The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-10

the National Society D. A. r. opene
In Washington.
IS. Obituary: Albert Bierstadt. note
American landscape painter, In Me-
York city; aged 70. Rev. DR.. Newma
Hall. noted Congrega tionalist minister
In London aged So. Charles L. Tigany
noted New York jeweler, in that city
aged 90.
Fire: At Battle Creek, Mich. Seventh
| Day Adventist sanitarium burned; loss
! $500, 900.
is Riot: 81 killed and 100 wounded In
strikers melee at Barcelona Spain.
Obituary: John Moran, pioneer photog
rapher and a noted landscape painter
In New York city, aged 73
Il. Storm: A 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, 900.
22 Obituary. Billy Emerson, an old time
minstrel, In Boston; aged S.
Personal: Miss Helen M. 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
70. South African War: A British convoy
attacked by Beers at Klerksdorp, Cape
Colony: British casualties including
prisoners, 632
Accident: trainmen killed in a head-on
collision between New York Central
trains near Auburn, ~ 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 49,
Storm: A southeast tempest with wind
at go miles an hour ragged along the
Pacific coast.
~. 600 Beers, with 1000 horses and 2S,0 900
head of cattle. captured by the British
on the Harrismith blockhouse line
Orange River Colony.
a. Floods: Large rivers in the eastern
and central states swollen by rains
and melting snow.
Accident: IA killed and MANY injured nv
a snowslide at Telluride, Colo
storm; Great blizzard in Minnesota and
the Dakotas.
MARCH.
z. Obituary: Col. Francis w. Parker
noted American educator and reform |
er, at Pass Christian, Miss.
g. Obituary: Charles Broadway Rouss,
millionaire merchant noted for his &C.
SShtiiSiues, III New 1ork city; aged &C.
4. Obituary: Neil Bryant Cornelius
O'Brien). the first black face minstrel
In Brooklyn. N. Y; aged 70.
D. Obituary: Alfred Booth pioneer Chi
cago merchant, In that city; aged "a.
b. Obituary: John Daniel, last of the old
time dry goods merchants. in New
York city; aged 81
storm; blizzard of snow. sleet and
rain swept across the whole country.
T. Fire: At Hudson, N. Y, loss of $780, 900
by flames In the business district.
accident; 10 passengers and trainmen
killed and many injured by a wreck
followed by fire on the Southern Pa
ciflc. near Maxon, Tex.
south African War: In sudden attack
upon Gen. Methuens column, near
klerksdorp, Delarey's Beers killed 81
British, wounded 40 and captured 202
Including Methuen
Obituary: Ex-Gov. ]. p Altgeld of
Illinois. at Joliet; aged s..
Shipwreck: Steamer Providence can
sized at Lone Landing, Lake PALMYRA:
20 lives lost.
Earthquakes: Town of Kvanlsari Act.
minor. destroyed; 5000 houses wrecked
Storm: 40 deaths in a tornado which
swept over louisiana z
Obituary: Gen. d. s. Stanley, u. s. A.
retired, at Washington, D. c.. aged "a
Personal: King Edward and Queen
Alexandra held their first court at
Buckingham palace
Fire: At Bryn Mawr college. lose .,
s225, 200 by the burning of a dormitorv
Obituary; Sir Richard Temple. noted
Anglo-lndian official and figure in So
ciety, in London; aged 76.
5hipwrech IL life savers and sailors q.
drowned by the capsizing of lifeboat
on Monomy point, Nantucket sound
FIRE: Inc Phoenix liner British Queen
fohf
river or the Hoboken piers; loss. ST.
900, 900. 49, w.
Obituary; DR.. Manuel Sanclemente.
tltular president of Colombia. near
Bogota; aged 81
FLOOD; The city of Bangor swept by an 70
overflow of the Penobscot: damage
81. 900, 000 "a
obituary; Noah Davis, noted jurist. in
New York city; aged "a.
sporting; Cambridge defeated Oxford
IN the annual boat race over the
Thames course; time, 19m 22s.
OBITUARY; Cecil Rhodes, the South Az
rlcan magnate, at Cape Town; aged 40
flre; Al Guthrie. Okla, the state can ~
ital printing plant. 2 hotels and other co
buildings burned; loss. s35O, 900.
loous; by the overflow of Tennessee
tF th ~ nves Were lost and property ~
10 the amount of 81, 900, 900 DESTROYED 20
torn: Pittsburg struck by a fierce gale
accident: l6 miners killed by explo-
sion In the Nelson mine at Dayton.
Tenn. NO-'
bituary: Oscar Mcclellan. a wealthy o.
inventor, who was the friend of Edgar
Allan Poe, in Philadelphia; aged 80
putin African War: British and Boers
Fought at Doombolt Farm Harris riv- 2.
er; losses nearly 300 in killed and
wounded
APRIL.
Fire: Louisville; loss of 5000. 900 nv tba
burning of paint and varnish fac
tory. 4
obituary: Thomas Dunn English noet
and politician, author of Ben Rolf"
IN Newark, N. j.; aged SO.
iipwreck; IL persons drowned bv the
sinking of the steamer Cambrian 4.
Princess In collision near Nah Iigbt-
ship, England
FIRE; Atlantic City. N. j.; 70 hotels 8.
burned; loss. s750000
Accident: q people killed and go in
Iured by the collapse of a stand Mt a
ball game in Glasgow
Fire: At Chesterton, Ind. : loss sim ooo
obituary; The Earl OF Kimberly. Right
hon John Wodehouse. X. G.. Liberal I
Sritish statesman, in London; aged 70
rire; Southern Plow works burned at
Soiumbus, Ga; loss $500 900. II.
obituary: Gen. Wade Hampton die
lnguished Confederate cavalry of1cer
II Columbia = o..ol ~-s n