Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
HAPPENINGS OF 1899.
SUMMARY or a YEARS I'M
PORTANT EVENTS.


War in Philippine Islands and South
Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political
Difficulties in Samoa, Death and De-
struction by Fire, Wind and Flood.
Many causes have combined to make
the year 1899 a rather remarkable one.
It's opening was signalized BY Spain
surrender OF the last vestige OF her SOW
ereignty in the western hemisphere; its
progress brought forth The declaration of
war between England and the Transvaal
Republic, and its close leaves these ma
tons still engaged in a bloody contest,
that may result in important political
changes in South Africa During the
year the fighting between the natives
! and United States troops in the Philip
pines has continued and the war is yet on.
Other events, aside from warfare, that
have occupied public attention to a great
er or less extent have been: Signing of
the treaty of peace with Spain; settle
| ment of difficulties in the Samoan ISL
ands; trial, conviction and pardon OF Cap
tain Alfred Dreyfus in France; numer-
Gus large fires that have destroyed many
lives and much property; tornadoes that
caused disaster and death at kirksville,
Mo-, IN April, and at New Richmond,
Wis, in June;.seyeral fatal shipwrecks;
deaths of prominent men. among them
President Felix Faure of France, Garret
A. Hobart, Vice President of the United
States, and Robert G.. Ingersoll; great
street car strike at Cleveland and labor
riots ut Pana and Carterville, III.
A brief chronological transcript of the
years events is given below:
January.
Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba.
4-lraln held up ana robbed at MacOmb,
MO. Peace treaty with Spain introduced
in the Senate.
0-fourteen persons killed and forty-eight
injured in collision near Duneilen, n ).
1O-McCoy defeated by Sharkey in New
York. Severe storm in California.
1S-bire 1T Memphis, Tenn, destroys
wholesale dry goods house CT J. s. Menkin
q Co., and causes 100000 loss. :. Death of
Congressman Dingley of Maine.
14-Brtish bark Audeiina sinks at Tacoma
with her entire crew OF nineteen men.
1I-Death Of John Russell Young, librarian
of Congress.
consul at Apia, Samoa, elected from SUI
preme Court building by American and
British consuls
20-Bank at Arthur, H., robbed of Sc, 600.
Il earthquake snakes PelopOnneSan pen
insula of Greece. Massacre of Spanish Of
ncers by natives at Balabac, in the Philip
pines
25-0ne hundred thousand dollars damage
done Dy nre at JOhnStown, Pa. .Adelina
Patti and Baron Cederstrom married at Bre-
con, Wales.
| -Ex-Attorney General A. H. Garland
dies suddenly In Washington. :. Court mar
tlal finds Gen. Chas. L. Eagan guilty under
| two charges.
% Cold wave over the West; IS degrees
below zero at Chicago.
20-Two bundled thousand dollar lumber
yard ire in Chicago.
February.
Seven persons perish in snowslide in
Rogers Pass, 3. C.
2-$750,000 fire in Columbus, Ohio, in which
| many are Injured. Burning OF the Buck
ingham Theater Louisville, Ky.
3-$S00000 fire at Philadelphia.
4-Battle between Fillpinos and Americans
| at Manila. Mrs. Botkin receives life SEN
tence for murder. James A. Sexton, Com
| mander-in-chief G. a. H., dies in Washing
ton.
6-Last detachment OF Spanish army leaves
| Cuba. :. Death of Gen. Count Won Caprivi,
| former Chancellor German Empire. Peace
treaty ratified by United States Senate.
S-Manitoba Hotel at Winnipeg burns; loss
$500, 900. Eleven business houses burn in
| Prairie du Chen, Wis.
| 9-Twenty-one degrees below zero at Chi
cago coolest day in twenty-slx years. +.
| 100000 fire in Front street, New York
Five business houses ut Harrington, Kan,
burn
10AExplosion in Baxter Stove Works,
Mansfield, Ohio, causes n 100000 fire f.
| Kelly Block in Cleveland burns; loss $780,
000.. $500, 900 fire ia Toronto, Ont. +.
