Willmar tribune., 1900-01-10
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Many Pages Added to the Worlds
History IN 1900.

Many Pages Added to the Worlds
History IN 1900.
4 some OF the Leading FeatureI-Events
ut Home and Abroad-Notable
Deaths-Disasters, Murders,
HanEings, Etc.
The year 1899 will always be memorable
as that in which the Spanish-American war
Was officially closed and the Filipino insur-
rectton reduced to mere disorganixed
guerrilla warfare, with Its leader fugi-
tive. On the first day of the year Spain
reNnQuished its authority in Cuba and the
United States assumed control. The peace
treaty was sent to the senate three days
later, and February 6 it was atified. April
II rat11cations were exchanged with Spain
and peace proclaimed. The work OF politi-
cal reorganization in Cuba has progressed
satisfactorily. .'
The history Of the revolt Of the TaEals,
under the leadership Of Aguinaldo, against
the sovereignty Of the United States Is en-
Draced within the period of the old year.
II mad Its incipiency in the refusal of the
insurgents to surrender Iloilo to the United
states, the demand Of Aguinaldo for inde-
S~SAASS NAAO pIOCldHdIlOu Ol TepuU-
nc. AS this government failed to recog-
n1ze him, he precipitated an insurrection
Dy his attack upon the American forces
near Manila February 4. Since that date
there have been many encounters with the
insurgents, In every one of which our
forces have been successful, and numerous
towns have been captured, occupied or de-
stroyed. Aguinaldos so-called capital has
Deen moved from place to place with celer-
lty as our troops advanced, his so-called
government has disappeared, his forces
nave melted away until there is but q
nandful left to keep up guerrilla war, and
Aguinaldo himself is virtually a fugitive
without following. 80.
There have been other important ques-
t1ons settled during the year. The army
scandal, which originated in the commits
sary department., has been quieted by the
court-martialing of Gen. Eagan and the
resignation of Secretary Alger. The dis
turbed relations between Great Britain and
the United States over the Alaskan boun-
dairy have been temporarily adjusted by a
modus vivendi. The outbreak in Samoa
has been settled by a dissolution of the
tr1partite agreement between Great Brit
ain, Germany and the United States, Great
Britain renouncing all its claims and re-
ceivtng compensation elsewhere. The Unit
ed States retains possession of the island of
Tutuila and the important harbor of
Pango-Pango, Germany having possession
OF the rest of the Samoan group.
The Old Year Abroad.
The old year abroad has witnessed some
events of stirring nature. NotwithStand
Ing the czar's spectacular exhibition at The
Hague in the interests of international
peace and brotherhood, the two leading
events in Great Britain's record for the
year have been warlike. Early in the year
the British government issued proclama
ton of joint control of the Soudan with
series of brilliant victories won by Lord
Kitchener, who is now on his way to South
Africa, second in command to Lord Rob-
erts, to take part in Great Britain's second
war for the subjugation of the Transvaal
and Free State Beers. The causes of this
needless war and the progress of its events
are too fresh in the public recollection to
need recapitulation. Great Britain thus
far has paid heavy tribute of life and
treasure to crafty colonial ambitions. The
territorial dispute between Venezuela and
Great Britain has been settled by arbitra-
tiOn, to the advantage of the latter.
France early in the year lost President
Faure by death. M. Loubet was at once
elected in his place, and from that time, in
February, to the end of the year the re-
public has been in turmoil over the Dreyfus
rehearing and the innumerable ramifica-
tions of the incident" the resignation of
ministers, the violent uprising of social
istic and anti-Semitic mobs, demonstrations
against the government and revolutionary
plottings. But meanwhile the government
has remained firm, seditious acts have been
suppressed and Paris expects to crown the
closing year of the century with the bril-
liancy of it's exposition.
The Notable Dead.
In the great army of those who passed
away during 1899 there are some who have
made themselves conspicuous and have
achieved international fame. A partial list
follows:
Jan. 1s, Nelson Dingley. congressman;
Jan II, John Russell Young. congression-
al librarian; Feb. 6, Gen. Count Won Ca
privi, ex-chancellor, Germany; Feb. z, Will
liam Laird, the English shipbuilder; Feb
is, Felix Faure, president of France; Feb
rs, Baron Paul Julius de Reuter-, founder of
the Reuter- news agency; March 4, Emil
Erckmann, novelist, France; March 16, Jo-
seph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune;
March 20, w. H. Millais, artist, England; !;
March 20, Birket Foster, artist, England; !;
April 8, Stephen D. Field, jurist, United
States; May Is, Francisque Sarcy, critic
and author, France; May '25, Don Emilio
CASTELAR,. author and statesman, Spain;
May 26, Rosa Bonheur, artist, France; May
%, Elise Polko, musical author, Germany;
June l. John Smart, artist, England; June
3, Johann Strauss, composer, Vienna; June
5, Frank Thomson, president of the Penn
sylvania railroad corporation; June Z, Au-
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, novelist,
United States; July 2, Charles Victor Cher
bullieZ, novelist, France; July 21, Robert G.
Ingersoll, the great agnostic; July 26 Gen.
Ulysses Heureux, president Of San Domin-
go; Aug. 16, Prof. Robert Wilhelm Eber-
IL, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the American
fnancier; Sept II, Charles A. Pillsbury
the Minneapolis mill owner; Oct. 10, w. H.
Appleton, publisher, New York; Oct. 25,
Grant Allen, the English novelist; Oct. 25,
Gen. Sir William Penn Symonds, of the
British army; Oct. q, Florence Maryatt,
the English novelist; Oct 2S, Ottmar Mer-
genthaler, inventor of the lynotype ma
chine; Nov q, Garret A. Hobart, vice pres
ident Of the United States; Dec. 10, Maj.
Gen. Henry w. Lawton, U. S. A.; Dec. 21,
Charles LamOureUx, conductor, Paris:
Dec. 22, Dwight L. Moody, evangelist: Dec.
%, Dorman B. Eaton, father of civil service
reform: Dec 26. Prof. Eliot Coues, sci
enlist.
The following is,a record Of the prominent
disasters of 1899, both in this and other
countries: vi. ....~..- -
In January 10 persons were killed by a
boiler explosion in London, England; LOCO
by flood in China; 20 by fire near San
Sebastian, Spain; 500 by hurricane in the
Solomon islands; "A by mine explosion at
Mozarron, Spain; 20 by drowning at Ko-
nigsberg, Prussia. ~, f.
In February were killed by snow
slide at Rogers pass, B. c.; II by fire at
Bodungh, Hungary; 6 by mine explosion at
Colfax, CAL; "a by snoWslide at Silver
Plume, Col; II by fire at the South Dakota
insane asylum; 1O6 by drowning at Tient-
Tsin, China; 80 by a railroad accident at
sForet, France;r5 by mine explosion at
Blocklin, Ala; 20 by storm in the Cay
man islands. and by O. cyclone at Yazoo
i City, Miss. +sr y.