Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-01-16
ed; loss, 500, 900. The Platz leather plant

burned At Racine, Wis. loss, 800, 600 s.
| 30. Storm: Heavy freshets In the eastern and
central states caused by excessive rainfall:
loss Of SO, 900, ono along the Ohio. 81
e. The town Of Chester. Mass, inundated Nv the
bursting Of q dam at Middcfield.
| %. China: The German brigade under Gan Kct
tier defeated the Chinese at the Great wall.
driving them into the province of Shans
Obituary: Dan Costello, the noted circus clown
| in New York city; aged 65.
g. Catastrophe: BY an explosion in the electro.
chemical works at Greisheim. Germany, Co
people were killed and 100 injured.
e. Fire: AT Latrobe, Pa, the plant Of the Amer.
lean Steel and Wire Co, burned loss, 1000.
Obituary: James Douglas Reid. pioneer in es.
| tablshing the American electric telegraph
system. in New York city.
20. Sporting: His Eminence won the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville.
80. Sporting: McGovern defeated the "Omaba
Kid for the featherweight championships OF
the world at San Francisco as&
MAY.
4 Fire: 14s blocks burned in Jacksonville, Fla. !;
loss (estimated), $l5,OOO,OO
Sporting: Banastar won the Metropolitan Handi.
cap at Morris park.
g. Fire: In Philadelphia, Webb & Co.'S ware.
house burned; loss over 800. 900.
I. Fires Loss Of 100000 ~ the burning Of the
Fifeld Tool plant at Lowell, Mass. loss 5000,
Is 600. 80
o. Financial: Panic in Wall street over ! corner
in Northern Pacific.
H. Sporting: Santoi won the English Jubilee
H. Fire: Del Ray, 2 suburb Of Detroit. swept by
flames; loss, $500, 600.
49, Shipwreck: Steamer City Of Paducah sank at
Grand Tower, Ill, carrying down passengers
and % sailors.
u.s. Explosion: 8 miners killed and fatally Ia.
jured at the Georges Creek Coal and Iron
Co., Pennington, w. Va.
10 Fire: At Elizabeth. N. J.. the American
steam laundry burned |; loss, 800 600
Labor Troubles: During trolley strike at AL
bany the militia fred into crowd. killing 2
citizens
10. Fire: Thomas B. Wannamaker's country house
at Meadowbrook Farms destroyed; loss (esti.
mated), 100000
10. Obituary: M. w. Pretorius, 1rst president OF
the Transvaal Republic. at johannesburg; aged
20. Obituary: Gen. Fitz John Porter, U. s. A.,
retired, noted Federal leader during the
civil war, at Morristown, N. j.; aged 70.
Pan-American Exposition: The fair opened to
the public.
%. Floods: lives lost and property valued at
$1,0O0,OO0 destroyed by foods in East Tennes-
# see.
Obituary: Elk Congressman Charles A. BoItelle
Of Maine, noted Republican leader, at
Waverly, Mass; aged 60.
q. Shipwreck: The Norwegian bark Elsie run
down off Sable island by the steamer Ohio Of
the Wilson line and "A Of the crew lost.
"A. Explosion: Over 80 deaths by explosion in the
Universal colliery, Wales
Shipwreck: Steamer Baltimore lost in storm
on Lake Huron. near Au Sable; 70 sailors lost.
%. Sporting: Conroy won the Brooklyn Handi-
cap at Gravesend.
%. Accident: killed and many injured in 4
trolley crash at Albany.
q. Explosion: q miners killed by an explosion
in the Richland mine, near Dayton, Tenn.
30. Drowning Accident: picnickers drowned by
the loss Of rowboat at Flat Rock dam,
Schuylkill river, near Philadelphia
81. South African War: The British under Gen.
Knox lost ia killed and wounded in des-
perate fight at Vladfontein, on the Durham
Johannesburg railroad, with Beers under Gen.
Delary.
B 2. Fire: The town Of Jasper, Jasper county,
+ Tex, destroyed; loss, 100000.
Obituary: James "A. Herne, noted American
character actor, in New York city; aged 81.
g. Sporting: Volodyoysky won the English Derby.
+ 8. Obituary: Rev. William GLAND Bourne, an old
time writer, poet and G. A. R. editor, at
Montclair, N. ~; aged 81.
2. Sporting: Cap and Bells II. won the Oaks
Stakes at Epson.
Storm: IL people killed and many injured BY
hail and cloudbuTst in Oklahoma.
Q. Obituary: Edward Moran, noted painter Ct
marine and landscape scenes, in New York
city; aged u.
10. Disasters l6 deaths in mine explosion in
the Port Royal mines at Port Royal, Pa.
Obituary: Walter Besant, noted English novel;
list and author, in London; aged 65. Robert
Buchanan, English poet, novelist and dram
atist in London; aged go.
IL. South African War: The Transvaal Beers sur
prised the Australian Mounted rifles in camp
near Wolmansrust, killing and wounding so
officers and men and capturing two pompons
II. Fires: At West Baden, Ind, the West Baden
hotel destroyed; loss, $500 600 In Lynn,
Mass, the Empire theater burned; loss, $780,
600.
Is. Obituary: Gen. Max Weber, German vet.
eran of the American civil war in New York
city; aged u.
Sporting: Alcedo won the Suburban Handicap,
at Sheepshead Bay.
16. Cheri won the Grand Prix at Longchamps
10. Obituary: Hazen s. Pingree, ex-governor of
Michigan in London; aged 81. Louis Aldrich,
b noted American actor at Kennebunkport, Me-;
t aged IS.
10. Obituary: Gen. John B. Turchin, noted vet
eran Of the civil war, at Anna, I'LL; aged 70. i
20. Obituary: Gen. Robert Nugent, noted Irish
brigade leader in the civil war, in New York
# city; aged n.
Fires: In st. Louis, the Sickles Saddlery plant
and other property destroyed; loss $500, 900.
At Bear Lake, Mimi, the mill Of the Tower
Lumber Co. destroyed; loss $15O,OOO.
Tornado: Z people killed and many injured by
windstorm in the Keya Paha valley, Nebraska.
q. Political Assassination: Hoshi Toru, noted
Japanese statesman formerly minister to
Washington, assassinated for political reasons
Disaster: IL deaths from fireworks explosion
at Paterson, N. j.
20. Shipwreck: deaths in the wrecking of the
British bark Falkland off the coast Of Califor-
MIA, on Bishops rock.
Sporting: Robert Waddell won the Chicago
Derby.
Tornado: At Pittsburg, deaths. and property
valued at 100000 destroyed.
Fire: In Newark, N. j., a brush factory and
other property burned; loss, 100000.
"a. Obituary: Gen. Hans Lothar Won Schweinitx,
noted German soldier and diplomat, at Cassel.
Prussia; aged 70.
Flood Disaster: 36 deaths BY rainstorm foods
in the Elk Horn valley, W. Va.
Is. Obituary: DR.. Joseph Flavius Cook, formerly
noted lecturer and writer, at Nconderoga,
N. Y; aged So.
q. Financial Troubles: The Seventh National
bank Of New York city suspended payment.
/ Sporting: Yale won the varsity race over Har-
| ward at New London; time, 1851 6
g. Financial Troubles: Marquand Co., pro.
moters in New York city, failed. with heavy
1