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

military leader in Spain and former captain
general Of Cuba, at Zaraus.
rs. Gen. John NJ. Palmer, noted soldier, lawyer
and statesman Of Illinois, at SprngAeld aged
49,
China: American troops ordered withdrawn from
Picking
OCTOBER.
/. Personal: Lord Roberts appointed commander
In chief Of the British army to succeed Lord
Wolseley.
8. Tornado: At Biwabic, Mimi. 10 killed and
property valued at nearly $500, 900 destroyed.
I. Accident: 40 pilgrims killed by the collapse
Of floor at the st. Nikander monastery,
Porkhof, Russia.
9. Obituary: The Marquis of Butte, one Of the
richest men in the United Kingdom, at Dunn
fries House, Scotland aged 81.
10. China: The reformers under Sun Vat Sen cap
tured the town of Kin Shan on East river;
200 imperial soldiers killed.
Fire: Port Limon, Costa Rica, nearly destroyed;
loss about So, 100000.
20. Fire: Human & Co.'S packing house burned
at ST. Paul; loss, $45O,OOO; firemen killed and
many injured.
Obituary: Charles Dudley Warner the author,
at Hartford; aged II.
Political Gen. Weyler, former captain general
of Cuba, appointed captain general of Madrid.
Ex-President Kruger of the Transyaal republic
sailed from Lourenco Marques for Europe.
21. Political: The Anglo-German alliance to main
tain the integrity Of China announced to the
powers
Obituary: John Sherman, ex-secretary Of state
and leading Republican statesman, in Wash
ington; aged II.
%. Shipwreck: "a sailors drowned by the loss OF
the French steamer Faidherbe off the coast Of
France.
25. South Africa force of $50 Beers surprised
and captured Jacobsdal, Kimberley
Miners Strike: The strike of the anthracite coal
miners of Pennsylvania ended with victory for
the strikers.
2S. Obituary; The Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller,
professor of philology at Oxford university, at
Oxford; aged II.
20. Fire Catastrophe: An explosion and fire de-
stroyed Tarrant & Co.'S drug warehouse in
New York; 43 killed and missing and over 100
injured; property loss about 81, 100000.
Miscellaneous Crush and panic in London dur.
ing a public welcome to the City Imperial
volunteers returning from South Africa; 10
people killed and 200 injured. Gen. Knoxs
forces engaged De Vets burghers on Vaal
river Earthquake in Venezuela killed %
people and destroyed 300 houses in Caracas
Prince Christian Victor, grandson of Queen
Victoria, died at Pretoria.
&c. Obituary: Gen. D. NJ. Frost, veteran Of the
Mexican and civil wars, at st. Louis; aged II.
Census of 1900: The census bureau announced
the result of the computations Of the total
population of the United States and terri
tories, except Porto Rico; in the As states Of
the Union there were on June l, 1900, 1897,
9O7 inhabitants as against 2110,Sl1 in $780,
an increase Of 12,51l,096; adding the popula
ton Of the territories including Alaska, Ha-
wall and the Indians on reservations, the
grand total is 76,295,220 against So, 069, 1866
in 1890, making the total increase 13,225,4
81. Political: The state department announced
the Endorsement by the United States of the
Anglo-German agreement to preserve the in
tegrity of China and maintain the "open
door," The troops of Montenegro and Austria
Hungary engaged in battle over a boundary
dispute
NOVEMBER.
g. Obituary: ExMayor William L. Strong, the
last mayor of old New York, in that city;
aged 70.
8. Explosion: 20 miners killed in an explosion
which wrecked the Berriesburg coal mine
West Virginia,
g. Political: The Cuban constitutional conven-
ton opened in Havana with cheers for the
United States.
Obituary: Isaac Quincy Adams, grandson Of
President John Adams, at Quincy Mass; aged
81.
press burned OUT loss, Sl35,0O0.
Political: Mckinley and Roosevelt elected by
the largest electoral vote on record.
g. Weather: First cold wave OF the season
freezing weather in southern Kansas and Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Tennessee.
Fire: Biloxi, Miss, visited by flames which de-
stroyed 300 buildings and left 1000 people
homeless; loss, 100000.
| 0. Accident By the explosion OF gas in the Buck
Mountain mine, Mahanoy City, Pa. l minel
was killed and 26 injured several fatally.
Miscellaneous: Jerry Lynch the last survivor Of
the crew of the Confederate cruiser Alabama
died in Atlanta. Great destruction of life ant
shipping by typhoon at Hongkong.
| 10. Obituary: R. G. Dun, head of the American
Mercantile agency, in New York city; aged "A
South African War: The British forces unde
Gen. Smith-Boyien engaged the Beers unde
De Wet 30 miles northwest of Kroonstadt anC
captured 8 guns; Boer loss, 90 killed, 81
wounded and 100 prisoners.
Shipwrecks: The schooner Myra B. Weave
| wrecked on Handkerchief shoal, New England
coast; sailors and women drowned TIL
steamer Monticello lost off Yarmouth N. s.
SO sailors and passengers drowned.
Sporting: Yale scored 35 to for the Carlisl
| Indians in the annual football game at New
Haven
between an express and a suburba~ train a
Choisy-le-Roi, France.
II. Fire: persons burned to death and man.
| injured, of them fatally in fire at tn
Clifford House, Poplar Bluffs, Mo.
Obituary: Henry Willard, the noted fnancier, a
Thorwood Park, on the Hudson; aged 65
Marcus DAILY, multimillionaire mine owner AM
turf patron of Montana, in New York city
aged 60.
The Paris exhibition closed.
49, Financial Troubles William L. Strong & Co.
wholesale dry goods house in New York
placed in the hands of a receiver; liablitie
variously estimated at from 81 ZOO, 900 to So,
100000 Grant Bros, stockholders in Ney
York failed, with liabilities placed at 5000, 00C
Conventions: The 14th annual convention
American agricultural colleges met in Ne'
Haven. The goth annual session Of the Prot
esant Episcopal church congress began i
Providence.
TO- Accident: Is passengers killed and 20 injure
by the derailing Of an express near Bayonn'
France; among the killed was the Peruvia
minister to the French court, Senior Canevart
Shipwreck: The u s. auxiliary cruiser Yosemit
wrecked off the island of Guam, near the Phi
ippines; 5 sailors drowned.
10. Personal: Attempt upon the life Of Emper(
William at Breslau.
Accident 4 killed and A seriously injured in
head on collision at Raymilton, Pa.
II. Fire: The business portion Of Phillippi,
Va, swept by flames; loss, $1,O000O0.
Sporting: Yale scored 20 to Princeton's in Il
annual football contest at Princeton.
Miscellaneous: Martin Irons, formerly prominel
in the cause OF labor, died at Bruceyille. TIE