Connecticut western news., 1902-01-02


 u. Fire, At Kansas City. Coates Opera House destroyed; losS on building, $l6o,0oo.
 FEBRUARY. 1. Fire: At Cleveland, Toote, Reed | Co.'a wholesale millinery establishment burned; loss, SsOo,0
 L Miscellaneous: The centennial anniversary of the installation of U. 8. Chief Justice John Marshall, celebrated throughout the Union. Funeral of Queen Victoria. Fire: At Fair Haven. Conn, . loss of $S25, 900 by the burning of the National Wire works. s. At Evansville, Ind. loss of 9176, 900 by flames in the business district. Catastrophe: Heavy loss of life at Baku, Rus sian TranscaucaMa, by petroleum and naphths fires and explosions !. Accident: killed and several injured in an accident on the Erie railroad at Greenytlle, Disaster: s7 persons Killed by q dynamite s1. plosion at the San Andres mine, Durango, Mexico.
 g. Obituary: Benjamin M Prentiss, a noted vet eran of the Mexican and civil wars at Beth any, Mo-; aged s1. Q. Fire: At Pittsburg, Armstrong's cork factory burned; loss, $5oo. 1000. II. Obituary: Col Albert D. Shaw, past com mander in chief of the c. A. R., suddenly, in Wilmington; aged 69.
 Personal: The promotion of Gen. Nelson A. Niles to the rank of lieutenant general con- hrmed by the senate. IF. Fire: At Rochester, Pa, glass plant burned, causing . loss of $6O0, 900. Is. Disaster: 60 miners buried by an explosion of fire damp in the Yelling collery, Vancouver island.
 Obituary: Maurice Thompson, the southern nov elist, at CrawfordsyiIle, Ind. aged 67. 21. Fire: At Atlanta, in the wholesale district; loss, $5oo. GOO
 Accident: 12 killed and % injured in head on collision the Camden and Amboy railroad near Trenton. A. Shipwreck: The Pacific Mail steamship Rio Janeiro went on the rocks oH the harbor of San Francisco; death list, l29, including U. s. Consul Gen. R. Wildman. Disaster: a2 lives lost at Kemmerer Wy, by m explosion in the Diamondville colliery. 2s. Obituary: William Maxwell Evarts, noted lawyer and statesman, in New York city; aged ss.
 MARCH. I. Personal: The pope celebrated bis Dist birth day.
 4 Political: Mckinley and Roosevelt inausurat- ed. The Seth congress adjourned. {. China: German troops attacked the pas of Chungshun, in the Great Wall, between Chih and shand, defeating the Chinese. Obituary: Hon. Christopher L. Magee. noted politician, Hnancier aSd philanthropist of Pittsburg, at Harrisburg; aged 6s. 2. Tornado: portion of Willspoint, Tex, wrecked, with casualties of { killed and 20 injured, and other portions of the state deyas tated
 Fire: At Detroit, the olds Motor works burned; loss, t9Oo.0oo II. Fire: General ofhees of the New York division oi the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, in upper New York city, destroyed; loss, q, 900 900.
 Accident: number of lives lost and many casuaIties in e1ploGion at the Doremus laundry, Chicago. IA. Fire: At AcKeesport, Pa, the McKeesport brewing plant burned; loss, t10o,0oo 13. Obituary: Ex-Preddent Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis; aged 68. 1A. Fires: At GowRnda, N. r., loes of 416o, 900 by the burning of . glue factory. An erplo- hon of natural gas set the town of Cloverspot, Ky, on fire and caused . loss of 96eo.0oo. k Fire: Loss of s10o. 900 by the burning of 800 bales of cotton in the Planters' warehouse at Eutaw, Ala. The Morning Advertiser burn cd in Boston; los, e16o, 900. 1o. Personal: The Count de Castellane wounded N. de Rodays . journalist, in an ahair of honor in Paris IT. Fire: In Pittsborg, the main expedition build ing burned; loas, s2oo. 900. 1a Political: Demonstration against the govern ment in St. Petersburg suppressed by Coasacka; many students killed.
 Fire: In Memphis, Ind, 50 houses burned loss, t200, 900.
