St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-01-02
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ties placed at 100000.
"a. SPORT Yale scored % to Harvard in the
annual football game at New Haven.
Personal: Ex-Presdent Kruger received in Paris
with public demonstrations Of welcome
20. Shipwreck: The schooner Maumee Valley lost
on Point Pelee, Lake Erie; s sailors drowned.
q. Obituary: Robert E. A. Dorr, editor and pub
Usher of the New York Mail and Express, in
New York city; aged &C. Cushman X. Davis,
U. S. senator from Minnesota, in st. Paul;
aged g.:
g. South African War: Dewetsdorp, Orange Free
State, captured by the Beers; 2 guns and 400
British prisoners taken.
&c. Accidents: 10 persons killed and rs injured by
the collapse of a roof in San Francisco. %
killed and many injured in a collision on the
Mexican Central R. R. near Symon, Mexico.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Frederick McNair, U.
s. N, in Washington aged 81.
DECEMBER.
l. Fire: In Fulton, KY; loss, $25OOOO.
g. Obituary: Ex-Gov. James W. McClurg OF
Missouri, at Lebanon, that state; aged SO.
8. Accident: IL killed and II injured in an ex-
plosion of the Chicago and Northwestern r. R.
heating plant in Chicago.
Political: Second session Of the seth congress
opened.
L. Accident workmen killed and 20 injured by
a collision on the Southern Pacific near
Suisun, Cal.
s. Obituary Abby Sage Richardson, American
author and dramatist, in Rome aged g.
South African War; 5000 Beers under Gen. De
Wet destroyed half British convoy north
west of Pretoria, killing 10 and wounding %
of the guards.
Shipwreck: The schooner Mary A. Brown OF
Gloucester wrecked on Hampton Beach, N. II. !;
the crew of persons lost.
PERSONAL Ex-PresidOnt Kruger enthusiastically
greeted in Holland.
8. Financial Troubles: G. W. Morgan & Co.,
New York stockholders, assigned with labil-
ties placed at 100000.
Political: British parliament opened with fierce
attacks on Chamberlain's war policy. The
Afrikander congress, ant-Brtish in tone, met
at Worcester, Cape Town.
Convention: The American Federation Of Labor
met in annual convention at Louisville.
Obituary: Henry Russell, composer Of popular
songs, at Sheerness, England; aged 81.
8. Fire: The Saxton block in Canton, O.. burn
ed; loss, $780, 00
9. Shipwreck s lives lost in sinking Of the
barge Charles Foster during a storm on Lake
Erie.
II. Fire: Prospect hall burned in Brooklyn; loss
over $3OO,OOO
China: The allies routed heavy force of Boxers
at Hosiwu, on the road between Tientsin and
Picking.
II. Obituary: Charles Peck, one of the founders
OF the Chicago Academy Of Design and pio-
neer artist Of Chicago, at Woodawn, Ills.
Anniversary; Celebration Of the centennial OF
the removal of the national capital to Wash
ington begun in that city.
13. China: lncendiary pacards denouncng for
eigners posted in Hongkong.
Political: The Davis amendment to the Hay
Pauncefote canal treaty passed the senate.
Shipwreck 200 passengers drowned by the cap
sizing of vessel on West river, near Ho Kau,
China
South African War: Sharp fight at Nooitgedacht,
west of Pretoria, between the British under
Gen. Clements and Delarey's force of Beers.
IA. Conventions The American Forestry associa-
ton held its annual convention in Washing.
ton.
Storm: terrific wind and rain storm swept
over California; Geographic communication
with San Francisco cut off by electrical dis
turbance.
Fire: State Normal school at Fredonia, N. Y,
burned deaths.
Is. Obituary: Oswald Ottendorfer, editor the
New Yorker Stats zeitung, in New York
city; aged "A.
Sporting: The day cycle race in New York
city ended, with Mcfarland OF the American
team ahead, closely followed by Pierce, the
Canadian; distance covered, 2,62s miles laps.
16. Shipwreck: German schoolship wrecked at
Malaga; many cadets drowned.