The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-01-02
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, 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 bul.
let of the misguided anarchist youth,
Czolgosz, in September, is in harsh com
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, 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
itfully 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 Hopetoup Installed as first Gov
ernor General Of Federated Australian col
q Death Of Ignatius Donnelly.
8. Death Of Bishop w. x. Ninde at De
6. Death of Philip D. Armour. :. Eight
lives lost In small hotel fire In Minneapolis
8. Fire horror at Rochester, N. Y, orphan
asylum, 20 lives lost.
TO- Chinese sign Joint note Of the powers :;
stake 10y Leavenworth, Kan, mob.
16. Death of ex-Gov. James A. Mount, OF
Indiana
20. Death of Queen Victoria Of England
Ing Of Grand Opera House in Cincinnati.
%. Board Of Trade building In Montreal
burns; loss $4,000, 900.
20. Death Of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian com
poser.
20. Disastrous Ere in Des Moihes, Iowa.
49,. .Twenty-one patients burned to death In
Tokyo hospital Japan.
Eehruorv
2. Funeral of Queen Victoria at Windsor.
8. Great snowstOrm in Middle West.
Z. Marriage Of Queen Wilhelmina Of Hol-
land and Duke Henry Of MecklenburS.
Schwerin.. Mine explosion in Durango,
Mexico. kills 81 persons.
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.
p. Nine persons killed in collision near
BordentOwn, N. ].
%. Pacific steamer Rio de Janiero sinks
outside Golden Gate, California; several lives
lost.
% Fifty miners imprisoned in burning
mine at Kemmerer, Wyo.
20. Geo. Ward, negro, hanged and burned
der.
%. Death Of Wm NJ. Evarts
March.
1. State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb.,
Is burned.
4. Inauguration of President Mckinley
and Vice President Roosevelt.
5. Thirty men crushed to death on rail-
road at Wolovo, Russia.
II. Twelve persons killed and many more
injured by boiler explosion in DOremus laun-
dry, Chicago. .Hay-Pauncefote treaty re-
jected by Great Britain.
naafh Of oy- president Roni Harrison
%. Destructive fire at Cloverport, Ky.
%: Chief Aguinaldo captured by Gen.
Fred Funston.
Is. Tornado at Birmingham, Ala.
Death of Charlotte NJ. Yonge, author.
30. Death Of Comedian Roland Reed.
April.
8. China refuses to sign Manchur:an con-
vention.
8. Japan issues ultimatum to Russia.
8. Logan statue unveiled In Washington.
IL. Cuban Constitutional convention re-
tects Platt amendment. -. Death Of Geo. Q.
10. British war loan voted by House of
Commons. .Aguinaldo's peace manifesto
issued.
90 Unprecedented snowstorm and foods
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and the
Is. Fifty persons killed by explosion near
Frankfort, Germany.
20 President Mckinley starts on long trip
May.
1. Opening Of Pan-American Exposition.
%. Gov. Dietrich, Of Nebraska, res gns and
ID made United States Senator by bis sue
cessor, Gov. Savage.
3. burning of jacksonville, Fla. Civil
government established at Manila.
8. Suicide Of r. N. Pollock, fugitive bank
president Of Cleveland, at Seattle. Wash.
8. First Australian Federal Parliament
opened In Melbourne by Duke Of Cornwall
and York. >. Panic In Wall street.
sippi six miles north of Grand Tower, Ill.
10. Presidents tour broken OF by Mrs.
McKinley's serious illness.
10. Riot In Albany, N. Y.
II. Death Of Mrs. Lyman J. Cage.
Death Of Edwin +. Uhl, Of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
49, Launching of battleship Ohio at San
Francisco.
20. Pan-AmerIcan Exposition formally ded.
icated.. Fifty thousand machinists 60 out
II. Death Of Gen. Fitzjohn 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.
%. Death of ex-GOv. John r. Tanner, OF
Illinois. !. Norwegian bark Elise lost Oh
Sable Island, with crew Of II men.
"a. Gale on great lakes; steamer Balti-
more sinks; II lives LOST. Seventy miners
killed by explosion in English coliiery.
%. Cuban convention adopts Plat reso-
luton.