The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-01-10
THE YEAR REVIEWED
SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF 1901.
Year Witnesses the Deaths of Queen
Victoria and President Mckinley
Many other Notables Pass Away-Dis-
asters, Fires, Accidents, Strikes, Etc.

The year 1901, firstborn 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 forcble taking off of
President William Mckinley by the bull |
let of the misguided anarchist youth, !
CzOgosz, in September, is in harsh con-
trast with her serene passing, and is
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, must
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:
] mary.
l. Lord Hopetoun installed first Gov
ernor General Of Federated Australian col
Onies.
3 Death of Ignatius Donnely.
3, Death of Bishop W. y. Ninde at De
trot, Mich
lives lost in small hotel fire in Minneap lis.
s. Fire horror at Rochester, \. y. ORPHAN
asylum, 20 lives lost.
10. Chinese sign jcint note Of the powers.
10, Fred Alexander, colorel, bLrned at
stake by Leavenwor!h, Kan mob
16. Death of ex-Gov. James A. Mount, Of
% Death of Queen Victoria of Enrland
and accession Of King Edward VII. Blu n
ing Of Grand Opera House in Cincinnati.
%. Board of Trade building in Montreal
burns; loss 100000.
%. Death of Giuseppe Verdi Italian com
20 Disastrous fire in Des Moines, Iowa.
..Twenty-One patients burned to death in
Tokyo hospital, Japan.
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2. Funeral of Queen Victoria at Windsor.
3. Great snowstorm in Middle West.
Z. Marriage Of Queen Wilhelmina of Hol-
land and Duke Henry of Meek enburg
Schwerin. Mine explos on in DLraugo
Mexico, kills 81 persons.
10. Sudden death Of Col. Albert d. Shaw.
II. Marriage Of Princess Of Astulias and
Prince Charles of Bourbon.
10. Death Of ex-senator CT bert A. Pierce
of North Dakota. Death of Maurice
Thompson. author. Sixty miners entombed
in mine at Cumberland, Is, c.
p. Nine persons killed in collision near
BOrdentOwn, \. j.
% Pacific steamer Rio de Janiero sinks
ont side Golden Gate Ca ifornia; several lives
25. Fifty miners imprisoned in burning
mine at Kemmerer, WyO.
20. Geo Ward, negro, hanged and burned
at Terre Haute, Ind for assault and mr.
der.
%. Death of VIM. NJ Evarts.
l. State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb.,
T. Inauguration of President Mckinley
and Vice President Roosevelt.
3. 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. .Hay-PauncefOte treaty re-
jected by Great Britain.
49, Death Of ex President Benz. Harrison.
-. Destructive fire at Cloverport Ky.
49, Chief Aguinaldo captured by Gen.
% Tornado at Birmingham, Ala. ...
Death Of Charlotte NJ. Yonge, author.
go Death of Comedian Roland Reed.
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3. China refuses to sign Manchur.an con
ventiOn.
8 Japan issues utimatum to Russia.
8. Logan statue unvei ed in Wash ngton
- Cuban Constitutional convention re-
jects Platt amendment. . Death Of Geo. O.
Cannon.
10. British war loan voted by House OF
Commons. .Aguinaidos peace manifesto
issued
20. Unprecedented snowstorm and food.
In Ohio, Pennsy ,vania, Kentucky and the
.. Fifty persons killed by explosion neal
Frankfort. Germany.
20. President Mckinley starts on long triI
through the country.
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l. Opening Of Pan-Amercan Exposition
80. Gov. Dietrich, Of Nebraska, res gns anC
Is made United States Senator 10y his sue
cessOr, Gov. Savage.
g. Burning of Jacksonville, Fla. -. Civil
government established at Manila.
g. Suicide Of Il. y. Pol o,k, fugitive banl
president of Cleveland, at Seattle Wash.
q First Austral an Federal parliamen
opened in Melbourne by Duke Of Cornwall
and York. Panic in Wall street.
IL. Steamer Paducah goes down in Misss
sippi six miles north of Grand Tower, Ill.,
Is Presidents tour broken off by Mrs
McKinley's serious illness.
1G Riot in Albany, y. Y.
IL Death Of Mrs. Lyman J. Gage.
Death of Edwin F. Uhl Of Grand Rapids
Mich.
IS Launching of ba;tleshlp Ohio at Sal
20. Pan-Amer'c can Exposition formally ded
icated.. Fifty thousand machinsts go GU
on strike.
Death of eN-COngressman Chas. y. Boutelle
% Wreck Of Sir Thomas LiptOn's zach
Shamrock H.. Suicide of Bresc, assassi
of King Humbert. of Italy.
%. Death of ex-GOv. John X. Tanner, o
Illinois, Norwegian bark + lie lost OF
Sable Island, with crew of IA men.
"a. Gale on great lakes; steamer Bait
more sinks; u lives LOST. Seventy miner
killed by explosion in English colisry.
%. Cuban convention adopts Platt resC