St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-01-02

graduate Of Princeton university, at Newark,
N. j.; aged "a. Rev. Thomas Kinnicut Beecher,
noted Congregational minister, half brother OF
Henry Ward Beecher at Elmira, N. Y; aged
70.
16. Fire. Hotel and opera house block burned at
Mohawk, N. Y: loss, 100000.
Obituary: Gen, Sir William S. A. Lockhart,
commander of the British forces in India, at
Calcutta; aged so.
IS. Fire: At Port Gibson, Miss loss, 100000 by
the burning Of a cotton compress.
Obituary: Andrew Bolter, noted entomologist,
in Chicago; aged so.
10. Obituary: John A. Bingham, statesman and
iurist, at Cadiz, o.; aged IS.
%. Fire; In Philadelphia; loss of $500, 900 by the
burning of Moore's wire factory.
90. Gen. Sir Edward Woodgate Of Buffers army
died in Moot hospital, Natal of wounds re-
ceived on Jan. "a while leading the attack at
Spion Kop.
25 Fire: At Fort Plain, N. Y; loss of 100000
by the burning of Clinton Liberal institute.
&c. Obituary: Rabbi Isaac Wise, Hebrew teacher
and leader of note, in Cincinnati; aged 81
Field Marshal Donald Stewart Of the British
army at Algiers; aged n.
o. Obituary: Gen. Pet Joubert commander Of
the Boer army, at Pretoria; aged g.
g. Obituary: Count Benedict, French embassa
dor at Berlin during the war excitement in
1870, in Paris aged SO.
30 Fire: The Columbia theater burned in Chi
cago; loss, $780, 900.
| Obituary. Archibald Forbes noted English war
correspondent and author, in London; aged 90.
| South African War: Gen. Louis Botha, Boer hero
of spion Kop, appointed general in chief to
| succeed Gen. Joubert.
APRIL.
2. Fire: At Newport, Ark. loss, 100000.
South African War: Beers repulsed a British
sortie at Mafeking.
Obituary: DR.. st. George Mivart, noted Catholic
scientist, in London; aged 70.
B Obituary: Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand,
noted French writer and scientist, in Paris;
aged 7S.
South African War: Col Broadwoods command
entrapped at Thabanchu and guns taken by
the Beers; casualties, $40. Col. de Villebois
Mareuill, the able French ally of the Beers,
killed in action at Boshof. companies Of
British railway guards captured by the Beers
at Bethani.
4. Obituary: Osman Pasha, hero Of PleYna at
Constantinople; aged about So.
Fires: In Kansas City the Convention hall and
other buildings destroyed; loss, 100000. In
Orange, N. j.; loss, $1,000
The Prince of Wales fred upon in Brussels by a
Belgian.
8. Fires; The physical laboratory Of Lehigh uni
versity at Bethlehem, Pa, burned loss, $780,
900. At Ballston Spa, N. Y; loss $1,000
7. Obituary: Frederick Edwin Church, noted
American painter, in New York city; aged "a.
5. Fire: In Pittsburg, Hornets dry goods store
burned; loss, $500, 900.
Q. Fire: In Brooklyn flames swept over acres
of ground and destroyed property valued at
100000.
10. Obituary. Commodore W. K. Mayo, U. S. N,
retired in Washington; aged II.
Is. Paris exposition Of 1900 opened to the public.
| 16. Filipino War: In a fight between Gen. Bells
troops and natives 50 bolomen were killed.
10. Obituary. Jean Faguire, noted French sculp-
tor, in Paris; aged 60.
81. Obituary. The Rev. Charles Beecher, brother
of Henry Ward Beecher, at Haverhill, Mass.
aged S. Alphonse NJ. Edwards, noted natu-
ralist, at Paris; aged GA.
"a. Political: The senate refused to seat N. s.
Quay, appointed by the governor of Pennsyl-
vania.
20. Fire: At Ottawa and Hull, Canada, 1000
buildings burned loss $15000,000.
South African War; Wepener relieved, the
Beers under De Wet retreating northward.
Explosion: At Johannesburg, South Africa, Beg
bies smokeess powder magazine destroyed;
10 killed, 30 injured.
go South Africa: President Kruger issued a
proclamation ordering all British subjects to
leave the Transvaa
MAY.
l. Obituary: Munkacsy, the celebrated Hungarian
painter, at Bonn, Germany; aged sc.
Explosion: Nearly 400 deaths in mining catas-
trophe at Schofeld, Utah.
l. Shipwreck: 20 lives lost by the wrecking OF
the British steamship Virginia off Hatteras.
g. PERSONAL Gen. Otis relieved from the com.
mand in the Philippines by Gen. Macarthur.
6. Obituary: Ex-Secretary of War William B.
Endicott, in Boston; aged 70.
Fire: On the Mallory line PIERS New York city;
loss, 81, 900, 600.
T. South African War: Roberts troops crossed
the Vaal and Vet rivers; President Kruger
summoned all the Transvaal Beers to arms.
Fires: Piers and sheds OF the Jersey Storage Co.
at Constable Hook burned; loss, $500, 900.
Furniture factory and 40 houses burned at At
lanta; loss, $4,000.
10. Political: Bryan and Towne nominated by the
Populists at the Sioux Falls convention; Bar
ker and Donnelly nominated at Cincinnati by
the Middle of the Road Populists.
II. South Africa: President Steyn abandoned
Kroonstsd and established the capital of the
Orange Free State at Lindley.
IS. South African War: Kroonstad, the second
capital of the Orange Free State, occupied by
British troops
Fire: In Camden, N. j. loss, $l75000.
Is, Personal: Senator William A. Clark Of Montana
announced his resignation from the senate
l6. Fire; In the business center of Greenwich,
Conn. loss, 100000.
IS. South African War: Relief OF Mafeking by the
British after siege of 217 days.
Il. Filipino War: 2 companies Of natives, off,
GERS and men, surrendered at Tarlac.
20. Obituary: Francis Bicknell Carpenter, noted
American portrait artist and famed for his
painting of the emancipation proclamation, in
New York city; aged 20.
South African War; A squadron of Bethune's
mounted infantry ambushed in Natal; casual,
ties. &C.
"a. Financial Price, Mccormick b Co., exchange
brokers, failed for $l3,O0O,0OO.
&. Convention: Annual meeting Of the Society
of the Army of the Potomac at Fredericks
burg, Va.
Obituary: Signor Giuseppe Puente, the famous
opera baritone; aged 60.
a. South African War; Roberts army began the
invasion of Transvaal territory in force.
China: The Boxers, or rebels began their march
toward Picking.
% Total eclipse of the sun.
% Accident: killed and 40 injured by the col.
lapse of foothridge at the Paris exposition.
90. China: American, British, German, Italian
Russian and Japanese troops ordered to guar
the legations in Picking.
81. Convention: 10th annual reunion Of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans, at Louisville.
South African War: Johannesburg occupied b
British troops and the flag Of England raise
over the public buildings.
JUNE.
2. Obituary: Clarence Cook, noted art critic An
writer, in New York city; aged 70.
q. China: Dowager empress ordered the foreir