Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-31


Fire: Loss of 81 200 600 by the burning OF
Standard oil tanks at Calcutta.
Accident: miners killed and seriously
injured by an explosion at Sandvals Ill.
APRIL.
1 Sporting: Cambridge defeated oxford
in the diamond jubilee contest of the
interuniversity boat race at Putney by
lengths.
s. Obituary: Joseph Park. founder OF the
grocery house of Park & Tilford, in
New York city; aged So
f. Obituary: King Edwards Oldest sub
ject Margaret Neve, at Guernsey;
aged 10.
T. Obituaries: Josiah Wood whymper,
noted American artist and Alpinist,
in London; aged 80. Rear Admiral
George L. Belknap. U. S. N, retired,
veteran of the civil war. at Key West;
aged Il.
s. Storm Disasters: u killed and II in
jured by a cyclone at Hopewell, Ala.
killed by cyclone at Little Red.
Ark.
g. Explosion: 3 seamen killed and in
jured by the bursting of II inch gun
on the battleship Iowa during target
practice off Pensacola.
TO- Obituary: Rev. w. H Milburn, the
venerable blind chaplain of the United
States senate, at Santa Barbara, Cal;
aged So
r. Obituaries: Brigham Young. son of the
late Mormon president Brigham
Council of Twelve, at Salt Lake City;
aged Ct. Col. John 4. MACEDONIAN, one
of the Oldest newspaper men in the
south, at Chattanooga, Tenn; aged II.
10. Storm Disaster: 9 killed and many in
jured by a tornado in Monroe county,
Ala
IA Fire: At Oswego. N. Y, the Washing
ton theater burned; loss about SIC. 900.
Is. Fire: 265 oil derricks burned on Spin
die Top. in the Beaumont field; loss
nearly $1.000000.
Obituary: Rev. DIR. Gustave Gotthell, pas
tor of the Temple Emanuel. a noted
Hebrew leader, in New York city;
aged &c.
II. Fire: At Dallas, Tex; loss of 500, 900
by the burning of a warehouse.
Army Disaster: 10 British officers. in
Guiding the leader. Col. w. w. Plum
kett, and $50 men, killed in battle with
the natives in Somaliland. east Africa.
20. Accident: people killed and 10 in
jured in a collision on the Erie, near
Red House, n. Y.
%. Conventions: The 9Th annual confer
ence for education in the south opened
at Richmond The National Academy
of Sciences met in Washington. An
nual meeting of the National Municipal
league began in Detroit.
Fire: At Lacrosse. Wis, the Gle block,
Trade palace and other buildings; loss.
$3.50 900.
Obituary: Ex-Governor Alexander Ram
sey of Minnesota, last of the war
governors at St. Paul; aged IS.
q. Fire: At Fairbury. Neb.; loss of about
$3.50 900.
Explosion: 10 persons killed in the Star
Oil works at Minneapolis.
%. Personal: w. K. Vanderbilt married
to Mrs. Lewis NJ Rutherfurd in Lon
don.
26. Fire: At Columbus. o.; loss of $500. 900
by blaze in the business district
q. Convention: The national and inter-
national conventions of good roads
opened in St. Louis.
IS. Fire: Plant OF the International salt
Co. in Chicago burned; loss. 81, 10000.
Obituaries: Stuart Robson, the well
known American actor, in New York
city; aged ca Rev. DR.. George Dana
Boardman, noted Baptist minister and
educator, at Atlantic City; aged 20.
%. Accidents: killed and 20 injured at
the Crescent Powder works. near Hol-
lidaysburg. Pa. &c deaths and property
loss of 81 500. 600 by a mysterious up
heaval and landslide on Turtle noun
tain at Frank, N. w T.
Obituary: Paul Du Chaillu, author and
explorer at st. Petersburg; aged 6S.
Personal: King Edward VII. visited
Pope Leo at the Vatican.
Earthquake: Melazgherd, Armenia, de-
stroyed; 1000 deaths.
80. Fire: Forest fires caused a loss of ST.
600 900 in Mexican county, Pa.
Worlds Fair: The Louisiana Purchase
exposition dedicated by President
Roosevelt at st. Louis.
Anti-Semitic Riot: 800 Jews killed at
Kishineff.
MAY.
1. Fire: At West Point. Va; loss OF
S125, 900 by the burning of 4 blocks in
the business district.
Obituaries: Arditi, musical composer and
conductor. at Brighton, England; aged
rs. ]. Wells Champney, well known
American portrait painter, killed by
fall into an elevator shaft in New York
city; aged 60.
3 Accident: Il killed and 80 injured by
explosion in the Kohl torpedo factory
at Cleveland.
Sporting: Judge Hines won the Ken
lucky Derby.
5. Shipwreck: 20 deaths by the loss of the
Clyde liner Saginaw in collision with
the Dominion liner Hamilton of the
Virginia coast.
8. Shipwreck: The American fishing
schooner Gloriana lost near White
point. off Nova Scotia; 10 drowned.
8. Convention: The National Congress of
Mothers in session at Detroit.
10. Obituary: Gardiner G. Rowland, gen.
eral manager of the New York Herald,
in New York city; aged GO.
II. Convention: The congress of the
American Physicians and Surgeons
met in Washington.
Obituary: Richard Henry Stoddard, not
ed American poet and critic, in New
York city; aged IS.
A. Fire: At Park City, Utah, plant of the
Utah Metals Co. burned; loss, S12o,OOO.
Convention: Annual session of the Amer
lean Social Science association opened
at Boston.
16 Obituary: Sibyl Sanderson, the well
known American opera singer, in Par
is; aged IS.
H. Convention: The American Peace So
ciety in session in Boston.
49, Convention: The United Confederate
Veterans met in New Orleans.
20. Fire: 1000 native houses destroyed in
the Tondo district of Manila.
%. Accident: Gen. Frias and q men killed
by explosion in the arsenal at Santi-
ago, Santo Domingo.
Storms: $500, 600 damage by a cloudburst
at Enid, Okla. The towns of Carman
and Marshall wiped out by tornado;
10 persons killed and 900 injured in the
district.
"A. Emerson Centenary: The Tooth ami
versary of the birth of Ralph Waldo
Emerson celebrated in Boston.
Fire: Loss of 81. O0O, 900 by the burning of
a warehouse in Philadelphia.
Obituary: Paul Blouet Max O'RelD, the
well known French author and lee
turer. in Paris; aged So.
%. Storms: n people killed by a tornado
which struck the towns of Norman,