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


to pieces off Charleston; II sailors drowned
b. Fires: At Aberdeen, Wash; loss $l50,0o0 by |
the burning of salmon cannery. At Hack
ettstown N. j., the Hackettstown seminary
burned loss, 100000.
NOVEMBER.
l. Shipwreck: OF Cape Roman, S. c., schooner
William NJ. Bird lost and sailors drowned.
1. Fires: In Kansas City Jones' department
store and the st. James hotel burned; loss,
100000. At Waukegan, Ills. the plant OF the
American Steel and Wire company damaged
to the extent OF 100000
Sporting: Harvard scored 16 to Pennsylvania 0
at the Cambridge football contest.
s. Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops cap
tured Magalang after sharp fighting.
6. Filipino War: Gen. Wheaton's division landed
at San Fabian. Lingayen gulf. under the
enemys fire.
Political: First autonomous government in the
Philippines installed at Bacoor, island Of
Negros, by the U. S. governor general
7. Shipwreck: The U. s. cruiser Charleston lost
off the northwest coast Of Luzon.
9. Fire: A $3.50, 900 blaze at Memphis.
South African War: Severe fighting at Lady
smith.
PERSONAL Admiral George Dewey married to
Mrs. Mildred Hazen at Washington.
H. Sporting: Princeton scored IL to Carlisle In
dams 0 in a football contest at New York.
At Easton Lafayette scored to Cornell s.
Indian Troubles: Navaioes and white killed
in battle between Indians and settlers
Walton Station. A. T.
IL. Fire: At Montreal; loss, $500,00
Venezuelan War: Puerto Cabelo surrendered to
Gen. Castro after battle in which $50 were
killed and wounded.
Filipino War: Sharp hght at San Jacinto; Ma
jor John A. Logan killed at the head OF his
battalion.
Is. Obituary; Col. Henry lnman. veteran OF the
regular army and the civil war, author OF
the "Old Santa Fe Trail" at Topeka; aged g.
IA. Obituary: DR.. Moritz Busch, biographer OF
Bismarck, at Leipsic; aged 70.
10. War In Colombia: Conclusion OF two days
battle at Bucarananga in which 1000 rebels
killed and 1000 wounded.
H. Fire: The Hamburg American liner Patria
abandoned to the flames in the North
Obituary: Col. Lawrence Kip. veteran OF the
civil war and q noted turfman, in New York
city; aged 63.
10. Sporting: The Yale Harvard annual football
game ended in . draw at Cambridge.
10. Accident: killed and seriously injured in
wreck the Chicago ST. Paul, Minneapo-
lis and Omaha railroad at Humboldt, S. d.
| South African War; Beers repulsed by the Brit
ish at Estcourt.
Obituary: Sir William Dawson, noted Canadian
educator and geologst, at Montreal; aged SO
20. Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops enter
ed Dagupan. the northern terminus OF tn,
Manila railway.
PERSONAL Emperor william arrived at Windso
castle. the guest Of Queen Victoria.
| q. Obituary: Garrett A. Hobart, vice president o
the United States at Paterson, N. j.; aged IS
e. Accident killed in rear end collision be
tween a limited passenger and freight trail
on the Baltimore and Ohio near McCool. Ind.
%. Obituary: Prof. Misskowski. authority o.
political economy and international law Il
the University OF Leipsic. at Leipsic; aged 81
Fire: The Hustled elevator burned at Buffalo
loss about $4,000.
South African War: Battle at Belmont, south
Kimberley; British loss. 220.
The Sudan: Gen. Wingate, with Egyptia
force defeated the dervishes near Dreihssa, o
the line of the Nile, killing AGO. includin
the khalifa.
"a. Fire: At Detroit; loss, $3.50, 900.
25. South African War: Battle at Gras Pan Hill
north of Belmont lasting four hours. Gel
Methuen's column lost heavily.
Sporting: Princeton defeated Yale at football
New Haven; score. Princeton IL. Yale 10.
Obituary: Rev. Robert Lowry. author Of sever
very popular hymns. at Plainfied N. j.; age
70.
&C. South African War: Great Britain formal
notified the powers Of the state of war r
sulting from Boer invasion OF British teri
tory.
Filipino War: Gen. Hughes captured Passi
Iloilo, driving the insurgents to the mou
tains.
Wallace Ross. once ranked as the greatest oar
man of the world, died in London aged AZ.
81. Obituary: Charles Coghlan, the actor
Galveston; aged So.
2s. South African War: A ten hours battle
Modder river British loss, 445 includii
Gen. Methuen. wounded. Mai. Scott-Turn
led a sortie from Kimberley and kile
D with % OF his men. Casualties to date on t
! British side, 1850.
Obituary: Countess of Castiglone, noted beau
Ill., in Paris.
Financial Troubles: Harper & Bros publish
: house turned over to the agent of its Gre
itors, with liabilities of $500, 000
y 20. Fires; In Philadelphia Lippincott's publ
F.. ing house and department store and otl
y concerns burned out; loss, $1,250,0O0.
a. New Athens (O.) Franklin college destroyed.
Accident: killed and 20 injured in a wreck
A the D., L. and W. at Paterson, N. ].
= 80. Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cornell 20
AZ at Philadelphia. The Carlisle Indians sc
ed As to Columbia in the Thanksgiving 70
r. ball game in New York.
l. DECEMBER!
e. Sporting: West Point scored II to Annapt
at Philadelphia.
l. Obituary: John Inslee Blair, multimilliona
II and coal and railroad magnate. at Blairsto,
N. j.; aged 81.
a, s. Fire. At Clinton, Mass. loss, $150, 200, by
burning of theater.
es Storms: First wintry weather OF the seas
snow in the northwest.
~ L. Political: Opening OF the seth congress.
Filipino War: Gen. Young's column reacl
ne TaIudin, which 600 Filipinos abandoned
s. his approach.
y Accident: passengers killed and seriously
o. jured in end collision on the Den
and Rio Grande Sada, Colo.
D. The Molineux murder trial opened in New Yo
IN 5. Political The presidents message read
both houses.
D. Fire: At Meridian, Miss loss, S250000.
. Obituary: Monroe Leland Hayward, U. S. S
'e ator elect from Nebraska, at Nebraska CT
aged So
g. Filipino War: 200 Americans repulsed 800 T
pinos at Yigan.
'e Shipwreck: 10 persons wounded by the WI
=, of the Niagara of Long Point, Lake Erie.
s' Z. Disasters: In the burning of hosiery fact
at Reading, Pa, operatives killed
q so injured. At Sunneytown, Pa, work.
were killed by the blowing up of a pow
Is MILL
Gu South African War: Boer raiders cut the rail'
end telegraph at Gras Pan, in rear Of G
ne Methuen's column.
Obituary: Gen. Henry Hayes Lockwood
'er ular army and civil war veteran, in W.
ington; aged IS. James p. Reed, once CHI
Of pion checker player Of the world, at Pi