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The Washington times., 1902-01-01
NOVEMBER.

4. The French navy takes possession of
three Turkish ports on Mitylene is
land
>. In the fall elections. Republicans win
in the Northern States and Demo-
Gratis in the South; Tammany over
thrown in New York City.
s. The Duke of Cornwall and York re-
ceiyes the title of the Prince of
Wales.
II. The new constition of Alabama is rati-
fed.
IS. The new Hay Pauncefote Treaty signed.
Is. Colombian reyolutionists. capture Col
on; United States marines land next
day.
20. The manufacturers national reciproc-
ity convention resolves in favor of
protection and of a department of
commerce and Industries and recon-
meDds bureau Of reciprocity under
that department
"a. Theotokis' Greek Ministry resign, Zai-
mis- forms new Cabinet
%. Colon surrendered 10 Colombian Gov
ernment forces.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JANUARY,

1. Erie, Pa: Couhig wins the decision
over Mcfarland.
2. Canton, Ohio: Sims knocks out Louden
Campbell in the eighth round.
D. Boston: Walthour wins the six-day hi
cycle race, making ,o99.2 miles.
I. Boston: Tim Callahan knocks out os-
car Gardner in fifteen rounds.
II. New York: The new American Base
bap League organized.
"a. st. Paul: The Walkerville tankard
curling trophy won by American
rinks against Canadians. 116 to SO.
%. Peru, Ind: owen Mccarthy wins the
lightweight bowling championship
26. New York: \. c. keane. of New York.
wins the figure skating champion
ship of the United States and Can
ada.
2S. Cincinnati: Jeffries and Rubin ar
rested.
%. Millvale. Pa: McClelland knocks out
Santry in four rounds
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
AUGUST.

5. An explosion in Philadelphia demol-
ishes six houses and destroys nine
lives.
IA. The temporary waterv ks crib in
Lake Erie, at Cleve md. burns;
twelve lives lost
Is. The steamship Islander wrecked by an
iceberg off Douglass Island, Alaska;
sixty-five lives lost.
is. Fourteen men burned by molten
metal accident in the National Steel
Companys work, Youngstown, Ohio;
eleven die.
10. The Mississippi River steamer Col
conda founders in storm near Pa
ducah. Ky; thirty-five lives lost
Exploding dynamite near Herkimer,
n. Y, kills thirteen men.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
DECEMBER.

2. The South Carolina and West Indian
Exposition at Charleston opened.
8. Andrew Carnegie offers $1O,00O.O 900 to
endow a proposed national post
graduate university in Washington.
g. Mrs. Leland Stanford conveys to STAN
ford University. California, 10000,
900 worth of property.
II. Marconi at st. JOhn, y. F., receives
wireless electric wave signals from
Cornwall, England.
16. The Industrial department OF the Ma
tional Civic Federation meets in New
York
is. A committee of arbitration and con-
ciliation appointed by the industrial
conference in New York.
o. Ex-President Cleveland accepts mem
bership in the industrial department
of the National Civic Federation.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
SEPTEMBER.

.. Denmark accepts the United States
offer for the West Indies islands.
4. Prince Chun of China apologies at
Berlin for the murder by Boxers of
Minister Won Ketteler in Peking.
5. President Mckinley. in his speech at
the Buffalo Pan-American EypOsi
tion, declares for reciprocity, Ameri-
can merchant marine, isthmian ca
nal and Pacific cable.
Z. A Venezuelan fleet bombards Rio Ha
cha, Colombia.-The Chinese peace
protocol signed.
Il. The Schley Court of Enquiry convenes;
Admiral Schley's objection to Ad
miral Howison sitting as a member
sustained.
II. President Roosevelt takes the oath of
office.
Is. The Duke and Duchess OF Cornwall
and York land at Quebec.
IS. The Car of Russia enters France as
guest of the Republic.
%. Filipinos surprise and nearly annihi-
late Il company of United States
troops near Balangiga. Samar Island,
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
APRIL.

