York Ledger, in New York
city; aged 75
z. Obituary: George W. Julian, noted western
statesman, at Irvington, Ind; aged 3d.
10. Obituary: The Grand Duke George brother Of
the czar and heir to the throne, at st. Peters,
burg; aged 81. Judge Walbridge A. Field,
eminent Massachusetts, jurist and chief justice,
in Boston; aged g..
16. Fire: $l,OO0,O0O worth of uniforms and food
supplies destroyed at the Brooklyn navy yard.
H. Fires: Mount Vernon, Ind; 100000 loss.
North Bend, Ind, the Addystone foundry
burned; loss, 100000.
Is. Obituary: Col. A. L. Hawkins, 10th Pennsyl-
vania volunteers on the way home from the
Philippines to San Francisco. Horatio G.
Alger, famous author Of boys stories, at
Natick Mass. aged Is.
10. Earthquake: Severe shock at Rome; Mount
Etna in eruption.
PERSONAL Gen. Alger rendered his resignation
as secretary of war.
Obituary: Elizabeth Thompson, noted philan-
thropist, at Littleton, n. H.; aged IS.
20. Personal: President Mckinley accepted the
resignation of Secretary Ager, to take effect
Aug. l.
Obituary: II. X. Thurber, the retired New
York millionaire merchant, at HALEY, Ia;
aged 10.
81. Accident: killed and injured by explosion
on British torpedo boat destroyer at Lon
don.
Obituary: Robert C. Ingersoll, at Doobs Ferry,
N. Y. aged 66.
% Personal: Ehhu Root of New York appointed
secretary OF war.
%. Fire: At Toledo; loss of S1,000,000 by the
burning of wheat elevator.
"a. Obituary: The Rev. DR.. Thomas J. Sawyer,
noted Universast writer and educator, in
Boston; aged %.
25. Obituary: Gideon j. Tucker, an old time poll
tician and journalist, founder of the New
York Daily News in New York city; aged 70.
&c. Gen. Ulises tleureaux, president of Santo Do
mngo, assassiHated.
go. Obituary: Guzman Banco, once president Of
Venezuela, in Paris
80 Accident killed and 26 injured in land
slide on the Erie at LackawaXen, n. Y.
81. Storm: The wheat section around Hamilton,
n. D., damaged to the amount Of $250000 by
hail
Obituary: Kate Chase Sprague, daughter of
Salmon P. Chase, noted Washington belle in
wartime, in Washington; aged SO. Daniel G.
Brinton, noted ethnologist and physician, at
Atlantic City; aged 62.
AUGUST.
8. Obituary: George Averof. noted Greek phi
lanthropist, at Alexandria, Egypt; aged 20.
6. Disasters SO passengers killed and injured
by the deraimeDt of a trolley car near
Bridgeport, Conn. II killed and 70 injured in