The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-11

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; several fatal shipwrecks;
deaths of prominent men, among them
President Felix Faure Of France, Carrot
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.
1-Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba.
4Train held up and robbed at Macomb,
MO-. Peace treaty with Spain introduced
In the Senate.
9-Fourteen persons killed and forty-eight
injured In collision near Dunellen, N. J.
1O-McCoy defeated BY sharkey In New
13-Ffre at Memphis, Tenn, destroys
wholesale dry goods house Of J. 8. Menkin
& Co., and causes $500, 900 loss. Death OF
Congressman Dingley Of Maine.
14-British bark Andelina sinks at Tacoma
with her entire crew of nineteen men.
17-Death Of John Russell Young, librarian
of Congress.
1s-Disastrous food at Cleveland. German
consul at Apia, Samoa, elected from, Su-
preme Court Building by American and
British consuls.
20-Bank at Arthur, ILL.,, robbed Of $1,000.
21-EarthQuake shakes Peloponnesan pen
insula Of Greece. Massacre Of Spanish Of
fcers by natives at Balabac, in the Philip
pines.
25-One hundred thousand dollars damage
done by fire at JohnstOwn, Pa. :. .Adelina
Dot RI Il pov Nodo or Tod Of Rrc
con, Wales.
2tEx-Attorney General A. n. Garland
dies suddenly In Washington. Court mar
tial finds Gen. Chas. p. Eagan guilty under
two charges.
20-Cold wave over the West: 1s degrees
below zero at Chicago.
80-Two hundred thousand dollar lumber
yard Are In Chicago. Fa
February.
Seven persons perish in snowslids in
2-$75O,OO0 fire In Columbus. Ohio, in which
many are injured. Burning Of the Buck
inghsm Theater. Louisville, Ky.
g. $500 900 fire at Philadelphia.
at Manila. Mrs. Botkin receives life SEN
tence for murder. =. James A. Sexton, Com
mander-in-chief G. A. r.. dies In Washing
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 at Winnipeg burns; loss
Prairie du Chen, Wis.
9-Twenty-one degrees below zero at Chi
cago; coolest day In twenty-siX years.
$500 900 fire In Front street, New York..
Five business houses ut Herington, Kan,
burn.
1O-Explosion in Baxter Stove Works.
Mansfield, Ohio, causes a 100000 fire..
Kelly Block In Cleveland burns; loss $780,
mo SO00 0(n fire In TOrOnfO Ont
American troops capture Caloocan.
11-Troops under Gen. Miller take Iloilo
:::. Engagement outside Manila, in which
FilipinOs are driven back.
12-Twenty-four Italian miners and fami
N,s perish In snowslide at Silver Plume,
Colo. .McClurg's book store In Chicago
burns; loss $685., 900. Seventeen insane
~. Report Of war Investigating Board
made public in Washington. Great fires
In New. York City and Albany. N. Y.
13-Digby, N. s., almost wiped out by IRE
of Cincinnati. r. Burning Of manufacturers
warehouse in Chicago; loss 100000. =.
15-Machine shops In Brooklyn navy yard
Io-Death Of N. Felix Faure. President Of
lS-Emile Loubet chosen President Of
Frnnce; Riots In Paris.
22-City Of Manila fred BY T1lipinos.
March.
1-Death Of Lord Herschell In Washing
ton. ;. .Sagasta ministry resigns at Madrid.
.CGeorge Dewey made an Admiral by
ECongress adjourns.
6-Storm destroys life and property In
East tennessee. ~ New ministry takes OF
nee at Madrid. Terrific powder explosion
0-Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage resigns his
Washington pastorate. >. Battle between
Americans and Canadians on Porcupine
iI-Gen. Maxine Comes deposed from
command by Cuban Assembly. 81
H-Pasig captured By American troops. !. :.
UNDERSTANDING reached on Samoan a1airs
Herbert Putnam, Of Boston. appointed
16-Mob shoots nine negroes at Palmetto,
Ga. >. Death Of Editor Joseph Medill. ). !.
Five killed In street riot at Hot Springs,
death Of two men. ..B. P. Hutchinson.
wheat operator, dies at Lake Geneva, Wis.
17-Peace treaty signed BY the Queen Re-
e %th creat oss ao1s In
18-Fatal riot In Havana.
20-Mrs. Martha Place electrocuted at
2i-24-Kace war In Little River County.
Ark, where many negroes are iynched.
23-Malietoa Tanus crowned King Of sa-
S6openins of ship canal at Port Arthur.
2-Burnlng Of Armour's felt works In Chi.
0-American and British warships bonn
bard native towns In Samoa. Sinking Of
below Charlottesville, Mo.
Boone hundred and twenty lives lost by
shipwreck Of passenger steamer Stella In the
English channel. 81 bt
sf-Fall Of Malolos. >. $500. 600 nrs In San
Francisco.
7-Elevcn lives lost In burning Of Wallace
Andrews residence In New York.
0-Death Of Justice 8. J. Field, retired. i. :.
Seventeen lives lost by breaking Of an Ice
gorge on Yellowstone River at Glendive,
Montana.
lO-sevcn persons killed in riot at Pana,
Illinois.
1-Exchange Of peace treaties with Spain
ends the state Of war. Greek coaster Ma
ria sunk or Tripoli with loss Of forty-nve
1ETwenty-three Crow Indians drowned
In foods near Sheridan. Wyo.
BGreat fire in Cleveland; loss almost
is~Fishlng schooner Eliza lost OF Man
EDeath Of ex-Gov. X. J. Oglesby Of ILL.,
British ship Loeb Sloy on kangaroo Island.
@EDawson City. Alaska. almost wiped
a7yTornado at Kirksville and Newtown.
Mo-. and in Soldier River valley. lows.
Scores killed and injured.
20-EarthQuake shakes Southern Illinois
| and Indiana asd Northern Kentucky. :. ia
tai mine riots at Wardner. Idaho.
May.
1-Destructive forest nres In South Dakota.
Nebraska and Colorado.
eResignation Of Italian cabinet.
niis q ute +, IL Colorado
tion. 0. T.. -. Death Of Mrs. w. C. whitney.
7-Report OF Wade Court Of Inquiry given
out.
| 6-Russell & Co.'S thresher works n Mas.
| sillon, Ohio, burned; loss $500, 900,
H-Death OF ex-Gov. r. p. Flower Of New