l. Cans whips Flaherty in four rounds.
6. Boston: DeOro wins the 6OO-point pool
match with Eby.
s. st. Louis: Jenkins defeats Champion
Roeber in wrestling match.
10. Memphis: Creedon knocks out Handler
in one round.
Hot Springs. Ark: Weinig whips Sean
Ian in seven rounds
IS. Washington: De ORC. the Cuban, wins
The worlds pool championship
against Frank Sherman. American.
20. The Anglo-American cable chess
match ends in u draw.
Columbus: The siX-day pedestrian
race won by Peter Golden, of New
York.
%. Louisville: His Eminence wins the
Kentucky Derby in 2:072s - Dave
Sullivan knocks out McClelland in
twenty rounds.
20. San Francisco: MCGovern knocks out
Oscar Gardner in the fourth round
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MAY,

.. The Hawaiian Legislature petitions
President Mckinley for the removal
of Governor Dole.
3. Several German Cabinet Ministers re-
sign.
-. Premier Ito of Japan resigns.
%. Senator's Tillman and McLaurin of
' '' South Carolina resign; both after
ward rescinded.
81. The United States Supreme Court de-
cides most of the 'insular" cases.
2S. The Cuban Constitutional Convention
accepts the Platt amendment with
Interpretive clauses of its own.
81 President Mckinley refuses to accept
the Cuban Constitutional Conven-
tion's action on the Platt amend
ment.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
OCTOBER.

?. Chicago: McChesney covers six and
onehalf furlongs in lis As. break
ing the horse running record
T. New York: Columbia wins the Amer
ica's Cup yachting series against
Shamrock II.
Louisville: Flanagan. OF New York,
breaks the hammer throwing record.
10 feet Z inch.
6. The National League baseball season
closes, Pittsburg winning the PEN
nant
.. New York: A. G. Vanderbilt and ia
cob NJ. Hyde, with coach and four.
establish a record between New York
and Philadelphia and return though
behind schedule time; 10 hours 45
minutes.
10 New York: Fournier bre llS1 the one
and six mile automobile records;
L;O6 TO and 6:47.
De rcit: But for Fournier's perform
;.nce at New York on the same day
Alexander Winton lowers the worlds
automobile record to 1:12 2-5.
Lexington, Ky: Onward Silver wins
the Pennsylvania Stakes.
l.. New ork: Miss Genevieve Hecker Of
Orange. y. j., wins the womans golf
championship of America.
Il. Memphis: f. G. Jones drives the PAGER
Little Boy half mile in l minute.
equaling the worlds wagon record.
IS. Providence: Fournier runs his auto
mobile nine miles in 10:i3i,
Il. Memphis: Little Boy breaks the
worlds mile wagon pacing record;
2:012i.
%. Memphis: Audubon Boy PAGES half
mile in 1:00l4.
a. Detroit: Winton breaks every auto
mobile record from one 20 ten miles;
one mile, :06 2-5; ten miles, 11:09.
5. Memphis: Little Boy lowers the mile
wagon pacing record to 2:011..
6. Memphis: Prince Albert establishes
new worlds half-mile and mile geld
ing pacing record; mile in 2:0OA.
I. Vailsburg. n. J.: Albert Champion
breaks the mile motor cycle record;
1:l2 IS.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
OCTOBER.

g. The Episcopal Convention accepts the
report of the committee on B. nle
marginal readings.
6. Captain Andrews and bride start from
Atlantic City to cross the ocean in
a fourteen-foot dory.
IL Count de la Vaulx undertakes a bal
loon voyage across the Mediterra
mean from France to Algiers. but
fails
10. The Episcopal House of Deputies re-
jects the canon on marriage and di
vorce.
H. Mormon apostles elect Joseph F. Smith
president.
20. Yale University begins to celebrate
her bicentenary.
23 Scottish Rite Masons unveil at Wash
ington monument to Gen. Albert
Pike.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
NOVEMBER.

s. Ten lives lost in the burning OF KIon-
dixie Theatre. Hurley, Wis.
Is. About 1S5 lives lost in shipwrecks on
the British coast.
II. A mine explosion at Pocahontas, Va.
kills twelve men.
90 The burning of a house at the mouth
of tunnel at Telluride, Col, as
phyxiates twenty-five men.
%. Eight Pocahontas Mine officials perish
in their burning mine.
26. a factory boiler explosion in Detroit
kills twenty-nine persons.
p. Seyenty-fiye lives lost in a collision
between two Wabash trains near
Seneca Mich.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JAN UARY.

