Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-31
The Closing Year
Marker of Events
Roll of the Reaper Includes a Queen and
miscellaneous Happenings
the World Over.

& Miscellaneous: The centennial anniversary OF
the installation Of U. S. Chief Justice John
Marshall. celebrated throughout the Union.
Funeral Of Queen Victoria.
Fire: At Fair Haven. Conn. loss Of s325. 900
by the burning OF the National Wire works.
5. At Evansville. Ind; loss Of SIS, coo by flames
in the business district.
Catastrophe: Heavy loss OF life at Baku, Rus
sian Transoauoasia, by petroleum and naphtha
fires and explosions
Z. Accident: killed and several injured in an
accident on the Erie railroad at GreenviIle.
Pa.
Disaster: 81 persons killed by a dynamite ex-
plosion at the san Andres mine, Durango,
Mexico.
6. Obituary: Benjamin N. Prentiss. noted vet
eTan OF the Mexican and civil wars. at Beth
any. Mo-; aged ST.
o. Fire: At Pittsburg, Armstrong; cork factory
burned: loss. $4,000.
IL. Obituary: Col Albert d. Shaw, past COM
mander in chief Of the C. A r., suddenly, in
Washington; aged SO.
Personal: Tie promotion Of Gen Nelson A
Miles to the rank Of lieutenant general con-
frmed by the senate.
II. Fire: At Rochester. Pa. glass plant burned.
causing a loss Of $500. 600.
Is. Disaster: co miners buried by an explosion Of
FIRE damp in the Yelling colliery. Vancouver
island.
Obituary: Maurice Thompson. the southern nov
elist. at Charlottesville, Ind: aged 81.
n Fire: At Atlanta. in the wholesale district;
loss, $4,000
Accident: IL killed and 40 injured in e head on
collision on the Camden and Amboy railroad
near Trenton
q. shipwreck: The Pacific Mail steamship Rio
Janeiro went the rocks Of the harbor Of
San Francisco; death list. 12S. including U. s.
Consul Gen. r. WiIdman.
Disaster: % lives lost at Kemmercr. Wy, by
explosion in the Diamondville collicry.
%. Obituary: William Maxwell Evarts. noted
lawyer and statesman. in New York city,
aged S.
MARCH.
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4. Political: Mckinley and Roosevelt inaugural
ed The 56th congress adjourned.
6. China: German troops attacked the pass Of
Chungshun, in the Great Wall, between Chilli
and Shansi defeating the Chinese
Obituary: Hon Christopher L Magee. noted
politician, hnancier and philanthropist OF
Pittsburg, at Harrisburg; aged So
Q. Tornado: a portion Of willspoint, Tex,
wrecked, with casualties Of killed and 20
injured, and other portions Of the state devas-
tated
Fire: At Detroit, the oIas Motor works burned;
loss, $500. Co.,
IL. Fire: General Offices Of the New York division
Of the New York. New Haven and Hartford
railroad. in upper New York city, destroyed;
loss, 81, 10000.
Accident A number OF lives lost and many
casualties in an explosion at the Doremus
laundry. Chicago.
u. Fire; At McKeesport, Pa, the McKeesport
brewing plant burned; loss, $4,000.
13. Obituary: Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, at
Indianapolis; aged 6S.
IA. Fires: At Gowanda, y. Y, loss Of s150.oO0
by the burning Of 4 glue factory. An explo-
sion OF natural gas set the town Of Cloverspot,
KY, on fire and caused loss OF 100000.
Is. Fire: Loss Of $4,000 by the burning Of 500
bales Of cotton in the Planters warehouse
at Eutaw, Ala The Morning Advertiser burn
ed in Boston; loss. $4,000
1e. Personal: The Count de Castellane wounded
NJ. de Rodays, journalist, in affair Of
honor in Paris.
II. Fire: In Pittsburg, the main exposition build
ing burned: loss, 5000 600.
Is. Political: Demonstration against the govern
ment in st. Petersburg suppressed by Ccssacks;
many students killed.
Fire: In Memphis, Ind, so houses burned; loss
100000
Obituary: Patrick Donahoe, founder and editor
of the Boston Pilot. in Boston; aged 90
1o. Fire: The jerks sEipbuilding plant at Port
Hsron, Mich, destroyed; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Mile. Sophie Croisette, formerly q
celebrated French actress, in Paris.
South African War: Gen. Botha's rejection Of
the terms of peace offered by Gen. Kitchener
announced in the house of commons
20. Obituary: Edmond Got, celebrated French
actor, in Paris; aged 20.
q. Fires: At Greenvile. Ala, 1900 bales OF cot
ton burned; loss, 100000. The Kerr-Murray
Machine works at Fort Wayne. Ind, nearly
destroyed; loss, 5000
%. Filipino War: Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader,
captured By Gen. Frederick Funston IN the
province of Isabella
"a. Fire: The village of Glen Garden, N J.,
nearly destroyed by burning oil escaping from
wrecked train; loss about 10000.
Obituary: Charlotte Mary Yonge, the author, in
London: aged IS.
IS. Explosion: Is miners killed in the Gates
mine. Fayette county. Pa.
Tornado: Over 400 people injured. many fatally,
in a storm which swept over Birmingham,
Ala property loss, 100000
q. Obituary; Jean Gain, noted French artist, in
Paris; aged 81
Is shipwreek: The British steamer Tay coIIided
with the German steamer Chennitz in the
Flushing roadstead and sank. carrying down
Is sailors.
mond; loss, sl.0O0,O0o. The plant OF The
Guardian Publishing Co. and other property
in the business district Of Paterson, n. J., de-
stroyed; loss. 100000.
Obituary: James Stephens, the noted Fenian
leader Of the last Irish uprising. in Dublin;
aged 70.
3D. Obituary: Roland Reed, the actor, in New
York city; aged ls. The Rev. John Jasper of
'sun do move celebrity, at Richmond.
Personals: Gen. Frederick Funston appointed
bTigadier general in the regular army.
Fire: The Santiago Park hotel, noted land
mark Of Passaic, n. J., which originally cost
$4,000, destroyed.
81 Fires: The Hendrix Hudson hotel, a new
structure at Yonkers. " Y, burned; loss.
10000. At Kansas City the Dold Butterine
Packing Co. burned out; loss, 100000.
APRIL.
9. At Ashland, Ne, the sawmin OF the Ashland
Manufacturing Co. destroyed; loss over $780,
oOO
4. Obituary: Gen. T. G. ('sTige'O Anderson,
noted ex-Confederate. at Admission. Ala; aged
20. D'Oyly Carte, the English theatrical man
ager, in London.
g. Fire: At st. Louis the elevator Of the St.
Louis Storage Co. burned: loss $3.50. 900.
u. Obitusry Gen. John Porter Hatch. U. S. A., |
retired, veteran of the Mexican and civil |
wars. in New York city; aged 40.
IA Fire: At Jamaica Plain, Mass, the Sturdevant |
Blower works burned; loss over 5000
Ii. Obituary: Cen Alexander Campbell McClurg, |
a civil war veteran and prominent book pub |
Usher OF Chicago, at st. Augustine. Fla; |
aged 60.
H. Obituary: The Rev. Justin d. Fulton. noted |
editor, preacher and author, at Somerville, /
Mass; aged IS.
II. The imperial palace at Picking, occupied as
headquarters by Count waidersee. commander |
Of the allied forces in China, was burned.