Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-31

end Of the second longest reign in his
tory and the assassination Of presi-
dent who had just brought the nation
successfully through a great crisis.
For the first time in almost three gen
erations a king sat upon the throne of
England: for the third time in thirty
seven years president of the republic
was cut down by the pistol shot of an
assassin.
In weather fluctuations affecting the
products Of the soil the year 1901 was
remarkable. Excessive spring rains,
which drowned and rotted the seed in
many productive districts. were follow
ed by drought, which for a time babe
fair to ruin the second paintings. Ex-
cessive heat prevailed over wide terri
tories, and the prices of produce rose
TO an abnormal figure.
In the deaths of ex-President Benja-
min Harrison and William NJ. Evarts
in 1901 the country lost two OF its rip
est statesmen. Literature mourns the
passing Of Walter Besant, Robert
Buchanan and Charlotte NJ. Yonge in
fiction and poetry and Professor John
Fiske in religious and moral philoso-
ply. The problems Of the foreign
world In the far east viii not be the
easier of solution because OF the death
OF Earl Ii Hung Chang. the foremost
statesman of China and the broadest
and ablest diplomat in all the disturb
ed realms OF Asia.
The bone OF contention between ia
pan and Russia which led to ominOus
growls at the beginning of 1901 has
not been removed. Russia remains in
Manchuria with the liberation but not
the assent OF other powers. France
has been compelled to make great
naval demonstration against Turkey
and got for her pains only the prom
ises of the Turk to be good in future.
The South African war entered upon
it's third year. The Beers. according
TO Lord Kitchener's estimates, have
now 10000 burghers in the field III
spite of his threat TO exile all who re-
NAMED in arms after Sept. 10, 1901.
Lord Kitchener also claims to have
10000 Beers under guard in the vari-
Gus prison camps, including St Helena,
and says that 1900 fighting burghers
have been killed off during the war.
The problems Of the United States in
the government of her new possessions
are in a fair way of solution by peace
full means. Civil rule is on trial in the
Philippines, and Aguinaldo has been
captured and converted to an apostle
of submission. The army in the Philip
pines is, however, kept up to its full
strength, and TO meet the emergencies
OF the future the regular army estab-
lishment has been reorganized on an
increased basis.
At the close of the year 1901 Porto
Rico and Cuba are quiet During the
year a United States tariff measure
obnoxious to the Porto Ricans was re-
pealed. In the Cuban congress spir-
tied protest against United States DOM
ination ended in the adoption of q con-
stitution in accordance with sugges-
tons emanating in the United States.
The Pan-American fair of 1901 at
Buffalo was a notable exhibition of its
kind and married only by the assassina-
ton within it's grounds of President
Mckinley. AT home our pan-Ameri-
can neighbors have been excited over
a revolution, the end Of which cannot
be foretold. 1t is said by intelligent
South Americans that the liberals OF
several states lying near the isthmus
of Panama seek to establish a new
that of the days of Bolivar.
JANUARY.
i. Fire: At Burlington. Ia; loss. s1s5,0OO
Obituary: Iguatius Donnelly, noted scholar and
orator. at Minneapolis; aged 20.
4. Shipwreck: The steamer Iaqua lost on Dux-
bury reef outside the Golden Gate; 30 TO 10
people drowned.
Q. Fire Disaster; people burned to death in =
! fire which destroyed Hotel Harvard, Mime
Z apolis.
Obituary: James W. Bradbury. the oldest ex-
member Of the U. S senate. at Augusta. Me-;
aged 90. p. d. Armour, the Chicago multi
millionaire. in that city: aged CO.
8 Fire Disaster: 10 deaths in the burning Of
the Orphan asylum at Rochester.
Q. Obituary: Rear Admiral Thomas W. Phelps,
U. S. n. retired, in New York city; aged 81
IL Fatal Panic= people crushed TO death and
+, 20 injured during theater panic caused BY
alarm Of FIRE in Chicago
Is. Accident: killed in head on collision on
the Grand Trunk railway at Lockie's Mills,
10. Obituary: Duke de Brogiie. French Statesman
and author. in Paris; aged So
20. Shipwreck: IL sailors drowned in the wreck
Of the British steamer Noel Tryvan in the
channel at cherbourg. France
q. Obituary: Prof. Elisha Cray, noted Inventor,
at NewtonSiIle. Mass; aged es.
q. Fire: The and Opera House burned in Gin
einnati: loss 81. 100000.
Obituary: Queen Victoria, at Osborne palace;
aged 50.
- Fire: A block of business buildings, including
the board Of trade. destroyed at Montreal;
loss, q, 1000
-. Personal: Albert Edward, prince Of Wales,
formally proclaimed king, with the title Ed
ward VII
90. Obituary: Giuseppe Verdi, the Italian COM
poser, at Milan: aged 81.
q. Fire: An opera house and other buildings |
burned at Matawan, n. J.; loss. $4,000.
rs. Sipwreck: The Dutch steamer Holland wreck
ed at the entrance TO the river Mas. Holland; |
10 people drowned.
- Fire: In the business section Of Des Moines. |
Ia; loss, $500. 900.
, Obituary. Field Marshal Gourko. noted Russian /
general, at scharow, Russia: aged rs.
81 Fire: At Kansas City. Coates Opera House /
destroyed; loss building. s15o,ooO.
FEBRUARY.
!. Fire: At Cleveland. Foote. Reed & Co.'S !