5. Prof. Loeb, of the University of Chica-
&C, announces the discovery that
common salt is a life preserver in
cases of great loss of blood.
9. Harvard Observatory determines the
orbit, size, and distance from the
earth of the planet Eros.
IS. Prussia celebrates her bicentenary.
%. The mid-centennial congress of reli-
gions assemblies in Chicago.
"a. Tesla claims to have perfected his
system of wireless electric lighting.
2S. Prof. Robert Gersuny announces at vi
emma his discovery of paraffin cure
for physical deformity.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MARCH

1. Discovery of tn. "Becquerel ray" an
nounced in Berlin.
13. Andrew Carnegie signalizes his retire
ment from business by giving $1,000.
900 for employees pension fund, and
for maintenance of libraries near
Pittsburg.
10. Andrew Carnegie offers $500 900 to-
ward branch libraries in New York.
and S1,000.000 for a library system
in St. Louis.
10. Mrs. Emmons Blaine gives 81, 900. 600
to the University of Chicago School
of Education.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
FEBRUARY.

g. The National Federation of Churches
and Christian Workers organized in
Philadelphia.
IS. The House passes the st. Louis
Louisiana Purchase Exposition bill.
%. A temporary star Of the first magni
tude discovered simultaneously at
Edinburgh and Erlanger.
23. Mrs. Emmons Blaine turns over to the
University of Chicago the Chicago
Institute Of Pedagogy-The Senate
passes the st. Louis Exposition bill.
&c. The National Conference of School
Superintendents reject the phonetic
spelling scheme
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
DECEMBER.

II. The University of Wooster, Ohio,
burns.
10. Eleven persons killed in a railroad
disaster near Perryville, Ill.
19. Ten men killed by an explosion of
molten metal in Pittsburg fur
mace.
%. Fortyfve men killed by falling walls
of market at Zacateeas. Mex
%. Four men killed in landslide on branch
of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
near Lynchburg, Va.-Limited train
on Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road wrecked at Malta, ILL.,: three
persons killed, and ten injured.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
G aP0[!T |CAL
w

4. Buenos Ayres proclaimed in a state of
siege.
5. Comptroller of the Currency Dawes re-
signs.
TO- Turkey pays the American indemnity.
%. The Powers reach an agreement con-
corning the Chinese indemnity.
"a. admiral Schley asks for a court of en-
quiry. which Secretary Long orders
next day.
%. The President proclaims free trade be-
tween the United States and Porto
Rico.-The Democratic executive
committee of South Carolina reads
Senator NcLaurin out of the party.
30. \ national Socialist convention meets
in indianapolis.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MAY.

l. The Pan-American Exposition at Buff
falo opens.
49, The battleship Ohio launched at San
Francisco in the presence of Presi-
dent McKinley-The solar eclipse
observed in Mauritius and Sumatra.
The revision committee reports to
the Presbyterian General Assembly.
20. Andrew Carnegie gives 10000, 900 to
Scottish universities.
81. The Presbyterian General Assembly
decides upon creed revision.
%. Prof Pickering. of Harvard, announces
the discovery of what he believes
to be snow on the moon.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MAY.

3. Fire destroys 1iS blocks of Jackson
vile, Fla; seven lives lost
o. Seven lives lost at a Chicago fire; a
train crew arrested for blocking fire.
mems approach.
T. The steamer City OF PaducalI sinks off
Brunkhorn Landing, Mo-; fifteen
lives lost.
"a. The steamer Baltimore founders In
Lake Huron off Au Sable Mich.
twelve sailors drown.
q. Twenty-one lives lost in a Tennessee
coal dust mine explosion.
30. Seventy persons burned to death on
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
APRIL.

l. Aguinaldo takes the oath of allegiance
>. Gen. Fung Tu Sian heads Chinese re-
bellion.
90 A British expedition Jiberates Nigerian
slaves.
"a Cuban Constitutional Convention en-
yoys reach Washington.
%. The President begins his tour to the
South and West
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JUNE.