 Obituary: Patrick Donahoe, founder and editor of the Boston Pilot, in Boston; aged po 10. Fire: The Jenks slipbuilding plant at Port Huron, Mich, destroyed; loss, sl76ooo. Obituary: Mile. Sophie CroiSette, formerly . celebrated French actress, in Paria South African War: Gen. Botha's rejection of the terms of peace offered by Gen. Kitchener announced in the house of commons. 20. Obituary: Edmond Got, celebrated French actor. in Paris; aged 7o. PA Fires: At Greenvine, Ala, 1,6oo bales of cot ton burned; loss, $1o00oo The Kerr Murray Machine works at Fort Wayne, Ind, nearly destroyed; loss, $500 OOO sS. Filipino War: Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader, captured by Gen. Frederick Funston in the province of Isabella. "A. Fire: The village of Glen Garden, N. J., nearly destroyed by burning oil escaping from a wrecked traini loss about $200, 900. Obituary: Charlotte Mary Yonge, the author, in London; aged 78- 2S. Explosion: 1s miners Killed in the Gates mine, Fayette county, Pa. Tornado: Over 400 people injured, many fatally, in. storm which swept over Birmingham, Ala; property loss t2O0, ,0oo T. Obituary: Jean Gazin. noted French artist, in Paris; aged 61. B. shipwreck: The British steamer Fay collided with the German steamer Chsmnitx in tho Flushing roadstead and sank, carrying down 18 sailors
 20. Fires: The Jefferson hotel burned in Rich mond; loss, t1 1,ooo, 900. The plant of The Guardian Publishing Go. and other property fin the buEness district of Paterson, N. J., de- stroyed; loss, 96oo, 900.
 Obituary; James Stephens, the noted Fenian leader of the last Irish uprising, in Dublin; aged 78. 't 30. Obituary: Roland Reed, the actor. fin New York city; aged Is, The Rev. John Jasper of ''6un do move'' celebrity, at Richmond. Personal: Gen. Frederick Funston appointed brgadier general in the regular army. Fire: The Santiago Park hotel, . noted land mark of Passaic, N. J., which originally cost e600, ,000 destroyed. Th. u..1~ h1k. .f structure at Yonkers. N. r., burned; less. t2oo,ooo At Kansas City the Dold Buttsrins Packing Co. burned out; loss. tAoo, ,ooo
 APRIL. a At Ashland, Me, the sawmill of the Ashland Manufacturing Go. destroyed; loss over 41oo, o0o
 {. Obituary: Gen. I. c. C"rtger0 Anderson. . noted er-Confederate, at Anniston, Ala aged 70. D'oyly Carte. the English theatrical man. ager in London.
 8. Fire: At St. Louis, the elevator of the St. Louis Storage O. burned; loss, $e6o. 900. IF. Obituary: Gen. John Porter Hatch, U. 8. A., retired, veteran of the Mexican and civil wars. in New York city; aged 70. 1A. Fire: At Jamaica Plain, Aasa, the eturdevant Blower works burned; loss over &soo, 900. 16. Obituary: Gen. Alexander Campbell NcCluIg civil war veteran and prominent book pub fisher of Chicago, at St. Augustine. Fla. {; aged 66.
 10. ODltuary: The heV. Just1n ID. Fulton, noted editor, preacher and author, at Somsrville, Mass.; aged 78. a. The imperial palace at Pekins, occupied as headquarters by Count Waldersee, commander of the allied forces in China, was burned Q. Fires: At Butte, Mon. the Heinze smelter burn cd; loA, t2oo, ,oo0 The PlatE leather plant burned at Racine. Via {; loss, s1oo,ooo. DO Storm: Heavy frsshsts in the eastern and central states caused by excessive rainfall; i; loss of a, 900, 900 along the Ohio. a. The town of Chester. Maa., inundated by the bursting of | dam at Middleheld. 23 China: The German brigade under Cen. Ket- tier defeated the Chinese at the. Great Wall, driving them into the province of shansi. Obituary: Dan Costello, the noted circus clown, in New York city; aged e5. ao. Catastrophe: By an explosion in the electro chemical works at Greisheim, Germany, 60 people were killed and 100 injured. 1s. Fire: At Latrobe, Pa, the plant of the Amer ican Steel and Wire Co. burned; loss, 116o. 900. Obituary: James Douglas Reid, a pioneer in cs- tablishing the American electric telegraph