The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1903-01-02
Notable Events From Janu-
airy to December.
RECORD DAY BY DAY
Startling Volcanic UpheayaIs In
the West Indies.
WORK OF THE GRIM REAPER
Losses of Life and Treasure by
Flames, Accident, Storms and
Shipwrecks-PersonaI Items, POlit-
zeal, Sporting and Miscellaneous
Affairs-A Chronological Review.
JANUARY.

AS"AS spun anu
Afairs-A Chronological Review.
JANUARY.
/. Shipwreck: Steamship Walla Walla .
sunk in a collision near Cape Mendo-
cino, Cal. 40 people drowned.
q Shipwreck: The Alaskan steamer
Bristol wrecked on Green island; the
captain and sailors lost
4. Shipwreck: The British steamer AL
fonso and the Spanish steamer Vnelva
sunk in collision off Aveiro, Portugal;
10 sailors drowned.
5. Obituary: J. B. Polk, veteran actor
in Baltimore; aged 81.
T. Obituary: Elbridge S. Brooks, writer
of popular books for boys, at Somer-
VILE, Mass; aged So. Baron Jean de
Bloch. author of 1.-THE War of the Flu
ture," the book which led to the peace
congress of 1899, at Warsaw; aged 81.
Fire; At Richmond, Cameron & Cam
eron's tobacco factory burned loss
$4,000.
g. Obituary. Gen. Francis ]. Heron,
noted Federal officer in the civil war,
in New York city; aged 62.
II. Obituary. Horace E. Scudder, noted
author, at Cambridge, Mass; aged ia.
Il Railroad Accident: II people killed ana
over 80 injured in a rear end collision
in the New York Central tunnel in New
York city.
49, Fire: At Syracuse the Central City
Masonic hall burned; loss, $1,000
Accident: 10 miners killed by the ex-
plosion of firedamp at Dow, l. T.
IA Accident "A miners drowned by the
flooding of the Jupiter mine, Brux
coal district, Bohemia.
Fire: At Manchester, N. H; loss OF
$5O0,0O0 by burning of Kennard block
and Park theater.
Obituary: John Howard Bryant, brother
of the late William Cullen Bryant the
poet, at Princeton ILL., aged "a.
rs. Fire: At Los Angeles Cal, loss $l5O'-
000
1S, Obituary: Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, IA
nous paleontologist, at Cambridge
Mass; aged GA.
Earthquake: At Chilpancingo. Mexico;
heavy loss of life.
Fire: At Kalamazoo, Mich; loss OF
100000 by burning of a wagon factory.
10. Obituary: The Infanta Christina lsa-
bella of Spain, in Madrid; aged 49,
Fire: At Fall River; loss of 100000 by
burning Of Globe Yarn mills.
Accident: 60 people killed and 100 in
fred by explosion in a spinning mill
o, Manresa, Spain.
a. Acident: 10 people killed and 50 in
Sssed by collapse of floors in Smith
I'D mills, Belfast.
fb: Al Memphis; loss Of $500, 900 by
burning or Wetter Stove foundry.
ciombian Wbatdg'py instr gem , sd an-s
ron, Gen. Alban. Colombian ie'
killed. ,,rnad TO death
n Fire Accident: men ourneS w va
81 Camp No 5, Hambleton, W Itch
ot'.,Sar,i Aubrey Thomas de we're, lal
ot. aged 49, Camilla Urso' Ia - 80
l,ioIinist in New York city; a lseo 10y oO =,
NJ. A. columbus, O.; loss OF $zoV'VV' v
DANES in business district G,
~ Fire: At New Britain, oo -, W., I'd
Mary's Roman Cathollc chuF'h
loss r1O' % miners killed by dust ex
Accloeh' -, +be Lost Creek mine, nea
Oskaloosa, la. ,,,,.ouri Kar
n. Earthquake: Shocks III n1S'
sas and Illinois -. 80 Mobile. fos
Fire: In business district Oh NO'
$500. 900. -, -r,,,ar son ,
%. Obituary; Dr. Lachlah Sew Yor
President John Tyler, IN Ne"
city. l,,.-,,, Mich. 10
Of 5000 900 by burning OF '"o
and a bathhouse' ,,, Ashfie
culinary: Rear Admiral Lewis AsR nv
kimberly. U. S. N, retired, a. !
Newton. Mass; aged u. ,SactI,ri
Pont head of powder manu- a. 81
on'' ~ Wilmington. Del; aged oil
nm a. a., business portion of Wolco
~ Ice $4,000. In st. Paul
nn,1o's church destroyed; loss Sl'
etorrn: Heavy fall of sleet IN "A ArNahS'
darnage in Little Rock. S5oO'oOu.
dalnae Norfolk 2 hotels, an apa
ment house ana sIOiS
burned; loss, 100000
FEBRUARY.
c,.,-r,-roolr. The French ship Chana
wrecked in nerCe SUI -
q sailors lost ,.oior
Aocident: 100 deaths in an explosion
the Hondo mines, Mexico. A,o
= FIRE, At Waterbury, Conn., Oio
burned; loss, $1,000 600. ,,o
obituary: Paul F. Munde syneColoI
of worldwide fame IN Ne"
aged Sc. 49,, . l
3. Fire: AL Ne"
|toU oiSent. G men killed and many
3,,red fighting fire in st. Louis;
Accident: 10 killed by explosion
gas main in Chicago a.,..t,,
& South African War: Hard hsn t rri
the bIockhouse line between b[I
Ia ne VETS Beers; the burgf
les renorted at 800 by Kitchener.
Obj+rerv. Thomas Sidney Cooper
nous animal painter, in LONDON
go - xy.,do,,e
fires: At Minneapolis the Vendot Bt
tel. valued at 100000. gutteo Wy nc S
At Horton, Kan, car WORKS %
ROCK lSlanu Tam 90
EXTENT of $780, 900.
@ ohIt,,arv. Vice Admiral MonuJo'
mander of the Spanish meet a. ~ ~
.Ia 81 Manila. at Madrid; aged IL
Fire: At Wabella, ILL.,, the town -
wiped out; loss, $3OO.OJO. nc n
@ Fire: In Paterson, n. -
burned: loss, SC, 100000. .,
II Convention: Annual session 60
National American Woman oui
association began in washington,
"a South African War: British pau
RIin river entrapped by Beers
loss of 50 killed and wounoeu' 3,
obituary: Lord Dufferin' TOT at ~ -
ernor general Of Canaua'
hove Ireland: aged IS. ,..,rr.e,
d. 10 killed i'm a battle oetwes,
rs and mountaineers near VI
:, ptot. 1s killed and 100 injured IN
iision between troops and rio''
Triest. loss of
Fire: In Jersey City. n. - iOl7
and shipping at the
- 60 co,,,. p,th The 18th annual ses
me National Society d. A H.
in Washington. ,,,.-s+odt
IL Obituary: Albert bitsr 1,
American landscape palhtrs.' ~
York city; aged Is. Key. a. =,
Han. noted congregational 7
t-To.So,,. aqed Sc. Charles l.. 4
noted New York Jeweler' IN ''i'
aged 80. -. c
Fire: At Battle Creek, MiS IL, !
nav Adventist sanitarium ourhe
$500, 900. a.
Il. Riot: 81 killed and 100 woune :
strikers melee at Barcelona, ?
Obituary: John Moran, piohes
rapber ana a noted landscape
in New York city; ageo %. .
d. storm: A blizzard OF snow :,
BY rain and sleet rageo IN
fbe country; telegraph sno