10. Sixteen miners perish in mine fire at
Port Royal Pa.
Is. Coffee plantations ruined and several
hundred people killed by the erup-
tion of Kloet volcano, Java.
81. A fireworks explosion in Rittenburg's
store. Paterson, n. j., kills sixteen
persons.
%. A cloudburst devastates EIkhorn Val
ley, ". Va; nearly fifty persons
drowned.
"a. A gasolene launch blows up at St
Louis; twenty-five lives lost
70. The steamer Lustiana wrecked off
Cape Boilard, Newfoundland; twenty
drowned.
26. A Wabash train wrecked by the fall of
trestle, killing sixteen persons.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01

Z. The Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
Railroad sold to the Northern Pacific
Company.
Il. The FairmOnt Coal Company secures
control of the entire Fairmont region
of West Virginia
"a. Pennsylvania Railroad interests Sc
cure control of the Cambria Steel
Company.
q. The Seventh National Bank of New
York suspends.
%. A strike ordered of all union sheet
steel workers.-The City National
Bank of Buffalo fails
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JULY.

-. NJ. Santos Dumont, in Paris, success
fully steers his cigar shaped balloon
around Eiffel Tower.
13 The Protestant Episcopal committee
on marginal readings completes
what amounts to q new revision of
the Bible.
81. By Governors proclamation, Missouri
observes a day OF Casting and pray
er for rain.
%. Prof. Koch, of Germany, discovers that
cattle tuberculosis cannot be COM
municated to man.
&c. The battleship Maine launched.
90. Distribution of new Indian lands in
Oklahoma begins.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
OCTOBER.

10. Ex-secretary Ayers book published.
Is. Bolomen attack Company E, Ninth
United States Infantry, near Gandar
ga, Samar, but are routed with heavy
loss.
81. A conspiracy discovered to establish
Republic in the klondike region.
% The Pan-American Congress assemblies
in the City of Mexico.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JANUARY.

8. J. P. Morgan secures control of the
New Jersey Central, Reading, and
Lehigh Valley Railroads.
z. Shares numbering 2l50, GOO sold on the
New York Stock Exchange.
8. The Carnegie Company announces its
purpose to build a $4,000 900 stee.
plant at Conneaut. Ohio.-Reading
traction employees strike.
u. The first great Guffey oil gusher in
Texas brought In.
30. The Southern Railroad Company Sc
cures control of the Mobile and Ohio
Raiiroad.-The Independent oil pipe
line from Pennsylvania fields to tide
water finished.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01

90 Many acres of business houses burn at
Foo-Chow, China. and many lives
lost.
IS. a boiler explosion on the City OF
Trenton, at Torresdale, Pa, de-
stroys eleven lives.
20. Spreading rails wreck Pennsylvania
Railroad train near Newark, y. j..
killing eleven persons
81. A freight train runs wild down
mountain side on the Great North
ern Railroad, near Kalispel. Mont.
into a passenger train. wiping out
forty-one lives.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
NOVEMBER.

4. Santos Dumonti is awarded the Deutsch
balloon prize in Paris of 100, 900
francs.
IL. Andrew Carnegie adds 81 100000 to en-
dowment of Pittsburg Polytechnic
School and also 1000, 900 to Pitts
burg Carnegie Institute.
13. The westward Atlantic Ocean record
from Southampton broken by the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse; days
Is hours "a minutes
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JANUARY.

i. The Earl of Hopetoun sworn in as the
first Governor of the Federated Aus
tralian Colonies.
s. The Horse passes the Burleigh Con-
gressonal reapportionment bill.
10. William f. Chandler defeated for the
Republican Senatorial nomination in
New Hampshire by Henry E Burn
ham
"ho Senate passes the Congressional
"., n..l-
..-.s sign
States
rr .-. HTf- ..... King
81. r~- .. ...rr. .. . Victo-
,.-- 49,. Span
ish treaty of cess,v- outlying
Philippine Islands.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JUNE.

