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

9. Cuba: Gomez issued farewell manifesto to
the Cuban people.
7. Obituary: Henry L. Clinton, noted criminal
lawyer, in New York city; aged so. Angus
tin DAILY, American theater manager in Lon
dom aged 6l Margaret Ann Cusack, the
Nun OF Kenmare, in London. Gen. W. s.
Walker, noted Mexican and Confederate vet
eran, at Atlanta.
Fire. At Augusta, Ca; loss, $3.50, 900.
8. Flood: High water mark reached in the Colo |
RADIO river, Texas; 25 drowned.
8. Sporting: Jeffries defeated Fitzsimmons for |
the worlds championship at Coney Island.
10. The yacht Columbia built to defend the
Americas cup. launched at Bristol, r. l.
Obituary: Capt. Henry Nichol Of the U. S.
monitor Monadnock, at Manila
II. Fire: In the Armstrong Whitworth Ordnance
Co.'s works at Newcastle Tyne; loss. ST.
100000.
Sporting: Perth won the Grand Prix de Paris.
Filipino War: Hardest battle to date at Las
Pinas between Gen. Lawton's division and
the insurgents.
Obituary: The Rev. DIR. William Garden Blaikie
D. D., LII. D., noted Scotch theoogian at
North Berwick, Scotland; aged 70.
10. Cyclone: In the northwestern states; hun
dreds killed and wounded at New Richmond,
Wis. and Herman, Neb.
Duke of Abruzzi's north pole expedition sailed
on the Stella Polare from Christiania, Norway.
IA. General celebration OF Flag day.
Obituary: DR.. Lawson TAFT, pioneer in surgery.
at London; aged 81.
Is. Obituary: Prof. Locke Richardson, the Amer
lean elocutionist, in Berlin. Rear Admiral
Pierce Crosby, U. S. N. retired, in WASH
ington; aged 76. Congressman Richard Parks
Bland, silver champion. at Lebanon, Mo-;
aged 81
| 16. Explosion: IL miners killed at the Caledonia
mine North Sidney. G. B.
Criminal: George B. Barrow, principal in the
Marion Clark abduction case, sentenced to IA
| ~ IN ths aDd Corria Iopao tha
nurse, to years.
II. Sporting; Imp won the Suburban at Sleeps
head Bay.
Is. Fire: At Greensboro. N. c., the Benbow
House burned; loss, 100000.
81. Fire. At Kirkwood Ca. Gen. John B. Cor
don's home, the historic Sutherland, burned.
%. Obituary. John Godfrey Moore. prominent
banker and exchange broker. in New York
city; aged So. Henry B. Plant, founder Of
the Plant system, in New York city; aged 80.
"a. Fire: At Laurel. DEL; loss 100000
Obituary. Kapiolani, widow Of King Kalakaua,
at Honolulu aged IS.
28. Shipwreck: Steamer Margaret Olwill, founder
ed of Lorain, Lake Erie; seamen lost.
20. Obituary: Daniel F. Tieman, oldest of the
surviving ex-mayors OF New York city. at
Audubon Park; aged "a.
Sporting Harvard three victories over
Yale at New London
&c. Obituary: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte South
worth, the novelist, in Washington; aged so.
Sporting: Charles Murphy, Brooklyn cyclist,
rode the fastest mile record. paced by a
railway engine
I. Fires. In Brooklyn 10000 cotton bales burned
in storage. Bar Harbor, the Kehoe Valley
clubhouse, golf and social resort, burned.
Obituary. Charles Victor Cherbuliez. French
academician. novelist and critic, in Paris;
aged TO-
O. Fire: At Summit, N. j., property in the heart
of the town valued at $150,00O destroyed.
Obituary: Gen. II. G. Wright. U. s. A.. retired
in Washington; aged 49,
g. Dreyfus returned to France.
L. Fires In Memphis the famous Gayoso hote
and other property burned; loss, $45O,00O. Al
Paris. Tenn, 20 buildings burned; loss. $l75.
900.
S. Convention: Annual Christian Endeavor gath
ering at Detroit
; Obituary: Bishop John P. Newman, notet
Methodist divine and the friend of Grant, a
Saratoga; aged 70.
0. Fires: At Couterville, CAL, the town de
stroyed; loss, $3.50, 900. At Ludngton, Mich.
: 100000 loss by the burning Of a railroad ele
vator
Filipino War: 10 regiments OF U. S. volunteer
ordered to he raised for the army in thu
Philippines
PERSONAL: Mary Wright Sewall of Indianapoli
elected president of the International Council
-, of Women at London.
Obituary: Robert Bonner, founder and propre
Tor OF tne New 1OTk IeuSer, III NeN lOil
! city; aged rs.
> I. Obituary: George W. Julian noted western
:, statesman, at lrvington, Ind; aged 81.
!, TO- Obituary: The Grand Duke George, brother Q
. the car and heir to the throne, at st. Peters
\ burg; aged 81. Judge Wabridge A. Field
eminent Massachusetts jurist and chief justice
in Boston; aged 81.
- l6. Fire. 81, 100000 worth Of uniforms and foo
: supplies destroyed at the Brooklyn navy yart
/ II. Fires: Mount Vernon, Ind; 100000 los
y, North Bend, Ind, the Addystone foundr
burned loss, 100000.
l. IS. Obituary: Col. A. L. Hawkins, 10th Pennsy
vania volunteers, on the way home from tt
Philippines to San Francisco Horatio
Ager, famous author of boys stories
u Natick, Mass aged 60.
10. Earthquake: Severe shock at Rome; Moul
Etna in eruption.
"a Personal: Gen. Alger rendered his resignatie
as secretary of war.
Us Obituary: Elizabeth Thompson, noted phila
IN thropist, at Littleton N. H.; aged IS.
90 Personal: President Mckinley accepted Il
u resignation of Secretary Alger. to take efe
Aug l.
* Obituary: II. K. Thurber, the retired Ne
H. York millionaire merchant, at HALEY, la
aged 70.
'n 81. Accident: killed and injured by expos
on a British torpedo boat destroyer at Lo
ar don.
y Obituary: Robert G. Ingersoll, at Dobbs Ferr
I'll %. Personal: Elihu Root OF New York appoint
-. secretary OF war.
~ y, %. Fire: At Toledo; loss of $1,000 900 by
-, burning OF a wheat elevator
"a. Obituary: The Rev. DR.. Thomas J. Sawy
u noted Universalist writer and educator,
~ Boston, aged 05.
~ 25. Obituary: Gideon J. Tucker, an old time pc
IT, tician and journalist, founder OF the N
York Daily News, in New York city; aged
20. Gen. Ulises Heureaux, president of Santo I
al mingo assassinated.
90 Obituary: Guzman Blanco, once president
Venezuela, in Paris.
ch 30 Accident: killed and 20 injured in Lar
slide on the Erie at Lackawaxen, N Y.
/" 81 Storm: The wheat section around Hamilt'
N. D., damaged to the amount of $3.50, 900
ess hail.
ia Obituary: Kate Chase Sprague, daughter
- Salmon p. Chase, noted Washington belle
- wartime, in Washington; aged SO. Daniel
~ ~ Brinton, noted ethnoogist and physician,
- Atlantic City; aged G2.
zen AUGUST.
The 8. Obituary: George Averoff, noted Greek p
lanthropist, at Alexandria, Egypt; aged 20.
ish 9. psasters SO passengers killed and 8 inju
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