Morris tribune., 1902-01-04

the board of trade, destroyed at Montreal
loss, 81, 0O0, 900.
"a Personal: Albert Edward, prince Of Wales
formally proclaimed king, with the title Ed
ward VII
26 Obituary: Giuseppe Verdi, the Italian com
poser at Milan; aged 81.
81 Fire. An opera house and other buildings
burned at Matawan, N. j.: loss, $1,000
2s. Shipwreck: The Dutch steamer Holland wreck
ed at the entrance to the river Mas, Holland;
l6 people drowned.
90 Fire: In tire business section Of Des Moines,
Ia; loss, $4,000.
Obituary: Field Marshal Gourko, noted Russian
general at Scharow, Russia; aged 49,
81. Fire: At Kansas City, Coates Opera House
destroyed; loss on building, $150,0o0.
FEBRUARY.
I. Fire: At Cleveland, Foote, Reed & Co.'S
wholesale millinery establishment burned;
loss, 100000.
4. Miscellaneous The centennial anniversary Of
the installation of U. S. Chief Justice John
Marshall, celebrated throughout the Union.
Funeral of Queen Victoria.
Fire: At Fair Haven, Conn, loss of $685., 600
by the burning of the National Wire works.
5. At Evansville, Ind. loss of $175, 900 by flames
in the business district.
Catastrophe: Heavy loss Of life at Baku, Rus
sian Transcaucasia, by petroleum and naphrha
fires and explosions.
Z. Accident: 5 killed and several injured in an
accident on the Erie railroad at Greenville,
Pa.
Disaster: 81 persons killed by, dynamite ex.
plosion at the San Andres mine, Durango,
Mexico.
g. Obituary: Benjamin NJ Prentiss, noted vet.
eran of the Mexican and civil wars at Beth.
any, Mo-; aged 81.
9. Fire: At Pittsburg, Armstrong; cork factory
burned; loss, $780, 600.
IL. Obituary: Col. Albert D. Shaw, past COM
mander in chief of the G. A. R., suddenly, in
Washington; aged SO.
Personal: The promotion of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles to the rank of lieutenant general con-
firmed by the senate.
II. Fire: At Rochester, Pa, glass plant burned,
causing loss of 100000.
15. Disaster: so miners buried by an explosion OF
fire damp in the Yelling coliery, Vancouver
island.
Obituary: Maurice Thompson, the southern nov.
elist, at Charlottesville, Ind; aged 81
81. Fire: At Atlanta, in the wholesale district;
loss, 100000.
Accident: IL killed and 40 injured in a head on
collision on the Camden and Amboy Railroad
near Trenton.
%. Shipwreck: The Pacific Mail steamship Rio
Janeiro went on the rocks off the harbor Of
San Francisco; death list, 12S, including u S.
consul Gen. II. W11dman.
Disaster: so lives lost at Kemmerer Wy, by an
explosion in the Diamondville colliery.
g. Obituary: William Maxwell Evarts, noted
lawyer and statesman, in New York city;
aged SO.
MARCH.
e. Personal: The pope celebrated his DIST birth
day.
T. Political: Mckinley and Roosevelt inaugural
ed. The 56th congress adjourned
g. China: German troops attacked the pass OF
Chungshun. in the Great Wall, between Chill
and shans1. defeating the Chinese.
Obituary: Hon. Christopher L. Magee, noted
politician, fnancier and philanthropist Of
Pittsburg, at Harrisburg; aged SO.
8. Tornado: A portion of Willspoint, Tex,
wrecked, wits casualties of killed and 20
injured, and other portions of the state devas-
tated
Fire: At Detroit, the Olds Motor works burned;
loss, 5000, 600.
Il. Fire: General offices of the New York division
of the New York. New Haven and Hartford
railroad, in upper New York city, destroyed;
loss, 81 200, 600.
Accident: A number of lives lost and many
casualties in an explosion at the Doremus
laundry, Chicago.
q. Fire: At McKeesport, Pa, the McKeesport
brewing plant burned; loss, 100000.
g. Obituary: Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, at
Indianapolis; aged 6S.
a. Fires: At Gowanda, N. Y, loss Of $4,000
by the burning of glue factory. An explo-
sion of natural gas set the town of Cloyerspot,
KY, fire and caused loss of $500, 900.
-. Fire: Loss of 100000 by the burning of 1900
bales of cotton in the Planters warehouse
at Eutaw, Ala. The Morning Advertiser burn
ed in Boston; loss $3.50, 600.
g. Personal: The Count de Castellane wounded
M. de Rodays, a journalist, in an affair Of
honor in Paris. ~ -.
Y. Fire: In Pittsburg, the main exposition build
70 ing burned; loss, $780, 900. -- ......
8. Political: Demonstration against the govern
ment in st. Petersburg suppressed by Cossacks;
many students killed. ..-.
Fire. In Memphis, Ind, SO houses burned; loss,
100000. .E"-
Obituary: Patrick Donahoe, founder and editor
=. of the Boston Pilot, in Boston; aged co.
9. Fire: The jerks sEipbuilding plant at Port
Huron, Mich, destroyed; loss, STE, 0O0..
Obituary: Mile. Sophie Croisette, formerly
celebrated French actress, in Paris. a.
South African War: Gen. Bothas rejection Of
the terms of peace offered by Gen. Kitchener
announced in the house of commons.
%. Obituary: Edmond Got, celebrated French
actor, in Paris; aged 70.
2. Fires: At Greenville, Ala, 1000 bales Of cot
ton burned loss, 100000. The Kerr Murray
Machine works at Fort Wayne, Ind, nearly
g. Filipino War: Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader,
captured by Gen. Frederick Funston in the
province OF Isabella.
4. Fire: The village of Glen Garden, n j.,
nearly destroyed by burning oil escaping from
a wrecked train loss about 100000.
Obituary: Charlotte Mary Yonge, the author, in
London; aged 49,
s. Explosion: 16 miners killed in the Gates
mine, Fayette county, Pa
Tornado: Over 400 people injured, many fatally,
in a storm which swept over Birmingham,
Ala; property loss, $500, 900.
7. Obituary: Jean Gain, noted French artist, in
Paris, aged 81.
8. Shipwreck: The British steamer Tay collided |
with the German steamer Chemnitz in the
Flushing roadstead and sank, carrying down !
Is sailors
Q. Fires: The Jefferson hotel burned In Rich
mond; loss, $1,0o00o0. The plant of The
Guardian Publishing Co. and other property |
in the business district of Paterson, N. j., de-
stroyed; loss, 100000.
Obituary: James Stephens, the noted Fenian |
leader Of the last Irish uprising, in Dublin; |
aged rs.
0. Obituary: Roland Reed, the actor, in New |
York city; aged 4s. The Rev. John Jasper Of |
''sun do move celebrity, at Richmond.
Personal: Gen. Frederick Funston appointed |
bFigadier general in the regular army.
Fire: The Santiago Park hotel, noted land
mark of Passaic, N. j., which originally cost |
$500,000, destroyed.
|. Fires: The Hendrix Hudson hotel, a new |
49,. n u L.. !.