y. The Cuban Constitutional Convention
unreservedly adopts the Platt amend
ment.
19. The Allied Third Party movement"
launched at Kansas City.
90 Civil government established all over
the Philippines by the Presidents
order.
% Cailles. the Filipino general, surren-
ders his command
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
Science A .z.NA|
y|!Ilz | : = ) g; IogTY 81

IS. Georgia University celebrates its CEN
tenary.
26. J. p. Morgan gives more than 81 ,000,-
900 to Harvard University, and other
millionaires make up 900
fund for Yale.
2S. Astronomer Comas, at Barcelona,
Spain. announces tine discovery of
possible sixth moon of Jupiter.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
NOVEMBER.

/. Cleveland: Tom Jenkins wins the
catch-as- -catch-can wrestling cham
pionship of the world.
s. Baltimore: Maher knocks out Jeffries
in two rounds.
Chicago: The gelding Heatherbloom
breaks the worlds indoor record for
jumping horses.
3. New Haven Harvard administers TO
University Of Pennsylvania its worst
football defeat
Is. San Francisco: tne7-rii<Sf ;ie.cats
Rubin III five rCJ-t.-.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MARCI.

l6. Philadelphia: Click wins the six-day
as-you-please walking match; 435
miles.
Indianapolis: McClelland wins against
Fitzgerald on a foul.
80 London: oxford wins the annual boat
race against Cambridge.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JUNE.

2. Alexander Dowic publicly announces
himself in Chicago to be the prophet
Elijah.
3. Prof L. E. Nichols, OF Dartmouth
College, periects a radiometer for
measuring the heat OF heavenly
bodies.
5. The London Chamber of Commerce
banquets members of New York
Chamber OF Commerce.
10. Elevated railroad trains begin run
ming in Boston.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JANUARY.

8. Twenty eight
lives lost in
the burning of
an or p h a n
a s y | Il III a t
Rochester, n.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
SEPTEMBER.

Is. The British torpedo boat Cobra found
ers in the North Sea after an ex-
plosion; sixty-seven men drown
The steamer Hudson founders in
Lake Superior; her crew of twenty
four men drown.
%. Thirteen oil prOspectors drowned by a
cloudburst in Preside county, Yeas.
30. Seventeen lives destroyed by explo-
sion and fire In Extension Mine, No.
2, British Columbia.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JULY

5. The National Steel and American Steel
Hoop Companies merged
S. The Guffey Petroleum Company of
Texas sells its export trade to the
Shell Transportation Company of
England.
13. Amalgamatei Association President
ShafTer orders a strike against three
constituent companies of the United
States Steel Corporation.
10. Stationary flremen in the Fennsylya-
MA anthracite region strike.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MAY

3. Denver: Sharkey knocks out Fred
Russell in four rounds.
L. New York: Banastar wins the Metro
politan handicap.
6. Bristol. r. l.: The proposed Americas
Cup defender Constitution launched
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
AUGUST.

il. The German Antarctic expedition sails
from Kiel
90. The steamer Deutschland breaks the
westward Atlantic Ocean speed rec
ord; days, IL hours and 5 minutes.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
FEBRUARY.

1. The Union Pacific Company secures
control of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road.
IS. Organization of the Great American
Cereal Company completed at Akron,
Ohio.
%. The United States Steel Corporation
chartered.
q. Lake marine engineers strike.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MAY.

6. The Cuyahoga Savings and Banking
Company Cleveland, .suspends on ac-
count of the disappearance of Presi-
dent R. n. Pollack
8. The Colonial Steel Company of Amer
lea organized.
3. 4 furry begins on New York Stock
Exchange.
l6. The Guffey Petroleum Company char
tered in Texas
ls. The Albany car strike ended by com
promise.
20. Machinists strikes begin in various
cities.
20. Loree succeeds Cowen as president of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
AUGUST.

