Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-31


Arequipa foundered off Valparaiso,
Chile carrying down the captain and
so of the crew. with several passengers.
Financial Troubles: A. Z. Ames & Co,
bankers. failed in Toronto; liabilities
estimated at $10,O00.000.
4 Accident: 8 killed and % injured in
head-on collision on Missouri Pacific
trains at Saltwater, Kan.
6. Flood Disaster: A sudden rise of the
river Pacolet South Carolina, swept
away houses and mills at Pacolet and
Clifton; IS deaths; property loss. 49,
100000
z. Shipwreck: The steamer Liban ram
med and sunk by the Insulare near
Marie island, off the coast of France;
200 lives lost.
g. Flood Disaster: IS lives lost by the
rush of waters during a break in the
& Mississippi river levee at Granite City,
B Ill.
TO- Flood Disaster: East st. Louis flooded
by break in the river embankment;
50 deaths; 10000 people made homeless.
IL. Servian Revolution: King Alexander,
Queen Draga and the Servian cabinet
assassinated at Belgrade by military
revolutionists. Prince Peter Kara
georgevitch proclaimed king.
r. Obituary: Gen. Alexander Mcdowell
McCook, U. S. A. retired, at Dayton,
o.; aged Y.
IA Cloudburst: Heppner and Lexington.
Ore. destroyed by flood caused by a
cloudburst; over 200 people killed and
missing.
Obituary: Miss Elizabeth Coombs Ad-
ans, granddaughter of President John
Adams. at Quincy. Mass; aged 50.
10. Sporting: Africander won the Subur-
ban handicap at Gravesend.
16 Fire: At New Lisbon, Wis; loss. $780,
600.
lS Obituary: Gen Frank Wheaton, u. S.
A. retired in Washington; aged 70.
Accident: 10 killed in collision on the
Illinois Central at Raymond, Ia.
49, Personal: Mai. Gen. S. NJ. B. Young
assigned chief of the general staff I'M
der the new army law.
90 Accident: Lightning exploded 5000
pounds of dynamite at SenecaVille O.;
killed and 20 injured.
Obituary: Cardinal Vaughan. Roman
Catholic primate of England, in Lon
don; aged Il.
81 Obituary: Maj. ]. B. Pond. the we'll
known lecture manager. in Jersey
City; aged Go.
25 Sporting: Yale defeated Harvard in
the annual varsity boat race at New
London.
%. Fires: The Shenango Tin mills burned
at Newcastle, Pa; loss, 500 900. The
plants of the American Mating Co.
and the Kraus-Merkel Milling Co.
burned in Milwaukee; loss. $500, 900.
2S. Fire: The Riddle Coach and Hearse
Co. burned out at Ravenna, o.; loss,
$3.50. 900.
Sporting: Lou Dillon made the worlds
wagon record for trotters, 2:O4%. at
Cleveland.
80. Accident: Over 200 miners killed by
fire damp explosion at Hanna, Wyo.
JULY.
.. Fire: Loss of 100000 in Greenville,
n. c.
STERN: IL deaths in tornado at Pettus,
Tex.
3. Obituary: Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson,
niece of President James Buchanan
and mistress of the White House dur
ing his term of office. at rragansett
Pier.
5. Fires: Loss of $1,OOO,oOO by flames on
the Lehigh Valley piers in Jersey City.
The Hammond Packing plant burned
at st. Joseph, Mo; loss. 81 500, 600.
Flood Disaster: Nearly so people killed
and many injured by a dam burst at
Oakford, Pa.
c. Race Riot: people killed and 20
wounded in a battle between soldiers
and a mob at Evansville Ind.
4 Accident: % killed and injured in a
hea6-on collision on the Southern r. r.
at Rockfish, Va
9. Convention: The international Chris
tan Endeavor congress opened at Den
yer.
10. Accident: people killed and 80 in
jured in a railway accident at Madi-
son, Ill.
70. Obituary: William Ernest Henley,
English writer and poet, at one time
collaboration with Robert Louis Steven
son, in London; aged "a
Is. Obituary: Mrs. James C. Blaine, wild
ow of the Maine statesman. at Au-
guSta; aged &c.
I6. Obituary: p. NJ. Arthur, grand chief
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, at Winnipeg, Man; aged ~.
Il. Sporting: Ard Patrick won the $50 600
Eclipse stakes at Sandowne park, Eng
land
Fire: The Lodi hotel at Kearney, n. J.,
which had sheltered Washington, La
fayette and other famous men, de-
stroyed by fire.
Storm: 5 deaths and 100000 damages
caused by tornado at Streator Ill
Obituary: James Abbott MacNeill Whis-
tier, American artist famous in Eng
land, at Chelsea-by-t he-Thames; aged
60.
10. Venezuela: Insurgents defeated by
government troops at Ciudad Bolivar,
with a loss of over 200 killed.
20. Obituary: Pope Leo XIII. in the Vati-
can: aged SO.
q. Convention: The Benevolent Order of
Elks met in annual convention at Bal
timore.
%. Storm: buildings wrecked by a tor
nado at Paterson. N. J.: 4 people killed
and Is injured.
%. Obituary: j. L. Farieon, noted Amer
lean novelist, in London.
"a. Business Troubles: The New York
brokerage firms of Talbot ]. Taylor &
Co. and w. L. Stow &c Co. failed for
large amounts.
~ Accident: . persons Killed and so in
jured by explosion at the United States
Cartridge works near Lowell, Mass.
30. Business Troubles: The National Bank
of Doylestown, Pa. closed it's doors;
liabilities over $1,O0000O.
81. Accident: 200 people precipitated 40
feet into the Willamette river at Port
land. Ore, by n falling bridge; killed
and % seriously injured
AUGUST.
3. Obituary: Mrs. Jean Margaret Dayen-
port Lander widow of Gen. Frederick
w. Lander. war hero of 1851, and
noted as an actress, at Lynn. Mass :;
aged "a.
Personal: Giuseppe Sarto. the patriarch
of Venice. elected to the papal throne
to succeed Leo XIII He assumed the
title Plus x.
5. Fire: At Louisville the Bourbon stock
yards destroyed; loss. $50, 600.
Financial Troubles: Sharp & Bryan and
Hurlbutt. Hatch & Co., Stock Ex-
change brokers. failed in New York.
Obituary: Phil May. noted English il
illustrator, in London; aged So
Z. Accident: % people killed and 20 in
jured by collision between two trains
carrying Wallace Bros circus on the