Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-01-03
THE YEAR REVIEWED
SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF 1901.

xenr Witnesses the Deaths Of Queen,
Victoria and President Mckinley
Many Other Notables Pass Away-Dis-
Astcrs, Fires, Accidents, Strikes, Etc.
The year 1901, firstborn of the new
@sntury, is made memorable by the deaths
- two Of the best loved rulers the world
has ever known. In its first month Vic
teria, E%ngland's good queen, breathed her
Ast quietly and peacefully at one of her
tsyal abodes. The forcible taking off Of
President William Mckinley by the bull
kt of the misguided anarchist youth,
6zolgosz, in September, is i'll Harsh con-
Gast with her serene passing. and is q
tad 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-
Quatc 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 Bocr-British war in South Africa
has continued through the year, rather
to the advantage of the latter, and the
0Iuieu IeSlStuACe VI Iue pIlIuHuOS uSui1Sl
The rule of the United States has been
6tfully 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:
J%,ruary.
Lord HopotOpN ;pctoIIoJ mr.. Grsk Claw
ernor General of Federated Australian col
cafes.
!. Death Of 1%gnatius ponnelly;
troit, Mich.
e. Death of Philip D.. Armour.... Eight
Ayes lost In small hotel fire in Minneapolis.
asylum. 20 lives lost.
10. Chinese sign joint note of the powers.
-. Fred Alexander, colorei, burned at
stake by LeavenwOrth, Kan, mob.
1G. Death of eX-(iov. James A. Mount, of
Indiana.
and accession of King Edward vII.....Burn-
ing Of Grand Opera House in Cincinnati.
%. Board of Trade build. ng in Montreal
burns; loss $4,000, GOO.
%. Death OF Giuseppe Verdi, Italian COM
90. Disastrous fire in Des Moines. Iowa..
.;..Twenty-one patients burned to death in
Tokyo hospital, Japan.
Fcbru.rv.
Cu1lGIut il Nueeu NItlOTlu EL NluuSUT.
=. Great sncwstorm in Middle West.
-. Marriage of Queen Wilheim!na Of Hol-
I scS Wand and Du M,,d Henry Of Meck,enDurg-
1o. Sudden death Of Col. Albert D.. Shaw.
"A. Marriage of Princess of Asturias and
L.. Death of ex-senator Gilbert A. Pierce,
Of North Dakota. Death Of Maurice
thompson, author. Sixty miners entombed
In mine at Cumberland. B. c.
Il. Nine persons Killed in collision near
eordentown. N. j.
%: Pacific steamer Rio de Janiero sinks
lost.
g. Fifty miners imprisoned in burning
mine at kemmercr, Wyo.
at Terre Haute, Ind. for assault and MUIR
.. Death of VIM. NJ. Evarts.
March.
i. State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb.,
Is burned.
4. Inauguration of President Mckinley
and Vice President Roosevelt.
8. Thirty men crushed to death on rail-
read at Wolovo, Russia.
IL. Twelve persons killed and many more
Injured by boiler explosion in Doremus laun-
dry. bic icago:;. aMay.Pauncefote treaty re-
10. Death of ex- President BENZ. Harrison.
...Destructive fire at Cloverport, Ky.
%; Chief Aguinaldo captured by Gen.
20. Tornado at Birmingham, Ala.....
Death of Charlotte NJ. Yongc, author.
20. Death Of Comedian Roland Reed.
Anr l.
:. China refuses to sign Manchurlan con
%vention.
). Japan issues ultimatum to Russia.
9. Logan statue unvei ed in Washington.
IL. Cuban Constitutional convention re-
aects Platt amendment. 49,. Death CT Geo. Q.
Cannon.
10. British war loan voted by House of
Commons. ..Aguinaido's peace manifesto
20. Unprecedented snowstorm and floods
In Ohio, Pennsylvania. Kentucky and the
%. Fifty persons killed by explosion near
frankfort, Germany.
%. President Mckinley starts ON long trip
through the country.
4. Opening of Pan-American Exposition.
Gov. Dietrich, of Nebraska, res sns and
Is made United States Senator by his sue
cessor, Coy. Savage,
3. Burning of Jacksonville, Fla.... Civil
government established ut Manila.
s. Suicide of r.. n. Pollock, fugitive bank
president of Cleveland, at Seattle. Wash.
9. First Amstral an Federal Parliament
opened in Melbourne by Duke Of Cornwall
and Nork.....Pan in wall street.
13. Steamer Paducah goes down in Missis-
sippl six miles north of Grand Tower. Ill.
McKinley's serious illness.
.1G. Riot in Albany, N. Y.
H., Death of Mrs. Lyman j. Gage.....
Death of Edwin r.. Uhl, of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
IS. Launching of battleship Ohio at San
Francisco.
20. ,Pan-American Exposition formally ded-
icated.: Fifty thousand machin. SITS 90 out
on strike.
u. death of Gen. Fiiziohn Porter.
Death of ex-Congressman Chas. A. Bouteile.
%. Wreck of Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht
Shamrock H.. Suicide of Bresci, assassin
of King Humbert, of Italy.
q. Death Of ex-Gov. John r. Tanner, of
illinois,. 80 Norwegian batk Use lost OF
Sable Island, with crew of IA men.
"a. Gale on great lakes; steamer Balti-
more sinks; IL lives lost.... Seventy miners
Killed by explosion in English coll ary.
p. Cuban convention adopts Platt reso-
luton.
HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.
Work Completed ut a Cost, Approx
mately, of SO, 700.