). Colombian troops and Venezuela revo-
luticnists defeated in the first battle
with Venezuelan Government forces.
81. France sewers diplomatic relations
with Turkey
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
OCTOBER.

25. twenty-five persons killed. and many
injured in the burning of Hunt. Will
kinson & Co.'S factory, Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JULY.

l. One thunderbolt in Chicago kills ten
persons.
10. Twenty three per ons killed in a Chi
cago and Alton Railroad collision
near Newton. Mo.
IL. Eleven men killed by the fall of a
railroad bridge near Springfield, Pa
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
SEPTEMBER,
OCTOBER.

Il. The steel strike settled.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
I RADE
and
INDUSTRY

debenturc companies are unlawful
which decision forces several Gin.
cinnati concerns out of business.
=. Gold in the United States Treasury
$595. 600 600.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MARCH.

5. John E. searles. New York fnancier,
assigns.
?i The Ohio Supreme Court decides that
The Washington times., 1902-01-01

9. The Pittsburg and Western Railroad
bought by the Baltimore and Ohio
Company.
IL. The Pocahontas Coal and Coke Com
pany chartered.
is. The Merchants National Bank OF
Lowell. Mass, suspends after dsap-
pearance of teller and cashier.-The
Industrial Commission issues a re-
port on labor arbitration.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
SEPTEMBER,

3. The first stake driven for the LOU
isiana Purchase Exposition at St.
Louis.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
AUGUST.

6. All union workmen employed by the
United States Steel Corporation or
dered to strike.
10. George Phillips. Chicago corn specu-
lator, files petition in bankruptcy.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
JUNE.

D. Inc Consolidated Tobacco Company in
corporated in New Jersey.
6. The Amalgamated Conner Comnapv IN
preaSes itc carf+-r ey. sof. ..-.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
APRIL.

20. Three boilers explode in the chemical
works at Frankfort, Germany, kill
ing twenty-five persons
The Washington times., 1902-01-01

10. Sixty fishing boats wrecked off Hashi-
date. Japan; 800 persons drowned.
10. The British steamer Kaiseri wrecked
off Mauritius Island; twenty-five
persons drowned
y. The Cincinnati Grand Opera House
burns.-A landslide at Krompach
hungary, buries twenty-eight houses
and kills eighty inhabitants.
20. Nearly $3,O00O00 in business property
burned in Montreal.
81. Explosion and fire starting in tbe
Wicke cigar factory, New York;
81, 500 900 loss
The Washington times., 1902-01-01

-. c. NJ. Schwab completes purchase OF
control of the Bethlehem Steel
Company.
-ae Amalgamated steel strikers at Canal
Dover, Ohio, enjoined.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
APRIL.

Y. strike of Central Railroad of New
Jersey employees begins.
2s J. p. Morgan's syndicate secures con-
troll of the Leylands steamship lines
The Washington times., 1902-01-01

G. Dynamite in the San Andres mine
Mexico, blows off mountaintop
killing eighty-seven persons.
10. Sixty men killed by mine explosions
near Victoria, b. G.
p. Twelve persons killed by a train col
lision near BOrdentown, n. J.
%. The steamer Rio de Janeiro wrecked
by a rock off San Francisco; 12S
lives lost, including Consul Wild
man and family.
26. Fire in the DiamOndyille. Wyo.. coal
mine wipes out twenty eight lives.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
DECEMBER.

II. President Cassatt announces the in
tention of the Pennsylvania Railroad
to tunnel under New York City and
its rivers.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
NOVEMBER.

IS. The Northern Securities Company cap
italized at siOO, 900. 900. chartered to
finance the Northern Pacific settle
menr.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
FEBRUARY.

.. petroleum fire at Baku, Russia. de-
s'roys r-arY lives.
The Washington times., 1902-01-01
MARCH

l, Nebraska penitentiary partly burned
.. \ tornado wipes out twenty lives in
the vicinity of Wills Point. Texas
II. The Pittsburg Exposition burns
%. A tornado at Birmingham, Ala, and
vicinity kills seventeen persons.