Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-01-03
THE YEAR REVIEWED
SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF 1901.

Year Witnesses the Deaths of Queen
Many Other NotabIes Pass Away-Dis-
asters, Fires, Accidents, Strikes, Etc.
The year 1901, frstborn of the new
century, is made memorable by the deaths
of two of the best loved rulers the world
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 a
sad commentary upon the laxity of our
democracy, which favors the intimate
contact of the chief executive with the
general public and fails to provide ade-
quate means for his physical protection.
Many others of the great ones of earth
statesmen, authors, churchmen, musi-
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
ftfully in evidence
There have been several mine and rail-
way accidents, in which many lives have
been destroyed. The number of destruc-
tive fires has also been quite large.
The most important happenings of the
year may be briefly summarized thus:
January.
1. Lord Hometown ms allied first Gov
ernor General of Federal i Australian col
onies.
2. Death Of Ignatius Donnelly.
8. Death of Bishop w. Y. Ninde at De-
troit, Mich.
g. Death of Philip D. Armour. :. Eight
lives lost in small hotel fire in Minneapolis.
asylum, 20 lives lost.
10. Chinese sign joint note of the powers.
IS. Fred Alexander, coIored, burned at
stake by Leavenworth, Kan, mob.
16. Death of ex-Gov. 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.
23. Board of Trade building in Montreal
burns; loss $1,000, 600.
%. Death of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian COM
poser.
20. Disastrous fire In Des Moines, Iowa.
....Twenty-one patients burned to death in
Tokyo hospital, Japan.
Februtrv.
2. Funeral of Queen Victoria at Windsor.
3. Great snowstorm in Middle West.
T.. Marriage of Queen Wilhelmlna of Hol-
land and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-
schwerin. Mine explosion in Durango,
10. Sudden death of Col. Albert D. Shaw.
IA. Marriage of Princess of Asturias and
Prince Charles of Bourbon.
15. Death of ex-senator Gilbert A. Pierce,
Of North Dakota. Death Of Maurice
Thompson, author. Sixty miners entombed
In mine at Cumberland, b. c.
21. Nine persons killed in collision near
BordentOwD, Y. J.
%. Pacific steamer Rio de Janiero sinks
outside Golden Gate, Ca .ifornia; several lives
Is. Fifty miners imprisoned in burning
mine at Kemmerer, Wyo.
26. Geo. Ward, negro, hanged and burned
at Terre Haute, Ind, for assault and 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.
8. Thirty men crushed to death on rail-
road at WOlovO, Russia.
IL. Twelve persons killed and many more
Injured by boiler explosion In Doremus laun-
dry, Chicago. PauncefOte treaty re-
jected by Great Britain.
10. Death Of ex President Benz. Harrison.
Destructive fire at Cloverport, Ky.
%. Chief Aguinaldo captured by Gen.
y. Tornado at Birmingham, Ala.
Death of Charlotte NJ. Yonge, author.
80. Death of Comedian Roland Reed.
April.
g. China refuses to sign Manchuran con-
vention.
5. Japan ISSUES ultimatum to Russia.
8. Logan statue unveiled in Washington.
II. Cuban Constitutional convention re-
iectS Platt amendment. Death of Geo. =.
Cannon.
10. British war loan voted by House of
Commons. .ASuinaldo's peace manifesto
20. Unprecedented snowstorm and foods
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and the
Virginias:
20. President Mckinley starts on long trip
through the country.
Nay.
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.
s. Suicide Of R. n. Pollock, fugitive bank
president OF Cleveland. at Seattle, Wash.
.. First Australian Federal Parliament
opened in Melbourne by Duke Of Cornwall
and York. Panic in Wall street.
13. Steamer Paducah goes down in Missis-
sippi six miles north of Grand Tower, III
McKinley's serious Illness.
16. Riot in Albany. n. Y.
II. Death of Mrs. Lyman J. Cage.
Death of Edwin f. Uhl, of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
1s Launching of battleship Ohio at San
Francisco.
20. Pan-Amercan Exposition formally ded-
icated Fifty thousand machinsts go out
on strike.
II Death of Gen. Fitzjohn Porter...
Death Of ex-Cougressman Chas. A Boutele.
- Wreck OF Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht
Shamrock H.. Suicide of Bresci, assassin
of King Humbert, of Italy.
%. Death of ex-Gov. John r. Tanner, of
Illinois Norwegian bark Elise lost of
Sable Island, with crew Of IA men.
"a Gale on great lakes; steamer Balti-
more sinks; u lives lost. Seventy miners
killed by explosion in English colliery.
Is. Cuban convention adopts Platt reso-
luton.