The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1903-01-02

aged IA. EDWARD LBBleSlOU5 dulnOIp
near Lake George N. Y aged 65.
q. Accident to the President: President
Roosevelt's carriage struck by a troll
ley car near Pittsfield, Mass; Will
liam Craig, the presidents guard,
killed and the president and Secretary
Cortelyou injured.
Volcanic Disturbance: Another eruption
of Mont Pelee, Martinique; 1000 re-
ported dead.
Sporting Running record for mile and
three-sixteenths broken by Scintillant
at the Harlem race track, near Chi
cago time 1:57 2-5.
4. Fire: The Cincinnati Music hall dam
aged and the Odeon theater destroyed
by fire at Cincinnati; $4,000 loss.
s. Volcanic Disturbance: La Soufriere,
st. Vincent, again in eruption.
Haitian Rebellion: Rebels defeated
troops of provisional government.
Obituary: Prof. Rudolf Virchow, cele-
brated German pathologist, in Berlin;
aged 81
8. Obituary: Philip James Bailey, English
poet, author of "Festus;" aged Sc.
T. Fire: Paper works at Bogota, N. j.,
destroyed; loss 100000
Haitian Rebellion: Haitian gunboat
Crete-a-Pierrot sunk by the German
gunboat Panther; Haitian commander.
Admiral Killick, killed.
8. Obituary: Count de Miranda, husband
of the lannon's singer, Christine Nils
son, in France. Sir Frederick Abel,
famous English chemist; aged 76.
9. Obituary: William Allen Butler, New
York lawyer and poet. author of
Nothing to Wear" at Yonkers, N. Y;
aged II.
Ii. Fires: At Stonewall, Miss, cotton
mills; loss. $685. 900. In the Beaumont
(Tex) oilficlds; loss over 5000 0O0
L. Obituary: Alexander r. Shepherd, for
mer governor of the District of Co.
lumbia, in Mexico; aged CT.
Fire: Plant of the Bridgeton IN. j.
Wooden Co. destroyed; loss, 5000 900.
49, Obituary: Gen. John II. Forney, a
noted Confederate veteran in Ala
bama; aged 70.
a. Anniversary of President McKinley's
Death: Memorial services held through
out the United States.
Obituary: Winfield S. Stratton, million
aire miner, at Colorado Springs, Colo;
aged S..
Is. Mining Disaster: II lost in an explo-
sion at North Fork, w. Va.
Convention: Odd Fellows convention
opened at Des Moines, Ia.
Obituary: Horace Gray former justice
of the U. S. supreme court, at Nahant
Mass. aged "a.
16. Fire: Coal bunkers, ETC., of the Tesla
Coal Co. of Stockton Cal, destroyed
loss, 5000, 900.
Steamship Record Kronprinz Wilhelm
sailed from Cherbourg to New York
in days, II hours and 81 minutes,
breaking westbound record.
49, Arctic Exploration: Lieut.. Robert e.
Peary arrived at Sydney, N s., on his
return from an unsuccessful attempt
to reach the north pole.
Disaster: Postoffice at Minto N. D., COL
lapsed; Is buried in the ruin.
49, Disaster: lis negroes killed in a panic
in Birmingham, Ala.
Obituary: Marie Henriette, queen of the
Belgians, at Spa, Belgium; aged &C.
20. Sporting: E. Carroll Schaeffer of Read
ing Pa, won American amateur SWIM
ming championship at Travers island,
N. Y.
q. Alpine Disaster: killed while ascend
ing Mont Blanc.
q. Earthquake: Heavy shock felt at
Guayaqun, Ecuador, South America.
and on the island Of Guam.
Convention: Sd annual meeting of Span
ish-American War Veterans in Detroit,
Mich.
%. Convention: National council order
United American Mechanics met at
Atlantic City, N. ].
Obituary: Major ]. w. Powell govern
ment ethnologist at Haven, Me-; aged
S.
Sporting: Pacing record, 1884 for a
mile, held by Star Pointer, equaled by
- Dan Patch at Readville Mass.
.Apvention: 30th annual meeting of
tional Association of Mexican
Evivors at Paris. KY.
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1fsdary: Emile Zoia, French author.
IN Paris; aged g..
Storm Disaster: 600 persons drowned by
a tidal wave IN Japan.
Riots: II peasants killed and 40 injured
in agrarian riots in Hungary.
Convention: The American section of
the Theosophical society met in Chi
acago
Fire: blocks destroyed In Stockton,
CAL; loss, 100000.
OCTOBER.
l. Obituary: Admiral James E. Jouett
U. s. N, retired, conspicuous naval
hero of the civil war, at Sandy
Springs, Md; aged a.
2. Mine Explosion: II miners killed by
firedamp in the Lawson mine, Black
Diamond, Wash.
3 Coal Strike: Conference of the presi- |
dent and representatives. of the miners
and coal operators at Washington.
9. Convention: Annual encampment of !
the G. A r. opened in Washington.
Obituary: Liu Kun vi, viceroy of Nam
kin, noted for his friendship to Amer |
lea and opposition to the Boxer upris- !
ing of 1900. at Nankin; aged g.
T. Convention: The farmers national
congress began its 22d annual session
al Macon, Ga.
Fatal Fire: II lives lost by the burning
of 40 derricks in the oilfields at Beau
mont Tex.
8. Labor Troubles: General strike of
French miners. Street car strike riot .
in New Orleans. President Mitchell of .
the United Mine Workers declined
President Roosevelt's proposal that the .
anthracite strike be discontinued pend
ing the action of congress.
u. Personal: The crown prince of Siam
paid his respects to President Roose-
welt.
Haiti: The Haitian revolutionists won a
victory at Montrouis, the government
losing gunboat sunk, guns cap
tured and lis men disabled.
3 Accident: Baron de Bradsky, aero
naut, and his engineer killed by falling
from an airship at Paris.
Venezuelan War: Beginning of heavy
battle at Victoria between 1000 gov
eminent troops and 5000 revolution
lists.
g. Coal Strike: President Roosevelt ap-
pointed a commission to adjust the
differences between the striking an
thracite miners and the coal operators.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver
Selfridge U. s. N, retired, the oldest
naval officer of his rank in the world,
at Waverly, Mass; aged IS.
s. Fire: West Haven, Conn, the famous
Waddington mansion, which cost $780,
900. destroyed.
7. Convention: Annual meeting of the
National w. C. T. U. at Portland Me.