Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-02


the National Society d. A. r. opened |
in Washington.
49, Obituary: Albert Bierstadt, noted
American landscape painter, in New
York city; aged 70. Rev DR.. Newman
Hall. noted Congregationalist minister, |
in London; aged Sc. Charles L. Tiffany. |
noted New York jeweler, in that city;
aged 80.
Fire: At Battle Creek. Mich, Seventh
Day Adventist sanitarium burned; loss |
$500, 000
10. Riot: 81 killed and 100 wounded in a
strikers melee at Barcelona, Spain
Obituary: John Moran, pioneer photog-
rapher and noted landscape painter.
in New York city; aged 49,
81. Storm: blizzard of snow followed
by rain and sleet ragged throughout
the country; telegraph and railway
communications interrupted.
Fire: At Lafayette, Ind. offices of the
Call and the Journal with other prop
critics, destroyed loss, 5000, 600
%. Obituary: Billy Emerson. an old time
minstrel, in Boston; aged Sc.
Personal: Miss Helen NJ. Stone, the mis-
sionary held for ransom by Bulgarian
bandits, released.
Fire Disaster: is killed and many in
jured in fire which Quilted the Park
Avenue hotel, New York city
20. Personal Prince Henry of Prussia ar
rived at New York.
20. South African War: A British convoy
attacked by Beers at Klerksdorp. Cape
Colony; British casualties. including
prisoners, 632.
Accident: trainmen killed in head-on
collision between New York Central
trains near Auburn, N. Y
26. Personal: Centenary of the birth of
Victor Hugo celebrated in France and
other countries.
Obituary: Henry G.. Marquand, New
York banker and art patron, in that
city; aged SO.
Storm: A southeast tempest with wind
at 60 miles an hour ragged along the
Pacific coast.
81. GOO Beers. with 1000 horses and $4,000
head of cattle, captured by the British
on the Harrsmith blockhouse line.
Orange River Colony.
Is. Floods: Large rivers in the eastern
and central states swollen by rains
and melting snow.
Accident: IA killed and many injured by
a snowslide at Telluride, Colo.
Storm: Great blizzard in Minnesota and
the Dakotas.
q. Obituary: Col. Francis w. Parker.
noted American educator and reform
er, at Pass Christian, Miss.
8. Obituary: Charles Broadway Rouss,
millionaire merchant noted for his &C.
centricities in New York city; aged 66.
L. Obituary: Neil Bryant Cornelius
O'Brien), the first black face minstrel,
in Brooklyn, n. Y. aged 70.
g. Obituary: Alfred Booth a pioneer Chi
cago merchant, in that city; aged "a
g. Obituary: John Daniel, last of the old
time dry goods merchants. in New
York city; aged 81.
Storm: a blizzard of snow, sleet and
rain swept across the whole country.
z. Fire: AT Hudson, N. Y, loss of $500 900
by flames in the business district.
Accident: 10 passengers and trainmen
killed and many injured by wreck
followed by fire on the Southern Pa
cific. near MaXon, Tex.
South African War: In a sudden attack
upon Gen. Methuen's column near
Klerksdorp. Delarey's Beers killed 81
British wounded 10 and captured 202,
including Methuen.
IL. Obituary: Ex-Gov. ]. P. Altgeld OF
Illinois. at Joliet; aged So.
Shpwreck: Steamer Providence cap
sized at Lone Landing. Lake Palmyra;
20 lives lost
Earthquake: Town of Kyankari, Asia
Minor, destroyed; 5000 houses wrecked.
Storm: 40 deaths in tornado which
swept over Louisiana.
13. Obituary: Gen. ID. S. Stanley, U. s a.,
retired. at Washington, d. c.; aged 70.
IA. Personal: King Edward and Queen
Alexandra held their first court at
buckingham palace
16. Fire At Bryn Mawr college; loss Of
1925 0C0 by the burning of a dormitory.
II. Obituary: Sir Richard Temple. noted
Anglo-Indian official and figure in So
ciety, in London; aged &c.
Shipwreck: IL life savers and sailors
drowned by the capsizing of a lifeboat
off Monomy point Nantucket sound.
IS. Fire: The Phoenix liner British queen
and several lighters burned in North
river off the Hoboken piers; loss, ST.
100000.
49, Obituary; DR.. Manuel Sanclemente.
titular president of Colombia, near
Bogota; aged 81.
90 Flood The city of Bangor swept by an
overflow of the Penobscot damage,
$1,000. 900.
Obituary: Noah Davis. noted jurist, in
New York city; aged 81.
o. Sporting: Cambridge defeated oxford
in the annual boat race over the
Thames course; time, Ism. 22s
&c. Obituary: Cecil Rhodes. the South At
rican magnate at Cape Town; aged 40.
30. Fire: At Guthrie. Okla. the state cap
ital printing plant hotels and other
buildings burned; loss $3.50, 600.
Floods: BY the overflow of Tennessee
rivers 90 lives were lost and property
to the amount of 81 900, 900 destroyed.
Storm: Pittsburg struck by fierce gale.
81. Accident: l6 miners killed by explo-
sion in the Nelson mine at Dayton.
Tenn.
Obituary: Oscar Mcclellan. a wealthy
inventor, who was the friend of Edgar
Allan Poe in Philadelphia aged So
South African War: British and Beers
fought at Doombolt Farm, Harris riv-
err; losses nearly 800 in killed and
wounded.
1. Fire: Louisville; loss of $780, 900 by the
burning of paint and varnish fac
tory.
Obituary: Thomas Dunn English. poet
and politician, author of Ben Bolt.
in Newark. n. j.; aged 49,
Shipwreck: II persons drowned by the
sinking of the steamer Cambriar
Princess in collision near Nab light
ship, England.
g. Fire: Atlantic City, N j.; IL hotel:
burned: loss, $3.50 600.
5. Accident: q people killed and 25O in
jured by the collapse of a stand at
ball game in Glasgow
6. Fire: AT Chesterton, Ind; loss, 500 900
g. Obituary: The Earl of Kimberly. RICH
Hon John Wodehouse. X. c., Liberia
British statesman, In London; aged 76
10. Fire: Southern Plow works burned a
hue locc