American troops capture Caloocan.
11-Troops under Gen. Miller take lloilo
-. Engagement outside Manila, in which
Fiipinos are driven back.
12-Twenty -four Italian miners and faml-
lies perish in snowslide at Silver Plume,
oil Afp(Nlr tf.gyfS h0n cfn In oop
| burns; loss $685. 900. Seventeen insane
| women burned to death at Yankton, 5. ID.
-. Report of War Investigating Board
made public In Washington. Great tires
| in New York City and Albany, n. Y.
13-Digby, n. s., almost wiped out by fire
-. Blizzard in the East and South.
14-$500000 fire in manufacturing district
| Of Cincinnati. Burning Of manufacturers
warehouse in Chicago; loss S1,0Oo,000.
15-Machine shops in Brooklyn navy yard
| burned.
16-Death of NJ. Felix Faure, President Of
1S-Emile Loubet chosen President OF
| France. Riots in Paris.
20-Fire causes $780, 900 loss at Port Wash
22-City of Manila fred by Filipinos.
March.
death of Lord Hersehell in Washing.
| ton. :. .Sagasta ministry resigns at Madrid
3-George Dewey made an Admiral by
President Mckinley.
4-Congress adjourns.
5-Storm destroys life and property In
| East Tennessee. :. New ministry takes of.
| fee at Madrid. :. Terrific powder explosion
| at La Goubran, France, Kills sixty persons
9-Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage resigns his
| Washington pastorate. Battle between
| Americans and Canadians on Porcupine
River, B. G.
11-Gen. Maxine Gomez deposed from
command by Cuban Assembly.
13-Pasig captured by American troops.
| Understanding reached on Samoan affairs
-. Herbert Putnam, OF Boston. appointed
| Congressional librarian.
1G-MCb shoots nine negroes at Palmetto
| Ga. :. Death of Editor Joseph MedilI. .
| Five killed in street riot at lot Springs
| Ark. =. Election riot in st. Louis results In
death of two men. b. L. Hutchinson
| 17-Peace treaty signed by the Queen Re
gent of Spain. :. Windsor Hotel burns In
| New York, with great loss OF life.
1S-Fatal riot in Havana.
20-Mrs. Martha Place electrocuted at
| Sing Sing.
2i,2ERace war in Little River County,
| Ark, where many negroes are lynched.
23-Malietoa Tanus crowned King of Sa-
25-openins Of ship canal at Port Arthur,
| Texas.
| 2I-Burning or armour Ielt WorkS IN Chl-
5S.American and British warships bonn,
| bard native towns In Samoa. Sinking OF
| the steamer Rowena Lee IN the Mississippi
L.
30-0ne hundred and twenty lives lost by
/ shipwreck of passenger steamer Stella in the
| English channel.
S1-Fall of Malolos. 100000 fire in Sar
| Francisco.
April.
| ELEVEN lives lost in burning OF Wallace
/ Andrews residence In New York.
| eEDeath of Justice $. ]. Field, retired.
| Seventeen lives lost by breaking OF ice
/ gorge on Yellowstone River at Glendive
| Montana.
10-seven persons killed In riot at Pana
/ Illinois.
1I-Exchange of peace treaties with Spain
ends the state of war. -. Greek coaster Ma
| ria sunk off Tripoli with loss of forty-hvt
| lives
| I4Twenty-three Crow Indians drowned
/ In foods near sheridan. Wyo.
/ 15-Great ire in Cleveland; loss almost
| 81. 600, 900.
/ 1S-Fishing schooner Eliza lost or Nan
/ tucket with eleven of her crew.
| 24-Death of ex-tiov. X. ]. Oglesby OF HE
/ nois :. Thirty persons drowned In wreck oil
/ British ship Loeb Sloy on Kangaroo Island
26-Dawson City, Alaska, almost wiped
| ont by fire.
| 27-Tornado at Kirksville and Newtown
Mo. and IN Soldier River valley, Iowa
Scores Killed and injured
/ 2aEarthquake shakes Southern Illinois
| and Indiana and Northern Kentucky. =. Ia
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