Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-02
Notable Events From Janu-
airy to December.
RECORD DAY BY DAY
Startling Volcanic UpheavaIS In
the West Indies.
WORK OF THE GRIM REAPER

Flames, Accident, Storms and
hipwreclSs-Persona1 Items, Polit-
icaI, Sporting and Miscellaneous
ATairs-A Chronological Review.
JANUARY.
/, Shipwreck Steamship Walla Walla
sunk in a collision near Cape Mendo-
elmo, Cal. 40 people drowned.
2. 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 Vilelva
sunk in collision off Aveiro, Portugal;
10 sailors drowned.
8. Obituary: j. b. Polk, a veteran actor,
in Baltimore; aged 81.
Z. 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 Fu-
ture" the book which led to the peace
congress of 1899, at Warsaw: aged SO.
Fire: At Richmond, Cameron e. Cam
eron's tobacco factory burned loss,
$3.50. go.
s. Obituary: Gen. Francis ]. Heron, a
noted Federal officer in the civil war.
in New York city; aged 62.
II. Obituary: Horace e. Scudder, noted
author, at Cambridge Mass; aged Ga.
IL. Railroad Accident: II people killed and
over 30 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, 100000
Accident: 10 miners killed by the ex-
plosion of firedamp at Dow, l. T.
A. Accident: Al miners drowned by the
flooding of the Jupiter mine, Brux
coal district, Bohemia.
Fire: At Manchester, n. H; loss of
Nv Of
and Park theater.
Obituary: John Howard Bryant, brother
of the late William Cullen Bryant, the
poet, at Princeton, H.; aged "a.
Is. Fire: AT Los Angeles. Cal; loss. $780,
900.
l6 Obituary: Prof Alpheus Hyatt IA
nous paleontologist. at Cambridge.
Mass. aged Ga.
Earthquakes At Chilpancngo, Mexico;
heavy loss of life.
Fire: At kalamazoo, Mich: loss of
5000 900 by burning of a wagon factory.
10. Obituary The Infanta Christina Isa-
bella of Spain. in Madrid aged 60.
Fire: At Fall River; loss of 5000, 900 by
burning of Globe Yarn mills.
Accident: GO people killed and 100 in
jured by explosion in a spinning mill
at Manresa, Spain
20 Accident: 10 people killed and so in
jured by collapse of floors in Smith
field mills, Belfast.
Fire: At Memphis; loss of 5000 900 by
burning of Wetter Stove foundry.
Colombian War: The Colombian fleet
defeated in battle by insurgent squad
ron Gen. Alban, Colombian leader,
killed.
q. Fire Accident: men burned to death
at Camp No. 3, Hambleton, w. Va.
Obituary: Aubrey Thomas de We're Irish
poet: aged IS. Camilla Urso. famous
yiolinist in New York city; aged 60.
A Eo1 n loss of
flames in business district.
%. Fire: At New Britain, Conn.,, st.
Mary's Roman Catholic church burned;
loss, S250000.
Accidents % miners killed by a dust ex-
plosion in the Lost Creek mine, near
Oskaloosa Ia.
Is. Earthquake: Shocks in Missouri, Kan
sas and Illinois.
Fire In business district of Mobile loss
$500 000.
&C. Obituary: DR.. Lachlan Tyler. son of
President John Tyler, in New York
city.
rs. Fire: At Mount Clemens, Mich; loss
of 100000 by burning of two hotels
and a bathhouse.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Lewis Ashheld
Kimberly. L. S. NJ retired, at West
Newton Mass; aged 70. Eugen Du
Pont head of powder manufacturing
firm, at Wilmington, Del; aged 6l
20. Fire: In business portion of Wolcott.
! Ind; loss, $4,000. In St. Paul the
Peoples church destroyed; loss, $685.
000
storm: Heavy fall of sleet in Arkansas;
damage in Little Rock. 100000.
80. Fire: In Norfolk hotels an apart
ment house and stores and offices
burned; loss 5000 900.
FEBRUARY.
/. Shipwreck The French ship Chanarai
wrecked in a fierce storm off Brittany;
q sailors lost
Accident 100 deaths in an explosion at
/ the Hondo mines Mexico.
q Fire: At Waterbury, Conn; I blocks
burned; loss. 100000.
Obituary: Paul +. Munde. gynecologist
of worldwide fame. in New York city
aged Sc.
8. Fire: At New Milford. Conn; loss
800 900.
4. Accident: men killed and many in
jured fighting fire in St Louis.
8. Accident: 10 killed by explosion of g
gas main in Chicago.
6. South African War: Hard fighting or
the blockhouse line between British
and De Vets Beers; the burghers
loss reported at 300 by Kitchener
7. Obituary: Thomas Sidney Cooper. IA
nous animal painter. in London; aged
90
Fires: At Minneapolis the Vendome no
tel. valued at 100000. Quilted by flames
Rock Island railroad damaged TO tn
extent of $250000
8. Obituary: Vice Admiral Montijo, com
mander of the Spanish fleet at the bat
tie of Manila, at Madrid; aged II.
Fire At Wabolla, ILL.,, the town nearl.
wiped out; loss. 100000.
9. Fire: In Paterson. n. j.; 20 block
burned: loss, So, 900 900.
II. Convention: Annual session of tn
National American Woman Suffrag
association began in Washington.
IL. South African War: British patrol O.
Kip river entrapped by Beers, wit
, loss of 50 killed and wounded.
Obituary: Lord Dufferin, formerly gov
, ernor general of Canada, at Clande
boye. Ireland: aged 76.
Riot: IL killed i'm a battle between offi
, GERS and mountaineers near Middle
boro, Ky.
a. Riot: l6 killed and 100 injured In a col
lson between troops and rioters a
Triest.
Fire: In Jersey City N. j.. loss of good
J and shipping at the Lehigh Vale
Co.'S pier. 100000.