Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-05
War In Philippine Islands and South
Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political
Difficulties in Samoa, Death and De-
struction by Fire, Wind and Flood.


laent 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 thai
caused disaster and death at Kirksville
Mo-, in April, and at New Richmond
Wis, in June; several 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 at Pana and Carterville, Ill.
A brief chronological transcript Of the
years events is given below:
January.
Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba.
Train held up and robbed at Macomb,
In the Senate.
eHFourteen persons killed and forty-eight
Injured In collision near Dunellen, N. J.
vaGtMceoy defeated BY shaFaey in New
.13-Fire at Memphis, Tenn, destroys
wholesale dry goods house of J. 3. Menkin
4 Co., and causes $500,0O0 loss. Death OF
z14-British bark Andeiina sinks at Tacoma
with her entire crew of nineteen men.
17-Death of John Russell Young, librarian
18-Dlsastrous flood at Cleveland. German
consul at Apia, Samoa, elected from Su-
preme Court Building by American and
British cOnsuls.
2O-Bank at Arthur, ILL.,, robbed Of Sc, 900.
21-EarthQuake shakes Peloponnesan pen
tnsula Of Greece. Massacre of Spanish Of
ftcers by natives at Balabac, in the Philip
pines.
25-One hundred thousand dollars damage
done by fire at Johnstown, Pa. .Adelina
Patti and Baron Cederstrom married at Bre-
con, Wales.
26-Ex-Attorney General A. n. Garland
dies suddenly In Washington. Court mar
tiai finds Gen. Chas. p. Eagan guilty under
two charges.
below zero ut Chicago.
3O-Two hundred thousand dollar lumber
yard fire in Chicago.
Seven persons perish in snowslide in
many are injured. J. Burning of the Buck
ingham Theater, Louisville, KY.
3-$S00,000 fire at Philadelphia.
4Battle between Filipinos and Americans
tence for murder. james A. Sexton. Com
g. A. r., 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.
-8-Manitoba Hotel ut Winnipeg burns; loss
$500, 900. :. :. Eleven business houses burn in
Prairie du Chen, Wis.
9-Twenty one degrees below zero at Chi
cago; eoldest day In twenty,six years.
$500, 900 fire In Front street, New York. 80.
Five business houses at Herington, KAN,
burn.
10-Explosion in Baxter Stove Works,
Ohio, causes 500, 900 fire.
Kelly Block In Cleveland burns; loss $780,
600. ;. $500, 600 fire in Toronto, Ont.
American troops capture Caloocan.
u-Troops under Gen. Miller take Iloilo
Engagement outside Manila, in which
are driven back.
12-Twenty -four Italian miners and fami-
lies perish In snowslide at Silver Plume,
burns; burns n loss s5ss 900. @ :. Seventeen sever insa9e
=. Report Of War Investigating Board
In New York City and Albany, N. Y.
13-Digby, N. s., almost wiped out by fire
-. Blizzard In the East. and South.
14-$50O, 900 fire in manufacturing district
Of Cincinnati. Burning of manufacturers'
warehouse in Chicago; loss 81, 600, 900.
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.
2o-Fire causes $500, 900 loss at Port Wash
22-city Of Manila fred by F1liplnos.
March.
1-:Death Of Lord Herschell In Washing
ton. :. Sagasta ministry resigns at Madrid.
S-George Dewey made an Admiral by
President Mckinley.
4Congress adjourns.
5-Storm destroys life and property In
East Tennessee. New ministry takes Of
fee at Madrid. Terrific powder explosion
9-Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage resigns his
Washington pastorate.. Battle between
Americans and Canadians on Porcupine
11-Gen. Maxine Gomez deposed from
by Cuban Assembly.
13-Pasig captured by American troops. -.
reached ON Samoan affairs
librarian.
1G-Mob shoots nine negroes at Palmetto.
Ga. Death of Editor Joseph Medill. =.
Five killed In street riot at Hot Springs,
Ark. Election riot In st. Louis results In
death of two men. B. p. Hutchinson,
wheat operator, dies at Lake Geneva, Wis
gent of Spain. Windsor Hotel burns in
New York. with great loss Of life.
1S-Fatal riot In Havana.
Sing Sing.
2f-24-Race war in Little River County.
Ark, where many negroes are lynched.
23-Malietoa Tanus crowned King Of Sa-
s25-opening Of ship canal at Port Arthur,
Texas. -
27-Burning Of Armour's felt works In Chi,
cago.
2o-American and British warships bonn
bard native towns In Samoa. Sinking OF
the steamer Rowena Lee In the Mississippi
below Caruthersville, Mo.
Boone hundred and twenty lives lost BY
shipwreck of passenger steamer Stella in the
English channel.
sf-FalI of Malolos. :. $500. 900 fire In San
francisco. s
April. . =
7-Eleven lives lost in burning OF Wallace
Andrews residence In Newy Yori,A
9-Death of Justice 8. r. Field, Fetired. /.
Seventeen lives lost by breaking of an ice
gorge on Yellowstone River at Glendive;s.
10 Seven persons killed in riot at Pana!.
Illinois.
11-Exchange of peace treaties with Spain,
ends the state of war. !. Greek coaster Ma
ria a.. sunk or Tripoti with OF forty nYe
Z .we1ty "A hrees Crow Inaaaus ,drownea
In foods near Sheridan, Wyo. 81
=, 1SmGreat Soo noa fire in Cleveland; loss almost
Fishing schooner Eliza lost off Nan
tucket, with eleven of her crew.
Z4EDeath OF ex-Gov. X. ]. Ogiesby Of I'LL
nois Thirty persons drowned: in wreck OF
britisn III snip Eoch sioy on Kangaroo island.
81 xoLDawson HI as CITY, Alaska, almost wiped
Tornado at Kirksyilie ana Nswvatown. Newt
y NO, and In Soldier River valley, Iowa
9IEarthquaks shakes Southern Illinois
and Indiana and Northern Kentucky :. .Fa-
tdi nAlHe Iiots dI warmer, 1QahO.t
May. ~
obstructive forest fires In South Dakota
Nebraska and Colorado.
S-Resignation, Of Italian cabinet
EOpening of Ute reservation in Colorado
.6-Fiye killed by tornado In Chickasaw ns.
tion, o. T.. Death Of Mrs. W. C. whitney
7-Report of Wade Court of Inquiry. given
s-Russeli & Co.'S thresher works at Mas.
sillon, Ohio, burned; loss $5oO,O0O. .E s
12-Death of ex-Gov. r. p. Flower of Nev
York. Twenty five persons killed In rail-
way collision at Exeter, Pa { 3
15-Death Of sFrancisque Sarcey. noted
French critic. Riot at Princeton between
students and Pawnee Bills Wild West.
16-Cyclone In Ohio and Michigan
17-Insurgent stronghold at San Isfdro.
P. J., taken by Americans.
2O-Aguinaldo sends envoys to sue for
peace.
21-American liner Paris goes ashore o.
the Manacles, of Cornwall, England
22-Buffalo grain shovelers strike Ell :
-. Tornado In Erath County, Texas 2
25-Death of Don Emilio CASTELAR,. Span-
ish statesman. Great fire at ST. John.
N. B., which rendered 1000 persons home
less. Death Of Rosa Bonheur, French
artist. 80
2S-Tornado devastates parts of South Da.
kota, Iowa and Nebraska. Seven persons