Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-31
The RECORD OF The YEAR


Fire: At Battle Greek. Mich. Seventh
Day Adventist sanitaFium burned; loss.
$500, 600
To- Riot: 81 killed and 100 wounded in a
strikers melee at Barcelona, Spain.
Obituary: John Moran, pioneer photog-
rapher and noted landscape painter,
in New York city; aged 7S.
21- Storm: A blizzard of snow followed
by rain and sleet ragged throughout
the country; telegraph and railway
communications interrupted.
Fire: At Lafayette. Ind. offices of the
Call and the Journal, with other prop
critics, destroyed; loss, 100000.
q. Obituary: Billy Emerson, an old time
minstrel, in Boston; aged Sc
Personal: Miss Helen NJ. Stone, the mis-
sionary held for ransom by Bulgarian
bandits, released.
Fire Disaster: Is killed and many in
jured in a fire which Quilted the Park
Avenue hotel New York city.
%. Personal: Prince Henry of Prussia ar
rived at New York.
25 South African War: a British convoy
attacked by Beers at Klerksdorp Cape
Colony; British casualties. including
prisoners 632.
Accident: trainmen killed in a head-on
collision between New York Central
trains near Auburn. n. y.
&c. Personal: Centenary of the birth of
Victor Hugo celebrated in France and
other countries.
Obituary: Henry c. Marquand. New
York banker and art patron, in that
city; aged So
Storm: a southeast tempest with wind
at co miles hour ragged along the
Pacific coast
q. coo Beers. with 1000 horses and $4,000
head of cattle. captured by the British
on the Harrismith blockhouSe line,
Orange River Colony.
IS. Floods: Large rivers in the eastern
and central states swollen by rains
and melting snow.
Accident: II killed and many injured by
a snowslide at Telluride. Colo.
Storm: Great blizzard in Minnesota and
the DakotaS.
MARCH.
2 Obituary: Col. Francis w. Parker,
noted American educator and reform
err. at Pass Christian. Miss.
3. Obituary: Charles Broadway Rouss.
millionaire merchant noted for his &C.
centricities. in New York city; aged 66.
4. Obituary: Neil Bryant Cornelius
O'Brien) the first black face minstrel.
in Brooklyn, n. Y; aged 72
5. Obituary: Alfred Booth, pioneer Chi
cage merchant in that city; aged "A.
6. Obituary: John Daniel. last of the old
time dry goods merchants, in New
York city; aged 81.
Storm: A blizzard of snow, sleet and
rain swept across the whole country.
z. Fire: At Hudson, n. Y, loss of $780, 900
by flames in the business district.
Accident: Is passengers and trainmen
killed and many injured by wreck
followed by fire on the Southern Pa
cific, near Maxon, Tex.
South African War: In a sudden attack
upon Gen. MethUen'S column, near
Klerksdorp. Delarey's Beers killed 81
British, wounded ITO and captured 202,
including Methuen.
IL. Obituary: EX-Gov. ]. 2. Atgeld OF
Illinois, at Joliet; aged So.
Shipwreck: Steamer Providence cap
sized at Lone Landing, Lake Palmyra;
20 lives lost.
ASia
Minor, destroyed; 5. 900 houses wrecked.
Storm: 40 deaths in a tornado which
swept over Louisiana.
13. Obituary: Gen D. s Stanley, u. S A.,
retired, at Washington, d. c.; aged a.
II. Personal: King Edward and Queen
Alexandra held their first court at
Buckingham palace.
I6 Fire: At Bryn Mawr college: loss OF
$225. 900 by the burning of a dormitory.
II Obituary: Sir Richard Temple, noted
AngIo-Indian official and figure in
ciety in London; aged &c.
Shipwreck: II life savers and sailors
drowned by the caDsizing of a lifeboat
off AIonomy point, Nantucket sound.
Is. Fire: The Phoenix liner British Queen
and several lighters burned in North
river off the Hoboken piers; loss. ST.
600 900.
10. Obituary: DIR. Manuel Sanclemente.
tituIar president of Colombia. near
Bogota; aged 81.
20. Flood: The city of Bangor swept by an
overflow of the Penobscot; damage.
81 coo 900.
Obituary: Noah Davis. noted jurist, in
New York city; aged "a.
z. Sporting: Cambridge defeated oxford
in the annual boat race over the
Thames course; time. 19rn. 22s
26. Obituary: Cecil Rhodes, the South At
rican magnate, at Cape Town: aged 40.
30. Fire: At Guthrie, Okla, the state cap
itaI printing plant, 2 hotels and other
buildings burned; loss $35o.0C0.
rivers 20 lives were lost and property
to the amount of 81, 900. 600 destroyed.
Storm: PittSburg struck by fierce gale.
81. Accident: 16 miners killed by explo-
sion in the Nelson mine at Dayton,
Tenn.
Obituary: Oscar Mcclellan. a wealthy
inventor, who was the friend of Edgar
Allan Poe, in PHILADELPHIA; aged 81
South African War: British and Beers
fought at Doombolt Farm. Harris riv-
er: losses nearly 800 in killed and
wounded.
/. Fire: Louisville; loss of 5000. 900 by the
burning of paint and varnish fac
tory.
Obituary: Thomas Dunn English. poet
and politician, author of Ben Bolt
in Newark, N. j.; aged SO.
Shipwreck: II persons drowned by the
sinking of the steamer Cambrian
Princess in collision near Nab light
ship, England.
g. Fire: Atlantic City. N. J.; II hotels
burned; loss. $750.000
5. Accident: 81 people killed and go in
jured by the collapse of stand at
ball game in Glasgow.
6. Fire: At CheSterton. Ind; loss. 500. 000
8. Obituary: The Earl of Kimberly. Right
Hon. John Wodehouse. X. c., Liberal
British statesman. in London: aged Is
10. Fire: Southern Plow works burned at
Columbus, Ga: loss. 100000.
II. Obituary: Gen. Wade HamptoO. dis
tinguished Confederate cavalry officer,
at Columbia, S. c.. aged 81.
r. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. noted
Presbyterian divine, in Washington;
aged 40. Baroness Marie Won Olen-
hansen, famous as an army nurse dur
ing the civil and Franco-Prussian
wars, at Lexington. Mass; aged IS.
16. Obituary: Don Francisco d Assist, duke
of Cadiz, consort of former Queen Isa-
bella of Spain. at Epinay, Frances;
aged So