Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-09
Events of the Year.

mia anthracite regions, from the conse-
quences of which we are not yet relieved.
Events of the Year.
JANUARY.
L Thomas Estrada Palma elected Presi-
dent Of Cuba. :. President Roosevelt holds
brilliant reception.
2. Passenger steamer Walla walla sunk
off Cape Mendocino by unknown bark; 27
lives lost.
8. White House ball on occasion of Miss
Alice Roosevelt's debut.
4. Nineteen men lost In marine collision
off Aveiro, Portugal.
8. Congress reassembles.
Z. Seventeen men killed by cave-in in
mine at Negaunee, Mich.
=. Tunnel accident to New York Central
, train In New York City causes 15 deaths.
10. Failure of Euclid Avenue Trust and
Savings Co. of Cleveland.
2: Seven lives lost in fire in Buffalo,
IA Second failure Of George H. Phillips
formerly called the Chicago "corn king
:. j. B. Foraker elected Senator from Ohio,
Arthur P. German from Maryland and ]. B.
McCreary from Kentucky.
49,. A. B. Cummins inaugurated Govern
ef oWa MaHco kills 300 people
18. Death of Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett,
English political leader.
10. Four buildings collapse in Detroit's
! 20. Columbian Insurgents win battle in
Panama harbor. Death of Camilla Urso,
violintSte.
"a. Treaty ceding Danish West Indies to
United States signed. Dust explosion kills
20 miners at Lost Creek, Iowa.
%. Peace proposals made to England in
/ Beers behalf by Holland.
20. Ten lives lost in tenement house fire
in Boston.
FEBRUARY.
l. Dust explosion In Hondo, Mexico,
mines; 81 men die.
3. $2,50OOO0 fire in Waterbury, Conn.
Gale on Atlantic coast does considerable
4. keeley liquor cure plant at Dwight,
ILL.,, burns. ...Six fremen killed by falling
walls in St: Louis.
Chicago. -. Eleven lives lost in lodging
house fire In st. Louis.
10. Twelve manufacturing plants burned
at Springfield, o.
IL. Death of Marquis of Dufferin.
II. House passes war tax reduction bill.
Bulgarian brigands.
19. President Roosevelt's decision on
sehley appeal given out;
sgsin ges p. :. .ra,no 1o+o, -,
ment Armory in New York burned; 81, ,OO0,-
600 loss and so lives destroyed. Senators
Tillman and McLauren of South Carolina
2s Miss Ellen Stone released by Bull
"a. Philippine bill passed by Senate.
q. Mckinley memorial services in Con-
gress.
%; Fourteen miners killed by snowslide
at Telluride, Col.
/ MARCH.
| "a. Prince Henry of Prussia visits Chi
cago and other western cities
Z. Wreck on Southern Pacific railway in
Texas; 15 persons killed and 80 injured. :.
Gen. Methuen captured by Beers.
10. Secretary of Treasury Long resigns;
w. L. Moody Of Massachusetts appointed
his successor.
II. Death of Former Governor John P.
Altgeld Of Illinois. Packet overturned in
Mississippi River and % persons drowned
-. Beers release Gen. Methuen.
13. Strike of Boston teamsters ends
16. Severe blizzard over Canadian North.
west, the Dakotas and Lake States
4. Ship subsidy bill passes Senate.
sels;~loss, 81, 100000 and two lives.
"a. Neely, Rathbone and Reeves convict
ed Of postal frauds at Havana.
70. Order Issued for evacuation Of Cuba
26. Death of Cecil Rhodes.
: 1880. Storm and flood cause damage
/ 81. Mine explosion at Dayton, Tenn, kills
21 men.
APRIL.
!. Death Of Thos. Dunn English.
8. 100000 fire at Atlantic City, N. J,
9. Many persons killed and injured by
falling grandstand at Glasgow. Scotland.
of Gen. Wade Hampton.
u. Death of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage.
Is. Russian Minister of the Interior M
Sipiaguine, slain by student.
is. House passes Cuban reciprocity bill
-. Great ocean steamship lines merged.
20. Sixty lives lost in burning of steamer
City of Pittsburg on Ohio River. :. Frank
R.: Stockton, novelist, dies:
%. Severe wfndstorm In Missouri Val
| 81. Death Of ex-secretary of Agriculture
/ IS. Death Of Sol Smith Russell.
l. Tornado DESTROYED over 400 lives
around Dacca, British India. VIM. II.
! 4. Death Of Potter Palmer of Chicago.
3. Death of Archbishop Corrigan. Bret
g. Death o Of RearzAdmiral william T.
Sampson.
/ g. Town Of St. Pierre, Martinique, de-
stroyed by volcano; Paul Leicester Ford,
(, who then kills himself.
9. Strike ordered in anthracite coal re-
| IL. Death of Lieutenant Governor Stone
of Wisconsin.
+ II: Maria Christina resigns regency OF
Spain; .Twenty-fy persons killed by oil
! Il. Alfonso XIII crowned king of Spain.
IS. Hurricane devastated Texas gulf
coast plotting out ut tow town ,f Of Goliad Gdo
Tenn, kills 1s4 miners.
/ 20. Cuba becomes an independent nation
| -. sWaterspout at Cincinnati and suburbs
kills six persons and destroys property val
| ued at $2,0e0,OO0.
21 DEBORAH, Iowa. overwhelmed by
cloudburst.
| %. Explosion in mine at Fernie, B. c.,
/ kills 100 miners.
"a Death of British Ambassador, Lord
/ Paunceforte.
81. Boer leaders sign article Of sur
render. .Retalbulen, Guatemala, over
whelmed by volcano. 1000 lives lost.
| JUNE.
2 Teamsters' strike causes riots In Chi.
cago. Death of Rev. DR.. J. Fl. Barrows
| at Oberlin, o.
3. Strike riots In Chicago.