Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-31

may make a demand for the same conces-
sions under the most favored nations clause
of their treaties with the United states as
those extended to the island republic.
NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
State elections were held in eleven states
on November 8, in seven of which full state
tickets were voted for. The greatest inter-
est centered in the mayoralty contest In
New York and the gubernatorial fight In
Ohio. In the case of the former contest
George B. Mcclellan. Tammany mem
Der of Congress, defeated the fusion ticket
headed by Mayor Low. In Ohio Myron l..
Herrick defeated Tom L. Johnson, mayor
of Cleveland, by the largest majority ever
received by any candidate for office in that
state.
Following are the results elsewhere:
Massa chusetts, John L. Bates, republican,
reelected; Maryland, Edwin Warfield, dem
ocrat; Rhode Island. L. +. c. Garvin, dem
ocrat, reelected: Iowa, Albert B. Cummins
republican, re-elected Kentucky, j. c. w.
Beckham, democrat, reelected; MISSISSIPPI
James X. Vardaman, democrat.
In most instances except in the cases
noted, there was little interest manifested
in the elections and the vote was CORE
spondingly light.
DISASTERS.
AS was the case in other news depart
ments. the disastrous events of the year
1903 came at the close. The theater horror
in Chicago on the afternoon of December
80. is almost without parallel in the worlds
history. Certainly no such disaster ever &C.
Cured in this country before. Latest re-
ports estimated the number who lost
their lives at between $50 and 600, most of
them women and children attending matt
nee performance at the new Iroquos The
ater Fire started by a broken electric
wire was supposed to be the origin of the
disaster.
Aside from this great catastrophe, the dis
asters of the year, while they have not been
great in individual instances, have been nu-
merous. When the great total is summed
up it is probable that the loss of life and
property during the year 1903 will quite
equal if not exceed the record.
During the month of January the follow
ing serious disasters occurred:
Twentyfour persons were killed and
many reported missing in a wreck on the
Southern Pacific railroad near Walls Sta
ton, Ariz.
Seven men were, Killed and two others IA
tally hurt by an explosion of the powder
charge of an S-inch gun on the United
States battle ship Massachusetts off Guile
bra Island.
Seven persons were killed and six injured
in a railroad collision the Pennsylvania
railroad at Cochrane, Pa.
Fifty-four insane patients were burned to
death in fire at the Colney Hatch Asylum,
London.
During February:
The French torpedo boat destroyer Es-
paignole foundered off Cape Ladder.
The Norwegian steamer Avona went
ashore at Lemvig, Denmark, and her crew
of tWenty-four We're drowned; the French
bark Van Stabel was wrecked off Dura-
borg reef and the thirty persons who were
on board We're drowned
In a fire on Malcolm Island, near Van
n1n It'll
burned to death and seventeen other per-
sens were seriously injured.
Between forty and fifty lives We're lost by
the sinking of steam launch in Kobe har-
Dor. A fire occurred in the Urushiu col
herY, Fukuonka-ken. Japan. and sixty
four miners We're burned to death.
Fire at the United States arsenal at Rock
Island. ILL.,, destroyed 81 100000 worth of
property.
The steamer Madiana from New York
on which were Mr.. b. II. Warner and Mrs.
Warner, Mr.. Theodore w. Noyes and Mrs
Moves and Mr.. Francis H Smith of Wash
lngton, ID. c., was wrecked at Bermuda
but all of the passengers were saved after
ia long and narrowing wait for assistance.
Seventeen persons were drowned in the
steamer Olive, which capsized in the Cho-
wan river, near Edenton, N. c.
Eight persons were killed and four in
1ured by an explosion in a magazine cane
factory at Fostoria( Ohio.
During the early part of March gales
laundering and number of sailors losing
their lives.
Seventeen men were drowned at Gfens
rails, n. Y, by the capsizing of ferry
boat.
Fourteen persons were killed and a num-
Der seriously hurt by an explosion of OIL
following wreck the Erie railroad
near Olean n. Y.
1t was estimated that So, O0o, 900 damage
was caused by the break in the Mississippi
river levee at Hymelia, La, which occurred
early in April.
Three men We're killed and five injured by
the explosion of a shell in a Pinch gun on
the battle ship Iowa. near Pensacola, Fla.
Thirteen persons were killed and many
DINERS injured by tornado which struck
the town of Hopewell, Ala.
BY tremendous fall of rock from Turtle
mountain 112 persons were estimated to
nave been killed in the town of Frank, in
Alberta province, Canada.
The Old Dominion liner Hamilton collided
WIN the Clyde steamship Saginaw off the
Virginia coast May 6. causing the loss of
more than twenty lives.
Ten men We're killed and five injured by
a slide of solid rock at the Eggleston tun-
mel. on the Norfolk and Western railroad
near Bluefeld, w. Va.
Two hundred persons were killed or in
jured IN riots during the strike of dock
laborers at VALPARAISO Chile the damage
placed at 100000
Fire in the Seaboard Air Line railway
shops at Portsmouth Va, destroyed $780,
600 worth of property.
The arsenal at Santiago, Santo Domingo
was blown up by enemies of the present
government, Gen. Frias and twenty-one
persons being killed.
twenty-five lives were lost by the sinking
of the British steamer Huddersfield in col
lsion near Antwerp.
The month of June was notable for the
number of it's disasters. North Topeka.
Kan, was cut off by food and seventy.
eight persons were killed. fifteen persons
were killed by flood in Kansas City. Mo-:
the property loss in Kansas amounted to
Sl0.OO000O; sixteen negroes were drowned
during the flood at Pecan Point, Tenn:
seven persons were killed at Des Moines
Iowa. by food and food famine was
threatened; all Iowa towns along the Mis-
sissippi suffered severely. Twenty persons
were drowned in St. Louis as a result Of
the high water and 25,O00 persons were
made homeless, with property loss of mill
Hons of dollars; twenty-five persons were
drowned in towns across the river from St
Louis and many families were reported
homeless; flood In the Pacolet valley region.
in South Carolina, caused a loss of 81 400
goo and killed fifty-eight persons.
tornado struck Gainesville Ga. killing
125 persons injuring many hundreds and
causing property loss of 100000. Forest
fires ragged in New England, New York and
New. Jersey, the smoke from the fires ex-