Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
THE YEAR REVIEWED
SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS OF 1901.

Year Witnesses the Deaths of Queen
Victoria and President Mckinley
Many Other Notables Pass A way-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, Englands good queen, brea thed her
last quietly and peacefully at one Of her
royal abodes. The forcible taking off Of
President William Mckinley by the bull
let of the misguided anarchist youth
Czolgosz, in September, is in harsh con-
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 BoerB war in South Africa
has continued through the year, rather
to the advantage Of the latter and the
armed resistance Of the Flipinos against
the rule Of the United States has been
fitfully 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.
l. Lord Hopetoun installed as first Gov
ernor General Of Federated Australian col
ones.
2. Death Of Ignatius Donnelly.
trolt, Mich.
6. Death Of Philip d. Armour. Eight
lives lost in small hotel fire in Minneapolis.
8. Fire horror at Rochester, n. v, orphan
asylum. 20 lives lost.
10. Chinese sign joint note Of the powers.
Is. Fred Alexander, colored, burned at
stake by Leavenw0rth, Kan, mob.
16. Death Of ex-Gov. James A. Mount, Of
Indiana.
and accession of King Edward VII. 49,. Burn
ing Of Grand Opera House In Cincinnati.
23. Board Of Trade building In Montreal
burns: loss $3NO.O0O.
| %. Death of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian com
poser.
%. Disastrous fire in Des Molnes Iowa
-. .Twenty-one patients burned to death in
I0kyo hospital Japan.
febru,r~.
2. Funeral of Queen Victoria at Windsor.
3. Great snowstorm in Middle West.
l.. Marriage Of Queen Wilhelmlna Of Hol-
land and Duke Henry Of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin. Mine explosion in Durango,
Mexico, kills 81 persons
10. Sudden death of Col. Albert d. Shaw.
ID. Marriage of Princess of Asturias and
Prince Charles OF Bourbon.
10. Death of ex-senator Gilbert A. Pierce,
Of North Dakota. Death Of Maurice
Thompson, author. sixty miners entombed
In mine at Cumberland, b. c.
81. Nine persons killed in collision near
Bordentown, y. j.
%. Pacific steamer Rio de Janiero sinks
ont side Golden Gate, Ca ifornia; several lives
lost.
rs. Fifty miners imprisoned in burning
mine at kemmerer, Wyo
20 Geo; Ward, negro, hanged and burned
at Terre Haute, Ind, for assault and muir
%. Death Of VIM. NJ. Evarts.
>'arch.
/. State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb,
4. Inauguration of President Mckinley
and Vice President Roosevelt
.. Thirty men crushed to death on rail-
road at Wolovo, Russia.
II. Twelve persons killed and many more
injured by boiler explosion in Duremus laun-
dry, Chicago. Hay Pauncefote treaty re-
lecteu by Great BrltNln.
10. Death Of ex President Benz. Harrison
-. Destructive fire at Cloverport. Ky.
%. Chief Aguinaldo captured by Gen
Fred Funston.
Death of Charlotte NJ Yongc author
30. Death Of Comedian Roland Reed.
Arr"I.
3. China refuses to sign Manchurian con
vention.
,. Japan ISSUES ultImatum to Russia.
or ia pytrip cd IA Vac lit
II. Cuban Constitutional convention re-
jects Platt amendment. Death Of Geo. Q.
Cannon.
10. British war loan voted by House of
Commons =. Aguina!do's peace manifesto
Issued.
20. Unprecedented snowstorm and floods
In ohio, Pennsy .vania, Kentucky and the
Virginias.
%. Fifty persons killed by explosion near
Frankfort. Germany.
20. President Mckinley starts on long rip
through the country.
1. Opening of Pan American Exposition
-. Coz. Dietrich, of Nebraska, res gns and
Is made United States Senator by his sue
cessor GOV. Savage
3. Burning OF jacksonville, Fla. Civil
government tstab .ished at Manila.
s. Suicide Of X. \. Pollock fugitive bank
president Of Cleveland, at Seattle, Wash.
8. First Australian Federal Parliament
and York. Panic in Wall street.
10. Steamer Paducah goes down in Missls-
sippi six miles north Of Grand Tower, Ill
10. Presidents tour broken off by Mrs
Mckipeys serious Illness.
1G. Riot in Albany, n. Y.
II. Death Of Mrs. Lyman j. Gage..
Death of Edwin +. Uhl, of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
49, Launching of battleship Ohio at San
Francisco.
20. PanAmerlcan Exposition formally ded-
icated. 80. Fifty thousand machinsts 90 out
on strike.
~ Death Of Gen. Fitziohn Porter.
Death Of eX Congressman Chas. A. Boutelle
%. Wreck of Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht
Shamrock H.. Suicide Of Brescl, assassln
of King Humbert. OF Italy.
23 Death of exGov. John Il. Tanner. of
Illinois. Norwegian bark Else lost on
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 coiery.
%. Cuban convention adopts Platt reso-
luton.
HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.