Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
THE YEAR REVIEWED
SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF 1901.
Year Witnesses the Deaths of Queen
Victoria and President Mckinley
Many Other NotabIes Pass Away-Dis-
asters, Fires, Accidents, Strikes, Etc.


The year 1901, iirstborn of the new
century, is made memorable by the dealt,
of two of the best loved rulers the wor.
has ever known. In its first month Vic
toria, England's good queen, breathed her
last quietly and peacefully at one of her
royal abodes. The forcible taking off of
President William Mckinley by the bull
let of the misguided anarchist youth,
CzolgosZ, in September, is in harsh con-
trast with her serene passing, and IS
sad commentary upon the laxity of our
democracy, which favors the intimate
contact of the chief executive with the
general public end fails to provide ade-
quate means fo.; his physical protection.
Many others of the great ones Of earth
statesmen, authors, churchmen, must
clans and business men-have also heard
the last summons and responded thereto.
The Boer British war in South Africa
has continued through the year, rather
TO the advantage of the latter, and the
armed resistance of the Filipinos against
the rule of the United States has been
htfully in evidence.
There lave been several mine and rail-
way accidents, in which many lives have
been destroyed. The number of destrue-
tive dres has also been quite large.
The most important happenings of the
year may be briefly summarized thus:
January.
1. Lord Hopetoun installed as first Gov
ernor General of Federated Australian col
onies.
2 Death of Ignatius Donnelly.
3 Death of Bishop w. \. Ninde at De
troit, Mich
6. Death of Philip ID. Armour. Eight
lives lost in small hotel fire In Minneapolis.
g. Fire horror at Rochester, y. Y, orphan
asylum, 20 lives lest.
10. Chinese sign joint note of the powers.
ID. Fred Alexander, coiored, burned at
stake by Leayenworth, Kan, mob.
16. Death of ex-Goy. James A. Mount, of
Indiana.
% Death of Queen Victoria of England
and accession OF King edward VII. Burn
ing of Grand Opera House in Cincinnati.
%. Board of Trade building in Montreal
burns; loss $3,000,O00.
%. Death Of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian COM
poser.
49, Disastrous fire in Des MoineS, Iowa
...Twenty-one patients burned to deaL in
Tokyo hospital, Japan.
February.
2. Funeral of Queen Victoria at Wind4,or.
3. Great snOwstorm in Middle West.
z. Marriage of Queen Wilhemina of H0l-
land and Duke Henry of MecklenburG-
Schwerin.. Mine explosion in Durango,
Mexico, kills 81 persons
10. Sudden death of Col. Albert d. Shaw. |
Il. Marriage of Princess Of Asturias and
Prince Charles of Bourbon
10. Death of ex-senator Gilbert A. Pierce.
of North Dakota. Death Of Maurice
Thompson. author. Sixty miners entombed
in mine at Cumberland. b. c.
n. Nine persons killed in collision near
BOrdentown, n. j.
%. Pacific steamer Rio de Janlero sinks
outside Golden Gate, California; several lives
lost.
20. Fifty miners imprisoned in burning
mine at Kemmarer, Wyo.
70. Geo. Ward, negro, hanged and burned
at Terre Haute, Ind, for assault muir
IS. Death of VIM. NJ. Evarts.
March.
1. State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb.,
is burned
T. Inauguration of President Mckinley
and Vice President Roosevelt.
o.. Thirty men crushed to death on rail-
road at WOloyO, Russia.
j. Twelve persons killed and many more
injured by boiler explosion in Doremus laun-
dry, Chicago. .Hay-Pauncefote treaty re-
jected by Great Britain.
ID. Death of ex-President Benz. Harrison.
Destructive dre at ClOverport, Ky.
%. Chief Aguinaldo captured by Gen.
Fred Funston.
Death of Charlotte NJ. Yonge, author
80. Death of Comedian Roland Reed.
April.
3. China refuses to sign Manchurlan con.
vention.
5. Japan issues ultmatum to Russia
8. Logan statue unveiled In Washington |
II. Cuban Constitutional convention re- |
Jects Platt amendment. Death of Geo. 2. |
Cannon.
49, British war loan voted by House of |
Commons. .Aguinaldo's peace manifesto
issued
20 Unprecedented snowstorm and floods
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and the
Virginias.
90 President Mckinley starts on long trip /
through the country.
May
1. Opening of Pan-American Exposition. |
Gov. Dietrich, of Nebraska, res gns and |
Is made United States Senator by his sue
cessor, Gov. Savage.
3. Burning Of Jacksonville, Fla. Civil |
government established at Manila.
8. Suicide Of X. N. Pollock, fugitive bank
president of Cleve and, at Seattle, Wash.
9. First Australian Federal Parliament |
opened in Melbourne by Duke of Cornwall |
and York. Panic in Wall street.
49, Steamer Paducah goes down in Miss;s- |
sippi six miles north of Grand Tower, Ill
To- Presidents tour broken off by Mrs. |
McKiRley's serious Illness.
16 Rot in Albany, N. Y.
H. Death Of Mrs. Lyman J. Gage.
Death of Edwin f. Uhl, of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
49, Launching Of battleship Ohio at San
Francisco.
20. Pan-American Exposition formally ded- |
icated. Fifty thousand machinists go out |
on strife.
p. Death of Gen. Fitziohn Porter.
Death of ex-Congressman Chas. A. Boutelle
% Wreck of Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht |
Shamrock H.. Suicide of Brese, assassin
of King Humbert. of Italy
"a Death of ex-Gov. John II. Tanner, Of |
Norwegian bark Elise lost off /
Sable Island, with crew of IA men.
"a. Gale on great lakes; steamer Balti- |
killed by explosion in English colliery.
2S. Cuban convention adopts Platt reso-
luton.
AS HOSTESS TO ROYALTY.