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

10. South Africa: PRESIDENT hruger transferred the
seat of the Transyaal government to Allkmaar
China: Foreign troops forbidden to enter Pc.
king.
IS. Obituary: Prince de Joinville, son OF King
Louis Philippe Of France, who for a time
served in the Army of the Potomac during
the civil war, in Paris; aged 80.
Sporting: Kinley Mack won the Suburban
Handicap.
II. China: Chinese forts at Taku, being ordered to
surrender to allies, opened fire on allied feet;
Russian, British French, German and Japanese
ships replied; Admiral Kempf refused to Join
in the order to surrender or the bombardment;
surrender of the forts; wild riots in Picking.
IS. China Gen. Macarthur ordered to send troops
and Admiral Kempf directed to act concur
rently with other nations for the protection OF
American interests; Baron Won Ketteler, Ger.
man minister at Picking, killed by Chinese
mob.
Personal: Gen. Joseph Wheeler Of the volunteers
commissioned brigadier general in the regular
army.
81. Political: Mckinley and Roosevelt nominated
at Philadelphia by reclamation.
China: Mai. Walters marines ambushed on the
road to Tien-tsin; American consulate at
Ten-tsin destroyed; allied troops reached
Taku.
Filipino War: President Mckinley proclaimed
immunity IOr IHe past anu liberty OF aCClO1 IN
the future for the Filipnos.
Count Murayief, noted Russian statesman, min
lister of foreign affairs, at st. Petersburg;
aged IS.
&c. China: The allies, 1000 strong, captured
Tien-tsin.
Railroad Accident: 40 killed in a washout on
the Southern railway at McDonough, Ga.
a. Railroad Accident killed and many injured
on the Chicago and Northwestern at Depere,
Wis.
g. China: Minister WI, at Washington, asked for
an armistice, which was refused.
&c. Personal: Gen. Adna R. Chaffee appointed to
command the American troops in the allied
army of China
g. Filipino War: Pho del Pillar and other native
leaders held as prisoners of war, took the oath
of allegiance and were released.
China The international relief column under
Admiral Seymour returned to Ten-tsin after
making a desperate fight to reach Picking;
casualties, 60 killed and 300 wounded
g. Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard in the annual
boat race at New London, Conn.,
The U. S. battleship Oregon went ashore on Pin
nacle rock, off the coast of China, north Of
Chefu.
80. Steamship Disaster The North German Lloyds
steamers Saale, Bremen and Main burned at
the Hoboken docks; deaths, 1902, and property
loss about $10,000,000.
Obituary: Rear Admiral John Philip, who COM
manded the Texas at Santiago in Brooklyn;
aged 60.
Sporting: Pennsylvania won the intercollegiate
rowing regatta at Poughkeepsie.
| China: Battle at Tien-tsn; 1000 Chinese sain
British Admiral Seymour wounded; foreign
ministers in Picking ordered to leave, but re-
fused; Chin Chow attacked by Boxers and
mission destroyed; arsenal at Tien-tsin cap
| tured by allies.
JULY.
/. China: Chinese renewed their attacks on the
allies at Ten-tsin.
2. China; Heavy bombardment Of the native city
Of Tien-tsin by the allies
8. China: United States defined its policy In
China to be the restoration of order.
4. China; Two attacks on Ten-tsin.
Accidents: SO killed and IS injured in trolley
crash at Tacoma. children killed by dyna-
mite torpedoes in Philadelphia
s. Political: William Jennings Bryan nominated
for president by the Democratic national con-
! venton at Kansas City.
Obituary: DR.. Henry Bernard, famous educator,
at HARTFORD aged SO.
9. China: japanese captured the Chinese arsenal
at Tien-tsin.
II. South African War: Beers captured 2 guns
and 200 Scots Greys and Lincolnshire men at
Nitral's mex.
13 China Allies repulsed at Tien-tsin; the Amer.
lean commander, Col. E. H. Liscum, killed.
H. China: Native walled city captured by allies
and burned.
IT, Fires: Principal business portion OF Prescott,
A. T., burned; loss over $1,OOO,OOO. A 500, 900
blaze at Newcastle, Cal.
49, Convention: Reunion Of the blue and the
gray at Atlanta.
co. China: Rout of the Chinese by the Russians
on the Anur. China APPEALED to Japan, France
and the United States to intercede with the
powers
shipwreck: 40 drowned by the sinking Of the
steamer Florence on Yukon river.
South African War; Sharp fighting at several
points in the Transvaal
q. Shpwreck The Cunard liner Campania cut
down the British bark Embleton in the Irish
channel; the captain and 10 Of the crew Of the
Embleton drowned
%. Obituary: Lucius f. Chttenden, former reg
lister OF the treasury, at Burlington, Vt; aget
76
20. South African War; The Boer general Prinsloc
surrendered Internationally, turning ovel
1000 men of his command.
King Humbert of Italy assassinated at Monza By
Angelo Bresc de Prato.
80. Obituary: Alfred Ernest Albert, duke of Edin
burgh and duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
second son OF FRINGE ALBERT ana queen VIC
toria, at Coburg; aged Sc.
u. Obituary: John Clark Ridpath, author anG
historian, in New York city; aged So
AUGUST.
3. China: The allies advanced from Tien.tsin to
ward Picking.
4. Obituary: Gen. Jacob Dolson Cox, civil wa
veteran and historian, at Magnolia, Miss
aged p.
Fire: At Ashland, Wis; loss, 81 200, 900 in tn
lumber district.
8. China: Stubborn fighting at Peitsang between
the allies and Chinese.
9. China: Allies captured Yangtsun on the marcl
toward Picking.
10. Obituary: Lord Russell, chief justice OF Eng
land in London; aged 67.
Sporting: Fitzsimmons defeated Rubin in
rounds in New York city.
II. Shipwreck: SO drowned by the sinking Of tn
French destroyer France off Cape Vincent
IL. Accident: Is passengers killed by collision o
an omnibus with train at Slatington, Pa.
i3. Obituary: Coils P. Huntington, railroad mag
nate, In the Adirondacks; aged II.
Is. China Picking entered by the allies after
sharp battle.
Accident: deaths In collision on the Gran
Rapids and Indiana R. R. at Pierson, Mich.
10. Obituary: John James Ingalls,, ex-U. s. sen
tor from Kansas, at Las Vegas, N. NJ; aged 0
10. Fire: At Alexandria, 1nd the plant Of Il
Kelly AK Co. burned; loss, $500 900.
81. Accident: killed in rear end collision
the Harlem R. R. at Kensco Station, N Y.
%. Obituary: Gen. Cluseret, noted leader Of IL
Paris commune and veteran Of the Americi
civil war, in Toulon; aged II.
%. Obituary: Frederick Wilhelm Nietzsche, mote
German philosopher, at Weimar; aged SO.