Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08
REVIEW OF YEAR
JANUARY.


Thirst election day in Cuba.
S-Steamer Walla Walla lost; Al lives.
6-Jean de Block, Russian economist.
died
7-Emperor returned to Pekin.
S-New York tunnel collision; Is killed.
9-Nicaraguan bill passed. house.
ll-Nixon, Tammany hall leader, died.
A-British warship Condor lost; 100 lives.
17-Earthquake Chilpancnjo, Mexico; 300
killed.
21-Aubrey de We're died. London.
A-Treaty signed ceding Danish w. l.
21-Explosion in N. Y. subway; six killed.
2s-Admiral Kimberly died, Newton.
29-Fleet st. fire, nine dead, Boston.
S0-Fire at Norfolk. Va; 100000 loss.
Sl-Prof. Williams, Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity. died.
FEBRUARY.
go, 000 900 fire, Waterbury, Conn.
Sire Paterson N. j.; 100000 loss.
10-Fire Springfield. Ohio; 100000 loss.
u-Anglo-Japanese alliance.
12-Marquis of Dufferin died.
13-Fire South Mills, N. c.; $500, 900 loss.
15-William West minstrel died.
17-Senate ratified Danish treaty.
T-War revenue reduction passed.
1S-Rev. Newman Hall died. London.
1S-Kellogg sanitarium, Battle Creek,
burned; $4S5, 900 loss.
20-Troops shot rioters. Barcelona.
20-Fire New York city: $3.50, 600 loss.
21-Bishop Latane, Baltimore, died.
22-Park Ave. hotel burned New York.
22-"Billy" Emerson died. Boston.
23-Miss Stone freed by brigands.
23-Prince Henry reached New York.
24-Boers captured convoy.
2+Prince Henry at White House.
25-Kaiser's yacht launched.
2-Ship Jules Jean Baptiste lost; so lives.
26-Victor Hugo centenary. Paris.
2-McKinley memorial service, Wash.
MARCH.
2-Francis W. Parker died, Miss.
4-Philippine tariff passed, house.
congressman Polk, Penn. died.
Gen. ]. j. Estey died, Vermont.
7-Boers captured Gen. Methuen.
11-Prlnce Henry left United States.
12-John P. Altgeld died, Illinois.
l3-Gen. A. P. Martin died. Boston.
1S-Gen. Methuen freed by Beers.
15-Wages advanced 10 per cent, Fall
River.
17-Life savers drowned, Monomoy;
lives
17-ship subsidy passed. senate.
1S-Fire Hoboken, N j.; $1,000, 900 loss.
20-Judge Noah Davis died, N. Y.
22-Judge Taft of Vermont died.
24-Maj. Gen. Otis retired.
26-Cecil Rhodes died, South Africa
APRIL.
1-Thos. Dunn English died, N. J.
3-12 hotels burned, Atlantic City; $1,000
600 loss.
n-Boer war 21a years old
11-Gen. Wade Hampton died. s. c.
Prev. T. Dewitt Talmage died. Wash
ington.
1S-Cuban reciprocity passed. house.
1S-Guatemala earthquake; 1000 dead.
19-Morgan steamship trust launched
20-Frank r. Stockton died, Washington.
20-Steamer City Of Pittsburg lost: 70
lives.
2o-Fire Dallas, Texas; 100000 loss.
27-Archbishop Williams died, aged so.
81. Sterling Morton died, Chicago
27-Fire Glens Falls, N. Y; 900 loss.
2S-Sol Smith Russell died, Washington.
MAY.
Wv. H. Moody, secretary of navy.
2-Amos ]. Cummings of New York died.
4-Potter Palmer died, Chicago.
5-Archbishop Corrigon died, New York.
5-Bret Harte died, London.
6-Admiral Sampson died, Washington.
6-Fire New Milford. Conn: $500, 900 loss.
S-Paul Ford, author. killed, New York.
S-St. Pierre destroyed by volcano; 49,
600 lives.
s-volcanic eruption, St. Vincent: 1000
lives.
Focal strike began.
l2-Explosion naphtha. Pittsburg: %
killed.
12-steamer Camarta lost, Bay of Bengal;
1870 lives.
17-Alfonso XIII crowned. Spain.
17-s4OO 600 fire. Houlton. Me.
ls-Tornado in Texas; 100 dead. ....
19-Bishop Taylor died, California.
19-Mine explosion Fraterville, Tenn; 200
killed.
2o-Natal day, republic of Cuba.
2O-Palma. president of Cuba.