The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-01-04

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homeless; loss, $500. 900
9. Accident BY the explosion OF gas in the Buck
Mountain mine, Mahanoy City. Pa, miner
killed and 20 injured, several fatally
Miscellaneous: Jerry Lynch. the last survivor Of
the crew Of the Confederate cruiser Alabama,
died in Atlanta Great destruction Of life aud
shipping by typhoon at Ilongkong
%. Obituary: Il. G.. Dun, head Of the American
Mercantile agency, in New York city; aged a.
South African War: The British forces under
Gen. Smith Dorien engaged the Beers under
DE Wet 80 miles northwest Of Kroonstadt and
captured guns; Boer loss % killed, 80
wounded and 100 prisoners.
Shipwrecks: The schooner Myua b. Weaver
wrecked on Handkerchief shoal, New England
coast; sailors and 2 women drowned The
steamer Monticello lost of Yarmouth, N. s.,
80 sailors and passengers drowned.
Sporting: Yale scored IS TO 0 for the Carlisle
Indians in the annual football game at New
Haven
Accident: killed and Is injured in OnIlsion
between an express and a suburban train at
Choisye Roi, France.
2. Fire: persons burned to death and many
injured, OF them fatally in fire at the
Clifford House, Poplar Bluffs, no.
Obituary: Henry Willard, the noted fnancier, at
Thorwood Park, on the Hudson; aged Co.
Marcus DAILY, multimllionaire mine owner and
turf patron Of Montana, in New York city,
aged so.
The Paris exhibition closed.
l3 Financial Troubles William L. Strong 4 Co
wholesale dry goods house in New York
placed in the hands Of a receiver; liabilities
variously estimated at from 81 900 900 to So
OO0,OOO Gran, Bros, stockholders in New
York failed, with liabilities placed at s2OO.O01
Conventions: The 1ith annual convention Of
American agricultural colleges met in New
Haven. The Goth annual session Of the Prot
Epiz. aFtul chr ss,
Providence.
Is. Accident: Is passengers killed and 20 injured
by the derailing Of express near Bayonne
France; among the killed was the Peruvian
minister to the French court, Senior Caneyaro.
Shipwreck: The L. s auxiliary cruiser Yosemite
wrecked of the island Of Guam the Phil
ippines; sailors drow ned.
l6 Personal: Attempt upon the life Of Emperor
William at Brcslau.
Accident: killed and seriously injured in q
head on collision at Raymilton, Pa.
IT, Fire: The business portion Of Phillippi, W.
Va, swept by flames; loss 81 ,OOO,OOO
Sporting: Yale scored % to Princeton's in the
annual football contest at Princeton.
Miscellaneous: Martin Irons, formerly prominent
in the cause Of labor, died at Bruceyille, Tex
Capt Joseph A. O.. Yeoman, who successfully
Swallowed jefferson Davis on his fight from
Richmond and secured his capture, died at
Washington Court House, 0.
H. Fatal Fire: deaths in the burning Of the Nc
Gongal House at Oswayo Pa.
Accident: A section OF ore docks on the Black
well canal in Buffalo fell, killing 8 persons
and causing a loss Of $3.50, 600
Financial Troubles: A. c. Hooper Co., stock
brokers in New York. failed. with liabilities OF
100000.
90 Financial Troubles: The Pioneer Silk Co. of
Paterson N. j., failed, with liabilities OF
$500 900.
National Association Of State Dairy and Food
Departments met at Milwaukee
Obituary: Rear Admiral Roger n. Stembel U.
S. N, retired, in New York city; aged 80.
Charles II. HOyt, the popular playwright, at
Charlestown, N. H.. aged 40.
Storm: tornado swept over Mississippi, Ala
bama and Tennessee; 81 persons killed. in
Guiding 40 at Columbia, Tenn, and 81 injured
81 Storm: Remarkable rain OF sand in Colorado;
loss at Colorado Springs 100000
Shipwreck: &c lives lost in the wrecking OF the
steamer ST. Olaf on Boule island rocks in the
81. Lawrence.
D. Obituary: Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer OF
'Pinafore" and other popular comic operas,
in London; aged S.
Financial Troubles: Chester b. Lawrence Jr
stockbroker in New York failed with liabili-
ties placed at $500, 900.
a. Sporting: Yale scored % to Harvard In the
annual football game at New Haven.
Personal: Ex-President Kruger received in Paris
with public demonstrations OF welcome
70 ShipwreCk: The schooner Maumee Valley lost
on Point Pelee, Lake Erie sailors drowned
o. Obituary: Robert Z. A. Dorr, editor and pub
Usher Of the New York Mail and Express, in
New York city; aged 46. Cushman X. Davis,
U. S. senator from Minnesota, in St Paul;
aged so.
%. South African War: Dewetsdorp Orange Free
State, captured by the Beers; guns and 400
RTItI oh IL
%. 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. o.
S. N, in Washington; aged 81.
DECEMBER.
l. Fire: In Fulton, Ky; loss, $3.50, 900.
2 Obituary: Ex-Gov. James W. McClurg Of
Missouri, at Lebanon that state; aged 49,
g. Accident: IL killed and IL injured in an ex-
plosion Of the Chicago and Northwestern r. r.
heating plant in Chicago
Political: Second session Of the Seth congress
opened
4. Accident: workmen killed and 20 injured by
collision 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
west of Pretoria. killing Is and wounding %
Of the guards
Shipwreck: The schooner Mary A. Brown Of
Gloucester wrecked on Hampton Beach, N H;
the crew of persons lost.
Personal: Ex-President Kruger enthusiastically
greeted in Holland.
8. Financial Troubles: G. ". Morgan & Co.,
New York stockbrokers, assigned, with liabili-
ties placed at 5000, OOO
Political: British parliament opened with fierce
attacks on Chamberlain's war policy. The
Afrikander congress, anti-British 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 g..
8. Fire: The SaxtOn block in Canton, O., burn
ed; loss, 100000
8. Shipwreck: lives lost in sinking OF the
barge Charles Foster during a storm on Lake
Erie.
II. Fire: Prospect hall burned in Brooklyn; loss
over 100000
China: The allies routed heavy force Of Boxers
at Hosiwu. the road between Tfen-tsin and
Picking
IL. Obituary: Charles Peck, one Of the founders
of the Chicago Academy Of Design and a pio-
neer artist Of Chicago, at Woodlawn, Ills.
Anniversary: Celebration of the centennial ID
the removal Of the national capital to WMh.
ington begun in that city
ID. China: Incendary placards denouncing for
eigners posted in Hongkong
Political The Davis amendment to the Hay
Psuncefote canal treaty passed the senate
Shipwreck: 200 passengers drowned by the cap.
sizing OF vessel on West river, near Ho-Kzu,