The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-10


Shipwrecks-Personal Items, PoIit
icaI, Sporting and MisceIIaneou
Affairs-A Chronological Review.
JANUARY.
l. Shipwreck: Steamship Walla WALL
sunk In a collision near Cape Mendo
elmo, Cal; 40 people drowned
Shipwreck. The Alaskan steamer
Bristol wrecked on Green island; tn,
captain and sailors lost.
8. Shipwreck The British steamer AL.
fonso and the Spanish steamer Vilelya
sunk In collision Off Aveiro Portugal
10 sailors drowned
B. Obituary. ]. B. Polk, veteran actor
In Baltimore; aged 81.
7. Obituary: Elbridge S. Brooks. writer
of popular books for boys, at Sorner-
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 1890. at Warsaw; aged SO.
Fire: At Richmond. Cameron e Cam
eron's tobacco factory burned; loss,
100000.
g. Obituary: Gen. Francis j. Heron, a
noted Federal officer In the civil war.
In New York city; aged e.
IL obituary: Horace e. Scudder, noted
author, at Cambridge. Mass. aged g.
IL Railroad Accident: II people killed and
In the New York Central tunnel in New
York city.
IL. Fire: AT Syracuse the Central City
Masonic hall burned; loss. $500, OO0
Accident; 10 miners killed by the ex-
plosion of fredamp at Dow, l. r.
H. Accident: A miners drowned by the
flooding of the Jupiter mine. Brux
coal district, Bohemia
Fire: At Manchester, N. H.; loss of
$oo0'OOe by burning of Kennard block
and Park theater
Obituary: John Howard Bryant brother
of the late William Cullen Bryant, tho
poet, at Princeton, ILL.,: aged a.
is. Fire: At Los Angeles, Cal: loss. s1bO-
900. 49,
1S Obituary: Prof. Alpheus Hyatt IA
nous .paleontologist. at Cambridge,
Mass; aged g.
Earthquake; At Chilpancngo, Mexico;
heavy loss of life
Fire: At Kalamazoo Mich: loss Of
100000 by burning of a wagon factory.
~. Obituary The Infanta Christina Isa- |
bella OF Spain. in Madrid; aged &c.
Fire; At Fall River; loss of $500, 900 by |
burning of Globe Yarn mills
Accident; so people killed and 100 in
at Manresa. Spain.
H. Accident; 10 people killed and so in
1ured by collapse OF floors in Smith.
field mills, Belfast.
FIRE; AT Memphis; loss of 100000 by
burning of Wetter Stove foundry.
Colombian War: The Colombian fleet
defeated In battle by insurgent sound
ron; Gen. Alban. Colombian leader,
killed
IL. FIRE Accident 7 men burned to death
at Camp No. 5. Hambleton. W. Va
Obituary: Aubrey Thomas de We're, Irish
poet aged So. Camilla Urso famous
violinist, In New York city; aged CO.
COInbtIe ~ |
flames In business district.
a. Fire. At New Britain, Conn. ST
Mary's Roman Catholic church burned:
loss. $3.50. 900.
Accident: % miners killed by dust ex-
plosion In the Lost Creek mine, near
o. Earthquake: Shocks In Missouri. Kan
sas and Illinois.
Fire In business district of Mobile; loss.
$500 900. U.s.
& Obituary; Dr. Lachlan Tyler son of
President John Tyler. in New York
city. ,
8. Fire. At Mount Clemens. Mich: loss
of 100000 by burning of two hotels
and bathhouse
Obituary: Rear Admiral Lewis Ashfleld
Kimberly. U. s. N. retired. at West
Newton, Mass; aged 70. Eugen Du
font' head OF powder manufacturing 5
hrm. at Wilmington. Del. aged 81.
D Fire: In business portion of Wolcott
md; loss, 100000 In St. Paul the
Peoples church destroyed loss. 1905.
00O 1850 '-'''
Storm: Heavy fall of sleet in Arkansas:
damage In Little Rock, $50000O
J. Fire: In Norfolk hotels an apart-
ment house and stores and Offices
burned; loss 5000 900.
FEBRUARY.
: Shipwreck: The French ship Chansra,
wrecked In n 1erce aforr,, on t,rt.t..-.
81 sailors lost.
Accident: 100 deaths In an explosion at
the Hondo mines. Mexico.
Fire: At Waterbury, Conn; 7 block.
burned; loss, SO. 900 900.
obituary: Paul f. Munde, gynecoloSist
OF worldwide fame. in New York city.
aged S.
Fire; At New Milford, Conn; loss
100000. $3.50
Accident: 6 men killed and many in
jured lighting fire In st. Louis.
Accident: 10 killed by explosion os 6
gas main in Chicago s
South African War: Hard fighting on
the blockhouse line between British
and De Vets Beers; the burghers' 10
loss reported at 800 by Kitchener.
OBITUARY; Thomas Sidney Cooper. IA II
nous animal painter in London; aged
Fires; At Minneapolis the vendome bo- u
tel. valued at $500, 0o0 Quilted by flames.
Az horton. Kan, car works of the
Rock Island railroad damaged to the
extent of s25O.000
OBITUARY; Vice Admiral Montijo. com
mander of the Spanish fleet at the hat l6
Tie or Manila. at Madrid; aged Il.
FIRE; AT Wabella, Ill. the town nearly
wiped out; loss. $300OO0
Fire: In Paterson ~ j.: 26 bIocks
burned: loss. s6O00.Ooo
Convention: Annual session of III.
National American Woman Suffrage 10
association began in Washington.
South African War: British patrol on 90
Kip river entrapped by Beers. with
loss OF 90 killed and wounded.
obituary; Lord Dufferin. formerly gov On
ernor general of Canada at Clands- "'
boye Ireland; aged 76
RIOT; IL killed in a battle between ofs-
GERS and mountaineers near Middle
boro. Ky.
RIOT; l6 killed and 100 injured I'm coi-
nsion between troops and rioters at
Triest ''eis at
FIRE; In Jersey City N. j.; loss OF goods
ana shipping at the Lehigh VsIIsv o,
Co.'s pier. s50ano1 -Ne' Al