Connecticut western news., 1902-01-02
4 YEAR IN THE
 2OTH CENTURY 1901 as a Marker of Time and Events. A NOTABLE YEAR. Passing Away of a Queen and a
 President.
THE ROLL OF THE REAPER.

Notable Events of 1901, From Jan-
 uary to r-Miscellaneous,
 Sporting, Political and Personal
 Items-Work of the Flames, Ship
 wrecks, Accidents and Storms.
 The year 1901 was marked by the end of the second longest reign in his- tory and the assassination of a presi- dent who had just brought the nation successfully through a great crisis. erations 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 bade fair to ruin the second plantings. 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 M. Evarts in 1901 the country lost two of it's rip est statesmen. Literature mourns the passing of Walter Besant, Robert Buchanan and Charlotte M. Yonge in fiction and poetry and Professor John Fiske in religious and moral philoso- phy. The problems of the foreign world in the far east will not be the easier of solution because of the death of Earl Li 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 Ja- pan and Russia which led to ominous growls at the beginning of 1901 has not been removed. Russia remains In Manchuria with the toleration but not the assent of other powers. France has been compelled to make g. 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 its third year. The Boers, according to Lord Kitchener's estimates, have now 10000 burghers in the field iu spite of his threat to exile all who re- mained in arms after Sept. 15, 1901. Lord Kitchener also claims to have 10000 Boers under guard in the vari- ous prison camps, including St. Helena, and says that 12,OO0 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- | ited protest against United States dom- ination ended in the adoption of con- | stitution In accordance with sugges- tons emanating in the United States. l The Pan-American fair of 1901 at | Buffalo was a notable exhibition of its kind and marred only by the assassina- ton within its 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 United States of Colombia similar to that of the days of Bolivar.
 JANUARY.
 1. Fire: At Burlington. la. loss, t1s5,o 900. 1 Obituary: Ignatius Donnelly, noted scholar and l orator, at Minneapolis; aged 70. l {. Shipwreck: The steamer Iaqua lost on Dux.
 bury reef, outside the Golden Gate; 30 to 4o l people drowned.
 ( Fire Disaster: 8 people burned to death in ( fire which destroyed Hotel Harvard, Mime l apolis
 Obituary: James ". Bradbury, the oldest ex.
 member of the U. s. senate, at Augusta, Me. | aged o8. P. D. Armour, the Chicago multi millionaire, in that city; aged 69.
 6. Fire Disaster: 1s deaths in the burning oi | the Orphan asylum at Rochester. | Q. Obituary: Rear Admiral Thomas w. Phelps,
 U. s. N, retired, in New York city; aged s1. 11. Fatal Panic: people crushed to death and
 20 injured during | theater panic caused by | an alarm of fire in Chicago.
 IS. Accident: killed in a head on colliEon or l the Grand Trunk railway at Lockie's Mills
 Me.
 10. Obituary: Duke de Broglie, French statesman | and author, in Paris; aged 30.
 20. Shipwreck: Il sailors drowned in the wrecl | of the British steamer Noel Tryyan in thu
 channel at Cherbourg, France.
 n. Obituary: Prof Elisha Gray, noted inventor
 at Newtonville, Mass. aged 66
 12 Fire: The Grand Opera House burned in Gin
 cinnati; loss. q, ,ooo.o
 Obituary: Queen Victoria, at Osborne palace ! aged 82.
 a. Fire: block of business buildingS includini
 the board of trade, destroyed at Montreal | loss, A, A,oo0,0oo.
 1. Personal. Albert Edward, prince of Wales | formally proclaimed king, with the title Ed ! ward VII.
 36. Obituary: Giuseppe Verdi, the Italian com
 poser, at Milan; aged s7.
 | q. Fire: An opera houSa and other building
 burned at Natawan, N. J.; loss, s1oo 900 | B. Ehipwreck: The Dutch steamer Holland wreck l ed at the entrance to the nvH Naas. Holland l 16 people drowned.
 @. Fire: In the business section of Dss Noines Ia.; los. 100000.
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