Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-31

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JULY.
/. Political: Congress adjourned.
3 Filipino War: President Roosevelt Is
sued proclamations declaring trouble
at an end.
Fire: Plant of the CapewelI Horse Nall
Co. at Hartford, Conn, burned; loss,
$500, 900.
4. Accidents: Fourth of July casualties
killed 81, injured 2.649; fire loss. $3.50 155.
5. Accident: Trolley road collision near
Gloversville, n. Y; Is killed and 20
injured.
Fire: Main building of Swift & Co.'S
packing house, Chicago, destroyed;
loss, 81 000, 900
Sporting: Brighton Beach Handicap won
by Gold Heels.
6. Personal: Pope Leo XIII. celebrated
the oath anniversary of his coronation.
Aguinaldo set at liberty.
z. Fires: In Plattsburg, n. Y; loss, $125,-
600 Cummings flour mills at Oswego,
n. Y. struck by lightning and burned;
loss, 500 600.
Convention: The National Educational
association at Minneapolis.
9. Weather: IL persons killed by heat in
Pittsburg.
Obituary: Mrs. Charles Godfrey Leland.
wife of celebrated author, at Florence,
Italy; aged Il.
10. Accidents: Explosion of fredamp in
mine of Cambria Steel Co. near Johns
town, Pa; more than lis miners killed.
Obituary: Capt. William w. Reisinger,
U. s. N, commanding cruiser Phila-
delphia, aboard his ship Mrs Annie
Alexander Hecor (Mrs. Alexander),
English novelist; aged ~
Convention: Baptist Young Peoples un-
ion met at Providence. II. 1.
L. Obituary: Most Rev. Patrick A. Fee
han, Roman Catholic archbishop of
Chicago, died there; aged 70.
Is. Personal: Marquis of Salisbury re-
signed and a. J. Balfour became pre-
mier of Great Britain.
Obituary: Gen. Thomas J. Morgan, noted
ns--E .,s.z
63. Mrs. Eloise Bridges Erwin, actress.
who originated role of Gretchen in
Jefferson's RIP Van Winkle.'' at Kan
sas City, Mo-; aged 40.
II. Foreign: The celebrated campanile, or
bell tower. OF Venice fell.
16 Fire: In Guayaqun Ecuador; loss. ST.
100000
Obituary: Rev. John s. Brown. Oldest
Unitarian minister in United States, at
Lawrence, Kan; aged So.
IL. Boating Accident: IA drowned off isle
of Shoals. Mass.
20 Tornadoes: Baltimore visited by q
heavy storm; 13 killed and much dam
age done. 70 persons drowned in Rus
Obituary: John w. Mackay. American
capitalist. in London; aged ~.
q. Marine Disaster: More than 100 excur-
sionistS drowned by sinking of the
Elbe river steamer Primus at Ham
burg.
%. Obituary: Cardinal Ledochowslki. dis
tinguished Roman Catholic prelate. in
Rome; aged So
%. Fire: At Camden. s. c.; loss. $4,000
25. Fire: At Albany, n. Y; $250,00 loss.
Sporting: James j. Jeffries defeated
Robert Fitzsimmons at San Francisco.
retaining heavyweight championship
of the world.
81. Obituary: DR.. Eugene Grissom, noted
alienist, at Washington. d. c.; aged II.
2S. Obituary: Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph,
head of orthodox Hebrews. in New
York; aged 60. Jehan Georges Vibert.
French artist; aged 62.
%. Fire: At Pittsburg; loss. $500. 0O0
Obituary: Paul Van der WORT, past COM
mander in chief of the C. A. r. at
Puerto Principe. Cuba; aged Sc.
80. Earthquake: Severe shocks felt in Cal
ifornia: damage done at Los Alamos
and elsewhere.
Storms: Floods in Texas destroyed mil
lions in crops and drove many families
from their homes.
81. Mine Disaster: Explosion in coal mine
near Sydney. Australia; 120 killed.
AUGUST.
1. Obituary: Col. Andrew g. Ferris of
Hackensack. n. J.. who first used pc
troleum as an illuminant, at Sunset
Park. n. Y; aged 81. Mrs. Elizabeth
Drew Barstow Stoddard. novelist. wife
of the poet Richard Henry Stoddard
in New York city; aged so.
4. Obituary: Commodore Joseph Z. Mont
gomery of the Confederate States
navy. in Chicago; aged S.
D. conventions Inc american
of Catholic societies met in Chicago.
6. Disaster: Collision on Chicago. Mil
waukee and St. Paul r. +. near
Rhodes, Ia; 10 killed. 80 injured.
Criminal: Harry Tracy, the notorious
outlaw, after evading capture for
months and killing a number of OFF,
GERS and citizens, committed suicide at
Creston, Wash.
Conventions: Catholic Total Abstinence
union at Dubuque. Ia. American Os-
teopathic association in Milwaukee,
wis.
T. Disaster: 16 lives lost in a mine explo-
sion near Trinidad, Colo.
Sporting: Americans. Malcolm d. Whit
man and William A Larned. win in
ternational singles tennis champion
ship match from British contestants
at Bay Ridge. New York.
! Obituary: Gen. Lucas Meyer. COM
mander of the Orange Free State
forces in the recent war with Great
Britain, in Brussels. John II. Twacht-
man, famous American landscape art
list, at Gloucester Mass; aged 49,
Sporting: International tennis doubles
championship won by British team. H.
L. and r. F. Doherty, at Bay Ridge.
New York.
Q. Fire: National Storage Co.'S build
ings at Communipaw, Jersey City,
N. J., destroyed; loss, 100000.
Obituary: James Joseph jacques Tissot,
French artist. painter of the Life of
Christi aged &C.
Personal: Edward VII. crowned king OF
Great Britain and Ireland and en-
peror of India.
Sporting: c. S. Titus of New York won
international rowing championship at
! Lake Quinsigamond, Mass. Janowski
won international chess tournament at
Hanover, Germany; the American
! champion. Pillsbury. second.
| 10. Fires: At San Angelo, Tex. Z killed
and $75,0 GOO loss. Schwarzschild & Sulz-
berger's packing house at Pittsburg
burned: loss, $450, 900.
Storms: At Kansas City. Mo-; loss, $780,
600, and at Trenton. N. J.: loss, $780,
600.
| Obituary: Mrs. Eliza Young, oldest
! American actress. at West New
| Brighton, n. Y; aged go
| IL. Personal: Oliver Wendell Holmes, son
| of the poet. appointed associate JUS
tice of the U. S. supreme court.
! Convention: International Typographical
union met at Cincinnati. .
| Chinese RahellinIl. / nn0 rahels slain