The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1903-01-02


reservation, Minnesota.
! West Point Centennial: Beginning o
the celebration concentrating the
founding of the National Military
academy.
Fire: At Saratoga the Arcade, Citizens
bank block and Theater Saratoba
burned; loss, 5000, 900; lives lost.
II. Tornado: IL people killed and property
damaged to the amount of 81, 900, 900 by
a storm which swept over Illinois.
L. Fire: Alexander City. Ala, wiped Out
by flames loss, $3.50, OOO
IA. Sporting: Gold Heels won the Suburb
an Handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
II. Obituary: Very Rev E. A Hoffman
dean Of the General Theological semi
nary In New York city. at Plattsburg'
N. Y; aged 70.
10. Obituary: King Albert of Saxony at
Dresden; aged "a.
Fire: At Orange Valley, N. j.; loss OF
100000 by the burning of Berry & Co.
hat factory
20 Accident: deaths in a head-on col
lision on the Northern Pacific at Sta
pies, Mich.
a. Sporting: Wyeth won the Chicago
Derby Cornell won the three inter
collegiate boat races at Poughkeepsie,
Wisconsin having the second place in
two races, Pennsylvania in one and
Columbia third place in all three.
22. Fire: In Portland, Ore; loss, $6OO,OOO.
Shipwreck: The Chinese cruiser Kali
Chin sunk by explosion in the Yangtse
river; $50 officers and sailors lost.
"a. King Edward: Court physicians de-
clared King Edwards condition criti-
cal and the coronation postponed.
25 Storm: Indiana swept by a destructive
gale; damage to property. S2,OOOOOO.
e. Sporting: Yale won the varsity race al
New London; time. 2Jm 2Os. Har-
wards time 2Om. 1873.
-. Storm: Destructive gale, with heavy
rain, at Alton, ILL.,; loss, $l,OOO,OOO
JULY.
L Political: Congress adjourned.
q Filipino War: President Roosevelt IS
sued proclamations declaring trouble
at an end.
Fire: Plant of the Capewell Horse Nail
Co. at Hartford, Conn, burned; loss,
$500, 900.
4 Accidents: Fourth of July casualties
killed 81. injured 2,649: fire loss, $3.50, l55.
s. Accident: Trolley road collision near
GIoversvllle, N. Y; Is killed and 20
injured.
Fire: Main building of Swift & Co.'s
packing house, Chicago. destroyed;
loss, s., 00C 900.
Sporting: brighton Beach Handicap won
by Gold Heels.
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the oath anniversary of his coronation. /
Aguinaldo set at liberty.
7. Fires: In Plattsburg. N. Y; loss, $685. |
900. Cummings flour mills at Oswego. !
N. Y, struck by lightning and burned; |
loss. 100000
Convention: The National Educational
association at Minneapolis.
.. weather: II persons killed by heat in .
Pittsburg.
obituary: Mrs. Charles Godfrey Leland,
wife Of celebrated author. az Florence.
Italy; AID II.
O. Accidents: Explosion Of hredamp in
mine of Cambria Steel Co, near Johns
town, Pa; more than lis miners killed.
Obituary: Capt William W. Reisinger,
u. S. n, commanding cruiser Phil =
deipbia. aboard his ship. Mrs Annie
Alexander Hecor (Mrs. AleXander),
English novelist; aged q.
Convention: Baptist Young Peoples I'M
ion met a Providence, X. l.
!, OBITUARY; Most Rev. Patrick A. Fee
han Ro.4an Catholic archbishop of
Chicago. died there; aged ~
:, Personal: Marquis OF salisbury re-
signed a d A. ]. Balfour became pre-
mier Of Great Britain
Obituary: Gen. Thomas J. Morgan noted
war veteran. at Ossining' N. Y; aged
"a Mrs. Eloise Bridges Erwin, actress
who originated role OF Gretchen in
Jererson's RIP Van Wlhkle' at Kan
sas City. Mo-; aged ~
Foreign: The celebrated campanile, or
bell tower. OF Venice zen.
Fire: In Guayaqui' ESuaoori loss' 49,
600 600. -.
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