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

OoltHary: FRANCIS II. flerpont, war governor
Of West Virginia, at Pittsburg; aged So.
Prof. Gustave Wiedeman, holding the chair Of
chemistry and physics at the University of
Leipsic, at Leipsic; aged 73. G. w. Leitner,
noted lnguist, at Bonn; aged 50.
s. Obituary: Gen. Isaac H. Baily, veteran of the
civil war, formerly prominent in New York
politics, in New York city; aged 20. Gen.
Thomas Vincent Fletcher, ex-governor of
Missouri, in Washington; aged 70. Count
Chaudordy, French diplomat, in Paris; aged
70.
q. Rev. James Ormsby Murray, dean of Prince
ton university, at Princeton; aged r.
%. Disaster: The Mississippi steamboats, Rowena
Lee sank at Tyler, Mo-; 60 lives lost.
Obituary: Gen. Daniel W. Flagler, U. s. A., at
Old Point Comfort, Va; aged Ga.
Fire: At Hartford, the j. l.. Howard car fac.
tory burned; loss, S1s0,000.
%. Shipwreck: The passenger steamer Stella ran
on the Casquet rocks, near the island of Al
derney, and exploded, carrying down 20 to
100 people.
D. Filipino War: Gen. Macarthur entered Malo-
los, the insurgents having fred and evacuated
the city.
APRIL.
1. Obituary: Baroness Clara de Hirsch de Ge-
reuth, who left $100,0O0,000 to charity, In
Samoan Troubles: Americans and English am
pushed near Apia; officers and sailors
killed.
l. Shipwreck: Steamer Chilkat 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-
ri1ia FAR in New York city
obituary: Lily Post. formerly well known light
opera star, in San Francisco.
6. Obsequies at Arlington to honor the remains
of 336 officers and soldiers who died in Cuba
and Porto Rico. ac
2. Disasters: Ii deaths a the burning Of resi-
dences of W. G. Andrews and w. J. Adams in
the Fifth avenue district, New York. 10 per-
sons drowned by ice freshet at Glendive,
Mon.
Obituary: James Clark, the oldest Mason in the
world, at Quincy, Ills.
o. Obituary: Stephen j. Field, associate justice
of the supreme court of the United States, re-
tired, in Washington; aged SO.
TO- Riot: A street riot, caused by miners trouble
at Pana, Ills, caused the death of people;
many wounded.
Filipino War: Gen. Lawton captured Santa
Cruz an insurgent stronghold.
Obituary: Sir Monier Monier Williams, professor
of Sanskrit at the University Of Oxford, in
London; aged CO.
II. Spanish War: Formal proclamation by Presi-
dent Mckinley announcing the ratification of
the treaty and the restoration of peace with
Spain.
49, 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, $250,000.
Obituary: The Duchess of Marlborough, mother.
in-law of Consuelo Vanderbilt, in England.
Is Fire: In Cleveland half block of business
houses burned; loss, $1,000,000.
H. Obituary: John l.. Lay, inventor OF the navy
torpedo, in New York; aged g.
49, Obituary: Lieut.. Gen. Correa, Spanish min
lister of war in 1898, at Madrid.
Samoa: Fighting between the Americans and
English and the Mataafans.
90 Fire: At San Jose, CAL; loss, 100000.
Obituary: NJ. Edouard Jules Henri Pailleron,
French poet and dramatist, in Paris; aged 65.
81. Personal: Matthew S. Quay appointed U. S.
senator by the governor of Pennsylvania.
Obituary: DR.. Heinrich Kiefert, noted geog-
rapSrr and photographer, in Berlin; aged 3d.
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 "a.
25 Political: The German ambassador lodged
with the secretary of state protest against
certain language of Capt. Coghlan of the U.
s. cruiser Raleigh.
Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's division fought
it's way to the trenches before Calumpit.
Obituary: Gen. Richard ]. Oglesby, former gov
ernor of Illinois, in Springfield; aged rs.
&C. Fire: Dawson City, the business center wiped
out; loss between 81, 100000 and 100000.
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
York aristocracy of wealth, in the harbor OF
Naples; aged IS. Sheridan Shook, once
prominent New York politician and afterward
theatrical manager, at Red Hook, N. y;
aged II.
Filipino War: MacArthur's division crossed the
Rio Grande at Calumpit
%. Filipino War: Peace overtures from the in
surgents, asking for an armistice, rejected by
Gen. Otis.
30. Accidents so people hurt in railway wreck
Rochester.
l. Dewey day generally celebrated in the United
States and possessions, especially on the sea.
Fire: Gen. Wade Hampton's home, containing
fine library, valuable jewels and treasured
relics, burned at Columbia S. G.
Spanish War: Spain's agent received warrants
for the $20,000,000 stipulated in the treaty in
payment for the cession of the Philippines
q Filipino War: Lawtons column captured Bal
mag.
8. Obituary: Keokuk, chief of the Sac and Fox
Indians at Guthrie, y. L. Emma MarShall,
English novelist, in London.
A. Fire: Greenville, S. c., the heart of the town
destroyed; loss, 100000.
Obituary: Gen. Manning F. Force, Federal war
veteran and campaign historian, at Sandusky.
o.; aged IS.
10. Convention: The Confederate veteran reunion
held at Charleston.
Obituary: Gen. Samuel R. Smith, Federal vet
eran, known as the ''Father of the National
Guard SYSTEM" at Dayton, O.; aged 81.
IL Obituary: Roswell P. Flower, ex-governor OF
New York, at Eastport, N. Y; aged GA. Au-
gust Brentano (sscond), head of the noted pub
fishing and booksellng house of Union square,
New York, in that city: aged 46.
II. Disaster: 30 killed and over 40 injured in
wreck on the Philadelphia and Reading at
Exeter, Pa.
IA. Fire: At Manchester, N. H.; loss, 100000
Obituary: NJ. Francisque Sarcey, famous French
dramatic critic, at Paris.
II. Fire: In Chicago the Blue Island avenue lum-
Der district suffered a loss of 100000.
Convention: The international peace congress
convened at The Hague.
q. Personal: Admiral Dewey sailed from Manila
on the cruiser Olympia on his voyage home.
%. Obituary: Grisi, the Italian dancer, in Rome.
Nile. Rhea, French actress, at Montmorenci,
France; aged So.
"a. Personal: The eightieth anniversary of Queen
Victoria's birthday celebrated throughout the
British empire and colonies.
Obituary: Senor Don Emilio CASTELAR,, Spanish
Republican statesman, at Murcia, Spain; aged