The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-01-12

| Shipwreck: Steamer George L. Colwell of De-
troit, for New York from Fernandina, went
to pieces off Charleston; II sailors drowned.
81. Fires: At Aberdeen, Wash. loss $150,0O0 by
the burning of salmon cahnery At Hack
ettstown, N. j., the Hackettstown seminary
burned; loss, 100000.
NOVEMBER.
l. Shipwreck: Off Cape Romain S. c., schooner
William NJ Bird lost and sailors drowned.
L. 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 Is to Pennsylvania
at the Cambridge football contest
g. Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops cap
tured Magalang after sharp fighting.
g. Filipino War: Gen. Wheaton's division landed
at San Fabian, on Lingayen gulf, under the
enemy's fire.
Political: First autonomous government in the
Philippines installed at Bacoor, island of
Negroes, by the U. S. governor general.
T. Shipwreck The U. S. cruiser Charleston lost
off the northwest coast of Luzon.
g. Fire: $250.0O0 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 in a football contest at New York
! At Easton Lafayette scored to Cornell s.
Indian Troubles: Navajoes and l white killed
in battle between Indians and settlers near
Walton Station A. T.
r. Fire: At Montreal; loss, 100000.
Venezuelan War: Puerto Cabello, surrendered to
Gen. Castro after battle in which $50 were
killed and wounded.
Filipino War: Sharp fight at San Jacinto; Ma
jor John A. Logan killed at the head of his
battalion.
49, Obituary: Col Henry Inman. veteran of the
regular army and the civil war, author of
the ''Old Santa Fe Trail,' at Topeka; aged e.
a. Obituary: DR.. Moritz Busch, biographer of
Bismarck, at Leipsic; aged rs.
16 War In Colombia: Conclusion of two days
battle at Bucarananga in which 1000 rebels
were killed and 1000 wounded.
IT, Fire: The Hamburg American liner Patria
abandoned to the flames in the North sea.
Obituary: Col. Lawrence Kip, veteran of the
civil and noted turfman. in New York
city; aged 63.
49, Sporting: The e-Harvard annual football
game ended in draw at Cambridge.
49, Accident: killed and seriously injured in
a wreck on 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 geologist at Montreal; aged Sc.
90 Filipino War: Gen. MacArthur's troops enter
ed Dagupan, the northern terminus of the
Manila railway
PERSONAL Emperor William arrived at Windsor
castle, the guest of Queen Victoria.
81 Obituary: ,Garret A. Hobart, vice president of
the United States, at Paterson. N. j.; aged 55.
o. Accident: killed in rear end collision be-
tween limited passenger and a freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio near McCool, Ind.
g. Obituary: Prof. Miaskowski. authority on
political economy and international law in
fba Tpiu itxo f TaiY, c;o Of To;o
Fire: The Hustled elevator burned at Buffalo;
loss about $l5O,0o0
South African War Battle at Belmont, south Of
Kimberley; British loss 22O
The Sudan Gen. Wingate, with an Egyptian
force, defeated the dervishes Dreifssa. OF
the line of the Nile, killing 400, including
the khalifa.
a. Fire: At Detroit; loss, $780, 900.
25 South African War: Battle at Gras Pan Hills,
north of Belmont, lasting four hours. Gen.
Methuen's column lost heavily.
Sporting: Princeton defeated Yale at football at
New Haven; score, Princeton H. Yale TO-
Obituary: Rev. Robert Lowry, author Of several
very popular hymns, at Plainfeld, N. j.; aged
e. South African War: Great Britain formally
notified the powers of the state of re-
sulting from Boer invasion of British terri
tory.
Filipino War: Gen. Hughes captured Passi. in
llOlO, QrlVlnS the insurgents TO the noun
tains.
Wallace Ross, ranked as the greatest oars
man of the world, died in London; aged A.
q. Obituary: Charles Coghlan, the actor, at
Galveston: AIRED rs
g. South African War: A ten hours battle at
Modder river; British loss, AS including
Gen. Methuen, wounded. Maj. Scott-Turner
led a sortie from Kimberley and killed.
with % of his men. Casualties to date on the
British side, Also.
Obituary: Countess of Castiglione noted beauty
of the second empire and charmer of Napoleon
III, in Paris.
Financial Troubles: Harper & Bros publishing
house turned to the agent of it's cred
itors with liabilities of $550O,000.
20. Fires: In Philadelphia Lippincott's publish
ing house and department store and other
concerns burned out; loss, $l,250000.
New Athens CO., Franklin college destroyed.
Accident: killed and 20 injured in wreck on
the D., L. and W. at Paterson, N. ].
go Sporting: Pennsylvania defeated Cornell 90 to
at Philadelphia. The Carlisle Indians scor-
ed As to Columbia in the Thanksgiving foot
ball game in New York.
DECEMBER.
2. Sporting: West Point scored II to Annapolis
at Philadelphia.
Obituary: John Inslee Blair, multmilionaire
and coal and railroad magnate, at BIairstown,
N. j.; aged 81.
3. Fire: AT Clinton, Mass. loss $150,000, by the
burning of theater.
Storms: First wintry weather of the season;
snow in the northwest.
4. Political: Opening of the seth congress.
Filipino War: Gen. Young's column reached
Tagudin, which GOO Filipinos abandoned on
his approach.
Accident: passengers killed and seriously in
jured in rear end collision on the Denver
and Rio Grande near Salida, Colo.
The MolineuX murder trial opened in New York.
8. Political: The presidents message read in
both houses
Fire: AT Meridian, Miss; loss, $250,00O.
Obituary: Monroe Leland Hayward, U. S. sem
ator elect from Nebraska at Nebraska City;
aged So
Filipino War: 200 Americans repused 500 Fill
pinos at Vigan
Shpwreck: l6 persons wounded by the wreck
of the Niagara off Long Point, Lake Erie.
z. Disasters: In the burning of a hosiery factory
at Reading, Pa, 8 operatives were killed and
90 injured. At Sunneytown, Pa, workmen
were killed by the blowing up of powder
mill.
South African War: Boer raiders cut the railway
and telegraph at Gras Pan, in rear of Gen.
| Methuens column.
Obituary: Gen. Henry Hayes Lockwood, reg
ular army and civil veteran, in Wash