The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-10
wagon lowered by Lord Derby, whs

wagon lowered by Lord Derby, VIII
went a mile in 2:05%.
II. Disaster: 20 villages destroyed and II
lives lost by landslide in Transcar
casia, Russia.
Obituary: George M. Hopkins, leadin
electrical engineer and editor of tn
Scientific American, at Cheshire, Mass
49, Convention: Young Mems Christia
association worlds congress- met a
Christiania. Norway.
Obituary: Dr. Leopold Schenck, famou
Austrian biologist. author of 1.-The De
termination of Sex" at Schwanberg
Syria, Austria; aged 62.
u. South American Revolution: Cumana
Venezuela, captured by insurgents.
Disaster: 1O5 drowned by the sinking O.
pontoon on the Amur river, Siberia
Fires: lives lost in New York city tene
ment house fire. Parsons college
Fairfield, Ia, destroyed
| o. Convention: Universal Peace unior
met at Mystic, Conn.
Disaster: Explosion in Delaware Pull
mills at Wilmington, DEL; II killed.
Storm: Cloudburst and tornado at Pana
ILL.,, caused s150,000 damage.
Navy Maneuvers: Beginning of sham
campaign between the blue and white
squadrons off the Atlantic coast
q. Obituary: Gen. Franz Sigel, famous
German civil war veteran, in New
York city; aged rs.
"a. Railroad wreck near Princeton. Ind.
| killed.
Mimic Naval War: The invading white
squadron captured by the blue squad
ron off Manchester, Mass.
&C. Fire disaster at Gehring, Neb.; Q
killed.
81. Earthquakes in Mindanao, Philippine
Islands; more than so natives killed
Obituary: Ada Gray, actress, noted fol-
her impersonation of Lady Isbael In
East LYNNE in RrOOklyn N V
Sporting: Tennis Champion William A.
Larned of America successfully de-
Tended his title by defeating R. F.
Doherty, England, at Newport, R. I.
Convention: American Bar association
met at Saratoga, N. Y
%. Obituary: George Douglas Brown.
English novelist author of 1.-THE
House With the Green Shutters" in
London; aged 80.
20. Sporting: Dan Patch second horse to
pace a mile in less than 2 minutes,
went that distance in 1914, within
quarter of a second of the worlds rec.
ord, held by Star Pointer.
Fire: Woods Opera House at Bay City,
Mich, burned; 100000 damage
80 Volcanic Eruption: Mont Peee on the
island of Martinique. again erupted;
more than 1.060 lives lost
Sporting: Futurity, richest stake of the
year won by Savable at Sheepshead
Bay, New York
Railroad Disaster: Train on Chicago and
northwestern r. r. lifted from the
track by cyclone near OWatonna
Mimi; killed and 60 injured
IL. Storm More than IS vessels and many
lives lost in a gale at Port Elizabeth.
South Africa
Army and Navy Maneuyers: Bepinnina
OF the mimic war between ships and
forts on the Atlantic coast
SEPTEMRER
= Volcanic Eruption: Over 200 persons
killed by explosions of Mont Pelee |
Martinique.
Accident: 20 negroes killed and MANY |
injured in a wreck on the Southern |
r. R. near Berry, Ala.
D. OBITUARY: William F. Howe noted
criminal lawyer, in New York civ.
aged "A. Edward Eggleston' author
near Lake George. N. Y; aged Go.
o. accident to the President: President
Roosevelts 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 er,,n+,o,,
OF Mont Pelee, Martiuique: 1000 ra-
ported dead.
Sporting: Running record for mile and
three-sixteenths broken by Scintillant
at the Harlem race track, near Chi
So6O, liile, 100 20
4. Fire: The Cincinnati Music hail da,,
aged and the Odeon theater DESTROYED
by hre at Cincinnati; $4,000 loss
D. volcanic Disturbances: La Soufriere
st Vincent, again in eruption.
haitian Rebellion: Rebels defeated
troops of provisional government
obituary: Prof. Rudolf Virchow celia
prated German pathologist In Berlin.
aged 81
0. OBITUARY: Philip James Bailey, English
poet. author of "Festus;" aged SO.
Z. FIRE: Paper works at Bogota. N 7
destroyed; loss 100000.
haitian Rebellion: Haitian gunboat
Crete-a-Pierrot sunk by the German
gunboat Panther; Haitian Commander
Admiral Killick killed.
s. OBITUARY; Count de Miranda, husband
Oh the famous singer. Christine Nils
son, In France. Sir Frederick Abel
famous English chemist; aged 76.
J. OBITUARY: William Allen Butler. New
York lawyer and poet. author Of
aged n. -
l. flros: At Stonewall Miss cotto,
mills; loss. $3.50 In the Beaumont
lIex) oilfields; loss over 5000. OOO ,
: Opltuary: Alexander r. Shepherd, for
mer governor of the District of Co
iumbia, in Mexico; aged g..
ire rant or the Bridgeton IN J)
~ NSoeiOJ GU loss, $ZDU, UOO
OBITUARY: Gen. John H. Fornev .
noted Confederate veteran. in Ala
bama; aged 70.
Anniversary of President McKinIev's
Death; Memorial services held throughe
out the United States
OBITUARY: Winfield S. Stratton. Million
ARE miner, at Colorado Springs Colo
aged 55. Ooio'
Mining Disaster: II lost In an exn,o-
sion at North Fork, w. va.
Odd Fellows conyar.,
opened at Des Moines. la. .,
obituary: Horace Gray, former ius+,o. 90
Oh the U. S. supreme court, al. Nahant
Mass. aged a.
Fre: Coal bunkers, etc.. of the Tesla
Soal 90. of Stockton, Cal, DESTROYED.
loss, 5000, 000 0e''ioyeo'
'teamship Record: Kronprinz Wilhelm
sailed from Cherbourg to New york 25
IN days. IL hours and 81 minutes -
breaking westbound record.
Arctic Exploration: Lieut.. Robert 7,
feary arrived at Sydney, N. s.. on his ~
return from an unsuccessful attemnt
70 reach the north pole
disaster: Postoffice at Mimic NJ n ~, ~
iapsed 10 buried in the ruin. -''
disaster; lis negroes killed in a manic
In Birmingham, Ala. p''"'
obituary. Marie Hanrfaffa