Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-31
CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR
the OUTSIDE WORLD

Jan. Il. S.. c. Blackburn chosen by
caucus as senator from Kentucky.
Chicago drainage canal opened.
Jan. 3-Boers return to the attack at
Colesburg and are partially successful.
Jan. Investigation in case of w A.
Clark, senator from Montana commenced
at Washington.
Jan. 6-Speaker Stiff t~estifies against
Senator Clark.
Jan. Rev. Edward McGlynn died at
NeWberg, N. j.
Jan. S-State Senator Whiteside testi-
fed in Clark Investigation at Washing
ton.
Jan. 9-Terry McGovern defeats Geo.
: Dixon in New York.
In a fight over county offices in San
Francisco. lack O'Brien shot and seri-
cusly injured.
Jan. Ex-senator WhiteSideS tells the
story of the $50, 900 before the senate
committee.
Jan. m-Lords Roberts and Kitchener
arrive at seat of war.
jan. lit is announced that Methuen
is to be recalled.
State Senator Clark and DR.. Ector on
the stand at Washington.
Butler occupies important strategic
point at Potgieoters drift.
Jan. 12-I<id Mccoy defeats Joe Cho-
noski at New York.
Jan. 15-Contest in Kentucky govern
Orship case opened al Frankfort.
Boer charge at Rensberg repulsed by
Il orkshires and New Zealanders.
Jan. 11-Nm. j. Cook and W.. A. Rector
testify in Clark investigation.
Jan. 1S-Statue of Webster unveiled at
Washington.
jan. 2o-T. F. Normoyle testities in
Clark case.
Former Lieut.. Gov. +. J. Mills, of
Idaho. acquitted in Salt Lake of charge
OF numbering Chief Engineer O'Melve-
ney, of the Oregon Short Line.
Committee of the house of representa-
tives at Washington reports against the
seating of b. H. Roberts, congressman
from Utah.
Jan. 23-Senate committee reports ad-
%ersely to Senator Quay.
Disaster of Spion koff.
Jan. 25-B. II. Roberts, of Utah. ex-
cluded from house of representatives.
IAN. 30-William Goebel shot and NOR
tally wounded at Frankfort, Ky.
Jan. 31-Gov. Taylor declares martial
law in Kentucky.
Feb. Marcus DAILY denies that he
has been succeeded by G. NJ. Hyams.
~ ~ ii2hN lNSNl-
1ies in Clark investigation.
Feb. 17-Senator w. A. Clark t~estiies
IN his own behalf.
Eeb. 21-J. b. Welcome t~estifies in
Clark investigation.
Feb. &c. w. Clark testifies at Wash
ington.
Feb. 2e-Marcus DAILY ~testiies in
Clark case.
Feb. 27-Cronje surrenders with his
whole army to General Roberts.
March 1-Ladysmith relieved by Gen.
Fuller, of the British army operating
against the Beers.
March 2-EX-Congresslnan King, of
Utah, nominated as successor to Roberts.
March 7-Explosion in the Red Ash
mining district of West Virginia, the
largest in area in the state. Nearly one
hundred miners perish.
March Seen. Cronje sent into exile
at st. Helena.
March l5-General Roberts occupied
Bloomfontein.
March 26-Beginning of trial at Frank
fort, KY, of John Powers, charged with
being one of the persons implicated in
the assassination of Governor Goebel.
April british sustain a defeat near
Rloomfontein.
DIR. ST. George Mivart, leading scien-
fist within the Catholic church dies at
London.
April 3-British sustain a crushing de-
feat at Bushman's kop, South Africa.
April 4-Puerto Rico bill passed
through senate. Final vote, 40 to 81.
Clark case resumed in senate. Attorney
"A. G. Hirney speaks for memorialists
April IA sixteen-year-old youth at
Erussells takes a shot at the Prince of
VIvoJ,. I'll, ,,rts,a ,-,1 -, y, i,,ra1
Queen Victoria visits Ireland and a
magnificent reception is given her in
Dublin.
April Five hundred British troops
captured at Reddersburg. within thirty
FIVE miles of Gen. Roberts army.
April S-Flood at Austin. Texas, re-
suits in death of forty pepole.
April 1l-Gen De Wet, the Boer COM
mander. intlicts n defeat IN the British
at Meerkatefontein, killing and wound
ing 600 and capturing 300 prisoners.
April 13-NNorid's Exposition at Paris
opened amid scenes of sumptuouS splen-
dor.
April 1S-Lord Roberts criticises Cen
erals Butler and Warren.
April Ex-senator Cark's election to the
United States mate declared null and
void by a committee OF the senate
April 2a-M. >. quay S appointment as
United States senator from Pennsyl-
vania. rejected.
April 27-Twenty million dollars went
up in smoke at Hull, Ontario. Five
miles of territory swept clean by fire,
and fifteen thousand people homeless.
April 27-Fierce battle between Amer
icans and Filipinos IN lcolecas, the
Americans winning victory: $50 insur-
gents killed and 70 taken prisoners.
April 2S-Disastrous flood at Waco,
Texas.
May Three hundred people killed by
a frightful explosion in the Schotield
mine, in Utah. Giant powder supposed
to ave been the cause.
May 10-Populist national convention
begins its work at Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, and dominates Charles Towne,
of Minnesota, for vice-president to run